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Bringing Archaeology Into Religious And Moral Education: A Case Study From Scotland, Samantha Wilson, Philip Tonner, Kenneth Brophy

Journal of Archaeology and Education

Archaeology provides ‘material expression’ to the narratives and discourses which construct and bind historical identity. When brought into the classroom it can provide a powerful tool to help school pupils untangle complex structures and meanings, and to begin to develop their own interpretive and evaluative skills. This article explores the use of archaeology in implementing aspects of the Scottish Curriculum for Excellence. We focus on one subject in particular, Religious and Moral Education (RME), and we analyze one unit of study designed and taught to Secondary 1 and 2 pupils, with ages ranging from 11- 13. We draw upon a …

Preliminary Efficacy Of A Digital Intervention For Adolescent Depression: Randomized Controlled Trial, Emily Peake, Ian Miller, Jessica Flannery, Lang Chen, Jessica Lake, Aarthi Padmanabhan

Psychology

Background:
Adolescent depression is a significant public health concern; however, access to effective mental health care is limited. Digital therapeutics (DTx) can improve access to evidence-based interventions; however, their efficacy in adolescents is sparsely documented.

Objective:
This study aims to examine the efficacy of a mobile app DTx versus an active control as an adjunct treatment for adolescent depression symptoms.

Methods:
An internet-based open-label randomized control trial was conducted nationwide with a partial crossover design, and 168 adolescents aged 13 to 21 years with symptoms of depression were recruited between November 2020 and September 2021. Participants were randomized (1:1) to …

Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program Draft Guidance, Fred Ledley M.D., Edward Zhou Pharmd, Paula Chaves Da Silva Ph.D.

CISI Publication

This comment focuses on Section 50.1, provisions 1 & 3 of the draft guidance regarding the negotiation of a “maximum fair price” under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), research and development (R&D) costs of the primary manufacturer, and prior federal financial support for novel therapeutic discovery and development. Specifically, we argue that a negotiated, “maximum fair price” must consider both public sector (federal) and private sector (manufacturer) investments and provide returns to both commensurate with the scale and risk of their investments. This comment addresses three issues and makes specific recommendations regarding each:

1. In negotiating a “maximum fair price,” both …

Which Types Of People Were Least Likely To Get The Covid-19 Vaccine?, Xue Zhang, Shannon M. Monnat

Population Health Research Brief Series

Vaccine hesitancy is a long-standing challenge that worsened during the COVID-19 pandemic. Understanding the reasons behind different types of vaccine hesitancy is crucial for developing effective vaccine messaging strategies that can increase confidence in and uptake of future vaccines. This brief summarizes the findings from a study that used data from the 2022 National Wellbeing Survey on 7,612 U.S. adults aged 18-64 to identify characteristics of adults who were least likely to get the COVID-19 vaccine and the characteristics associated with different types of vaccine hesitancy. The authors considered three non-mutually exclusive types of vaccine hesitancy: 1) watchful (concerned about …

Hard Or Soft: An Exploration Of What Skills A Sport Management Student Is Lacking, Ashley Ryder, Jillian Mcniff Villemaire, Taylor Behl

The COSMA Journal

An important measure of success of sport management programs in higher education is how prepared students are for their professional careers. Programs often include various experiential learning opportunities such as internships in their curriculum to improve student employability. However, there is still concern that students may not be prepared for success in their internships and in the field. The purpose of this study was to identify which skills sport management student interns needed the most improvement, according to their intern supervisor. Using a single institution, this study analyzed intern supervisor’s questionnaire responses from 2017-2022 at a small, private college in …

Sans Hommes, On N’Est Pas Rien”: Defying Patriarchy And Reclaiming Voices In Les Rivières, Warisara E. Sawin

Vernacular: New Connections in Language, Literature, & Culture

This article explores Jennifer Solheim’s conceptualization of “the call to listen” in postcolonial Francophone cultural production, as she argues for the importance of engaging with and responding to immigrant and minority narratives within this cultural milieu. This article further explores the dynamic relationship between media consumption and artistic creation, specifically the innovative realms of “accented” and “intercultural” cinema that have emerged from the conditions of globalization and migration. The unique cinematic languages of these forms convey the intricate experiences of those living in exile or as part of post-migratory populations.

An in-depth analysis is presented on Mai Hua’s documentary Les …

The Role Of Augmented Reality In Improving Brand Attitude Through Perceived Enjoyment, Widyastuti Widyastuti

Journal of Marketing and Consumer Behaviour in Emerging Markets

Augmented Reality is a technology that is commonly used by businesses to market their products. The technology allows customers to test products online in order to deliver a more enjoyable purchasing experience. The study is aimed at investigating the impact of vividness and perceived informativeness, as a characteristic of AR, on brand attitude through perceived enjoyment. There are 204 respondents chosen using purposive sampling technique. They are women who used Augmented Reality when purchasing cosmetics online. The study used a path analysis with the assistance of Amos software. According to the findings, perceived enjoyment can strengthen the influence of vividness …

Interpreting Consumer Attitude Towards Milk Alternatives: A Purchase Intention Model For Marketing Success, Anjolize Wassenaar, Elizabeth Kempen

Journal of Marketing and Consumer Behaviour in Emerging Markets

Within an emerging market context, the purchase of dairy free milk alternatives is not well understood. The purpose of the article is to present a model within which purchase intentions of South African emerging market consumers can be interpreted, providing marketers with information on which product positioning upon market entry and continuous marketing strategies can be developed for the growing niche ultra-heat treated (UHT) milk alternative product category. Using a qualitative, exploratory-descriptive approach, data was gathered in-person and online from 35 participants through mini-focus groups and semi-structured interviews. Through inductive-deductive thematic data analysis, findings describe consumer purchase intention towards UHT …

Supporting Resource Equity For Oregon’S Home Visiting Workforce: Exploring Program Model And Regional Differences, Nicole M. Lauzus, Yumi Lee, Beth L. Green, Erin Gaines, Ron Joseph

School of Social Work Faculty Publications and Presentations

Prenatal and early childhood home visiting is an effective strategy for promoting positive birth outcomes, improving family well-being and preventing child abuse and neglect. One key to successful services is having a strong, well-supported home visiting workforce. In Oregon and nationally, this critical workforce is facing a crisis as programs struggle to hire and retain skilled home visitors, and workers face low pay, difficult working conditions and high job stress.

This learning brief is the second in a series to share findings from a 2023 survey of Oregon’s home visiting workforce, which provides a wealth of information about how to …

“I Know How Much He Cares For Our Learning”: Moral Life In University Elt Classrooms, Leila Tajik, Seyyed Abdolhamid Mirhosseini, Mahsa Kashkooli

The Qualitative Report

In Iran’s higher education English language teaching (ELT) context, we explored the moral nuances embedded in two conversation courses offered to undergraduate students majoring in English Literature at one of the branches of the Islamic Azad University (IAU) in Tehran. We collected data through classroom observations, field notes, and semi-structured individual and focus group interviews. Our content analysis revealed a range of moral values embedded in significant incidents, which we categorized into five themes: (a) relations, (b) rules and regulations, (c) assessment, (d) curricular substructure, and (I) culture. These themes were further subcategorized into more specific concepts that emerged from …

The Hidden Impact Of Sociocultural Determinants In Adolescence, Lauren B. Robins, Nicholas Schmoyer, Atiya Smith, Krystal L. Clemons, Jill Kivikoski

Journal of Human Services Scholarship and Interprofessional Collaboration

This study, guided by the Social Determinants of Health framework and Social Ecological Model, examined how SDOH impact the presence of anxiety during adolescence. This study set out to understand what sociocultural determinants predict anxiety, using the 2018 National Survey of Children’s Health dataset. The analysis included a logistic regression to determine the predictability of SDOH on anxiety in adolescence. The results indicated that various SDOH are significant predictors of anxiety, while also indicating that the absence of adverse SDOH predicts the lack of anxiety. Further, unique findings related to race/ethnicity, age, and gender set the stage for additional research …

African American Women’S Experience With Invisibility And Hypervisibility In The Workplace: Does It Matter To Career Advancement?, Elisha R. Peters

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Black women continue to be underrepresented in senior leadership positions in the workplace although they are the most educated in the workplace. This study explores the lived experience of African American women who work for the federal sector and their career advancement into leadership and managerial positions. A qualitative method was used, and the participants consisted of Black women who worked for the federal sector who had either promoted to a leadership position within the last 3 to 5 years or aspired to be in a leadership position.

Interviews were conducted via Zoom, and in vivo coding was used to …

Cross-Exchange Crypto Risk: A High-Frequency Dynamic Network Perspective, Yifu Wang, Wanbo Lu, Min-Bin Liu, Rui Ren, Wolfgang Karl Hardle

Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics

Cross-exchange crypto trading presents inherent risks, particularly for centralized exchanges. Investors observe exacerbating crypto volatility and counterparty risk and would like to quantify these elements of crypto trades. The multiple exchanges require a multivariate view on the structures of risk spillover across exchanges. Here, a Multivariate Heterogeneous AutoRegression (MHAR) model is designed and analyzed, accommodating the stylized facts of crypto markets, including 24/7 trading and the long-memory effect on return variations. The proposed MHAR approach clearly reveals the intensity of interconnectedness among exchanges during extreme events, e.g., the Bitcoin market. Additionally, one observes extremely volatile eigenvector centralities of Futures Exchange …

Design And Evaluation Of An Esa-Based Method Of Ensemble Subsetting For A Wofs (Warn On Forecast-Like System), Daniel J. Butler

Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Forecasting severe thunderstorm environments in the southeastern United States can be challenging due to mesoscale heterogeneities such as shortwave troughs, pre-existing airmass boundaries, cold fronts aloft, low-level jets, dry air intrusions, and mesoscale lows. To combat these challenges, ensemble sensitivity analysis (ESA) may be applied to a Warn-on-Forecast (WOF)-like ensemble to improve forecasts of severe convection through ensemble weighting and subsetting. Ensemble-based weighting and subsetting uses ensemble members that most accurately represent the thunderstorm environment in areas of mesoscale heterogeneity. This study creates and evaluates the ensemble-based weighting and subsetting in four cases of severe thunderstorm occurrence. The open parameter …

My Garden Nursery Associate/Intern, Trinity Shaffer

College of the Environment Internship Reports

My summer internship at My Garden Nursery has allowed me to learn and experience a different aspect of environmentalism, the consumer side of it. The job mainly consisted of helping customers pick the perfect plants and products for their gardens. This included soil and fertilizer recommendations for certain plants, treating plants of insects of diseases, animal repellent recommendations such as deer or moles, and weed treatment and/or prevention. In addition, helping customers pick out perfect plants based on the areas conditions, such as how much light there is, soil type, and more, was a big part of the internship. Restocking …

Ridgefield Family Resource Center Intern, Karis A. Felton

College of the Environment Internship Reports

The Ridgefield Family Resource Center (RFRC) is a food pantry that exists to meet the needs of students, families, and staff by providing food, clothing, personal care items, school supplies, and additional resources. They receive food, clothing, toiletry, and money donations year-round. It is a mainly donation-based operation with little funding from the school.

Wild Whatcom Education Intern, Margaret A. Roberts

College of the Environment Internship Reports

Wild Whatcom is an incredible non-profit organization that has had a profound impact on me, as well as hundreds of families around Bellingham. Through outdoor education, Wild Whatcom has provided more than 50,000 hours of nature time to youth in just one year. This organization truly changes the lives of the youth, giving them an opportunity to connect with nature while learning and having fun. I am so blessed and forever grateful to have spent my summer at Wild Whatcom.

Downtown Bellingham Partnership Intern, Rebecca Cochran

College of the Environment Internship Reports

Downtown Bellingham Partnership (DBP) combines the two to benefit downtown. With cigarette butts being the most common form of litter that we see downtown they have an impact on Whatcoms watershed and the Bellingham bay. Cigarette butts are filled with microplastics, toxic chemicals, and can poison our local food web. DBP has over five cigarette waste containers called buttlers. These buttlers stop people from leaving cigarettes on the ground where they may leach chemicals like lead and arsenic into the soil. The buttlers are a safe disposal site, contrary to normal trash cans where throwing away a lit cigarette can …

Community Development Summer Internship, Ella A. Kuharick

College of the Environment Internship Reports

Over the summer of 2024, I was a part of the City of Marysville’s new internship program throughout each department in the city. From July 15th to August 29th, I worked directly as Haylie Miller’s intern in the Community Development (CD) department. Haylie Miller is the city’s Community Development Director and is one of three directors in the department. I helped Haylie Miller and the department with everyday administrative tasks that would arise and continuously worked on several larger projects.

Whatcom County Public Works - Engineering Services Intern, Chris (Christopher Adam) Paradowski

College of the Environment Internship Reports

This summer I had the opportunity to return to the Whatcom County Public Works Department as an engineering services intern working in the traffic division. Last year I did the same internship, but not as an enrolled student at Western, so I was thrilled to be welcomed back for another summer so that I can further hone my skills of working in local government and expand on the skills I gained last year. While the traffic division doesn’t necessarily sound like the place for an environmental studies student to land an internship, I will elucidate in this report how working …

King County Parks Vegetation Intern, Connor A. Jackson

College of the Environment Internship Reports

I find that the internship helped me develop a greater understanding of natural resource management and GIS usage, while also equipping me with the technical and practical skills to operate in those spheres. Working firsthand in natural areas provided invaluable experience as to specific management needs, including designing and managing natural restoration habitat, strategies for controlling noxious weeds according to their species characteristics, and how individual tasks address broader operational goals. In addition, I received support to pursue other qualifications, such as obtaining a pesticide application license, which is all-important for the work we were doing. Finally, in addition to …

Pnw Trails Association Intern, Nickoli Joi Habek

College of the Environment Internship Reports

The region we were working in was along the corridor of the Pacific Northwest Trail within the Washington section of the Mt Baker Snoqualmie National Forest, which was about 15 miles of walking trails, switchbacks, river crossings and riparian area bridges. The crew I was assigned to work with consisted of 5 other individuals, my two crew leads Maddie and Miles, along with 3 other crew members, Naveen, Hilary, and Makenna. I really enjoyed working with this crew for a few reasons, most importantly we all are deeply committed to the protection and the preservation of natural resources. Secondly, we …

Waste Management Intern, Shaunak Joi Roy

College of the Environment Internship Reports

Working an internship at Waste Management has been an incredible journey this summer. From learning hands on skills and more about the solid waste division, to meeting all kinds of people who come from various backgrounds, Waste Management has taught me a lot. One might wonder how one of the largest Solid Waste Division haulers in North America can offer so much to learn and how one would choose to do an internship there. Earlier this year when the search for internships came, it was hard finding something that would fit the needs of my education background along with my …

University Of Montana Crew Lead – Annual Grass Monitoring, Soren Cooley

College of the Environment Internship Reports

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South Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve Science Education Internship, Hailey Thomas

College of the Environment Internship Reports

I worked with the Reserve Education Coordinator Jaime Belanger and other interns to facilitate science summer camps. The camps ranged in ages from 4/5-year-olds to high schoolers. The summer camps were four days long and consisted of many science and marine-based activities. We always took the kids to the Charleston Marine Life Center where we would learn about and be able to touch the local marine life and we always ended the week with an ice cream social where the kids could make ice cream sundaes and family could enjoy looking at pictures from throughout the week. Some of the …

Wild Whatcom Americorps Intern, Viana Garcia

College of the Environment Internship Reports

During this internship, my main duties and responsibilities were in the field with the Wild Whatcom Summer Camp programs. My duties included a range of daily tasks that were adjusted based on the needs of different groups every week. A main portion of the duties and responsibilities of this internship revolved around environmental education, and teaching skills relating to how to engage with your environment and care for the place we live. We spent much of our time on the beach learning about our unique coastal environment (Appendix A: Beach Exploration), as well as learning the importance of skills like …

Costco Esg Reporting Intern, Katie Schwartz

College of the Environment Internship Reports

I learned that Costco utilizes Microsoft Sustainability Manager (MSM) for emissions calculations, which relies on data input from various employees across the organization. So, while I wasn't directly responsible for calculating emissions, I did get to play a part in analyzing and validating the data generated by MSM. This involved reviewing data for any variances that exceeded an acceptable threshold, which I would identify by calculating the percent change period over period. I would then analyze the cause of those discrepancies. For example, if a new warehouse was built or data hadn't been fully updated, that could cause our emissions …

Iko Pacific Industries Summer Intern, Anna Brinkerhoff

College of the Environment Internship Reports

My primary project at IKO Pacific centered around getting a recycling program set up for our substantial amounts of plastic film waste. The film is low-density polyethylene, which I knew had the capability to be recycled. A major question I had to answer at the start was, "Just how much of this waste are we producing, and how frequently are we producing it?" This required me to go out into the plant and record the weight and volume produced for our plastic film. Using our lab on site, I used a small scale to measure the weight of five plastic …

Oneheartwild Intern, Cayla A. Zobrist

College of the Environment Internship Reports

One Heart Wild is the home to over 70 permanent animal residents who were all brought in under the care of the team. The sanctuary's crew is made up of the clinical team, sanctuary team, and volunteers. Care for the animals happens 24/7, 365 days a year, rain or shine. The staff members work hand in hand with various veterinarians all over the county constantly staying on top of the resident’s health conditions and needs. Volunteers and the animal care staff are the foundation of the sanctuary. Without the help of every one of these dedicated team members' contributions, One …

A Word From The Writing Team (July 2024), Pam Walter, Mfa

A Word From the Writing Team (Newsletter)

This issue includes:

• Publication Spotlight
• Join Us for Summer Writing Time
• For FY24-25, the Open Access Publishing Fund Process is Changing
• Jefferson has Funding Agreements with Specific Publishers
• The OPWPC Canvas Page Offers Helpful Tools
• Scott Memorial Library Archive Renovations are Done!