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Full-Text Articles in Social and Behavioral Sciences
Frontmatter (Volume 42, Issue 3), Paul B. Mojzes
Frontmatter (Volume 42, Issue 3), Paul B. Mojzes
Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe
No abstract provided.
World Council Of Churches (Wcc) Should Raise The Visibility Of Ukrainian Orthodox At The World Assembly (Karlsruhe, Sept. 2022): Interview With Professor Katharina Kunter, Katharina Kunter
Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe
"I think, that the WCC Executive Committee meeting in June, will not be able to expel the ROC. In my view, that leaves only one reasonable solution, in order as ecumenical assembly to remain credible. The Ukraine must be made visible as Church in Karlsruhe. That means, the WCC (or the EKD) must immediately and officially approach the autocephalous Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OKU). They should offer it a “fast-track-membership in the WCC and offer it a visual public forum at the full assembly. The OKU is now already the largest Orthodox Church in the Ukraine, with nearly 50% of …
Three Essays On Governance, Inequality, And Social Equity, Sarah Ausmus Smith
Three Essays On Governance, Inequality, And Social Equity, Sarah Ausmus Smith
Theses and Dissertations--Public Policy and Administration
Comprised of three essays, my dissertation is linked by a common focus: the relationship between state or local governance arrangements and inequality or facets of social equity. I draw upon a range of literatures to motivate my research questions and inform my methodologies—welfare and social policy, public economics, intergovernmental relations, public finance and management.
In the first essay, I ask: does localizing welfare governance impact geospatial access to the social safety net? This is an important question because proximity is highly salient to program utilization. I geocode the location of human services nonprofits from tax filings in eight states using …
Significant Life Experiences Of Kentucky Youth Climate Activists, Jeri Katherine Howell
Significant Life Experiences Of Kentucky Youth Climate Activists, Jeri Katherine Howell
Theses and Dissertations--Community & Leadership Development
The purpose of this study is to better understand Kentucky youth climate activism. The research questions explore how youth define their climate activism in Kentucky, their Significant Life Experiences (SLE) that motivated them to commit to climate activism, and what challenges and sustains their involvement. This qualitative study utilizes a blended framework of social/environmental positionality and political ecology to analyze 7 semi-structured interviews with participants between the ages 18 to 24 years old who are acting to address climate change in Kentucky. New contributions to the existing body of SLE literature are discussed.
The Impacts Of Public Policies On Health-Related Outcomes, Yaxiang Song
The Impacts Of Public Policies On Health-Related Outcomes, Yaxiang Song
Theses and Dissertations--Economics
This dissertation consists of three chapters that study how public policies affect health-related outcomes in China. The first two papers examine the impacts of the country’s Critical Illness Insurance program on health-related outcomes. The third paper studies the effects of maternal education on children’s early childhood health outcomes and cognitive skills.
The first chapter evaluates the impact of a recent social health insurance benefits expansion program on middle-aged and elderly individuals. In 2012, China launched a Critical Illness Insurance (CII) program, which aimed to reduce out-of-pocket costs for individuals covered by the government’s health insurance programs. This chapter utilizes the …
Complex And Varied: Factors Related To The Research Productivity Of Academic Librarians In The United States, Kristin Hoffmann, Selinda Adelle Berg, Kristine R. Brancolini, Marie R. Kennedy
Complex And Varied: Factors Related To The Research Productivity Of Academic Librarians In The United States, Kristin Hoffmann, Selinda Adelle Berg, Kristine R. Brancolini, Marie R. Kennedy
Western Libraries Publications
Academic librarians face multiple barriers in conducting the research that is expected in their work, yet they still manage to successfully complete it. This study aimed to identify the factors that contribute to their success. Through an online survey sent via email to a random sample of academic librarians in the United States, we gathered and analyzed quantitative data about education and experience, demographics, success factor statements, and research productivity to determine which factors are related to increased research output. We found that three categories of factors—Individual Attributes, Peers and Community, and Institutional Structures and Supports—contribute positively to overall research …
Research & Scholarly Communication 2021-22 Report On Publishing Services, Courtney Waugh, Kristin Hoffmann, Emily Carlisle-Johnston, Kristi Thompson, Liz Hill
Research & Scholarly Communication 2021-22 Report On Publishing Services, Courtney Waugh, Kristin Hoffmann, Emily Carlisle-Johnston, Kristi Thompson, Liz Hill
Western Libraries Publications
This report highlights the scope and impact of Western Libraries’ publishing services as undertaken by members of the Research & Scholarly Communication Team (RSC) for the period May 1, 2021 - April 30, 2022, in the areas of: Scholarship@Western repository services, journal publishing services, support for open educational resources (OER), and open data publishing.
Understanding The Enumerated World: Making Sense Of Data As An Information Source, Kristi Thompson, Elizabeth Hill, Alexandra Cooper
Understanding The Enumerated World: Making Sense Of Data As An Information Source, Kristi Thompson, Elizabeth Hill, Alexandra Cooper
Western Libraries Publications
Chapter in ACRL publication The Data Literacy Cookbook.
This recipe is a guide to preparing an instructional session aimed at postsecondary students in the social or health sciences or related disciplines on locating, evaluating, and using secondary data sources as information resources. Who collects data? Where can you access them? Why are data available on some topics and not others? Why are some statistics available at a detailed level of geography and others only nationally? What are some key limitations of official statistics, and where can information be found to fill in the gaps? This recipe uses these questions to …
The Ghosts Of Bindings Past: Micro-Computed X-Ray Tomography For The Study Of Bookbinding, J. D. Sargan, Jessica L. Lockhart, Andrew Nelson, D. L. Meert-Williston, Alexandra Gillespie
The Ghosts Of Bindings Past: Micro-Computed X-Ray Tomography For The Study Of Bookbinding, J. D. Sargan, Jessica L. Lockhart, Andrew Nelson, D. L. Meert-Williston, Alexandra Gillespie
Western Libraries Publications
This essay describes the results of a new application of micro-computed X-ray tomography (µCT) to conduct nondestructive investigations of the binding structures of premodern books. This application addresses a twofold challenge in the study of historic bindings and their construction. Few premodern books survive in their original bindings. Moreover, until recently, when books were rebound, the original structures were rarely documented, and the remains were usually discarded. Where original bindings do remain in situ, much of their structure is, by design, hidden. Particulars of construction may be surmised; but without destructive disbinding, little can be proven. µCT enables an exploratory, …
What’S Hiding In The Spine? A Study Of Adhesives In Medieval Books Using Mass Spectrometry, Alice Hutton Sharp, Sarah Fiddyment, Anne Lama, Jessica Lockhart, Deborah Meert-Williston, Melissa Moreton, Lauren Williams, Alexandra Gillespie
What’S Hiding In The Spine? A Study Of Adhesives In Medieval Books Using Mass Spectrometry, Alice Hutton Sharp, Sarah Fiddyment, Anne Lama, Jessica Lockhart, Deborah Meert-Williston, Melissa Moreton, Lauren Williams, Alexandra Gillespie
Western Libraries Publications
Glues, and in particular glued spines, are notable features of late medieval European books, yet little research has been done into how they were sourced, produced, and used. In this article we present preliminary results from using the paleoproteomic methods of Electromagnetic Zooarchaeology through Mass Spectrometry (eZooMS) and Peptide Mass Fingerprinting (PMF) to identify the source species for animal glues used in late medieval books. We first introduce readers to the principal kinds of glue used in medieval craftsmanship and what is known about their use in bookbinding, principally from the discipline of book conservation. We describe the micro-sampling methods …
Review Of Charlotte And The Nutcracker By Charlotte Nebres, Hannah Elizabeth Smith
Review Of Charlotte And The Nutcracker By Charlotte Nebres, Hannah Elizabeth Smith
Library Intern Book Reviews
No abstract provided.
Review Of Twenty-One Steps: Guarding The Tomb Of The Unknown Soldier By Jeff Gottesfeld, Morgan Rupp
Review Of Twenty-One Steps: Guarding The Tomb Of The Unknown Soldier By Jeff Gottesfeld, Morgan Rupp
Library Intern Book Reviews
No abstract provided.
Review Of Eyes That Kiss In The Corners By Joanna Ho, Hannah Elizabeth Smith
Review Of Eyes That Kiss In The Corners By Joanna Ho, Hannah Elizabeth Smith
Library Intern Book Reviews
No abstract provided.
Review Of I Don't Want To Read This Book By Max Greenfield, Hannah Elizabeth Smith
Review Of I Don't Want To Read This Book By Max Greenfield, Hannah Elizabeth Smith
Library Intern Book Reviews
No abstract provided.
Review Of The Dog Walk By Sven Nordqvist, Hannah Elizabeth Smith
Review Of The Dog Walk By Sven Nordqvist, Hannah Elizabeth Smith
Library Intern Book Reviews
No abstract provided.
Review Of The Big Bad Wolf In My House By Valerie Fontaine, Hannah Elizabeth Smith
Review Of The Big Bad Wolf In My House By Valerie Fontaine, Hannah Elizabeth Smith
Library Intern Book Reviews
No abstract provided.
Review Of Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre By Carole Boston Weatherford, Hannah Elizabeth Smith
Review Of Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre By Carole Boston Weatherford, Hannah Elizabeth Smith
Library Intern Book Reviews
No abstract provided.
Review Of The Shark Book By Steve Jenkins And Robin Page, Hannah Elizabeth Smith
Review Of The Shark Book By Steve Jenkins And Robin Page, Hannah Elizabeth Smith
Library Intern Book Reviews
No abstract provided.
Review Of The Nutcracker By Jan Brett, Morgan Rupp
Review Of The Nutcracker By Jan Brett, Morgan Rupp
Library Intern Book Reviews
No abstract provided.
Review By The Christmas Mitzvah By Jeff Gottesfeld, Morgan Rupp
Review By The Christmas Mitzvah By Jeff Gottesfeld, Morgan Rupp
Library Intern Book Reviews
No abstract provided.
Review Of Somewhere In The Bayou By Jarrett Pumphrey& Jerome Pumphrey, Janelle Burd
Review Of Somewhere In The Bayou By Jarrett Pumphrey& Jerome Pumphrey, Janelle Burd
Library Intern Book Reviews
No abstract provided.
Book Review: What Is Philosophy For?, Jeffery S. Gates
Book Review: What Is Philosophy For?, Jeffery S. Gates
Library Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
The Coronavirus Shopping Anxiety Scale: Initial Validation And Development, Ruchika Sachdeva
The Coronavirus Shopping Anxiety Scale: Initial Validation And Development, Ruchika Sachdeva
WCBT Faculty Publications
Purpose
The purpose of this study is to develop a scale to measure coronavirus shopping anxiety. Numerous studies have developed a scale for measuring coronavirus anxiety and fear, notably absent is a concerted effort to review and assess the impact of coronavirus on the shopping anxiety of consumers. This scale fulfills this gap.
Design/methodology/approach
The steps taken for checking the various psychometrics of the scale include item generation, followed by exploratory factor analysis (EFA) through SPSS and confirmatory factor analysis through AMOS. The data were collected from over 208 respondents.
Findings
This study resulted in the development of a nine-item …
Predicting Sexual Offense Treatment Completion Through Specific Responsivity Factors, Blain Cameron Stumpf
Predicting Sexual Offense Treatment Completion Through Specific Responsivity Factors, Blain Cameron Stumpf
Doctor of Psychology (PsyD)
Sexual offending is a serious, harmful, and costly behavior that impacts the safety of a community (Barros et al., 2020; Peterson et al., 2017; Severson & Pettus-Davis, 2013). To improve community safety and reduce further harm, several specialized treatments have been developed to rehabilitate individuals convicted of a sexual offense (ICSO). Recent meta-analytic studies have suggested that specialized cognitive-behavioral treatments for ICSO do in fact lead to a reduction in sexual recidivism (Gannon et al., 2019; Harrison et al., 2020; Kim et al., 2016). To increase engagement with and completion of treatment programs, and subsequently to reduce the risk of …
Social Media And The Demotic Turn In Africa's Media Ecology, Farooq Kperogi
Social Media And The Demotic Turn In Africa's Media Ecology, Farooq Kperogi
Faculty Articles
Social media platforms have exploded in the last decade and have emerged as the arenas for discursive democracy, sociality, and digital dissidence across Africa. This article historicizes and genealogizes the exponential, if slightly imperceptible but nonetheless phenomenal, growth, maturation, and spread of social media on a continent that had been described in the scholarly literature as the blackhole of informational capitalism. It argues that the progressive centrality of social media in the quotidian lives of Africans, which has invited consternation and censorship from many African governments and inspired precarity in the traditional media sphere, instantiates the materialization of the demotic …
Contextual Inference Reading Comprehension Skill Activities As Determinants Of Reading Comprehension Performance, Joyce Njiiri
Contextual Inference Reading Comprehension Skill Activities As Determinants Of Reading Comprehension Performance, Joyce Njiiri
Journal of the Language Association of Eastern Africa
Reading comprehension is one of the most important features in the learning process for second language learners because texts are the means through which most concepts are learnt. However, it is one of the least developed linguistic skills as manifested in the Kenya National Examination Council (KNEC 2010; 2011; 2013;2015;2017;2018). KNEC attributes poor performance in reading comprehension of passages to inadequate reading comprehension skill activities of contextual inference, note-making, paraphrasing, and summary writing among others during the reading comprehension lessons. Additionally, there is notable lack of exposure to reading comprehension skill activities to secondary school learners. The purpose of this …
(Wp 2022-01) Economics As A Normative Discipline: Value Disentanglement In An ‘Objective’ Economics, John B. Davis
(Wp 2022-01) Economics As A Normative Discipline: Value Disentanglement In An ‘Objective’ Economics, John B. Davis
Economics Working Papers
This chapter critically evaluates standard economics’ treatment of positive and normative, drawing on Putnam’s (2002) fact-value entanglement argument. It argues that economics is an inherently value-laden discipline but may still be an ‘objective’ one. The means of achieving this is to carry out a programme of value disentanglement that evaluates research approaches according to whether their different value structures are consistent. The method employed assumes that economics and social science disciplines are built around anchor values or normative ideals and additional sets of values concerning what most people in those disciplines see as most valuable and good about human society …
Measurement Effects In Decision-Making, Devin Michael Burns, Charlotte Hohnemann
Measurement Effects In Decision-Making, Devin Michael Burns, Charlotte Hohnemann
Psychological Science Faculty Research & Creative Works
When participants are shown a series of stimuli, their responses differ depending on whether they respond after each stimulus or only at the end of the series, in what we call a measurement effect. These effects have received paltry attention compared with more well-known order effects and pose a unique challenge to theories of decision-making. In a series of two preregistered experiments, we consistently find measurement effects such that responding to a stimulus reduces its impact on later stimuli. While previous research has found such effects in noncumulative tasks, where participants are instructed only to respond to the most recent …
Conjecture And Evidence: Discovering The Costs Of Contemporary American Political Ideals, Joseph C. Immormino
Conjecture And Evidence: Discovering The Costs Of Contemporary American Political Ideals, Joseph C. Immormino
CGU Theses & Dissertations
This dissertation offers an adaptation of the relative political capacity (RPC) research framework to domestic American politics, enabling a quantitative examination of the relative performance of state governments during the COVID-19 pandemic. Theoretically, I examine the notion that more politically capable states will be more effective in their efforts to mitigate mortality rates, and hypothesize that, in the United States, such a relationship is conditional upon the party identification of state leadership. The premise is tested by applying a series of multiplicative interaction models to a unique dataset spanning the first two years of the pandemic. Results confirm that measures …
The New Abortion Battleground, David S. Cohen, Greer Donley, Rachel Rebouché
The New Abortion Battleground, David S. Cohen, Greer Donley, Rachel Rebouché
Articles
This Article examines the paradigm shift that is occurring now that the Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade. Returning abortion law to the states has spawned perplexing legal conflicts across state borders and between states and the federal government. This article emphasizes how these issues intersect with innovations in the delivery of abortion, which can now occur entirely online and transcend state boundaries. The interjurisdictional abortion wars are coming, and this Article is the first to provide the roadmap for the immediate aftermath of Roe’s reversal and what lies ahead.
Judges and scholars, and most recently the Supreme …