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Economic Development, The Nutrition Trap And Metabolic Disease, Nancy Luke, Kaivan Munshi, Anu Mary Oommen, Swapnil Singh

Discussion Papers

This research provides a single explanation for: (i) the persistence of malnutrition and (ii) the increased prevalence of metabolic disease (diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular disease) among normal weight individuals with economic development. Our model is based on a set point for BMI or bodyweight that is adapted to conditions of scarcity in the pre-modern economy, but which subsequently fails to adjust to rapid economic change. During the process of development, some individuals thus remain at their low-BMI set point, despite the increase in their consumption, while others who have escaped the nutrition trap (but are not necessarily overweight) are at increased …

Evolution Of Initiation Rites During The Austronesian Dispersal, R. Alexander Bentley, William R. Moritz, Damian J. Ruck, Michael J. O'Brien

History Faculty Publications

As adaptive systems, kinship and its accompanying rules have co-evolved with elements of complex societies, including wealth inheritance, subsistence, and power relations. Here we consider an aspect of kinship evolution in the Austronesian dispersal that began from about 5500 BP in Taiwan, reaching Melanesia about 3200 BP, and dispersing into Micronesia by 1500 BP. Previous, foundational work has used phylogenetic comparative methods and ethnolinguistic information to infer matrilocal residence in proto-Austronesian societies. Here we apply Bayesian phylogenetic analyses to a data set on Austronesian societies that combines existing data on marital residence systems with a new set of ethnographic data, …

Triathlete Magazine Promotes #Teamusa With Grace Norman On Cover Of Olympic Edition, Mark D. Weinstein

News Releases

While Grace Norman is training for the 2021 Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan, Triathlete Magazine is promoting the USA olympic program through the two most prominent triathletes for #TeamUSA--Morgan Pearson in the Olympics and Norman, a Paralympic gold medalist. The magazine is currently available and it features stories on Norman and Pearson, both who appear on the magazine's cover.

Presence Of Large Racial-Ethnic Differences In Adhd Prevalence Among U.S. Children, Ashlyn W.W.A Wong

Population Health Research Brief Series

This data slice compares adolescent ADHD diagnoses across racial-ethnic groups. It shows large racial/ethnic differences, with the highest rates among Non-Hispanic (NH) Alaskan Native/American Indian children, followed by NH White, NH Black, and NH Other Race children. Rates were substantially lower for Hispanic and NH Asian.

Differential Privacy And The Accuracy Of County-Level Net Migration Estimates, Richelle Winkler, Jaclyn L. Butler, Katherine J. Curtis, David Egan-Robertson

Michigan Tech Publications

Each decade since the 1950s, demographers have generated high-quality net migration estimates by age, sex, and race for US counties using decennial census data as starting and ending populations. The estimates have been downloaded tens of thousands of times and widely used for planning, diverse applications, and research. Census 2020 should allow the series to extend through the 2010–2020 decade. The accuracy of new estimates, however, could be challenged by differentially private (DP) disclosure avoidance techniques in Census 2020 data products. This research brief estimates the impact of DP implementation on the accuracy of county-level net migration estimates. Using differentially …

Ubiquitous Libguides: Variations In Presence, Production, Application, And Convention, Chris Neuahus, Angie Cox, Anne Marie Gruber, Jim Kelly, Hyunseung Koh, Claire Bowling, Gail Bunz

Library Faculty Publications

The LibGuides platform, a content management system (CMS) from Springshare, has become an integral part of the online presence for many academic libraries. Neither Springshare nor other recent studies have provided an in-depth look at the evolving nature of LibGuides adoption, production and application across university and college categories. This study compared the prevalence and production of LibGuides to other forms of library guides at 799 academic libraries throughout the United States. LibGuides naming conventions were recorded and compared. The use of LibGuides CMS software to create library websites was also documented. This study found that there are clear differences …

Professional Education To Reduce Provider Stigma Toward Harm Reduction And Pharmacotherapy, Sandra H. Sulzer, Suzanne Prevedel, Tyson Barrett, Maren Wright Voss, Cassandra Manning, Erin Fanning Madden

Extension Research

Aims: A novel professional training was developed to reduce stigma toward harm reduction and pharmacotherapy for substance use disorders.

Methods: The training was delivered over three sessions to n = 147 health professionals in Utah between 2019 and 2020, including n = 40 substance use disorder treatment professionals. Pre and post-training survey measures provided evaluation information on knowledge, attitudes, and planned action regarding harm reduction and pharmacotherapy. Items were grouped into a stigma score, and multilevel modeling, regression analyses, and McNemar tests were used to quantify changes in overall stigma toward harm reduction interventions both before and after the training. …

Community Volunteerism: Making Your World A Better Place, Derek Wilmott

Summer Workshop Series

No abstract provided.

Attachment, Trait Mindfulness, And Expectations In Married Women: A Moderated Mediation Model, Elizabeth Larson

Clinical Psychology Dissertations

Historically, the term marital satisfaction has been used to describe the subjective quality of marriage; however, some researchers have proposed that marital satisfaction as a construct overlooks fundamental relational components that could elucidate a more precise portrayal of marital functioning. Utilizing archival data, I examined individual differences in attachment orientation and trait mindfulness predicting marital expectations, a process that informs marital satisfaction. Using a moderated mediation model, I hypothesized that (a) attachment avoidance would negatively predict marital expectations, (b) trait mindfulness would mediate the relationship between attachment avoidance and marital expectations, (c) attachment anxiety would moderate the relationship between attachment …

A Guide For Innovation In Lgbq+ Youth Peer Relationships Research, V. Paul Poteat, Sarah B. Rosenbach, Rhiannon L. Smith, Jonathan Santo

Psychology Faculty Publications

LGBQ+ youth (youth who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, or with diverse identities other than straight or heterosexual) contend with unique stressors in the context of their peer relationships. They also access critical support from peers. These circumstances likely influence how LGBQ+ youth navigate and experience their relationships. Nevertheless, research remains limited in its breadth and depth of coverage of LGBQ+ youth's peer relationships. We suggest ways to advance such research within the following areas: (a) identity development in the peer context; (b) identity disclosure and “coming out” to peers; (c) initiating, developing, and maintaining friendships under marginalizing conditions; …

Genesis At Work: Advancing Inclusive Innovation Through Manufacturing Extension, Nichola Lowe, Greg Schrock, Ranita Jain, Maureen Conway

Urban Studies and Planning Faculty Publications and Presentations

US manufacturing is struggling with both a productivity and job quality challenge. These challenges are interconnected, reinforcing the need for increased coordination of economic and workforce development efforts. This article outlines the evaluation findings of a novel business-facing initiative called the Genesis Movement, to understand its role in reshaping the workforce experience within small- and medium-sized manufacturing businesses in Chicago, Illinois. Spearheaded in 2014 by the Illinois Manufacturing Excellence Center (IMEC), Genesis starts with the premise that workforce practices are central to business operations, productivity, and competitiveness—and therefore, manufacturing extension services need to promote improvements to job quality in support …

Impact Of Aging Information On The Continuing Education Preferences Of Behavioral Health Clinicians, Nicholas Schmidt

Dissertations

The United States population is aging rapidly and the behavioral health workforce is ill-prepared to meet the concurrent rise in demand for services for older adults. Clinicians specializing in working with older adults make up a very small portion of providers and the majority of service provision falls on general practitioners. The discipline of counseling has emphasized multicultural competencies in training and practice but has not specified standards of competence for work with older adults; little is known about the interests and training preferences of Licensed Professional Counselors (LPCs). This study examined the impact of receiving foundational information about aging …

Us Gambling Stagnation: Will New Gambling Forms Make A Difference?, Thomas E. Lambert

Faculty and Staff Scholarship

Much has been written recently in the popular press about the rise of sports gambling, historical horse racing or instant racing (HHR), and esports. However, despite this, some note an overall decline in the popularity of gambling and gaming in general as horse racing (pari-mutuel) wagering has declined dramatically over the decades and as casino and lottery revenues have fallen slightly since before the Great Recession. This exploratory research note examines the trends in US gambling over the last several decades and explores whether the new forms of gambling will stem and reverse overall gambling stagnation in the United States. …

Detecting Remnants Of The Past: Archaeo-Geophysical Prospection Of Fremont Sites In Southern Utah Valley, Jacob P. Jepsen

Theses and Dissertations

The variable contexts of Fremont habitation sites in Utah Valley often make identification of those sites very challenging for archaeologists. Pit houses and other structures throughout the valley are frequently in plowed fields or other disturbed contexts that obscure their more exact location and nature. The application of geophysical technologies at archaeological sites throughout the world, including in North America, has proven to be an effective means of subsurface archaeological survey. However, geophysical techniques have been underutilized in Fremont archaeology. This paper reports on the employment of two geophysical methods, ground-penetrating radar (GPR) and fluxgate gradiometer surveys, at three known …

Variable Subject Pronoun Expression In The Spanish Of Londombia: A Study Of Language Contact In Canada, Angelica Hernandez Constantin

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

According to the extended projection principle, subjects are mandatory in tensed clauses (Chomsky 1982). Languages, however, vary in their use of null and overt subjects. Languages like English, which are [-null subject] languages, require overt subjects (1a), rendering phrases with null subjects ungrammatical (1b), while languages like Spanish, which are [+ null subject] languages, allow for both overt (2a) and null subjects (2b).

(1) a. She wants bread.

b. *Ø wants bread.

(2) a. Ella quiere pan.

b. Ø quiere pan.

“(She) wants bread”

In Spanish the variable use of Spanish subject personal pronouns (SPPs) has been studied in monolingual …

Environmental Perception In Colombia's Páramo Protected Areas, Juliana Delgado

LSU Master's Theses

This thesis analyzes the gap between farmers' environmental perceptions in Téquita, a small village in Colombia, and the definition of protected areas has led to a conflict for the use of natural resources. I examine if the protected area's policies have dealt with the social and ecological issues in the páramos and recognized the social construction of the landscape, farmers' identities, and their interpretations about work and land. The case study focuses on Güina High Mountain in the Guantiva-La Rusia páramo complex, which recently the Colombian government declared as a protected area. In light of anthropologist Tim Ingold's meaning of …

Geological Lineament Assessment From Passive And Active Remote Sensing Imageries, Ainyyafiatty Arifin, Nor A. Adnan

International Journal of Geospatial and Environmental Research

Lineament is any extensive linear feature on the Earth’s surface that can be identified when there is a change in the topographical data. The advancement of technologies in remote sensing and Geographical Information Sciences (GIS) lead to the various studies and methods in mapping lineaments due to the availability of data from small to large scale areas. Lineament can be extracted from remote sensing data either with manual, semi-automatic or automatic image processing techniques that incorporate in numerous remote sensing and GIS software. Manually digitizing or tracing the aerial photograph is a subjective method as the lineament will be interpreted …

A Study Of Renewable Energy And Solar Panel Literature Through Bibliometric Positioning During Three Decades, Mochamad Choifin, Achmad Fathoni Rodli, Anita Kartika Sari, Tri Wahjoedi, Abdul Aziz

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Renewable energy as a solution to supply future and current needs. This paper aims to review the status and visual map position of research in the internationally renewable energy and solar panel literature indexed Scopus that used a bibliometric positioning overview. The research was carried out using bibliometric techniques. Data analysis as well as visualization utilising VOSViewer program and the Scopus function for analyse search results. In this review, the details collected applied to 1,598 documents issued from 1989 through 2020. The study reveal that National University of Singapore and India Studies were the most active affiliated institutions scientists and …

Bibliometric Survey On The Effects Of Technology Addiction, Dipashri Sisodiya Miss, Dhanya Pramod Mrs

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

In today’s technology-centric era, our lives have become vastly dependent on the internet. The internet is widely used for social media to connect, communicate, share and collaborate. However, constant usage of technology can increase compulsion or addiction. This bibliometric survey describes the various types of effects of technology addiction on Human body. The purpose of this research is to examine the different types of technology addiction research published in the journal between 2001 to 2020 in different regions in the World. The Bibliometric analysis is done using Scopus. Scopus and VOS Viewer were used to plot a recurrence of keywords, …

Significance Of Social Networking Tools In Promoting The Academic Library Services: A Case Study, Nancy Waral L, Dr. P Saravanan Pillai, Dr. G. Gnana Elpinston

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The 21st century has witnessed that Social Networking Sites (SNSs) are one of the most dynamic online exercises to impact the advanced world. SNSs and their applications act as a powerful tool to link the gap between the library and its patrons. The COVID-19 Pandemic has proved that SNSs help in providing library services with the click of a mouse, thus expanding the services the library renders to their clients. The study highlights the use of various SNSs in promoting library services, reasons for using SNSs, to know the most preferred SNS, and frequency of SNSs used by the libraries, …

The Failure Of Europe’S Social Contract And Its Impact On The Rise Of The Right Wing: Germany And Uk Case Study, Wisam Hazimeh, Wendy Prius, Mohammed Al-Khraisha

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Homegrown terrorism, or domestic terrorism, has been on the rise in correlation with the number of refugee and migrant populations within Europe. Not only has radical Islamist terrorism become prevalent, but alongside this trend, Europeans find that far-right extremism is a mirrored manifestation of extremist Islamist ideology. While Europe fails to properly address the root causes of this crisis, European states propel further into individual identity crises that fester into extremism. Prejudice, divisive policies, and sectarianism leave societies to find legitimacy elsewhere as the harmonic order and social contract within society fails, and people revert to smaller factions as they …

Politeness Violated: A Study Of Selected Tweets By Donald Trump, Khalid Al-Shaikhli, Mohammad Al-Santareesi

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Social media, Twitter in particular, have been a tool used by politicians to voice their thoughts and make a stand. Political figures sometimes use social media, including Twitter, as an instrument to distort the face of their rivals by employing linguistic impoliteness. The present study aims to analyze some of President Donald Trump’s impolite tweets. Methodologically, Brown and Levinson’s (1987) model of politeness is taken as the main reference of understanding and explaining the face-threatening acts that target the addressee’s face, and Culpeper’s (1996) framework to classify impoliteness strategies. The data are in the form of Trump’s tweets. The selected …

The Female Bildungsroman In Anne Bronte’S: Agnes Grey, Nouh Alguzo

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This paper examines Anne Bronte’s novel Agnes Grey as an autobiographical bildungsroman about the moral growth and development of the female protagonist in Victorian England. The heroine Agnes finds herself propelled into employment as a governess, after her family suffers financial loss, driven by her desire to explore the wider world. The evangelical upbringing of Agnes, as the daughter of a clergyman, plays significant role in developing her strong and selfless character and inspires her to sympathize with the poor. Agnes challenges the patriarchal norms and traditions that treat her as a domestic servant rather than intellectual woman and educator. …

Comparative Study Of The Coordination Abilities And Proprioception Of The Players In Basketball And Football Teams In The University District, ماجد عبدالمجيد عسيلة, Usama Jabber, Iyad Abutouq

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The study aimed to identify the differences in the coordination abilities and kinetic perceptions between basketball players and football players, and to identify the correlation between the abilities of coordination abilities and kinetic perceptions among basketball players and football players, where the researchers used the descriptive approach, the study sample (30) male Basketball and football team (16-18) in the university District.

In the light of the objectives of the study, the researchers found that there were statistically significant differences between the two groups (the group of football players & basketball players) for the basketball players, and there were significant differences …

The Positive Impact Of King Abdullah Of Jordan’S Speeches During The Arab Spring And The Political Role Of Jordanian Parliament (2011-2013), Jamal Hussein, Ahmad Al-Balasi

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The study aims to examine the positive role of King Abdullah of Jordan’s speeches during the Arab Spring (2011-2013) and the role of Jordanian Parliament in political reforms during the same period.

The study concluded that Jordan enacted a number of political reforms, sought to introduce further democratic changes, and encouraged the establishment of civil society institutions and political parties. The study made a number of recommendations such as the importance of the constitutional empowerment of parliament by increasing the scope of its powers through a modern election law that would contribute to the advancement of political life in Jordan

Identity And Globalization In Contemporary Arab Though, Duaa Ali

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Philosophers and intellectuals have approached Identify concept through out ages occasionally and wondered about its essence. Of those Middle Ages Arab thinkers, as well as Arab Contemporary intellectuals thinkers like Muhammad Abed al-Jabari, Mahmoud Amin al-Alam, Tayeb Tizini, Salem Yaot, and others. Researcher goes to the fact that globalization has led Arab thinkers, with their different specializations, diversity, their philosophical, ideological affiliations to greater interest in the question of identity. given from the belief that globalization represents a significant danger to identity in general, and to cultural identity in particular. The most prominent example of this belief is what the …

Address The Behavior Of High School Students In Jordan In Light Of The Ethics Of The Teaching Profession, Khulood Al-Hawamdeh

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This study aimed to identify the negative behaviors (ethical behavior, academic education) prevailing in secondary schools in Jordan and provide some proposed solutions to them, and to achieve the goal of the study, the researcher used the descriptive curriculum and prepared a questionnaire for two fields (ethical behavioral field, academic educational field) and conducted transactions of honesty and consistency, and applied the tool to a sample of (150) educational workers working in secondary schools in the Kasbah al-Mafraq directorate of the Ministry of Education of Jordan, and the results of the study showed that behavioral problems are prevalent among schools …

The Impact Of Switching Rrom Traditional To Digital Education On The Teacher In Light Of The Corona Pandemic - Covid 19, Majdaleen M. Alqaoud, Lina Badr

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The study aimed to identify the impact of switching from traditional education to digital education concerning the corona pandemic-covid19.

The study utilized the descriptive and analytical approaches. A self-administered questionnaire was used to collect data from study's sample, the questionnaire included (20) paragraphs distributed into four dimensions (the teacher dimension, the student dimension, the curriculum dimension and the technical dimension). A stratified random sample of (345) teachers in private schools in Medina was chosen to represent the study community.

The results of the study found that all tested dimensions in this scale were highly rated, with the relative weight of …

The Effectiveness Of Training Program Based On Using Peer Teaching To Develop Social Interaction Skills Among A Sample Of Students With Learning Disabilities, Firas Baniyounis, Mohammed Al-Alwan, Jehad Alslehat, Rami Tashtoush

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The aim of this study was to investigate the Effectiveness of Training Program Based on Using Peer Teaching to Develop Social Interaction among a sample of students with Learning Disabilities. The sample of the study consisted of (47) students with learning disabilities in the sixth grade. The sample was intentionally chosen and grouped equally into two groups: the experimental and the control group. The experimental group consisted of (25) students which was taught by using beer teaching strategy and the control group consisted of (22) students which was not taught by any strategy. The results of the study indicate that …

The Effectiveness Of Voluntary Work Projects'-Based Program In Providing Students At Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University With Communication Skills, Rami Atiyeh, Ismaeel Al-Nabrawi, Amani Abed Raboh

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The study aims at identifying The Effectiveness of voluntary work projects' based program in providing students at Imam Abdulrahman bin Faisal University with communication skills., in light some variables., Two questionnaires are used in this study, the first was for faculty members on: listening, speaking, non-verbal communication, dealing with others, leadership skills, and technical skills in preparing presentations ,The other questionnaire was for students on the same six skills that were in the faculty questionnaire in addition to seventh paragraph was added on self-management skill. for. Regarding faculty members, 10 faculty members 569 students responded to the pre-test, while 384 …