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Capitalizing the Use of Artificial Intelligence for Business Education
Get PDFThe conjunction of artificial intelligence and education has prompted concerned interest in its effect on traditional pedagogical approaches. In the area of business education, the integration of AI holds great promise for encouraging the development of essential skills required for success in a rapidly evolving professional landscape. The ethical uses of AI can be challenging in education, especially in areas of history, languages, literature, and philosophy. The question of authentic submissions can be a concern for all faculty and its genuine useful purposes need to be clarified
Asian Shore Crab (Hemigrapsus sanguineus)
Get PDFLife history characteristics of the Asian Shore Crab (Hemigrapsus sanguineus) in Narragensett Bay, Rhode Island, USA
American Fashion at the New York World\u27s Fair 1939-1940: Spectacle, Gender, and the Invention of American Style
No full textABSTRACT The New York World’s Fair 1939 opened at Flushing Meadows, Queens, on April 30, 1939. During the course of its two seasons, the Fair hosted 45 million visitors making it the most highly attended public event of the early 20th century. The fashion industry, the largest industry in New York City and third largest in the nation at the time, was among the first to commit to participation. Despite early struggles and the failure to secure a dedicated building in the first year, the Fair succeeded in placing American fashion in the public eye largely through the efforts of two key women, Marcia Connor and Mary Lewis. By orchestrating continuous public events, media tie-ins, a dedicated fashion building in 1940, and most importantly, live fashion shows in both 1939 and 1940, hegemonic messages were projected that reinforced a comprehensive picture of the American fashion industry as technologically sophisticated, affordable, stylish, and modern. Ultimately, more than 10 million visitors engaged with American fashion at the New York World’s Fair 1939-40, crystallizing a collective consciousness around American fashion and individual designers that fostered success of American fashion in the years that followed. In exploring fashion at the New York World’s Fair 1939-40, this dissertation brings attention to a subject that has been largely ignored by scholars. Today, the New York World’s Fair 1939-1940 is best remembered for the triumph of the streamlined industrial design aesthetic and the ascendant role of private corporations in creating a future vision of American consumerism. Scholarship around the New York World’s Fair 1939-1940 has centered on the activities of men, especially the work of male industrial designers who were engaged to create the conceptual and aesthetic look of the Fair. Fashion at the New York World’s Fair is the story about women’s achievements and has been ignored. This dissertation centers gender as a factor in the early challenges that surrounded planning for fashion at the New York World’s Fair 1939-40 and recovers the contributions of Marcia Connor and Mary Lewis in launching American fashion at the New York World’s Fair 1939-1940. In addition, this dissertation creates a framework for understanding how the New York World’s Fair 1939-1940 functioned as a crucible for a collective consciousness around the American fashion and its individual designers that secured validation in the eyes of the public
2023 Polarization Index Part IV: Media\u27s Role in Bias and Division
Get PDFPolarization is both a buzzword and a tangible indicator of the state of our nation. We hear how polarized the American public is from our politicians, the media, and our friends and family. We have also experienced the effects of voter suppression, election denial, cancel culture, the January 6th attack on the Capitol, and congressional gridlock.This Polarization Index was created to help us better understand how polarized the American public is really. Grasping the ways in which we are polarized – to what degree and over what issues – and identifying areas of bipartisan agreement, will give us a stronger foundation from which to make progress. The following report presents data from a multitude of reputable sources to provide a holistic understanding of partisan polarization in the United States.
This report is Part IV of four parts. It covers media and disinformation with data on Americans’ approach to news consumption and their perceptions of bias in the media. Parts I and II (September 2023) cover affective and ideological polarization. Part III (October 2023) tackles polarization within the federal government.
An Analysis of the Challenges of Islamic Vaccination Resistance to Disease Eradication Programs and Recommended Mitigations
No full textIn 1988, the World Health Assembly established the goal of eradicating polio by the year 2000, a goal which, as of 2023, has yet to be attained. Since 2012, polio has been endemic to only three countries—Nigeria, Pakistan, and Afghanistan—all facing widespread vaccination resistance from various organized and unorganized actors, often justified in religious terms. While there has been a considerable amount of recent scholarly research into the relationship between Islamic vaccination resistance and polio eradication, it has yet to produce a theoretical framework for comprehensively explaining the relationship of Islamic vaccination resistance to vaccine-preventable disease eradication generally. This study addresses that knowledge gap by using a multiple case study method to explore Islamic vaccination resistance in Nigeria, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. Leveraging grounded theory, this study investigates the phenomenon of vaccination resistance as it has developed over time, starting from smallpox eradication through the current state of polio eradication and looking ahead to the emerging phenomenon of measles vaccination resistance. Building upon this foundation, this study analyzes the common themes of vaccination resistance, offering a theoretical explanation rooted in the partially overlapping elements of Islamist ideologies and widespread distrust of Western-led, vertical health initiatives. It also uses content analysis to assess the awareness of both the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) and the Measles and Rubella Partnership (M&RP) toward critical themes identified in the multiple case study. Finally, this study proposes three principles that the measles eradication program should adopt to proactively mitigate vaccination resistance stemming from ideology and distrust. The first is to bolster accountability through publishing detailed annual status reports and by adopting its own auditing body modeled after the polio program’s Independent Monitoring Board (IMB). The second principle is humility, displayed in forging a program that reflects local health priorities and integrated services rather than one that narrowly targets the goal of eradication. The third and final principle is shared ownership, requiring a measles program that demonstrates ideological neutrality through a genuine, institutional partnership with the Muslim world
Eight Clues: The Ordinary and Extraordinary Life of Arthur Bowler in Slavery and Freedom
No full textIn her “Eight Clues: The Ordinary and Extraordinary Life of Arthur Bowler in Slavery and in Freedom,” Jane Lancaster pieces together the narrative of an extraordinary odyssey taken by an “ordinary” man from the mid-1760s into the nineteenth century. Taking eight “clues,” as her staring point, she carefully recreates the life of Arthur Bowler, who was captured in West Africa in the 1760s as a teenager, brought to Newport, and enslaved by one of the most prominent citizens in the town. With only scraps of evidence concerning Bowler, and background research on locations and incidents from Newport to Nova Scotia to Sierra Leone, the author posits a new way of writing about people who left little evidence about themselves but whose lives are nonetheless crucial to a wider understanding of our history. Jane Lancaster earned a Ph.D. from Brown University, and has taught there and at the R.I. School of Design. She is an independent scholar and has published four books, including Inquire Within, a History of the Providence Athenaeum, and numerous articles on Rhode Island topics with reference to race and gender
Arming the Quad: U.S. Foreign Military Sales to Australia, Japan, and India amidst U.S.-China Strategic Competition from the Quad\u27s Founding to AUKUS, 2004-2021
No full textThis research examines United States Security Cooperation via Foreign Military Sales (FMS) to the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) partners – Australia, Japan, and India – amidst the U.S.-China strategic competition. In addition to the U.S., the Quad represents two long-standing U.S. allies (Australia and Japan) and a declared Major Defense Partner (India). Through a historical study, this research begins at the Quad’s founding (December 2004), continuing to the establishment of the trilateral security partnership between Australia, the United Kingdom, and the U.S., known as AUKUS – a significant milestone for U.S. arms sales in the Indo-Pacific (September 2021). This research finds that, in response to China’s expanded influence and rapid militarization, the U.S. adopted an Indo-Pacific strategy that sought increased interoperability via Security Cooperation with allies and partners, namely the Quad
Thomas Aquinas, defensor hominis integralis: The Enduring Relevance of Thomistic Anthropology in a Technological Age
No full textTechnological advancements, especially with regard to enhancements of human capacities and powers, have instigated a collision between opposing views of the human person. I begin with the premise that the predominant classical view of the human person attained its clearest and most cogent expression in the philosophy of Thomas Aquinas and can be termed the theory of the homo integralis. The human person is, for Thomas, the integrated being par excellence: he is a union of the material (body) and the immaterial (soul); his freedom is guided by a normative nature; he is himself a product of and participant in nature; he is a member of a common species from which he draws his identity; and he balances the needs of his embodied state with a recognition that his existence is not limited to it. Due to the philosophical and technological revolutions of the modern period, themselves an outgrowth perhaps of earlier attitudes, a contrasting view of the human person emerged: the homo technologicus. Technological man, unlike his classical predecessor, is marked by fundamental disintegration: he is divided in himself, between mind and body; he is dissociated from a normative human nature; he is divided from nature itself as he sets himself against it through technological means; he is divided from the human community in radical, self-determining autonomy; and he is severed from any sense of transcendent purpose or value aside from that which can be attained through his own powers, technological or otherwise. By recovering a sense of the homo integralis as articulated by Thomas Aquinas, a fresh appraisal of contemporary issues regarding the human relationship to technology, human capacities and powers as evaluated by movements like transhumanism, and ultimately, human meaning and value, is made possible and is shown to provide a consistent and appealing rejoinder to the disintegrated vision of man that emerges in a technologized world
Paving the Way Forward
No full textA community-based discussion focusing on the findings of the campus climate survey and the roadmap for Salve Regina\u27s future work on diversity, equity and inclusion
How to Be an Effective Ally
No full textThis session will focus on providing attendees with tools to support marginalized populations at both the personal and systemic levels. The presenter will help attendees with identifying specific strategies for becoming more effective allies