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Atlantic Razor Clam (Ensis Leei)
Full text linkLife history characteristics of Atlantic Razor Clam (Ensis Leei) in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, USA
Energy Claims for the Wind Farm off Newport’s South Coast
Full text linkRevolution Wind will be constructing a Wind Farm off of Newport\u27s South Coast. The community is extremely mixed on their reaction to the project, but there is a lot of misinformation concerning the project and wind turbines in general. The main focus is to address community concerns while informing the public of wind farms and wind turbines, with a specific focus on the energy aspect
The Politics of Frivolity: American Neopopulism and Decadence
No full textPopulism and decadence: What do these parallel sentiments in the US have to teach us? More specifically, how does a possible relationship between the two help us understand the source of the growing sense of fragility of our republican procedures and institutions? Both decadence and populism are slippery concepts. Both serve to amplify what they stand against rather than for. Therefore, identifying and unpacking what each “travels with” is helpful. In sum, by versing ourselves in the classical conceptions of decadence and populism, and then examining their postmodern counterparts, we arrive at a much-needed step towards a comprehensive theory of neopopulism. Such a theory would account for the cultural foundations of the US’s current populism that will continue at least a decade beyond that pinnacle moment with Trump’s election in 2016. This study argues the following: Contemporary right-wing populism in the US – that is, right neopopulism – is correlated with, and is the political expression of, decadence. Decadence is not the “cause” of populism. Rather, this recent populism-cum-decadence has been facilitated by two factors that share an interdependent relationship: Postmodern epistemology and postmodern communication technology
Unraveling the Pseudo Statehood of Lebanon: A Critique of Consociationalism in Lebanon
No full textThis study critically examines the paradigm of consociationalism and its inherent inadequacies within the framework of the Lebanese political model. Emphasizing three pivotal deficiencies—namely, elite political dynamics, the entrenchment of sectarian institutions, and external interference—this research delves into their manifestation in Lebanon across key historical junctures, encompassing Lebanon’s genesis under the National Pact, its reconfiguration following the Ta’if Agreement, and the ramifications within its security apparatus and prevailing corruption. Moreover, an analytical comparison is drawn between the failures of Lebanese consociationalism and the prevailing strengths of Hezbollah, resulting in a nuanced portrayal that extends beyond a conventional depiction of a failing state but not a failed state, positioning Lebanon within the framework of a quasi-state. This study posits the introduction of a novel categorization for assessing states, denoted as a pseudo state. Upon the application of Lebanon’s consociational shortcomings against the criteria delineating a pseudo state, this research establishes the eligibility of Lebanon for pseudo statehood: a sovereign state that cannot function as a state in defending itself, running an economy or legislating but is run by either a local non-state actor or foreign power
The Restoration of Psyche: Heidegger, Ellul, and the Question of Technology in Clinical Psychological Science
No full textDrawing upon Martin Heidegger’s questioning of technology and Jacques Ellul’s analysis of technological society, this study provides a critique of the mechanistic and functionalist methods of clinical psychological science. The study traces the genealogy of psyche as it has been construed across the Western philosophical, theological, and scientific traditions. It also examines the history of responses to human psychological distress and the gradual medicalization of psychological suffering as it came to be understood as mental illness. Problems associated with the objectification of psyche, psychological phenomena, and the human person via mechanistic and functionalist theories of cognition, emotion, and behavior are also explored. Finally, the study advocates, as an alternative to scientific methods and models of human psychology, the adoption of descriptive approaches traditionally associated with the humanities. The personalist psychology that emerges allows for the restoration of “psyche” to its ancient definition of human aliveness and returns the mystery of psychological phenomena to a central place in human life. This “re-mystifying” approach prioritizes the beautiful and the sacred as truth criteria in psychology, deliberately relinquishing epistemologies predicated on naive empiricism, correspondence theories of truth, or pragmatic workability. The study concludes with a discussion of “the therapy of life,” a psychotherapeutic dialogue predicated on a poetics of the human person
The Moral and Rational Inquiry of Sub-Saharan Africa’s Armed Conflicts: Wars and Peace in the Democratic Republic of Congo
No full textHow do morals and rationales impact the development of Sub-Saharan Africa\u27s armed conflicts? Built around this primary research question, this study explores the relationship between immoral and irrational actions and the development of Congolese armed conflict into a protracted, deadly, and destructive cycle of violence between 1993 and 2003. The study used grounded theory methodological processes with a social constructivist perspective on secondary data collected mainly from the United Nations report titled “DRC: Mapping Human Rights Violations 1993-2003.” The study implied moral virtue-consequentialism, rational choice theory, and a poverty-centered paradigm to induce moral and rational reasoning. The study found that subjective, objective, proactive, and extreme harmful actions by political and military agents from different belligerents during the four conflict episodes caused the escalation and highly destructive consequences. The harm-prone contexts of the conflict cultivated these harmful actions and produced multiple harming agents, resulting in the harmful development of the conflict. The study formulated these findings into a middle-range theory termed Congolese Armed Conflict Moral Chaos to explain the relationship between harmful actions, harm-prone contexts, and harming agents that resulted in multiplicity, complexity, extremity, and uncontrollability of harmful development of the conflict. The study devised a functional moral and rational compass, MORAC, that puts forth fundamental maxims and components about moral reasoning and implementation to guide actions and moral inquiry during an armed conflict, especially in a poor African country, to moderate its harmful development
Ginkgo biloba (Ginkgo/Maidenhair) ID#14 Year of Observation: 2024
Full text linkLocation: McKillop LibraryRadius of Crown: 7.4 mHeight: 69.3 mDiameter at breast height: 3.62 mAge: Maturehttps://digitalcommons.salve.edu/bio140_arboretum/1038/thumbnail.jp
Wellness Initiative for Employees Working in Long-Term Care
No full textBurnout and workplace stress significantly contribute to decreased employee satisfaction and productivity, underscoring the need for wellness initiatives in the workplace. This quality improvement project aimed to enhance employee well-being through a wellness program focusing on stress management, sleep hygiene, nutrition, and exercise. The project, “Caring for the Caregiver Series: Four Pillars of Health,” included three in-person educational sessions addressing key wellness components identified in the American Nurses Association, “Pulse on the Nation\u27s Nurses COVID-19 Survey Series: Mental Health and Wellness Survey 1”, August 2020 needs assessment. The primary goal was to equip employees with practical knowledge and skills to improve their physical and mental health. Implemented across three long-term care facilities (LTC), employees completed the Mental Health Quality of Life (MHQoL) survey before and after the intervention. Statistical analysis using Welch\u27s t-test revealed a significant improvement in MHQoL scores post-intervention, with pre-test scores averaging 17.82 (SD = 22.39) and post-test scores averaging 7.54 (SD = 9.71), yielding a t-value of 2.63 and p-values of 0.0056 (one-tailed) and 0.0012 (two-tailed). However, a one-way ANOVA showed no significant difference in outcomes based on the number of sessions attended (F(2, 114) = 0.34, p = 0.71). While the findings were statistically significant, the small sample size (n=17 for post-test) limits generalizability and should be interpreted cautiously. Regardless, the initiative successfully empowered participants to manage personal and work-related stressors, emphasizing the critical role of educational interventions in promoting mental well-being in healthcare settings
Powerpoint: Charges of Forgery: Roger Williams and the Narragansett Deed to Providence
Full text linkIn the Fall 2024 Rare Book Salon, Salve’s archivist and faculty with expertise in the fields of archaeology, cultural and historic preservation, and history engage in a multidisciplinary discussion spanning Indigenous histories and land evidence. In this 1896 paper from Salve Special Collections on the authenticity of the 1638 deed to Moshassuck, which would become the site of Providence, George Paine uses legal evidence and primary sources to examine the document signed by Sachems Canonicus and Miantonomi that conveyed the land rights to the English colonizer