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The Influence of Innovative Product Design and Brand Personality on Purchase Intent - Valuing Persons with Special Needs
No full textThere are many individuals with developmental disabilities who have the capacity to make everyday purchases and frequent particular brands. Out of the 54 million of Americans that have either a physical or intellectual disability in the United States (ADA National Network, 2019), there are as many as 200 million people worldwide who have an intellectual disability; and there is minimal data that exists on their purchasing preferences and buying habits (“Quantifying The Market,” 2015). This study empirically investigates the innovative product design and brand personality preferences of professional staff and persons supported on purchase intent within the ACLD community. Adults and Children with Learning and Developmental Disabilities (ACLD) is a Long Island not-for-profit agency that serves the needs of over 3,000 individuals with developmental disabilities (a.k.a. persons supported). Improving the marketing value of this underserved population (Burnett & Paul, 1996, “Quantifying The Market,” 2015) can positively impact future purchasing decisions of persons supported, which would allow this equitable population to lead more enviable lives while advancing theoretical research
The Legitimacy of Judicial Climate Engagement
Get PDFCourts in key climate change cases have abdicated their constitutional responsibility to protect a prejudiced and disenfranchised group (nonvoting minors and future generations) and remedy an insidious pathology in public discourse and the political process: the industry-funded climate disinformation campaign. This Article posits that this abdication results from courts\u27 uneasiness about displacing the prerogatives of democratically elected bodies. This uneasiness is misplaced. Court engagement with climate cases would strengthen democracy in accord with widely accepted justifications for countermajoritarian judicial review. This Article first describes in detail how courts exhibit a frustrating reticence to accept jurisdiction over cases that present questions relating to core climate policy, such as whether large emitters or fossil fuel producers have common law liability for climate harms and whether the government has a common law or constitutional duty to address climate change. In not a single case raising such claims (and they number well over thirty) has a court permitted the case to proceed to trial. Courts dismiss these claims under the mantle of a variety of justiciability doctrines (standing, political question doctrine, displacement); these doctrines often serve as vessels for courts to exercise judicial restraint, and courts\u27 language and reasoning in the climate cases confirms that the courts are, indeed, motivated by concerns of judicial overreach. The Article then offers a positive account for why judicial engagement in the climate cases is consistent with our system of democracy, even as understood by seminal scholars who define relatively narrow boundaries for countermajoritarian judicial review. In particular, the Article will situate arguments for judicial review in climate cases within the work of John Hart Ely, Jurgen Habermas, and Frank Michelman
Ex Situ Preservation of Historic Monuments in the Era of Climate Change
Get PDFCultural heritage (historic buildings, landscapes, and natural monuments) is being threatened by all manner of evils--attacks by belligerents seeking military advantages, increased consumptive uses, and significantly, the idiosyncratic effects of climate change. Climate change portends sea level rise and coastal erosion threats that will inundate coastal areas and the historic structures located there. Melting permafrost and changes in soil composition threaten the loss of buried archaeological evidence and compromise the integrity of ancient buildings designed for a less malevolent climate.
State and local governments have been undertaking measures to build sustainable communities to mitigate the coming changes in the climate, by limits on the volume and siting of new construction, building green infrastructure, growing renewable energy sources, and by relocating populations from climate-sensitive areas. As with measures to protect populations from the effects of storm surges, heat and flooding, the preservation of cultural heritage may also require barriers, fortifications, and strict enforcement of maintenance requirements. But as sea levels rise and as the next superstorm looms, protection of cultural heritage may require its relocation, that is, preservation ex situ.
This article explores the challenges of ex situ preservation of historic monuments--the fact of immovability, the fragility of aging structures, and the importance of locational context for historic and cultural value--suggesting that preservation may mean seeing our monuments from a different vantage
The Impact of Multicultural Supervision on Supervisees\u27 Ability to Incorporate a Multicultural Perspective on Case Conceptualization: A Pilot Study
No full textThe population of the United States continues to grow and become more diverse in our pluralistic society. In response to this growth, the American Psychological Association (APA) mandates that graduate programs incorporate in their curricula training which aims to make psychologists culturally competent and able to provide ethically and culturally appropriate treatment. The research in the area of multicultural counseling has examined the predictive relationship between educational variables and/or training variables with self-reported multicultural competence. However, the research on multicultural supervision and objectively measured multicultural competence has been limited. Therefore, the proposed research will examine how multicultural supervision affects supervisees\u27 ability to consider and incorporate a multicultural perspective in case conceptualization
Competition Refugia and its Role in the Bed Site and Home Range Selection of a Subordinate Predator: An Example with the Cougar (Puma Concolor) In the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.
No full textDadless: Dead Dads In Hamlet And The Effects On Their Children
Get PDFThis research is a close look at the methods of grief as depicted by the children who lose their fathers in William Shakespeare’s classic, Hamlet. The goal is to track each child’s reaction to the sudden bereavement in a variety of physical and emotional manifestations. This has been done by first examining current literature on the text, followed by a review of historical context of the period in which the play was written, and finally analyzing each character’s behavior. In doing so, this research seeks to highlight the importance of the presence of fathers within Hamlet and provide insight as to how bereavement shapes the narrative of not only a series of characters, but also of hundreds of years’ worth of audiences
The Missing Element of Environmental Cost-Benefit Analysis: Compensation for the Loss of Regulatory Benefits
Get PDFDespite its critics, cost-benefit analysis remains a fixture of the environmental regulation calculus. Most criticisms of cost-benefit analysis focus on the impossibility of monetizing environmental and health amenities protected by regulations. Less attention has been paid to the regressive wealth-transfer effects of regulations foregone based on cost-benefit analysis. This regressive effect occurs as long as downwind communities that suffer health and harms from environmental contamination are generally less wealthy than the owners of pollution sources that avoid regulatory-compliance costs. The availability of compensation to pollution-victims has the potential to ameliorate this regressive effect. This Article recommends that the availability of compensation to those suffering environmental harms should be an essential part of cost-benefit analysis, and the lack of compensation mechanisms should justify imposing regulatory burdens that might otherwise be rejected under cost-benefit analysis