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The Effects of Socio-Personal, Job-Related, and School-Related Factors on the Level of Financial Support by Alumni of Higher Education Institutions
Get PDFThis study presents an examination of the relationship and predictability of selected socio-personal, job-related, and school-related factors on the level of financial support by alumni at an historically black college and university (HBCU). In this study, the researcher specifically examined the predictive power of socio-personal, job-related, and school-related factors. These factors consisted of gender, ethnicity, marital status, age, income, occupation, years on the job since graduating, sense of belonging to university, engagement in student activities, and interaction with faculty and staff on the financial support of alumni of an historically black college and university by reviewing data from a modified version of the Alumni Perception Survey. In this investigation, a correlational research design was used to collect data. Over 2,000 alumni of a historically black college and university in the southern region of the United States were surveyed for this study. Additionally, purposive sampling procedure was used to select participants. Furthermore, the researcher developed the Modified Alumni Perception Survey to collect the data for this study. The multi-nominal logistic regression procedure was utilized to analyze the hypotheses formulated in this study. As a result of the findings, the school-related factors of belonging to the university and interaction with staff were statistically significant in predicting the level of financial support provided by alumni of historically black colleges and universities
Panel I Discussion: The Criminal Justice System: George Floyd Bill & Qualified Immunity
Get PDFThis presentation explored the jurisprudence surrounding the doctrine of qualified immunity. It discusses the obscurity of many of its applications using the “clearly established” law standard. It also details a number of reasons justifying the call to eliminate the qualified immunity defense
Fragmentation Method For Assigning Oxidation Numbers In Organic And Bioorganic Compounds
No full textOxidation number (ON) is taught as an electron-counting concept for redox reactions in chemistry curriculum. The molecular formula method, the Lewis formula method, and the structural formula method have all been used to determine ON. However, the task of assigning ON still poses problems for some teachers and students. This paper explores a new method, the fragmentation method, which is a visual approach for counting the individual ON of any atom according to its structural formula. The critical step is to break the carbon-heteroatom bond into organic fragments and inorganic fragments. The individual ON of carbon atoms and heteroatoms can be determined by the bond cleavages in the organic and biological compounds. The mean ON of carbons can be calculated by the arithmetic mean of all individual ON of carbons in a molecule or molecular ion. The step-by-step operating procedures and examples are provided. When comparing corresponding molecules in organic conversions, the change of individual ON of atoms can be used as a tool for determining the number of transferred electrons. Furthermore, a reaction site can be identified by their changes of individual ON, chemical composition, and bond order in metabolic redox reactions
Advertising to Children and the Long-term Effects of Obesity on Health Equity
Get PDFAmerica spends more money on health than people anywhere else in the world and ranks 11th in the world of developed nations in terms of performance. Americans live shorter less healthier lives and the trends are not improving especially in minority communities. In my research, Americans are focused on the wrong things when they think about health. Health is not defined by seeing a physician or taking medicines. Health should be defined as life circumstances, from the cultures we come from, and the neighborhoods we live in. Advertising to children that leads to obesity has generational impact especially in minority communities where systemic racism has created inequities that exist until today. My thesis will focus on the systemic barriers and how childhood obesity has long-term effects on healthcare disparities in minority communities. The topics I will explore are systemic racism concepts like redlining, food deserts, and advertising and their linked to healthcare disparities
Dr. Lesia L. Crumpton-Young
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Estimation of hourly traffic flows from floating car data for vehicle emission estimation
No full textIn order to model air quality in heavy pollution days, a dynamic emission monitoring system is implemented in the Beijing road network, which requires the input of hourly traffic flows. Floating car data (FCD) is increasingly employed for flow estimation based on the fundamental diagrams to supplement data provided by stationary detectors. However, existing studies often used a typical fundamental diagram without considering the hysteresis phenomena and the uncertainty of traffic flow estimation. This study aims to develop a multiperiod fundamental diagram for the traffic flow estimation from FCD considering the hysteresis phenomena. The result shows that the proposed multiperiod fundamental diagram can improve the accuracy of flow estimation. The uncertainty of traffic flow estimation at both 10 minutes and 1 hour is also quantified, and the result indicates that the variation of the estimation uncertainty at 1 hour is lower than that at 10 minutes, with an average 7% reduction of the range of 95% confidence interval (CI). But there is no significant difference in magnitudes of the estimation uncertainty at 1 hour compared with that at 10 minutes. Moreover, the uncertainty for congested flows is lower than that for free flows. In the case study, the proposed model is employed to develop the spatial and temporal distributions of flows and emissions for the metropolitan area in Beijing
HBCUs Are Not \u27Wakandas Forever\u27
No full textWritten in response to Howard University\u27s hiring of high-profile scholars Nikole Hannah Jones and Ta-Nehisi Coates, this letter emphasizes the complex realities associated with teaching at an HBCU
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Keynote Presentation: A Conversation with Sherrilyn Ifill
Get PDFConference attendees enjoyed a conversation centered around the future of qualified immunity and the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act with Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc