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Exploring the Role of Environmental Heterogeneity and Transmission in Mutualist Coexistence
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Secured or Unsecured: That is All Matters - Practical Implications of New Reference Rates
No full textEUR and USD overnight risk-free rates (RFRs) have undergone a period of change, with EONIA being replaced with ESTR and Fed Funds Rate (FFR) being replaced with SOFR. We conduct a comparative analysis of the representative power of EONIA vs. ESTR and FFR vs. SOFR regarding market confidence and guidance on market expectations. Our results imply a significant difference between the US and the Eurozone. ESTR-EONIA displays similar characteristics, whereas FFR-SOFR displays different characteristics. SOFR is a superior market indicator to its predecessor and more effectively reflects market confidence than the FFR. However, none of the four RFRs displays forecasting power. New benchmark rates are not superior to their predecessor at capturing market behaviour, especially for ESTR vs. EONIA
Estimating the Effect of Positivity About Immigrants on Vote Choice in the 2020 US Presidential Election
No full textMuch of the research that estimates how attitudes about immigrants affect outcomes uses a measure that ranges from a lack of negativity about immigrants to a high level of negativity about immigrants. But this overlooks the effect of positivity about immigrants. The present study illustrates a method that uses a neutral point of indifference about immigrants to separate the effect of positivity about immigrants from the effect of negativity about immigrants. Analysis of data from the Democracy Fund Voter Study Group VOTER Survey suggested that positivity about immigrants was an important predictor of vote choice in the 2020 US presidential election. Generally, these results suggest that readers and researchers should consider whether key predictors have a neutral point and how to interpret results from predictors that do not isolate this neutrality
Illinois State University, One Hundred and Sixty-Sixth Annual Commencement, December 2025
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One Hundred and Sixty-Sixth Annual Commencement
December 2025https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/commencement/1217/thumbnail.jp
From Small-Scale to Full Program Integration: Partnering with Fire Departments for Mass Casualty Training
No full textThe American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) underscores the importance of interprofessional partnerships by designating Domain 6 to this focus in the 2021 AACN Essentials. Aligned with these national priorities, our Midwestern university also recognizes the vital role of interprofessional collaboration in nursing education. One critical partnership we had not yet established was with pre-hospital emergency personnel (PHEP), including emergency medical technicians, paramedics, and firefighters. This department paper highlights how we built those partnerships and transitioned from small-scale to full program integration with our local fire department for mass casualty training
Sailing Into and Against the Wind: Principled Opposition to and Acceptance of Transformative Agreements
No full textThis session explores different approaches to transformative agreements (TAs) at a Carnegie R1 University and a Carnegie R2 University, offering a comparative look at how these agreements shape faculty publishing experiences and the management of article processing charges (APCs). The R2 has adopted TAs to expand read access and support open access (OA) publishing, while the R1 has taken a principled stance against TAs, citing concerns about their role in perpetuating the serials crisis and questions of long-term sustainability.
Presenters from both institutions will share institutional and library motivations, as well as faculty feedback, highlighting real-world challenges related to APC funding and OA publishing management in both environments. Discussion topics include experiences with different TA models (comprehensive versus limited read access, capped versus uncapped publishing, and Read & Publish versus pure publish), assessing the return on investment of TA, TA trading, funding for APCs, and how these factors influence author publishing decisions.
By presenting perspectives from both a TA-adopting and a TA-resistant institution, this session will provide insight into how both strategies navigate faculty OA publishing expectations and advance institutional and library strategy
Normalizing Delinquency and Risky Behaviors in Adolescents: An Application of Neutralization Theory to Parents
No full textSykes and Matza’s Neutralization theory (1957) was originally developed to explain juvenile involvement in delinquency, with extensions of this theory being used to understand crime in other offending groups. Although neutralization theory has been widely applied to offenders, far less research has examined how neutralizations may be used by non-offending groups. This study applies Sykes and Matza’s framework to parents to explore whether neutralizations are being employed to justify risk taking or delinquent behavior among their adolescent children. This study also examines how parents differentiate risky behavior from delinquent behavior, as well as their attitude towards seven major risk factors for delinquency: smoking marijuana, speeding, fighting, being sexually active, underage consumption of alcohol, skipping school, and shoplifting. Using a mixed-methods survey design with open-ended and closed-ended questions, data from a sample of 87 respondents reveal parents are utilizing four of five techniques of neutralizations in some capacity. Findings suggest parental use of neutralizations may inadvertently normalize risky and delinquent behaviors. Even further, parental perception of risky and delinquent behavior, coupled with parental misapplication of legal definitions, may contribute to potentially harmful outcomes. These findings highlight the need for interventions that can equip parents with greater clarity about legal definitions of delinquency and help them challenge their own use of techniques of neutralizations while promoting and supporting accountability in adolescent decision-making