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Assessment of Personal Qualities Other than Cognitive Abilities in Higher Education
No full textCharacter strengths are a central construct within positive psychology, and their importance in the workplace has recently been affirmed. In higher education, the goal of building character strengths has been in place since the first universities were founded. This case study in Mexico examined the character strengths of positive psychology--understood as personal qualities other than cognitive abilities--as they influenced professionals enrolled in executive programs at the Instituto Panamericano de Alta Dirección de Empresas (IPADE), an important business school. IPADE students were not necessarily typical of other Mexican citizens. Even after controlling for age, gender, and previous education, they had higher endorsements for Zest as well as Honesty and Gratitude, and lower scores for Judgment and Prudence. Though this study could not prove significant changes in the character strengths that IPADE targets through executive education in the short term, there was evidence of a shift in Zest among those enrolled in one of the executive programs and in business owners, even after only 14 weeks. There were also signs of other changes that were not yet significant, but hopefully will develop over time and manifest in both business and personal success for IPADE students and for Mexican society as a whole
Deconstruction, Reconstruction, Construction: The Journeys of White Anti-Racist School Principals (and the Black Women Who Supported Them)
No full textThe research study responds to the urgent need to both address inequities in our schools and equip school leaders with the knowledge and skills to become anti-racist leaders. While literature on anti-racist practice (Kendi, 2019) and culturally responsive school leadership frameworks (Khalifa, 2020) have gained much traction in the field, these frameworks contend little with the construct of whiteness. White school leaders dominate the field of education nationally, over two-thirds identify as white (National Center for Education Statistics [NCES], 2016). Acknowledging that the lived experience of white people, including their privileges, are vastly different from black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC), this qualitative research study specifically focuses on the racial identity development of white leaders and how their understanding of their own whiteness informs their leadership practice. The research identified the ways participants described how they deconstruct their white identity, how that deconstruction has informed their the culturally-responsive leadership practice, and the experiences, structures, and systems that continue to support their anti-racist leadership stance
Penn Library\u27s LJS 447 - [Masālik al-abṣār fī mamālik al-amṣār]. (Video Orientation)
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Penn Library\u27s LJS 450 - [Compendium of legal texts]. (Video Orientation)
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Collation Model for Ms. Codex 1233: [Notated breviary].
Get PDFBreviary for use in the diocese of Cologne, probably in the Kölner Dom (cathedral). Made in the 15th century, it was used, annotated, and repaired through to the end of the 18th century. The breviary is preceded by a calendar in which the feasts of Saint Gereon and the Eleven Thousand Virgins, martyrs of Cologne, and of Saint Severin, an early bishop of Cologne, are written in red. The Sanctoral in the breviary itself includes offices for a number of saints associated with Cologne and for the Translation of the Three Kings, associated with relics kept on the high altar of the cathedral. The breviary includes foliation, headings, and annotations in 16th- through 18th-century hands, some of which were trimmed for the manuscript\u27s current binding. It also includes burns (f. 23-24), marks from candle wax in night offices, and numerous parchment repairs to page edges. Chant tunes are written in Hufnagelschrift neumes on 4-line staves that are anachronistically ruled in color (brown, red, black, and yellow). Accompanying the manuscript is a device for marking several pages simultaneously, consisting of a small dowel with 6 cords knotted around it. The cords may have had decorative knotted ends originally, but all but one are now frayed.https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_models/1152/thumbnail.jp
Collation Model for Ms. Codex 57: Statuti del Bosco.
Get PDFContains statutes of Bosco Marengo (f. 1-88). Preceding the statutes there is an index, with folio numbers for cross reference (f. [i]-[viii]).https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_models/1121/thumbnail.jp
Collation Model for Ms. Codex 236: [Biblia sacra manuscripta].
Get PDFVulgate Bible with prologues by Jerome and illuminations. The biblical text is prefaced by the Interpretationes nominum hebraicorum (f. 2r-27r), attributed to Jerome in the Middle Ages, and the apocryphal Prayer of Manasseh (f. 27v), attributed to Solomon in its rubric. The Prayer of Manasseh more commonly appeared at the end of 2 Chronicles, where in this Bible a rubric (f. 163r) directs the reader to the prayer\u27s location. The biblical text is followed by a calendar of the Church year (f. 400v-401v), a missal (f. 402v-420v), including the ordinary from the canon through the communion and propers for Sundays and feasts throughout the year, and a breviary (f. 421r-458v), with nine lessons for major feasts, so not for a monastic context. The manuscript also includes a table of Epistle and Gospel incipits (f. 460r-462v), which is a later addition.https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_models/1127/thumbnail.jp
Collation Model for Ms. Codex 100: [Statuta].
Get PDFStatutes of Castello del Vivaro, in six books. The beginning of the manuscript is lacking, as is the beginning of the table of contents (previously before f. 60).https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_models/1124/thumbnail.jp
Community‑Based Participatory Research to Improve Cardiovascular Health Among US Racial and Ethnic Minority Groups
No full textPurpose of Review
This review aims to assess the contemporary community-based participatory research (CBPR) literature seeking to improve the cardiovascular health of racial and ethnic minority groups in the USA with a higher burden of cardiovascular risk factors and social determinants of health. It summarizes recent CBPR studies based on the American Heart Association Life’s Simple 7 (LS7) framework, delineating seven modifiable health behaviors and clinical factors to promote cardiovascular health.
Recent Findings
Although limited in quantity, studies demonstrated preliminary effectiveness in improving individual and a composite of LS7 indicators by employing strategies centered around fortifying social networks, integrating group activities, leveraging technology, incorporating faith-based and spiritual practices, and implementing changes to the built environment.
Summary
Future directions for investigators engaged in CBPR include building on the existing body of evidence through more comprehensive studies, scaling effective interventions, and translating CBPR findings to influence health policy to better address health disparities
In Defense of Liberty: Social Order & The Role of Government
Get PDFThis thesis seeks to address some of the most central questions to the fields of political philosophy and political economy. First, how can social order and government rationally develop out of anarchy? Next, what acts of force, if any, are morally permissible for the State to perform in its relations with individuals, so as to maintain political legitimacy? Lastly, what policies ought the State implement to achieve the best welfare outcomes for a society? This thesis will first show that a laissez-faire capitalist social order can spontaneously emerge from a purely self-interested State of Nature, with the institution of government being a mere product of market forces. Then, this thesis will defend a theory of natural rights on the basis that persons are normatively separate, before establishing that a laissez-faire capitalist social order is uniquely in compliance with these universal moral standards of conduct that predate the institution of any government. Finally, it will be argued in this thesis that the key tenets of laissez-faire capitalism - strong individual rights to life, liberty, and property - produce maximal human welfare from both individualist and collectivist aggregations, before such conclusions are translated into a foundation for limited government. Cumulatively, these arguments serve to fortify libertarian political philosophy and demonstrate that laissez-faire capitalism is the optimal form of social order