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Episode 18 Poly Sci Resources -Instruction Request Podcast
Full text linkEpisode 18 of the Instruction Request Podcast focuses on Political Science Resources in the Thomas G Carpenter Library. Lauren Odom, Instruction librarian discusses political science databases in the library. HeinOnline Government, Politics & Law for Academics U.S. Government Resources U.S. Declassified Document (Gale)
Beryl White-Bing, Virtual Learning Librarian, talks about the political science virtual reality experiences available in the Virtual Learning Center: Bodyless: The Political Prisoner A Clever Label Gerrymander Madness
Credits:
University of North Florida\u27s Library home page - https://www.unf.edu/library/
The Virtual Learning Center - https://libguides.unf.edu/VLC
Recorded and edited by Andy Rush at the UNF Center for Instructional Research and Technology. https://www.unf.edu/cirt/creative-Vid...
The Instruction Request Image: ChatGPT. (2024). ChatGPT (Plus). https://openai.com/chatgpt/
The Instruction Request theme song: Udio. (2024). Udio. https://www.udio.com/https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/instructionpodcast/1017/thumbnail.jp
Ribbon Cutting, Grand Opening Ceremony of the Allen Lastinger Center for Florida History - 3
No full textPresident Moez Limayem, Mr. Allen Lastinger, Mrs. Delores Lastinger, Dean Jennifer Murray, and Kathleen Leone cut the ribbon at the Grand Opening Ceremony of the Allen Lastinger Center for Florida History. Hilary Streifer, Allen Lastinger Center for Florida History Librarian, far left. Date: September 5, 2025https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/alcfh-events/1015/thumbnail.jp
Mr. Allen Lastinger, Grand Opening Ceremony of the Allen Lastinger Center for Florida History - 2
No full textMr. Allen Lastinger speaks at the Grand Opening Ceremony of the Allen Lastinger Center for Florida History, Thomas G. Carpenter Library. Date: September 5, 2025https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/alcfh-events/1013/thumbnail.jp
Understanding fare capping in public transit: Socioeconomic predictors and ridership outcomes
No full textFare capping is a transit policy that limits how much a rider pays within a certain period, after which all rides are free for the rest of that period. Fare capping has become a potential strategy to reverse the trend of declining transit ridership, which has been caused by factors like fare increases, service reductions, and shifts in travel behavior. While demographic and socioeconomic characteristics are known to influence ridership, their role in fare capping adoption remains underexplored. This study examines how factors like age, income, race, education, and car ownership affect fare capping adoption at the neighborhood level and evaluates the policy’s impact on ridership using the Jacksonville Transportation Authority (JTA) as a case study. It employs an Interrupted Time Series Analysis to assess ridership changes and a Negative Binomial (NB) model to analyze predictors of fare capping adoption.
Statistics show that multiday fare caps, such as Adult Month, 7-Day, and 3-Day, have more users benefiting from fare capping upgrades. This suggests that many riders accumulate pay-as-you-go/single-ride fares or purchase multiple low-value passes, rather than buying the full-period passes in advance. Additionally, results from the Interrupted Time Series (ITS) model demonstrate a significant positive effect of fare capping on ridership. The analysis also emphasizes the important roles of holidays, weekends, rainfall, temperature, and service frequency in influencing ridership.
The NB model identifies the age group 25-44, African American (Black) residents, and lower middle-income households (49,999) as significant predictors of fare capping usage. The findings from this study will be useful to all agencies that have implemented fare capping or are considering it, as they assess strategies to enhance fare equity, affordability, and ridership growth. Future research should examine longer-term impacts and incorporate fare capping systems that include mobile apps and smart cards
Volunteer teachers’ experience in hospitality in church-based ESL ministries
No full textIn adult ESL empirical studies addressing a variety of problems of practice, the concepts of welcome, hospitality, or inclusion are frequently mentioned as important by teachers and learners. An absence of empirical studies on the experience of hospitality has been noted by researchers, hence the need for exploratory studies. Additionally, this study served to contribute to the limited body of research on church-based ESL ministries, and more future studies are needed to provide a better research-driven picture of their challenges and impacts.
The purpose of this mixed methods, constructivist grounded theory study was to develop a grounded theory consistent with volunteer teachers’ perceptions of their hospitable experiences, decisions about hospitable behavior, and what they consider when evaluating their hospitable space. In this study, an integrated theoretical framework was constructed to investigate connections between volunteer teachers’ conceptualizations of hospitality in church-based ESL ministry, hospitality ethics, hospitality factors, altruism theory, and the HEXACO-PI-R model of personality structure. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews and the HEXACO-PI-R survey.
Results suggested that volunteer teachers perceived their work as an experience in hospitality that included multiple, overlapping elements including meeting a need, building relationships, sharing food, and celebrating. The HEXACO-PI-R provided a reliable measurement of variation in personality traits and theorized what potential impacts to hospitality may exist at different levels of each factor. This study found extremely high levels of Honesty-Humility, relatively low levels of Emotionality, and statistically significant differences in several facet-level traits among volunteer teachers.
The grounded theory model predicts that Honesty-Humility and Emotionality are thresholds which bound hospitable spaces and identifies which personality factor levels are likely to facilitate or inhibit crossing these thresholds between spaces
Understanding shifts in student satisfaction between peak and post pandemic
No full textThis study investigates student satisfaction in online learning environments at the University of North Florida (UNF), with a focus on how satisfaction levels have fluctuated between the peak-pandemic and post-pandemic periods. Utilizing a combination of descriptive and inferential statistical techniques, the research examines the relative importance and satisfaction ratings of various educational factors, including demographic influences such as gender, race, and academic program. By creating a composite measure of overall student satisfaction, this study provides a comprehensive analysis of the factors that most significantly impact student experiences in online courses. Findings highlight the critical role of both satisfaction and importance measures in understanding student experiences, as well as the potential for demographic variables to influence satisfaction outcomes. The study\u27s results offer valuable insights for higher education institutions seeking to enhance the quality and effectiveness of their online programs in an increasingly digital learning landscape
Darkling Beetle
No full textDarkling beetles (Tenebrio molitor) are holometabolic insects. Darkling beetle is the common name of the large family of beetles Tenebrionidae which has more than 20,000 species. The T. molitor species gets its name from the yellowish appearance of the larvae. During its lifespan, a darkling beetle experiences a complete metamorphosis in four distinct stages: Egg, larva, pupa, and adult. The eggs hatch within 4 to 19 days after the female oviposits. It takes about 3 – 4 months for an egg to develop into an adult, or the beetle stage.
During the adult stage, the beetles are initially whitish and pale orange but very quickly turn dark brown to black. Beetles can reach to around 13 mm in length. These beetles share the same characteristics of most insects, having a head, thorax, antennae, wing shields, and six legs. They have linear grooves that are evenly divided and run along the abdomen. It is also one of my favorite insects. I illustrated this beetle using the stippling method.
I am a senior at the University of North Florida, majoring in biology and minoring in creative writing and public and professional writing. I love beetles, and the T. molitor beetle is my favorite beetle. Tenebrio molitor is a fascinating insect–mealworms, the larval form, can eat and consume plastics. The other interesting fact about these animals is that the first Moon mission to include animals, Zond 5, which was a spacecraft of the Soviet Union, carried mealworms. I conducted years of research on T. molitor, so this is an insect that I observed and drew many times. I also often include this insect in my surrealist paintings, but this was my first scientific illustration of a darkling beetle
(M)other Tongue Aspirations: Negotiating Banjara Language, Identity, and Education Policy in Rural India
No full textColored Masonic Temple, Jacksonville, Fla. Postcard
No full textCorrespondence: Colored Masonic Temple postcard. Handwritten on verso: Erected by John H. Hickerson, Grand Master of Masonics. Undated
Florida Manatee Postcard
No full textCorrespondence: Florida Artistic series postcard. Part of Miscellaneous postcards