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Our City is Our Classroom: Experiential Learning Integration at Georgetown
No full textThis session will explore the theory, practice, design and current practices of experiential learning across Georgetown and, in particular, at the Capitol Applied Learning Labs (CALL). For students, experiential learning involves
learning through doing' through varying degrees of engagement, immersion, and reflection. For faculty, experiential learning means creating courses that are intentionally designed to engage students in connecting course concepts to applicable professional contexts and real-world situations while explicitly and continuously reflecting on their significance and relevance. This workshop will explore all facets of experiential learning at Georgetown including simulations, place-based fieldwork, internships, and expert interactions. Participants will engage in hands-on activities as well as interact with colleagues implementing experiential learning practices at GU.
This session will be facilitated by Susannah McGowan (Red House), Doireann Renzi (CNDLS), Melissa Bernard (CALL), and Randy Bass (Red House). It will be held in-person in the HFSC, as well as streamed via Zoom
Fan Culture, Technology, and the Parasocial: How the K-Pop Industry Advances Relations Between Celebrities and Fans
No full textM.A.The genre of K-pop has become a global phenomenon, and the fan culture that surrounds it is also marked by broadly international appeal. Yet it is important to ask how, precisely, this globalization is currently sustained. To begin with, the support provided by the industry to its fans—through what is known as K-pop fan platforms—is, in many ways, unique to this subculture. In particular, these fan platforms, specific to the genre, deploy technological affordances that enable the creation and ongoing development of remarkably close connections between celebrities and fans. Previous scholarship suggests that fans of any media celebrity often engage in “parasocial relationships”—that is, projected, one-sided relationships with a media figure who is not actually in close contact with individual fans. I argue, however, that the digital innovations introduced on K-pop fan platforms fundamentally challenge the notion that parasocial relationships are one-sided. Rather, I propose that fan platforms and other K-pop media manage to create and sustain more direct, dialogic forms of interaction between K-pop artists and their fans. Specifically, these interactions manifest through private messaging and online interaction with K-pop actors; celebrity livestreaming; and reality television that involves audience voting.
This thesis conducts a close analysis of several widely influential K-pop fan platforms and Korean media to demonstrate the technological creation and sustenance of celebrity/ fan bonds and, more generally, the singular nature of K-pop fan culture
The Effect of Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs on Adverse Opioid-Related Outcomes
No full textM.P.P.Despite ongoing state and federal policy interventions, the annual rate of opioid-related overdoses in the U.S. continues to rise each year. This paper studies the effectiveness of Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMPs) in reducing adverse opioid-related outcomes, including opioid-related fatal overdose rates and emergency department visits. Findings of the existing literature on PDMPs are mixed, given widespread variation in states’ PDMP characteristics. To address this research problem, using data from all fifty states between 1999 and 2019, I employ a two-way fixed effect regression model to study the impact of PDMPs on adverse opioid-related outcomes, while controlling for state-specific characteristics. While this paper does not find a statistically significant relationship between PDMPs and reductions in the rate of adverse opioid-related outcomes, I offer potential reasons to explain these findings, including heterogeneity in the timing of and lack of uniformity in the implementation of PDMPs
The Association between Healthy Eating Index-2015 and Metabolic Syndrome among African American Women in the FIERCE Trial and NHANES 2011-2018
No full textM.S.BACKGROUND/AIMS: MetS is characterized by five components: abdominal obesity, hyperglycemia, hypertension, low HDL-cholesterol levels, and high triglyceride levels. African American women are 20% more likely to develop MetS and the odds of having the condition increase with age. Diet is a modifiable factor that influences the risk of MetS. However, limited studies evaluate relationships between overall diet quality and MetS among African American women. This study aims to 1) examine associations between diet quality and MetS and; 2) investigate associations between diet quality and MetS components among postmenopausal African American women in the FIERCE randomized controlled trial and NHANES 2011-2018 datasets.METHODS: 213 and 357 African American women aged 45-65 from the FIERCE trial and NHANES 2011-2018, respectively, were included in this cross-sectional study. Participants were diagnosed with MetS if 3 or more MetS components were present. MetS was analyzed as a dichotomous and continuous variable using the MetS z-score. HEI-2015 is a diet quality index created by the USDA which measures how closely Americans’ diets align with current recommendations and assigns overall scores from 0-100. HEI-2015 scores were calculated for participants, grouped into quartiles and used as a continuous variable for analysis. Differences between diet quality and MetS were determined using ANOVA, Kruskal-Wallis, and Chi-square tests. Additionally, associations between diet quality and MetS were evaluated with logistic and linear regressions.RESULTS: The average age among the FIERCE trial participants was 58.04 years and 55.2 years among NHANES participants. MetS prevalence was 43% and 65% among the FIERCE trial and NHANES participants, respectively. Among FIERCE trial participants, the average HEI-2015 was 67.3 and among NHANES participants HEI-2015 was 55.4. No associations were found between MetS and HEI-2015. However, FIERCE trial participants with HEI-2015 scores in the highest quartile were 62.8% less likely to have hyperglycemia compared to those with HEI-2015 scores in the lowest quartile (OR: 0.372; 95% CI: 0.161-0.857). Additionally, every 1-unit increase in HEI-2015 scores resulted in NHANES participant’s waist circumference decreasing by 0.212 cm (95% CI: -0.377, -0.046). Similar trends were observed with other MetS components.CONCLUSIONS: This study did not establish a relationship between MetS and diet quality among postmenopausal African American women. However, there were significant associations between increased diet quality and lowered risks of hyperglycemia, abdominal obesity, and elevated triglycerides
"Out of the Lineup": How Women Feuled the Rise of the National Football League, 1950s-1970s
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Mass Shootings: A Student Test Score Perspective
No full textM.P.P.In the past decade, mass shootings and gun-related deaths have risen in the United States as student academic performance has decreased. Prior research demonstrated an effect of violence and traumatic events on academic test scores. This analysis examines whether exposure to a specific kind of traumatic event – a mass killing – has the same type of impact on high school math and reading test scores. Using data on mass killings throughout the United States from the Associated Press Mass Killings database and math and reading test scores from the U.S. Department of Education’s EdFacts, this research aims to fill the gap in the literature regarding this relationship
Deconvolution Analysis and Differential Expression Inference for Bulk Tissues and Spatial Transcriptomics
No full textPh.D.Understanding cell type composition and differential gene expression of RNA-sequencing data is crucial for comprehending phenotypic variability and detecting key factors that influence disease susceptibility of complex traits. Detecting cell type specific expression fraction, pattern, and differential expression is important in studying the cellular components and gene expression of individual cell classes and structural architecture. By using single-cell RNA-sequencing reference data, I develop linear fixed and mixed effect models to perform deconvolution analysis for bulk tissues, and mixed effect multiplicative-additive Poisson-Gamma models to perform deconvolution analysis and cell type specific inference for spatial transcriptomic data. The rationale is that the cell type-specific gene expression information from one single-cell RNA-sequencing dataset can be transferred to bulk RNA-sequencing data and spatial transcriptomics data.To detect expression fractions of bulk RNA sequencing data, the mean parameters estimated from reference single-cell data are used to build linear fixed effect models, while the linear mixed effect models are built by utilizing both mean and variance-covariance parameters, which can reflect within-cell type stochasticity. For deconvolution analysis of spatial transcriptomics data, gene expression counts are treated as dependent variables and the mean and variance parameters of single-cell RNA sequencing data are used to construct independent variables to explain the dependent variables on the basis of the hierarchical Poisson-Gamma mixture. One novelty of the proposed mixed models is that the variance parameters of scRNA-seq are used to describe the within-cell-type variations or stochasticity. For detecting cell type specific differential expression genes of spatial transcriptomics data, the parameters of expression fractions and their variance-covariance matrix from the deconvolution analysis are used to build Possion-Gamma mixture models. By simulation study and real data analysis, the proposed models are found to perform better than or similar to existing well-performed models
Youth Mainstreaming in Small Arms and Light Weapons Control
No full textThis essay examines the critical issue of youth exclusion and its impact on global peace and security, focusing on the inordinate effects of armed violence on youth and the challenges hindering their integration into decision-making spheres. Despite being disproportionately affected by armed violence, youth find themselves marginalized in discussions that directly impact their lives and futures. Through an exploration of grassroots initiatives and governmental actions, the essay highlights the importance of youth mainstreaming in small arms control efforts. It proposes recommendations for research, funding, and inclusion measures to ensure meaningful youth participation in policymaking and implementation processes. Hence, the essay underscores the necessity of incorporating youth perspectives and leadership in small arms and light weapons control initiatives to foster sustainable peace and security worldwide
Voicing Silence: An Exploration of Speech in Asian American Women's Life Writing
No full textM.A.“Voicing Silence: An Exploration of Speech in Asian American Women’s Life Writing” is a multimodal thesis project that traces the roots—and routes—of silence in memoirs and autobiographical narratives. At the same time, it is a digital exhibition, web-based storytelling project, teaching tool, and educational resource. In order to get a sense of the historical and cultural specificities of silence, I examine this theme in canonical texts as well as ones published in the recent few years: The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston; Dictee by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha; Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief by Victoria Chang; and House of Sticks: A Memoir by Ly Tran. “Voicing Silence” is hosted on Esri’s ArcGIS StoryMaps, which gives me the ability to create immersive long form narratives and share my research in a more interactive and accessible manner. Plotting specific points of interest and tracing the authors’ origins allow reader-viewers to see how personal experiences of silence are part of a larger web of collective trauma, memory, and migration. Ultimately, “Voicing Silence” encourages interplay with its multimodal structure. With visual, aural, and textual elements, this project makes learning about the theme of silence in Asian American literature more engaging for public audiences