18253 research outputs found
Sort by
Exploring the Factors Involved to Support African American Males\u27 Success in Mathematics During the Early Grades
Get PDFThis study used a mixed methods approach to examine the instructional and social emotional factors that support African American boys’ success during early elementary grades. The study investigated key influences including teacher and parent demographics, student-teacher, and parent-student relationships, building mathematical confidence in students, and approaching math as a long-term investment. It explored how these factors existed within an ecosystem that contributed to positive math outcomes for students by the third grade. The study used surveys and interviews of teachers, parents, and students to describe instructional activities, relationships, and interactions at school and home that supported positive math outcomes. Findings revealed that key teacher and parent characteristics that provided stability, positive relationships between students, teachers, and parents, and the building of mathematical confidence in African American male students provided an environment that produced success for African American males. Finally, the study identified that districts and schools can utilize the California Community Schools Framework (California Department of Education, 2022b) to develop an ecosystem that supports math success for African American boys
Lady Like
No full textThese comics were created by students in Dr. Stella Oh\u27s WGST 3300: Race, Gender, and Graphic Novels exploring thematic topics of identity, loss, illness, disability, and caregiving. After reading creative and scholarly works addressing war, PTSD, social stigma, and graphic medicine, students engaged in creating several comics. Some of the student comics are featured in this collection. Communicating their ideas through the visual-textual medium of comics, students engaged in critical reflection of their readings and class discussions. Students produced their comics through software such as Illustrator, Canva, Procreate, and other media
William H. Hannon Library Year in Review 2023 – 2024
Get PDFhttps://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/whhreview/1017/thumbnail.jp
Refereed Research: A Sufficientarian Approach to Consumption Ethics in the Face of Climate Change
Get PDFIn this paper, we adopt a sufficientarian ethics approach to study the concern of consumption inadequacy engendered by climate change in subsistence communities. The sufficientarian approach to consumption ethics dictates that in the face of climate change, priority should be afforded to establishing and maintaining consumption adequacy in low-income settings. We elaborate on the basic principles underlying sufficientarian ethics and compare it to alternative approaches such as utilitarian ethics and prioritarian ethics. Subsequently, we turn our attention toward specifying how poverty and the deleterious impact of climate change combine to render subsistence communities more vulnerable to consumption inadequacies as compared to more affluent communities. We take a granular approach to studying vulnerability by decomposing it into three components – a) exposure (of consumption to the deleterious impacts of climate change), b) sensitivity (of consumption to the deleterious impacts of climate change) and c) resilience (of consumption in recovering from the deleterious impacts of climate change)
Empowering LA in the Fight Against Climate Change
No full textStudyLA’s Angeleno Poll is the largest general social survey of any metropolitan area in urban America.
For more than a decade, the Angeleno Poll has provided an important overview of quality-of-life perceptions, economic concerns, overall life satisfaction, and opinions on various civic issues, capturing trends over demography, geography, and time. Since 2014, more than 24,000 residents have completed the survey, resulting in thousands of hours of meaningful conversations about the future of the region.https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/studyla-reports/1033/thumbnail.jp
Planning for the Future of Housing
No full textStudyLA’s Angeleno Poll is the largest general social survey of any metropolitan area in urban America.
For more than a decade, the Angeleno Poll has provided an important overview of quality-of-life perceptions, economic concerns, overall life satisfaction, and opinions on various civic issues, capturing trends over demography, geography, and time. Since 2014, more than 24,000 residents have completed the survey, resulting in thousands of hours of meaningful conversations about the future of the region.https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/studyla-reports/1032/thumbnail.jp
Adam and the names
No full textThis paper examines the naming episode in the Quran\u27s Adam story, in which God teaches Adam “the names, all of them”, to counter the angels\u27 objection to the creation of the human creature on the basis that he will “spread corruption … and will shed blood”. I try to show that the traditional understanding of this narrative in Western scholarship, which connects it ultimately to the Genesis 2 episode in which Adam names all the creatures of the land and sky, fails to do justice to a close reading of the quranic text itself. Instead, I argue for an alternative reading of the passage already suggested by early Muslim exegetes, in which God\u27s teaching Adam the “names” refers to Adam being introduced to his future offspring. This, in turn, is central to the Quran\u27s engagement with the problem of theodicy
NLP Analysis of Environmental Themes in Phish Lyrics Across Concert Locations and Years
No full textThis work studies the application of advanced AI and natural language processing (NLP) techniques, to analyze the lyrics of Phish, a renowned American jam band known for their groundbreaking improvisational live shows and eclectic lyrics. Focusing on environmental themes within their extensive repertoire, this paper aims to uncover latent topics pertaining to environmental discourse, by using the topic modeling and environmental classifier to filter out the list of topics present within their songs. Through meticulous preprocessing, modeling, and interpretation, our findings shed light on the multifaceted portrayal of environmental issues in Phish’s lyrics. In this study, our primary contribution lies in lyrical analysis, as well as visualization and interpretation of the topics their lyrics cover, over the forty plus years the band has existed. Our lyrical visualizations aim to facilitate an understanding of how Phish selects the timing and location for their live performances in relation to the themes present in their music
Confidence Spillovers, Financial Contagion, and Stagnation
Get PDFFinancial crises tend to spread across countries, causing equity price crashes that cannot be fully explained by fundamentals. This paper introduces a two-country dynamic general equilibrium model of global financial crises that distinguishes between interdependence and financial contagion. Interdependence arises through trade and capital flows, while contagion occurs through a new channel: confidence spillovers. In the model, contagion is possible due to multiple dynamic and steady-state equilibria, even with fully rational consumers. Self-fulfilling beliefs about equity prices can shift the economy between equilibria, amplifying negative effects and causing contagion. The model has three policy implications. Firstly, monetary policy can offset recessions without causing inflation. Coordinated international policy can potentially improve welfare further. Secondly, capital controls can prevent contagion. Lastly, increased trust in government can mitigate negative confidence shocks. These recommendations emphasize the role of beliefs, where pessimism can spread internationally via the confidence channel, leading to contagion
How Crises Shape Circles of Solidarity: Evidence From the COVID-19 Pandemic in Italy
No full textHow has the COVID-19 pandemic affected boundaries of solidarity? Human-induced crises that impose asymmetric costs tend to sharpen pre-existing divides, but natural disasters often strengthen solidarity. The pandemic possesses properties of both kinds of crisis. In a panel survey conducted in Northern Italy, the initial epicenter of the pandemic, we asked respondents to complete conjoint tasks querying who was likely to violate health guidelines (wave 1) and who should be prioritized for vaccine distribution (wave 2). We find that while discrimination towards the rich is nearly universal, bias against other outgroups depends on ideology and personal experience with the crisis. Leftwing individuals display discrimination towards partisan outgroups, while those on the right display ethnic bias. However, this effect is conditional: those who suffered a significant income loss but no health effects display heightened discrimination, while respondents who experienced COVID-19 as a personal health crisis are less likely to penalize outgroups