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There\u27s a Wolff in the CAR
No full textMichael and Greg meet up with our old friend Kevin Burton at the American Society for Church History in San Francisco to talk about Joseph Wolfe
Reporting and Addressing Sexual Harassment at Four Institutions of Higher Learning in Zambia: A Quantitative Study of Related Attitudes and Perceptions
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Sexual harassment is a social ill that exists across nations, socio-economic backgrounds, races, nationality, ethnicity, age groups, and sex. Although both male and female members of society experience sexual harassment, research shows that a greater percentage of sexual harassment victims are women (Whitley & Page, 2015; CharterJee, 2018). A comparison of the prevalence of sexual harassment at workplaces and educational institutions shows that sexual harassment is more widespread at institutions of learning than at workplaces. Research on the prevalence of attitudes and or perceptions toward sexual harassment in institutions of higher learning shows that between 10%- 68% of female students have experienced sexual harassment from a faculty member (Paludi et al., 2006; Ali, 2013; Matina, 2002; Adinew & Hagos, 2017). Most research findings on sexual harassment are based on research carried out mostly in Western cultures. There is a dearth of research on attitudes and/or perceptions toward sexual harassment, sexual harassment reporting and the institutional likelihood of addressing sexual harassment among students, faculty/staff and administrators in various Zambian higher education institutions. Suppose the problem of sexual harassment in various Zambian institutions of higher learning is not investigated, victims will continue to suffer the emotional, physical, and psychological effects of being sexually harassed, and policymakers will not have data to facilitate the possible development of comprehensive policies that adequately address this social ill. Therefore, it is paramount that sexual harassment in various Zambian institutions of higher learning be investigated through empirical research to provide a deeper understanding of this problem among Zambian higher education students, faculty/staff and administrators.
Purpose of Study
The purpose of this study is to (1) find out how age, gender, occupation, and institution type relate or correlate to attitudes towards sexual harassment (2) determine attitudes of students, faculty, staff and administrators toward reporting sexual harassment (3) determine the relationship between age, gender, occupation and institution type and organizational tolerance of sexual harassment and (4) as well as investigate the relationship between sexual harassment reporting and sexual harassment attitude and organizational tolerance of sexual harassment among selected Zambian higher education institutions’ students, faculty/staff and administrators.
Method
The research was a non-experimental quantitative and correlational research. The relationship between age, gender, occupation, type of school and attitudes toward sexual harassment was measured using the Sexual Harassment Attitude Scale. The attitudes towards reporting sexual harassment in selected Zambian institutions of higher learning were measured using the ‘Sexual Harassment Reporting Attitude Scale’ and the relationship between age, gender, occupation, type of school and perceptions towards organizations’ likelihood to address sexual harassment in Zambian institutions of higher learning was measured using the ‘Organizational Tolerance for Sexual Harassment Inventory.” Question four which examined the extent to which reporting sexual harassment is related to attitudes towards sexual harassment and organizational tolerance of sexual harassment was analyzed using the structural equation modeling technique (SEM).
Findings
Overall, participants have less favorable attitudes toward sexual harassment. On gender, males are more favorable of sexual harassment behaviors than female participants. On age, the 18-25 age group is of the view that reporting sexual harassment results in retaliation; reporting is not taken seriously by their organizations; and that their organizations have tolerance of sexual harassment among peers, when compared with other age groups. On occupation, generally, students perceive their organizations to be more tolerant of sexual harassment among peers than when it involves a lecturer or supervisor. Concerning university location, participants from urban institutions showed higher favorable attitudes towards sexual harassment in comparison with rural participants. Public university respondents recorded higher favorable attitudes towards sexual harassment when compared with private university respondents. The faith-based institution also showed less tolerance of sexual harassment behaviors in comparison with non-faith-based institution participants. Regarding relationships between and among variables, there is a significant negative relationship between sexual harassment attitudes and organizational tolerance of sexual harassment. There is also a weak non-significant direct relationship between attitudes towards sexual harassment and sexual harassment reporting. However, there is a significant positive direct relationship between institutional tolerance of sexual harassment and sexual harassment reporting at the institution. Thus, tolerance of sexual harassment at institutional level affects levels of reporting. There is also an indirect negative relationship between sexual harassment attitude and sexual harassment reporting when mediated by organizational tolerance of sexual harassment
Cardinal Medical Laboratory: A Lesson in Laboratory Information Management Systems with Clinical Chemistry Cases
Get PDFProject Abstract: Medical laboratory science is a health profession focused on the analysis of biological specimens and the dissemination of that information to clinicians for medical decision-making and treatment of disease. This field is rapidly growing, often including massive leaps in the integration of technology into the daily routine of an MLS. In particular, the laboratory information system (LIS) is software whose introduction into the laboratory was made necessary by the growth of the field and the implementation of increasingly automated methods for patient testing. The LIS allows the technologist to communicate with the automated analyzers, evaluate information sent from the analyzers, and send information to the patient chart for use by the providers while limiting the risks of transcription errors and increasing efficiency. Although the LIS is used ubiquitously in the field, university-based MLS programs have struggled to integrate this functionality into the student experience because of the stifling initial cost of implementation and ongoing cost associated with hiring specialized service professionals to manage the LIS.https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/oer/1000/thumbnail.jp
The Struggle to Stay: Why Single Evangelical Women AreLeaving the Church [review] / Gaddini, Katie.
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John through Old Testament Eyes: A Background and ApplicationCommentary [review] / Jobes, Karen H.
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Prediction of intensified ethanol fermentation of sugarcane using a deep learning soft sensor and process analytical technology
No full textBACKGROUND: Intensified ethanol fermentation produces higher ethanol concentrations while reducing water and energy requirements. Nevertheless, the inhibitory and detrimental effect of the cellular stress barriers in this process further complicates the nonlinear dynamic relationship between the variables that directly reflect the fermentation quality. These key variables are hard to measure in real time and therefore cannot be directly controlled. RESULTS: This work presents the development of a soft sensor that predicts in real time the ethanol and substrate concentrations of an intensified fermentation. The soft sensor uses feedforward neural networks (FNNs) with easily measurable process analytical technology (PAT) tools. The application of advanced PAT tools such as redox potential and capacitance, in addition to temperature and pH are explored as input variables. The complex kinetic relationship between the studied variables was captured with FNN architectures with a single hidden layer and between 95 and 175 hidden neurons for the different cases studied. Acceptable predictions are achieved for the concentration of ethanol (RMSE = 9.5 and R2 = 0.97) and substrate (RMSE = 17.02 and R2 = 0.92). CONCLUSIONS: The results confirm that the proposed soft sensor can accurately predict the ethanol and substrate concentrations. Collectively, capacitance, redox potential, temperature and pH provide a powerful platform of PAT tools that can directly infer key variables showing the fermentation quality in real time. This study provides a significant step towards the systematic development of a reliable soft sensor with integration of advanced PAT tools. © 2023 Society of Chemical Industry
The Central Issue: Love or Selfishness?
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Worship That Never Ends!
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