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Social Media and Perceptions of Supreme Court Legitimacy
Get PDFThis thesis observed how information sources may have a polarizing effect on perceptions of Supreme Court legitimacy. The focus of the study was to measure whether social media had a stronger effect on peoples\u27 perception of Supreme Court legitimacy when compared to other forms information sources. This study may significantly determine how support for the Supreme Court can fluctuate depending on both the platform of information distribution and the content of the information. This study used an anonymous survey to canvas sentiment about the Supreme Court in the Portland Metro Area. The initial findings suggest that those who use social media as their primary source of information regarding the Supreme Court have significantly lower opinion of the Court\u27s legitimacy than those who use other information sources. This demonstrates that there may be a higher rate of polarization of opinions about the Supreme Court when individuals use social media. This implies that the information on and use of social media is contributing to the Supreme Court\u27s loss of legitimacy in recent polling
The Experience of Homelessness and its Effects on Gut Eubiosis
Get PDFMicroorganisms which populate the human gastrointestinal tract (GIT) have a profound effect on overall human health. The relationship between host health and eubiosis, or balance, of the GIT microbiome is symbiotic and can have reciprocal relationships with quality of sleep, quality of diet, stress and mental health, and the experience of pain. These specific aspects of health are unique in populations experiencing homelessness due to the multi-dimensional and complex nature of their lived experience. Very few studies explore populations experiencing homelessness, with even fewer investigating the intersection between this population and the human GIT microbiome. It is important to do research examining how health is impacted by GIT microbial interactions in underserved populations in order to find solutions to societal public health crises. In this thesis, a literature review explores how quality of sleep, quality of diet, stress and mental health, and the experience of pain are related to both the GIT microbiome eubiosis and the experience of homelessness. Furthermore, a qualitative study (n=15) done at Rose Haven, a women, children, and gender-inclusive day shelter in Portland, Oregon, works in parallel to offer powerful perspectives that are underrepresented in this field. Further research is needed to consider potential microbial-tools as therapeutic treatments for health issues faced by this specific population
Manga in Bookstores
Get PDFIn recent years, manga has seen a surge in popularity. This research seeks to provide insights into the role of manga in U.S. bookstores and its implications for reader discovery. Through observations at bookstores in the Portland area, including Books with Pictures, Kinokuniya, Powell’s, and Barnes and Noble, it was examined how manga is presented to readers. Factors considered include manga’s physical placement in the store and surrounding sections as well as shelving methods and categorizations like genre labels, particularly for manhwa, manhua, and light novels. Display tables, end caps, and shelf talkers also demonstrate a unique way for bookstores to present their books to potential readers. The findings are expected to contribute to a deeper understanding of manga’s placement within bookstores by comparing and contrasting these methods of shelving
McNair Scholars Program Summer Symposium (Video Recording) Part Two
No full textThis is part two of the 2024 McNair Symposium
The Jason Washington Memorial Campus Tour Map
No full textThis a capstone project developed by Team Ahmed for the Spring Semester 2024 (SS24). This web application showcases an interactive map, crafted using Leaflet—a leading open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps. The data powering the map is sourced from OpenStreetMap, a collaborative project that creates a free, editable map of the world. The primary focus of this project is to provide an engaging and informative user experience through the interactive map. The map is designed to present content related to Jason Washington Commemoration, offering users detailed insights and visual representations of significant locations and events associated with the commemoration. The project\u27s repository is a collection of the essential files that constitute the application\u27s frontend. It includes HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. For those interested in exploring the project\u27s technical details or contributing to its development, all the resources and documentation are available on the project\u27s GitHub repository.
Initiated in 2024, the Jason Washington Memorial Archive for Justice is an ongoing project by student researchers in memory of Jason Washington (1973-2018) who was shot by Portland State University police. The mission of the archive is to document the life of Jason Washington, a Navy veteran and resident of the neighborhood, a postal worker, father, and husband. The project aims to foster teaching, research, and service to preserve Jason Washington’s memory and to advance activism for racial justice on campus and in the community.
The initial element of this archive is an interactive map to the memorials on campus dedicated to Jason. Research and technological work was done by students during the spring and summer terms of 2024. Other elements will be added to the archive either on this site or in hard copy in the PSU Special Collections Department starting in the spring of 2025
Social Workers as Police and Prison Wardens in the Progressive Era
Get PDFCorrections, the work of surveilling, policing, and managing the deviant, is foundational to US social work history. This relationship, sometimes referred to as care and coercion, has shifted in form and visibility over time. Popular histories of Progressive Era social work privilege narratives of progress, often relating to child welfare and juvenile justice reform. These narratives ignore a wealth of scholarship challenging the logic and outcomes of reform, and ignore social work\u27s influence on policing and prisonwork in the early twentieth century. Many of social work\u27s current pursuits to reform the criminal-legal system (e.g., police social work, residential treatment) are strikingly similar to and not always conscious of Progressive Era experiments in corrections.
This three-paper dissertation explores social work\u27s relationship to prisons and policing in the Progressive Era United States (1890-1930). Specifically, I explore how a burgeoning social work identity and unstable discourses of police and prisonwork helped shape the carceral state. The first paper describes social work\u27s relationship to corrections, as told in peer-reviewed social work articles. To help address silences in the social work literature, the next two papers use archival research to explore the lives and work of two social workers. The second paper profiles Lola Greene Baldwin, a social worker and policewoman in Oregon who changed the carceral landscape of the Pacific Northwest and built templates to expand policing and prison projects across the country. The third paper profiles Dr. Carrie Weaver Smith, a social worker and prison warden in Texas who increased her state\u27s capacity to imprison women and girls alongside a decade-long effort to reclassify and reimagine the prison as a school. Taken together, these papers help situate policing and prison work within an American social work tradition and invite critical questions about the limits of reform
Evaluation of Transplant Benefits with the Us Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients by Semiparametric Regression of Mean Residual Life
Get PDFKidney transplantation is the most effective renal replacement therapy for end stage renal disease patients. With the severe shortage of kidney supplies and for the clinical effectiveness of transplantation, patient’s life expectancy posttransplantation is used to prioritize patients for transplantation; however, severe comorbidity conditions and old age are the most dominant factors that negatively impact posttransplantation life expectancy, effectively precluding sick or old patients from receiving transplants. It would be crucial to design objective measures to quantify the transplantation benefit by comparing the mean residual life with and without a transplant, after adjusting for comorbidity and demographic conditions. To address this urgent need, we propose a new class of semiparametric covariate-dependent mean residual life models. Our method estimates covariate effects semiparametrically efficiently and the mean residual life function nonparametrically, enabling us to predict the residual life increment potential for any given patient. Our method potentially leads to a more fair system that prioritizes patients who would have the largest residual life gains. Our analysis of the kidney transplant data from the U.S. Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients also suggests that a single index of covariates summarize well the impacts of multiple covariates, which may facilitate interpretations of each covariate’s effect. Our subgroup analysis further disclosed inequalities in survival gains across groups defined by race, gender and insurance type (reflecting socioeconomic status)
Progressive Greying in the Blue-Gray Tanager, Thraupis Episcopus (linnaeus, 1766), in Costa Rica
No full textChromatic disorders in birds are often difficult or even impossible to identify properly, are presumably rare, and have not been systematically quantified across multiple species and populations. The pigmentary abnormality with the greatest prevalence among birds is Progressive Greying, although most forms are not straight forward heritable. Besides, Progressive Greying is often confused with Leucism and Albinism. The Blue-gray Tanager, Thraupis episcopus, is distributed from Central Mexico to Northwest Bolivia and Amazonian Brazil. This tanager is a common resident in lowlands up to 2,300 m, frequenting subcanopy to canopy in a wide variety of non-forest, arboreal habitats including urban areas. Here we report the first case of Progressive Greying for the Blue-gray Tanager based on an individual observed at San José de Rivas, Pérez Zeledón, Costa Rica. This individual had white feathers almost all over its body, while just some feathers maintained their blue coloration, mainly on the wings and tail
Predation of a Yates Coral Snake, Micrurus Yatesi Taylor, 1954 by a Brown Basilisk, Basiliscus Basiliscus (linnaeus, 1758)
No full textBasilisks, diurnal ground-foraging tree lizards with an omnivorous and opportunistic diet, occasionally consume certain vertebrates. The Brown Basilisk, Basiliscus basiliscus, demonstrates a diverse diet that includes snakes, although reports have identified only one specific species as prey, namely Thamnophis proximus. The Brown Basilisk is commonly found along vegetated edges of streams and rivers in lowland areas, including gallery forests and secondary growth within highly disturbed agricultural regions. Similarly, the Yates Coral Snake, Micrurus yatesi, appears to favor these habitats. Here, we document the first observed instance of a Brown Basilisk consuming a Yates Coral Snake in its natural habitat within the Premontane Wet Forest of Villa Nueva, Quepos, on the Pacific slope of Costa Rica. Each predation event contributes to the food web and ecological network, emphasizing the value of reporting even individual observations to enhance our understanding of trophic relationships involving lizards and snakes
Centering the Leader: An Investigation of Leader-Centric Variables in the Support Provision Process
Get PDFFew studies to date have investigated leader-centric variables associated with the support provision process. The following dissertation includes three studies that attempt to further understand such relationships. In Study 1, the interaction between leader sleep quantity and quality on various types of leader support (e.g., general supervisor support, family supportive supervisor behaviors, and sleep leadership) is studied using both employee and leader ratings. Study 2 integrates leader-centric research with work-life supportive leadership to propose a new theoretical model that delineates leader-centric variables (e.g., health & well-being, skills, role expectations, job demands) as precursors to the provision and perception of work-life supportive leadership. Finally, Study 3 emphasizes the leader’s perspective of support provision through qualitative methodology that identifies overarching themes related to multilevel barriers to support as well as leader-centric outcomes. Thus, the overarching goal of this dissertation is to shift the paradigm within the support literature by emphasizing the leader’s voice regarding their experiences in providing essential support behaviors to their employees