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Obscured by Under-Representation: the Death Sentencing of Women of Color in the U. S.
No full textExamined are the cases of the 162 women sentenced to death from 1977 to 2023. White women comprise the majority of death-sentenced women; as such, women of color are hidden in descriptions of female death-sentencing in the U. S. Data were collected on the women and the circumstances of their murders and compared by race and ethnicity. Analyses of the data by time period revealed substantial changes in the victims and circumstances of the murders by the Black women in the more recent years. Findings indicate that the Black and Latina offenders were disadvantaged in several ways. Comparisons with prior research were made, and the roles of critical race theory and feminist theory were discussed
Bridging the Gap: Using Significance Modeling to Identify Data Gaps in Lithic Sites Within the Tualatin River Basin
Get PDFArchaeologists commonly evaluate National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) eligibility for precontact sites in Cultural Resource Management archaeology under Criterion D. This focus on Criterion D can create the false paradigm that precontact sites are only significant by virtue of their information potential. This paper explores precontact sites in the Tualatin River Basin in northwestern Oregon and identifies some key deficiencies in the ways those sites are recorded and documented by archaeologists. This paper then discusses the development of a geodatabase of site attributes and a significance model with contributions and feedback from relevant parties and Tribal representatives.
The geodatabase includes precontact lithic sites in the Tualatin River Basin that were available on the Oregon State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) online database at the time of this research. To those sites, I catalogued 27 attributes from the site record forms when the information was available. The resulting geodatabase can display the spatial distribution of any of those attributes across the region. It also serves to identify potential gaps in data where attributes were not recorded or available for sites.
The significance model focused on categorizing potential NRHP and tribal significance. I developed a list of significance attributes based on nearby NRHP eligible sites as well as on relevant parties and Tribal representative feedback. I then assigned significance score values to each of the sites using two different metrics: 1) documented presence of each significance attribute and 2) assumed presence of each significance attribute unless otherwise documented. By comparing these scoring metrics, broad gaps in data of recorded site attributes in the region are obvious.
Identifying and addressing regional-scale gaps in data are necessary before archaeologists can make accurate and complete eligibility evaluations of cultural resources. My research results show that there are many instances of missing site attributes in the Tualatin River Basin that inhibit the ability to accurately evaluate or assess NRHP or Tribal significance on both site and regional scales. The data gap modeling I developed focuses primarily on information-potential data due to the nature of the extant information in site record forms. The reliance on data-focused and incomplete archaeological documentation creates a recursive effect in which sites are only valued for information potential. Oral histories and the archaeological record could be integrated in the same way as historic documentation already are, resulting in both information sets being more complete. The data gap modeling presented here could be used to identify missing data in multiple types of information sets and identify areas where data from one information set may fill a gap, reinforce, or contradict the data in other information sets
Book Review of, Tacit Racism
No full textBook Review of, Rawls, A. W., & Duck, W. (2020). Tacit racism. University of Chicago Press
A Configurable Real-Time Event Detection Framework for Power Systems Using Swarm Intelligence Optimization
Get PDFPower system balancing authorities are routinely affected by sudden frequency fluctuations. These frequency events can take the form of negligible frequency deviations or more severe emergencies that can precipitate cascading outages, depending on the severity of the disturbance and efficacy of remedial action schema. It is imperative to arrest such disturbances quickly by activating primary frequency control measures. This manuscript proposes a configurable event detection framework using optimization methods to tune a detection algorithm to detect events as specified by experts from a Balancing Authority. The utility of the detection framework is demonstrated using a regression-based frequency event detection algorithm with tunable parameters. Two swarm intelligence-based optimization algorithms, Grey Wolf Optimization and Particle Swarm Optimization, are applied to tune the parameters of the detection algorithm according to the definition of frequency events specified by experts. The performances of the GWO and PSO algorithms are analyzed, and the efficacy of the proposed system is demonstrated using an algorithm evaluation environment and a suite of evaluation metrics. The proposed event detection framework is capable of detecting events in real-time with high accuracy and speed using real-world, real-time phasor measurement unit data
Introduction to the Virtual Special Issue: Mathematics That Underpins Social Issues
Get PDFThis Virtual Special Issue on Mathematics in Society: Exploring the Mathematics that Underpins Social Issues features 13 articles which expand our understanding of how people build, retain, communicate, apply, and comprehend mathematical ideas as they relate to social and societal issues. The focus is on education research that explores the ways in which mathematics and a mathematical worldview can influence choices, on educational, personal and societal levels. We take a broad view and raise questions about what it means to be mathematical in society, and we consider the multifaceted ways in which abilities to derive and interpret information presented mathematically are also necessary in and for society
Ronald E. McNair Scholars Program Profiles and Abstracts 2024
Get PDFThis is the complete event program and provides presentation abstracts and biographies of McNair scholars and their mentors
Evaluating Equitable Successes In Literary Spaces A Portland Book Festival (PBF) Case Study
Get PDFHow do literary institutions achieve and evaluate successes in equity? Do certain factors expedite this transition? To understand the impact of Literary Art’s Discovery Model on diversity in literary spaces, data concerning all BIPOC Writers & Presenters at the Portland Book Festival 2023 was collected and analyzed by book placement, genre, and age category (among additional subcategories). Acknowledgement of publishing industry trends and activism within literary communities appear to be significant factors while curating authors with equity in mind
Uproar, Alcuzas and Espadrilles: Arabisms in the Inquisitorial Case of Lucrecia De Leon, 16th Century
Get PDFBased on Lucrecia de León’s oneiric records, this study focuses on three words of Arab origin in the Inquisition manuscripts of her persecution and imprisonment. The written documents of this young woman’s dreams, collected and conserved by scribes and inquisitors at the end of the sixteenth century, comprises 415 narrative fragments, dated between 1587 and 1590. The main goal of this article is to analyze the following three Arabisms: alboroto, alcuzas and alpargatas, as examples of the Arabic influence on the Castilian vocabulary of the time
Guns, Germs, and Wood: The Landscape of Settler Colonialism
No full textIn the nineteenth century, the United States dramatically adopted capitalist institutions. At the same time, the country suffered massive conflagrations, in city after city. This lecture, drawing on Daniel Immerwahr\u27s research for his upcoming book, asks about the connection between rapid economic growth and chastening environmental catastrophes. Or, more bluntly, what was it like to live in a combustible country?
Professor Immerwahr is introduced by PSU Professors of History John Ott and Marc Rodriguez.https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/foh_events/1006/thumbnail.jp
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Simulation-Based Education: Experiences from Multiple Academic Health Centers
No full textThe integration of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) into healthcare professional training is critical in order to ensure positive patient outcomes and help combat healthcare disparities, leading towards health equity. There is not currently a standard specific to DEI awareness in healthcare education and training. One area of healthcare training is simulation-based education (SBE), which is training that is set up to be as close to a real environment as possible for healthcare professional training. There is little in the literature that addresses DEI within SBE, yet SBE is one area with the potential for making an impact in healthcare delivery. This qualitative multi-site case study explored SBE at academic health centers in the United States and the experiences of the administrators involved. The nine participants shared their commitment to patient-centered and family-centered care. There were three distinct pillars that formed the foundation of the integration of DEI into SBE: self-reflection and starting from within; deliberate integration of DEI into SBE; and the importance of community outreach and collaborations. Three recommendations are expanded on: the inclusion of subject matter experts (SMEs); community outreach and engagement; and the investment in SBE teams\u27 mental health and wellbeing. When healthcare professional simulation program administrations and teams are unsure where to begin with the integration of DEI into SBE they can use The Self-Assessment Values & Engagement (SAVE) Tool, which was created out of this research