46 research outputs found
The Inherent Harm of Employment Discrimination: What Behavioral Economics Teaches Us About Title VII\u27s Adverse Action Requirement
No full textFor decades, many courts have wrestled with the judicially created concept of adverse employment actions in determining whether a plaintiffhas proved a primafacie case of employment discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of1964. Circuit courts have regularly applied different types of heightened adverse employment action standards, which only muddied the already complicated understanding ofworkplace discrimination. This Comment explores the recent circuit split concerning adverse employment actions and the introduction of the Supreme Court\u27s new some harm testfrom Muldrow v. City of St. Louis. This Comment takes the position that principal behavioral economics theories can inform the judicial system\u27s understanding ofwhat it means to suffer harm in the context ofemployment discrimination and proposes a new standardfor adverse employment actions that incorporates those theories
Development of Flash Cards to Help Write Short Stories for 5th Grade Elementary Students
No full textDi SD Negeri Sidorejo Lor 03, siswa kesulitan menentukan tema & alur cerita serta menyusun kalimat ketika menulis cerita pendek. Berdasarkan hal tersebut, penulis ingin menghadirkan sebuah inovasi untuk membantu siswa menulis cerpen dengan menggunakan media Flash Cards. Penelitian ini memiliki tujuan seperti: 1) Mengetahui langkah-langkah penggunaan media Flash Cards untuk membantu menulis cerpen bagi siswa kelas 5 SD, 2) Mengetahui efektivitas media Flash Cards dalam membantu penulisan cerpen bagi siswa kelas 5 SD, 3) Mengetahui tingkat validitas media Flash Cards dalam materi cerpen untuk membantu penulisan cerpen bagi siswa kelas 5 SD, 4) Mengetahui kepraktisan media Flash Cards untuk membantu menulis cerpen bagi siswa kelas 5 SD.Penelitian ini menggunakan metode Research and Development (RnD) dari Sugiyono yang menggunakan 6 tahap, yaitu potensi dan permasalahan, pengumpulan informasi, desain produk, validasi desain, revisi desain, dan pengujian produk yang dikombinasikan dengan model ADDIE. Penilaian dari ahli media mendapat skor 95 dengan kriteria sangat layak dan dari ahli materi mendapat skor 74 dengan kriteria layak. Kepraktisan Flash Cards dari tanggapan siswa mendapat skor 80 dengan kriteria sangat layak. Efektivitasnya meningkat 12 poin selama Pre-Test 72 menjadi 84 selama Post-Test. Dapat disimpulkan dengan menggunakan Flash Cards dapat membantu siswa kelas 5 SD SD Negeri Sidorejo Lor 03 Salatiga untuk menulis cerpen. Media Flash Cards juga dianggap valid, praktis, dan efektif digunakan saat belajar menulis cerpen.In SD Negeri Sidorejo Lor 03, the students have difficulty determining the theme & plots of the story and organizing sentences when writing short stories. Based on that, the author wants to present an innovation to help students write a short story using Flash Cards media. This research has objectives such as: 1) Knowing the steps to use Flash Cards media to help write short stories for 5th grade elementary school students, 2) Knowing the effectiveness of Flash Cards media in helping write short stories for 5th grade elementary school students, 3) Knowing the level of validity of Flash Cards media in short story material to help write short stories for 5th grade elementary school students, 4) Knowing the practicality of Flash Cards media to help write short stories for 5th grade elementary school students. This research uses the method of Research and Development (RnD) from Sugiyono used 6 stages, such as potential and problems, collecting information, product design, design validation, design revision, and product testing combined with the ADDIE model. The assessments from media experts got a score of 95 with criteria very worthy and from material expert got a score 74 with criteria worthy. The practicality of the Flash Cards from the students' responses got a score of 80 with criteria very worthy. The effectiveness increased 12 points during the Pre-Test 72 to 84 during the Post-Test. It can be concluded by using Flash Cards can help 5th grade elementary students at SD Negeri Sidorejo Lor 03 Salatiga to write short stories. Flash Cards media also considered valid, practical, and effective to use when learning to write short stories
Sensitivity to fine-grained and coarse visual information: The effect of blurring on anticipation skill
No full textCopyright @ 2009 Edizione l PozziWe examined skilled tennis players’ ability to perceive fine and coarse information by assessing their ability to predict serve direction under three levels of visual blur. A temporal occlusion design was used in which skilled players viewed serves struck by two players that were occluded at one of four points relative to ball-racquet impact (-320ms, -160ms, 0ms, +160ms) and shown with one of three levels of blur (no blur, 20% blur, 40% blur). Using a within-task criterion to establish good and poor anticipators, the results revealed a significant interaction between anticipation skill and level of blur. Anticipation skill was significantly disrupted in the ‘20% blur’ condition; however, judgment accuracy of both groups then improved in the ‘40% blur’ condition while confidence in judgments declined. We conclude that there is evidence for processing of coarse configural information but that anticipation skill in this task was primarily driven by perception of fine-grained information.This research was supported by a University of Hong Kong Seed Funding for Basic Research grant awarded to the second author
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Diabetic Living: Senegalese Women's Experiences with Metabolic Illness
No full textThis dissertation draws on the lived experiences of metabolic illness among women in Senegal in order to illuminate the global rise of noncommunicable diseases. Existing literature on noncommunicable diseases in low-and-middle-income countries (LMIC) is scarce while at the same time these countries are poised to experience the highest disease burden. This project seeks to address this lacuna by examining the everyday lived experience of noncommunicable diseases at the individual and community levels. Introducing the concept of interembodiment and looking at production of health within households, rumors, and stigma, this work reframes our understanding of embodiment of illness by situating it in its social context. Medical anthropological research on diabetes and hypertension in LMICs has thus far focused on Guatemala, India, Kenya, and Ethiopia. This dissertation adds to the conversation by introducing a critical West African perspective which is sorely missing. Focusing on women’s experiences of hypertension, diabetes, and kidney disease/failure in Senegal, this project illustrates the nuanced ways noncommunicable diseases are shifting individual notions of self, kin structures, and social communities. It also addresses the ways in which current health infrastructures are and are not prepared to deal with this rise in noncommunicable disease.
Through 15 months of mixed-methods research, including participant observation, over 60 interviews, and 100 surveys, this project centers on Saint-Louis, Senegal, located on the Senegal River in the north of the country. Saint-Louis is a small but global city, and its relatively remote location closely links it to rural villages in the region. This setting provided insight into how women with differential access to wealth, nutritional resources, and health care manage their chronic illnesses. Quantitative data was gathered from 107 women, who completed surveys to assess quality of life, psychosocial stress, and emotional well-being. Of these women, 36 were included in ethnographic focal-follows, which involved multiple interviews and participant observation with these individuals as they went about their everyday experiences within their homes, clinical settings, and communities. Doctors, nurses, pharmacists, traditional healers, Ministry of Health officials, and demographers were also interviewed to understand clinical, national, and epidemiological approaches to these disease burdens.
The dissertation concludes by asking readers to focus not to the obvious – broken infrastructure, lack of “reliable” data, overwhelmed systems – but rather on how, out of these colonial hauntings, there is potential for this diabetic narrative to be part of a reimagined global health informed by sub-Saharan African perspectives. What does the West have to learn from Senegal? As an interlocuter said: “…the mere fact of thinking about (the) future is a good starting point because when we think about something and we say that that thing is probable, we’re making it possible. We have to think inRelease after 11/01/2022Originally available on deposit. Contacted by Graduate College to apply embargo through 01-Nov-2022 per author request. 15-Nov-2021, Kimberl
Effects of musically-induced emotions on choice reaction time performance
No full textThe main objective of the current study was to examine the impact of musically-induced emotions on athletes’ subsequent choice reaction time (CRT) performance. A random sample of 54 tennis players listened to researcher-selected music whose tempo and intensity were modified to yield six different music excerpts (three tempi x two intensities) before completing a CRT task. Affective responses, heart rate (HR), and RTs for each condition were contrasted with white noise and silence conditions. As predicted, faster music tempi elicited more pleasant and aroused emotional states; and higher music intensity yielded both higher arousal (p < .001) and faster subsequent CRT performance (p < .001). White noise was judged significantly less pleasant than all experimental conditions (p < .001); and silence was significantly less arousing than all but one experimental condition (p < .001). The implications for athletes’ use of music as part of a preevent routine when preparing for reactive tasks are discussed
HOW THE HEALER BECOMES: EXPERIENCED FEMALE PSYCHOTHERAPISTS’ DEVELOPMENT OF VOICE
No full textResearch indicates that therapists’ congruent presence impacts therapeutic alliance and outcomes, yet there remains a need for relational feminist understandings of therapist development of congruence. This study, grounded in a constructivist paradigm, seeks to further our understanding of this phenomenon utilizing the listening guide. Nine female psychotherapists participated in this study to answer the following research question, How do experienced female therapists experience their development of voice? Participants spoke in voices of connection, resistance, and disconnection. Three additional voices were identified regarding participants’ views of their professional role. Five participants joined in a follow-up focus group. Being embodied served as a primary means through which all five participants connected to their voice as therapists. Voices of disconnection facilitated growth when participants connected with themselves relationally. Relationships that facilitate therapist development should be characterized by a relational openness to all voices within the developing therapist, which was associated with supervisors’ embodied presence.selfcongruencepsychotherapist developmentwomenpresenceembodimentrelational theor
A journey with self-compassion : exploring self-compassion within the context of the Christian faith
No full textDespite the spiritual roots of self-compassion, the impact of spirituality on the development of self-compassion has not been widely explored. The listening guide method and autoethnography were combined to explore the lived experience of self-compassion from a Christian faith perspective. The participant co-researchers’ narratives revealed three categories of voices. The voices of shame and criticism included oppression, internalized oppression, and judgment. These voices appeared as the participants discussed what makes self-compassion difficult. The voices of love and acceptance included connection, unity, openness, and warmth. Together, these voices were used as participants discussed their experiences of self-compassion. Finally, the voices of resistance included the voices of struggle and advocacy. These voices appeared to facilitate the development of self-compassion. This study offers a deeper understanding of the natural development of self-compassion and of how the Christian faith may facilitate or hinder self-compassion. Implications for counsellors, pastors, and future research are discussed
Critical factors influencing paternal involvement : fathers’ experiences of negotiating role responsibilities
No full textThis qualitative study uses the Enhanced Critical Incident Technique (ECIT) to explore incidents fathers report to be helpful or hindering to their parental engagement. Eight fathers were interviewed with 206 reported incidents. From the 206 incidents, 132 were identified as helpful (HE); 47 as hindering (HI); and 27 as wish list (WL) items. All incidents were assigned to one of the following categories (a) positive and negative role models, (b) Mother-Father Relationship (d) Father's Religion/Spirituality (e) Responsibility (f) Attachment (g) Personal Decision (h) Characteristics of Children (I) Reflective Parenting (j) Societal Influence (k) Father's Characteristics, and (l) Extended Family Influence. Fathers also provided 29 recommendations for effective paternal engagement. Research findings indicate major themes of responsibility, engagement, and father-mother dyad as important factors determining paternal involvement. Additionally, participants frequently referred to a confluence of factors impacting their involvement, which they navigate within a myriad of social roles
Voices of (M)otherhood: Listening to the Experiences of Single and Childless Women
No full textSingle and childless women over the age of 35 constitute an expanding demographic in North America and in many parts of the world, yet we are still living in a society that places great importance on marriage and family and views them as important markers of life success. This research was designed to explore how involuntarily single (never-married) and childless women experience themselves during early midlife (ages 35-45). Eight women’s experiences were explored in this study using the feminist relational methodology of the Listening Guide. Data analysis uncovered three categories of voices: voices which conveyed the positivity of living a single and childless identity (i.e. the voices of hope, faith, gratitude, nurturance, freedom, and resilience), voices which conveyed the struggles of living a single and childless identity (i.e. the voices of invisibility, shame, confusion, loneliness, guilt, longing, and uncertain waiting), and the voice of ambivalence.singlechildlesswomenListening Guid
