10 research outputs found
THE KNIVES I USED
No full textThe Knives I Used is a collection of short stories written between August 2020 and April 2022, while the author was a student at The University of Southern Mississippi. This thesis contains stories joined by the thematic thread of self-harm and demonstrates the spectrum of ways it presents itself in individuals
The Most Elegant Collateral Embellishment of Taste
No full textThe author reviews A Treatise on the Art of Dancing: The Most Elegant Collateral Embellishment of Taste from A Treatise on the Art of Dancing (1722) by Giovanni Andrea Gallini
Minority Community Resilience and Cultural Heritage Preservation: A Case Study of Gullah Geechee Community
No full textThe Gullah Geechee community of the south-eastern United States endures today as a minority group with a significant cultural heritage. However, little research has been conducted to explore this community’s resilience in the face of climate change and other environmental impacts. The database Web of Science was searched and 109 publications on the Gullah Geechee community were identified. Using quantitative and qualitative methods, we analyzed the publications to identify patterns and primary research themes related to the Gullah Geechee community’s resilience. Findings revealed that Gullah Geechee‘s cultural heritage is vulnerable to climatic and societal changes, but can also be a source for enhancing community resilience and promoting more sustainable community-led heritage and tourism developments. A framework is proposed for building community resilience in the context of minority and/or marginalized communities (e.g., Gullah Geechee). This study highlights the urgent need to not only better understand and incorporate a community’s economic dimensions and losses in various decision- and policy-making processes but also their cultural and social dimensions and losses. This systematic analysis can help inform both heritage preservation and community-led tourism practices and policies related to the Gullah Geechee community, as well as help direct new research efforts focusing on minority and/or marginalized community resilience.History, Form & Aesthetic
Access and Excellence: Organizational Communication in the Educational Outreach Office
No full textabstract: Organizational research provides important insight to communication practices in an institution. The research study examines organizational communication within a large university setting. Utilizing the outreach department as a sample population, this paper discusses the differences in perception of the organization created by power structures. These areas are discussed with respect to the mission of an organization, the constant changes of a university environment and the value and appreciation of employees in the organization. Organizational analysis is an important part of improving the effectiveness and creating open communication throughout an organization
Clinical Practice and Canadian Nursing Faculty: Keeping a Foot in Both Worlds
No full textMany benefits have been associated with nurse educator engagement in clinical practice (CP). However, nursing faculty CP has received minimal attention since the early 1990s and has rarely been discussed in Canada. Through interviews with twelve Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) faculty, this study used grounded theory to explore how Canadian BSN educators currently engage in CP. The core category identified was "Keeping a Foot in Both Worlds", which captures the tension that may be experienced by faculty who choose to engage as both clinical practitioners and teachers. Faculty in this dual role described themselves as uniquely positioned to integrate theory and practice and to connect the campus and clinical settings. This study also highlights the challenges BSN faculty face while maintaining a CP and underlines the positive impact this practice might have on teaching/learning. Recommendations include cultural and structural considerations for nurses in CP, education, and leadership.Faculty PracticeNursing Faculty PracticeFaculty, NursingClinical Nursing PracticeFaculty Clinical Practic
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A predictive mirror twin Higgs with small Z₂ breaking
No full text© 2020, The Author(s). The twin Higgs mechanism is a solution to the little hierarchy problem in which the top partner is neutral under the Standard Model (SM) gauge group. The simplest mirror twin Higgs (MTH) model — where a Z2 symmetry copies each SM particle — has too many relativistic degrees of freedom to be consistent with cosmological observations. We demonstrate that MTH models can have an observationally viable cosmology if the twin mass spectrum leads to twin neutrino decoupling before the SM and twin QCD phase transitions. Our solution requires the twin photon to have a mass of ∼ 20 MeV and kinetically mix with the SM photon to mediate entropy transfer from the twin sector to the SM. This twin photon can be robustly discovered or excluded by future experiments. Additionally, the residual twin degrees of freedom present in the early Universe in this scenario would be detectable by future observations of the cosmic microwave background
Reproduction of a research claim from Nelson et al. (2009), from the Journal of Consumer Research
No full textThe purpose of this reproduction attempt is to assess whether we can reproduce the analytic result as it was reported in the original paper by using the original data. The original data will be analyzed by following the same analytic approach described in the original paper (as close to the same analytic approach as possible based on the level of detail available in the original paper, as well as any supplementary materials or additional information provided by the original author).
All SCORE projects target a single inferential statistical test that supports a statement from the abstract of the original paper. The research claim and focal analysis for this paper are provided below.
Research claim (H*): The focal research claim is that participants in Study 2 rate the same TV show as more enjoyable when it is interrupted with an advertisement, although the advertisement was just as enjoyable as the program itself. This reflects the following language from the paper’s abstract: “Although people preferred to avoid commercial interruptions, these interruptions actually made programs more enjoyable…regardless of the quality of the commercial.” This claim was evaluated with a t-test with condition (commercial, no commercial) as the independent variable and enjoyableness rating as the dependent variable, yielding that participants who saw the program with a commercial rated it as more enjoyable than those who saw it without the commercial (M = 5.38 vs. 4.47; t(100) = 2.43, p = 0.016).
Focal inferential test: Participants who saw the program with a commercial rated it as more enjoyable than those who saw it without the commercial (M = 5.38 vs. 4.47; t(100) = 2.43, p = 0.016).
There will also be an ancillary test where we reproduce the willingness to pay analysis found in the original paper
Report of the Topical Group on Cosmic Probes of Dark Matter for Snowmass 2021
No full textCosmological and astrophysical observations currently provide the only
robust, positive evidence for dark matter. Cosmic probes of dark matter, which
seek to determine the fundamental properties of dark matter through
observations of the cosmos, have emerged as a promising means to reveal the
nature of dark matter. This report summarizes the current status and future
potential of cosmic probes to inform our understanding of the fundamental
nature of dark matter in the coming decade.Comment: Report of the CF3 Topical Group for Snowmass 2021; 35 pages, 10
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