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Gail Myrick, 1970-1971 Gamecock Mascot
No full textGail Myrick was a student at Jacksonville State University. In 1970-1971 she the Gamecock mascot. Shown in mascot cocky uniform she is standing outside.https://digitalcommons.jsu.edu/lib-ac-histimg/39464/thumbnail.jp
Putting the (R) Ural in Preceptorship
No full textRural nursing is recognized as a unique health care domain. Within that context, the preceptorship experience is purported to be an important approach to preparing safe and competent rural practitioners. Preceptorship is the one-to-one pairing of a nursing student with a professional nurse who assumes the mandate of teacher and role model in a designated clinical/contextual setting, in this case the rural setting. A research gap exists in the literature in which rural preceptorship is specifically explored. The purpose of this paper is to review preceptorship in relation to preparing nursing students specifically for the rural setting. Understanding how preceptorship as an educational model can prepare nursing students to transition to rural practice is an important endeavor. An authentic rural preceptorship may serve to influence the recruitment and retention needs for registered nurses in rural areas. A greater understanding of rural preceptorship serves to illustrate the appropriate support, socialization and contextual competence required to prepare nursing students for rural nursing practice. This paper’s review may serve to highlight the research that currently exists related to rural preceptorship and where additional research can contribute to further understanding and development for authentic rural nursing preparation
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
The avifauna of Myrick Marsh
No full textThe purpose of this study was to observe the birds of Myrick Marsh
in order to determine (1) the species utilizing the marsh as breeders, (2) the transients using the marsh as a resting area, (3) the nonbreeding residents, (4) which species used the marsh as a wintering area and (5) the relative abundance of species observed. Various census routes were established and followed for the duration of the study. Mist nets, funnel traps and Potter traps were used to capture birds for the purpose of banding. A total of 164 individuals belonging to sixteen species were banded. Banding was used to start a long-term project to determine the recurrence of species in the marsh during successive years. Nesting birds were determined by locating singing males, deserted nests and observations of young birds. A total of 150 species were observed
with 51 species breeding in the marsh. Of the 150 species, twelve are permanent residents, eighteen winter residents, forty-six transient visitants,forty-three summer residents and thirty-one summer visitants. Three methods were used to determine the relative abundance; Kendeigh,
Bond, and number per man-hour. Both the Bond and Kendeigh methods were almost identical in ranking the observed species. Relative abundance varied with the three methods but Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus) and Tree Sparrow (Spizella arborea) were ranked number one according to
each method during the seasons in which these species were dominant. A diversity index was used as a quantitative method in comparing the various seasons. Diversity was dependent on the number of species and individuals observed for each season. Diversity was low during the summer and winter and higher during the spring and fall migrations. A total of fifteen orders were represented with 55.1% of the observed species belonging to the order Passeriformes. A geographical origin of the Myrick Marsh avifauna according to Mayr was also made in order to determine the composition
of the avifauna when compared with a different region of the country. The data shows an increase in the number of unanalyzed species
as one moves toward the northern latitudes due to increased nesting
activity and the presence of more species during the summer
Examining the Challenges to Refugee Education: A Case Study of the Syrian Refugee Crisis in Jordan
No full textBackground: Since 2011, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan has hosted approximately 1.4 million displaced Syrians (GOJ, 2017). Nearly 83% of Syrian refugees in Jordan reside in host communities (Betts & Collier, 2017). One-third are children between five and 17 years (UNHCR 2020). The influx of school-age refugees from Syria has created unprecedented challenges for teachers, schools, and host communities in Jordan. Purpose: This three-paper dissertation addresses the challenges to refugee education through a case study of the Syrian Refugee Crisis (SRC) in Jordan. Paper one assesses the relevance, progress, effectiveness, and impact of emergency education responses (EER) the Government of Jordan implemented in the years immediately following the Crisis’s start. The analysis provides insight into these interventions, the consequences of which have not been sufficiently addressed by existing research. Paper two explores the impact of the SRC on Jordanian teachers’ professional and personal experiences and, subsequently, their ability to provide quality education for their students. Themes detailed in this chapter will help policymakers better understand the implications of EER interventions for the teachers involved. Paper three considers how the refugee experience shapes identity and affects sense of belonging. It also posits that consideration of refugee identity as a form of social identity deserves recognition in student development theory and proposes a universal approach for understanding refugees’ identity formation and sense of belonging. The literature review reveals a critical gap in the research on refugees and higher education. Collectively, these studies highlight some of the challenges to refugee education that host countries and communities face. These studies have important implications for refugee students’ ability to get to and through higher education. Methods: Paper one uses a systematic literature review approach and Collins’ (2005) framework for qualitative policy analysis. Paper two is an interview-based, exploratory case study of teachers working in public, host-community schools. I used a grounded theory strategy for data analysis (Strauss & Corbin, 1990). Paper three is a synthesis of extant qualitative research (Timulak, 2009). Results: The EER interventions in Jordan allowed the Ministry of Education to hire more than 7,000 teachers and open 205 double-shift schools. These additions gave Syrian students access to formal school but also created serious unintended consequences, e.g., overcrowded classrooms, shortened teaching times, learning deficiencies, and declines in teachers’ physical and mental wellbeing. Teachers innately turned to Al-Ghazali’s Master-Pupil Relationship and Islamic Educational Psychology principles to support refugee students’ individual, educational, and psychological needs. Their practices highlighted how refugees’ unique backgrounds play a critical role in how students adapt and develop. Through intentional behaviors, teachers helped the refugees feel like they belonged. Belongingness requires inclusion, membership, and empathy. Inclusive school environments provide settings where refugee students can escape from trauma and migration stressors. The sense-of-belonging construct supports a holistic approach to student development that Western theories often overlook. Research suggests students with a developed sense of belonging have higher academic achievement and better overall wellbeing. Conclusion: This research has implications for educational policy and the effects of particular interventions on teachers and their refugee students, while also demonstrating the need to revisit student development theory in light of refugee identity.Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Department o
"Closing the R&D Gap, Evaluating the Sources of R&D Spending"
No full textBoth spending and tax policies have been implemented in the United States with the goal of stimulating private sector research and development (R&D). Karier questions whether current R&D policy, especially the research and experimentation tax credit, can contribute to closing the gap between nondefense expenditures on R&D in the United States and such expenditures in other countries, such as Japan and Germany. He also explores possible changes to our current R&D policy to make it more effective.
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Do donor motives matter? Investigating perceptions of foreign aid in the conflict in Donbas
No full textHow do the perceived motives of donor states shape recipient attitudes toward foreign aid in a conflict zone? This research note evaluates the impact of two frames that characterize the motives of foreign powers involved in a civil conflict in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine. These frames portray foreign actors as providing aid either to alleviate suffering during conflict (humanitarian frame) or to increase their power and influence in the recipient country (political influence frame). We demonstrate how framing impacts attitudes toward foreign assistance from the European Union and the Russian government among potential aid recipients in the Donbas. The results show that frames impact support for foreign aid from the European Union but have no effect on views of Russian aid. Counter to conventional expectations, aid provided for geopolitical, strategic reasons may be viewed as a positive, stabilizing force—even more than foreign aid provided for humanitarian reasons
Letter from R. R. Zellick, Assistant Trust Officer, Anglo California National Bank of San Francisco, to Joseph R. Goodman, October 2, 1942
No full textLetter from R. R. Zellick, Assistant Trust Officer at The Anglo California National Bank of San Francisco, to Joseph R. Goodman, regarding property owned by Dave Tatsuno. Zellick mentions a dispute between current tenants and Tatsuno, and that Tatsuno has asked Goodman to help locate trustworthy tenants.Personal correspondence, organizational records, government documents, publications, and other papers created or collected by Joseph R. Goodman documenting the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, as well as organized resistance to incarceration. Included in the collection are records of the Japanese Young Men's Christian Association and the Japanese American Citizens' League in San Francisco, including papers of the Japanese YMCA's executive secretary Lincoln Kanai; Sakai family papers; Goodman's correspondence to and from Japanese American incarcerees, organizations opposing forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans, the War Relocation Authority, and others; publications, photographs, and ephemera from the Topaz Relocation Center, where Goodman taught high school; War Relocation Authority records and publications; and newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and reports about forced removal and incarceration created by various government, religious, and civic organizations, in California and nationwide
Spatial Hedonics and the Willingness to Pay for Residential Amenities
No full textHousing rents may be influenced by characteristics of nearby properties, an effect captured by spatial autoregression in a hedonic rent equation. We investigate the implications of spatial autoregression for measuring the marginal welfare effects due to a change in a residential amenity such as air quality. We show that if spatial price interdependence arises from technological spillovers, such that utility depends directly on neighboring property values, then the welfare change is given by the reduced form of the autoregressive model, effectively applying a "spatial multiplier" to the relevant implicit price. If instead spatial interdependence arises from merely pecuniary spillovers, as is commonly supposed in motivating spatial autoregression, then no spatial multiplier on implicit prices is called for in computing welfare; but it is then especially important to use the autoregressive model to measure those implicit prices.Spatial autocorrelation; spatial lag; welfare; willingness to pay; hedonic price function
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