173 research outputs found
The Santa Clara Strength of Religious Faith Questionnaire
No full textThis article introduces the Santa Clara Strength of Religious Faith Questionnaire (SCSORF) and provides preliminary information on the instrument. The SCSORF is a quick, easy to administer and score, 10-item scale assessing strength of religious faith. The SCSORF and personality and mood measures (i.e., Symptom Check List-90-Revised, Weinberger Adjustment Inventory, Belief in Personal Control Scale, and several author-designed questions) were administered to 102 undergraduate students. Preliminary findings suggest that the SCSORF is both reliable and valid. Furthermore, significant correlations between strength of religious faith, self-esteem, interpersonal sensitivity, adaptive coping, and hope correspond with previous research, suggesting that mental health benefits are associated with strong religious faith. Implications for future research are also discussed
Unwanted Wisdom: Suffering, the Cross, and Hope
No full textThe film The Passion of the Christ raised anew the question: why did Jesus suffer such an excruciatingly painful death? For centuries, those afflicted with suffering have been counseled by the church to unite their sufferings to those of Jesus. This book asks the question how the cross of Jesus can be reimagined in such a way as to offer a path of hope rather than resignation. Drawing upon resources as diverse as Simone Weil, William Lynch, Dorothee Soelle, Karl Rahner, and Jon Sobrino, as well as the author\u27s personal experience of deep loss, the book explores the terrain of suffering, from the universal pain brought about by the loss of loved ones to the exceedinly indivdual imprisonment of mental illness and the global catastrophe of AIDS. The book also questions the extra burden of suffering put upon gay Catholics by the church\u27s teaching of life-long celibacy for homosexuals. Inspirational, intelligent, and globally informed, Unwanted Wisdom sends out a message of hope to all Catholics who\u27ve yearned to apply the wisdom of Jesus to their own personal suffering.https://scholarcommons.scu.edu/faculty_books/1478/thumbnail.jp
Understanding Academic Staff Attitudes Toward GenAI in Teaching
No full textThis study examines the attitudes of academic staff toward the use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in higher education teaching. Focusing on faculty members at a college in Israel, the study explores how attitudes are associated with self-reported levels of technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK) self-efficacy, personal innovativeness in IT (PIIT), and two perceptual constructs drawn from the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM): perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use. A cross-sectional survey design was used, with data collected from 84 lecturers. Correlation and hierarchical regression analyses revealed that both PIIT and TPACK self-efficacy were positively associated with attitudes toward GenAI, with perceived usefulness and ease of use emerging as significant mediators. Specifically, the effect of TPACK self-efficacy on attitudes was fully mediated by these perceptual variables, while PIIT retained a significant direct effect. The findings suggest that faculty attitudes toward GenAI are shaped by both individual dispositions and evaluative judgments about the tool’s pedagogical relevance and usability. This research contributes to the growing literature on AI in education by providing empirical evidence on the attitudinal antecedents relevant to faculty engagement and may inform institutional strategies that support the thoughtful and differentiated integration of GenAI in teaching
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No full textDr. Diane Dreher, Ph. D., is an author, researcher, consultant, and positive psychology coach. She has a Ph. D. in Renaissance English literature from UCLA and a Master’s degree in Counseling from Santa Clara University. She currently serves as a professor emeritus and associate director of the Applied Spirituality Institute at Santa Clara University. Dr. Dreher is an award-winning university professor and positive psychology researcher whose work focuses on hope and has been recognized internationally. She has written eight non-fiction books which have been translated into ten different languages which combine ancient wisdom with contemporary psychology and neuroscience. Her notable publications include her bestselling book Tao of Inner Peace and her newest book Pathways to Inner Peace (2025). Both offer help to finding peace during turbulent times and times of uncertainty
An Appraisal Analysis of Gossip News Texts Written By Perez Hilton From Perezhilton.com (A Study Based on Systemic Functional Linguistics)
No full textClara Ertyas P. 2011. An Appraisal Analysis of Gossip News Texts Written By Perez Hilton From Perezhilton.com (A Study Based on Systemic Functional Linguistics).English Department, Faculty of Letters and Fine Arts, Sebelas Maret University.
This research explored the appraisal system in the gossip news text written by Perez Hilton, taken from his website, perezhilton.com. There were eight texts that were analyzed. They were two texts of Katy Perry, two text of Leona Lewis, two text of Miley Cyrus, and two texts of Chris Brown, which were analyzed using Appraisal Theory. Appraisal theory is concerned with attitude, graduation, and engagement. The objectives of this thesis were to find out what appraising items applied in those texts; how they were applied; and why they were applied, including the ideology.
This was a descriptive qualitative research. The technique of taking sample used in this research was total sampling. There were two data in this research, the primary data which was sourced from the eight analyzed texts, and the secondary data which was contained the information of Perez Hilton related to his writings.
The results show that the three kinds of attitudes (affect, jugdment, and appreciation) are applied in the texts, but mostly is judgment. The types of the items are in the forms of word, nominal group and clause. Mostly the attitudes are in the forms of epithet group, attitudinal lexis and mental process clauses. Meanwhile, the engagement is mostly monogloss.
The moslty graduation is force, and the scaling of the graduation is up- scaled. The attitudes are applied through the strong expression, and they are applied in Analytical Exposition genre. Additionally, the texts are written subjectively based on the writer’s aspiration.
The appraising items are applied in the texts because of the ideologies that the writer wants to convey. The ideologies are right antagonist for texts exposing Katy Perry and Leona Lewis; and left antagonist for texts exposing Miley Cyrus and Chris Brown. The ideology shows the writer’s style in writing gossip news text that he supports the artist if he likes and conversely he challenges the artists
who he does not like
La construcción de la identidad a través de la recuperación de la memoria en "Lo que esconde tu nombre", de Clara Sánchez
No full textLo que esconde tu nombre, by Clara Sánchez, is a novel based on the real fact of the peaceful existence of Nazy elders on the Spanish coast. Since a postmodern sensibility, the author gets inspired by a paradox episode of our recent democratic history to write a fictional text about memory recovery to reconstruct one’s own identity, and about the transgenerational aliance, which allows facing the present again, and the hope of building the future. Lo que esconde tu nombre, does not intend to review a past event and it is not a historical, realistic or custom novel either. The actions and the characters are set in the present, as it is at the people’s present moment and in our current context where Clara Sánchez allows herself to reflect in a fictional form about the human being enigma and the apparent reality.Lo que esconde tu nombre, de Clara Sánchez, parte de un hecho real, la existencia pacífica de ancianos nazis en la costa española. Desde una sensibilidad postmoderna, la autora se inspira en un episodio paradójico de nuestra historia democrática reciente para escribir una novela de ficción que trata sobre la recuperación de la memoria para reconstruir la identidad personal y sobre la alianza transgeneracional que permite el reencuentro con el presente y la esperanza de construcción del futuro. Lo que esconde tu nombre no pretende revisar un hecho pasado ni es una novela histórica, realista o costumbrista. Las acciones y los personajes están situados en el presente, pues es en el ahora de los individuos y en el aquí de nuestro contexto actual donde Clara Sánchez se permite reflexionar en clave de ficción sobre el enigma del ser humano y la aparente realidad
Influence of 3D City Layout on Air Quality
No full textIn 2021, noise pollution monitoring will be mandatory in the Netherlands, which requires data on traffic that can be re-used for air quality estimation models. One of the important input parameters for the latter is the street type, which is required by the dilution parametrisation used within the air quality model.The goal of this project is to show whether automatic street classification for air quality estimation is feasible and reliable, considering the geo-spatial data currently available in The Netherlands. The motivation for this project originates from the common data used in noise and air quality monitoring tools by the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, (RIVM).Currently, street classification is performed manually by many municipalities. The larger municipalities are legally obliged to monitor air quality levels, which makes use of the street types. Automating the process by using existing datasets can save a lot of time, costs, and resources, while providing standardised results in comparison to manual classification. In addition, our method is extendable to the whole of the Netherlands. Consequently, our method can have a large societal impact, since it allows the provision of air quality estimations for all municipalities; even those that are not yet required to do so. To our knowledge, no similar work has been conducted in this field, which made it even a bigger challenge.The implementation of the automatic classification algorithm, which is thoroughly explained in this re- port, shows very promising results. We first tested the approaches in a small area, the Weesperstraat in Amsterdam, where we have success rates from 76.7% to 83.3% for the different classification methods when compared to the NSL classification. After evaluating the performance of each of the methods, the optimal approach has been tested on larger areas where visual inspection shows a priori promising results as well.In addition to the automatic classification algorithm, air quality measurements with new Flow sensors from Plume Labs were performed in the city of Amsterdam. The goal was to investigate whether different street types can be identified through the use of small air quality sensors. The limited measurements did not provide distinct patterns for the different street types, and therefore identification based on pollutant concentrations was not possible within the project.We hope that the results of this project will motivate public bodies and agencies in the Netherlands to invest in automated workflows using currently available and high accuracy geo-spatial data. This can potentially improve their efficiency, while creating a more standardised and scalable framework.Synthesis Project 2019Geomatic
Letter from Lincoln Kanai to Joseph R. Goodman, June 5, 1942
No full textLetter from Lincoln Kanai to Joseph R. Goodman: Dear Joe - Just a beginning on my interviews and here's my letter to you of my trip. Hope the PA system and the rest of the things from Berkeley have gone to Tanforan. Getting some very interesting reactions along the very direction I have been thinking. Just my luck to miss the F.O.R. [Fellowship of Reconciliation] mtg at Estes Park. By the way hope you can help pushing for some ___ for transfer of individual families, settlement of properties, marriages, college students within camps. My regards to Josephine, Joe and family, Betty, Clara, Grace, Virginia, etc. Here's a good job pointing to right direction. Show it to F.O.R. - Lincoln.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
Death Penalty Keynote: Why Mitigation Matters, Now and for the Future
No full textThis Article examines the current state of the death penalty in California and nationally through the lens of mitigation—the empathy-evoking evidence that has been a constitutional requirement to ensure individualized sentencing in the era of the modern American death penalty. It situates the discussion in the context of the extraordinary events of 2020: the Covid-19 pandemic, the heightened awareness of racial inequities reflected in the Black Lives Matter movement, and the federal execution spree in the final six months of the Trump administration. The Article began as the keynote address at California’s annual Capital Case Defense Seminar on February 13, 2021. In the spring of 2020, when the author was invited to give this keynote, no one knew what an unprecedented year was unfolding. No one anticipated that the keynote and the seminar would be virtual. While the keynote kept its focus on the author’s area of expertise (mitigation evidence in death penalty cases), it expanded to reflect on the pandemic, the emergence of Black Lives Matter, and the federal execution spree. The months of research that went into the keynote made it relatively straightforward for the author to transform a speech into a carefully documented Article. Nonetheless, the author has kept some of the colloquial tone of the original address in order to capture the unique framework for understanding the death penalty in California and nationally in 2021. For more than four decades, capital defense training in California and across the country has stressed the importance of developing humanizing evidence based on the diverse frailties of humankind, evidence that at once provides to the accused the effective representation guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment and to jurors the evidence that they need to make the reasoned moral decision they are asked to render in capital cases and without which there cannot be reliable results. Capital punishment had its ascendency in the 1990s when executions resumed in California. Annual death sentences and executions reached their highest numbers both in California and across the country. However, the trends reversed around the turn of the century. The requirement of mitigating evidence to ensure fairness and individualized sentencing was a built-in, self-destructive part of the modern American death penalty. The thirteen federal executions in the final six months of the Trump administration and in the midst of the pandemic were arbitrary and lawless, as prisoners were executed in spite of intellectual disability, mental illness, meritorious legal claims, and powerful evidence of remorse and rehabilitation. Some had spotless or near spotless records during their years on death row. In recent years, we have also seen many other examples of prisoners who were sentenced to death, or to die in prison without hope of parole, who have led exemplary lives after securing their release. The Supreme Court of the United States enabled the federal execution spree, overturning stays issued by numerous federal courts below and suggesting that, at least for now, we have lost the legal battle over the death penalty. However, the death penalty has become a damaged brand, increasingly abandoned by state after state, prosecutors, juries, and the American public. I submit that we are winning the narrative battle
Report on the progress of Alta California missions, 1774 agosto 20
No full textCarta al virrey Antonio María de Bucareli en la que se informa sobre el progreso de las misiones en Alta California. Palou señala el entusiasmo de fray Junípero Serra y otros misioneros en el avance de los esfuerzos de aculturación, pero menciona que la expansión hacia San Francisco se retrasó por la escasez de soldados y pobladoras. Destaca la cooperación con el capitán Fernando Rivera y Moncada, quien finalmente proporcionó ganado para las misiones de San Francisco y Santa Clara después de una resistencia inicial. Palou expresa su esperanza de una mayor expansión una vez que lleguen las familias de Sinaloa y continúe el envío de suministros. —— Letter to Viceroy Antonio María de Bucareli reporting on the progress of missions in Alta California. Palou notes the enthusiasm of Fray Junípero Serra and other missionaries in advancing the acculturation efforts, but mentions how efforts to expand to San Francisco were delayed due to a shortage of soldiers and women settlers. He highlights cooperation with Captain Fernando Rivera y Moncada, who eventually provided cattle for the missions of San Francisco and Santa Clara after initial resistance. Palou expresses hope for further expansion once families from Sinaloa arrive and supplies continue to be delivered. 2 f. (4 p.
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