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Faculty Engagement in Program Assessment in the Age of Accreditation and other External Mandates
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)
External mandates have pressured higher education institutions to demonstrate evidence that students’ learning outcomes have met institutional and program goals. (Ewell, 2009; Hutchings 2010). As more and more mandates are ...
Community Engagement Professionals, Faculty, and Institutionalization: A Study of Relationship Perceptions
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2019)
AbstractCommunity engagement programs have expanded over the last several decades due to several factors in higher education. Colleges and universities recognize the benefits of community development and sustainable ...
Does Organizational Climate Mediate the Effects of Employee and Organizational Characteristics on Staff Attitudes Toward Inclusion?
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2019)
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between employee characteristics, organizational characteristics, organizational climate, and the attitudes of employees toward inclusion of individuals with ...
Nightly Bloodlust Overflows: Anatomizing the Morbid Musical for the Contemporary American Stage
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2019)
Simulated spectacles of grotesque, disturbing, and/or violent acts on stage have been enticing audiences to the theatre for centuries. Cognitive science’s answer to such a phenomenon is known as morbid curiosity, which is ...
Barred Acceptance: Recovering the addict in scenes from How to Be a Respectable Junkie and The Motherfucker with the Hat
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2019)
How do we perform ourselves so that we are a part of, and participate in society? How is this question factored in when facing either side of the coin of addiction? There are strong stigmas about addicts that are derived ...
Dynamic Cerebral Blood Flow Velocity Assessment during Head Down Tilt in Sports-Related Concussions
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2019)
AbstractIntroduction: Sport-related concussions affect between 1.6 and 3.8 million people in the United States per year (Langlois et al., 2006). Approximately 5% to 10% of children and adolescents will experience a ...
Living with "TB of the Bones": Health-Related Stigma in a HIV Prevalence Area Before and After Public Health Intervention
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2019)
Tuberculosis has been called “a social disease with a medical aspect,” yet the impact of behavioral change in combating its spread has not been fully explored (Fanning 2008). It is estimated that one-third of the world’s ...
Fiscal transfers in optimal spatial economies with urban-rural and intercity trade
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2019)
This dissertation consists of three essays that study different issues in urban economics.In the first essay, we study a spatial economy with an urban region consisting of a numberof identical cities where an urban good ...
Systemic DNA Damage in Cooperation with High-Fat Diet as a Model of Accelerated Aging
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2019)
Models of accelerated aging are primarily driven by genetic modification to DNA damage response (DDR) factors. Accumulation of DNA damage is thought to contribute to accumulation of senescent cells (SCs), which are believed ...
Characterization of Metabolic Activity in Schwann Cells for Axon Survival during Wallerian Degeneration
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2019)
The degeneration of injured axons with concomitant alterations in their flanking glia (Schwann cells in the PNS and oligodendrocytes in the CNS) is a central hallmark of a wide range of neurodegenerative conditions. The ...