{"title":"First-Generation Students in Visual Composition: The Centrality of Race, Rootedness, and Relationship","authors":"Rashné R. Jehangir, Terra J. Molengraff","doi":"10.1080/19496591.2023.2203324","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19496591.2023.2203324","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46753,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82354600","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"More Sessions Make a Difference: University Counseling Centers and Student Retention","authors":"K. Gorman, Kathleen M. Brennan","doi":"10.1080/19496591.2023.2201453","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19496591.2023.2201453","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46753,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85215858","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Increasing the Agricultural Infrastructure and Technology of Somalia","authors":"Jared Blackwell","doi":"10.47611/jsr.v12i2.1925","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47611/jsr.v12i2.1925","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this policy proposal is to address the food and water insecurity that the entire nation of Somalia is experiencing in order to secure the United States’ national interests in the region of The Horn of Africa. I urge Bob Menendez, the chairman of The United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, to consider my recommendations to tackle this systemic issue in the fragile state of Somalia because this foreign aid will save millions from severe malnutrition and dehydration, while weakening terrorist organizations in the region at the same time. My policy recommendation to tackle this issue are to increase foreign aid to Somalia in the way of developing water infrastructure countrywide.","PeriodicalId":46753,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72500567","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Inhabiting the Margins: Personal spaces as the negotiation zones of marginalized subjects","authors":"Xinzhu Chen","doi":"10.47611/jsr.v12i2.1931","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47611/jsr.v12i2.1931","url":null,"abstract":"In this essay, I investigate the role and underlying political connotations of personal space in Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin and A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf, both of which enunciate marginalized subjectivity in 20th century English-language literature. I concentrate on using literary analysis while comparing the issues of marginalization, private and public resistance, class, race, and gender. While one text focuses on gayness in Paris and one focuses on queer womanhood in America, both reveal the temporal fragility of their respective marginalized spaces and the subjects’ claim to liberation. To situate this analysis in the wider literary and anthropological conversation, I read them against Michel Foucault’s The History of Sexuality, Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics by Bell Hooks, and several other texts. My analysis argues that even seemingly quotidian actions are inscribed in a complex literary tradition that lies at the intersection of biopolitics, intersectional feminism, and queer heritage.","PeriodicalId":46753,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77440152","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Utilizing Machine Learning to Predict the Number of Bikes in an Area","authors":"Tavishi Bansal, G. Goldsztein","doi":"10.47611/jsrhs.v12i2.4220","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47611/jsrhs.v12i2.4220","url":null,"abstract":"Machine learning is a type of Artificial Intelligence that uses data to make predictions and improve the accuracy of its outcomes. In this article, the problem discussed is classified as supervised learning and the technique utilized is Logistic Regression. After a description detailing what supervised learning and logistic regression are, using a data set to develop a model which predicts the number of bikes a rental bike company should provide based on certain conditions is discussed. The accuracy of this model is also communicated and the challenges and how the final estimations were reached are covered.","PeriodicalId":46753,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80507814","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Effects of Cannabidiol and Serotonin on Anxiety-Like Behavior in Crayfish","authors":"Hannah Knight, K. Chamberlain","doi":"10.47611/jsr.v12i2.1880","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47611/jsr.v12i2.1880","url":null,"abstract":"Cannabidiol (CBD) is a cannabinoid that is being used as a new treatment for many mental and physical medical conditions, including anxiety. Serotonin (5-HT) is a neurotransmitter that has been shown to have many roles, including stabilizing mood. Crayfish are invertebrate animals that have been used as a model system to study human diseases. Crayfish are well suited to study the effect of CBD on anxiety due to their documented endocannabinoid system and anxiety-like behavioral traits. In this study, the effects of CBD on anxiety-like behavior in crayfish were investigated using a Light-Dark maze as a behavioral analysis tool. At the doses used, CBD did not independently show any influence on either the Light-Dark preference or the total position moves made by crayfish. 5-HT showed quite variable results compared to the saline solution. 5-HT injection significantly decreased time spent in the dark for crayfish injected with 2µg/g of CBD and significantly decreased movement for crayfish injected with 4µg/g of CBD. The dichotomous behavior of the 5-HT injected crayfish requires more study to determine if underlying factors can explain the varying responses. The concentrations of CBD may also need to be increased to properly examine its role in reducing anxiety.","PeriodicalId":46753,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79157559","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Combatting Rape Myth Acceptance in United States' Criminal Justice System with Behavioral Economics","authors":"Naina Giri","doi":"10.47611/jsrhs.v12i2.4357","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47611/jsrhs.v12i2.4357","url":null,"abstract":"Using behavioral economics, this paper aims to analyze how rape myth acceptance presents itself in the form of numerous heuristics and biases throughout various stages of the United States’ criminal justice process that a sexual assault case must progress through. Due to the availability heuristic, inaccurate representation of sexual assault in the media promotes rape myth acceptance (RMA) among the general public, including potential jurors and law enforcement officers. Resultantly, police officers’ decision-making processes while investigating sexual assault reports implicitly discriminate female victims as officers struggle with the downstream orientation phenomenon.. In the trial stage, jurors utilize the representativeness heuristic to process complex case information by comparing the rape victim to a mental prototype shaped by rape myths. This hinders the jurors’ human information processing capabilities. Solutions to rape myth acceptance in the United States’ criminal justice system will be described in order to battle the high attrition rate of sexual assault cases.","PeriodicalId":46753,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79978458","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Are performance-based payment structures more strongly correlated with better health outcomes compared to solely fee-for-service payment for surgeons?","authors":"M. George, J. Anagnost","doi":"10.47611/jsrhs.v12i2.4346","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47611/jsrhs.v12i2.4346","url":null,"abstract":"For years, the healthcare industry has compensated its surgeons with a simple fee-for-service model. With more payment structures becoming prevalent, we decided to review one specific type of payment structure, pay-for-performance, and its impact on patient health outcomes. We hypothesized that, on average, across all specialties, performance-based contracts would yield better health outcomes compared to fee-for-service payments alone. We also hypothesized that performance-based contracts might pressure physicians to get results and could lead to mistakes and a worse quality of care. We reviewed nine papers from 2006-2014, of which the majority were conducted in the United States, with one each from Italy and Germany. Our review included three literary/systematic reviews, three before & after studies, and two cross-sectional analyses. Many papers did not provide strong evidence of the effect of pay-for-performance on health outcomes, although examined papers agree on certain things. A common theme we found was the pay-for-performance increased documentation and the number of procedures done, but with minimal conclusions about outcomes. This may result from poor or non-standardized metrics being used to measure and report “performance.” However, two studies found that pay-for-performance improved patient health outcomes, despite limitations. For example, Brosig-Koch et al., (2013) found that P4P was not cost-effective from a solely financial standpoint. ","PeriodicalId":46753,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78751817","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Truth of Luxury Advertisements","authors":"A. González, Johnny López","doi":"10.47611/jsrhs.v12i2.4438","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47611/jsrhs.v12i2.4438","url":null,"abstract":"The luxury goods industry has many tactics to better sell and market its products to the upper class. More recently, there has been a shift in the consumer’s interest in luxury products from only the rich to now the growing middle-class. Due to recent social and economic shifts, the tendency to buy more expensive goods has increased. Corporations have adapted to this, with examples like Supreme using limited timed drops to entice consumers and give the illusion of scarcity. These concepts have been so successful that even the food industry has applied them. Also, new jobs like being an influencer/content creator have given way to new ways to publicize luxury goods. This shift has also created a way for the average teenager or young adult to be empowered by the also growing secondary market. With this new industry, anyone can start their collection without having a luxurious income and profit with products that were once unattainable for most workers.","PeriodicalId":46753,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88116065","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploring the Public Perceptions and Consequences of the American 2022 Recession","authors":"Anqi Li","doi":"10.47611/jsr.v12i2.1893","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47611/jsr.v12i2.1893","url":null,"abstract":"Starting from 2022, with two consecutive quarters of negative GDP, United States has by definition entered a recession. Previous research in this field has already pinned down the basic causes and the history of this recession, yet with the effects of it still unfolding, it’s important to understand the U.S. public perception on this topic, in order to better predict its future consequences. Using the method of online survey, this paper will seek to capture the working U.S. citizens’ economic identities and their opinion on the existing issues within the American economy, and how they should be remedied. Survey figures are generated for analyzation, in which participants will be grouped by their age and income, to better understand their difference in perspectives. The survey results indicate perceptions of lower class, middle class, and upper class American citizens, in regards to their perceptions on inflation, the Federal Reserve Bank, their own spending habits, and the Biden’s Administration’s response to address the current economic conditions.","PeriodicalId":46753,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88308015","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}