I Will Not Wear a Muzzle

Students are sent abroad to “become sensitive leaders in our changing world,” states the Gettysburg College Center for Global Education’s mission statement. We are asked to “foster global thinking and to instill a compassionate respect for others and our world.” Many students use this time to explore their true selves with hopes of not having to think too deeply about the life that they’ve left behind. [excerpt

Nurses\u27 Perceptions of Structural Empowerment: A Practice Review Process Pilot

Nurses are professionally and morally obliged to monitor and evaluate nursing practice via active participation in review mechanisms that are designed to promote patient safety and care delivery, thereby improving patient care quality (American Nurses Association [ANA], 1988, 2001, 2004; O\u27Rourke, 2006). The purpose of this Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) project was to develop, pilot, and evaluate a nurse practice review process with frontline nurses within Fresno Heart & Surgical Hospital (FHSH), a small specialty hospital, affiliated with Community Medical Centers (CMC) in Fresno, California. A nurse practice algorithm was subsequently developed and structural empowerment was assessed with the Conditions of Work Effectiveness Questionnaire-II (CWEQ-II) (Laschinger, Finegan, Shamian, & Wilk, 2001). While there was a small sample size, the DNP project evaluation demonstrated that frontline nurses want to participate in improvement activities within the facility and believed the nurse practice review algorithm would effectively monitor and evaluate nursing practice

Criminalizing Marital Rape in Indonesia

Violence Against Women in Asian Societies examines cultural and other factors affecting women\u27s experiences of violence in south and southeast Asia through a collection of essays. One particular essay on marital violence in Indonesia focuses on legal, political, and cultural constructions of marital rape. Indonesian wives currently face marital rape with no possibility of legal protection from their husbands. This Book Review argues that marital rape should be crimininalized in Indonesia, and that this can be achieved by applying an individual rights approach to violence against women. Indonesian women\u27s organizations are currently working to increase public awareness and to pass legislation on violence against women, but marital rape will neither be criminalized nor punished until legislators and the public acknowledge women\u27s individual rights within marriage

Investigation of the effects of construction and stage filling of reservoirs on the environment and energy

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Material Formulation and Process Optimization Towards Fabricating Robust 3D Printed Structures

This dissertation focuses on understanding and addressing the fundamental physicochemical phenomena that lead to weak interfaces and structural warpage in material extrusion 3D printing. Polymeric feedstocks used for this manufacturing technique were manipulated through the incorporation of additives that alter the dynamics of the matrix during and after printing. In Chapter II, adhesion between layers of structures printed from PEEK was strengthened through a combination of low-molecular weight additive incorporation and post-printing thermal annealing. Chapter III reports a method for decreasing the irreversible thermal strain of structures printed from poly(lactic acid) by introducing nanographene and photoinitiator additives into the feedstock and printing with in situ ultraviolet illumination. Chapter IV describes follow-up work in which a similar approach was taken to decrease the irreversible strain of structures printed from the high-performance polymer poly(ether ether ketone). Finally, Chapter V explains how synchrotron wide-angle X-ray scattering can be used to analyze the interfaces between printed layers. The data presented in this chapter demonstrates how polymeric additives modify the crystallinity of the bulk polymer matrix, leading to augmented interfacial strength

A Vernacular for Lincoln, Nebraska

The contemporary vernacular architecture in the United States is a product of industrialization and globalization. One homogenous, mass produced vernacular has dominated nationwide and overshadowed the unique, contextual, and regional designs of the past. While the contemporary, industrialized vernacular has led to increases in the quality of life for many in the developed world, it has also left in its wake a homogenous and placeless environment devoid of environmental sensitivity or cultural references. There is a need for a set of new vernaculars that embrace modern building technologies while simultaneously responding more directly to local climatic needs and facilitating a renewed sense of regional identity and culture. These new vernaculars will be also crucial in the coming decades as a means of providing more sustainable designs that account for their environmental context without the need for energy intensive mechanical climate control systems. This paper seeks to identify the elements one of the aforementioned new vernaculars as it pertains to the context of Lincoln, Nebraska. By studying the history of design in the region and the climate conditions present in Lincoln, I was able to identify four design elements that respond well to the unique challenges presented by the Lincoln, Nebraska context and would contribute to a more contextual vernacular: summer shading, winter wind obstruction, natural ventilation, and solar heat intake

The Necessity of Divine Hiddenness

Divine silence – or how many perceive it, divine hiddenness – is the source of one of the most important and broadly discussed objections for belief in God. Dr. Michael Rea, philosophy of religion professor at the University of Notre Dame, made the claim that divine silence is one of the most important sources of doubt and spiritual distress not solely for those contemplating belief, but also for those who already believe in the existence of God. For some believers, the silence of God can be reconciled while for others it is only evidence of either a God who lacks the trait of omnibenevolence or further proof that we are alone in the universe. In Divine Hiddenness, Divine Silence, Rea provides arguments supporting the notion that the silence of God is for our own sake. The hiddenness of God, Rea argues, is necessary for preserving the freedom and integrity of our own responses to God and if God were to reveal himself openly, we could be coerced into submitting into a relationship with God. The relationship would lack authenticity due to the coercive nature of God’s revelation of his existence to his creation and God would not want such an inauthentic relationship. By virtue of being God, God possesses the trait of omnibenevolence and by being omnibenevolent God would not violate the free will of his creation, thus God must remain divinely hidden. My aim will be to weigh Rea’s arguments against the oppositional views and demonstrate why divine hiddenness is absolutely necessary for the benefit of humanity