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Showing 1 to 20 of 241 for “"Ally"”.
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Japan's roles in U.S. national security strategy: strategic ally and economic adversary
… in U.S. national security strategy: strategic ally and economic adversary. Its central hypothesis is that postwar American policy toward Japan has, of necessity, placed strategic imperatives over economic interests but that a continuation of such an approach in the emerging post-Cold War …
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Investigating the perceptions to and effectiveness of an ally skill-building workshop
… the antecedents, moderators, and determinants of ally skill-building workshops, a new methodology in the diversity management field. A three-part longitudinal quasi-experimental research design measured levels of implicit person beliefs, color blind racial attitudes, modern sexist attitudes, and …
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Ally Development: Preparing Student Affairs Professionals to Work with American Indian Students
<p>Previous literature on ally identity development for higher education professionals has been focused mostly on White identity development, with little to no suggestions for those working with American Indian student populations (Broido, 2000; Edwards, 2006; Evans & Wall, 1991; Reason, Millar, A, …
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Becoming an Ally: Multi-family Group Therapy Pilot with Low-income Families
<p>The increasing demand for couple and family therapists (CFT) in integrated health care settings requires CFTs to learn to effectively serve low-income families. Resilience literature suggests that building families’ resilience and social support directly impacts a family’s chances for …
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Ally: Designing Interfaces for Human + AI Collaborative Creativity for Computer Aided Design (CAD) Applications
… design and is something that is seen as intrinsically human. As the world continues to become more and more digital, computers become ever more present in the world of creativity. However, the relationship between human and technology does not have to be adversarial. My research for Ally builds on …
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The evolution of a Christian ally: Factors that influence beliefs and attitudes toward gays and lesbians
… to examine attitudinal plasticity, specifically how Christian attitudes and beliefs toward homosexuality change or evolve. Interviews were conducted face to face, by phone, Skype, or email with 26 people who attended a particular church during all or a portion of 1981 to 1996. In 1996, the …
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Send in the Clowns: Scoping Non-Representational Theory as Ally and Method to Foster Inclusiveness in Digital Innovation
Send in the clowns is the account of a post-disciplinary, critical, creative practise that over the course of 6 years explored the subject of ‘digital innovation’ and ‘innovating in the digital’. The digital in this context is interpreted in the widest possible sense and includes any instance where …
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The chronic kidney disease journey of African Americans and Latinx: how can community health workers be an ally?
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-09-16 without embargo terms
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Being an Ally: Communication Design's Role in Improving the Health Information Seeking Experience in People with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome
… digital tool and educational project named Allyist. Allyist’s features and format are informed by human-centered design methods. The primary goals of the website are to help people test suspicions of having PCOS, thoroughly explain PCOS while also giving more specific information, improve …
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Exploring the ally relationship between Black American students and White student affairs professionals at a small, private, liberal arts predominantly White institution
This study was inspired by the researcher’s own allyship journey and was designed to explore the racial ally relationship between Black American college students and White student affairs professionals. The allyship literature highlights key characteristics of successful allies, which includes an …
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What's in an Ally? Development of the Political Allyship Behavior Scale (PABS) to Explore White Politicians' Genuine and Performative Allyship Toward Black Americans
… gap is by White politicians engaging in genuine allyship to marginalized groups. Across three studies, I explored how Black Americans define genuine and performative allyship from politicians, developed a behaviorally based instrument to measure political allyship, and investigated how …
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AN AUTOETHNOGRAPHIC JOURNEY TO CRITICAL CONSCIOUSNESS: HOW A WHITE FACULTY MEMBER AT A HISPANIC SERVING INSTITUTION MOVES FROM ALLY TO ACCOMPLICE BY LEARNING STUDENT STRUGGLES
… two categories: personal and professional. Personally, this study was cathartic. By using a scholarly lens to analyze and reflect on my experience, I was able to process my experience in the context of existing research and original research I conducted for this study. Professionally, this study …
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The Possibilities and Limitations of the Savvy Ally Literature Circle as a form of Experiential Social Justice-Oriented Transformative Professional Development for K-12 Ontario Educators
This thesis explores the potential of the Savvy Ally literature circle (LC) as a transformative professional development (PD) tool for social justice education, which Vaccaro (2013) argues “is not just about participant learning; facilitators must also be willing to learn, grow, and change” (p. …
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Gender Allyship in Organizations
Allyship behaviors, such as the use of one’s pronouns in emails or beginning introductions with pronoun sharing, are becoming more common practices in organizations. However, there is little consensus on the best way to implement these types of ally behaviors in organizations to effectively create …
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Soviet Strategy Toward African National Liberation Movements
… in the developing world can be heuristically characterized by two ideal types of strategies--model and ally strategies. With an ally strategy the Soviet Union seeks to develop an alliance relationship with a developing world regime or movement, largely on the basis of mutual economic, …
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Target Perceptions of Prejudice Confrontations: The Effect of Confronter Group Membership on Perceptions of Confrontation Motive and Target Empowerment
… perceptions of and reactions to a White ally vs. a Black target (vs. a no confrontation control condition) prejudice confrontation. Based on intergroup helping theories suggesting that low-status group members question high-status helper motivations and consequently feel disempowered by …
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Combatting Intimate Partner Violence Modelling Scalable Pathways for Sustainable Interventions in South Africa: The private sector as a critical ally to promote women's well-being, economic empowerment, and inclusion in the advancement of gender equity
Intimate partner violence (a subset of violence against women) is a large-scale and complex social, public health, and economic problem that has existed for many decades, primarily enabled by systemic gender inequality and rooted in patriarchal gender norms. This study focuses on the design and …
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The United States and the State of Israel: a Critical Examination of U.S.-Israel Relations Since 1981
… is the most important, stable and dependable ally the United States has in the Middle East. Israel, independent and self-reliant from U.S. security guarantees, is a priceless strategic ally that is vital to U.S. national interests in the Middle East. However, unfortunately, it is in the role …
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Leashes or lemmings? : alliances as restraining devices
… actual or anticipated diplomatic effort by one ally to influence a second ally not to proceed with a proposed military policy or not to continue an existing military policy - most definitely happens in international affairs, and sometimes it is successful. This study of alliance restraint …
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Jewish Summer Camps in the United States and Canada, 1900-1969
… American Jewish community, comment upon the generally ineffectual response being made, particularly in the field of Jewish education, and direct attention to the potentialities of the Jewish summer camp as an effective ally in meeting the challenges to our youth of Jewish identification, …
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