bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
EFFECT OF ASSET QUALITY ON THE FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE OF SAVINGS AND CREDIT SOCIETIES IN KENYA
Authors: Barus Jane J. , Muturi Dr. Willy , Kibati Dr. Patrick , Koima Dr Joel 
Published: September 2020

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to establish the effect of asset quality on the financial performance of savings and credit societies in Kenya.Methodology: The study employed an explanatory research design. The target population was 83 registered deposit taking SACCO's in Kenya that have been in operation for the last five years. The sample size for the study was all 83 SACCOs that have remained in existence since 2011-2015. Census methodology was used in the study. Both primary and secondary sources of data were employed. Multiple linear regression models were used to analyze the data using statistical package for the social sciences (SPSS) and STATA. A pilot study was conducted to measure the research instruments reliability and validity. Descriptive and inferential analysis was conducted to analyze the data. The data was presented using tables and graphs.Results: Based on the findings the study concluded that asset quality influenced the financial performance of savings and credit societies in Kenya. This can be explained by the regression results which showed that the influence was positive and also showed the magnitude by which asset quality influenced the financial performance of savings and credit societies. The univariate regression results showed that asset quality influenced the financial performance of savings and credit societies by 5.827units.Unique contribution to theory, practice and policy: The study recommended that management need to be cautious in setting up a credit policy that will not negatively affects profitability and also they need to know how credit policy affects the operation of their banks to ensure judicious utilization of deposits and maximization of profit. The study also recommended for credit information sharing between SACCO's. This will play a significant role in determining performance of deposit taking SACCO's. Further, the study recommended that SACCO's opt for equity financing instead of debt financing to improve on its leverage. SACCO's should also avoid excessive lending, maintain high credit standards and limit lending to un-hedged borrowers.
A Q Analysis of Judgments of Centrality in Music Education Courses of Study
Authors: Bergee Martin J. , Tast Rebecca L. , Wheeler Beth 
Published: September 2020

Abstract
This study’s purpose was to define music teacher person prototypes via Q factor analysis and to determine which curricular components of music education courses of study these prototypes judged to be central to the development of music teachers. This study included 4 graduating seniors in music education, 4 veteran music teachers, and 4 university music teacher educators who completed a Q-sort of 77 curricular components typically found in music education courses of study. Two prototypes emerged from this initial Q analysis: Instrumental and Vocal/Choral. To examine the stability of the prototypes, we removed all components dealing explicitly with instrumental or vocal/choral and then performed a second analysis. The same two person prototypes emerged. In this second analysis, the Instrumental prototype indicated strongest centrality for conducting/rehearsing skills, along with performance in ensembles, study on the primary performing medium, score analysis, a student teaching internship in the major area, ear and sight-singing skills, and classroom management. The Vocal/Choral prototype indicated strongest centrality for classroom management, along with curriculum development, keyboard skills, a student teaching internship in the major area, developing professional relationships, error detection skills, assessment/evaluation, understanding kindergarten through 12th grade school culture, selecting classroom materials, and planning lessons.
Musical Engagement With Young Children Experiencing Homelessness: An Exploratory Study
Authors: Dansereau Diana R. 
Published: September 2020

Abstract
It has been shown that children who experience homelessness face risks and circumstances that differ from other children (Bassuk, Richard, & Tsertsvadze, 2015; Sandel et al., 2018); however, there is a lack of documentation of music education programs that specifically serve children who are experiencing homelessness and a lack of research on the effects of such programs. The purpose of this exploratory study was to understand whether meaning arises for young children who are experiencing homelessness and their teachers from weekly music classes. Children ages 3 months through 3 years (N = 36) who attended a preschool for children experiencing homelessness participated in music classes that centered on serve-and-return musical interactions. Data showed that (a) the children’s responses to music classes strengthened over the course of 7 weeks, and the majority of the children were interacting with music and their music teachers periodically or consistently by the end of the sessions; (b) children incorporated music class material into other parts of their days and with adults other than their music teachers; (c) classroom teachers changed the ways that they engaged musically with the children; (d) teachers recognized new types of vocalizations as musical; and (e) the infant teachers encouraged and participated in more serve-and-return musical interactions. It was concluded that the children’s responses were consistent with previous research on housed children, they found musical and social meaning within the musical interactions, and the classroom teachers found meaning in the musical material and, therefore, extended its use within their classrooms.
Constructive Controversy in an Instrumental Methods Classroom: An Exploratory Case Study
Authors: Richerme Lauren Kapalka , Miksza Peter 
Published: September 2020

Abstract
Mirroring the current polarized political climate in America and beyond, ideological debates in instrumental methods often occur absent attention to potential common ground. Using Hess and McAvoy’s (2014) pedagogical principles for engaging students in democratic educational practices as a conceptual framework, the purpose of this exploratory case study was to investigate preservice instrumental music teachers’ (N = 24) experiences during a semester-long constructive controversy project. Researchers analyzed the following data from 13 students: initial and ending journal reflections for all nine controversial topics, final course papers, and two semistructured interviews. The findings indicate that students’ high school experiences played a key role in how students engaged with the controversial topics. Students valued conflict; they not only appreciated hearing about but actively sought out contrasting perspectives. Yet, students did not necessarily value compromise, and these endeavors rarely resulted in individuals substantially changing their beliefs. Participants disagreed about whether the consensus-making process was easy or difficult, and they saw the resultant consensus statements as ranging from syntheses to midpoints. While most students saw listening as key to the constructive controversy process, not all of them felt heard by their classmates.
Animal Research, Safeguards, and Lessons from the Long History of Judicial Torture
Authors: Clulow Adam , Lauwereyns Jan 
Published: September 2020

Abstract
For animal research, the precautionary principle was written into public policy through the so-called three R’s of replacement, reduction, and refinement. These guidelines, as developed by Russell and Burch six decades ago, aimed to establish safeguards against the abuse of animals in the pursuit of science. While these safeguards, which started from the basic premise that science itself would benefit from a reduction of animal suffering, seem compelling at first, the three R’s have in practice generated a degree of confusion while opening up loopholes that have enabled researchers to effectively dismiss some of the more inconvenient aspects of ethical concerns. Such problems have been discussed in detail by multiple authors. Here, we suggest a different approach by arguing that a clear parallel can be drawn between the shortcomings evident in the current three R’s model and the flawed practice of early modern judicial torture, in which a set of elaborate safeguards that were designed to prevent abuses served instead to create the same combination of confusion and easily exploited loopholes. In the case of judicial torture, attempts to refine the system from within produced limited results, and effective change only took place when individual legal systems succeeded in enforcing clear absolutes. We explore the implications of this for the regulation of animal research by pointing to the need for achievable absolutes, based on a clear, evidence-based, and publicly deliberated rationale, in order to facilitate and improve research ethics.
Against Eating Humanely Raised Meat: Revisiting Fred’s Basement
Authors: Spelman Jonathan 
Published: September 2020

Abstract
In “Puppies, Pigs, and People: Eating Meat and Marginal Cases,” Alastair Norcross (2004) uses a thought experiment he calls “Fred’s Basement” to argue that consuming factory-farmed meat is morally equivalent to torturing and killing puppies in order to enjoy the taste of chocolate. Thus, he concludes that consuming factory-farmed meat is morally wrong. Although Norcross leaves open the possibility that consuming humanely raised meat is morally permissible, I contend that his basic argumentative approach rules it out. In this article, therefore, I extend Norcross’s thought experiment in hopes of convincing readers that consuming humanely raised meat is morally wrong.
Public Intimacy and Kinship in the Korean Adoption Community
Authors: McKee Kimberly 
Published: September 2020

AbstractKorean children represent the largest group of international, transracial adoptees in the United States, and the majority of these children enter white families. Since the 1980s, adoptive families and children have become engaged with one another through culture (or heritage) camps, local and national adoption organizations, adoption agency postadoption services, adoption list-serves, and adoption-related Facebook groups. The emergence of an adult adoptee community coincided with these connections between adoptive parents and their children. Yet these communities—adoptive parents and adult adoptees—do not exist in isolation from one another. To better understand how the two communities operate in concert and conversation together, this essay examines the role of the annual Korean Adoption Conference (KAC)—operated by a national organization dedicated to supporting the Korean adoption community—in the lives of Korean adult adoptees and the adoptive parents of Korean children. Drawing from survey data of adult Korean adoptees and adoptive parents of Korean adoptees and a collection of oral histories of those involved in the KAC as attendees, speakers, and/or leaders, this article explores the implications of forging community across the adoption constellation. By placing these voices in conversation with one another, this essay contributes to new knowledges concerning the value of listening and learning from one another as a mechanism to engender change in mainstream conversations and debates concerning adoption. I elucidate how the KAC is a site for adoptees and their adoptive families to contest what it means to be in community or kinship with one another through the development of public intimacies. In doing so, I explore what it means to cultivate an intentional space for adoptees and adoptive parents to engage one another and disentangle assumptions that there is a monolithic adoptee or adoptive parent experience.
“Light-skinned people always win”: An Autoethnography of Colorism in a Mother–Daughter Relationship
Authors: Moffitt Kimberly R. 
Published: September 2020

Abstract
Meghan Burke defines colorism as “the allocation of privilege and disadvantage according to the lightness or darkness of one’s skin” (International Encyclopedia of the Social Social Sciences, 2nd ed.). The intraracial practice can be heightened in familial interactions. This collaborative autoethnography utilizes Alice Walker’s framework of womanism to explore the narratives of colorism in a mother–daughter relationship when the two do not share the same skin hue. Womanism instructs us to break our silence around practices that denigrate us and seek ways to survive and thrive in our blackness. Four specific incidents experienced by my adolescent daughter are shared to critique colorism and consider strategies for navigating this practice and sustaining a mother–daughter relationship.
“Armed and Dangerous”: The Criminalization of Angela Davis and the Cold War Myth of America’s Innocence
Authors: Roman Meredith L. 
Published: September 2020

AbstractThis essay explores the arrest, imprisonment, and trial of Angela Davis as the most politically charged legal defense case of the détente era of the Cold War that drew international attention over a nearly two-year period (1970–72). It demonstrates that the life of this young black female intellectual in post-civil rights America became inseparable from securing (or contesting) the dominant narrative of U.S. democratic superiority. Davis, her family, and legal team insisted that racism and politics motivated the criminal charges against her and that a transnational movement was imperative to ensuring her safety as a black woman communist in the American justice system. U.S. leaders and mainstream journalists dismissed the veracity of such claims, ridiculed Davis’s fears for her safety, and asserted that political trials and racism existed only “over there” in the communist universe. They racialized Davis as a “black militant,” invoking traditional sexist–racist tropes of black women as emotionally unstable, sexual sirens, in order to reassure the American public of the righteousness of U.S. democracy and of Davis’s concomitant guilt. After an all-white jury acquitted Davis of all criminal charges, the mainstream press hailed the acquittal as evidence not of Davis’s innocence but as proof that she was wrong about America. Davis persisted in contesting on a world stage America’s Cold War claims of democratic moral superiority and traveled to the Soviet Union to thank leaders for helping spearhead the international campaign that she credited for saving her life.
Espaço(s): configurações na cena brasileira e latino-americana
Authors: Lima Fátima Costa de , Baumgärtel Stephan 
Published: September 2020

A partir de uma perspectiva historizante, este texto apresenta uma reflexão sobre diferentes imaginações e concepções do espaço cênico. Articula parâmetros científicos e estéticos, socioculturais e antropológicos para refletir sobre as relações entre as situações socioeconômicas e políticas nas quais se encontram o Brasil – e com variantes regionais os outros países latino-americanos – e os processos de configuração espacial que acabaram de manifestar-se nesse século XXI com cada vez mais insistência. Dessa maneira, evidencia criticamente os contextos conceituais das práticas sobre quais os artigos desse dossiê refletem, e chama atenção à ausência das grandes vozes estabelecidas da cenografia brasileira no discurso refletivo sobre esses processos na cena brasileira e latino-americana do século XXI.
Predictive variables of sexual inactivity in the elderly
Authors: Piñeiro Isabel , Ullauri Marcia , Rodríguez Susana , Regueiro Bibiana , Iris Estevez  
Published: September 2020

En las últimas décadas se han llevado a cabo varios estudios que evidencian la relevancia de la actividad sexual para la salud, el bienestar y la calidad de vida de las personas mayores. En este contexto se ubica esta investigación, que tiene por objeto conocer los factores que potencialmente pueden explicar la inactividad sexual en las poblaciones mayores. Además de los factores sociodemográficos, que tradicionalmente se han asociado a la actividad sexual, exploramos el potencial explicativo y la sensibilidad en la estimación de la inactividad sexual en el último año de las percepciones de salud y las actitudes hacia la sexualidad en una muestra de 200 sujetos de entre 62 y 91 años (M=71.30; SD=5.48). Los resultados obtenidos sugieren importantes porcentajes de varianza explica de la inactivad sexual por el modelo de regresión donde se incorporan variables sociodemográficas (R2 = .295). Nuestros resultados apuntan también, a que tanto la percepción y preocupación por la salud sexual como las consideraciones en torno a las relaciones sexuales antes del matrimonio o al sexo sin amor, explicarían la inactividad sexual de las personas mayores. Estos resultados permiten sugerir el potencial de la intervención centrada en los estereotipos y actitudes hacia la sexualidad.
Extensive studies carried out in recent decades have noted the relevance of sexual activity to the health, well-being and quality of life of older people. In this context, we propose this research work that aims to know the factors that can potentially explain sexual inactivity in older populations. In addition to the sociodemographic factors that have traditionally been associated with sexual activity, we explored the explanatory potential and the sensitivity in the estimation of sexual inactivity in the last year of health perceptions and attitudes towards sexuality in a sample of 200 subjects between 62 and 91 years old (M = 71.30, SD = 5.48). The results obtained suggest important percentages of variance explained by the regression model where variables such as the existence of a partner, age and place of origin are incorporated (R2 = .295). Our results also point to the fact that, both the perception and concern for sexual health and the considerations regarding sexual relations before marriage or sex without love, would explain the sexual inactivity of the elderly. These results allow us to suggest the potential of the intervention centered on stereotypes and attitudes towards sexuality.
Cognitive Avoidance Questionnaire: Factor structure and psychometric properties.
Authors: Latorre Postigo José Miguel , Nieto López Marta , Font Payeras María Antonia , Ros Segura Laura , Heras Jesús , Ricarte Trives Jorge Javier 
Published: September 2020

La evitación cognitiva se refiere a las estrategias y esfuerzos dirigidos a prevenir experiencias negativas y eventos aversivos que provocan ansiedad. El presente estudio analizó la estructura factorial y las propiedades psicométricas de la versión española del Cuestionario de evitación cognitiva (CAQ; Sexton & Dugas, 2008), un instrumento que evalúa cinco estrategias de evitación cognitiva relacionadas con la preocupación. La traducción al español se administró a una muestra no clínica de 614 participantes (18-82 años). La escala total y las subescalas mostraron una consistencia interna de buena a excelente. Utilizando el análisis factorial confirmatorio, un modelo de cinco factores mostró un buen ajuste entre la estructura teórica y los datos empíricos. Se obtuvo evidencia de validez convergente y discriminante a través del análisis de las correlaciones del cuestionario con medidas de preocupación, supresión del pensamiento, rumiación y estilos de afrontamiento. Los resultados arrojaron datos preliminares satisfactorios sobre la adaptación española del CAQ, que podría proporcionar mayores avances en la práctica clínica y la investigación sobre procesos cognitivos y trastornos de ansiedad.
Cognitive avoidance refers to strategies and efforts toward prevention of aversive experiences and events that provoke anxiety. The present study analyzed the factor structure and psychometric properties of the Spanish version of the Cognitive Avoidance Questionnaire (CAQ; Sexton & Dugas, 2008), an instrument that assesses five worry-related cognitive avoidance strategies. The Spanish translation was administered to a non-clinical sample of 614 participants (18-82 years). The total scale and subscales showed good to excellent internal consistency. Using confirmatory factor analysis, a five-factor model showed a good fit between the theoretical structure and the empirical data. Evidence of convergent and discriminant validity was obtained through analysis of the correlations of the questionnaire with measures of worry, thought suppression, rumination and coping styles. The results yielded satisfactory preliminary data on the Spanish adaptation of the CAQ, which could provide for further advances in clinical practice and research on cognitive processes and anxiety disorders.
Personality and job creativity in relation to engagement in nursing
Authors: Molero Jurado María del Mar , Pérez-Fuentes María del Carmen , Soriano José Gabriel , Tortosa Begoña María , Fátima Oropesa Nieves , Simón Márquez María del Mar , Gázquez Linares José Jesús 
Published: September 2020

La personalidad se ve integrada por una serie de atributos individuales caracterizados por cómo uno piensa, siente o actúa, influyendo en ella tanto factores endógenos, como exógenos. En este sentido, la personalidad presenta una influencia sobre diversos constructos, como la percepción sobre la creatividad en el trabajo y el engagement. Este trabajo tiene como objetivo analizar el efecto de la personalidad y la percepción sobre la creatividad en el trabajo sobre el engagement en enfermería. Se evaluó una muestra de 1268 profesionales de enfermería, entre los 22 y 63 años. Para la recogida de datos se aplicaron diferentes instrumentos como el Big Five Inventory (BFI-10), la escala Creative Environment Perceptions (CEP), y la Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES). Los datos obtenidos sugieren que el Neuroticismo se relaciona negativamente con la percepción de la creatividad y con el engagement, al igual que el factor Bloqueos a la creatividad no se vio relacionado con el engagement. Así, el personal de enfermería más creativo y comprometido con su trabajo presenta mayor estabilidad, menores niveles de ansiedad y tensión, así como menor número de dificultades ante las dificultades de la organización, mostrándose más entusiasmado y alegre y, consigo, siendo más competente y creativo ante la organización institucional de la que forma parte.
Personality is made up of a series of individual attributes characterized by how one thinks, feels or acts, which are influenced by both endogenous and exogenous factors. Thus, personality presents an influence on various constructs, such as the perception of job creativity and engagement. The objective of this study was to analyze the effect of personality and perception of job creativity on engagement in nursing. A sample of 1268 nursing professionals, 22 to 63 years old, was evaluated. Data were collected with several different instruments, such as the Big Five Inventory (BFI-10), the Creative Environment Perceptions (CEP) scale and the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES). The data found suggest that Neuroticism is negatively related to the perception of creativity and with engagement, just as the Creativity blocking factor was not related to engagement. The results indicate that more creative and engaged nursing personnel present more stability, lower anxiety and tension and fewer problems with the organization. They also show more enthusiasm and cheer, and with it, more competence and creativity in the institutional organization they are part of.