Impacts of Korean NGO on the Philippine rural development : a case study of sorok uni foundation

Delos Reyes, Rhean Ramos 한국외국어대학교 국제지역대학원 2012 국내석사

Impacts of Korean NGO on the Philippine Rural Development: A Case Study of Sorok Uni Foundation February 2012 Rhean Ramos Delos Reyes, B.A., University of the Philippines - Diliman M.A., Hankuk University of Foreign Studies Directed by: Professor Ekra Miezan The main objective of this research study was to investigate the plausible impacts of South Korean NGO (hereinafter referred to as ?DKorean NGO\) on the Philippine rural community, with emphasis on Sorok Uni Foundation. Three research questions were then formulated to frame the study, such as: How is the Korean NGO helping the Philippine rural community in development areas such as health and sanitation, basic education, and livelihood? What are the setbacks and challenges faced by the Korean NGO in implementing their programs in the Philippines? Does the Korean NGO apply Participatory Development Theory in carrying out their programs in the Philippine rural communities? Participatory Development was operationally defined as ?Da process through which stakeholders can influence and share control over development initiatives, and over the decisions and resources that affect themselves.\ A survey was employed to collect the data through a questionnaire, which was sampled to Filipino respondents (and program participants of Sorok Uni Foundation, Inc. or V SUFI) to measure their perception, feelings, or attitude toward the impacts of the Korean NGO in their community. Overall findings show that Income after participating the SUFI program is the strongest indicator among all the demographic variables, and against all the dependent variables. This signifies that respondents with low income who have previously participated SUFI program tend to agree on the indices of program participation, perception, implementation, evaluation and participatory development, as opposed to those with high income who have previously participated SUFI program. Explicitly, the findings from this investigation project reveal that SUFI provides beneficial socio-economic impacts to the participants of the program. The association between perception of, and participation in, the SUFI program is an indication that the Korean NGO is effectively implementing its poverty alleviation programs to the rural community in the Philippines.

Extended family support as a protective factor among college students: An exploratory multi-ethnic study

Reyes, Elizabeth A Northwestern University 2002 해외박사(DDOD)

소속기관이 구독 중이 아닌 경우 오후 4시부터 익일 오전 9시까지 원문보기가 가능합니다.

This cross-cultural study examined (1) cross-ethnic similarities (etics) and differences (emics) in extended family support patterns among students during the stressful transition to college and, (2) the function of extended family support among Latinos as a source of protection and resiliency. Longitudinal survey data were collected from respondents during their first and third years at a large, public university. The multi-ethnic sample of Latinos, African Americans, Asian Americans, and European Americans included 266 female and 180 male undergraduates. Based on existing literature, a measure of extended family support focused on perceived support from specific members within three family subsystems: nuclear family, blood kin, and parakin. Perceived support from each extended family member was measured along three dimensions: perceived closeness, perceived reliability, and perceived frequency of contact. Cross-ethnic findings not only support research showing high levels of extended family support among Latinos and African Americans, but also suggest that extended family support may be more prevalent among Asian Americans and European Americans than previously acknowledged. Africans Americans perceived lower support from their fathers relative to all ethnic groups, but also perceived the greatest support from blood kin. Similar to African Americans, Latinos also perceived greater support from blood kin than European Americans and Asian Americans. European Americans appeared to perceive greater support from their grandparents than from other non-nuclear family members. Compared to females, males perceived greater closeness to other male extended family members. Significant interaction effects suggest that Asian American males perceived greater extended family support than females across all support dimensions explored. While there were no clear SES differences within the ethnic groups, subethnic differences did emerge in generational status among Latinos. Extended family support among Latinos increased from first to third generation, but acculturation findings revealed no differences across the Latino-identified, bi-cultural, and Anglo-identified. Among Latinos, family support was sometimes negatively associated with psychosocial functioning. However, some evidence was found for a modified buffering model where the adverse relationship between role strain and psychosocial functioning is reduced at high levels of extended family support. Findings are discussed within a cross-cultural framework with implications for theory, research, and practice.

Participation in a community of being and becoming: Sociocultural influence on learning to be a successful student in situationally marginalized, Mexican-descent students

Reyes, Reynaldo, III University of Colorado at Boulder 2004 해외박사(DDOD)

소속기관이 구독 중이 아닌 경우 오후 4시부터 익일 오전 9시까지 원문보기가 가능합니다.

This thesis is a study of how five situationally marginalized, Mexican-descent students understood and presented their struggles and learning of being and becoming a successful student entering a new schooling experience as first-time college students mediated by social and cultural forces of a retention and support program (the College Assistance Migrant Program---CAMP) that promoted and practiced student "success". Through narrative and thematic analysis as a group and as individuals, this study found that each student exemplified various levels of struggle and success in their efforts in learning to be and become successful students. With the notion of student identity being a focus of this study, the schooling and cultural histories that shaped who and what they were entering this new schooling experience strongly influenced how they interacted with and within the new social and cultural contexts of college and the people involved in the "community of practice" of "being" and "doing" that which encompassed learning to be and become a successful student. The student case studies discuss the influences of "key interactions" with "invested others" of the program and being a part of a larger "community of practice" that engaged in work toward being successful, which contributed (in various capacities) to their agency and trajectory in their learning, schooling, and development. The study found that each student wavered between, within, and beyond peripheral levels of learning in the college through CAMP "community of practice" of being and becoming a successful college student, with their trajectories as students being influenced by other trajectories in their lives outside of school.

Purification, characterization and differentiation of multipotent adult stem cell from post-natal human bone marrow

Reyes, Morayma Gil University of Minnesota 2001 해외박사(DDOD)

소속기관이 구독 중이 아닌 경우 오후 4시부터 익일 오전 9시까지 원문보기가 가능합니다.

We report here the isolation, characterization and differentiation of a human bone marrow stem cell that can at the single cell level give rise to mesodermal, neuroectodermal and endodermal lineages. We named these cells M&barbelow;ultipotent A&barbelow;dult P&barbelow;rogenitor C&barbelow;ells or MAPC. MAPC were selected by depleting bone marrow mononuclear cells (BMMNC) from >30 normal human donors of CD45/Glycophorin-A (GlyA) cells. Cells were cultured on fibronectin with epidermal growth factor (EGF) and platelet derived growth factor (PDGF)-BB and =/<2% fetal calf serum (FCS). 1 / 5 × 10<super>3</super> CD45<super>−</super> GlyA<super>− </super> cells, or 1 / 10<super>6</super> BMMNC, gave rise to clusters of small adherent cells. Cell doubling time was 48–60 hours, and cells have been culture expanded for >60 cell doublings. MAPC are CD34<super>− </super>, CD44<super>low</super>, CD45<super>−</super>, HLA-class-I<super> −</super> and HLA-DR<super>−</super>. MAPC differentiated into cells of limb-bud mesoderm (osteoblasts, chondrocytes, adipocytes, stroma cells and skeletal myoblasts) as well as visceral mesoderm (endothelial cells). MAPC can also, depending on the cytokines used, differentiate into oligodendrocytes, astrocytes, and functional, dopaminergic, serotoninergic, or gamma-amino-butyric-acid (GABA)-ergic neurons. Following coculture with the glioblastoma cell line U-87, MAPC-derived neurons matured further and generated tetrodotoxin (TTX)-sensitive Na-gated voltage action potentials. We also determined that MAPC could differentiate into endodermal epithelial cells with morphological and phenotypic features of hepatocytes. Differentiation methods were selected from an extensive trial and error approach based on embryogenesis and ES cell in-vitro differentiation knowledge. Retroviral marking was used to definitively prove that a single MAPC and its progeny can differentiate into endothelial cells (mesoderm), neurons (ectoderm) and hepatocytes (endoderm). Finally, upon IV transplantation into NOD/SCID mice, human MAPC engrafted and differentiated into endothelial cells, blood and epithelial cells of the lung, small intestine, and liver. Thus, MAPC that proliferate without obvious senescence under clinically applicable conditions and differentiate at the single cell level not only into mesodermal but also neuroectodermal and endodermal cells, may be an ideal source for treatment of most genetic or degenerative disorders.

The Role of the Mitochondrial Apoptotic Pathway in Neuronal Development and Survival

Reyes, Nichole University of California, San Francisco 2011 해외박사(DDOD)

소속기관이 구독 중이 아닌 경우 오후 4시부터 익일 오전 9시까지 원문보기가 가능합니다.

Apoptosis, a form of programmed cell death, has been shown to be critical to the pathogenesis of a number of diseases, including neurodegenerative diseases. I investigated the role of BAX/BAK-dependent apoptosis in neurons in the context of neurodegeneration and maturation. BAX/BAK deficiency in the central nervous system of mice provides the ideal model by which to study the role of apoptosis in neurodegeneration. In a mouse model of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis---a neurodegenerative disease that specifically affects motor neurons---deficiency of BAX and BAK preserves viability and function of neurons for an extended period. Moreover, this correlated with a delay in symptom onset and extension of lifespan. Therefore, BAX/BAK dependent apoptosis is activated early in the disease process and represents a viable therapeutic target for neurodegenerative diseases. Regenerative medicine is currently one of the therapeutic strategies being considered for treatment of neurodegenerative diseases. Using this method, the patient's own stem cells are differentiated in vitro into the affected neuronal subtype and re-implanted back into the patient. Because of the promise of regenerative medicine, it is critical to understand the signaling pathways mediating the differentiation process in stem cells. Caspase activity has been reported to mediate the differentiation of embryonic stem cells (ESCs), and I discovered that this process requires BAX and BAK. BAX/BAK deficient ESCs undergoing differentiation express lower levels of neural markers and higher levels of pluripotency markers. These results indicate that ESCs lacking BAX and BAK are far less effective at differentiating down the neural lineage. Furthermore, engagement of BAX/BAK dependent apoptosis induces differentiation of ESCs. Therefore, the BAX/BAK apoptotic pathway mediates differentiation of stem cells. These results underline the importance of the BAX/BAK apoptotic pathway in the development and survival of neurons. Deficiency of BAX and BAK prolongs survival in the context of neurodegeneration and delays the maturation of stem cells down the neural lineage. The findings of my thesis provide insight into the basic biology of neurons, and how to better treat neurologic disorders.

Monstruos, sodomitas y amazonas: Sexualidades disidetnes en la literatura transatlantica (Siglos XVI y XVII)

Reyes Gil, Sebastian New York University 2011 해외박사(DDOD)

소속기관이 구독 중이 아닌 경우 오후 4시부터 익일 오전 9시까지 원문보기가 가능합니다.

This dissertation examine the intersections of gender, sexuality and power in the chronicles of discovery and conquest of the Vice Royalty of Peru during the 16th and 17th centuries. I argue that the transformation of indigenous sexuality was crucial, both as a means and an end, to Spanish conquest and domination. Colonial chroniclers produced transatlantic narratives populated by sodomites, giants, Amazon women and other monstrous subjects. These narratives served both to codify indigenous otherness into intelligible categories and hierarchies, and to imagine the unruly scale of the alterity at hand--as well as that of the colonial enterprise more broadly. Sexuality, in this context, functioned as a field of violent confrontation, change and negotiation within which new subjects and modes of South American social relations would be produced. As the product of Spanish anxieties and fears, the colonial discourse of power and its sexual figures of the monstrous were nevertheless precarious and full of contradictions. I propose that this ambivalence between affirming the normative and figuring its others allows us to read the archive against itself. I read these stories as counter-imperial narratives in order to subvert its system of normative values and thus open the history of Latin American sexuality to new genealogies and interpretations. In this sense, for example, I read the story of sodomite giants not simply as a trope for the resistance of the colonized, but as recognition of other sexual norms and practices that could not be incorporated into the new system. The thesis has six chapters: chapter 1 presents and historical introduction to the history of sodomy in the transatlantic texts of 16th century; chapter 2 is an exploration of the narratives about sodomy in narratives of the Vice Royalty of Peru (16th and 17th centuries); chapter 3 presents an analysis of the tale of sodomite giants in Ecuador; chapter 5 is a study about the fable of the Amazon women; chapter 5 is a study of translations and bilingual texts were sodomy is relevant; chapter 7 is a critic of the narratives about the mestizo.

Geostatistical data fusion estimation methods of ambient PM2.5 and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons

Reyes, Jeanette M ProQuest Dissertations & Theses The University of 2016 해외박사(DDOD)

소속기관이 구독 중이 아닌 경우 오후 4시부터 익일 오전 9시까지 원문보기가 가능합니다.

Fine Particulate Matter (PM2.5) is a complex air pollutant associated with a host of adverse health effects. In epidemiologic studies there is a need to accurately predict exposures to reduce misclassification. Recently there has been a surge in data fusion methods which combine observed data with gridded modeled data like the regulatory Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model. Substantial resources are allocated to the evaluation of CMAQ. However, this model has inherent error and uncertainty. Currently, CMAQ can only be operationally evaluated at locations where observed data exist, leaving potentially large spatial and temporal gaps in a given modeling domain. This study develops a framework for evaluating gridded air quality modeled data that can then be corrected for systematic error and combined with observed data in a geostatistical framework. First, this dissertation develops the novel Regionalized Air quality Model Performance (RAMP) method that performs a non-homogenous, non-linear, non-homoscedastic model evaluation at each CMAQ grid for a well-documented 2001 regulatory episode across the continental United States. The RAMP method comparatively outperforms other model evaluation methods with a 22.1% reduction in Mean Square Error (MSE). Secondly, the RAMP corrected CMAQ modeled data are combined with observed data in the modern Bayesian Maximum Entropy (BME) geostatistical framework which combines the accuracy of observed data with the spatial and temporal coverage of gridded modeled data. RAMP BME resulted in a 6-7 times increase in spatial refinement compared to using kriging alone. Lastly, the data rich PM2.5 environment is contrasted with the data poor environment of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs). The Mass Fraction (MF) BME method is developed through a relatively small number of paired PM2.5 and PAH values and is applied to PM2.5 observed locations where PAH have not been observed to create the first detailed spatial maps of PAH across North Carolina in 2005. The MF BME method reduces MSE by over 39% compared with using kriging alone. Accurate assessment of ambient air pollutants is essential in public health to explore and elucidate true underlying relationships between pollutants and health endpoints.

After Poussin: French history painting (1665--1785)

Reyes, Hector David Northwestern University 2010 해외박사(DDOD)

소속기관이 구독 중이 아닌 경우 오후 4시부터 익일 오전 9시까지 원문보기가 가능합니다.

This dissertation argues that Academic painters' emulation of the artistic practice of the seventeenth-century "painter-philosopher," Nicolas Poussin, is a key factor in the transformation of the premises and ambitions of high Academic painting during the ancien regime. An analysis of three such paintings forms the core of this study, namely: Charles Le Brun's Entree d'Alexandre dans Babylone (1665, Musee du Louvre, Paris); Jean-Baptiste Greuze's L'empereur Severe reproche a Caracalla, son fils, d'avoir voulu l'assassiner... (1769, Musee du Louvre, Paris); and Jean-Germain Drouais' Le Christ et la Cananeenne (1784, Musee du Louvre, Paris). In spite of their stylistic differences, each painting advances a novel conception of painting that invokes specific works by Poussin, as well as his orientation to artistic and literary forms of the past more generally. A substantial portion of each chapter is devoted to demonstrating that each artist equates emulation of Poussin's representational strategies with innovation. Overall, this study places Academic artists' innovations center-stage in the story of the development of a classicizing history painting, which has long been understood to have reached its zenith in the second half of the seventeenth century, and to have re-emerged in the second half of the eighteenth century. The role that innovative interpretations of Poussin had in this well-acknowledged phenomenon has thus far been overlooked. Furthermore, scholars have failed to see how the emulation of Poussin's representational strategies enabled artists to propose a new theory of painting and to intervene in contemporary aesthetic debates. By redressing these issues, this study shows that paint was viewed as a medium in which one could intervene in intellectual history's development. Because Le Brun, Greuze and Drouais were able to propose specific painterly definitions to such institutionally and theoretically contested terms as "classicism" and "history painting," they were uniquely able to stake a definition of painting's aims based upon the self-reflexive model furnished by Poussin.

Selection of spatial and spatial-temporal linear models for lattice data

Reyes, Perla Edith The University of Wisconsin - Madison 2010 해외박사(DDOD)

소속기관이 구독 중이 아닌 경우 오후 4시부터 익일 오전 9시까지 원문보기가 가능합니다.

Spatial linear models are popular for the analysis of data on a spatial lattice, but statistical techniques for selection of covariates and a neighborhood structure are limited. This thesis develops new methodology for simultaneous model selection and parameter estimation via penalized maximum likelihood under a spatial adaptive Lasso penalty. A computationally efficient algorithm is devised for obtaining approximate penalized maximum likelihood estimates. Asymptotic properties of penalized maximum likelihood estimates and their approximations are established. A simulation study shows that the proposed method has sound finite-sample properties and for illustration, an ecological data set is analyzed. Further, linear regression is considered for the analysis of spatial lattice data repeatedly measured over time. In particular, the impact of temperature, precipitation, and elevation on the tree-killing ability of an eruptive species of bark beetle in pine forests of British Columbia, Canada is evaluated. The methodology for simultaneous spatial model selection and parameter estimation is extended to spatial-temporal modeling. The approach is again penalized maximum likelihood estimation but under a spatial-temporal adaptive Lasso penalty. A computationally efficient algorithm is devised for obtaining approximate penalized maximum likelihood estimates. The new method is applied to analyze landscape-level spatial-temporal lattice data in the bark beetle study and the results are interpreted from ecological perspectives. Asymptotic properties of penalized maximum likelihood estimates and their approximations are established and finite-sample properties are studied in a simulation study.

Households, families, and economic vulnerability: The formation, structure, and financial organization of multifamily households, 2008-2013

Reyes, Adriana Marie The Pennsylvania State University ProQuest Dissert 2016 해외박사(DDOD)

소속기관이 구독 중이 아닌 경우 오후 4시부터 익일 오전 9시까지 원문보기가 가능합니다.

In this dissertation I assess race/ethnic differences in the formation of multifamily households and their economic benefits and financial organization. This research advances our understanding of how the internal structure of these households differs across race and ethnic groups and highlights why those differences have significant social consequences. In recognition of race/ethnic differences in family history and family values, I also investigated whether and how these structures varied across race and ethnic groups. Leveraging longitudinal data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), I analyzed race/ethnic differences in the creation of multi-family households during a significant economic downturn. I found significant race/ethnic differences during the recession in what prompts the formation of multifamily households. Further analysis of multifamily households assessed the consequences of reorganizing families within households for poverty rates. While most households had net reductions in poverty, the extent of this reduction varied by race/ethnicity and household structure. Finally, to better understand household processes, I examined the household organization of economic contributions and income receipt within households. Results suggest that having economic resources did not translate into contributing those resources to essential household expenditures, with some race/ethnic differences in these patterns. Demonstrating how household survival strategies are shaped by race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and economic crisis provides policy makers with a better picture of how persistent poverty versus economic crisis are reflected in this emerging demographic pattern.