AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Stephanie Jerstad, for the Doctor of Philosophy degree in Criminology and Criminal Justice, presented on January 11, 2022, at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.TITLE: CARE FOR THE AGING: LONG-TERM CARE FACILITIES WILLINGNESS TO ACCEPT PERSONS CONVICTED OF SEXUAL OFFENDING MAJOR PROFESSOR: Dr. Breanne Pleggenkuhle The present study is a multi-pronged approach to examine the willingness of long-term care facilities (LTCF) to accept persons on the sex offender registry or with a sexual offense conviction. First, this dissertation utilizes a statutory analysis to examine all 50 states policies for admitting and managing such individuals in long-term care. Second, the study aims to explain why some states may enact a LTC/SO policy by examining state characteristics, policy and political affiliation. Third, the study sets out to better understand if facility-level characteristics matter to the acceptance of persons on the sex offender registry. And will discuss findings from semi-structured interviews of LTCF administrators of their decision-making processes, and their attitudes towards company policy. The findings of all three levels of analyses are presented and future research is discussed. Keywords: Sex offender, long-term care facility, SORN and residency restriction laws, statutory review, collateral consequences of sex offender policy

One of the key components of international development is to provide adequate shelter for citizens of developing countries. This is often accomplished by governmental, non- governmental, and private organizations that seek to lower the cost, increase the quality, and expand the availability of safe, sustainable housing through the use of innovative technologies. These new technologies can affect the social and/or economic structure within communities. This paper is a case study resulting from the construction of a seventy-one-home village, including infrastructure, near Yogyakarta, Indonesia by a foreign, aid-based non-governmental organization (NGO). The village was relocated less than two kilometers from its original site after a massive landslide, triggered by the 2006 earthquakes of Central Java, virtually destroyed the entire community. Four years after construction the researcher took an inductive inquiry approach through interviews with residents of the community and residents of neighboring communities to understand the social and economic impacts. The research project explored the unintended consequences to the community resulting from the NGO's use of innovative housing technologies (steel reinforced concrete domes and planned community development) without a thorough understanding of underlying community culture and interactions.

This study targeted to assess the social and individual telework implications, besides theprobable permanent outcomes that could be produced. In line with this purpose, a survey wasperformed on a sample of 118 Romanian workers, on which a model was established,dependent on structural relational modeling. The model comprises 5 latent variables, aimingtelework aspects from one side and in contrast, its probable impacts on the society andindividuals. At the level of the individual, the study outcomes highlighted that telework couldcorrelate to a well work-life balance and could also aid teleworkers to advance definiteteleworking capabilities. At a level of the society, telework could produce supportableinfluences aiming at the long-term workforce’s management and delivering solutions toprobable raised issues at domestic community scales. The managerial consequences of thisresearch were focused on the requirement to execute a sequence of supportable HRmanagement tactics and effectual staff training and progress programs. Furthermore, firmsrequire being further proactive in supposing corporate social accountabilities.

Tanken bakom denna studie har varit att undersöka hur behandlare upplever sitt arbete med familjer där det förekommer våld. Studien syftar till de behandlare som arbetar med metoden KIBB som är en behandlingsmodell framtagen av Melissa Runyon och Esther Deblinger. Syftet med KIBB är att hjälpa föräldrar att sluta använda våld mot sina barn genom att ha förälderns våldsutövande i fokus, belysa konsekvenser och lära föräldrar positiva föräldrastrategier. Som behandlare ger man stöd till barn som upplevt våld genom att bearbeta upplevelserna, hantera känslor och skuldavlasta. Datan till studien samlades in genom sex semistrukturerade intervjuer med KIBB behandlare. Vidare har kognitiv beteendeterapi, systemteori och inlärningsteori använts som teoretiska utgångspunkter. Datan har sedan analyserats utifrån de valda teorierna samt tidigare forskning. En av utgångspunkterna var att ta reda på vad behandlare ser för fördelar och utmaningar med KIBB. Intervjupersonerna redogjorde för många fördelar och många svar liknande varandra. De verkar också vara överens om att det är ett roligt arbete och att en stor fördel är att få göra skillnad för familjer. Under utmaningar i arbetet rådde det mer delade meningar. Intervjupersonerna resonerade kring de olika utmaningar man som behandlare ställs inför i arbetet och svaren var väldigt individuella. En annan aspekt som intervjupersonerna skildrade var vikten av motivationsarbete och relationsarbete med familjen samt samarbetet med den andra behandlaren. / This paper examines how professional therapists experience their work with families where violence occurs. The study aims to examine therapists' experience in working with CPC-CBT, which is a treatment model developed by Melissa Runyon and Esther Deblinger. The main  purpose of the treatment model is to help parents stop using violence against their children by focusing on the parent's use of violence, as well as highlighting consequences and teaching parents positive parenting strategies. Therapists using the CPC-CBT method provide support to children who have experienced violence by processing their experiences, managing emotions and relieving guilt. The data were collected through six semi-structured interviews with CPC-CBT therapists. Furthermore, cognitive behavioral therapy, systems theory and learning theory have been used as theoretical starting points. Later on, the data was analyzed based on the selected theories and previous research. One of the purposes was to clarify therapists' view on benefits and challenges in their work with CPC-CBT. The interviewees described several benefits and many answers were similar to each other, they also seem to agree that it is a fun job and that a big advantage is to be able to make a difference for families. During the challenges of the work, there were more divided opinions. The interviewees reasoned about the different challenges therapists face in their work and the results occurred very individual. Another aspect the interviewees described was the importance of motivational work and relationship work with families and collaboration with other therapists.

Uppsatsen handlar om huruvida dagens styrdokument för grundskolan medger en disciplinmodell som grundar sig på fotbollens spelregler. Uppsatsen bygger på textanalys, då den undersöker vad läroplan, skollag och övriga styrdokument säger om upprätthållandet av regler och dess konsekvenser i skolan. För att kunna jämföra upprätthållandet av regler i en skolkontext och en fotbollskontext valde jag ut fyra områden som återfinns i de båda kontexterna: demokrati, makt, trygghet och nolltolerans. Resultatet av undersökningen visar att det finns utrymme i de rådande dokumenten för att tillämpa Frisk-modellen, som jag kallar min disciplinmodell. / The purpose of the essay is to examine whether the current guiding documents for the compulsory school admits a discipline model based on the rules of football. The essay is based on text analysis, as it examines what the curriculum, the school law and other guiding documents say about the preservation of rules and its consequences in school. In order to compare the preservation of rules between school and football I chose four fields that are present in both contexts. These fields are democracy, power, security and zero tolerance. The result of the examination shows that the existing documents admit usage of my own discipline model, which I have named the Frisk model.

Studien syftar till att undersöka människors upplevelser av ångestproblematik samt deras erfarenheter av stöd från omgivning, arbetsplats samt hälso-och sjukvård. Teorier som användes för att förstå och förklara individens upplevelser var kristeori samt det salutogena perspektivet/ KASAM. Semistrukturerade intervjuer genomfördes med sex kvinnor som drabbats av ångestproblematik och varit sjukskrivna på grund av denna problematik. Studiens resultat visar att respondenterna upplever ångestproblematiken som orsakad av traumatiserande händelser eller långvarig psykisk belastning. Utifrån deras berättelser framgår att ångesten har en betydande inverkan på de flesta aspekter av deras liv – sociala relationer, arbete, fritid och vardagssysslor. Stöd att hantera ångestproblematiken har respondenterna främst hämtat genom professionellt samtalsstöd, men även stöd från närstående, vänner och arbetsplats har varit viktigt för dem och påverkat deras välbefinnande. Majoriteten av respondenterna upplever sig har blivit hindrade att få stöd från hälso-och sjukvård när de har behövt det, vilket har förvärrat deras ångestproblematik. I studiens slutsats diskuteras risken för ytterligare negativa konsekvenser, som följd av bristen på stöd. / The aim of this study is to examine the individual experience of anxiety as well as the support given by family, friends, workplace and the health care system. The theories used to understand and explain the experiences was crisis theory as well as the salutogenic model/Sence of Coherence (SOC). Semi structured interviews were conducted with six women suffering from anxiety. The results of the study show that the respondents relate the anxiety to traumatic events or prolonged mental stress. Their narratives indicate that the anxiety has had a substantial negative effect on most aspects of their lives – social relationships, work , hobbies and everyday chores.  The results also show that the respondents have experienced valuable support to deal and cope with the anxiety, mainly through psychotherapy, but also from family, friends and workplace. The experience of the majority of the respondents is that they have been denied support from the health care system when they have needed it, which has made the anxiety worse. In the conclusion of the study, further negative consequences for the individual as well as society, due to lack of support, are discussed.

Software systems are today a part of more or less every organization. The varieties of software used in organizations are ranging from simple log-keeping applications to advanced decision support systems. The task of a priori valuation of software investments has attracted a lot of research for a long time. One of the main themes of this research has been which types of consequences software investments result in and how these consequences can be incorporated in the a priori valuation of the investment. Much of this research has stated the problem as how to incorporate intangible consequences in the valuation since intangible costs and benefits are assumed to represent a large part of the consequences from a software investment. These consequences are therefore highly relevant in the appraisal of software investments. This thesis is concerned with the question of how intangible consequences can be incorporated in the a priori valuation of a software investment. To answer this question, this thesis presents a theoretical model for the valuation of a software investment based upon a discounted cash flow model in continuous time. The general model argued for in this thesis is that usage results in consequences which must be translated into cash flows to be incorporated in a discounted cash flow model. The software usage is chosen as the underlying value creating function since it is the basic underlying function that creates all consequences specific to the software investment. This thesis develops a stochastic cash flow model to incorporate the uncertainty and characteristics of when the intangible conse quences have an effect on the cash flow by adopting a Brownian motion into the valuation model. To find an analytic model for the problem, the expectations of the future cash flows is transformed into risk-neutral expectations. This allows us to use the risk-free rate of return as a discount factor in the model.

Implementera en arkitekturstil i större organisationer känns som ett självklart val där det finns större resurser kring både personal och ekonomi. Små och medelstora företag har en svår situation när det finns brist på resurser. Det finns ingen tidigare forskning i Sverige om hur implementering av arkitekturstilen ska skötas när det finns brist på resurser. Därför var syftet med studien att undersöka vilka konsekvenser och åtgärder företag hanterar när de i detta fall ska implementera en tjänsteorienterad arkitektur som arkitekturstil i de affärssystem som levereras. En kvalitativ små N-studie metod användes och det genomfördes semistrukturerade intervjuer med fyra respondenter. Med hjälp av en innehållsanalys kunde vi kategorisera de transkriberade intervjuerna i tre kategorier: (1) resursbrist, (2) konsekvenser och (3) åtgärder. Vidare bröts respektive kategori ner i subkategorier, (1) personal och (2) ekonomiska aspekter. Studien resulterade i en omfattande kartläggning av deras svar och i vilken utsträckning de upplevt konsekvenserna av resursbrist. Studien avslutar med en diskussion om respondenternas uppfattning om konsekvenser de måste hantera och vilka åtgärder de använder för att hantera dem. / Implementing an architectural style in larger organizations feels like an obvious choice where there are greater resources of both staff and finances. Small and medium sized companies have a difficult situation when resources are insufficient. No prior investigation in Sweden has been done about how companies manage the architectural style implementation when lacking in resources. Therefore, the aim of the study was to investigate what consequences and measures the company handles when choosing in this case service oriented architecture as the architectural style in the business systems they deliver. A qualitative small n-study method was used combined with semi-structured interviews. Data collection was conducted with four respondents. Using a content analysis, we were able to categorize the transcribed interviews into three categories: (1) lack of resources, (2) consequences and (3) measures. Further, these categories were broken down into subcategories of (1) staff and (2) economical aspects respectively. The study resulted in a sprawling mapping of their responses and the extent to which they experienced consequences of lack of resources. The study concludes with a mapping about the respondents' perception of consequences they have to deal with and what measures they use to handle them.

Many plant species recognize kin and respond with changes in functional traits. Researchers hypothesize that siblings compete less than strangers. However, no study has directly tested whether siblings are less competitive. Measuring natural selection on kin recognition responses in root allocation and other destructively measured traits is challenging, since trait and fitness cannot be measured on the same individual. Here, a methodology using family-level selection is developed, measuring the trait on one individual and measuring its fitness value using another related individual. Three greenhouse pot experiments were conducted using six Brassica oleracea cultivars at two nutrient levels. We investigated whether root allocation and morphological traits were under natural selection. We tested whether or not there was cultivar recognition or resource partitioning in B. oleracea. We found that putative competitive traits (size, height, emergence and root allocation) had expected patterns of individual selection for an increase in each trait and group selection for a reduction of each trait. There was no indication that resource partitioning was occurring or that B. oleracea could recognize cultivars. However, plants were experiencing competitive interactions within pots. In conclusion, we demonstrate that using family-level selection estimates the fitness consequences of root allocation and morphological traits. / Thesis / Master of Science (MSc)

Работа состоит из введения, трех глав, заключения, рекомендации и списка литературы. Первая глава «Теоретические основы формирования банковского капитала» в общих чертах определяет проблему исследования и причины, по которым проводится данное исследование. Во второй главе «Анализ состава и структуры капитала банков Эквадора» дана финансово-экономическая характеристика деятельности Центрального банка Эквадора и оценка структуры капитала коммерческих банков Эквадора. В третьей главе «Оценить влияние пандемии на структуру капитала коммерческих банков Эквадора и разработать меры по устранению негативных последствий» проведен анализ негативных последствий развития пандемии COVID-19 и провести соответствующие мероприятия. Рекомендации по увеличению стоимости капитала банков Эквадора. / The work consists of an introduction, three chapters, a conclusion, recommendations and a list of references. The first chapter "Theoretical foundations of the formation of bank capital" defines in general terms the problem of research and the reasons for which this research is conducted. In the second chapter, "Analysis of the composition and capital structure of banks in Ecuador", the financial and economic characteristics of the Central Bank's activities are given. the Bank of Ecuador and the assessment of the capital structure of commercial banks in Ecuador. In the third chapter, "To assess the impact of the pandemic on the capital structure of commercial banks in Ecuador and to develop measures to eliminate negative consequences", an analysis of the negative consequences of the development of the COVID-19 pandemic was carried out and appropriate measures were taken. Recommendations for increasing the cost of capital of banks in Ecuador.