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The Ursinus College Investment Management Company Newsletter, Spring 2021
Inside this issue: Letter from Kareem Elghawy '22 Letter from Wendy Luo '21 At a Glance Investment Strategies Endowment at Work UCIMCO Updates Fall Semester Investment Performance Endowment Outlook Stock Selection Picks Women's...
Published by: Ursinus College
IPR Policy Brief - Social protection policies in the Middle East and North African region (MENA)
Rana Jawad
Nov 01, 2013
Governments and international development agencies in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region are taking a greater interest in issues of social welfare and social protection. The turbulent events of the “Arab spring” have...
Published by: University of Bath
IPR Policy Brief - Social protection policies in the Middle East and North African region (MENA)
Rana Jawad
Nov 01, 2013
Governments and international development agencies in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region are taking a greater interest in issues of social welfare and social protection. The turbulent events of the “Arab spring” have...
Published by: University of Bath
Contact line dynamics of gravity driven spreading of liquids
Abstract The spreading dynamics of the gravity-driven liquid motion on an inclined solid surface was studied by considering two fundamental physical models: the molecular kinetic...
Contact line dynamics of gravity driven spreading of liquids
Abstract The spreading dynamics of the gravity-driven liquid motion on an inclined solid surface was studied by considering two fundamental physical models: the molecular kinetic...
Contact line dynamics of gravity driven spreading of liquids
Abstract: The spreading dynamics of the gravity-driven liquid motion on an inclined solid surface was studied by considering two fundamental physical models: the molecular kinetic theory and the hydrodynamic theory (HDT). The...
Examining Toxic Leadership Nexus With Employee Cyberloafing Behavior via Mediating Role of Emotional Exhaustion
From the perspective of social exchange and the conservation of resources theories, the current study investigated the effect of toxic leadership on employee cyberloafing behaviour via the mediating role of emotional exhaustion...
A new era for social protection analysis in LMICs? A critical social policy perspective from the Middle East and North Africa region (MENA)
Rana Jawad
Nov 01, 2019

This paper advocates for a new generation of social protection (SP) research that takes seriously the analysis of political and policy-making processes in the Global South. Based on qualitative research funded by the ESRC and...

Embodied carbon optimisation of concrete pile foundations and comparison of the performance of different pile geometries
Concrete production and construction are responsible for a considerable share of the total carbon emissions annually. With the emerging need to cut carbon emissions from the construction sector, there has been a big interest in...
A new era for social protection analysis in LMICs? A critical social policy perspective from the Middle East and North Africa region (MENA)
Rana Jawad
Nov 01, 2019

This paper advocates for a new generation of social protection (SP) research that takes seriously the analysis of political and policy-making processes in the Global South. Based on qualitative research funded by the ESRC and...

The Origin of Multiple Sclerosis Revisited: The Case for a Soluble Toxin
Kareem Rashid Rumah
Jan 01, 0001
After nearly two hundred years of scientific inquiry, the cause of Multiple Sclerosis (MS) remains unknown. Although generally considered an autoimmune disease, recent pathological findings have challenged the longstanding...
Published by: Rockefeller University
Optimising the embodied carbon of laterally loaded piles using a genetic algorithm and finite element simulation
With the need to cut embodied carbon from the construction industry, there has been a growing interest in optimising the design of different structural elements. This paper, for the first time, minimises the embodied carbon of...
Embodied carbon optimisation of concrete pile foundations and comparison of the performance of different pile geometries
Concrete production and construction are responsible for a considerable share of the total carbon emissions annually. With the emerging need to cut carbon emissions from the construction sector, there has been a big interest in...
Optimising the embodied carbon of laterally loaded piles using a genetic algorithm and finite element simulation
With the need to cut embodied carbon from the construction industry, there has been a growing interest in optimising the design of different structural elements. This paper, for the first time, minimises the embodied carbon of...
State of the Art:'The People' and Their Social Rights

The aims of this review article are two-fold: (1) to set out the key theoretical trends in the study of religion, populism and social policy as antithetical concepts that also share common concerns; (2) to re-assert the...

The Ursinus College Investment Management Company Newsletter, Fall 2021
Inside this issue: Letter from Madelynn Sorokanych '22 Letter from Michael Buck '22 At a Glance Investment Strategies Endowment at Work UCIMCO Updates Notable Trends Semester Investment Performance Endowment Outlook Stock...
Published by: Ursinus College
Mapping the relationship between religion and social policy

Religion is a major aspect of human life that directly intersects with a number of social policy issues. Although much has been written about the religion-social policy nexus, the literature remains overly fragmented....

Prevalence of Prediabetes and Undiagnosed Diabetes Among Kuwaiti Adults
PURPOSE: This study aimed to estimate the prevalence of prediabetes and undiagnosed type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) according to fasting plasma glucose (FPG), 2-h plasma glucose (PG) during oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT)...
Healthy Later Living in a time of COVID.:CASP Policy Labs
The CASP project’s aim was to develop a University of Bath (UoB) Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) Faculty wide Policy Lab (PL) initiative to approach policy issues using innovative design orientated methods.
The UoB is...
Analysis of Extraction Algorithm for Visual Navigation of Farm Robots Based on Dark Primary Colors
In order to quickly extract the visual navigation line of farmland robot, an extraction algorithm for dark primary agricultural machinery is proposed. The application of dark primary color principle in new farmland is made...

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