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Potential Ecological And Socio-Economic Effects Of A Novel Megaherbivore Introduction: The Hippopotamus In Colombia, Amanda L. Subalusky, Elizabeth P. Anderson, German Jimenez, David Post, David Echeverri Lopez, Sebastian Garcia-R., Laura J. Nova Leon, Juan R. Reatiga Parrish, Ana Rojas, Sergio Solari, Luz F. Jimenez-Segura

Department of Earth and Environment

Introduced species can have strong ecological, social and economic effects on their non-native environment. Introductions of megafaunal species are rare and may contribute to rewilding efforts, but they may also have pronounced socio-ecological effects because of their scale of influence. A recent introduction of the hippopotamus Hippopotamus amphibius into Colombia is a novel introduction of a megaherbivore onto a new continent, and raises questions about the future dynamics of the socio-ecological system into which it has been introduced. Here we synthesize current knowledge about the Colombian hippopotamus population, review the literature on the species to predict potential ecological and socio-economic …

Review—Machine Learning Techniques In Wireless Sensor Network Based Precision Agriculture, Yemeserach Mekonnen, Srikanth Namuduri, Lamar Burton, Arif I. Sarwat, Shekhar Bhansali

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

The use of sensors and the Internet of Things (IoT) is key to moving the world's agriculture to a more productive and sustainable path. Recent advancements in IoT, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN), and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) have the potential to address some of the environmental, economic, and technical challenges as well as opportunities in this sector. As the number of interconnected devices continues to grow, this generates more big data with multiple modalities and spatial and temporal variations. Intelligent processing and analysis of this big data are necessary to developing a higher level of knowledge base and insights …

2019 Fall Florida International University Commencement, Florida International University

FIU Commencement Programs

Program for the 2019 Fall Florida International University Commencement.

Small And Medium Enterprises In The Americas, Effect Of Disaster Experience On Readiness Capabilities, Juan Pablo Sarmiento, Catalina Sarmiento, Gabriela Hoberman, Meenakshi Jerath, Vicente Sandoval

DRR Faculty Publications

Disaster risk reduction (DRR) is key in strengthening resilience and achievement of sustainable development. The private sector is co-responsible for DRR: it is a generator of risks, and a subject exposed to risks. There are competing narratives in the literature regarding the relationship between business’ disaster experience and DRR. The current study defined and characterized businesses in the Americas, with a particular interest in small and medium enterprises, and examined whether disaster experience predicts DRR, considering business size. Secondary data analyses were conducted using data from a previous study on private sector participation in DRR conducted in six Western Hemisphere …

Proposal Invitation For The Digital Humanities Faculty Development Seminars, The Humanities Edge

Humanities Edge Archive Faculty Programs

The Humanities Edge calls for proposals for the Faculty Development Seminars

The Influence Of Employee Engagement On Discretionary Effort And Job Performance In The Cruise Line Customer Contact Center Workplace, Stephen B. Rodoquino Iii

FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This nonexperimental, correlational study examined the relation among job fit,

psychological climate, and employee engagement and discretionary effort and job

performance. An Internet-based self-report survey was administered to a sample of 307

cruise line customer contact center reservation agents. The research hypotheses were

evaluated using correlational and hierarchical regression analytic procedures.

Job fit and psychological climate were linked positively and significantly with

employee engagement and employee engagement accounted for significant variance in

both discretionary effort and job performance. In evaluating the discretionary effort

conceptual model, after statistically controlling for gender, ethnicity and amount of job

experience, the results of the …

Examining Emotion-Related Processes In Selective Mutism; Autonomic, Behavioral And Parental Factors, Rachel B. Tenenbaum

FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Selective mutism (SM) is associated with considerable individual and family burdens, significant long-term functional impairment, and risk for later psychopathology. However, literature examining the phenomenology of SM has been scant, and it remains unclear which mechanisms are related to the development or maintenance of SM. Multiple theoretical perspectives have been proposed, and it appears that several pathways may be involved and interact to lead to the development of SM. Emotionrelated processes, such as negative emotion reactivity, disruptions in emotion regulation, and parental behavior and emotionality have been proposed to be involved in the etiology and/or maintenance of SM. The present …

The Muted Group Video Project: Amplifying The Voices Of Latinx Immigrant Students Proposal, Christine Martorana

Humanities Edge Archive Faculty Programs

Christine Martorana's proposal outlines her succesful Muted Group Video Project. Dr. Martorana's diverse Rhetorical Theory and Practice students created videos about their experiences as immigrants for a local third grade class also composed mainly of immigrants, in turn encouraging discussion on the rhetoric surrounding immigration and fostering a sense of community.

How Can I Becomea Happier Person? Live Like Aristotle!, Celine Leboeuf

Humanities Edge Archive Faculty Programs

Celine Leboeuf's proposal for How Can I Becomea Happier Person? Live Like Aristotle! The philisophical assignment requires students to practice Aristotelian values of either courage or temperance for two weeks and to record whether applying these values affected their experience of happiness

Building Lasting Fair And Equitable Community Partnerships Proposal, Jamie Rogers

Humanities Edge Archive Faculty Programs

Jamie Rogers's proposal, Building Lasting Fair and Equitable Community Partnerships, discusses how FIU's Digital Collections Center can implement inclusivity in caommunity partnerships to ensure equitable representation in its collections.

Neighborhoods Of Refuge: Faculty -Student-Community Research On Homelessness Proposal, Matt D. Marr

Humanities Edge Archive Faculty Programs

Matthew D. Marr's proposal shares his effective community research project with FIU, Miami-Dade College, and Camillus House. Through GIS mapping and qualitative research (PhotoVoice and interviews), the project highlights the role of neighborhoods in addressing homelessness.

Talkabroad Proposal, Peter Machonis

Humanities Edge Archive Faculty Programs

Peter A. Machonis's proposal for TalkAbroad, a probject that promotes enriching discussions between students in the Department of Modern Languages and Francophones from around the world.

Associations Between Adolescent Cannabis Use Trajectories And Anxiety, Jacqueline C. Duperrouzel

FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Understanding the effects of cannabis use is critical for reducing adverse behavioral, social, and academic outcomes, particularly among adolescent users who are most at risk for cannabis related problems. Although support from both the animal and human literatures suggests the relationship between cannabis and anxiety may be associated with levels of use, much is still unknown. Thus, examining relationships between the most common mental health issue in adolescence and one of the most commonly used drugs is of great public health significance and impact. Prior longitudinal studies assessing effects of cannabis use on anxiety have not evaluated different patterns of …

Walking Histories And Public Humanities Proposal, David Rifkind

Humanities Edge Archive Faculty Programs

David Rifkind's proposal details the Walking Histories and Public Humanities program in which undergraduate architecture students, led by a graduate student, take tours of Miami landmarks and familiarize themselves with living and breathing local environment.

Charity Basketball Tournaments: Students Of English Classes Partnering With Biscayne Bay Wellness And Recreation Proposal, Darrel Elmore

Humanities Edge Archive Faculty Programs

Darrel Elmore's proposal summarizes the collaborative student project, Charity Basketball Tournaments: Students of English Classes Partnering with Biscayne Bay Wellness and Recreation, in which students in his Writing Course ENC 3213 plan and promote basketball tournaments with proceeds going to the students's preferred non-profits.

Significant Surfaces Proposal, Fereshteh Toosi

Humanities Edge Archive Faculty Programs

Fereshteh Toosi's proposal summarizes her art initiative Significant Surfaces, in which student artists are embedded in supporting housing environments for residents with a history of homelessness, mental illness, and/or substance abuse in the hopes of engaging participants in conversations about the intersection of documentary art and human rights issues.

Brownsville Community Garden, Iqbal Akhtar

Humanities Edge Archive Faculty Programs

Iqbal Akhtar's proposal emphasizes the importance of engaging students at FIU's Schools of Public Health and Medicine with hands-on gardening to explore food security, environmental education, community-making.

Protecting Hatian Patrimony Proposal, Hadassah St. Hubert

Humanities Edge Archive Faculty Programs

Hadassah St. Hubert's proposal highlights his efforts as the Assistant Editor of Haiti: An Island Luminous, an online Digital Humanities exhibit that combines rare books, manuscripts, and photos from libraries in Haiti and the United States. The exhibit aims to facilitate access to information on Haiti and close the gap between scholars, teachers, students, and the public.

War And Healing Proposal, Jessica Adler

Humanities Edge Archive Faculty Programs

In her proposal, Jessica Adler describes a succesful year-long collaborative program supervised by FIU's History Department for series of discussions between professorts, veterans, museum educators and the VA Vet Center director to enable Miami veterans to explore post-service reintegration.

Coil Project Fall 2018 Proposal, Magda Novelli

Humanities Edge Archive Faculty Programs

Magda Novelli Pearson's proposal details her experiences as a participant in the Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL), a program in which students from an FIU class collaborate with students from an international university, engaging participants' language skills and creativity.

Fiu's Department Of History Collaborates With Underrepresented Miami Communities, Ken Lipartito

Humanities Edge Archive Faculty Programs

Kenneth Lipartito's proposal outlines his succesful efforts to involve students in FIU's Department of History with underrepresented Miami communities, whose rich and under resourced histories offer students the opportunity to gain research, writing, digital, archival, and curatorial skills while helping local groups preserve their cultural and historical information.

Giving Voice To Memory: Using Holocaust Testimonies To Enhance Public History Proposal, Oren Steir, Stephanie Brenenson, Maryanna Ramirez

Humanities Edge Archive Faculty Programs

Oren Stier, Stephanie Brenenson, and Maryanna Ramirez complemented FIU's Common Reading Program assignment—Martin Baranek's memoir Determined about his experiences in Nazi concentration camps—with an exhibition at the Patricial & Phillip Frost Art Museum depicting Jewish culture with an emphasis on Holocaust refugees.

Revista Electrónica Leer, Escribir Y Descubrir Diciembre 2019 Vol 1 No 5, International Literacy Association

Revista Electrónica Leer, Escribir y Descubrir

Editorial, Marta Eugenia Sánchez González

El desarrollo de la conciencia fonológica: una propuesta para la cotidianeidad del aula, Marielos Murillo

La alegría perdida en el aprender: la necesidad de replantear el concepto de dificultades de aprendizaje , Johanna Sibaja

El desarrollo profesional de los tutores del Centro de Redacción Multidisciplinario del Recinto Metro de la Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico, Matilde García-Arroyo e Hilda E. Quintana

La lectura, un juego en serio, de Gaby Vallejo Canedo, Olga Núñez

Wawakunawan ñawirispa. Leyendo con los niños, Julieta Zurita Cavero

A Framework For Analyzing And Testing Cyber-Physical Interactions For Smart Grid Applications, Mohamad El Hariri, Tarek Youssef, Mahmoud Saleh, Samy Faddel, Hany Habib, Osama Mohammed

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

The reliable performance of the smart grid is a function of the configuration and cyber- physical nature of its constituting sub-systems. Therefore, the ability to capture the interactions between its cyber and physical domains is necessary to understand the effect that each one has on the other. As such, the work in this paper presents a co-simulation platform that formalizes the understanding of cyber information flow and the dynamic behavior of physical systems, and captures the interactions between them in smart grid applications. Power system simulation software packages, embedded microcontrollers, and a real communication infrastructure are combined together to provide …

Data-Driven Sea Level Rise Web Gis Applications, Zhaohui Fu, Levente Juhasz, Henry Hochmair

GIS Center

No abstract provided.

The Evolution Of Threat Networks In Latin America, Dr. Phil Williams, Dr. Sandra Quincoses

Research Publications

The economic and political environments in Latin America have been advantageous for local, regional, and transnational threat networks. Specifically, technology, increased international trade and economic interdependence, heightened interest in natural resources for profit, synthetic drug production, economic disparities, corruption, impunity, and unstable political conditions have led to a complex web of opportunities that requires new, progressive ways to address criminal activities. The creativity of threat networks along with their entrepreneurial strategies have resulted in increasing power and influence. Despite efforts by the United States and some governments in Latin America to combat these networks, the everchanging global environment has worked …

Taking Apart The Time Machine: Investigating Space-For-Time Substitution Modeling In The Florida Everglades, Theresa Kelly Brown

FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Space-for-Time substitution modeling has been used with increasing frequency to identify functional relationships between environmental drivers and ecological responses. I investigated the use of space-for-time substitution as a null model and beta diversity as a validity test for this null model in the Greater Everglades aquatic metacommunity. I began by conducting a literature review and analysis to investigate the suitability of the space-for-time substitution method as a null model. I then analyzed beta diversity of the Greater Everglades aquatic metacommunity through a sums-of-squares approach. Finally, I tested for correlation between the beta diversity analysis and the space-for-time models. Results indicate …

Gaming The Gothic, Amy Huseby

Humanities Edge Archive Faculty Programs

Amy Huseby's proposal for Gaming the Gothic, a project that encourages students to study Gothic literature through games, in turn promoting active learning, collaborative work, and in-depth literary study.

Visualizing Landform Calculations Proposal, Ebru Ozer

Humanities Edge Archive Faculty Programs

Ebru Ozer's proposal for an assignment that helps landscape architecture students understand dimensionality better by asking them to build a sand table and flow water through it in order to generate desired landforms.

The Devli's In The Details Proposal, Diana Anaya

Humanities Edge Archive Faculty Programs

Diana Anaya's proposal for a classroom activity in which students work together to create creative and cohesive narrative sentences sentences