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Enhanced Breast Cancer Tumor Classification Using Mobilenetv2: A Detailed Exploration On Image Intensity, Error Mitigation, And Streamlit-Driven Real-Time Deployment, Aaditya Surya, Aditya Keshary Shah, Subash Tarun Sasikumar, Jarnell Kabore

Butler Journal of Undergraduate Research

This research introduces a sophisticated transfer learning model based on Google’s MobileNetV2 for breast cancer tumor classification into normal, benign, and malignant categories, utilizing a dataset of 1576 ultrasound images (265 normal, 891 benign, 420 malignant). The model achieves an accuracy of 0.82, precision of 0.83, recall of 0.81, ROC-AUC of 0.94, PR-AUC of 0.88, and MCC of 0.74. It examines image intensity distributions and misclassification errors, offering improvements for future applications. Addressing dataset imbalances, the study ensures a generalizable model. This work, using a dataset from Baheya Hospital, Cairo, Egypt, compiled by Walid Al- Dhabyani and colleagues (2020), emphasizes …

"Success Is The Only Option", Sherene A. Carpenter Phd

National Youth Advocacy and Resilience Conference

"Success Is the Only Option". Reflective, Engaging, Imperative. Often times teachers place grades on report cards without analyzing or reflecting. Interesting conversations take place when teachers are presented with a chart displaying the number of As and Bs compared to the number Ds and Fs. What does a snapshot of your classroom, school, or district reveal about both student and teacher academic success? This presentation allows participants to identify resolutions to barriers, as well as receive tools that enhance student/teacher engagement - as Academic Success Is the Only Option.

University Of Missouri-St. Louis Open Educational Resources Open Dataset, Helena Marvin

UMSL Datasets

The UMSL OER Open Dataset is a collection of data pertaining to Affordable and Open Educational Resources (OER) courses offered at the University of Missouri-St. Louis (UMSL). The dataset includes information such as course names, IDs, instructors, meeting patterns, enrollment numbers, and more. This dataset is not exhaustive, but it does include a helpful data dictionary to help orient researchers, educators, and students to better utilize the dataset to explore potential student cost savings and patterns in affordable and OER course offerings at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.

Data visualizations of this data can be found at https://public.tableau.com/views/UMSLAOERSavingsOpenDataset/Dashboard1?:language=en-US&:sid=&:display_count=n&:origin=viz_share_link

Easy, Bright, Fluorescence Demonstration Of Buffer Action, Mariana Dykstra, Yejin Chung, Mark Muyskens

University Faculty Publications and Creative Works

We report an attractive update to the demonstration of acid–base buffer action that is appropriate for ease of use and getting attention in the classroom. The twist is based on new fluorophore information and the recent availability of UV flashlights serving as an ideal, portable excitation light source. The pH-dependent fluorescence comes from a choice among three natural sources, namely narra tree wood extract, kidneywood extract, and scopoletin, which is a purchasable coumarin, that all perform equally well. We provide practical details for performing the buffer demonstration at scales of 100 and 1000 mL and give background information for context.

An Evaluation Of Online Training Effectiveness And Pre-Service And In-Service Teacher Satisfaction: A Case Study From Nigeria, Laila Mohebi, Alanood Alshamsi, Mariam Alhammadi, Fatima Almohsen

All Works

This study evaluates the perceptions of 122 pre-service and in-service Nigerian teachers on adopting an online training module during the COVID-19 pandemic, a period marked by significant educational challenges and shifts. Employing a qualitative approach through open-ended online questions, it delves into the factors critical to enhancing online training effectiveness. Key findings highlight the importance of training in imparting theoretical knowledge and practical skills, the quality and relevance of content, interactivity, practical examples, and appropriate video length. These align with existing literature, underscoring the effectiveness of online training in challenging times. Significantly, nearly all participants expressed satisfaction with the training. …

Introducing The Arts To The K-6 Classroom: A Compilation Of Open Educational Resources (Oers), Brittany E. Kiser

Lynn University Digital Press Books

The contents of Introducing the Arts to the K-6 Classroom: A Compilation of Open Educational Resources (OERs) is a compendium that is intended to familiarize the pre-service teacher with the arts in the elementary school. Throughout this iBook, the reader will explore the how and why behind integration of the arts as these can be applied in sync with the core curriculum of the K-6 classroom, as well as to delve into research, strategies, and examples of addressing visual art, music, and movement (in the form of dance, drama, and other physical activities) in this learning environment. The open-sourced material …

Prepared To Teach Using Technology, But Not Prepared To Teach Online: A Case Of Early Childhood Pre-Service Teachers In The United Arab Emirates, Lawrence Meda, Laila Mohebi

All Works

The global pandemic of COVID-19 has affected teacher training institutions across the globe and many of the pre-service teachers had to complete their field experiences online. The purpose of this article is to explore pre-service teachers’ preparedness to teach online, in the early childhood phase using technology. This paper is guided by two critical questions which focused on pre-service teachers’ experiences of conducting their field experience online and preparedness to teach young children using technology. Social Learning Theory was adopted as the theoretical framework for conducting the present study. The study was conducted using a qualitative case study within an …

Meta-Analysis Of Research In Childhood Education Program In The United Arab Emirates, Alanood Alshamsi, Laila Mohebi

All Works

This qualitative study analyses a range of 34 research papers with different topics related to the early childhood education system in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) such as child education content, special education system, policies, language and literacy, learning, professional development and other topics. In view of various research papers in UAE education, the paper explores children’s academic education programs and brings together different studies relating to the educational system in the country using a meta-analysis method. This research aimed to identify the current status of early childhood education in UAE. It also included the challenges that are faced by …

Rethinking Higher Education For The 4th Industrial Revolution: Synergetics In Global Social Transformations And Society Building, Danjoo N. Ghista, Ravi S. Sharma

All Works

This paper highlights the need for our Rethinking Education towards a global common good and cultivating New Era Universities for the 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR). 4IR represents a fundamental change in the way we live, work, and relate to one another. It is a new chapter in human development, enabled by extraordinary technological advances commensurate with those of the first, second, and third industrial revolutions. Indeed, the 4th Industrial Revolution measures up with the Post-Capitalist Society, involving policies catering to human living needs, enabling people to have a Neo-humanist outlook, and come together to form a universal and more evolved …

Pirls 2021 Australian Year 4 Data [Sas], Kylie Hillman, Elizabeth O'Grady, Sima Rodrigues, Marina Schmid, Sue Thomson

Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS)

This dataset (SAS zipped) is a data source for the report Progress in International Reading Literacy Study: Australia’s results from PIRLS 2021. Refer to the readme.txt file for details.

Pirls 2021 Australian Year 4 Data [Spss], Kylie Hillman, Elizabeth O'Grady, Sima Rodrigues, Marina Schmid, Sue Thomson

Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS)

This dataset (SPSS zipped) is a data source for the report Progress in International Reading Literacy Study: Australia’s results from PIRLS 2021. Refer to the readme.txt file for details.

Pirls 2021 Australian Year 4 Data Readme [Text], Kylie Hillman, Elizabeth O'Grady, Sima Rodrigues, Marina Schmid, Sue Thomson

Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS)

This readme file contains information on use of the datasets that form the data source for the report Progress in International Reading Literacy Study: Australia’s results from PIRLS 2021.

Postdigital Time, Derek R. Ford

Education Studies Faculty publications

The “postdigital” is an inherently temporal concept, yet, along with the postdigital itself, the temporality of the postdigital remains open. With few exceptions, by rejecting the idea that the “postdigital” comes right after the “digital” in a successive manner, most scholars interpret the temporality of the concept in a way that is admittedly blurry and indeterminate. This opens various lines of inquiry. How should we understand and relate to postdigital time, including the role digital technologies play in it? What are the constraints it imposes on our imagination of the future and present? How does it naturalize the contemporary order?

Marx And Technology, Derek R. Ford

Education Studies Faculty publications

The revolutionary changes in digital technologies that ushered in the postdigital context originate with the industrial machinery Karl Marx and his collaborator and comrade Friedrich Engels observed and analysed in the mid to late 1800s. Their approach sees technology as neither neutral nor deterministic, but as one site of contestation and struggle among others in the overall totality of capital. The matter at hand is the class whose interests guide the production, distribution, and consumption of technologies.

Structural Equation Modeling To Evaluate College Students’ Burnout With Optimism And Stress As Predictors, Luis Miguel Grilo

Annual Symposium on Biomathematics and Ecology Education and Research

No abstract provided.

Postdigital Ecopedagogies: Genealogies, Contradictions, And Possible Futures, Petar Jandrić, Derek R. Ford

Education Studies Faculty publications

This paper charts some genealogies, challenges, and directions for experimenting with the utopic postdigital ecopedagogies demanded by our present (post)pandemic reality. These are messianic—rather than prophetic—utopias that exist not as proclamations or programmes for a distant future but as potentialities immanent in the irreducible excess of the present. While their roots most clearly emanate from the Freirean-inspired ecopedagogy movement, we conceptualize ecopedagogies instead as educational forms that emerge from, negotiate, debate, produce, resist, and/or overcome the shifting and expansive postdigital ecosystems from and to which we write and think. These are expansive ecosystems of humans, postdigital machines, nonhuman animals, minerals, …

Resiliency Storyboard: Thought Cycle Of Anxiety, Eli Tanenbaum, Jennifer Schmidt, Amanda Paskavitz, Andrew Demko, Justin Bennie, Christelle Wharram

Patient Education Projects

No abstract provided.

Lead With Your Heart, So You Don't Lose Your Mind, Larry S. Tomiyama

National Youth Advocacy and Resilience Conference

Using our trauma-based model I have witnessed minor and major miracles happen with students. Come hear my heart wrenching and/ many times hilarious stories I had the privilege of experiencing. Using brain based research to reinforce conclusions and recommended strategies my message reminds people why we chose to be teachers.

Applying An Asiancrit Lens On Chinese International Students: History, Intersections, And Asianization During Covid-19, Lorine Erika Saito, Jiangfeng Li

All Faculty Open Access Publications

This theoretical paper explores how Chinese international students (CISs) in the US are situated through an AsianCrit lens during the COVID-19 pandemic. Stemming from Critical Race Theory, AsianCrit addresses the varying historical underpinnings of racism against Asian American communities, which the authors would like to expand into Chinese sojourner populations. Anti-Chinese sentiment is evident in US history through the prohibition of Chinese immigration and violation of civil rights dating back to well over a century. The framework seeks to challenge normative research on CISs that is largely understood through experiences in international education or mental health services. Key areas of …

The Four Seasons Of Collaboration: Managing A Multi-Campus Oer Effort, Carrie Lewis Miller

IT Solutions Publications

This session will showcase a grant-funded multi-campus collaboration effort to provide OER professional development to faculty on four university campuses. An outline of the program, tools used to facilitate the administration of the program, outcomes, and lessons learned will be discussed. Recommendations for managing a multi-campus program will also be provided.

Quantitatively Comparing Elite Formation Over A Century: Ministers And Judges, John Hogan

Datasets

The abstract of the draft article that the datasets come from states:

In democratic societies the role of the education system is seen as crucially important to their development. It is critical in structuring society and in the value of its human and social capital. In particular, the role played by the education system in the creation and reproduction of the governing elites, and its countervailing potential to create a more meritocratic and egalitarian society has been an enduring topic of concern, research and debate. However, many of these debates have been rendered opaque by an inability to quantitatively examine, …

Information Literacy Data Group 1 And 2, Taralyn Mcmullan, Clista Clanton, Jo Ann Otts, Wilma Powell Stuart, Angela Rand

University Research Data and Datasets

Objective: This exploratory study examined perceived self-efficacy in information literacy skills in nursing students and discusses how collaborative relationships between nursing faculty and librarians can strengthen curricular efforts to support information literacy.

Methods: Using the Information Competency Assessment Instrument, a survey research design was used to determine student perceptions of their information literacy skills. Participants included nursing Baccalaureate, Master's and Doctoral students in each of these programs.

Results: The Information Competency Assessment Instrument identified low self-efficacy in the following categories: using an index, determining information needed for assignments, use of governmental documents, media sources, producers of information and citing sources. …

The Roles Of Set Size And Nonexample Type On Concept Formation, Catherine L. Williams, Claire C. St. Peter, Madeleine J. Murphy

Graduate Student Scholarship

Concept formation is demonstrated when a learner responds when new examples are presented (i.e., generalization) but not when new nonexamples are presented (i.e., discrimination). Gradually increasing the number of examples and nonexamples taught together (i.e., set-size expansion) promotes concept formation with nonhumans. Although set size impacts speed of acquisition with humans, concept formation has not been evaluated. Therefore, the primary purpose of the current study was to compare acquisition and concept formation during two procedures: set-size expansion and single set-size. College students were taught two biological concepts, one using set-size expansion and the other with the full …

Meditating A New Pedagogical Approach In Early Childhood Education Post Covid-19 In The United Arab Emirates, Lawrence Meda, Laila Mohebi

All Works

Many learning institutions across the globe are currently operating under emergency-response mode because of the global pandemic of COVID-19 which has affected the education sector. COVID-19 has forced academics to meditate education for young children and project how it could be like when the pandemic is over. The purpose of this study is to explore meditated thoughts of internship students and faculty supervisors about the implementation of early childhood education programmes in the United Arab Emirates post COVID-19. The study was guided by the question: Would you recommend incorporating online teaching as part of early childhood program after COVID-19, and …

Dataset For "Possible Causes Of Leaks In The Transfer Pipeline: Student Views At The 19 Colleges Of The City University Of New York", Alexandra Logue, Yoshiko Oka, David Wutchiett, Kerstin Gentsch, Stephanie Abbeyquaye

Publications and Research

Research dataset for the study resulting in this article: Logue, A. W., Oka, Y., Wutchiett, D., Gentsch, K., & Abbeyquaye, S. (2022). Possible causes of leaks in the transfer pipeline: Student views at the 19 colleges of The City University of New York. Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice.

Publisher version of article: https://doi.org/10.1177/15210251221117276

Accepted manuscript version of article: https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_pubs/901

Landing An Academic Library Job: A Look Behind The Curtain, Judy Schmitt

Library Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

Commencement Celebrations Like No Other, University Marketing And Communications, Salma Ghanem

DePaul Download

The COVID-19 pandemic affected nearly every aspect of the collegiate experience – including commencement. DePaul wanted to ensure the Class of 2021 had the opportunity to participate in the time-honored tradition – even if it looked different than a typical year. So, the university planned Graduation Celebration, a 10-day outdoor, interactive commencement experience. DePaul’s interim provost, Salma Ghanem, shares more about all of the university’s commencement plans for the Class of 2021.

Lack Of Motivation In High School Students: Reach Curriculum, Alexandra L. Nickolauson

Dissertations, Theses, and Projects

The lack of motivation in high schoolers has increased in the last ten years. This literature review will explore the reasons for lack of motivation in high school students, and if school belonging, teacher enthusiasm, parent involvement, and holding students accountable contribute to motivation or if lack of those factors leads to more dropouts. The purpose of this literature review is to show why high school students have a lack of motivation and what can be done. The articles researched were focused on qualitative research. There were six major finds for lack of motivation: fear of failure, incuriosity, lack of …

“Time For Me To Come Home” Says Pacific’S Inaugural Vpdei, University Of The Pacific, Mary J. Lomax-Ghirarduzzi

Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Webinar Recordings and Conversations

The University Committee for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, in partnership with President Christopher Callahan, presents this series of dialogues designed to offer students an enriched co-curricular experience via participating in dialogues with influential citizen leaders from across the country. The dialogues address the social, cultural and structural inequities in our society and help educate, engage and empower individuals to become transformative leaders in the fight for social justice.

Depaul’S College Of Science And Health Meets The Demand For Growth In Stem, University Marketing And Communications, Stephanie Dance-Barnes

DePaul Download

In a year that included the COVID-19 pandemic and protests for racial justice, DePaul’s College of Science and Health stayed busy as faculty and staff chipped in to make a difference by donating PPE equipment, publishing research to shape the conversation around the virus, and creating guidance on how to build an antiracist lab. As the college begins celebrating its 10th anniversary, Dean Stephanie Dance-Barnes joins DePaul Download to discuss the college’s past, present and future.