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Understanding The Role Of The Common Core State Standards In Catholic Education
Understanding The Role Of The Common Core State Standards In Catholic Education
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In 2009, the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) revolutionized academic standards, providing a format adopted by states across America that focused on raising Math and English Language Arts standards as preparation for colleges and careers. In conjunction with the adoption and implementation of the CCSS across the United States, Catholic schools have worked towards the strengthening and advancement of their own educational systems. This thesis first examines the background of the CCSS, including implementation and professional development, as well as the opposition regarding the standards. The paper presents an overview of the history of academic standards in Catholic education and …
Multistage Flash Desalination With An Integrated Solar System
Multistage Flash Desalination With An Integrated Solar System
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Desalination is considered to be a promising solution to overcome the problems of water shortage especially for countries that have dry weather conditions with less rainfall around the year. Thermal processes have the highest capacity among all other desalination processes but it consumes significant amount of fossil fuel which severely affects the environment in diverse aspects. On that end, the importance of using renewable energy source such as solar desalination has increased in the present time. In solar desalination, the energy can be transferred in the form of either thermal energy as used in thermal storage technologies or electrical energy …
Variable Extrusion Dies That Exhibit Significant Change In Exit Area
Variable Extrusion Dies That Exhibit Significant Change In Exit Area
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Conventional polymer extrusion is a common manufacturing process in which plastic resin is melted and pulled through a fixed-geometry die plate to produce a shape. This process creates long parts with a uniform cross-sectional area, including pipes, molding, and window frames. Shape-changing dies would expand the capabilities of extrusion by allowing the cross-sectional area to change over the length of the extruded part. This would allow for parts manufactured more quickly and at a lower tooling cost, as compared to other processes such as injection molding. A constant extruder screw speed is desired throughout the process due to the pellets …
Someone Call The Interpreter: Experiences Of At-Risk International Students At A Mid-Western Catholic Institution
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This study offers insight into the benefits of academic and career coaching courses for academically at-risk international students at a Mid-Western religious affiliated four-year private institution. It also explored how they relate to the perceived future academic success of international students. This study informs how academic coaching services can be designed to meet their unique needs so that future international students can thrive and succeed in U.S. higher education systems. Data was collected through qualitative in person interviews with current or former international students who were asked to participate in an academic and career-coaching course. This study revealed that despite …
Study Hard Not Party Hard: Influence Of High-Risk Drinking On Academic Attendance And Participation
Study Hard Not Party Hard: Influence Of High-Risk Drinking On Academic Attendance And Participation
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This study examines the influence high-risk alcohol consumption has on academic, co/extracurricular student engagement. The effects of alcohol in relation to college students has been examined by researchers and leading academics. However, studies have not extensively examined the effects of high-risk alcohol consumption beyond its influence on student behavior or students’ interpretive “success” in college. This study focuses on attendance and participation as an essential attribute to academic success and completion. Ten student participants were selected based on initial survey responses from areas of Housing & Residence Life, Office of Multicultural Affairs, Office of Learning Resources, and Greek Life. The …
Did That Just Happen? Acts Of Bias And Perception Of Campus Racial Climate Of Racially Minority Students At A Predominantly White Institution
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Whether covert or overt, racism, racial prejudice, stereotyping, discrimination, and microaggressions are acts in which many marginalized students’ experience, particularly on predominantly white colleges. The study was designed to examine the perception of the campus racial climate among racial minority students after a bias incident has occurred and identify coping strategies and support structures that promote the students ability to matriculate and persist. This examination is critical in properly addressing issues on campus and ultimately supporting students who experience daily challenges as it relates to their perceived racial identification. Findings provided an overview of student experiences on campus as it …
The Lived Experiences Of Gay Male Students At A Catholic Institution
The Lived Experiences Of Gay Male Students At A Catholic Institution
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This qualitative research looks into the lived experiences of gay male students at a Catholic higher education institution. The experience of these students has traditionally not been analyzed, and this study takes a close look at what it means to be gay and attend a Catholic university. These students have experienced varying degrees of acceptance and support from their peers, faculty, staff and the institution as a whole. While acknowledging that the institution does provide some support, students found them to be uncoordinated, insufficient, and not of value, when compared to supports offered to students who identify with other minority …
Confessions Of A Sorority Woman: Impacts Of Hazing On New Members Of Panhellenic Greek Lettered Organizations
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The purpose of this study was to examine how Panhellenic Greek lettered organizations might choose to haze their new members and how being hazed impacted a new member, physically and mentally. Participants responded to a web-based survey that asked individuals to identify what they believed constitutes hazing, hazing acts they have been asked to engage in, and outcomes of joining a Panhellenic organization. Both new members and initiated members received the survey. For data analysis, participant responses were compared using an Analysis of Variance (ANOVA). New members of Panhellenic Greek-lettered organizations defined organizational unity and mental/emotional instability as an outcome …
Characterization Of The P53 Signaling Pathway In Urodele Amphibians During Lens Regeneration
Characterization Of The P53 Signaling Pathway In Urodele Amphibians During Lens Regeneration
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Urodele amphibians such as the red spotted newt, Notophthalmus viridescens, and axolotl are commonly used to study organ regeneration due to their remarkable ability to regenerate organs such as limb, tail, spinal cord and lens. The newt is able to regenerate the lens solely from dorsal iris pigmented epithelial cells in 30 days following removal. Axolotls, neonate salamanders, invoke curiosity because they can only regenerate their lens two weeks post hatching although they have the same regeneration potential as newts for limb, tail, and spinal cord. Using these animal models the role of the p53 protein, a tumor suppressor protein, …
Defective Proventriculus (Dve) A New Member Of Dv Patterning In The Eye
Defective Proventriculus (Dve) A New Member Of Dv Patterning In The Eye
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In multi-cellular organisms, axial patterning is required to generate three-dimensional organ from its primordia during organogenesis. Drosophila eye serves as an excellent model to study patterning and growth. In Drosophila eye, Dorso-ventral (DV) patterning is the first lineage restriction event in the developing eye. The early eye primordium begins with the default ventral fate on which the dorsal eye fate is established by expression of a GATA-1 transcription factor, pannier (pnr). We have identified defective proventriculus (dve), a K50 homeodomain gene as a novel dorsal gene that plays a crucial role in Drosophila eye development. We have found that dve …
Diminishing The Discipline Gap: Restorative Justice As A Promising Alternative In One Urban School
Diminishing The Discipline Gap: Restorative Justice As A Promising Alternative In One Urban School
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Across the nation, the education system is responding to student misbehavior with zero tolerance policies that parallel the punitive practices found in the juvenile and criminal justice systems. Zero tolerance policies have contributed to the “discipline gap,” wherein schools punish racial and ethnic minorities more often and more severely than they punish whites. One alternative to punitive punishment is restorative justice, which aims to foster respect, responsibility, and empathy in members of school communities. This project evaluates the relationship between restorative justice and out-of-school suspension rates in an urban school district. It also serves as one of the few studies …
A Study In Dividend Investment Strategieshigh Yield Vs. High Dividend Growthfor The Period 2008 - 2014
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From a total return perspective, there is an on-going debate among financial analysts as to which is the better strategy: (1) investing in high yield stocks or (2) investing in stocks with high dividend growth rates. Since stocks with high dividend growth rates also tend to be lower yielding stocks, the strategy debate is often more about low vs. high levels of yield. In this study I test several hypotheses: (1) low yield stocks outperform high yield stocks, (2) high dividend growth rate stocks outperform low dividend growth rate stocks, (3) high dividend growth rate stocks outperform high dividend yielding …
A Self Organizing Maps Approach To Segmenting Tumors In Computed Tomography (Cat) And Magnetic Resonance Imaging (Mri) Scans
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Studies and explorations of human visual perception have been the main source of inspiration for computer vision algorithms. Understanding how the human brain represents basic attributes of objects helps in developing computer vision algorithms for automatic object interpretation and understanding. Human visual perception is based on the neural coding of fundamental features, such as object boundaries, color, orientation, shape, etc. Thus, finding the contours and boundaries of objects provides the first step for object recognition and interpretation. Form here, the idea of this research inspired to introduce an automatic boundary detection technique based on active contours that is designed to …
Intention Based Upper-Limb Exoskeleton
Intention Based Upper-Limb Exoskeleton
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Exoskeletons, a wearable robot that intelligently augments the physical power of a human being. These robots are used in military and similar applications, but the challenge remains that how to make the human-machine interaction safe and sound. The idea behind the 'intention based approach' is that an array of compliant force sensors will continuously monitor the movement of the limb and then map the filtered data to drive the respective actuator which in turn helps in doing the same 'movement' with augmented power and better stability. Additionally a 9 DoF IMU, continuously map the end effector's spatial position as an …
Where Do I Belong? Lgbt Experiences In On-Campus Housing
Where Do I Belong? Lgbt Experiences In On-Campus Housing
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Studies have shown that for many who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and/or Queer (LGBTQ) students, navigating through higher education is a difficult task full of opposition and challenges preventing them from achieving their full academic potential. While these challenges present themselves through several outlets on campus, Housing and facilities is one of the main areas that have the potential to challenge and educate students as they connect their learning experiences to their living realities. For students who are feeling that they do not belong, or that there is no “space” for them, navigating higher education and the campus …
Race Or Culture? African American Student Experiences At A Predominantly White Institution
Race Or Culture? African American Student Experiences At A Predominantly White Institution
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This qualitative study explores the experiences of African American students who attend predominantly White institutions. Several factors could benefit, hinder and/or frustrate African American students who have decided to pursue and complete higher education at a predominantly White institution. However, the responsibility of administrators to assist African Americans with this transition continues to be of major importance as they must take into consideration student experiences and cultures. The social, cultural, and academic adjustment process for African Americans varies based on the students’ culture, personal backgrounds and individual experiences not just race. For this research study African American students attending a …
Closing The Gap: Examining Humanities Majors' Perceptions Of Career Services
Closing The Gap: Examining Humanities Majors' Perceptions Of Career Services
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Connecting one’s degree in the humanities to a career path can be an ambiguous challenge in a society focused on job preparation. Career services offices in higher education institutions are at the forefront of helping students advance in their career development, yet little research has explored student insights and perspectives about these resources. This study explores humanities majors’ perceptions, insights, and knowledge of career services at a private institution in the Midwest. A mixed methods approach provided evidence of over 125 students’ knowledge and utilization of career services while supported by in-depth insights of students' experiences. Humanities majors revealed their …
Too Close For Comfort: The Effect Of Threatening
Too Close For Comfort: The Effect Of Threatening
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Stereotypes are relied upon to help guide people through their social world. Although typically characterized as unfavorable, stereotypes can serve a number of beneficial functions. Stereotypes allow people to quickly process new information about novel individuals, environments, or events by applying preexisting stereotype-consistent information. Processing new information quickly is essential in novel or unfamiliar situation because it helps determine how to best react. While there are a number of beneficial qualities of stereotypes, a disadvantage of stereotypes is that they can potentially lead to distortions in reality. Stereotypes play an active role in the evaluation of stimuli (e.g., persons), but …
Hate Crime Laws: What Are They And Who Do They Protect?
Hate Crime Laws: What Are They And Who Do They Protect?
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Tremendous disagreement and confusion regarding hate crime laws and the groups protected by them persist. We investigated perceptions of what constitutes a hate crime and whether these standards are applied consistently. Participants read and responded to brief scenarios describing offenses committed by majority or minority group members against others (majority or minority group members). Although support for the exploratory hypotheses was not found, interesting patterns emerged with respect to gender differences.
Research Exercise: Comparative Education System Analysis Between Finland And The United States: A Case Study
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International student achievement tests have articulated the problem of inequitable education systems around the world. Due to the relatively recent introduction of these tests, scholarly research on the subject has developed as the tests have produced more results. A shared goal of a majority of the research regarding international student achievement is to establish quality education systems. As the United States continuously ranks at or slightly above or below average on the PISA test over the past twelve years, Finland’s consistent success has drawn worldwide attention. For this reason, Finland is the educational system benchmark for this undergraduate thesis.Many authors …
A Longitudinal, Sibling- Comparison Analysis Of Associations Between Depression And Delinquency In Adolescence
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This study examines the prospective relationship between delinquency and depression in adolescence, as previous research suggests that they may be related. Our study was interested in testing the direction of the relationship between these factors, and whether they would be related when controlling for potential confounds using statistical covariates in one analysis and the comparison of siblings in a second analysis. Data from 11,495 offspring of a large nationally representative sample of mothers were used. Participants reported on delinquency and depression from the ages of 14 to 17. Covariates included race, gender, mother’s education, family income, birth order, maternal age …
Auditory Information In The Form Of A Scratching Sound Enhances The Effects Of The Rubber Hand Illusion
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The body schema is generated from a number of different sense modalities such as vision and proprioception. Botvinick and Cohen's rubber hand illusion (1998) demonstrates the relative contributions of vision, tactile perception and proprioception to body awareness. In this illusion, a participant's real hand is concealed from view and a prosthetic rubber hand is seen in its place. An experimenter simultaneously administers tactile stimulation to both the seen rubber hand and participant's actual hidden hand. The combination of this visual and tactile information overrides proprioceptive cues to body perception, creating a sense of ownership of the rubber hand. The present …
Optimization Of Photovoltaics Recycling Network: Case Study Of California
Optimization Of Photovoltaics Recycling Network: Case Study Of California
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In the United States, there is no systematic movement to set up a photovoltaics (PV) recycling infrastructure as of now. Like any other end-of-life planning, it is vital to develop and institute economically feasible and environmentally viable recycling infrastructure for the emerging PV industry in parallel with the rapid commercialization of these new technologies. PV recycling planning includes various challenging issues in temporal, spatial, and technical dimension. Various stakeholders will be involved in the recycling network and the issue of management covers diverse aspects such as the collection, distribution, inventory, and reclaiming of materials. Within such a complex recycling network, …
Research Exercise: Glass Recovery Is Half The Battle
Research Exercise: Glass Recovery Is Half The Battle
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In an energy conscious society, all methods of saving or conserving energy become important. One such way is through recycling. The energy saved by recycling a single glass bottle could be used to light a 100-watt light bulb for four hours, power a computer for half an hour, or a television for 20 minutes. Ohio sends approximately 90% of consumed glass containers to the landfill. There is tremendous room for improvement for glass recycling. This research focuses on how to increase the glass recovery from consumer to recycling facilities by addressing the social, economical, political, and logistical aspects associated with …
Producer Price Indexes As Determinants Of Stock Market Prices: A Time Series Analysis For The Period 2004-2014
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The purpose of this study is to determine the impact of macroeconomic pricing activity in the form of producer price indexes on stock market prices. Linear and log linear regressions are run on 18 different firms from six different 3-digit sic industries. The time period of analysis is 2004-2014 and monthly pricing data is used in the regressions. In order to see how the regression coefficients vary with time, separate regressions are run from 2004 through the 2nd quarter in 2008 and the third quarter in 2008 through 2014. A regression is run for the complete period 2004-2014 with a …
Power Efficient Circuits For Intrusion Detection Using Memristor Crossbars
Power Efficient Circuits For Intrusion Detection Using Memristor Crossbars
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Intrusion Detection System (IDS) is an intelligent specialized system designed to interpret the intrusion attempts in incoming network traffic. IDS aims at minimizing the risk of accessing the unauthorized data and potential vulnerabilities of critical systems by the examining the every packet entering into the system. Deep Packet inspection and Pattern matching are computationally intensive processes and most power hungry functionalities in network intrusion detection systems. In particular, every incoming packet is well screened by string matching with previously known malicious signatures/contents essentially known as attacks or intrusions. In particular, nearly 70 % of the execution time and power is …
Synthesizing Coupler-Drivers As A Novel Method For Actuating Mechanical Systems
Synthesizing Coupler-Drivers As A Novel Method For Actuating Mechanical Systems
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Abstract:The objective of the proposed work is to change the mechanical design of an automated manufacturing or assembly process by introducing coupler drivers. Currently, the design of a mechanism to be included in a manufacturing or assembly process requires one of the joints in the mechanism to be used for actuation. That is, the desired motion of the device and how it will be moved are coupled and this complicates its design. The proposed work looks at decoupling the kinematic synthesis of a mechanical system from the actuation synthesis of the system. This is accomplished via a mechanical chain called …
Experiences Of Indian Graduate Students At A Mid-Western Catholic Private Institution
Experiences Of Indian Graduate Students At A Mid-Western Catholic Private Institution
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The aim of this research was to analyze the experiences of Indian graduate at a Mid-Western Catholic private institution. An online survey was conducted among 210 Indian graduate students. Twelve individual interviews were conducted for deeper study. From the analysis of individual interviews, four common elements were extracted that reflected students experience. Valuable findings are presented for the faculty, staff and higher administrative officials of academic units, Enrollment Management, Center for International programs, Counseling Center and Career Service staff.
Research Exercise: Numerical Exploration Of The Spread Of Infectious Disease
Research Exercise: Numerical Exploration Of The Spread Of Infectious Disease
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This study will consider a model of SARS for a closed population. The mathematical model will be solved using numerical techniques and the solutions will be compared. It is assumed in this study that the incubation period is very short and individuals who recover from the disease become permanently immune.
Perfectionism, Religious Orientation, And Self-Forgiveness: Mediating And Moderating Factors
Perfectionism, Religious Orientation, And Self-Forgiveness: Mediating And Moderating Factors
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The relationships between interpersonal forgiveness, perfectionism, and religious orientation have been previously studied (e.g., Ashby & Huffman, 1999; Dixon, Earl, Lutz-Zois, Goodnight, & Peatee, 2014; Meek, Albright, & McMinn, 1995; Steffen, 2013). However, the present study examines how different types of forgiveness, self-forgiveness and perceived forgiveness from God, are related to perfectionism and religious orientation. Previous research indicates that self-evaluative perfectionism, the more maladaptive type of perfectionism (Hill et al., 2004), is negatively associated with intrinsic religious orientation (Ashby & Huffman, 1999). Those with an intrinsic orientation, who profess faith as central to their identity (Allport & Ross, 1967), are …