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Cosm News, Georgia Southern University

College of Science & Mathematics: News & Publications (2012-2022)

• 2013 COUR Scholar Poster Presentation Award Winners

Faculty Senate Bill Fsb-2013-04-15-02: Graduate Affairs Committee, Armstrong Atlantic State University

Armstrong Faculty Senate: Bills, Motions & Resolutions (Archived)

Faculty Senate Bill FSB-2013-04-15-02: Graduate Affairs Committee

April 15, 2013 Armstrong Faculty Senate Agenda, Armstrong State University

Armstrong Faculty Senate: Armstrong Faculty Senate Agenda (Archived)

April 15, 2013 Armstrong Faculty Senate Agenda

April 15, 2013 Aasu Faculty Senate Minutes, Armstrong State University

Armstrong Faculty Senate: Minutes (Archived)

April 15, 2013 AASU Faculty Senate Minutes

Faculty Senate Bill Fsb-2013-04-15-01: University Curriculum Committee, Armstrong Atlantic State University

Armstrong Faculty Senate: Bills, Motions & Resolutions (Archived)

Faculty Senate Bill FSB-2013-04-15-01: University Curriculum Committee

Newsroom, Georgia Southern University

Newsroom (2006-2023)

• Artists to Use Satire for Serious Conversation on Sustainable Agriculture
• Assistant Director of Public Safety Completes FBI Training
• Students Named Gates Millennium Scholars

The George-Anne, Georgia Southern University

The George-Anne

• GSU Stops the Music
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Newsroom, Georgia Southern University

Newsroom (2006-2023)

• Georgia Southern Alumni Awards

The Inkwell, Armstrong Atlantic State University

The Inkwell

No abstract provided.

Using Collaborative Learning Techniques (Colts) To Promote Engaged Student Learning, Judith Longfield

Centers for Teaching Excellence: Presentations

Research demonstrates that engaging students in the learning process leads to improved attitudes, enhanced learning and student retention. In this interactive session you will learn about collaborative and cooperative learning, how to form groups and create effective learning tasks, and be introduced to a variety of active learning techniques. You will also practice integrating collaborative learning techniques (CoLTs) into a course by developing a plan for using, grading and evaluating one or more CoLTs.

The George-Anne, Georgia Southern University

The George-Anne

• SGA Voting to Open Monday
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Cosm News, Georgia Southern University

College of Science & Mathematics: News & Publications (2012-2022)

• Reducing carbon footprints during “No Impact Week”

Newsroom, Georgia Southern University

Newsroom (2006-2023)

• STEM Newsletter April 2013
• Reducing carbon footprints during “No Impact Week”

April 2, 2013 Aasu Graduate Affairs Committee Minutes, Armstrong State University

Armstrong Office of the Registrar: Graduate Affairs Committee Minutes (Archived)

April 2, 2013 AASU Graduate Affairs Committee Minutes

Ncaa Division I Head Coaches' Experiences With Eating Disorders And Disordered Eating In Female Athletes: A Qualitative Analysis, Caitlyn Pecinovsky

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

In today's sport, NCAA Division I female athletes are under a constant pressure to reach an elite level of perfection in athletic performance, frequently adhering to the assumption that there is an inverse relationship between body size and performance level (Petrie & Sherman, 2007). Additionally, coaches have unrealistic expectations about weight and body image, which adds pressure on athletes to conform to certain weight or image driven standards. Perceptions that coaches hold about eating disorders and disordered eating present a set of risk factors that may increase the likelihood of female athletes developing maladaptive eating patterns (Scoffier, Maiano, & d'Arripe-Longueville, …

Variational Methods On Elastic Curves, Daniel D. Rocker

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

In this thesis we investigate elastic curves. These are curves with minimal bending energy as measured by the total squared curvature functional. We show that these can be computed by evolving curves in the direction of the negative gradient in certain Hilbert space settings. By discretizing the curves and using numerical integration, we compute approximate minimizers and display using computer graphics. We propose a conjecture based on the rotation number of a curve that predicts the critical point curves that minimize bending energy.

Digital Echoes Of The Igeneration: An Examination Of Digital Media Used In 21st Century Education, Monica Greenway Radcliff

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

This study explores the use of digital media as three teams of middle grades students create an original film about a topic of their choosing. The impetus of the study is fueled by a personal curiosity to see how students learn when given the freedom and flexibility to research and explore outside of a standards-based environment using digital media. Equally important, I wanted to examine the participatory process; as well as how this process affected the students' views, values, and to what extent, if at all. This study was made possible due to the 2011 JOCO Film Festival. Each of …

Approximate Similarity Reduction, Rui Zhang

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

The nonlinear K (n;1) equation with damping is investigated via the approximate homotopy symmetry method and approximate homotopy direct method. The approximate homotopy symmetry and homotopy similarity reduction equations of different orders are derived and the corresponding homotopy series reduction solutionsare obtained. As a result, the formal coincidence for both methods is displayed.

Honors Research Symposium Program [Spring 2013], University Honors Program Students And Staff

Honors College: News & Publications (2008-2020)

No abstract provided.

Daily Walking And Life Expectancy Of Elderly People In The Iowa 65+ Rural Health Study, Hani M. Samawi

Biostatistics: Faculty Publications

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the hypothesis that outdoor daily walking, as an exercise, has an effect on the rate of mortality among those elderly people in the Iowa 65+ Rural Health Study (RHS). RHS is a prospective longitudinal cohort study of 8 years follow-up from 1981 to 1989. It consists of a random sample of 3,673 individuals (1,420 men and 2,253 women) aged 65 or older living in Washington and Iowa counties of the State of Iowa. Our analysis was conducted only on those non-institutional individuals who could without any help walk across a small room; …

Robustness Of Multiple Imputation Under Missing At Random (Mar) Mechanism: A Simulation Study, Priyanka Garg

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

Missing data is an unavoidable issue in controlled clinical trials and public health research and practice. Presence of missing data and applying inappropriate methods of analysis generates biased estimates and reduces power of study. It is very important for investigators to use appropriate methods of analysis to deal with missing data in order to maintain internal (power of study) and external (generalization of sample results to larger population) validity of study. The focus of this dissertation is to compare different methods to deal with missing data in controlled clinical trials and public health research and practice. In addition, this dissertation …

Using Neural Networks To Provide Local Weather Forecasts, Andrew Culclasure

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

Artificial neural networks (ANNs) have been applied extensively to both regress and classify weather phenomena. While one of the core strengths of neural networks is rendering accurate predictions with noisy datasets, there is currently not a significant amount of research focusing on whether ANNs are capable of producing accurate forecasts of relevant weather variables from small-scale, imperfect datasets. Also, there is not a significant amount of research focusing on the forecasting performance of neural networks applied to weather datasets that have been temporally rolled-up from a base dataset. In this paper, a survey of existing research on applying ANNs to …

Does The Presence Of A Non-Coincident Visual Spatial Pattern Facilitate Spatial Pattern Learning? Implications For A Dedicated Spatial Pattern Learning System, Scott Katz

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

Spatial pattern learning is defined as an ability to learn spatial relationships of objects in space without the use of discrete visual landmarks or environmental geometry (Brown & Terrinoni, 1996). Spatial pattern learning has been suggested to be a distinct form of learning because it is not affected by cue competition and has been shown to occur in the absence of discrete landmarks and environmental geometry (Brown, Yang, & DiGian, 2002; Sturz Brown, & Kelly, 2009). In the proposed study, the distinctness of spatial pattern learning was investigated. Specifically, human participants searched in an interactive 3-D computer generated virtual environment …

Statistical Properties Of The Mc-Dagum And Related Distributions, Sasith Rajasooriya

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

In this thesis, we present a new class of distributions called Mc-Dagum distribution. This class of distributions contains several distributions such as beta-Dagum, beta-Burr III, beta-Fisk and Dagum distributions as special cases. The hazard function, reverse hazard function, moments and mean residual life function are obtained. Inequality measures, entropy and Fisher information are presented. Maximum likelihood estimates of the model parameters are given.

The Inkwell, Armstrong Atlantic State University

The Inkwell

No abstract provided.

Southern Educator, Georgia Southern University

College of Education: News & Publications (2003-2023)

• Online Graduate Programs Earn Top Rank
• National Youth-at-Risk Center Approved
• PSC Approves Two New Programs
• COE, RESA Collaborate in "Poverty Simulation"
• Faculty News
• Alumni News

Newsroom, Georgia Southern University

Newsroom (2006-2023)

• Creative Writing Students Win Awards
• Irish Scholar to Speak at Georgia Southern

The Inkwell, Armstrong Atlantic State University

The Inkwell

No abstract provided.

March 20, 2013 Armstrong Graduate Curriculum Committee Minutes, Armstrong State University

Armstrong Faculty Senate: Graduate Curriculum Committee Minutes (Archived)

March 20, 2013 Armstrong Graduate Curriculum Committee Minutes

March 20, 2013 Armstrong Graduate Curriculum Committee Minutes, Armstrong State University

Armstrong Faculty Senate: Graduate Curriculum Committee Minutes (Archived)

March 20, 2013 Armstrong Graduate Curriculum Committee Minutes