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Moving Beyond Dosage And Adherence: A Protocol For Capturing Dimensions Of Active Child Engagement As A Measure Of Fidelity For Social-Emotional Learning Interventions, Brianna L. Devlin, Tanya M. Paes, Elyssa A. Geer, Lindsey M. Bryant, Tracy M. Zehner, Irem Korucu, Kathleen Morse, Robert Duncan, David J. Purpura, Sara A. Schmitt

Purdue Center for Early Learning Faculty and Staff Publications

Social-emotional competencies are important for school-readiness and can be supported through social-emotional learning (SEL) interventions in the preschool years. However, past research has demonstrated mixed efficacy of early SEL interventions across varied samples, highlighting a need to unpack the black box of which early interventions work, under what conditions, and for whom. In the present article we discuss the critical implementation component of active child engagement in an intervention as a potential point of disconnect between the intervention as designed and as implemented. Children who are physically present but unengaged during an intervention may lead to decreased average impacts of …

A Scoping Review Of Campus-Based Animal-Assisted Interactions Programs For College Student Mental Health, Tanya K. Bailey

People and Animals: The International Journal of Research and Practice

Background: People have long found support by interacting with animals, which has developed into a health care modality called animal-assisted interactions (AAI). In the past 10 years, AAI has increased as a way to support college students’ mental health; however, there is no comprehensive evidence on the effectiveness of these programs.
Method: A scoping review was conducted using the JBI and PRISMA-ScR criteria. Empirical articles were identified through Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost), PsychINFO (Ovid), and Web of Science using three groups of keywords: AAI, college students, and mental health.
Results: Of the 1,195 publications identified, 37 met this study’s eligibility …

Adapting A Narrative Curriculum To A Remote Format In The Context Of Socially Distanced Middle School Education Resulting From Covid-19, Jeremiah Pina, Rebecca Mazur, Glenn Ellis, Al Rudnitsky, Beth Mcginnis-Cavanaugh, Sonia Ellis, Isabel Huff, Crystal Ford

Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education Research (J-PEER)

This paper describes the development of two versions of an NGSS-aligned principles of engineering design unit for use in middle schools. By employing a narrative framework that can help students to connect more deeply with the human contexts and consequences of the engineering design process, our goal was to enhance students’ cognitive and emotional engagement in the learning of engineering design concepts. We first detail the design of an initial version of the unit, titled The Survivorama, which used narrative to enrich a primarily traditional, in-person teaching approach. We then describe the adapted version of the unit, titled the Molasses …

Sweetpotato Cultivars Responses To Interactive Effects Of Warming, Drought, And Elevated Carbon Dioxide, Shasthree Taduri, Raju Bheemanahalli, Chathurika Wijewardana, Ajaz A. Lone, Stephen L. Meyers, Mark Shankle, Wei Gao, K. Raja Reddy

Department of Horticulture & Landscape Architecture Faculty Publications

Plants are sensitive to changes projected in climates, such as elevated carbon dioxide (eCO₂), high temperature (T), and drought stress (DS), which affect crop growth, development, and yield. These stresses, either alone or in combination, affect all aspects of sweetpotato plant growth and development, including storage root development and yield. We tested three sweetpotato cultivars (Beauregard, Hatteras, and LA1188) responses to eight treatments (Control, DS, T, eCO₂, DS + T, T + eCO_2, DS + eCO_2, DS + T + eCO₂). All treatments were imposed 36 days after transplanting (DAP) and continued …

Birs Course: Rna Vaccine Manufacture And Assessment Of Regulatory Documents For Rna Vaccines, Stephen R. Byrn, Nathaniel Milton, Kari L. Clase

BIRS Technical Report Papers

This paper is in three segments: (A) Segment on Vaccine Manufacture; (B) Segment on Ready to Use (RTU) Fluid Path for Compounded Sterile Preparations, mRNA Vaccines, and Phage Therapy, (C) Segment on Competency Framework for Addressing Regulatory Review These segments can be used separately or in combination. Additionally, they can be presented in any order. The time devoted to each segment depends on the depth of the course coverage. These segments are interrelated and describe how to make vaccines, how to manufacture vaccines with a point-of-care system built from ready-to-use parts; and how to regulate vaccines. This is a timely …

Managing Water In A Wet State: Understanding Sources & Working Towards Sustainability, Laura Bowling, Katy Mazer, Keith A. Cherkauer, Jane Frankenberger, Marty Frisbee

Water Report

No abstract provided.

Connected Vehicle-Centric Dashboards For Tmc Of The Future, Rahul Suryakant Sakhare, Jairaj Desai, Wyatt Woker, Howell Li, Jijo K. Mathew, Justin Mahlberg, Enrique D. Saldivar-Carranza, Deborah Horton, Darcy M. Bullock

JTRP Technical Reports

The adoption of dashboards and tools into Traffic Management Centers (TMC) has been growing with advancements in connected vehicle (CV) data. These tools are now being utilized—not only for analyzing work zones, severe crashes, winter operations, and traffic signals—but also to provide measures for characterizing overall system mobility, resiliency, and after-action assessments. Previous studies have extended the concepts to include the enhanced trajectory-based CV data into dashboards that aid agencies in assessing and managing roadways. This study presents the extension of these tools that further improve the value and insights provided. It also highlights the evolution of CV data in …

202302-01, 02/03/2023, I-70 W, Mm 115, Hancock Co., Myles W. Overall, Rahul Suryakant Sakhare, Justin Mukai, Jairaj Desai, Deborah Horton, Darcy M. Bullock

After-Action Reports for Traffic Incident Management (TIM)

No abstract provided.

202311-07, 11/11/2023, I-65 S, Mm 141, Boone Co., Myles W. Overall, Rahul Suryakant Sakhare, Justin Mukai, Jairaj Desai, Deborah Horton, Darcy M. Bullock

After-Action Reports for Traffic Incident Management (TIM)

No abstract provided.

202306-02, 06/17/2023, I-69 S, Mm 250, Delaware Co., Myles W. Overall, Rahul Suryakant Sakhare, Justin Mukai, Jairaj Desai, Deborah Horton, Darcy M. Bullock

After-Action Reports for Traffic Incident Management (TIM)

No abstract provided.

202312-05, 12/14/2024, I-65 N, Mm 165.4, Tippecanoe Co., Myles W. Overall, Rahul Suryakant Sakhare, Justin Mukai, Jairaj Desai, Deborah Horton, Darcy M. Bullock

After-Action Reports for Traffic Incident Management (TIM)

No abstract provided.

202309-01, 09/12/2023, I-465 Ol, Mm 42.7, Marion Co., Myles W. Overall, Rahul Suryakant Sakhare, Justin Mukai, Jairaj Desai, Deborah Horton, Darcy M. Bullock

After-Action Reports for Traffic Incident Management (TIM)

No abstract provided.

202304-01, 04/14/2023, I-70 W, Mm 5, Vigo Co., Myles W. Overall, Rahul Suryakant Sakhare, Justin Mukai, Jairaj Desai, Deborah Horton, Darcy M. Bullock

After-Action Reports for Traffic Incident Management (TIM)

No abstract provided.

202304-03, 04/20/2023, I-465 Ol, Mm 33.2, Hamilton Co., Myles W. Overall, Rahul Suryakant Sakhare, Justin Mukai, Jairaj Desai, Deborah Horton, Darcy M. Bullock

After-Action Reports for Traffic Incident Management (TIM)

No abstract provided.

Beyond The Two-Tiered System: Contingency As A Tool For Academic Upward Mobility, Wonderful Faison, Tatiana Glushko

The Writing Center Journal

This article explores the scholarly endeavors upon which writing center directors and coordinators must embark to effectively run their centers. Additionally, the authors explore ways to use their contingent statuses as leverage for either tenure or promotion by linking their scholarly work to departmental and university tenure/promotion requirements.

Evaluating Ethics Of Machine Learning: Industry 4.0 Implementation In Aerospace And Defense Industries, Lina Khan, Ahmad Elshennawy, Sandra Furterer, Elizabeth Cudney, Chad Laux

Computer Information Technology Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

The Influence Of Critical Friendships On Secondary Student Teachers Engaged In Collaborative Action Research, Brenda Capobianco, Veronica Mccauley, Paul Flynn

Purdue Center for Early Learning Faculty and Staff Publications

In this study, we explore the following: a) How do secondary student teachers, engaged in collaborative action research, function as critical friends? b) What challenges do they encounter? How do they mitigate these challenges? and c) In what ways did meeting as critical friends influence the student teachers’ learning to conduct collaborative action research? The participants in our study included 38 secondary school student teachers (defined here at grades 9 through 12) in the last year of a two-year Masters program from a large, research-intensive university situated in the West of Ireland. The student teachers were organized into 11 critical …

Sources Of Misinterpretation In The Input And Their Implications For Language Intervention With English-Speaking Children, Laurence B. Leonard, Patricia Deevy, Shelley L. Bredin-Oja, Mariel L. Schroeder

Purdue Center for Early Learning Faculty and Staff Publications

Purpose: In English and related languages, many preschool-age children with developmental language disorder (DLD) have difficulties using tense and agreement consistently. In this review article, we discuss two potential input-related sources of this difficulty and offer several possible strategies aimed at circumventing input obstacles. Method: We review a series of studies from English, supplemented by evidence from computational modeling and studies of other languages. Collectively, the studies show that instances of failures to express tense and agreement in DLD resemble portions of larger sentences in everyday input in which tense and agreement marking is appropriately absent. Furthermore, experimental studies show …

Simulated Dormant Peppermint (Mentha × Piperita) Response To Mesotrione: A Greenhouse Study, Emmanual G. Cooper, Jeanine Arana, Stephen L. Meyers

Department of Horticulture & Landscape Architecture Faculty Publications

A dose-response trial was conducted in two experimental runs at the Purdue University Horticulture Greenhouses, West Lafayette, IN, in 2021/2022 to determine the effect of mesotrione rate on simulated dormant ‘Redefined Murray Mitcham’ peppermint. Peppermint was established in 20-cm-diam polyethylene pots, it was then harvested, and pots were placed in a cooler (4 C) for 1 mo. Potted peppermint plants were removed from cold storage and treated with one of five mesotrione rates: 0 (nontreated control), 53, 105, 210, or 420 g ai ha–1. As mesotrione rate increased from 53 to 420 g ai ha–1, predicted peppermint injury increased from …

All Winged Their Supermen: Mina Loy, Olive Moore, And The Transhumanist Imagination, Maren Linett

Department of English Faculty Publications

Recent scholarship has demonstrated some of the ways modernism depends on eugenic thinking. Exploring similarities and differences between eugenics and early transhumanism, this article identifies in modernist literature a strand of more radical transhumanist desire. Looking in particular at Mina Loy's poems "Parturition" and "Songs to Joannes" and Olive Moore's novel Spleen, it argues that these texts turn the modernist call to "make it new" on human beings ourselves, as Loy and Moore imagine maternity as a means to advance evolution, if only it could transcend the disappointing reproducibility of the human being.

Measuring Bilingual Language Dominance: An Examination Of The Reliability Of The Bilingual Language Profile, Daniel J. Olson

School of Languages and Cultures Faculty Publications

Measuring language dominance, broadly defined as the relative strength of each of a bilingual’s two languages, remains crucial methodological issue in bilingualism research. While various methods have been proposed, the Bilingual Language Profile (Birdsong et al., 2012) has been one of the most widely used tools for measuring language dominance. While previous studies have begun to establish its validity, the Bilingual Language Profile has yet to be systematically evaluated with respect to reliability. Addressing this methodological gap, the current study examines the reliability of the Bilingual Language Profile, employing a test-retest methodology with a large (N = 248), varied sample …

The Association Between Inflammatory Diet And Infection-Related Cancers In Adults: A Systematic Review, Alfu Laily, Jason B. Reed, Madeline Q. Powers, Anna Giuliano, Monica Kasting

Libraries Faculty and Staff Supplemental Materials

Poster presented at the 2023 American Academy of Health Behavior conference. Presents preliminary results of a systematic review investigating the relationship between inflammatory dietary patterns and infection-related cancers in adults.

Mind The Gap: Eugenics And Animality, Maren Linett

Department of English Faculty Publications

This article argues that eugenics was motivated, in part, by human exceptionalism. It first explores the ways in which eugenics understood nonwhite race, disability, and animality as forces capable of exerting a drag on the forward thrust of eugenic progress. Next, it traces the incoherent discourse about animality within eugenics, demonstrating that while eugenic breeding—eugenic methods—relied on human animality, the fundamental goal of eugenics was to improve human beings by distancing us from that animality. The final part of the essay explores the imbrication of animality, race, and disability in Aldous Huxley’s 1948 novel Ape and Essence, arguing that the …

202311-06, 11/10/2023, I-65 S, Mm 142.2, Boone Co., Myles W. Overall, Rahul Suryakant Sakhare, Justin Mukai, Jairaj Desai, Deborah Horton, Darcy M. Bullock

After-Action Reports for Traffic Incident Management (TIM)

No abstract provided.

202303-07, 03/28/2023, I-465 Ol, Mm 31, Hamilton Co., Myles W. Overall, Rahul Suryakant Sakhare, Justin Mukai, Jairaj Desai, Deborah Horton, Darcy M. Bullock

After-Action Reports for Traffic Incident Management (TIM)

No abstract provided.

Thrown Into The World, Attached To Love: On The Forms Of World-Sharing And Mourning In Heidegger, Ahmet Aktas

Department of Philosophy Student Publications

How can we understand the phenomena of loss and mourning in the Heideggerian framework? There is no established interpretation of Heidegger that gives an elaborate account of the phenomena of loss and mourning, let alone gauges its importance for our understanding and assessment of authentic existence in Heidegger. This paper attempts to do both. First, I give a detailed exposition of Heidegger’s analysis of the phenomena of mourning and loss and show that Heidegger’s analysis of mourning in his early and late work is strikingly in line with his collectivist understanding of Being-with. This demonstrates, contrary to what some of …

A Systematic Review Of Proficiency Assessment Methods In Bilingualism Research, Daniel J. Olson

School of Languages and Cultures Faculty Publications

Aims and Objectives/Purpose/Research Questions

Proficiency assessment is a key methodological consideration in the field of bilingualism, and previous reviews have highlighted significant variability in both the use and type of assessment methods. Yet, previous reviews of proficiency assessment methods in bilingualism have failed to consider key study characteristics (e.g., methodology and subfield) that may impact the choice of proficiency assessment method. This paper provides an updated systematic review of proficiency assessment methods in the field of bilingualism, analyzing trends within different methodological approaches and linguistic subfields.

Design/Methodology/Approach

A systematic review was conducted, examining recent research articles in the field of …

An Empirical Study Of Pre-Trained Model Reuse In The Hugging Face Deep Learning Model Registry, Wenxin Jiang, Nicholas Synovic, Matt Hyatt, Taylor R. Schorlemmer, Rohan Sethi, Yung-Hsiang Lu, George K. Thiruvathukal, James C. Davis

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are being adopted as components in software systems. Creating and specializing DNNs from scratch has grown increasingly difficult as state-of-the-art architectures grow more complex. Following the path of traditional software engineering, machine learning engineers have begun to reuse large-scale pre-trained models (PTMs) and fine-tune these models for downstream tasks. Prior works have studied reuse practices for traditional software packages to guide software engineers towards better package maintenance and dependency management. We lack a similar foundation of knowledge to guide behaviors in pre-trained model ecosystems.

In this work, we present the first empirical investigation of PTM reuse. …

On The Fast Prediction Of The Aerodynamic Performance Of Electronics Cooling Fans Considering The Effect Of Tip Clearance, W. Zhao, S. Wasala, T. Persoons

CTRC Research Publications

No abstract provided.

Bell Hooks Feminist Pedagogy In The Library Classroom, Melissa Chomintra

Libraries Faculty and Staff Scholarship and Research

No abstract provided.