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Baseball: Defense Or No?, Jacob D. Stemmerich

Undergraduate Mathematics Day: Past Content

Defense wins championships, or so they say. How do baseball organizations find the right defenders to win games? FanGraphs has published a series of metrics that teams throughout Major Leage Baseball use to quantify players’ fielding prowess. Baseball analysts use Wins Above Replacement, WAR, to predict who should be the league most valuable player, MVP. This uses defensive metrics to quantify how many runs the player produces when the team wins. The paper will discuss the metrics that already exist, and the technology that has been developed to analyze these metrics and other measurements of a player’s defensive skills.

Concavity In Fractional Calculus, Paul W. Eloe, Jeffrey T. Neugebauer

Mathematics Faculty Publications

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Gendering Patriotism: Wartime Culture And Propaganda In Wwi, Emily Elizabeth Haynes

Joyce Durham Essay Contest in Women's and Gender Studies

The cover of a popular 1918 American song, "Keep the Home Together, Mother, Thaf s All We're Fighting For/' suggested that the main goal of World War I was to protect and sustain the home.1 It depicted three women from all different generations sitting at a kitchen table. One is reading and two are working on a sewing project. A small black cat meanders nearby this domestic scene. This image placed an emphasis on gendered spatialization-women are at home performing traditional women's work, such as sewing and maintaining the home, while men are outside performing men's work, such as fighting …

Magic Polygons And Their Properties, Victoria Jakicic, Rachelle Bouchat

Undergraduate Mathematics Day: Past Content

Magic squares are arrangements of natural numbers into square arrays, where the sum of each row, each column, and both diagonals is the same. In this paper, the concept of a magic square with 3 rows and 3 columns is generalized to define magic polygons. Furthermore, this paper will examine the existence of magic polygons, along with several other properties inherent to magic polygons.

A Place Of Passage: Graphic Design And The Transformation Of Space Into Experience, Misty Thomas-Trout

‘A Place of Passage’: Supplemental materials

This book explains the story behind the artwork in the first-floor central corridor of St. Mary's Hall.

Students and faculty in a Department of Art and Design practicum course — called Ligature Studio — worked for almost two years on the project, which was completed in January 2019. The holistic design concept aimed to honor the physical and spiritual passage of individuals through time through one of UD’s oldest facilities.

Literary Didacticism And Collective Human Rights In Us Borderlands: Ana Castillo's 'The Guardians' And Louise Erdrich's 'The Round House', Tereza M. Szeghi

English Faculty Publications

There is now a sizable body of scholarship on the relationship between human rights and literature. James Dawes suggests that the work of human rights is largely a matter of storytelling ("Human Rights in Literary Studies"). Joseph Slaughter contends, in turn, that "literary works and literary modes of thinking have played important parts in the emergence of modern human rights ideals and sentiments, as well as in the elaboration of national and international human rights laws" ("Rights" xiii). More specifically, in her oft-cited Inventing Human Rights, Lynn Hunt argues that contemporary human rights thought derives from the rise of …

Handwritten Bangla Character Recognition Using The State-Of-The-Art Deep Convolutional Neural Networks, Md Zahangir Alom, Paheding Sidike, Mahmudul Hasan, Tarek M. Taha, Vijayan K. Asari

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

In spite of advances in object recognition technology, handwritten Bangla character recognition (HBCR) remains largely unsolved due to the presence of many ambiguous handwritten characters and excessively cursive Bangla handwritings. Even many advanced existing methods do not lead to satisfactory performance in practice that related to HBCR. In this paper, a set of the state-of-the-art deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) is discussed and their performance on the application of HBCR is systematically evaluated. The main advantage of DCNN approaches is that they can extract discriminative features from raw data and represent them with a high degree of invariance to object …

Prospective Study Of The Feasibility Of Point-Of-Care Testing Strategy For Carbapenem-Resistant Organism Detection, Rahul Pannala, Bruce Baldwin, Vijay Aluru, Thomas E. Grys, Jordan Holmes, Laurence J. Miller, M. Edwyn Harrison, Cuong C. Nguyen, Fred C. Tenover, David Persing, Douglas O. Faigel

Biology Faculty Publications

Background/aims: In an investigator-initiated, prospective study, we evaluated the feasibility of a five-gene sequence point-of-care (POC) testing strategy (Xpert CARBA-R Assay, Cepheid Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, USA), compared to reference laboratory PCR (48 – 72 hours turnaround time, two gene sequences), in patients undergoing endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) and in a hospital outbreak investigation.

Methods: After informed consent, patients undergoing ERCP (September 2015 – April 2016, n = 191) at Mayo Clinic and potential hospital contacts (n = 9) of an index carbapenem-resistant organism (CRO)-positive inpatient were included. Two rectal swabs, one each for reference and POC assays were obtained. The …

Ltc Newsletter, University Of Dayton. Ryan C. Harris Learning Teaching Center

LTC Newsletter

Spring 2018

The Assessment Mandates In The Aba Accreditation Standards And Their Impact On Individual Academic Freedom Rights, Victoria L. Vanzandt

School of Law Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Commitment To Community (2018), University Of Dayton. Campus Ministry, University Of Dayton. Student Development

Student Development Documents

Behavior, expectations, policies and relationships at UD are guided by the Catholic moral tradition. This document highlights three Catholic and Marianist principles for learning and living in community and the key habits which are derived from them. Individuals and groups are called to understand these principles and to develop these habits. Doing so will strengthen the educational community at UD and will prepare students to live as mature members of society

Safer Housing, University Of Dayton

News Releases

To bring extra focus on health and safety for students, the University of Dayton will contract with the City of Dayton for a housing inspector dedicated to ensuring all properties in student neighborhoods meet zoning, housing and building codes.

Best College Value, University Of Dayton

News Releases

The University of Dayton has been named a "best value" by Kiplinger's Personal Finance for exceptional academic quality and affordability.

Leaders Who Serve (With Care), Eric F. Spina

President's Blog: From the Heart

Sometimes a quiet moment away from the traditional graduation ceremony can be as joy-filled and every bit as moving as seeing ecstatic graduates, diplomas in hand, hug classmates and families.

Promoting Transition To Postsecondary Education: Creating Opportunities For Social Change, J. Christopher Linscott, Carey Busch

Journal of Research, Assessment, and Practice in Higher Education

Multiple studies document that students with disabilities participate at significantly lower rates than their peers without disabilities in post-secondary education, post-school employment, independent living, and community participation. This article exposits a program model at Ohio University, Gateway to Success, which addresses this inequity through a combined effort of various stakeholders. Particular consideration is given to evidence based predictors related to post-school success, the need for intervention, and the social justice implications of increased participation in post-secondary education for students with disabilities.

Electronic Anonymous Communications: Considerations For Higher Education Administrators, Sandra C. Coyner, Peggy L. Mccann

Journal of Research, Assessment, and Practice in Higher Education

Communications via electronic technology have expanded to encompass daily life for most higher education students, faculty, staff, and administrators. The Pew Research Center reports that nearly 100% of undergraduate and graduate students access the Internet (Smith, Rainie, & Zikuhr, 2011). Computers, cell phones, and tablets are an integral part of university life and student communications using social media websites, text messaging, online chat, and websites are widespread. Electronic communications can be categorized as websites, application, or social media. A subset of these electronic communications, characterized as anonymous, may present a particular challenge to those working in higher education institutions. Created …

Grounded Practical Theory To Improve Persistence-Retention Strategic Enrollment Management, Kenneth W. Borland Jr.

Journal of Research, Assessment, and Practice in Higher Education

The author introduces grounded practical theory (GPT) as a useful research approach in the field of strategic enrollment management (SEM) and its focus on persistence-retention. The GPT approach is then illustrated by engaging sample voices of persistence-retention and SEM; scientific theory (the philosophical level) and normative theory (the technical level) as observed in the literature. The scientific theory voices and normative theory voices are then positioned in relation to voices of students and practitioners (observed respondents) who have identified real world persistence-retention and SEM problems. These problems suggest implications for reconstructing the relationship between persistence-retention and SEM philosophical, theoretical, and …

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Journal of Research, Assessment, and Practice in Higher Education

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Journal of Research, Assessment, and Practice in Higher Education

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Alumni Profile: William Copeland Jr., Dave Larsen

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

University of Dayton alumnus William "Bill" Copeland Jr. '79 is a health care industry leader who serves as vice chairman for Deloitte LLP and writes about issues related to health care reform, governance and medical management. He has been quoted in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Modern Healthcare and Managed Healthcare Executive.

On The Academic Minute, Meagan Pant

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

Political scientist Michelle Pautz is featured on the popular radio program The Academic Minute for her research on movies and government officials.

Code Of Regulations Of The University Of Dayton, Effective 2017-12-19, University Of Dayton

University Governing Documents

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Basic Governing Documents, Effective 2017-12-19, University Of Dayton

University Governing Documents

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New Generation Of Biomedicine, Dave Larsen

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

Converging biology, physics, mathematics and engineering research could create innovative solutions to major health issues such as cancer and Alzheimer's disease. The University of Dayton is well-suited to model such a transition, a former National Cancer Institute deputy director said during a campus visit.

Video: Ipi Hosts Intern From Malawi, Aaron Alford

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

Ignatius Mvula spent two months this fall at the University of Dayton's Institute for Pastoral Initiatives (IPI) learning to develop online faith formation courses for his diocese in Malawi, Africa.

Decisions, Decisions, Bonnie Jean Feldkamp

Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog

On our drive to school, my daughter and I listened to a celebrity interview on the radio. In it, the men discussed that they eat the same three meals each day to eliminate three decisions they'd otherwise have to make. The objective was to quiet their growling tummies so they could get back to work, not obsess over food choices.

Early Eye Development, Dave Larsen

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

University of Dayton biologist Amit Singh is studying early eye development in fruit flies to understand the molecular basis of retinal disease and birth defects in the human eye under a new $439,499 grant from the National Institutes of Health.

The Mystery Of The Spanish Antiphonary, Maureen Schlangen

University Libraries Blog Archive

Scholarly sleuths delight in the discovery of new clues about the age, origins and purposes of a rare book of Christmastide antiphons.

In. Bam., Teri Rizvi

Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog

In the first 20 minutes alone, 150 writers registered for the 2018 Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop, paving the way for a sellout in record time - just shy of five hours. Lela Davidson, of Rogers, Ohio, expressed her joy in two words: "In. Bam."

A "Paws" From Studying, University Of Dayton

News Releases

Students who are feeling "ruff" during finals week can stop by the University of Dayton's Roesch Library for some puppy love and other stress-busting activities.

Finals week is a stressful time for college students, so the University is offering a variety of activities — and advice — to ease anxiety for students, ranging from pizza to puppies and meditation to massages.