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Individual Factors And Successful Learning In A Hybrid Course, Kelly Arispe, Robert J. Blake

World Languages Faculty Publications and Presentations

What personality factors make for a successful hybrid L2 learning experience? While previous studies have examined online learning in comparative terms (i.e. Which format is better: in class or hybrid?), this study examines certain personality and cognitive factors that might define the ideal hybrid language learner. All informants studied introductory Spanish with multimedia materials supported by synchronous chat (video, voice, text). Personality and cognitive traits were probed using the Big Five Inventory scale (BFI¹) and the Shipley Institute of Living scale (SILS²), respectively. The results were correlated with course outcomes and learner preferences for online, chat, …

Laser-Induced Electron Diffraction For Probing Rare Gas Atoms, Junliang Xu, Cosmin I. Blaga, Anthony D. Dichiara, Emily Sistrunk, Kaikai Zhang, Zhangjin Chen, Anh-Thu Le, Toru Morishita, C. D. Lin, Pierre Agostini, Louis F. Dimauro

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

Recently, using midinfrared laser-induced electron diffraction (LIED), snapshots of a vibrating diatomic molecule on a femtosecond time scale have been captured [C.I. Blaga et al., Nature (London) 483, 194 (2012)]. In this Letter, a comprehensive treatment for the atomic LIED response is reported, a critical step in generalizing this imaging method. Electron-ion differential cross sections (DCSs) of rare gas atoms are extracted from measured angular-resolved, high-energy electron momentum distributions generated by intense midinfrared lasers. Following strong-field ionization, the high-energy electrons result from elastic rescattering of a field-driven wave packet with the parent ion. For recollision energies [greater or equal] 100eV, …

Gardner-Webb, The Magazine 2012, Fall (Volume 47 No. 3), Noel T. Manning Ii

Gardner-Webb, The Magazine

Gardner-Webb, The Magazine, previously titled The Webb Magazine, focuses on alumni news and campus events from Gardner-Webb College; now Gardner-Webb University. This particular issue focuses heavily on the relationship between GWU and medicine. Article topics range from being about the new Exercise Science Major to honoring medical legacies in Boiling Springs, such as Gene Washburn. In between are articles featuring Gardner-Webb alumni and current students alike and how they are becoming involved in the medical world. The opening of the Tucker Student Center is featured along with sports updates and praise for a new enrollment record.

Grm7 Variants Associated With Age-Related Hearing Loss Based On Auditory Perception, Dina L. Newman, Laurel M. Fisher, Jeffrey Ohmen, Robert Parody, Chin-To Fong, Susan T. Frisina, Frances Mapes, David A. Eddins, Robert D. Frisina, Rick A. Friedman

Articles

Age-related hearing impairment (ARHI), or presbycusis, is a common condition of the elderly that results in significant communication difficulties in daily life. Clinically, it has been defined as a progressive loss of sensitivity to sound, starting at the high frequencies, inability to understand speech, lengthening of the minimum discernable temporal gap in sounds, and a decrease in the ability to filter out background noise. The causes of presbycusis are likely a combination of environmental and genetic factors. Previous research into the genetics of presbycusis has focused solely on hearing as measured by pure-tone thresholds. A few loci have been identified, …

Semantic Similarity Detection In Natural Language Documents, Lianyu Zhao

All Theses

Data leak prevention (DLP) solutions monitor and control data flow. Current techniques find data that matches user defined syntactic patterns. Unfortunately, large classes of DLP relevant data are defined by information semantics, rather than data syntax. Syntax refers to data format, whereas semantics refers to data meaning. The class of social security numbers can be adequately expressed using data syntax, whereas a new industrial process can only be adequately described using information semantics. In this paper, we propose methods for extracting and identifying document semantics using training sets of limited size (tens of documents). The first method is based on …

'Losing A Life To Find It' Ben Robertson, Jr.'S Freedom Quest, Beatrice Bailey

All Theses

This thesis is a revisionist perspective on the life and legacy of Ben Robertson, Jr. Throughout the last seventy years, a few efforts have been made to assess Robertson's significant contributions. For the most part, these have focused on his accomplishments as a southern author or journalist in the first half of the twentieth century. This thesis, in contrast, examines Robertson's life trajectory in terms of his understanding of and commitment to American freedoms. It examines how Robertson, a young man from the upcountry of South Carolina, was able to become a leader in one of the most significant freedom …

Summerbridge Case For Support, Summerbridge San Diego

Fundraising and Marketing

Summerbridge seeks to close the summer learning loss gap between low and high income students and encourage talented college students to consider a career in teaching.

This is their case for support.

Professional Conversations: Mentor Teachers’ Theories-In-Use Using The Australian National Professional Standards For Teachers, Simon N. Leonard

Australian Journal of Teacher Education

In this paper the written feedback provided by mentor teachers using a new assessment model for preservice teacher professional experience deployed in the Australian Capital Territory and based on the Australian National Standards for Teachers is analysed. The analysis reveals mentor teachers hold a pervasive theory-in-use in regards to the needs of beginning teachers that may restrict the developmental ambition of the assessment model. The restricted vision of what is important for beginning teachers held by mentor teachers is possibly a reaction to continual change within school education. The analysis is preceded by a description of the ‘Professional Conversations’ model …

Modeling System Of Systems Acquisition, Nil Kilicay-Ergin, Paulette Acheson, John Colombi, Cihan H. Dagli

Engineering Management and Systems Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

System of systems (SoS) acquisition is a dynamic process of integrating independent systems. This paper describes modeling of the SoS acquisition environment based on the Wave Process Model. Agent-Based modeling methodology is utilized to abstract behavioral aspects of the acquisition process. © 2012 IEEE.

Front Matter, Ohio Cardinal

Ohio Cardinal

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Oos Membership, Ohio Cardinal

Ohio Cardinal

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Comments On The Season, Craig Caldwell

Ohio Cardinal

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Species Accounts, Craig Caldwell

Ohio Cardinal

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The Barn Owl Project, Tom Henry, Jack Henry

Ohio Cardinal

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Return Of The Exile Whooping Crane Grus Americana, Bill Whan

Ohio Cardinal

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Years Ago, Ohio Cardinal

Ohio Cardinal

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Back Matter, Ohio Cardinal

Ohio Cardinal

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Speleo Spiel, No. 393, November-December 2012, Alan Jackson

Speleo Spiel

Contents: Regular Bits -- Trip Reports -- Other Exciting News -- Surveys

Extracellular Matrix And Fibroblast Communication Following Myocardial Infarction, Yonggang Ma, Ganesh V. Halade, Merry L. Lindsey

Internal Medicine Faculty Publications

The extracellular matrix (ECM) provides structural support by serving as a scaffold for cells, and as such the ECM maintains normal tissue homeostasis and mediates the repair response following injury. In response to myocardial infarction (MI), ECM expression is generally upregulated in the left ventricle (LV), which regulates LV remodeling by modulating scar formation. The ECM directly affects scar formation by regulating growth factor release and cell adhesion and indirectly affects scar formation by regulating the inflammatory, angiogenic, and fibroblast responses. This review summarizes the current literature on ECM expression patterns and fibroblast mechanisms in the myocardium, focusing on the …

Final Environmental Impact Statement: Edwards Aquifer Recovery Implementation Program Habitat Conservation Plan, U.S. Fish And Wildlife Service

KIP Articles

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New Species Of Stygobiotic Belgrandiella From North Bulgaria (Gastropoda: Hydrobiidae)

KIP Articles

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Espeleorevista Puerto Rico, No. 7, July-December 2012, Marianela Mercado Burgos

KIP Articles

Contents: Cuevas: refugio de nuestro arte rupestre Para el culebrón, el tamaño hace la diferencia Calidad del agua en las Cuevas de Aguas Buenas 1 Las Rocas de las Cuevas de Isla de Mona e Isla Monito Cueva Sorbetos Las Cuevas Verticales de los Cerros de Maniabón en Holguín, Cuba Atrapados en la Cueva del Viento Tropa y Crew 230 en Cueva el Arco De camino a República Checa, donde los caminos se encuentran en el 2013 Anuncios de Congresos y Simposios Espeleológicos

Native American Theatre, Playwrights & Spirit Of Place, Sonia Elizabeth Kircher

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

My thesis and research focuses on Native American Theatre, playwrights and performance in the Americas. I am interested in the history of Indigenous performance as it pertains to spirit of place, colonization, Native American philosophy and critical race theory. | 88 pages

Counselor, Victor Thomas Giannini

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Counselor is a novel about the most important night of Timothy Dune's life. As our depressed, drug poisoned, alcoholic, and certainly neurotic narrator, Tim struggles to make amends to those he has wronged. Living in a nightmarish future, a decaying world where animals are going extinct, the American Dream is long dead, and his best friends are violent criminals, Tim sees one last chance to change his life. Struggling with the suicide of his first love, Tracy Cameron, and the betrayal of his best friend, Barry Cameron, Tim blames a childhood curse for all his misfortune. After putting Barry in …

The Paradise Within Thee: The Undying Promise Of Transcendence In Paradise Lost, Thomas Christopher Mistler

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

John Milton's Paradise Lost in its simplest sense is a poem about disobedience, loss, and sin. Borrowing much of its inspiration and material from the Book of Genesis, the great English epic tells of the Fall of Man, or the choice of Adam and Eve to disobey God by eating the forbidden fruit of the tree of knowledge. The consequences of this action are, according to Milton and Christian tradition, tremendous. The very first lines of Paradise Lost emphasize this point, telling how "Man's first disobedience" brought "death into the world and all our [humanity's] woe" (I.1, 3). In my …

On The Social Construction Of Hellenism Cold War Narratives Of Modernity, Development And Democracy For Greece, Despina Lalaki

Publications and Research

Hellenism is one of those overarching, ever-changing narratives always subject to historical circumstances, intellectual fashions and political needs. Conversely, it is fraught with meaning and conditioning powers, enabling and constraining imagination and practical life. In this essay I tease out the hold that the idea of Hellas has had on post-war Greece and I explore the ways in which the American anti-communist rhetoric and discussions about political and economic stabilization appropriated and rearticulated Hellenism. Central to this history of transformations are the archaeologists; the archaeologists as intellectuals, as producers of culture who, while stepping in and out of their disciplinary …

Joint Use Partnerships: Evaluating The Feasibility Of A Joint Use Partnerhsip Between The City Of San Luis Obispo And Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Kathryn S. Mineo

Master's Theses

As demand for additional athletic fields continues to increase, the City of San Luis Obispo is struggling to meet the recreation needs of the community. This project evaluated the feasibility of a joint use partnerships with Cal Poly San Luis Obispo for the shared use of the University’s underutilized Sports Complex, and made recommendations of strategies to address the City’s recreation needs. This project reviewed current and professional academic literature on successful approaches to joint use partnerships; conducted case study analyses on two Cal Poly facilities; and worked with City and University officials to examine the issues associated with establishing …

Energy Development And Conservation Of Sympatric Wildlife: New Approaches To Meet Growing Challenges, William Christian Dunn

Biology ETDs

Conflicts between energy development and conservation of sympatric wildlife are becoming more acute as demand for energy increases. Resolving these conflicts is complex-- solutions must address the role of location, scale, and connectivity in persistence of populations. In Chapter 1, I use the MaxEnt species distribution model and pertinent climate variables to predict the natural distribution of the Lesser Prairie Chicken (LPC) (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus), a prairie grouse adversely affected by habitat loss from energy development. Within the geographic range of LPC, precipitation was strongly associated with its distribution in the north, whereas temperature was strongly associated with its distribution in …

Effects Of Climate Change Upon Birds In The Mojave And Sonoran Deserts, Harinamsimran Kaur Khalsa

Biology ETDs

Climate change has increasingly become an area of concern in relation to ecological communities. In this study, climatic signals were investigated to determine whether bird diversity indices in the Breeding Conservation Region (BCR) of the Mojave and Sonoran Deserts were related (1) to the oceanic/atmospheric systems El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO), the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO), and/or the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO); (2) to regional moisture influences determined by the Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI); and (3) to local precipitation and temperature. Specifically, an examination was conducted to determine the relationship between climatic variables for thirteen bird species, total abundance …

Genetic Diversity, Local Differentiation, And Adaptive Evolution In Introduced Populations Of The Invasive Plant Isatis Tinctoria L. (Brassicaceae), Heather L. Simpson

Biology ETDs

Populations of invasive species are often characterized as genetically depauperate, an inherent consequence of the colonization process. It has also been suggested that species that are able to avoid these reductions in genetic diversity may be better able to adapt to their introduced range. Evolutionary change can play an important role in the invasion process if novel selective pressures drive adaptive evolution. Species that are able to avoid reductions in genetic diversity associated with colonization may be better able to adapt to their introduced range. To better understand the genetic processes following invasion, introduced populations of the invasive mustard, Isatis …