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Population Pyramids, Anne Hoeper

Open Educational Resources

Students will be aware of population growth in India compared to the United States.

Reading A Map In Any Language, Dawn Shattuck, Kathy Sundstedt

Open Educational Resources

The students will cooperatively use map-reading skills to discover the physical and political geography of Chile.

Reflective Perspectives: Educating Our Community, Holly Hanna

Open Educational Resources

Using primary and secondary sources, students will use research to develop “empathy maps” to find patterns in thinking that highlight integral pieces of information sure to change stereotypes and prior frustrations. Those facts will be shared with the community in some fashion (student choice) to help educate the public and fuel empathy.

Rice: It Feeds The World, Kelly Davidson

Open Educational Resources

Students will identify countries mentioned in the text and locate them on a world map. Students will use an atlas to identify the climatic conditions necessary for growing rice. Students will explain the movement of cultural traditions from a country or origin to a new country.

Riding The Metro In Chile, Tami Mcinroy

Open Educational Resources

Students will learn the history of the metro in Chile. Students will understand the advantages and disadvantages of riding the metro. Students will differentiate between the Spanish and English spelling of the names of different stations. Students will understand appropriate behavior on the metro. Students will understand how to get from place to place by taking the metro, including what direction to go, when and where to switch trains and what is needed to be able to get from place to place.

Speaking Through Clothing, Kelly Davidson

Open Educational Resources

Students will analyze how Gandhi used the way he dressed to communicate with the Indian people. Students will identify some of the many layers clothing can express. Students will recognize how clothing styles vary in different styles. Students will observe how clothing styles in one region influence clothing styles in another region. Students will pinpoint the five themes of geography for two different locations.

Siege Mentality: Current And Past Conflicts, Dave Denhartog

Open Educational Resources

Students will research all about sieges. Students will reiterate creatively what they learned.

Marshalltown, Ia Landmarks Past And Present, Jill Brockman

Open Educational Resources

In this lesson, students will:

-Discover past and present Marshalltown Landmarks and discuss changes in both

-Use Google maps to locate important Marshalltown landmarks

-Write an opinion paragraph that sites evidence behind the reasoning for location of selected landmarks.

Sweet Clara And The Freedom Quilt: The Real Story, Dr. Kay Weller

Open Educational Resources

Students will generate a freedom quilt booklet.

The Color Run Project, Rachel Hansen

Open Educational Resources

Students apply knowledge of the five themes of geography to an authentic project and use Google Earth to demonstrate their geography skills.

Teaching The Five Themes Of Geography: One Grain Of Rice At A Time, Kim Daughetee

Open Educational Resources

Students will be able to identify and explain the 5 themes of geography.

The Color Run Project: Day One, Rachel Hansen

Open Educational Resources

Students can define location as a theme of geography and apply it to a city in the world.

The House That Musa Built, Anne Hoeper, Dan Walsh

Open Educational Resources

Students will be aware of building materials used in Nigeria and understand why they are used.

The Hispanic Migration Into Iowa, Joan Lehman

Open Educational Resources

Students will list, compare, and contrast the positives and negatives of Hispanics to Iowa. Students will interpret data from census.

Tin Mining On The Jos Plateau, Natasha Cooper

Open Educational Resources

Students will understand the history of tin mining on the Jos Plateau. Students will be able to apply information and brainstorm as they construct a poster on the positive and negative consequences of tin mining.

The Virgins Of Chile, Erin Nennig

Open Educational Resources

Students will investigate the immigration stories and feast day celebrations of the Virgins of Latin America. Students will map where the ideas of each Virgin originated. Students will create and present a PowerPoint describing their assigned Virgin.

What Are The Correlates Of Interdisciplinary Research Impact? The Case Of Corporate Governance Research, William Q. Judge, Thomas Weber, Maureen I. Muller-Kahle

Management Faculty Publications

We explore the concept of interdisciplinary research impact and better understand what factors might be associated with it. Using the field of corporate governance research as a case study and linking our research impact concept to a novel measure of scholarly citation rates, we seek to understand why some corporate governance scholars are cited more than others. We first developed a comprehensive ranking of the top-100 scholars cited for their research in corporate governance and then compared that "high-impact" group with scholars who had published governance research that was not yet cited. We hypothesized that indicators from the social network …

Finding Citations To Social Work Literature: The Relative Benefits Of Using Web Of Science, Scopus, Or Google Scholar, Elaine M. Lasda Bergman

University Libraries Faculty Scholarship

Past studies of citation coverage of Web of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar do not demonstrate a consistent pattern that can be applied to the interdisciplinary mix of resources used in social work research. To determine the utility of these tools to social work researchers, an analysis of citing references to well-known social work journals was conducted. Web of Science had the fewest citing references and almost no variety in source format. Scopus provided higher citation counts, but the pattern of coverage was similar toWeb of Science. Google Scholar provided substantially more citing references, but only …

On A Versatile Stochastic Growth Model, Samiur Arif, Ismail Khalil, Stephan Olariu

Computer Science Faculty Publications

Growth phenomena are ubiquitous and pervasive not only in biology and the medical sciences, but also in economics, marketing and the computer and social sciences. We introduce a three-parameter version of the classic pure-birth process growth model when suitably instantiated, can be used to model growth phenomena in many seemingly unrelated application domains. We point out that the model is computationally attractive since it admits of conceptually simple, closed form solutions for the time-dependent probabilities.

The Impact Of Powered Mobility Devices On Occupational Performance : A Systematic Review ; And, The Experience Of Being A Motorised Mobility Scooter User, Ryan Fomiatti

Theses : Honours

The impact of powered mobility devices on occupational performance: A systematic review

Purpose: To systematically review the impact powered mobility devices have on engagement in independent occupations for adults with acquired mobility limitations. Method: The following databases were searched electronically: CINAHL Plus, Medline, PsychInfo, OT Seeker, Joanna Briggs Institute and Physiotherapy Evidence Database. The search terms used a combination of words to encompass all terms which are used for powered mobility. Studies were included if they evaluated adults’ use of a motorised mobility device, and if individuals used a powered mobility device due to acquired mobility limitation. Results: Eleven studies …

African Refugee Mothers’ Experiences Of Their Children’S School Readiness, And The Role Of Supported Playgroup, Rebecca New

Theses : Honours

An emerging pressure for refugee parents in Australia relates to children’s ‘school readiness’. Existing research on mainstream, ethnic and migrant parents has highlighted that preparing children for school can be stressful; however, current literature has not considered this phenomenon for refugees in Australia. Social support is important for parents as they navigate school-related problems, and supported playgroups can potentially play an important role here for refugees. However, existing research has not yet examined the ways such programs can support these individuals in dealing with school readiness issues. Therefore, the aim of this study was to explore the experiences of African …

Aphasia Incidence And Intervention In The Acute Hospital Setting, Dominique Lidia Ferreira

Theses : Honours

Background: Current research highlights the significance of providing early and intensive aphasia therapy to maximise neural plasticity and enhance communication gains. Acute speech pathology service delivery in Australia does not consistently meet best practice standards recommended by the National Stroke Foundation. Aims: This study aimed to: i) investigate the incidence of post-stroke aphasia in the acute setting; ii) determine the referral rate to speech pathology for patients with aphasia; iii) investigate the amount of language therapy provided to people with aphasia and iv) explore the relative proportion of aphasia service delivery within the overall caseload management of speech pathologists. Method …

Lola Ridge : Poet And Renegade Modernist, Anna Hueppauff

Theses : Honours

This thesis examines the poetry of Lola Ridge as a form of alternative Modernism. Poet, editor, anarchist, Lola Ridge is largely an unknown identity in Modernist discourses. Primarily recognised as a social justice poet, her work has been viewed through a traditional Modernist lens and excluded to the periphery as ‘sentimental’. This thesis argues that Ridge personally and professionally exceeds these categories. She modelled a practice of engagement in her personal life by actively participating in rallies and protests against injustice, and living in poverty in solidarity with the poor, giving her work an authenticity worth investigating. Her poetry provides …

Property Bubble : Test For Suitability And Reliability Indicators : A Comparative Assessment Of Western Australia And Provence-Alpes-Cote D'Azur, Romain A. Aureglia

Theses : Honours

Purpose: The main purpose of this thesis is to contribute to the speculative bubble literature and to provide a practical test upon Lind’s (2008) definition and set of indicators to identify a property bubble.

Methodology: The methodology for this thesis consists of a case study and a comparative analysis. The paper will connect Lind’s theoretical framework to a practical test to provide a concrete answer for the validity of his work.

Findings: Media and general perceptions have had a great influence over the housing market actors for both Provence-Alpes-Cote d’Azur and Western Australia regions. House prices increases are often attributed …

Auburn Seventh-Day Adventist Church History, Brian Strayer

All Books

This work is presented in celebration of a much older event marking the 165th anniversary (in 2012) of the first Sabbath-keeping convert in this district in 1847 and especially the printing of the first issue of the paper The Advent Review right here in Auburn in the year 1850.

Generational Faith: Change And Consistency Across Generations, Steve Case

All Books

Will your children be just like you? Will their faith look like yours? If so, to what extent? If not, why? The Bible refers to consequences continuing to the third and fourth generations, and blessings for a thousand generations. If that’s true, why has the next generation dropped out of church and lost interest in God? Have the Bible’s promises expired? Maybe the world’s rapid changes have sped up the process, or perhaps this world has simply become too evil for faith to survive. And yet when all hope seems to be gone, young people shoot past their parents in …

Topic Based Query Suggestions For Video Search, Kong-Wah Wan, Ah-Hwee Tan, Joo-Hwee Lim, Liang-Tien Chia

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Query suggestion is an assistive technology mechanism commonly used in search engines to enable a user to formulate their search queries by predicting or completing the next few query words that the user is likely to type. In most implementations, the suggestions are mined from query log and use some simple measure of query similarity such as query frequency or lexicographical matching. In this paper, we propose an alternative method of presenting query suggestions by their thematic topics. Our method adopts a document-centric approach to mine topics in the corpus, and does not require the availability of a query log. …

Temperature Profiling Of Reflow Oven Used At Sscg Site 2 Automotive Department Of Integrated Micro-Electronics Inc., Kristoffer Jun B. Haguingan

Undergraduate Theses

The Integrated Micro-Electronics Inc. is one of the leading electronic manufacturing service provides in the country. The key features of the company are its flexibility, discipline and devotion to provide customer satisfaction. They maintain a high level of quality in their products.In their surface mount assembly lines, the use of reflow soldering is very dominant. Almost all lies use reflow ovens. Due to this matter, their profiling procedure should be well-organized and systematic. The profiling is done to arrive at an oven profile that will yield optimum level of solder quality at the same time minimizing production cost. By studying …

Robust Local Search For Solving Rcpsp/Max With Durational Uncertainty, Na Fu, Hoong Chuin Lau, Pradeep Varakantham, Fei Xiao

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Scheduling problems in manufacturing, logistics and project management have frequently been modeled using the framework of Resource Constrained Project Scheduling Problems with minimum and maximum time lags (RCPSP/max). Due to the importance of these problems, providing scalable solution schedules for RCPSP/max problems is a topic of extensive research. However, all existing methods for solving RCPSP/max assume that durations of activities are known with certainty, an assumption that does not hold in real world scheduling problems where unexpected external events such as manpower availability, weather changes, etc. lead to delays or advances in completion of activities. Thus, in this paper, our …

Tweets And Votes: A Study Of The 2011 Singapore General Election, Marko M. Skoric, Nathaniel D. Poor, Palakorn Achananuparp, Ee Peng Lim, Jing Jiang

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

This study focuses on the uses of Twitter during the elections, examining whether the messages posted online are reflective of the climate of public opinion. Using Twitter data obtained during the official campaign period of the 2011 Singapore General Election, we test the predictive power of tweets in forecasting the election results. In line with some previous studies, we find that during the elections the Twitter sphere represents a rich source of data for gauging public opinion and that the frequency of tweets mentioning names of political parties, political candidates and contested constituencies could be used to make predictions about …