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Igeneration: A Study In Challenge Based Learning At A Small Private University, Jodi A. Hift

Graduate Student Dissertations, Theses, Capstones, and Portfolios

Faculty-buy in is an essential component of successful technology integration processes at the Higher Education level. The goal of this case study was to assess the University faculty's role in the utilization of Challenge Based Learning while teaching undergraduate students. Did the University have the faculty's support and buy-in concerning the use of Challenge Based Learning as a campus-wide initiative? The perspectives of 16 full-time University faculty members enrolled in a Challenge Based Learning pilot study were explored at the beginning of the Challenge Based Learning pilot and then and were assessed again upon the completion of the pilot. The …

Asymptotic Multi-Layer Analysis Of Wind Over Unsteady Monochromatic Surface Waves, Shahrdad Sajjadi, Julian Hunt, Frederique Drullion

Publications

Asymptotic multi-layer analyses and computation of solutions for turbulent flows over steady and unsteady monochromatic surface wave are reviewed, in the limits of low turbulent stresses and small wave amplitude. The structure of the flow is defined in terms of asymptotically-matched thin-layers, namely the surface layer and a critical layer, whether it is ‘elevated’ or ‘immersed’, corresponding to its location above or within the surface layer. The results particularly demonstrate the physical importance of the singular flow features and physical implications of the elevated critical layer in the limit of the unsteadiness tending to zero. These agree with the variational …

Patient-Specific Modeling Of Adult Acquired Flatfoot Deformity Before And After Surgery, Edward Meade Spratley

Theses and Dissertations

The use of computational modeling is an increasingly commonplace technique for the investigation of biomechanics in intact and pathological musculoskeletal systems. Moreover, given the robust and repeatable nature of computer simulation and the prevalence of software techniques for accurate 3-D reconstructions of tissues, the predictive power of these models has increased dramatically. However, there are no patient-specific kinematic models whose function is dictated solely by physiologic soft-tissue constraints, articular shape and contact, and without idealized joint approximations. Moreover, very few models have attempted to predict surgical effects combined with postoperative validation of those predictions. Given this, it is not surprising …

Gay, Straight, Or Slightly Bent? The Interaction Of Leader Sexual Orientation And Gender On Leadership Evaluations, Fred George Macoukji

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Abstract

Existing research has shown that gender stereotypes regarding characteristics of men and women influence others' perceptions of their fit with organizational roles, including leadership roles (cf. Eagly & Karau, 2002). However, little research has examined stereotypes regarding other demographic characteristics (e.g., race, sexual orientation) and how they may interact with gender stereotypes to influence leadership evaluations. The current study examined whether leader gender and sexual orientation interact to influence subordinates' evaluations of leader effectiveness, likability, and boss desirability using an experimental design. In addition to examining whether leader gender and sexual orientation interacted to predict leader evaluations, the present …

December 5, 2013, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

Curriculum Subcommittee Minutes, December 5, 2013, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

Department of Applied Economics

• Prerequisite Change

School of Applied Sciences, Technology and Education

• New Course

Department of Nutrition, Dietetics and Food Sciences

• Course Description Change

Department of Plants, Soils and Climate

• Prerequisite Change

Department of Art and Design

• Title Change, Course Description Change
• Title Change, Credit Hour Change, Prerequisite Change, Remove Repeatable for Credit, Course Description Change
• Title Change, Credit Hour Change, Course Description Change
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Jon M. Huntsman School of Business

• Title Change, Prerequisite Change, Course Description Change

Department of Management

• New Course
• Prerequisite Change, Course Description Change

Department of Health, Physical Education and Recreation

• New Course
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The Monumental Province: Asia And The Temples Of The Roman Empire, Andrew Findley

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This dissertation presents a study of monumental temples built or appropriated by the Romans in the province of Asia from the late 1st to the middle 2nd century AD. The practice of constructing extraordinarily large temples in Asia originated during the Hellenistic period but ceased for several centuries until the Roman Empire took control of the region and began to build monumental temples in the province. This study focuses on five temples that best represent the Roman relationship with monumental temple building in the province of Asia: the Wadi B Temple at Sardis, the Vetters Temple at Ephesus, the Red …

Transformation Of Stimulus Correlations By The Retina, Kristina D. Simmons, Jason Prentice, Gašper Tkačik, Jan Homann, Heather K. Yee, Stephanie E. Palmer, Philip C. Nelson, Vijay Balasubramanian

Publications and Research

Redundancies and correlations in the responses of sensory neurons may seem to waste neural resources, but they can also carry cues about structured stimuli and may help the brain to correct for response errors. To investigate the effect of stimulus structure on redundancy in retina, we measured simultaneous responses from populations of retinal ganglion cells presented with natural and artificial stimuli that varied greatly in correlation structure; these stimuli and recordings are publicly available online. Responding to spatio-temporally structured stimuli such as natural movies, pairs of ganglion cells were modestly more correlated than in response to white noise checkerboards, but …

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Breaking In My Anthropological Shoes: Reflections On My First Days Of Fieldwork, Casiana I. Pascariu

Journal of Contemporary Anthropology

This paper explores the first day of ethnographic fieldwork conducted by an M.A. student. Starting in a non-Roma community, and trying to reach the Roma, I describe the difficulty of conducting fieldwork for the first time. I discuss the day I introduced myself to the community, the awkward and unnatural behavior of teachers toward my future informants, and the confusion and shyness of the Roma students felt in my presence. 

The Social Construction Of Childhood Bullying Through U.S. News Media, Rachel Wayne

Journal of Contemporary Anthropology

For the past ten years, childhood bullying has been heavily discussed in public discourse, through increased news reporting, discussion in awareness campaigns, and court proceedings. The characterization of bullying in the media is symptomatic of this discourse; moreover, it reflects the social construction of bullying. In particular, news media’s emotional and scientific portrayal of bullying has inspired criminalization of the act and defined bullying as a normative trend of deviant behavior—a marked difference from its previous portrayal as an isolated but treatable act. In this paper, I report the findings from a content analysis of articles from mainstream U.S. news …

An Exploration Of The Social Effectiveness Of Political Kidnapping Testimonios In Colombia, María Del Pilar File-Muriel

Journal of Contemporary Anthropology

The social destruction resulting from seven-decades of armed conflict places Colombia among the top countries in human rights violations in the Americas. Advocates for kidnapping victims in Colombia believe that survival stories or testimonios present a possibility for generating social awareness in the general society that could lead to social change. Through textual analysis, tracing the circulation of three testimonios, and interviews with Colombian university students and members of NGOs, this paper explores whether testimonios produced in the Colombian context by political elites and victims of kidnapping serve as vehicles to increase social awareness. Initial interviews reveal that though there …

An Econometric Analysis Of The “Backward-Bending” Labour Supply Of Canadian Women, Adib J. Rahman

Undergraduate Economic Review

This econometric study investigates the labour supply behaviour of Canadian women at different composite hourly wages of all paid jobs. The objectives of this study are to test the canonical model of labour supply and to observe women's responsiveness to changes in the wage rate by using 2009 cross-sectional data. The results show a backward bending labour supply schedule for Canadian women, and thereby confirm the conclusions reached by the Nakamuras (1981), and Robinson and Thomes (1985).

An Experimental Test Of Culturally Specific Versus Standard Smoking Cessation Messages Targeting Hispanics, Denise Rodríguez Esquivel

Open Access Dissertations

Culturally specific smoking cessation interventions have been recommended for racial/ethnic minority smokers in the U.S., though few cessation trials have focused on Hispanics. As a result, little is known about effective intervention delivery or factors that should be considered. The aims of this study were to test the acceptability and efficacy of a smoking cessation intervention varying in cultural specificity and language. Participants (N = 222) were English-Spanish bilingual Hispanic smokers recruited from the community. A 2 (Language: preferred vs. less preferred) X 2 (Intervention type: standard vs. culturally specific) between-subjects experiment was conducted. Language preference was assessed, and participants …

Towards On-Site Detection Of Nucleic Acids For Pathogen Monitoring, Daohong Zhang

Open Access Dissertations

As a leading cause of death in developing countries and a persistent problem elsewhere, pathogenic organisms are as ubiquitous as they are dangerous. Significant worldwide resources are directed toward their detection and eradication, leading to a broad coalition of government agencies, healthcare providers, academic researchers, and food manufacturers dedicated to providing the best-available prevention strategies for mitigating exposure risk. At the forefront of this effort is the field of pathogen detection. Our work directly addresses the current lack of simple, rapid, sensitive, and selective pathogen detection methods needed for frontline intervention in the most at-risk populations. To begin, we focused …

How Intrinsic Motivation And Extrinsic Motivation Affect Organizational Commitment And Job Satisfaction: A Cross-Cultural Study In The United States And China, Yundong Huang

Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation research is designed to identify how an individual’s work motivation affects his/her organizational commitment and job satisfaction. Work motivation is divided into intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. The three components of organizational commitment proposed by Meyer and Allen are examined separately. This study is a cross-cultural study based on data collected from the United States and China. The data are analyzed using partial least square (PLS) based structural equation modeling (SEM). The results of the SEM analysis are compared between the US and the China sample. The results of this study show that intrinsic motivation is positively associated with …

Monitor’S Report Regarding Compliance By Defendants J.P. Morgan Chase & Company And J.P. Morgan Chase Bank, N.A. For The Measurement Periods Ended March 31, 2013 And June 30, 2013, United States Of America, Et Al. V. Bank Of America Corp., Et Al.

National Mortgage Settlements Digital Archive

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Monitor’S Report Regarding Compliance By Defendants Citigroup, Inc., Citibank, N.A. And Citimortgage, Inc. For The Measurement Periods Ended March 31, 2013 And June 30, 2013, United States Of America, Et Al. V. Bank Of America Corp., Et Al.

National Mortgage Settlements Digital Archive

No abstract provided.

Monitor’S Report Regarding Compliance By Defendants Wells Fargo & Company And Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. For The Measurement Periods Ended March 31, 2013 And June 30, 2013, United States Of America, Et Al. V. Bank Of America Corp., Et Al.

National Mortgage Settlements Digital Archive

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Monitor’S Report Regarding Compliance By Defendant Bank Of America, N.A. For The Measurement Periods Ended March 31, 2013 And June 30, 2013, United States Of America, Et Al. V. Bank Of America Corp., Et Al.

National Mortgage Settlements Digital Archive

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Oversight Update: The National Mortgage Settlement Monitor's Second Compliance Report, Joseph A. Smith

National Mortgage Settlements Digital Archive

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The Effectiveness Of Internet Activity Erasure Tools To Protect Privacy, Brian Cusack, Andrew Woodward, Scott Butson, Benjamin Leber

Australian Information Security Management Conference

When most people go to the trouble of getting erasure tools to remove data from their hard drives they expect the job is done correctly. Using erasure tools is a step to protect privacy by assuming the applied tools erase data rather than simply delete data that may be recovered using forensic tools. In this research we tested the performance of the delete function on three web browsers against the performance of eight erasure tools with alarming results. It was found that the erasure tools had almost the same capability to delete data as the web browsers delete function; and …

Hippocampus And Retrosplenial Cortex Combine Path Integration Signals For Successful Navigation, Katherine R. Sherrill, Ugur M. Erdem, Robert S. Ross, Thackery I. Brown, Chantal E. Stern, Michael E. Hasselmo

Psychology

The current study used fMRI in humans to examine goal-directed navigation in an open field environment. We designed a task that required participants to encode survey-level spatial information and subsequently navigate to a goal location in either first person, third person, or survey perspectives. Critically, no distinguishing landmarks or goal location markers were present in the environment, thereby requiring participants to rely on path integration mechanisms for successful navigation. We focused our analysis on mechanisms related to navigation and mechanisms tracking linear distance to the goal location. Successful navigation required translation of encoded survey-level map information for orientation and implementation …

The Daily Egyptian, December 04, 2013, Daily Egyptian Staff

December 2013

No abstract provided.

Uc Agenda 2013-12-04, Northern Illinois University

University Council Archives

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Security Analysis And Forensic Investigation Of Home & Commercial Alarm Systemsin New Zealand: Current Research Findings, Alastair Nisbet, Maria Kim

Australian Digital Forensics Conference

Alarm systems with keypads, sensors and sirens protect our homes and commercial premises from intruders. The reliability of these systems has improved over the past years but the technology has remained largely as it was 3 decades ago. With simple keypads and generally 4 digit PIN codes used for setting and unsetting the alarms, the main protection against a determined intruder is the necessity to choose robust PIN codes. However, with PIN codes chosen that are generally easy to remember and therefore relatively easy to guess, or numbers chosen to follow a pattern on the keypad, the main protection from …

Developing A Mobile Audiometric Sound Booth Application For Apple Ios Devices, Luke J. Brook, Patricia A.H. Williams

Australian eHealth Informatics and Security Conference

Hearing loss in Australian children, particularly those in rural and remote areas, is a growing health concern. Resultant deafness has significant impact on the educational and social development of such children. Whilst telehealth had provided other benefits for rural and remote areas, the absence of suitable testing equipment and associated healthcare specialists has meant that there is a gap in this area of child health that could be addressed using a mobile solution. This paper discusses the research and development of a mobile application for testing and diagnosis of hearing loss in children. It is unique in its ability to …

The Applicability Of Iso/Iec27014:2013 For Use Within General Medical Practice, Rachel J. Mahncke

Australian eHealth Informatics and Security Conference

General practices are increasingly cognizant of their responsibilities in regards to information security, as is evidenced by professional bodies such as the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) who publish the Computer and Information Security Standards (CISS) for General Practices. Information security governance in general medical practice is an emerging area of importance. As such, the CISS (2013) standard incorporates elements of information security governance. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) released a new global standard in May 2013 entitled, ISO/IEC 27014:2013 Information technology -- Security techniques -- Governance of information security. The release of this revised ISO standard, …

The Syrian Calling: Western Jihad Recruitment And Martyrdom, Robyn Torok

Australian Counter Terrorism Conference

The crisis in Syria has attracted worldwide attention as well as condemnation and has degraded into a violent civil conflict. Not only are there more than a thousand rebel groups including a number of hard‐line jihadist groups operating within Syria, but these jihadist groups are attracting a significant number of foreigners including Australians. This study examined social media discourses from Facebook and embedded YouTube links for recruiting Westerners to the war in Syria. Findings suggest that the perceived inaction of the international community and in particular the West coupled with the atrocities committed has become a platform for jihadi recruitment. …

Easterner, Vol. 65, No. 10, December 4, 2013, Associated Students Of Eastern Washington University

Student Newspapers

This issue of the Easterner contains articles about relief for a Filipino victims of a typhoon, international basketball players, president Arevalo's international recruiting travels, pet adoption services, laser tag on campus, an event called Walk on the Wild Side, University Archivist Charles Mutschler, the cheerleading team, football player McKenzie Murphy, and the men's' and women's basketball seasons.