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Memory, Cognition, And The Effect Of A Music Intervention On Healthy Older Adults, Shannon L. Bowles

Theses and Dissertations--Gerontology

Music is a powerful modality that can bring about changes in individuals of all ages. This research employed both an experimental and quasi-experimental design to identify the effects of music as it influenced psychological well-being, memory, and cognition among older adults. Specifically, it addressed three aims: (a) To determine to what extent learning to play a music instrument later in life influenced psychological well-being and cognitive function of non-institutionalized healthy seniors, (b) To determine the effects of the amount of music involvement on psychological well-being and cognitive function (c) To determine the benefit of music for those with limited/no music …

Behind Closed Doors: What Really Happens When Cops Question Kids, Barry C. Feld

Articles

Police interrogation raises difficult legal, normative, and policy questions because of the State's need to solve crimes and obligation to protect citizens' rights. These issues become even more problematic when police question juveniles. For more than a century, justice policies have reflected two competing visions of youth: vulnerable and immature versus responsible and adult-like. A century ago, Progressive reformers emphasized youths' immaturity and created a separate juvenile court to shield children from criminal trials and punishment. 2 By the end of the twentieth century, lawmakers adopted "get tough" policies, which equated adolescents with adults and punished youths more severely. 3 …

"Anything Can Happen:" Interpreting The 'End' Of War, Fionnuala Ní Aoláin

Articles

Reviewing Thomas U. Berger, War Guilt, and World Politics After World War II (2012), Larry May, After War Ends: A Philosophical Perspective (2012), and Kimberly Theidon, Intimate Enemies: Violence and Reconciliation in Peru (2012).

La Constituciì_N De Los Estados Unidos En Espaì±Ol: Un Servicio Para El Pueblo Americano, Jim Chen

Constitutional Commentary, Vols 1–36 (1984–2022)

The official Spanish translation of the United States Constitution with an introduction and annotations in English by Jim Chen.

The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly: The Unnecessarily Broad Impact Of Qui Tam Civil False Claims Act Cases On Rural Health Care Providers, Andrew M. Hyer

Health Matrix: The Journal of Law-Medicine

No abstract provided.

Crimean Rhetorical Sovereignty: Resisting A Deportation Of Identity, Christian Berry

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

On a small contested part of the world, the peninsula of Crimea, once a part of the former Soviet Union, lives a people who have endured genocide and who have struggled to etch out an identity in a land once their own. They are the Crimean Tatar. Even their name, an exonym promoting the Crimeans’ “peripheral status” (Powell) and their ensuing “cultural schizophrenia” (Vizenor), bears witness to the otherization they have withstood throughout centuries. However, despite attempts to relegate them to the history books, Crimeans are alive and well in the “motherland,” but not without some difficulty. Having been forced …

A Comparative Analysis Of Present And Past Participial Adjectives And Their Collocations In The Corpus Of Contemporary American English (Coca), Natalia Reilly

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

ESL grammar books have lists of present and past participial adjectives based on author intuition rather than actual word frequency. In these textbooks, the –ing and –ed participial adjectives derived from transitive verbs of state and emotion are presented in pairs such as interesting/interested, boring/bored, or surprising/surprised. This present study used the Corpus of Contemporary American English http://corpus.byu.edu/coca/ (COCA) to investigate the overall frequency of participial adjectives in use as well as their frequency within certain varieties of contexts. The results have shown that among most frequently used participial adjectives there are not only the participial adjectives derived from transitive …

The Hermeneutics Of The Hard Drive: Using Narratology, Natural Language Processing, And Knowledge Management To Improve The Effectiveness Of The Digital Forensic Process, Mark Pollitt

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

In order to protect the safety of our citizens and to ensure a civil society, we ask our law enforcement, judiciary and intelligence agencies, under the rule of law, to seek probative information which can be acted upon for the common good. This information may be used in court to prosecute criminals or it can be used to conduct offensive or defensive operations to protect our national security. As the citizens of the world store more and more information in digital form, and as they live an ever-greater portion of their lives online, law enforcement, the judiciary and the Intelligence …

Home Gardens As Transported Landscapes: Ethnobotanical Encounters With Southeast Asian- American Horticulturists, Lauren A. Munim

USF St. Petersburg campus Honors Program Theses (Undergraduate)

This research examines the belief systems, knowledge base and practice of Southeast Asian-Americans residing on the West Coast of Florida. The importance of traditional ecological knowledge in the cultivation of home gardens as relocated venues for cultural preservation of migrant horticulturalists is illustrated. Data collection methods include: participant observations, semi-structured interviews, geospatial mapping, and identification of key food and medicinal plant species. Home gardens serve as reconstructed landscapes for immigrant populations by stimulating cultural preservation of plants used in traditional healing, thus space providing a venue for the intergenerational transfer of traditional knowledge. Transported landscapes require traditional ecological knowledge regarding …

Cooperative Semantic Information Processing For Literature-Based Biomedical Knowledge Discovery, Zhiguo Yu

Theses and Dissertations--Electrical and Computer Engineering

Given that data is increasing exponentially everyday, extracting and understanding the information, themes and relationships from large collections of documents is more and more important to researchers in many areas. In this paper, we present a cooperative semantic information processing system to help biomedical researchers understand and discover knowledge in large numbers of titles and abstracts from PubMed query results.

Our system is based on a prevalent technique, topic modeling, which is an unsupervised machine learning approach for discovering the set of semantic themes in a large set of documents. In addition, we apply a natural language processing technique to …

Shocks And Bribri Agriculture Past And Present, Paula Posas

Journal of Ecological Anthropology

The Bribri have a multifaceted agricultural system relatively high in agrobiodiversity in one of the most biodiverse regions on earth, the forests of Southern Costa Rica. Their agriculture and resource use patterns appear to have evolved over many centuries, informed by traditional ecological knowledge and cultural beliefs about the natural world. Tracing the history of Bribri agriculture from the oldest available documents from the first European contact offers evidence of centuries of crop cultivation, while review of the past century’s records shows socio-economic and natural shocks as key drivers of agricultural change rather than population growth or market pressures. Bribri …

Environmental Problems And The Grand Old Theory Of 'Human Nature', Helen Kopnina

Journal of Ecological Anthropology

While the notion of ‘human nature’ has been devaluated from the status of ‘grand theory’ to a marginal anthropological debate, I argue that it deserves to be resurrected in order to comprehend some of the explanatory gaps inherent in other theories. Industrialization signifies a turning point in human history, which in combination with certain ‘universal’ human traits led to recent environmental problems. Such universals include, but are not limited to, the propensity for technological innovation, the desire to elevate one’s status, and preoccupation with social justice.

Landscape, Paysage, Landschaft, Táj: The Cultural Background Of Landscape Perceptions In England, France, Germany, And Hungary, Dóra Drexler

Journal of Ecological Anthropology

This research explores the historic cultural backgrounds of landscape perceptions in England, France, Germany, and Hungary, which use the words landscape, paysage, Landschaft, and táj, respectively. The German and Hungarian landscape words can be traced back to the early 19th century landscape perceptions of the counter-Enlightenment and the national Romanticism. The English and French landscape words focus on the visual-aesthetic experience of nature and correlate with the late 18th, early 19th century interpretations of landscape as a symbol of the liberal British state and the democratic French state.

Remapping Bolivia: Resources, Territory, And Indigeneity In A Plurinational State, Maryann Cairns

Journal of Ecological Anthropology

No abstract provided.

Inter-American War Game, Wargaming Department, Shawn W. Burns, Dustin Martin, Keith Powell

Game Reports

The 2013 Inter-American War Game (IAWG) was hosted by the U.S. Naval War College. The IAWG is intended to provide an opportunity for professional exchange of views among maritime war colleges in the Western Hemisphere, ultimately to enhance multinational cooperation among our maritime forces.

The 2013 IAWG was organized into an on-line planning phase in Feb 2013, an on- line execution phase in May 2013, and Closing Conference analysis phase in Aug 2013.

IAWG countries include: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, United States, Uruguay, and Venezuela. Invitations were to participate were provided to …

Editors

Intertext

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Autobiographies In Preservice Teacher Education: A Snapshot Tool As A Building Block To Culturally Responsive Pedagogy., Annmarie Alberton Gunn, Susan V. Bennett, Linda S. Evans, Barbara J. Peterson, James L. Welsh

USF St. Petersburg Campus Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

"My Name Is Alejandro!" The Importance Of Children's Names To Cultural Identity And Early Literacy Development, Annmarie Alberton Gunn, Alejandro E. Brice, Barbara J. Peterson

USF St. Petersburg Campus Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Culturally Responsive Teaching: Exploring Children's Names And Cultural Identities., Annmarie Alberton Gunn, Alejandro E. Brice, Barbara J. Peterson

USF St. Petersburg Campus Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Visual And Linguistic Factors In Literacy Acquisition: Instructional Implication For Beginning Readers In Low Income Countries, Helen Abadzi, C Marinelli, M Martelli, P. Praphamontripong, P Zoccolotti

Curriculum and Instruction Faculty Publications - Archive

Improving the quality of literacy teaching may require intervening at different levels, for example, encouraging school attendance and optimizing textbook format and teaching methods. Reading is a complex task involving perceptual, motor, linguistic, phonological, and memory components, each of which has a crucial role in determining reading rate. High poverty rates continue to have a negative impact on human resource development and education quality in Africa, further complicating the ability of most countries to reach the Education for All (EFA) and Millennium Development Goals (MDG). Moreover, Africa and Asia are hosts to most of the world's multilingual countries, in which …

The New Originalist Manifesto, James E. Fleming

Constitutional Commentary, Vols 1–36 (1984–2022)

Book Review of Constitutional Originalism: a Debate. By Lawrence B. Solum and Robert W. Bennett, 2011. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Pages ix, 210. Reviewed by James E. Fleming.

2013 Program, Belmont University

Humanities Symposium Programs

No abstract provided.

Using Text-To-Speech Reading Support For An Adult With Mild Aphasia And Cognitive Impairment, Judy Harvey, Karen Hux, Jeffry Snell

Department of Special Education and Communication Disorders: Faculty Publications

This single case study served to examine text-to-speech (TTS) effects on reading rate and comprehension in an individual with mild aphasia and cognitive impairment. Findings showed faster reading, given TTS presented at a normal speaking rate, but no significant comprehension changes. TTS may support reading in people with aphasia when time limitations exist.

Negotiating Uncertainty In The Right To Asylee Status, Erin Rider

Societies Without Borders

The asylum system regards asylum seekers as actors with privilege and resources, and expects them to present sound cases documenting their rights to asylee status. However, the asylum system fails to consider the lack of autonomy of asylum seekers, as they must manage trauma, lack of resources, new host societies, and the asylum process. Based on interviews (n=14) with asylum seekers, general findings reveal that inherent barriers within the asylum system position asylum seekers into a context of insecurity that undermines their agency and ability to achieve asylee status. The examination of asylum seekers interacting with the United States asylum …

Culture In Successful Title I Middle Schools, Bruce Lautenschlager

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this qualitative study was to investigate the culture of successful Indiana public Title I middle schools. This study examined differences in similar schools of poverty achieving adequate yearly progress as defined by No Child Left Behind. The study explored the cultural differences that allow for student success using middle schools with student populations from urban and rural areas. Schools at the middle level showing student success and growth as defined by adequate yearly progress should exhibit a school culture with a high degree of collaboration among the school staff. Schools showing little student growth or no student …

Nothing Is Real. Everything Is True., Emily Martin

Theses & ETDs

In trompe l'oeil painting, the meticulous, ritualistic reproduction of ordinary objects results in both metaphysical and formal problems, which I examine in various ways in "Nothing is Real. Everything is True." The tradition of trompe l'oeil, whose strictest form originates from seventeenth-century Netherlands, intentionally lacks narrative, pictorial depth, and temporal relativity. The exact replication of the object(s) causes a tension between the figurative and literal interpretations of the painting, creating the potential reading of the painting as a treatise on representation, perspective, and the principles of reality. This work is further situated within the theoretical framework of Jean Baudrillard, Roland …

Disfluency And Deep Processing As Paths To Devotion: Reading And Praying With The Veronica In The Psalter And Hours “Of Yolande Of Soissons” (M. 729), David Boffa

Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture

No abstract provided.

Effects Of Using Culture-Laden Texts On Culture-Specific Translation Skills In Arab Students, Hamad Al-Dosari, Mohamed A. Mekheimer

The Coastal Review

This work explores the possibility of translating culture-laden texts from English into Arabic, relying on a corpus of literary texts representing the local cultures of the 16th. and the 18th. century England. Furthermore, it taps into the applicability of SL cultural texts to help students appropriately render a culture-specific lexicon. The present study makes use of an experimental research design to check whether the use of literary texts may help EFL learners enhance their culture-specific translation skills in a traditional instruction setting. Finally, its findings indicate that the use of culture-laden literary texts can be efficient in introducing the culturally …

Prospective Teachers’ Learning In Geometry: Changes In Discourse And Thinking, Sasha Wang

Mathematics Faculty Publications and Presentations

This study investigates changes in prospective teachers’ levels of geometric thinking and the development of their geometric discourses in the classification of quadrilaterals. To examine prospective teachers’ thinking about geometry, this study connects Sfard’s discursive framework to another, namely the van Hiele theory. Findings of the study reveal discursive similarities and differences in participants’ geometric discourses within the same van Hiele level, as well as changes in geometric discourse as a result of changes in levels of geometric thinking. The study also investigates the usefulness of a discursive framework in providing rich descriptions of prospective teachers’ thinking processes.

Loyola University Chicago International Law Symposium Keynote Address Towards An African Human Rights Perspective On The Extractive Industry, Pacifique Manirakiza

Loyola University Chicago International Law Review

No abstract provided.