Digital Commons Network^™

Be Santa Claus For The Cause, Edwin B. Smith

University of Mississippi News

UM basketball fans called to support Books and Bears program Dec. 4

U.S. Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia And Elena Kagan To Visit Um, Jenny Kate Luster

University of Mississippi News

Session is free and open to the public, but tickets are required

Migration, Global Middle Class, And Professional Development: How Chinese Graduate Students In The U.S. Re-Establish A Sense Of Selfhood, Sylvia Shi Pu

Master's Theses

Transnational migration inevitably leads to destabilization of identity. Groups with different characteristics adopt varied strategies to restabilize a sense of selfhood. Elite global migrants, well-equipped with economic, cultural, and educational capital, tend to embrace a cosmopolitan lifestyle in the new location (Favell 2008). In contrast, migrant workers with limited human capital depend on their national peers for useful information and resources in order to make smooth transition across borders (Brown 2011). However, the case of the elite Chinese student migrants fits into neither of the trajectories. In regaining a sense of personhood, those global middle-class migrants end up in a …

Fall/Winter 2014: On And Off The Page: Your Multimedia College Magazine, St. Norbert College

St. Norbert College Magazine 2013-2018

St. Norbert College Magazine editor Susan Allen shares some of the web-exclusive content featured in the Fall/Winter 2014 issue of St. Norbert College Magazine, available online.

Fall/Winter 2014: Colleagues And Candidates: Mutual Respect Transcends Differences, St. Norbert College

St. Norbert College Magazine 2013-2018

It’s not uncommon to spot information that amounts to half-truths or even outright lies during the throes of election season. But when one St. Norbert staffer was lambasted by an out-of-town special-interest group during his run for a state assembly seat, it was a campus colleague – and political opponent – who spoke out for civil discourse.

Fall/Winter 2014: St. Norbert College Election Poll Ranks High In National Listing, St. Norbert College

St. Norbert College Magazine 2013-2018

The St. Norbert College/Wisconsin Public Radio election poll has earned a high ranking on the well-regarded statistical-analysis blog FiveThirtyEight, created by analyst Nate Silver.

Fall/Winter 2014: Coaches Contend With A Tough Foe, M.L.S. Project Reveals, St. Norbert College

St. Norbert College Magazine 2013-2018

When Mike Counter M.L.S. ’14 entered the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program at St. Norbert College, he already had his thesis topic in mind. Counter, director of media relations at the college, chose to explore “Parental Involvement in Children’s High School Athletics” due in part to his 20-plus years in television and radio broadcasting.

Fall/Winter 2014: It’S A Very Christmassy Weekend At St. Norbert, St. Norbert College

St. Norbert College Magazine 2013-2018

Our student and faculty musicians are ready for Christmas and their audience will be, too, after a weekend that brings three very different seasonal favorites.

Dynamically Reconfigurable Miniature Golf Course, James Lind

Honors Theses

The purpose of this report is to inform the reader of the Senior Design Project lead by 3 students in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at Western Michigan University. The project is in needed for use within the ECE department as a tool for showcasing to prospective students the attributes of electrical and computer engineering.

At the heart of the project lies an Arduino microcontroller acting as the commanding brain of the system. Its task is to manipulate various types of obstacles throughout the playing field with a goal of delivering a dynamic experience to the player(s). Additionally, a …

Examining Video Self-Modeling In Promoting Food Acceptance In Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder In A School Setting, Gail M. Loughlin Rogers

Doctoral Dissertations

Children with autism spectrum disorder have a higher incident of feeding problems as compared with typical children and children with other developmental delays, with the feeding problems more often identified as learned or behavioral. Research into the effectiveness of antecedent- and consequence-based behavioral strategies continue to grow, with most research conducted within clinical settings. As educators we strive for less restrictive and empirically validated interventions within more naturalistic settings. Despite the growing body of research as to the effectiveness of video modeling to affect change across a number of areas, research using video modeling is sparse with respect to food …

The Prospector, December 2, 2014, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Graduation Issue

Headline: The Roots of Education are Bitter but the Fruit is Sweet

Parweb: A Front-End Interface For Cluster Computing., Jacob Potter

Honors Theses

The High Performance Computational Science Laboratory at Western Michigan University operates a cluster of systems for use by students, professors, and professional researchers. Currently users that want to access the cluster, known as “Thor”, require knowledge of the Unix/Linux command line. They also require knowledge of operating a piece of software known as TORQUE to correctly achieve results from the High Performance Computing Lab.

The Web User Interface Framework for High Performance Cluster Computing alleviates the need for intimate knowledge of a command line interface, and replaces the current interaction interface with a more user friendly and graphical oriented system. …

December 2, 2014, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

The George-Anne, Georgia Southern University

The George-Anne

• Opinions
• News
• Sports
• Puzzles & Classifieds
• Arts & Entertainment

Impact Of Engineering Ambassador Programs On Student Development, Thalia Anagnos, Alicia Lyman-Holt, Claudia Marin-Artieda, Ellen Momsen

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

This study highlights the positive impact of participation in an engineering ambassador program on students from two universities: Oregon State University which is a large public university in a college town with a 13% minority student body, and Howard University, a medium sized private university with a relatively small engineering program in an urban setting enrolling a primarily minority population. Although these ambassador programs have a major goal of service to the university and engineering program, they serve an equally important goal of developing the skills and attitudes of the ambassadors themselves. Ambassadors from both universities were surveyed, and though …

Formation, Maintenance, And Dissolution Of Employment Relationships, Jonathan Biggane

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Much like scholarship on employment relationships, the goal of contemporary research on romantic relationships is to understand the forces that attract partners to one another and the underlying mechanisms that form long-term stable and satisfying unions. The three manuscripts herein integrate these seemingly disparate bodies of literature to address gaps in the turnover literature. First, I proffer positive illusions as a proximal antecedent of voluntary turnover and an answer as to why employees remain in bad employment relationships despite facing shocks, accumulated dissatisfaction, and quality alternatives. Second, I examine the content of exit conversations, identifying how employees approach exit (i.e., …

Deepeval: An Integrated Framework For The Evaluation Of Student Responses In Dialogue Based Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Rajendra Banjade

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

The automatic assessment of student answers is one of the critical components of an Intelligent Tutoring System (ITS) because accurate assessment of student input is needed in order to provide effective feedback that leads to learning. But this is a very challenging task because it requires natural language understanding capabilities. The process requires various components, concepts identification, co-reference resolution, ellipsis handling etc. As part of this thesis, we thoroughly analyzed a set of student responses obtained from an experiment with the intelligent tutoring system DeepTutor in which college students interacted with the tutor to solve conceptual physics problems, designed an …

Standard Written English Grammar And Usage In The First-Year Composition Classroom: First-Year Composition Educators' Perspectives, Mary-Gwynne M. Millione

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

A study was conducted to discover how first-year composition (FYC) teachers at large, public, 4-year universities respond to students who write prose with numerous Standard Written English (SWE) errors, the techniques the teachers use, and if the teachers perceive themselves as positively impacting the students’ writing. The researcher believed the teachers’ background (i.e., education and experience) would have an effect. Method: An anonymous survey was sent to FYC teachers at large, public, 4-year universities. A follow-up interview was conducted, and a web search performed. Results: One hundred and twenty-one participants completed the survey; three were interviewed. Over 49% used the …

An Ethnographic Study About The Aspects Of Igbo Culture That Influence Educational Practices Of Female And Male 12th Grade Students In Their Career Choices In Enugu State Schools, Nigeria., Herbert Nnadozie Ene

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

This qualitative study seeks to obtain an in-depth understanding of aspects of Igbo culture that influence educational practices of female and male 12th grade students in their career choices as they approach their graduation from high schools in Enugu State. The study was based upon previous researches that held that Igbo culture limits choice of careers among female 12th grade students in Nigeria. It would answer the overarching question that inquires to explore those aspects of Igbo culture that influence educational practices of female and male 12th grade students in their choice of careers in Enugu State Schools. The research …

Can Wearable Sensors Help Assess The Reliability Of Self-Reports In Mobile Health Studies?, Hillol Sarker

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Self-report in the form of Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) has been the primary instrument to collect measurements from participants in their natural environment. Given numerous sources of biases and inaccuracies in self-report, assessing and improving the reliability of self-report has been the subject of continuing research. However, to date, there exist only limited lab based methods to check the veracity of collected self-report data. Increasing adoption of sensors in field studies that sometimes can passively measure the same phenomena that have been traditionally included in EMA self-report has opened up a new opportunity to assess the reliability of self-reports.In this …

A Practical Study Of Samuel Barber's Sonata For Cello And Piano, Op. 6, Paul Joseph Vest

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

This study examines Samuel Barber's Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op. 6, a notable part of the repertoire for cello and piano, and American music in general. Beginning with an overview of Barber's life, further chapters include a formal analysis of the piece, a guide for the cellist's approach in performance, and a discussion of the piece in the context of nationality in the 1930's. Barber's sonata is revealed to be a neo-romantic work, combining aspects of 19th-century romanticism and 20th-century modernism. The role of the cello is found to be lyrical and often vocal, a typical quality in Barber's …

Vehicle Base Station, Emad William Saad, John L. Vian, Matthew A. Vavrina, Jared A. Nisbett, Donald C. Wunsch

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

A system to load and unload material from a vehicle comprises a vehicle base station and an assembly to autonomously load and unload material from the vehicle.

Food And Identity Formation Among Jain Laywomen, Kristin Mcconnell

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

The Jains are a small but influential minority community in India. Their religion is structured around the concept of ahimsa, the strict adherence to nonviolence in one’s every under taking. The ideal Jain diet does the least amount of harm to both oneself and one’s environment, including plants and microscopic organisms. Many foods — including meat, honey, alcohol, and underground vegetables — are forbidden. While Jain philosophy is adamant about avoiding foods that are obtained through violence, it says little about the perspectives and lifestyles of those most often charged with maintaining this diet: Jain laywomen. Because these women are …

Southern Alumni, Siu Alumni Association

SIU Alumni Magazine

No abstract provided.

Binoculars: Management Strategies In Film, Kamryn Fall

Liberal Arts and Engineering Studies

No abstract provided.

The Trouble With Tourism, Steven J. Hollenhorst, Susan Houge Mackenzie, David M. Ostergren

Recreation, Parks and Tourism Administration

The hegemonic view of tourism is as a global panacea for struggling peoples, environments and economies (Smith and Brent 2001). This article begins by arguing that increasing worldwide risks from human-induced climate change fundamentally alter the veracity of this prediction claim. As one of the world’s largest industries, tourism is also one of the largest emitters of carbon, primarily from air transport. Far from standing apart from our carbon-dependent economy, tourism is quite profoundly a creation of that economy and cannot be an antidote to the very stuff of which it is made. Further, to the extent that tourism functions …

Agricultural Experiences And Factors Of Undergraduates Who Enroll In A College Of Agriculture, Benjamin G. Swan, Ann M. De Lay

Agricultural Education and Communication

Industry partners and College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences (CAFES) faculty have observed students entering the college possessed fewer agriculture experiences and skills than their predecessors. They have also lamented the increasing pressure to develop industry-ready students, when the gaps are ever wider between their experience and skills entering college and what are required upon graduation. During the 2011 spring quarter, all CAFES students (N = 3,366) were sent an electronic survey that resulted in 911 responses (27% response rate). Three quarters of the students were female and one third were seniors. Prior to enrolling at the university, 34% …

Re:Find Distillery, Ronald Cain, Kasey Urman, Taylor Frias

Case Studies in Agribusiness

When Alex and Monica Villicana started their winery in 2002, they had no intention of starting a distillery. But in order to have the right ratio of skins to juice they had to bleed off and dispose juice. Trying to find a use for the excess juice, they distilled it into vodka and gin. Much to their surprise, they quickly sold out. The case discusses licensing and technical issues of starting a distrillery.

Annual Report Of Research And Creative Productions By Faculty And Staff, January To December, 2014, Research And Creative Productions Committee. Morehead State University.

Office of Research and Sponsored Programs Reports and Publications

Annual Report Of Research and Creative Productions by Faculty and Staff from January to December, 2014.

Client Science: Bad News And The Fully Informed Adr Client, Marjorie Corman Aaron

Faculty Articles and Other Publications

Professor Aaron comments that this piece, excerpted from: “Bad News and the Fully Informed Client,” the first chapter of her book, Client Science, addresses the lawyer’s challenge when counseling clients where “bad” news— negative, pessimistic or unwelcome developments or analysis—must be conveyed, whether or not within an ADR process. “As a mediator of civil cases, I suspect that mediation involves a higher than average percentage of cases involving ill-counseled clients or ‘difficult clients’ who may fairly be characterized as ‘counseling-resistant’ despite the best efforts of skilled lawyers. When the lawyer explains ‘bad news’ about case developments or likely outcomes, he …