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Secondary Student Outcomes And Perspectives On A Multiple Pathways Approach To Education : Engagement, Achievement, And Transitions., Lisa-Anne Ferris

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Career and Technical Education, earlier known as Vocational Education, has been formally part of public education since 1917. Federal policies have been used to support linking academic and vocationally-based curricula to give secondary and postsecondary students practical work experience within schools to prepare them for the workforce (Gordon, 2008). The current policy, The Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act, or Perkins IV, is the most recent policy to integrate academic and vocationally-based curricula’s using a career pathway model under Programs of Study (POS) (USDE, 2013). POS are career pathways that students choose in the beginning of their high …

Substitutes Or Complements? A Configurational Examination Of Corporate Governance Mechanisms, Vilmos Misangyi, Abhijith G. Acharya

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

We conduct an exploratory qualitative comparative case analysis of the S&P 1500 firms with the aim of elaborating theory on how corporate governance mechanisms work together effectively. To do so, we integrate extant theory and research to specify the bundle of mechanisms that operate to mitigate the agency problem among publicly traded corporations and review what previous research has said about how these mechanisms combine. We then use the fuzzy-set approach to qualitative comparitive analysis (QCA) to explore the combinations of governance mechanisms that exist among the S&P 1500 firms that achieve high (and not-high) profitability. Our findings suggest that …

Efficacy Of R&D Work In Offshore Captive Centers: An Empirical Study Of Task Characteristics, Coordination Mechanisms, And Performance, Deepa Mani, Kannan Srikanth, Anandhi Bharadwaj

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

Seizing the latest technological advances in distributed work, an increasing number of firms have set up offshore captive centers (CCs) in emerging economies to carry out sophisticated R&D work. We analyse survey data from 132 R&D CCs established by foreign multinational companies in India to understand how firms execute distributed innovative work. Specifically, we examine the performance outcomes of projects using different technology-enabled coordination strategies to manage their interdependencies across multiple locations. We find that modularization of work across locations is largely ineffective when the underlying tasks are less routinized, less analyzable, and less familiar to the CC. Coordination based …

How Firms Respond To Financial Restatement: Ceo Successors And External Reactions, David Gomulya, Warren Boeker

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

Although past studies have paid considerable attention to firms' reputations, few have investigated the actions that firms take following a reputation-damaging event. We identify firms involved in financial earnings restatements and examine whether naming a successor CEO with specific qualities serves to signal the seriousness of a firm's efforts to restore its reputation. Using theories of market signaling, we argue that attributes of successor CEOs significantly influence the reactions of key external constituencies. In particular, firms with more severe restatement tend to name successors who have prior CEO or turnaround experience and a more elite education. The naming of such …

An Empirical Study On The Adequacy Of Testing In Open Source Projects, Pavneet Singh Kochhar, Ferdian Thung, David Lo, Julia Lawall

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

During software maintenance, testing is crucial to ensure the quality of code as it evolves. With the increasing size and complexity of software, adequate software testing has become increasingly important. Code coverage is an important metric to gauge the effectiveness of test cases and the adequacy of testing. However, what is the coverage level exhibited by large-scale open-source projects? What is the correlation between software metrics and the code coverage of the software?In this study, we investigate the state-of-the-practice of testing by measuring code coverage in open-source software projects. We examine over300 large open-source projects written in Java, coming from …

The Conduit, Volume 14, No. 1&2, December 2014, Karst Waters Institute

The KWI Conduit

Contents: Welcome to The Conduit -- President's Corner -- KWI Happenings -- Upcoming 2015 Karst Award Banquet, March 14, 2015 -- KWI Sponsor for GSA Conference Sessions in 2014 -- 2014 Wilson Scholarship Recipient -- Final Report: "Hypogene Cave Morphologies" Conference -- Meet KWI's New Associates -- Retirement News: Dr. John Mylroie -- Announcement for Upcoming Conference 2016 -- Research Focus: Karst Investigations in Illinois -- Research Report: Storm Response Study, West Virginia -- KWI Members Visit Cuba: Cave Investigations in Cuba -- Update: New Karst Division, Geological Society of America

Study Abroad And Moral Development, Andrew B. Johnson, Danielle R. Hathcock

eJournal of Public Affairs

Why should students study abroad? The standard answer universities give cites three types of benefit: academic, cultural, and professional. We argue that this answer sells the value of study abroad short. Just as important as any of these benefits is the value study abroad has in promoting moral development. Drawing on key ideas of the seminal developmental psychologists Jean Piaget and Lawrence Kohlberg, we make the case that study abroad can facilitate moral development, whether one understands morality in utilitarian, Kantian, or sentimentalist terms. It does so by helping students take the perspective of those who are culturally different, inducing …

Development Through Trade Disputes: Building A Reputation Using The World Trade Organization's Dispute Settlement System, Jason L. Holliday

West Virginia Law Review

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What Medical Education Can Do To Ensure Robust Language Development In Deaf Children, T. Humphries, P. Kushalnagar, G. Mathur, Donna Jo Napoli, C. Padden, R. Pollard, C. Rathmann, S. Smith

Linguistics Faculty Works

The typical medical education curriculum does not address language development for deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) children. However, this issue is medical because of the frequency with which DHH children as a population face health complications due to linguistic deprivation. The critical period for language development is early; if a child does not acquire an intact language before age five, the child is unlikely to ever have native-like use of any language. Such linguistic deprivation carries risks of cognitive delay and psycho-social health difficulties. Spoken language is inaccessible for many DHH children despite assistive-technology developments. But sign languages, because they are …

Identification Of The Infection Route Of A Fusarium Seed Pathogen Into Non-Dormant Bromus Tectorum Seeds, Janalynn Franke

Theses and Dissertations

The genus Fusarium has a wide host range and causes many different forms of plant disease. These include seed rot and seedling blight diseases of cultivated plants. The Fusarium-caused diseases of wild plants are less well-known. In this study we examined Fusarium sp. n-caused disease development on non-dormant seeds of the important rangeland weed Bromus tectorum as part of broader studies of the phenomenon of stand failure or ‘die-off’ in this annual grass. We previously isolated an undescribed species in the Fusarium tricinctum species complex from die-off soils and showed that it is pathogenic on seeds. It can cause high …

Implementation Of The Essential Elements Of Standards-Focused Middle-Level Schools And Programs And Their Relationship To Student Achievement, Jeffrey Craig

Dissertations - ALL

In New York State, there are regulations that describe many of the practices that middle-level schools are supposed to implement. Yet, little is known about the effectiveness of these middle-level practices in schools in the state. Without definitive information about the impact of middle-level practices on student achievement, it's difficult for practitioners and leaders to know if the school improvement decisions they make are the right ones and whether they will have the desired impact on student achievement.

This study compares the implementation of the middle-level guidelines for New York State, known as The Essential Elements of Standards-Focused Middle-Level Schools …

A Greedy Method To Simulate Drainage In Cross Sections, Long Li

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

Porous media, such as rocks and soil, make up the largest proportion of mass in nature. Pore-network model is a widely used model to describe the tiny and complicated inner structure of porous media. Assisted by the development of X-ray computed microtomography in recent years, researchers are able to extract the geometric characters of inner pores and throats from porous media, then further explore two-phase flow in porous media more exactly. Drainage, a process that a non-wetting phase fluid replaces the other wetting fluid, is the research topic of this thesis. The boundaries between two different phases, named as menisci …

A Greedy Method To Simulate Drainage In Cross Sections, Long Li

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

Porous media, such as rocks and soil, make up the largest proportion of mass in nature. Pore-network model is a widely used model to describe the tiny and complicated inner structure of porous media. Assisted by the development of X-ray computed microtomography in recent years, researchers are able to extract the geometric characters of inner pores and throats from porous media, then further explore two-phase flow in porous media more exactly. Drainage, a process that a non-wetting phase fluid replaces the other wetting fluid, is the research topic of this thesis. The boundaries between two different phases, named as menisci …

A Greedy Method To Simulate Drainage In Cross Sections, Long Li

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

Porous media, such as rocks and soil, make up the largest proportion of mass in nature. Pore-network model is a widely used model to describe the tiny and complicated inner structure of porous media. Assisted by the development of X-ray computed microtomography in recent years, researchers are able to extract the geometric characters of inner pores and throats from porous media, then further explore two-phase flow in porous media more exactly. Drainage, a process that a non-wetting phase fluid replaces the other wetting fluid, is the research topic of this thesis. The boundaries between two different phases, named as menisci …

Space Of Kã¤Hler Potentials On Singular And Non-Compact Manifolds | Space Of Kähler Potentials On Singular And Non-Compact Manifolds, Seyed Ali Aleyasin

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

Let H be the space of Kähler metrics in a fixed cohomology class. This space may be endowed with a Weil-Petersson-type metric, referred to as the Mabuchi metric, which allows one to study the geometry of H. It is now well-known that the geometry of the space of Kähler potentials, in particular, the geodesics in H, may be used for studying `canonical metrics' on the base manifold. In order to be interpreted as the potential of a Kähler metric, however, one needs to prove certain regularity for such solutions. In the first part, I shall discuss deriving of weighted estimates …

A Cultural Trade? Canadian Magazine Illustrators At Home And In The United States, 1880-1960, Shannon Jaleen Grove

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

This dissertation analyzes nationalisms in the work of Canadian magazine illustrators in Toronto and New York, 1880 to 1960. Using a continentalist approach--rather than the nationalist lens often employed by historians of Canadian art--I show the existence of an integrated, joint North American visual culture. Drawing from primary sources and biography, I document the social, political, corporate, and communication networks that illustrators traded in. I focus on two common visual tropes of the day--that of the pretty girl and that of wilderness imagery. Through visual and verbal rhetoric, and through institutional controls to exclude particular kinds of illustration from counting …

Finding Place: The Art Of Wangechi Mutu, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons And Ingridmwangiroberthutter, Eva Susanne Hericks-Bares

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

This dissertation examines the issue of " place" in the lives and works of three contemporary women artists of the African Diaspora: Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, IngridMwangiRobertHutter, and Wangechi Mutu. Place as a location is a core challenge of globalism: though fundamental to our existence, it has ceased to be permanent or definite. However, place is more than location--it is cultural, gendered, historical, interactive, personal and social, among other things--and can only be fully understood in considering several of these different facets. Each of the artists in this dissertation has had to navigate through instances of bias (such as racism and …

Violence Against Chicanas From 1950 To 2000, Tzu-Ling Yen

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

In the mid-twentieth to late-twentieth century, a number of Mexican laborers came to the United States to search for more working opportunities. After settling in the U.S. | they had to adjust to the harsh environment, poor working conditions, and multiple discrimination in Anglo-American society. Also, many Chicanas suffered from religious and patriarchal violence inside their community. This thesis examines different types of violence against Chicana/o migrants in the U.S. from 1950 to 2000, including economic violence, religious violence, racial discrimination, and sexual violence. In both Chicana/o community and white society, Chicanas/os have to deal with different kinds of violence …

A Reconsideration Of Labor Supply Of Immigrants And Social Welfare Programs, Yi Zhang

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

This dissertation contributes to the discussion of the labor market performance of immigrants and their economic assimilation in terms of welfare program participation. The composition of immigrant labor force in U.S. has been fluctuating dramatically. In 1980, for example, the immigrant share of persons aged 50--74 was 8.9% but in 2000, more than 14.5% of this older population group were from foreign countries. Then in 2010, this proportion dropped to around 13.2%. Part of this variation is due to the aging of previous immigrants residing in U.S. but many recent inflows also include a surprisingly high proportion of people in …

Alcohol, Public Perception, And Narrative Design In Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Kristin Boluch

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

Scholarship concerning alcohol representations in nineteenth-century American literature and culture has predominately focused on " temperance discourse" (meaning temperance ideology, an anti-alcohol moral culture, prohibitory laws and regulations, etc.). Generally, narratives understood to represent this discourse assume that the depicted consumers and producers of alcohol are excluded from the ideally imagined community. In Modern literature, by contrast, alcohol use is understood to represent cultural rebellion by individual characters (as seen in Hemingway's community of ex-patriots, or Fitzgerald's Jazz Age lost generation). The dissertation challenges assumptions of this chronological progression which begins in representations of alcohol's social banishment. Though nineteenth-century American …

Disability And The Young Adult Reader: How Has The Portrayal Of Disability Changed In The Last Fifty Years?, Sharon Munroe Hinkson

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

Literature offers an opportunity to share in the lived experiences of others, experiences that as readers we may otherwise never personally encounter. Disability in our society is a reality, yet one that has not been fully embraced--not unlike issues with race, gender, age, or sexual orientation. Individuals begin to encounter many of these matters early in life, but as impressionable adolescents, a time when they begin to understand and navigate the world, often times they meet these experiences in books. Since books are an especially important part of how thoughts and attitudes are shaped, this paper seeks to analyze a …

Representations Of Disability In Of Mice And Men And One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest: Avoiding Handicapism In The Classroom, Lyndsay L. Mccabe

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

In this thesis, I examine two novels that feature characters with disabilities and that are often taught in secondary English classes. These texts will be analyzed through a disability studies perspective - a form of analysis that is not often taught in schools. The disability studies perspective involves looking at disability in a critical light and examining the social, cultural, and political ramifications of assumptions that are made about those considered to be " disabled" by the able-bodied majority. Using this lens, I will explore the assumptions about disability that seem to be represented in these works through their use …

American Masculinity And Home In Antebellum Literature, Derek Scott Mcgrath

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

The conventional argument in literary and gender studies of nineteenth-century United States culture has been that the home was women's claimed sphere of influence, whereas men were excluded from the home because of their economic, cultural, and societal commitments to the public sphere. Even as Catharine Beecher, Lydia Maria Child, Sarah Josepha Hale, and other adherents to a conservative domestic ideology closely associated the private sphere with women, these same writers identified specific roles and spaces that they expected men to occupy in the home. Hardly only a woman's domain, the home was a powerful force in motivating constructions of …

Is There Room For The Modern Narrator? A Study Of Narrative Intrusion In Henry James' The Golden Bowl, Rachael Pompeii

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

At the turn of the twentieth century, narrative presentation saw one of the most intense transitionary movements in literary history. The instructive, omniscient authorial narrator of Victorian literature slowly faced demise as an increasing turn towards subjective, stream-of-consciousness narration dominated the literary age of twentieth century modern realism. The critical and fictional work of Henry James, literary genius who wrote across the century line, persists in the presentation of a distinctive narrating body at the same time that it encourages and anticipates the incipient effacement of such a figure. In his final completed novel, The Golden Bowl, James' narrative choices …

God's Involvement In American Politics (A Brief History And Present), Michael Reich

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

There are myriad ways God has been included in modern American politics, but where does that inclusion stem from? The parallels between the Bible, American history, and modern day American politics are numerous. Once it can be seen that God has always been essential to America, and God has always been necessary to most Americans, we can find more avenues to identify God's roots in American political discourse and political activism, and legal literature. God is foremost necessary in the Bible and that idea was brought forth into the realm of American politics. He means everything and is everything to …

Shakespeare's Evil: From Vice To Villain, Jennifer Katherine Staehle

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

This thesis serves as an investigation of the Elizabethan villain and the ways this character contributes to the ongoing dialogue concerning morality. Through the examination of the evolution of evil, villainy, and morality via Shakespeare's villains Richard and Iago, one can conclude that Shakespeare's contribution to the discussion of evil, which still goes on today, is that evil is a part of human nature. Not only are his villains humorous and entertaining, but Richard and Iago are relatable, pitiful, and raise questions about the evil inherent in human nature. These characters challenge the way Renaissance audiences habitually thought about right …

" Bienvenido Al Vecindario" : Inserting Spanglish Nonwords Into English Versus Spanish Phonological Neighborhoods., April Pufahl

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

If speech perception and production share lexical representations, then properties of these representations should have similar effects in both modalities. Likewise, if the system supporting lexical processing is fundamentally the same regardless of the language implemented, then a given property should produce the same effect across all languages. However, previous research suggests cross-modal and cross-linguistic differences for one property: phonological neighborhood density, a measure of the number of similar-sounding words in a language. These studies have relied on existing words, affording little control over the numerous, and possibly confounding, properties associated with each word. To avoid these potential pitfalls, I …

The Blues Continuum: New York Calls - Naples Responds, Alessandro Buffa

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

My dissertation traces a form of call and response between New York City and Naples in the 1970s and 1980s. It foregrounds the importance of the `blues' in the traffic of sound, images and oppositional ideas between these two cities located on the same geographical parallel. The blues here is understood as a musical style and feeling, as well as an affect of trauma, loss, memory and an intimate relationship that artists and activists established with their city spaces in the age of the so called " urban crisis." It proposes a " blutopia," based on utopian/dystopian tensions that promote …

Hollow Night, Jason Gerraughty

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

Hollow Night is a piece for orchestra, whose music evokes the composer's bouts with insomnia and anxiety attacks. The piece heavily borrows from traditions of blues music, and is heavily influenced by the musical memories of the composer's youth, performing in local town bands. Hollow Night begins with faint whispers emerging from stillness, and slowly builds its way into a sustained frenzy, full of abrupt changes and propelled forward by relentless rhythmic motion. The harmonic construction of Hollow Night involves the combining of multiple instances of a four-pitch set, recognizable as the first four pitches of a blues scale. These …

Democracy And Its Others, Jeffrey Harry Epstein

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

Today's unprecedented levels of human migration present urgent challenges to traditional conceptualizations of national identity, nation-state sovereignty, and democratic citizenship. The instrumental valorization or vilification of foreignness for nationalistic ends has long-determined who is to be included within or excluded from " the people" of the democratic state. Against this instrumentalization, I argue that foreignness is an originary and constitutive element of democratic political identity which severs the links among nationality, citizenship, and democratic rights. Accordingly, a re-conceptualization of democratic rights is required that reflects the structural necessity of foreignness to democratic political identity. | 225 pages