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Geopolitics, Borders, And Federalism: Challenges For Post-War Iraq, Paul G. Lockhart

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The fall of the Ottoman Empire at the end of World War I enabled the victorious Western powers to implement the Sykes-Picot Treaty and reshape the geopolitical structure of the Middle East. The imposition of arbitrary borders on the Middle East region, specifically the state of Iraq, would lead to significant conflicts over the course of the 20th century. In 2003, a US-led invasion would further compound the instability and sectarian conflict within Iraq by completely dismantling the state. In the years after the invasion, the United States has been directly involved unsuccessfully in trying to rebuild and stabilize the …

Para Ver África: O Olhar Imperial E A Criação Do Espaço Social, Michael Southwell

The Kennesaw Tower Undergraduate Foreign Language Research Journal

In this essay, I explore the beginning and end of Portuguese colonialism in Africa to better understand imperial notions of space and place over a span of nearly five hundred years. Drawing from Os Lusíadas (1572) by Luís Vaz de Camões and A Costa dos Murmúrios (1988) by Lídia Jorge, I intend to present how cultural geography can be interpreted within the canon of Portuguese literature. How are culture and identity represented within the imperial space of Africa, and what do these social phenomena reveal about the physical space around people? By rooting these questions within the discipline of geography, …

Developing A Contextualization Of Students’ Mathematical Problem Solving, Sean P. Yee, Jonathan Bostic

School of Teaching and Learning Faculty Publications

This paper investigates how students contextualize mathematical problem solving, not the actual problems. When students attempt to solve problems, what contexts (situational, cultural, or conceptual) do they evoke to describe their experiences with problem solving? The Common Core State Standards for Mathematical Practice emphasize contextualizing and decontextualizing problems, but what does this mean in practice? Middle and high school students were asked to attempt ability-appropriate problems during semi-structured interviews in this qualitative study. Situational contexts were analyzed using representation analysis (symbolic and nonsymbolic) while cultural contexts were analyzed using linguistic analysis (metaphors). The synergy of these two analyses developed a …

Conceptions Of Mental Illness: Cultural Perspectives And Treatment Implications, Lena Hall

Quadrivium: A Journal of Multidisciplinary Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Usu Faculty Senate Minutes, December 1, 2014, Utah State University

Faculty Senate & Faculty Senate Executive Committee

• Faculty Forum Minutes 2014 – Doug Jackson-Smith
• 405 Code Change Proposal going to PRPC – Doug Jackson-Smith
• Extra Service Compensation Policy – Mark McLellan
• Educational Policies Committee Annual Report – Larry Smith
• EPC Items for September, October and November – Larry Smith
• Honors Program Report – Kristine Miller
• Libraries Advisory Council Report – Dan Davis
• Parking Committee Report – James Nye
• Faculty Evaluation Committee Annual Report – Oenardi Lawanto
• Athletic Council Report – Ken White
• USU Student Association – Doug Fiefia
• Retention and Student Success Report –John Mortensen
• Code Change 402.12.3 Committee on Committees Term (First Reading) – Stephan Bialkowski …

Connections, December 2014, University Of Montana--Missoula. Mansfield Library

Connections

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Two Essays On Governance At The National And Corporate Level, Laura Savory Miller

HCBE Theses and Dissertations

ESSAY 1
We examine the effect of governance environment on the composition of a country's external capital structure, specifically foreign equity investment. In addition to the absolute quality of the host country's governance environment, we consider the host country's governance quality relative to that of the source (investor) country. Unlike previous studies, which utilize country totals, we examine foreign investment positions between pairs of individual countries. Our sample includes 3,891 bilateral investment positions among 49 source countries and 69 host countries for years 2009 through 2011. We find that relative governance, rather than absolute governance, plays a role in foreign …

From The Editors, Eric Mason, Andrea E. Shaw-Nevins

Quadrivium: A Journal of Multidisciplinary Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Walter J. Ong: A Memoir, Kip Strasma

Quadrivium: A Journal of Multidisciplinary Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Collaborative Course Design And Inquiry-Based Approaches In Geoscience Education, Paul E. Baldauf, Robert Hill

Quadrivium: A Journal of Multidisciplinary Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Pearl And The Walking Path: Two Poems, Lorraine Stanchich

Quadrivium: A Journal of Multidisciplinary Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Residue: A Dance Poem, Elana Lanczi

Quadrivium: A Journal of Multidisciplinary Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Slackness: The Antithesis Of Culture And Its Place In Dancehall Music, Racquel Fagon

Quadrivium: A Journal of Multidisciplinary Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Tiny Universes: Series Artist Statement, Barbara Ryan

Quadrivium: A Journal of Multidisciplinary Scholarship

No abstract provided.

December 2014 Minutes, Usm Council Of Chairs

Council of Chairs

Minutes of the December 2014 meeting of the USM Council of Chairs

Experimental Evolution: Prospects And Challenges, Frank Rosenzweig, Gavin Sherlock

Biological Sciences Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Experimental Microbial Evolution: History And Conceptual Underpinnings, Julian Adams, Frank Rosenzweig

Biological Sciences Faculty Publications

We chronicle and dissect the history of the field of Experimental Microbial Evolution, beginning with work by Monod. Early research was largely carried out by microbiologists and biochemists, who used experimental evolutionary change as a tool to understand structure-function relationships. These studies attracted the interest of evolutionary biologists who recognized the power of the approach to address issues such as the tempo of adaptive change, the costs and benefits of sex, parallelism, and the role which contingency plays in the evolutionary process. In the 1980s and 1990s, an ever-expanding body of microbial, physiological and biochemical data, together with new technologies …

The Valley-Of-Death: Reciprocal Sign Epistasis Constrains Adaptive Trajectories In A Constant, Nutrient Limiting Environment, Kami E. Chiotti, Daniel J. Kvitek, Karen H. Schmidt, Gregory Koniges, Katja Schwartz, Elizabeth A. Donckels, Frank Rosenzweig, Gavin Sherlock

Biological Sciences Faculty Publications

The fitness landscape is a powerful metaphor for describing the relationship between genotype and phenotype for a population under selection. However, empirical data as to the topography of fitness landscapes are limited, owing to difficulties in measuring fitness for large numbers of genotypes under any condition. We previously reported a case of reciprocal sign epistasis (RSE), where two mutations individually increased yeast fitness in a glucose-limited environment, but reduced fitness when combined, suggesting the existence of two peaks on the fitness landscape. We sought to determine whether a ridge connected these peaks so that populations founded by one mutant could …

Flow Dynamics Of Byrd Glacier, East Antarctica, C. J. Van Der Veen, L. A. Stearns, Jesse Johnson, B. Csatho

Computer Science Faculty Publications

Force-balance calculations on Byrd Glacier, East Antarctica, reveal large spatial variations in the along-flow component of driving stress with corresponding sticky spots that are stationary over time. On the large scale, flow resistance is partitioned between basal (�80%) and lateral (�20%) drag. Ice flow is due mostly to basal sliding and concentrated vertical shear in the basal ice layers, indicating the bed is at or close to the pressure-melting temperature. There is a significant component of driving stress in the across-flow direction resulting in nonzero basal drag in that direction. This is an unrealistic result and we propose that there …

Improved Performance Of Analog And Digital Acousto-Optic Modulation With Feedback Under Profiled Beam Propagation For Secure Communication Using Chaos, Fares S. Almehmadi, Monish Ranjan Chatterjee

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

Using intensity feedback, the closed-loop behavior of an acousto-optic hybrid device under profiled beam propagation has been recently shown to exhibit wider chaotic bands potentially leading to an increase in both the dynamic range and sensitivity to key parameters that characterize the encryption. In this work, a detailed examination is carried out vis-à-vis the robustness of the encryption/decryption process relative to parameter mismatch for both analog and pulse code modulation signals, and bit error rate (BER) curves are used to examine the impact of additive white noise.

The simulations with profiled input beams are shown to produce a stronger encryption …

Continuity And The Open Whole: A Comparison Of Recent (Peircian) Ethnographies, Joshua Reno

Anthropology Faculty Scholarship

A comparison of Eduardo Kohn's "How forests think: Toward an anthropology beyond the human" and David Pedersen's "American value: Migrants, money, and meaning in El Salvador and the United States" which explores their relationship to the continuist ontology of the philosopher Charles S. Peirce and its implications for contemporary anthropology.

Combinatorial Structure Of The Deterministic Seriation Method With Multiple Subset Solutions, Mark E. Madsen, Carl P. Lipo

Anthropology Faculty Scholarship

Seriation methods order a set of descriptions given some criterion (e.g., unimodality or minimum distance between similarity scores). Seriation is thus inherently a problem of finding the optimal solution among a set of permutations of objects. In this short technical note, we review the combinatorial structure of the classical seriation problem, which seeks a single solution out of a set of objects. We then extend those results to the iterative frequency seriation approach introduced by Lipo et al. (1997), which finds optimal subsets of objects which each satisfy the unimodality criterion within each subset. The number of possible solutions across …

Preface, Susanne Kelley

The Kennesaw Tower Undergraduate Foreign Language Research Journal

Preface to Volume VII.

Structural Characterization Of Iron Oxides And Hydroxides In The Clay Fraction Of Soil From The Inca Civilization Moray Terraces, Maria Luisa Ceron Loayza, Jorge Aurelio Bravo Cabrejos, Felipe Americo Reyes Navarro, Rosio Ascuna Arcondo

Journal of Metals, Materials and Minerals

We introduce the structural characterization of the iron oxides and hydroxides in the clay fraction from soil collected in Moray terraces, Peru. It is important since these terraces are considered as a major technological advancement in agriculture in Inca Civilization times. We utilized the following: techniques of selective dissolution by dithionite-citrate-bicarbonate (DCB) and sodium hydroxide (NaOH); analytical techniques of X-ray diffractometry (XRD); and transmission Msbauer spectroscopy (TMS). XRD of the untreated samples showed that all the terraces contain quartz and calcite. After a treatment with NaOH and DCB, the peaks from quartz kept defined; XRD analysis shows a well-crystallized Fe3+ …

Knowledge, Assertion, And Inference, Peter Baumann

Philosophy Faculty Works

This paper argues that three plausible principles are mutually inconsistent: (KA) One ought to assert only what one knows; (AP) If it is proper to assert some proposition q, then it is, barring special and not very common circumstances, proper to assert any proposition p from which q has been competently inferred; and (AKN) Some propositions are both properly assertible and known by competent inference from propositions which one does not know. Each pair of two principles constitutes an argument against the remaining principle, but which principle should one drop?

Marshall University Music Department Presents A Senior Recital, Chris Scarberry, Percussion, Chris Scarberry

All Performances

No abstract provided.

Connections, Issue 4, College Of Health And Human Services

College of Health and Human Services Newsletter

In this issue

• College experiences busy, productive
• Homecoming weekend
• Dean presents annual awards and state of the college address
• Blindness and low vision studies awarded $3.7 million
• Interdisciplinary Doctoral Research Conference presents research and awards
• OT Professor Debra Lindstrom to receive national award
• Departments sponsor annual scholarly events
• BRAIN lab in the news
• Outstanding Alumni

Enewsletter - December 2014, College Of Education And Human Development

College of Education and Human Development News

• Alumna Named Art Educator of the Year
• Faculty Members have Manuscript Accepted for Publication
• Miller Elected to NSCA Board of Directors
• Alumna Clinches Victory in State House Race
• Textile and Apparel Studies Student Wins National Scholarship
• Recent Grant Awards

College Of Arts And Sciences E-News Issue 20: December 2014, College Of Arts And Sciences

College of Arts and Sciences news

• State-of-the-Art Confocal Microscope Changes Research at WMU
• WMU Hosts Second Michigan Autism Conference
• Physics Professor Awarded $150,000 NSF Grant
• A Campus Love Story: Marisa & Brandon
• Victim Advocate Assistant Arica Nelson
• Full Circle
• Kathryn Hemmen Reflects on Semester in Japan

Examining Teachers’ Perceptions Of Effective Writing Strategies And Barriers To Implementation, K M. White, Anna H. Hall

Publications

For years researchers have sought to better understand how children successfully acquire literacy skills. While much attention has been paid to children’s early reading development, less attention has been paid to children’s writing development (Clay, 2001). Writing is a complex and demanding task for children (Lienemann et al., 2006). It involves a great deal of cognitive effort, attentional control, and self-regulation (Graham & Harris, 2003) as children must use and integrate a variety of skills and processes, while also attempting to make their writing meaningful for the intended audience. Given this complexity, children need strong instructional support to create coherent, …