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College Of Education News, College Of Education, Georgia Southern University

College of Education News

• Faculty Awards, Books Published

Southern Educator, Georgia Southern University

Southern Educator

• Happy Holidays from Georgia Southern College of Education
• Fall COE Graduates Number Nearly 250
• Parsons Receives COE Staff Award
• NYAR Center Receives Contribution from Gulfstream
• Centennial Plaza Bricks

Reviewed Work: Why We Argue (And How We Should): A Guide To Political Disagreement, By Scott Aikin And Robert Talisse, Emily Esch

Philosophy Faculty Publications

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Proposal For A Media Effects Study: What Preschoolers And Kindergartners Retain From Animated Children's Films With Intricate Storylines, Samantha Lynne Tanner

Communication Studies

No abstract provided.

The Texas Home Front During The Mexican-American War, 1846-1848, Courtney Broderick

McNair Scholars Research Journal

No abstract provided.

The Impact Of The Illicit Drug Industry On Mexico's Democratization, Isaac Frias

McNair Scholars Research Journal

No abstract provided.

A Comparative Analysis Of Two English Translations Of "No Oyes Ladrar Los Perros" By Juan Ruffo, Jessica Isch

McNair Scholars Research Journal

No abstract provided.

Full Issue, The Mcnair Team

McNair Scholars Research Journal

No abstract provided.

Alumni Earning Doctorates, The Mcnair Team

McNair Scholars Research Journal

No abstract provided.

Ceci N'Est Pas Un Chien: A Discussion Of The Contextual, Psychoanalytic, And Historical Provenance Of Imagery In Luis Buiiue/'S Un Chien Andalou, Kristen Semento

McNair Scholars Research Journal

No abstract provided.

The Effect Of Smartmusic On Student Practice, Brian Duane Nichols

Doctor of Education in Teacher Leadership Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to document the use of SmartMusic Interactive Practice Software and its effect on practice habits and motivation. The 12-week study measured participant practice time using paper practice charts and the online grade book/practice chart in SmartMusic Interactive Practice software. In addition, an 11-question Likert survey was administered pre and poststudy to measure students’ reactions and motivations to practice. Participants (N=38) were randomly assigned to either the SmartMusic group (SM, n=19) or the Contact Control group (CC, n =19). Data from an Independent Samples t test measuring group practice time indicate a significant difference between …

2014-December-01-Etsu Physician Researches Way To Lower Cost Of Reconstructive Breast Surgery, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

No abstract provided.

2014-December-01-Alexis Petrak, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

No abstract provided.

Fall Field Report, August–November 2014, W. Ross Silcock

Nebraska Bird Review

My first paragraph from last year's fall report read as follows: "In most ways, this was a routine fall season. Most interesting from an ongoing point of view were quite a large number of sightings of passerines at rather late dates, notably among Empidonax flycatchers, wood warblers, native sparrows, tanagers, towhees, grosbeaks, and buntings." This fall was no different; the trend seems to be that final sighting dates for many species are pushing against their latest expected dates.

There were several tidbits of interest, more or less unrelated, but perhaps most notable takeaways for the season were the number of …

Holdrege Fall Field Days, Janis Paseka

Nebraska Bird Review

The 2014 NOU Fall Field Days took place in Holdrege at the Super 8 Motel on Sept. 19–21. There were about 35 in attendance at the meeting, which was organized by Dave Heidt and Betty Grenon.

On Friday evening Dave Heidt led a humor-filled discussion on bird songs and calls and ways to remember them, as audience members suggested their own mnemonic devices. On Saturday evening, T. J. Walker gave a presentation on the Nebraska Game and Parks' program of habitat rehabilitation to benefit Ring-necked Pheasants and other species. Field trip destinations on Saturday and on Sunday morning included Harlan …

Index To Volume 82

Nebraska Bird Review

Abegglen, Jeff 192
Abraham, K. F. 85
Aderman, T. 80
Addy, Darren 47
Adrian, Brad 47
Ahlschwede, Carla 40
Akers, Danny 100
Alberts: Byron 143; Deb 143
Alisaukis, R. T. 85
Allen: Edward 3, 48, 143, 153; Jan 48
Allison, Scott 49
American Ornithologists' Union 192

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Wright, Rick 49
Wylie, Bruce 41

Yantachka, Jennifer 143
Yellowlegs: Greater 55, 88, 108, 160, 183; Lesser 56, 88, 108, 160, 183
Yellowtbroat, Common 26, 67, 91, 117, 175, 184

Zahurones, Penny 41
Ziolkowski, D. J. 80

Subscription And Organization Information [December 2014]

Nebraska Bird Review

The Nebraska Bird Review is published quarterly by the Nebraska Ornithologists' Union, Inc., as its official journal, and is sent to members not in arrears of dues. Annual subscription rates (on a calendar-year basis only): $25 in the United States and $35 in all other countries, payable in advance. Single copies are $7 each, postpaid, in the United States and $9 elsewhere. Send orders for back issues to Anita Breckbill, NOU Librarian, c/o Music Library, WMB 30, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588-0101.

Memberships in the NOU (on a calendar-year basis only): Active Household (one or more people) $25; Sustaining …

News From The Bioconductor Project, The Bioconductor Team

The R Journal

The Bioconductor project provides tools for the analysis and comprehension of high throughput genomic data. The 934 software packages available in Bioconductor can be viewed at http://bioconductor.org/packages/release/. Navigate packages using ‘biocViews’ terms and title search. Each package has an html page with a description, links to vignettes, reference manuals, and usage statistics. Start using Bioconductor and R version 3.1

Changes In R, The R Core Team

The R Journal

CHANGES IN 3.1.2

R Foundation News, Martin Mächler, Kurt Hornik

The R Journal

New R Foundation board

New ordinary members

Donations and new supporting members

Conference Report Polish Academic R User Meeting, Maciej Beręsewicz, Alicja Szabelska, Joanna Zyprych-Walczak, Łukasz Wawrowski

The R Journal

The first national conference “Polish Academic R User Meeting” (PAZUR) was held at the Poznan University of Economics from October 15–17, 2014. The organizers of the conference were the Department of Statistics at the Poznan University of Economics (PUE), the Department of Mathematical and Statistical Methods at the Poznan University of Life Sciences (PULS) and SKN Estymator, the students scientific association that resides at the Department of Statistics at the Poznan University of Economics. The honorary patronage of the conference took Professor Emil Panek, Dean of the Faculty of Informatics and Electronic Economy PUE and Professor Wiesław Koziara, Dean of …

Conference Report: R In Insurance 2014, Markus Gesmann, Andreas Tsanakas

The R Journal

The 2nd Rin Insurance conference took place at Cass Business School London on 14 July 2014. This one-day conference focused once more on the wide range of applications of Rin insurance, actuarial science and beyond. The conference programme covered topics including reserving, pricing, loss modelling, the use of R in a production environment and muchmore.

Qmethod: A Package To Explore Human Perspectives Using Q Methodology, Aiora Zabala

The R Journal

Q is a methodology to explore the distinct subjective perspectives that exist within a group. It is used increasingly across disciplines. The methodology is semi-qualitative and the data are analysed using data reduction methods to discern the existing patterns of thought. This package is the first to perform Q analysis in R, and it provides many advantages to the existing software: namely, it is fully cross-platform, the algorithms can be transparently examined, it provides results in a clearly structured and tabulated form ready for further exploration and modelling, it produces a graphical summary of the results, and it generates a …

Farewell's Linear Increments Model For Missing Data: The Flim Package, Rune Hoff, Jon Michael Gran, Daniel Farewell

The R Journal

Missing data is common in longitudinal studies. We present a package for Farewell’s Linear Increments Model for Missing Data (the FLIM package), which can be used to fit linear models for observed increments of longitudinal processes and impute missing data. The method is valid for data with regular observation patterns. The end result is a list of fitted models and a hypothetical complete dataset corresponding to the data we might have observed had individuals not been missing. The FLIM package may also be applied to longitudinal studies for causal analysis, by considering counterfactual data as missing data- for instance to …

Smr: An R Package For Computing The Externally Studentized Normal Midrange Distribution, Ben Dêivide, Oliveira Batista, Daniel Furtado Ferreira

The R Journal

The main purpose of this paper is to present the main algorithms underlining the con struction and implementation of the SMR package, whose aim is to compute studentized normal midrange distribution. Details on the externally studentized normal midrange and standardized normal midrange distributions are also given. The package follows the same structure as the prob ability functions implemented in R. That is: the probability density function (dSMR), the cumulative distribution function (pSMR), the quantile function (qSMR) and the random number generating function (rSMR). Pseudocode and illustrative examples of how to use the package are presented.

Sgof: An R Package For Multiple Testing Problems, Irene Castro-Conde, Jacob De Uña-Álvarez

The R Journal

In this paper we present a new R package called sgof for multiple hypothesis testing. The principal aim of this package is to implement SGoF-type multiple testing methods, known to be more powerful than the classical false discovery rate (FDR) and family-wise error rate (FWER) based methods in certain situations, particularly when the number of tests is large. This package includes Bi nomial and Conservative SGoF and the Bayesian and Beta-Binomial SGoF multiple testing procedures, which are adaptations of the original SGoF method to the Bayesian setting and to possibly correlated tests, respectively. The sgof package also implements the Benjamini-Hochberg …

Flexible R Functions For Processing Accelerometer Data, With Emphasis On Nhanes 2003–2006, Dane R. Van Domelen, W. Stephen Pittard

The R Journal

Accelerometers are a valuable tool for measuring physical activity (PA) in epidemiological studies. However, considerable processing is needed to convert time-series accelerometer data into meaningful variables for statistical analysis. This article describes two recently developed R packages for processing accelerometer data. The package accelerometry contains functions for performing various data processing procedures, such as identifying periods of non-wear time and bouts of activity. The functions are flexible, computationally efficient, and compatible with uniaxial or triaxial data. The package nhanesaccel is specifically for processing data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), years 2003–2006. Its primary function generates measures …

Automatic Conversion Of Tables To Longform Dataframes, Jimmy Oh

The R Journal

TableToLongForm automatically converts hierarchical Tables intended for a human reader into a simple LongForm dataframe that is machine readable, making it easier to access and use the data for analysis. It does this by recognising positional cues present in the hierarchical Table (which would normally be interpreted visually by the human brain) to decompose, then reconstruct the data into a LongForm dataframe. The article motivates the benefit of such a conversion with an example Table, followed by a short user manual, which includes a comparison between the simple one argument call to TableToLongForm, with code for an equivalent manual conversion. …

Gset: An R Package For Exact Sequential Test Of Equivalence Hypothesis Based On Bivariate Non-Central T-Statistics, Fang Liu

The R Journal

The R package gset calculates equivalence and futility boundaries based on the exact bivariate non-central t test statistics. It is the first R package that targets specifically at the group sequential test of equivalence hypotheses. The exact test approach adopted by gset neither assumes the large-sample normality of the test statistics nor ignores the contribution to the overall Type I error rate from rejecting one out of the two one-sided hypotheses under a null value. The features of gset include: error spending functions, computation of equivalence boundaries and futility boundaries, either binding or nonbinding, depiction of stagewise boundary plots, and …

Editorial, Deepayan Sarkar

The R Journal

On behalf of the editorial board, I am pleased to publish Volume 6, Issue 2 of the R Journal.