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Imsa 2015 Profile, Office Of College And Academic Counseling

IMSA Profile

"The internationally recognized Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy ® (IMSA) develops creative, ethical leaders in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. As a teaching and learning laboratory created by the State of Illinois, IMSA enrolls academically talented Illinois students (grades 10-12) in its advanced, residential college preparatory program, and it serves thousands of educators and students in Illinois and beyond through innovative instructional programs that foster imagination and inquiry. IMSA also advances education through research, groundbreaking ventures and strategic partnerships."*

*Excerpt from the IMSA 2015 Profile

On Editing, Jonathan K. Van Patten

South Dakota Law Review

No abstract provided.

Building Connections Through Contextualized Learning In An Undergraduate Course On Scientific And Mathematical Literacy, Melanie K. Rathburn

International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning

With increasing demands for universities to create graduates that are numerically and scientifically literate, it is important to determine effective ways to engage students so that they can acquire these literacies. Using an undergraduate, interdisciplinary course that focused on scientific and mathematical literacy, I examined how contextualization influenced students’ abilities to build connections between their learning and their lives. In their written reflections, students connected course concepts with their social lives, academic pursuits and global or societal issues without specific prompting. I suggest that contextualization combined with reflection allows students to illustrate their understanding and apply this knowledge to novel …

Understanding The Intention To Use Pc Asset Management Tools Among Technology Leaders Using The Technology Acceptance Model, Michael G. Carper

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Technology vendors have developed personal computer (PC) asset management tools for managing the security and facilitating cyclical replacement lifecycle of PC hardware and software. Despite their commercial availability, PC asset management tools are sparsely implemented. Failure to adopt these tools drives up the cost, time, and disruption for managing the life-cycle of PC assets in a distributed computing environment. What affects the intention to use PC asset management tools among technology leaders is not understood. The purpose of this study was to investigate the perceptions that impact the acceptance of PC asset management tools among technology leaders in the retail …

2015 January, Office Of Communications & Marketing, Morehead State University.

Morehead State Press Release Archive, 1961 to the Present

Press releases for January of 2015.

2015 Web Features, Office Of Communications & Marketing, Morehead State University.

Morehead State Press Release Archive, 1961 to the Present

Web features for 2015.

Mining And Hiv/Aids Transmission Among Marampa Mining Communities In Lunsar, Sierra Leone, Alphajoh Cham

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Since the human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) was first reported in Sierra Leone in 1987, its prevalence rate has stabilized at 1.5% in the nation's general population. However, concerns exist regarding the potential increase in high-risk populations, particularly among mineworkers and commercial sex workers. The potential spread of HIV/AIDS as a result of labor migration may threaten the mining sector, which has been identified as a critical driver of recent economic growth and development. A gap remains in the literature regarding the contextual factors in mining communities that lead to high rates of HIV/AIDS. Therefore, the purpose of …

Acl News & Notes

The Christian Librarian

No abstract provided.

Leibovitz's "God In The Machinel Video Games As Spiritual Pursuit" (Book Review), Sarah E. Keil

The Christian Librarian

No abstract provided.

Moran's "Making Marion: Where's Robin Hood When You Need Him?" (Book Review), Mary Ann Buhler

The Christian Librarian

No abstract provided.

Reflector Magazine, Georgia Southern University, Student Media

Reflector Magazine

• Peaceful Partnering Solutions with Dr. Laura Markham
• CBD 101
• Simple make-at-home Indian meals
• Create a Regenerative Garden at home
• How to eat to save the planet

Pace, Academic Progress, And The Antecedents Of Student Motivation, Aaron Randall Hiatt

Master's Theses

The research examined the impact of the pace requirement of the 2010 program integrity legislation at a single graduate institution to gauge its potential for fulfilling the legislation’s stated purpose of increased likelihood of student success. The study determined that there have been changes in registration behavior (particularly in course drop behavior that reduces the number of credits calculated as attempted each semester) since the case institution introduced the pace requirement in Fall 2011. An increase in course completion efficiency was also found. The doctoral candidacy qualifying phase was singled out for a more refined examination, which was loosely tracked …

Nyar Savannah Program 2015, National Youth-At-Risk Conference, Savannah

National Youth Advocacy & Resilience Conference

N/A

Legislating Love: Ancillary Issues Arising From South Dakota's Refusal To Recognize Same-Sex Marriage, Tyler Haigh

South Dakota Law Review

No abstract provided.

Nih Data Sharing Requirements 101, Data Management Services, Zach S. Henderson Library

University Libraries: Instructional Resources (Archived)

Presentation slides on National Institutes of Health data sharing policies for digital scientific data, data management plans, and DMPTool.

Are E-Cigarettes An Optimal Choice For Harm Reduction For Tobacco Smokers?, Brenda Talley, Deborah Allen, Kathryn H. Anderson

Nursing: Faculty Presentations (1990-2022)

This presentation was given at the Sigma Theta Tau International Congress.

Primary Spaces, Mackey's Obstruction, And The Generalized Barycentric Decomposition, Patrick Iglesias-Zemmour, Francois Ziegler

Mathematical Sciences: Faculty Publications

We call a hamiltonian N-space primary if its moment map is onto a single coadjoint orbit. The question has long been open whether such spaces always split as (homogeneous) x (trivial), as an analogy with representation theory might suggest. For instance, Souriau's barycentric decomposition theorem asserts just this when N is a Heisenberg group. For general N, we give explicit examples which do not split, and show instead that primary spaces are always flat bundles over the coadjoint orbit. This provides the missing piece for a full "Mackey theory" of hamiltonian G-spaces, where G is an overgroup in which N …

Women In Science 2015, Clark Science Center's Summer Research Fellows Program

SURF Abstracts (Women in Science)

Women in Science 2015 summarizes research done by Smith College’s Summer Research Fellowship (SURF) Program participants. Ever since its 1967 start, SURF has been a cornerstone of Smith’s science education. In 2015, 162 students participated in SURF (153 hosted on campus and nearby eld sites), supervised by 60 faculty mentor-advisors drawn from the Clark Science Center and connected to its eighteen science, mathematics, and engineering departments and programs and associated centers and units. At summer’s end, SURF participants were asked to summarize their research experiences for this publication.

Certified Athletic Trainer's Knowledge Of Posterolateral Corner Injuries, Stephen Edwards

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Context: Posterolateral corner (PLC) knee injuries are often complex and frequently overlooked. Diagnosis of PLC injuries may be difficult when symptoms are masked by those of cruciate ligament injury. Failure to diagnose and appropriately treat underlying PLC injury can increase the risk of an individual experiencing graft failure after reconstruction of a concomitantly injured cruciate ligament. Objective: Our purpose was to identify if a knowledge gap exists in the Athletic Training population by comparing pre-test perceived knowledge to actual knowledge of PLC injury assessment and to determine the effect of taking a test on perceived knowledge. The relationship between perceived …

Current Grading Practices For Indiana Elementary Grades K-5 And The Impact On Communication, Assessment, And Student Mindset, Paula Rae Concus

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study involved elementary teachers in Indiana who were actively teaching during the spring of 2015. The purpose of this study was to determine whether or not there is a significant difference between the perceptions of teachers using traditional report cards and those who use standards-based report cards in the areas of assessment of students, communication from the viewpoint of teachers and from the viewpoint of parents, and mindset of students. Results were viewed through the lens of students of affluence (< 35% free/reduced lunch) and students of poverty (≥ 50% free/reduced lunch). Standards-based responses in the areas of assessment, communication from the viewpoint of teachers and parents, and student mindset were statistically significant factors for students of poverty; assessment was also significant for students of affluence. Traditional report cards offered statistical significance only for students of affluence in the area of communication from the teacher viewpoint. Communication from the parent viewpoint (reported by teachers) and student mindset were not statistically significant factors for students of affluence in either reporting system, meaning teachers of students of affluence did not find traditional report cards or standards-based report cards as more important. Implications of these findings are of particular importance to teachers of students of poverty, as the use of standards-based report cards are significant when teachers look at student assessment, teacher communication, parent communication, and student mindset. Although traditional report cards actually showed significance in one area (teacher communication) for one student group (students of affluence), more consideration should be given to the use of standards-based report cards for all students.

The Project Shop, Lindsey Sullivan

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

The Project Shop is a Do-It-Yourself (DIY) brand designed to promote a value-creating activity that impacts the lives and personal development for those who participate. The strategic culmination of research, marketing, and graphic design generated during the creation of this brand is intended to attract a target demographic of 18-24 year olds. This target market is identified as a transient population often typified by being civic-minded and pragmatically idealist.

The Project Shop caters to the needs of its target market by concentrating on habits and particular styles of living. This demographic often seeks DIY projects that are customizable due to …

A Person's A Person No Matter How Small - Understanding The Role Of Temperament In Working With Toddlers And Young Children, Robinson B. Kimberly, Ann Vanbuskirk Dr.

Georgia Association for Positive Behavior Support Conference

Abstract Early childhood and educational research have indicated that a young child’s temperament is predictive of success in school and adulthood. A child’s temperament has the potential to impact not only their interpretation of life events, but can also influence the activities that they choose and how adults respond to and interact with them. Child temperament research has identified three widely known profiles based on nine dimensions of behavior: “difficult”, “easy”, and “slow to warm up”. The purpose of this presentation is to provide information about child temperament and the ways in which adults can use positive relational interventions to …

2015 Georgia Southern University Men's Soccer Media Guide, Georgia Southern University

Men's Soccer Records

• Georgia Southern 2015 Men's Soccer Media Guide

The Isolation, Purification And Characterization Of The Dna Ligase From Thermococcus Thioreducens Strain Ogl-20pt, James Wolfsberger

Theses

DNA ligases are highly conserved in their primary sequence across the three domains of life and are important in DNA replication, recombination, and repair. The enzyme functions in an AMP-dependent reaction to close nicks in the DNA phosphodiester backbone. In this study, the hyperthermophilic DNA ligase Tthlig from the archaeon Thermococcus thioreducens is characterized. Tthlig is a recombinant protein cloned from genomic DNA with a sequence of 559 amino acid residues. Phylogenetic analysis placed Tthlig in a tight cluster with organisms of the order Thermococcales. Amino acid residue sequence analysis showed significant sequence conservation with other DNA ligases. The structure …

Hough Based Strategy For Detecting Magnetic Field, Lulu Zhao

Theses

In this thesis, a new Hough-based method to automatically detect dipole- shaped structures is presented. The new method uses a set of three-piecewise- parabolic arcs to detect dipole structures in imagery (e.g., coronal images). The mathematical characteristics of the dipole structures are studied and utilized in the new method. For a given dipole curve, the coefficients of the first order term for all the piecewise parabolas are identical. Moreover, the products of the zeroeth order and second order terms are constant. Furthermore, the concentric properties of dipole curves are also discussed. The new method is tested in different images including …

Battling With Monsters : Integrated Gamification In The First-Year Composition Classroom, Lee Hibbard

Theses

The study of games features in digital media and game design classrooms, but no research exists on a combination of gamification and bringing games as texts into the first-year composition classroom. Using the method of `integrated gamification', I created an innovative multimodal classroom that includes the study of videogame texts alongside literature, film, and television texts, and uses the mechanics of those videogame texts to create a deeper immersion in the course content. In my thesis research, I will demonstrate the impact integrated gamification has on students in the first year composition classroom as recorded from a semester-long case study …

Impact Of Multiple Stakeholder Preferences On Design With A Focus On Demand Models And An Application Of Electric Vehicles, Taylan G. Topcu

Theses

The essence of systems engineering lies in enabling rational decision-making that is consistent with the preferences of the system’s stakeholders. Traditionally, stakeholder preferences have been communicated through requirements imposed on the design space of the system. The traditional approach’s primary drawback is due to capturing what the stakeholders do not want, usually in the form of inequality constraints, rather than what the stakeholders prefer. The alternative systems engineering approach of Value-Driven Design conveys the true desires of the stakeholders through the mathematical means of a value function. Value functions transform system attributes or characteristics into a singular value, enabling the …

Accelerating Reconfiguration Of Network Anomaly Detection Systems, William C. Edmonds Jr.

Theses

Reducing the time required to keep an anomaly-based network intrusion detection system (NIDS) up-to-date with the continuously changing web server features is of the utmost importance to keep intrusion detection as accurate as possible. Web applications and content changes frequently on web servers to keep their users interested and returning. This frequent updating poses an interesting problem with regards to anomaly-based network intrusion detection systems (NIDS) as they rely on knowing what normal traffic patterns look like. Retraining and reconfiguration to adapt to new applications or features of a website is highly advised to maintain accurate detection performance. Training an …

Knowledge, Attitude, And Practice Of Electronic Nicotine Delivery Devices Among College Students, Kelly B. Vazquez

Theses

Electronic nicotine delivery devices (e-cigarettes) have increased in popularity over the past decade and new research will benefit the community, especially healthcare providers, as they will be providing education. To conduct this study, a Knowledge, Attitude, and Practices survey was administered to students on one college campus using Qualtrics software. Results revealed that 99.4% of students were aware of e-cigarettes, 55.2% had friends who used them, 54% viewed them as safer than cigarettes, 26.3% were unaware of chemicals used, 62.7% were bothered by their use, 58.3% supported ban placements (especially females), and 55.5% thought they could be effective for smoking …

Detecting Corrosion With Passive Radio Frequency Identification Tags, Emily Maureen Layden

Theses

A small, remotely accessed corrosion detector has yet to be realized despite corrosion being a major obstacle in maintaining metal structures. This work demonstrates a detector made using radio frequency identification (RFID) technology that is capable of fulfilling these requirements. A RFID tag was made using copper tape, a 100pF capacitor, and a 13.5 MHz microchip partially covered in a resistive polymer containing a corrosion susceptible material. This material was created using a thin section of copper tape. The functionality of the tag was monitored as the thin copper tape was corroded using ferric chloride. After the tag ceased working, …