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Out With The Old, In With The New: Blended Learning In Elementary Italian, Bruno Grazioli, Jessica Egan, Maria Succi-Hempstead, Morena Svaldi May 2015

Out With The Old, In With The New: Blended Learning In Elementary Italian, Bruno Grazioli, Jessica Egan, Maria Succi-Hempstead, Morena Svaldi

Blended Learning in the Liberal Arts Conference

Technology has provided unlimited potential for language learning. In this session four presenters will share their experience in creating an Elementary Italian Blended Course. We will share recent and innovative pedagogical, methodological and technological approaches. Participants will learn how to build a Blended Course and how to develop material to provide students with tailor-made resources to review, practice, and consolidate the instruction they receive in class. After briefly outlining the motivations for which an innovative Italian Blended Course in an Elementary Italian has been created, we will introduce the technique for a productive and rich collaboration among faculty. We’ll present …

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Five Justices Have Transformed The First Amendment’S Freedom Of Religion To Freedom From Religion, Gerald Walpin May 2015

Five Justices Have Transformed The First Amendment’S Freedom Of Religion To Freedom From Religion, Gerald Walpin

Touro Law Review

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May 20, 2015 Cal Poly Report, Public Affairs Office May 2015

May 20, 2015 Cal Poly Report, Public Affairs Office

Cal Poly Report

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Self-Presentation On Fan Sites On Social Media, Christopher Keough May 2015

Self-Presentation On Fan Sites On Social Media, Christopher Keough

Communication & Leadership Dissertations and Theses

Sports fans can be emotional and loyal beings, living and dying by their teams’ performance. As people, however, even the most loyal sports fans are aware of how they are perceived by others. This thesis explored fan communication behavior on social media to determine whether sports fans would maintain a strong interest in self-image when surrounded by peers with the same perspective. Tajfel and Turner’s (1986) social identity theory states that individuals use group associations to project a positive self-image. Selective self-presentation states that when people meet online they can curate a positive perception (Walther, 2005). The literature review studied …

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Prometheus, Kyle Blalock May 2015

Prometheus, Kyle Blalock

Theses

This paper describes my thesis body of work as it originates from my personal experiences being brought up in the Mormon Church, or the Church of Jesus Christ of Ladder-day Saints in rural northern Arizona. Descriptions of rituals, religion, and rights of passage as a young Mormon gay man depict a lineage that leads up to forging personal salvation through art making and literature. The narrative of my paper discusses my education and illustrates my growth as an artist who has been intimately informed by sculptural processes and the materials used in creating sculpture.

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Community Crime Mapping: Increasing Predictive Policing With Dynamic Symbol Sets, Michael Chaszczewski May 2015

Community Crime Mapping: Increasing Predictive Policing With Dynamic Symbol Sets, Michael Chaszczewski

Theses

Crime prevention is an important area of study in our society that plays an integral role in the lives of citizens and the local police who enlist the aid of strategic counter crime plans to tackle the urgency created everyday when crimes are committed. This mode of counter acting crime is termed “problem oriented policing” and is a policing approach where individual pieces of police data are critically examined with the hope that the findings learned will lead to discovering a new and more effective counter crime strategy. Crime mapping is one of these analyzed tools allowing officers to understand …

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The Third Pillar Of Jurisprudence: Social Legal Theory, Brian Z. Tamanaha May 2015

The Third Pillar Of Jurisprudence: Social Legal Theory, Brian Z. Tamanaha

William & Mary Law Review

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Knowledge, Agency And Collective Action As Barriers To Energy-Saving Behaviour, Debby Cotton, Wendy Miller, Jennie Winter, Ian Bailey, Stephen Sterling May 2015

Knowledge, Agency And Collective Action As Barriers To Energy-Saving Behaviour, Debby Cotton, Wendy Miller, Jennie Winter, Ian Bailey, Stephen Sterling

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Energy saving is becoming a rising priority as a response to climate change and fossil fuel depletion in recent years. However, despite energy-related behaviour change being an important part of many environmental education initiatives, “energy literacy” among citizens remains patchy in both the USA and the UK, with evidence of strong positive attitudes but less consistent knowledge. Whilst it is clear that increasing knowledge does not automatically produce behaviour changes, potential questions must be asked about the logic of focusing solely on behaviour without simultaneously exploring and enhancing understanding of energy issues. This research, undertaken at a higher education institution …

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Academic Senate - Agenda, 5/19/2015, Academic Senate May 2015

Academic Senate - Agenda, 5/19/2015, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Agendas

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Social Change Through Digital Communication: A Project Designed To Explore The Positive Impact That Advertising And The Media Have In Emplowering Change For Women Within Organizations, Katie Anne Albang May 2015

Social Change Through Digital Communication: A Project Designed To Explore The Positive Impact That Advertising And The Media Have In Emplowering Change For Women Within Organizations, Katie Anne Albang

Communication & Leadership Dissertations and Theses

This is a project that examines gender stereotypes, social perception, power and fear as factors as to why there are few women in leadership positions. It also explores how social change through digital communication strategies such as advertising are effective ways to empower women and help reach gender equality in the workplace. This project looks at how advertising campaigns have begun to focus on empowering women, gender equality and the attempt to eliminate stereotypes through digital media and communication initiatives. In addition, the interactive universalism philosophy and ethical assumptions along with the social identity theory are used to support the …

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Design And Development Of Personal Geoservices For Universities, James Carswell, Andrea Ballatore, Thoa Pham, Junjun Yin, Linh Truonghong May 2015

Design And Development Of Personal Geoservices For Universities, James Carswell, Andrea Ballatore, Thoa Pham, Junjun Yin, Linh Truonghong

Books/Book chapters

Personal GeoServices are emerging as an interaction paradigm linking users to information rich environments like a university campus or to Big Data sources like the Internet of Things by delivering spatially intelligent web-services. OpenStreetMap (OSM) constitutes a valuable source of spatial base-data that can be extracted, integrated, and utilised with such heterogeneous data sources for free. In this paper, we present a Personal GeoServices application built on OSM spatial data and university-specific business data for staff, faculty, and students. While generic products such as Google Maps and Google Earth enable basic forms of spatial exploration, the domain of a university …

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Digital Museum Consortia: A Prototype For Interconnected And Accessible Database Design, Ben Heller May 2015

Digital Museum Consortia: A Prototype For Interconnected And Accessible Database Design, Ben Heller

Theses

The evolution of the internet and devices allowing access to it indicate that users trend toward networking and interconnectivity in their daily lives. Museums have started to tread into this territory—that is, crafting, managing, and maintaining an effective internet presence and ancillary content tools—on their own. However, many museums still rely upon the earliest types of education and interpretation tools, such as audio tours and recordings that address content from one collection. Moving beyond a single institution’s holdings, a shared database of museum content including photos of artifacts and objects, historic documents, and videos would allow users to examine pieces …

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Drug Violence And Public (In)Security: Mexico's Federal Police And Human Rights Abuse, Dominic Pera May 2015

Drug Violence And Public (In)Security: Mexico's Federal Police And Human Rights Abuse, Dominic Pera

Undergraduate Honors Theses

Violence in Mexico, with dramatic political, social, and economic consequences on both Mexican and US populations, has risen dramatically in the past decade. Research has shown that the Mexican military is largely responsible for human rights abuses in Mexico. This paper will seek to answer why there are so many human rights abuses committed by the Federal Police, as public security is a police role and its deterioration threatens lives, security, and the rule of law. This paper will look at what scholars have said about the causes of police violence and public insecurity. Some say that history is responsible, …

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Conceiving A National Gamete Donor Registry: Policy Considerations, Privacy Concerns, And Legal Authority, Lauren Nussbaum May 2015

Conceiving A National Gamete Donor Registry: Policy Considerations, Privacy Concerns, And Legal Authority, Lauren Nussbaum

Health Law and Policy Brief

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The Stories We All Share : A Sixth Grade Geography Curriculum Based On Paul Salopek's "Out Of Eden Walk", Georgina Wells May 2015

The Stories We All Share : A Sixth Grade Geography Curriculum Based On Paul Salopek's "Out Of Eden Walk", Georgina Wells

Graduate Student Independent Studies

This sixth grade geography curriculum is based on a digital journalism series called the "Out of Eden Walk," in which Paul Salopek, a journalist for National Geographic, is spending seven years walking the path of early human migration and digitally reporting the stories he encounters. The curriculum follows him on his journey, as students read his and other stories about early man, Africa, and the Middle East. Students also design and report findings from their own walks.

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Commencement Program [Spring 2015], Clark University May 2015

Commencement Program [Spring 2015], Clark University

Commencement Programs

Annual Commencement Program for graduation ceremonies at Clark University, held on May 17th, 2015.

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Ebola Outbreak In Nigeria: Increasing Ebola Knowledge Of Volunteer Health Advisors, Unnati Patel, Jennifer R. Pharr, Chidi Ihesiaba, Frances U. Oduenyi, Aaron T. Hunt, Dina Patel, Michael Obiefune, Nkem Chukwumerije, Echezona E. Ezeanolue May 2015

Ebola Outbreak In Nigeria: Increasing Ebola Knowledge Of Volunteer Health Advisors, Unnati Patel, Jennifer R. Pharr, Chidi Ihesiaba, Frances U. Oduenyi, Aaron T. Hunt, Dina Patel, Michael Obiefune, Nkem Chukwumerije, Echezona E. Ezeanolue

Environmental & Global Health Faculty Research

In many low-income countries, volunteer health advisors (VHAs) play an important role in disseminating information, especially in rural or hard-to-reach locations. When the world's largest outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) occurred in 2014, a majority of cases were concentrated in the West African countries of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. Twenty cases were reported in Nigeria initially and there was a need to rapidly disseminate factual information on Ebola virus. In southeast Nigeria, a group of VHAs was being used to implement the Healthy Beginning Initiative [HBI], a congregation based intervention to increase HIV testing among pregnant women and …

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State Of Alaska Exposure For The Dismantle, Removal, & Restoration Obligations Of Hydrocarbon Leases In Cook Inlet: An Assessment Of How Current Mechanisms Of Non-Bonded Coverage Increase This Risk Over Time, Haley Mcintyre May 2015

State Of Alaska Exposure For The Dismantle, Removal, & Restoration Obligations Of Hydrocarbon Leases In Cook Inlet: An Assessment Of How Current Mechanisms Of Non-Bonded Coverage Increase This Risk Over Time, Haley Mcintyre

Natural Resources

This Master's of Natural Resource Management and Geography project assesses the potential liability the State of Alaska faces with the non-bonded coverage of Dismantle, Removal, and Restoration obligations associated with hydrocarbon leases on state managed lands in Cook Inlet. There are four components to this assessment. First, a Chain-of-Title spreadsheet documents the percentage of Working Interest Ownership held by all companies in study leases from the time of first production through February 2015. Second, a Degrees-of-Separation spreadsheet measures the layers of corporate separation from previous lessees to entities in existence today that could perform obligations. Third, a Special Purpose Entity …

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University Of Montana Commencement Program, 2015, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of The Registrar May 2015

University Of Montana Commencement Program, 2015, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of The Registrar

University of Montana Commencement Programs, 1898-2020

Commencement program from the University of Montana.

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Curating Deaf Spaces In Rochester: A Historical Self-Guided Mobile Application Tour, Allison Thompson May 2015

Curating Deaf Spaces In Rochester: A Historical Self-Guided Mobile Application Tour, Allison Thompson

Theses

Rochester is widely considered by many to be one if, if not the most, Deaf-friendly city in the nation due to having the one of the largest Deaf populations per capita in the country.1 The research question focused on whether sufficient material could be assembled to provide a self-guided historical tour application (still in the planning stages) that will feature locations related to Rochester’s deaf community. The content that I curated was chosen based on the historical significance and accessibility of locations to visitors. The tour demonstrates how and why Rochester has achieved its reputation as the location of such …

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Spring Commencement: May 16, 2015, University Of North Dakota May 2015

Spring Commencement: May 16, 2015, University Of North Dakota

UND Commencement Programs

UND Spring Commencement program from May 16, 2015.

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Refiguring George Macdonald: Science And The Realist Novel, Karl Hoenzsch May 2015

Refiguring George Macdonald: Science And The Realist Novel, Karl Hoenzsch

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

This article analyzes George MacDonald’s realist novels. It looks at how David Elginbrod, Alec Forbes of Howglen, and Lilith engage with scientific discourse and epistemological concerns of the period. These scientific and epistemological dealings include a positive evaluation of evolution, a resistance to pseudoscience and Calvinism, an endorsement of non-dualism, and an analysis of scientific models and methods. The generic classification of Lilith as a realist novel with fantastical elements is discussed.

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Ethnic Korean Education In Japan, Cody Purchase May 2015

Ethnic Korean Education In Japan, Cody Purchase

Linfield University Student Symposium: A Celebration of Scholarship and Creative Achievement

Ethnic Koreans in Japan--called Zainichi--have a history in Japan reaching back before WWII. Ever since large numbers were brought or moved to Japan, Zainichi identities have been developing within the larger society through and due to political activism, varying degrees of 'integration', ethnic schooling, festivals, ethnic neighborhoods, and in many other ways. Today, these identities are extremely varied and complex yet are often spoken of almost as a homogeneous group under the term "Zainichi." Recognition of the variety within these identities is vital to its acceptance as a demographic of Japan by Japan.

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Climate-Driven Change In Himalayan Rhododendron Phenology, Robert Evan Hart May 2015

Climate-Driven Change In Himalayan Rhododendron Phenology, Robert Evan Hart

Dissertations

Phenology – the seasonal timing of life-history events – is a critical dimension of natural history. It is also one of the earliest and most noticeable traits by which organisms respond to climate change. However, these responses are complex, and only beginning to be understood, especially in the montane and alpine environments that are among the ecosystems most vulnerable to climate change. Drawing from diverse data sets and employing multiple methodologies, I examined how climate affects phenology in Himalayan Rhododendron spp. Comprehensively monitoring flowering phenology over gradients of season and elevation on Mt. Yulong, China – home to a diverse …

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170th University Of Notre Dame Commencement Program, University Of Notre Dame May 2015

170th University Of Notre Dame Commencement Program, University Of Notre Dame

Commencement Programs

170th University of Notre Dame Commencement Program

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Teaching Artistry As A Critical Community Of Practice: An Arts-Based Ethnography, Laura K. Reeder May 2015

Teaching Artistry As A Critical Community Of Practice: An Arts-Based Ethnography, Laura K. Reeder

Dissertations - ALL

There is increasing inequity in access to arts education among students in the United States that corresponds to an increase in demand for teaching artists - career artists who apply their artistry to teaching and learning. These increases have been documented both as a benefit and as a threat to arts instruction that is provided within standardized public school curricula. In turn, policy debate has emerged around professional positioning and development of teaching artists. This arts-based ethnographic study investigates resistance by teaching artists in the United States to policy recommendations for formal credentialing of the work that they do (Rabkin, …

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Louisiana’S Natural Servitude Of Drain, Carson Haddow May 2015

Louisiana’S Natural Servitude Of Drain, Carson Haddow

Louisiana Law Review

In this article, the author discusses related to natural servitude of drainage in Louisiana. Topics discussed include rural landowners in disputes over local flooding, issue of servitude results in water-related injuries, use of Louisiana Civil Code articles 655 and 656 to establish the servitude of drain. It further discusses regulation of drainage.

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Leading A Mindful Classroom: A Study On Increasing Student Understanding Of Literature, Nyssa Giangregorio May 2015

Leading A Mindful Classroom: A Study On Increasing Student Understanding Of Literature, Nyssa Giangregorio

Departmental Honors & Graduate Capstone Projects

In this study, the researcher utilized a mindfulness-­based technique of silent reflection and guided thinking in order to see how mindfulness could affect students' responses to literature and students' behavior as part of the learning environment. Before taking part in the class routine of journal writing, students were asked to simply think and reflect on the topic to gather their thoughts before attempting to write their responses as well as potentially calm them down from the chaos of a high school hallway. This study was inspired by recent studies in the field of mindfulness that suggest that it can increase …

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Commencement Convocation Exercises May 2015, Prairie View A&M University May 2015

Commencement Convocation Exercises May 2015, Prairie View A&M University

Commencement and Convocation Exercises

No abstract provided.

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Economic Figures, Fiona Eloisa Wilson May 2015

Economic Figures, Fiona Eloisa Wilson

Theses

The title economic figures refer to both finances and the people (as figures) that are affected by monetary instability. People in two consumer locations are documented photographically through two projects that tell the story of the evolving sites of strip mall and main street shopping. In Displacing Main Street, photographs of people entering strip mall stores are installed on abandoned main street store sites. ‘the store’ are photographs that show the intimate story of my parents struggle to keep their main street small business open. The final exhibition combines these two works in a single gallery to give the viewer …

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