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Swiss American Historical Society Review

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Elementary And Secondary Special Education Teachers Experiences Of Inclusion For Students With Moderate To Severe Disabilities: A Phenomenolgical Study, Shannon Anders

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The purpose of this transcendental phenomenological study was to describe the experiences of special education teachers regarding inclusive practices with students with moderate and severe disabilities in a rural North Carolina school district. The purpose of this research was to seek the overall essence of the lived experiences of a purposeful criterion sample of 11 special education teachers as they used inclusion strategies with their students. This study had one central question: How do rural special education teachers describe their experiences with inclusive practices for their students with moderate to severe disabilities? The theories guiding this study were Maslow’s Hierarchy …

Idioms As A Measure Of Proficiency, Kyle Hugh Vanderniet

Theses and Dissertations

This purpose of this thesis is to explore the relationship between idiomatic knowledge and second language proficiency. As the amount of research directly related to this topic is sparse, an in-depth discussion of relevant research and definitions comprises the first part of this paper. Two studies are then presented here that test the relationship between idiomatic knowledge and second language proficiency. A new definition for idioms proposes that all non-compositional phrases, popularized by usage, that is stored, retrieved, and employed as a single lexical unit. The results from more than 400 participants across two studies indicate that the two constructs …

Exploring Negative Sexual Experiences, Attitudes, And Behaviors By Auditory Status, Taylor Victoria Vogt

Theses

Sexual assault is a significant problem on college campuses across the United States and an extensive amount of research has been conducted to address the issue. However, only a limited number of empirical studies have examined sexual victimization among the Deaf and hard of hearing population. Using a survey instrument with a sample of Deaf, hard of hearing and hearing students (n = 3,970) at the Rochester Institute of Technology, this study examined the associations between auditory status, prior sexual victimization, rape myths and behaviors. The results showed that Deaf and hard of hearing students are more likely to experience …

Vireo-Tno @ Trecvid 2015: Multimedia Event Detection, Hao Zhang, Yi-Jie Lu, Maaike De Boer, Frank Ter Haar, Zhaofan Qiu, Klamer Schutte, Wessel Kraaij, Chong-Wah Ngo

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

This paper presents an overview and comparative analysis of our systems designed for the TRECVID 2015 [1] multimedia event detection (MED) task. We submitted 17 runs, of which 5 each for the zeroexample, 10-example and 100-example subtasks for the Pre-Specified (PS) event detection and 2 runs for the 10-example subtask for the Ad-Hoc (AH) event detection. We did not participate in the Interactive Run. This year we focus on three different parts of the MED task: 1) extending the size of our concept bank and combining it with improved dense trajectories; 2) exploring strategies for semantic query generation (SQG); and …

Sweet Love: The Effects Of Sweet Taste Experience On Romantic Perceptions, Ren Dongning, Kenneth Tan, Ximena B. Arriaga, Kai Qin Chan

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

Terms of endearment such as sweetie, honey, and sugar are commonly used in the context of describing romantic partners. This article explores how a relatively subtle manipulation, namely taste sensations, might influence romantic perceptions of a nonestablished relationship. Consistent with predictions, results from Studies 1 and 2 (n = 280) showed that participants evaluated a hypothetical relationship, but not an existing relationship, more favorably when exposed to sweet taste compared to non-sweet taste control. Study 3 (n = 142) further showed that participants indicated greater interest in initiating a relationship with a potential partner when exposed to sweet taste, as …

A Method And System For Sentiment Classification And Emotion Classification [Us Patent 20170308523a1], Zhaoxia Wang, Rick Siow Mong Goh, Yinping Yang

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

A system and a method for classifying text messages, such as social media messages into sentiment valence categories are provided. The system comprising a module for decomposing text messages, a module for cleaning text messages, a module for producing feature data of text messages, and a module for classifying text messages into sentiment valence categories. The module for decomposing text messages is configured to: receive a text message, parse the text message into separate portions in response to parsing criteria based on sentence delimiters, wherein the separate portions are sentences, phrases and words, and rejoin at least some of the …

Deep Multimodal Learning For Affective Analysis And Retrieval, Lei Pang, Shiai Zhu, Chong-Wah Ngo

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Social media has been a convenient platform for voicing opinions through posting messages, ranging from tweeting a short text to uploading a media file, or any combination of messages. Understanding the perceived emotions inherently underlying these user-generated contents (UGC) could bring light to emerging applications such as advertising and media analytics. Existing research efforts on affective computation are mostly dedicated to single media, either text captions or visual content. Few attempts for combined analysis of multiple media are made, despite that emotion can be viewed as an expression of multimodal experience. In this paper, we explore the learning of highly …

Challenges In Analyzing Software Documentation In Portuguese, Christoph Treude, Carlos A. Prolo, Fernando Figueira Filho

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Many tools that automatically analyze, summarize, or transform software artifacts rely on natural language processing tooling for the interpretation of natural language text produced by software developers, such as documentation, code comments, commit messages, or bug reports. Processing natural language text produced by software developers is challenging because of unique characteristics not found in other texts, such as the presence of code terms and the systematic use of incomplete sentences. In addition, texts produced by Portuguese-speaking developers mix languages since many keywords and programming concepts are referred to by their English name. In this paper, we provide empirical insights into …

Cape Verdeans In The Atlantic: The Formation Of Kriolu Music And Dance Styles On Ship And In Port, Susan Hurley-Glowa

School of Music Faculty Publications

Working from the premise that Cape Verde is a member of the Black Atlantic musical family whose styles flowed freely from port to port, this study has delved deeper into the styles and time frames that figured into the mix, verifying that periods of intense transatlantic port activity correspond to the emergence of new genres. Cape Verde’s musical history might be viewed as a sandbar on the beach that is continually reshaped and born a new by waves of musical influences circling between the continents. The ideas of individual Cape Verdeans ultimately created the music, of course, and a comparative …

Up-Setting The Apple Cart: Mitigating Potentially Disabling Barriers In Education, Amy Tepper

Dissertations

In this study, certified general and special educators, school administrators, as well as paraprofessionals (program, classroom, and/or individual assistants), and school-based specialists (speech-language pathologists, occupational therapists, social workers, etc.) were surveyed regarding their opinions specific to the impact of potentially disabling barriers for students within the educational setting. In addition to the survey data, follow-up interviews were conducted with five select survey participants. The interview participants were selected based upon their assenting and/or dissenting opinions/responses, as well as their professional role within an educational context. The interviews were completed as a means of deriving additional, inimitable, solutions-focused insights regarding transforming …

Penyusunan Panduan Edutourism Hutan Wisata Tlogo Nirmolo Guna Memunculkan Karakter Peserta Didik Kelas X, Destri Ratna Ma㢂¬„¢Rifah, I Gusti Putu Suryadarma

Jurnal Inovasi Pendidikan IPA

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk: (1) menghasilkan panduan pembelajaran yang layak digunakan sebagai alternatif sumber belajar biologi di tinjau dari aspek materi/isi, penyajian, kebahasaan, dan kegrafisan; (2) mengetahui keefektifan panduan dalam memunculkan karakter positif peserta didik (bersahabat/komunikatif, tanggung jawab, dan peduli lingkungan) selama kegiatan; dan (3) mengetahui peningkatan pemahaman peserta didik pada materi keanekaragaman lichen dan tumbuhan paku serta lingkungannya. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian dan pengembangan dengan model 4D (define, design, develop, disseminate). Data hasil penilaian panduan, keterlaksanaan kegiatan, dan kemunculan indikator karakter peserta didik dianalisis secara deskriptif kuantitatif. Saran pengembangan produk dan saran untuk pelaksanaan kegiatan dianalisis secara …

Pengembangan Model Pembelajaran Hypnoteaching Untuk Meningkatkan Motivasi Dan Hasil Belajar Biologi Siswa Sma/Ma, Hepta Bungsu Agung Jayawardana, Djukri Djukri

Jurnal Inovasi Pendidikan IPA

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui: (1) validitas model pembelajaran hypnoteaching beserta perangkat pembelajarannya; (2) pengaruh model pembelajaran hypnoteaching terhadap peningkatan motivasi belajar siswa; dan (3) pengaruh model pembelajaran hypnoteaching terhadap peningkatan hasil belajar biologi siswa kelas XI SMA/MA. Prosedur pengembangan dalam penelitian ini diadaptasi dari Model Borg & Gall yang meliputi studi pendahuluan dan pengumpulan informasi, perencanaan dan perancangan, penyusunan draf model pembelajaran dan validasi, uji coba terbatas dan revisi, uji coba diperluas dan penyempurnaan produk, serta diseminasi dan implementasi produk. Teknik analisis data yang digunakan yaitu statistik deskriptif dan statistik inferensial dengan menggunakan uji multivariat (MANOVA). Hasil penelitian adalah …

Pengembangan Multimedia Berbasis Masalah Untuk Meningkatkan Motivasi Belajar Dan Kemampuan Berpikir Kritis Siswa, Dwi Septiana Sari, Kristian Handoyo Sugiyarto

Jurnal Inovasi Pendidikan IPA

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk: (1) mengembangkan multimedia berbasis masalah dengan materi redoks, (2) menganalisis kualitas multimedia berbasis masalah, serta (3) menguji keefektifan multimedia berbasis masalah dalam meningkatkan motivasi belajar dan kemampuan berpikir kritis peserta didik. Penelitian ini termasuk dalam penelitian dan pengembangan berdasarkan model Borg & Gall. Subjek uji coba dalam penelitian ini meliputi peserta didik kelas X SMA Negeri 6 Yogyakarta. Data dikumpulkan melalui angket untuk validasi media, lembar observasi keterlaksanaan pembelajaran, lembar observasi motivasi belajar, angket motivasi belajar, dan tes kemampuan berpikir kritis. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa (1) pengembangan multimedia berbasis masalah materi redoks dilaksanakan sesuai dengan …

Click Chemistry Derived Sugar-Based Surfactants With Various Shapes: Synthesis And Physical Studies / Tammar Hussein Ali, Ali Tammar Hussein

Student Works (2010-2019)

Surfactants are important bulk chemicals with diverse applications in various fields, ranging from food over detergents to industrial products like lubricants. Growing environmental awareness and limitation of petrochemical resources have shifted the focus towards the utilization of renewable resources. Good candidates are sugar based surfactants. A series of new surfactants were prepared by click chemistry using functionalized glucosides as the hydrophilic domain. Variations of the molecular structure led to three different shapes, i.e. Y-shape, X-shape and reverse Y-shape, referring to the geometric arrangements of the hydrophobic and hydrophilic domains, respectively. Since the shape of a surfactant affects its molecular assembly …

The Particulate Constitution: Uncertainty And New Originalism, Elise Carter

BYU Law Review

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How To Incite Crime With Words: Clarifying Brandenburg’S Incitement Test With Speech Act Theory, Bradley J. Pew

BYU Law Review

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English Fluency Requirements For Teachers In Massachusetts: A Title Vii Analysis, Belma Krijestorac

Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development

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Women's Rights Are Human Rights Redux: Ain't I A Human?, Ann Piccard

Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development

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Civil Unions Reconsidered, John G. Culhane

Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development

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Examining The "Stick" Of Accreditation For Medical Schools Through Reproductive Justice Lens: A Transformative Remedy For Teaching The Tuskegee Syphilis Study, Deleso Alford Washington

Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development

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Colonial Relics: Unearthing The Lingering Tyranny Of Colonial Discourse In U.S. - Caribbean Immigration Law And Policy, Glenys P. Spence

Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development

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Reginal Intercession And The Case Of Cristina, Convicted Murderer, Katherine Allocco

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

In the winter of 1328-1329, Cristina, widow of Thomas Scot, potter of London, was convicted, imprisoned in Newgate and sentenced to hang for the crime of murdering her husband. Her execution was delayed due to her pregnancy. In January or February 1329, Cristina sent a letter to Isabella of France, queen mother, requesting a King’s pardon. On March 2, Edward III pardoned Cristina, at his mother’s request, through letters patent. It appears that Isabella, who had an established reputation as an intercessor for both personal petitions and general political appeals, had successfully interceded on Cristina’s behalf. Although medieval queens- both …

Cbfa 2015 Business And Human Flourishing - A Holistic Visual Model, John Visser

Faculty Work Comprehensive List

The reputation and, to a lesser degree the practice of business, perhaps more than those of any other institution, suffer from the kind of reductionism that is the stepchild of dualistic and secular thinking. Some business-bashing is deserved, since some businesses operate in a very opportunistic ways, but much of it can be traced back to a misunderstanding of what business is and does. Unfortunately, once we have been fooled into thinking that life can be compartmentalized, and that we can wall off religious beliefs from the rest of life, and that our economic lives belong on the secular side …

University Honors Program News, Georgia Southern University

Honors College: News & Publications (2008-2020)

• Alumni Update: Thomas Eisenhart Delivers Talk to Chemistry Department

• Honors Students Find Success in Mock Mediation Competitions

• Researching Writing and Writing Research: Aleyna Rentz Publishes in Composition Studies

Chawton Novels Online, Women’S Writing 1751-1834 And Computer-Aided Textual Analysis, Anne Bandry-Scubbi

ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830

Using Chawton House Library’s “Novels Online,” several corpora have been set up for a computer-aided textual analysis of the use of vocabulary by women writing “domestic novels” from 1752 to 1834. This corpus stylistics approach makes it possible to map texts according to their word usage and to identify quantitative keywords which provide vocabulary profiles through comparison and contrast with contemporary male and female canonical texts. Items identified include pronouns, markers of dialogue and of intensity; others can be grouped into specific lexical fields such as feelings. One text from the collection then forms the object of a …

Clear And Convincing Disparagement: An Argument For A Higher Evidentiary Standard For When The T.T.A.B. Considers Cancelling A Well-Known, Tenured Trademark, John C. Thomas Iii

Journal of Intellectual Property Law

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Minority Banks In New York City: Is The Community Reinvestment Act Relevant?, Tarry Hum

Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development

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Role Models: Theory, Practice, And Effectiveness Among Latina Lawyers, Melinda S. Molina

Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development

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Spartan Daily, October 29, 2015, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 145, Issue 29