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An Integrative And Interdisciplinary Approach To Shark Conservation: Policy Solutions, Ecosystem Role, And Stakeholder Attitudes, David S. Shiffman

Open Access Dissertations

The goal of this interdisciplinary dissertation is to assess how scientific research, public advocacy, and policy change interact in the context of shark conservation.

12-09-2016 Swosu Students Scheduled To Complete Degrees This Fall Semester, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

THE BARK ARCHIVE 2016

A total of 366 students at Southwestern Oklahoma State University in Weatherford complete requirements for either associate, bachelor’s, master’s or doctoral degrees after the 2016 fall semester.

Board Of Trustees Meeting Minutes 2016-12-09, Bowling Green State University

Board of Trustees Meeting Minutes

The official meeting minutes of Bowling Green State University's Board of Trustees.

Creating Communities Of Culturally Relevant Critical Teacher Care, Elyse Hambacher, Elizabeth Bondy

Education

This article draws on the literature on effective African American teachers of African American students to investigate the enactments of culturally relevant critical teacher care (CRCTC) in two fifth-grade teachers’ (one White and one Black) classrooms in a large, urban school district. Using interview and observation data, the findings illustrate the teachers’ knowledge of potential constraints upon their students’ futures. This knowledge catalyzed their enactment of a particular kind of care designed to prepare their students with the dispositions, knowledge, and skills to construct what Carl Grant has called “flourishing lives.” The teachers’ practices illustrate classroom spaces ripe for high …

The Echo: December 9, 2016, Taylor University

2016-2017 (Volume 104)

Christmas Edition

Season Schedule – Unified by Silence – Silent Night starting lineups – Santa, puppies and basketball players!? – Dazzling lights and dinosaurs – Things to do at the Walkway of Lights – Serving the least of these – Roommate vs. Roommate – End the music madness – Don’t stop the music – Fond farewells – Pato’s dream

[2016-12-09] Governance And Compensation Committee Of The Board Of Visitors, Virginia Commonwealth University. Board Of Visitors

VCU Board of Visitors Minutes

Official minutes of the VCU Board of Visitors and its Executive Committee.

[2016-12-09] Meeting Of The Board Of Visitors Of Virginia Commonwealth University, Virginia Commonwealth University. Board Of Visitors

VCU Board of Visitors Minutes

Official minutes of the VCU Board of Visitors and its Executive Committee.

Eighth Consecutive Military Friendly Designation Followed By Gold Award, Lindenwood University

Archived Lindenwood Press Releases

No abstract provided.

A Three-Position Air Rifle Range Officer E-Learning Module, Katherine Harrington

Master of Education in Instructional Design and Technology Plan II Graduate Projects

This project focused on the rationale and development procedures for a computer-based training module for the purpose of instructing officials on the safe and fair conduct of three-position air rifle competitions. While hundreds of competitions are conducted around the country each year, no training existed for the officials in this specific shooting discipline. This project aimed to establish consistent training so that all competitions are conducted by at least one trained official. The learning module was developed using the analysis, design, development, implementation and evaluation (ADDIE) model of instructional systems design. After the course was developed, data was collected to …

Joint And Selective Periodic Component Carrier Assignment In Lte-A, Husnu S. Narman, Mohammed Atiquzzaman, Mehdi Rahmani-Andebili, Haiying Shen

Computer Sciences and Electrical Engineering Faculty Research

The bandwidth demand for mobile Internet access is significantly increased with the number of mobile users. Carrier aggregation has been proposed to answer this demand in mobile networks. In carrier aggregation, the best available one or more component carriers of each band are assigned to each user to provide efficient services. Several works have been reported in the literature on mandatory and periodic component carrier assignment methods. Although the former works, especially periodic component carrier assignment methods, have significantly improved the performance of LTE-A systems, many limitations still exist. One limitation of previous works is that data transfer is interrupted …

Strategic Insights: Thinking Strategically About Latin America And The Caribbean, R. Evan Ellis

Articles & Editorials

No abstract provided.

Strategic Insights: Think Before You Post: A Message To Those In Uniform, Heidi A. Urben

Articles & Editorials

No abstract provided.

Commencement Convocation Program, Usf, Baccalaureates, December 9, 2016, University Of South Florida

USF Graduation and Convocation Programs

Honorary Doctor of Science - Melanie Cooper; Outstanding Graduate - Stephanie Radu; President's Global Leadership Award - Peter McPherson; King O'Neal Scholars - Lauren Alford,Khadija Bouarfa, Aaron Braley, Shane Cataract, Payton Cook, Alyssa Cooper, Eesha Hasan, Elly Kretchman, Brooks Lackmann, Corazon Marmanillo Romero, Angelina Parrino, Amanda Pitre, and Katelin Russ

Physical Therapy Treatment Of A Patient With Chronic Low Back Pain And A Previous History Of A Substance Abuse Disorder: A Case Report, Marcus X. Alomar, Brian T. Swanson

Case Report Posters

The National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) reported that an estimated 27 million people in the United States have reported use of an illicit drug within the past month. Low back pain continues to be a major cause of disability in the United States, with an estimated 70 percent of adults experiencing low back pain at some point during their lifetime. Active exercise programs that include pain education and cognitive behavioral therapy demonstrated significant superior outcome at reducing pain intensity, anxiety/depression, disability, and fear-avoidance compared to therapeutic exercise and manual therapy alone for patients with non-specific chronic low …

Vietnam Oral History: William Mcclenahan, Lydia K. Scoggins Ms.

Vietnam

This is the interview with William McClenahan. He was a Staff Sergeant in the United States Marine Corps. He served in the Vietnam War and his story tells the cold details of his time in Vietnam.

Aetna Life Insurance Co V. Raritan Bay Medical Center

2016 Decisions

USDC for the District of New Jersey

Jian Shi V. Attorney General Usa

2016 Decisions

Agency

2016 Fall Commencement Program: Winona State University, Winona State University

WSU Commencement Programs

This is the Winona State University Fall 2016 commencement program. Commencement was on Friday, December 9, 2016.

Towards Autonomous Unmanned Vehicle Systems, Sheng Cai

Theses and Dissertations

As an emerging technology, autonomous Unmanned Vehicle Systems (UVS) have found not only many military applications, but also various civil applications. For example, Google, Amazon and Facebook are developing their UVS plans to explore new markets. However, there are still a lot of challenging problems which deter the UVS’s development. We study two important and challenging problems in this dissertation, i.e. localization and 3D reconstruction. Specifically, most GPS based localization systems are not very accurate and can have problems in areas where no GPS signals are available. Based on the Received Signal Strength Indication (RSSI) and Inertial Navigation System (INS), …

Queering The Dick: Moby-Dick As Coming-Out Narrative, Ryan M. Brady

Departmental Honors & Graduate Capstone Projects

Many contemporary critics read Ishmael, Moby-Dick's loquacious narrator, as a queer character. The words homosexual and heterosexual would not be coined until 1868, some eighteen years after the events of Moby-Dick; thus, Ishmael comes of age in a time when there was no language to express or even acknowledge same-sex attraction, and even if there had been, the rigid societal codes that regulated sexuality in the nineteenth century would have prevented him from doing so. Despite these disadvantages, Ishmael, through his "marriage" to Queequeg and, later, his admittance into the queer haven of the Pequod, not only manages to reconcile …

The Rapture Of Being Alive: Mourning, Narrative, And Communicative Ritual In The Digital Age, Marjorie Merideth Drinan

Theses - ALL

Conversations have an afterlife. But what if the afterlife could have conversations? In that metaphorical space, the author explores how technology and design will engender new communicative rituals and tools of mourning as the semiotics of traditional gravescapes begin to diffuse. This pivot will occur in tandem with the rise of alternative forms of body disposition and growing environmental stewardship in response to increased urbanization and notions of intergenerational equity. Digital space, the postmodern hearth of an ever individualized and fractured society, will enable a plurality of mourning as the idea of legacy is deconstructed within the framework of transhumanism …

“Through My Eyes”, A New Narrative Model Using Memories As Self And Intergenerational Discovery, Rui Tang

Theses - ALL

What keeps us happy and healthy as we go through life? According to psychiatrist Robert Waldinger, the director of a 75-year-old study on adult development, a good life isn’t about wealth or fame. Instead, effective social interactions keep us, especially older adults, happier and healthier. Narrative projects like the oral history and collective memory are widely employed to invite older adults to share their memories about historical significant events. Although there were modest benefits in reducing participants’ social isolation (Bornat 16), the approaches of these projects are limited to narrative analysis, rather than narrative itself. The tension between older adults’ …

The Rapture Of Being Alive: Mourning, Narrative, And Communicative Ritual In The Digital Age, Marjorie Merideth Drinan

Theses - ALL

Conversations have an afterlife. But what if the afterlife could have conversations? In that metaphorical space, the author explores how technology and design will engender new communicative rituals and tools of mourning as the semiotics of traditional gravescapes begin to diffuse. This pivot will occur in tandem with the rise of alternative forms of body disposition and growing environmental stewardship in response to increased urbanization and notions of intergenerational equity. Digital space, the postmodern hearth of an ever individualized and fractured society, will enable a plurality of mourning as the idea of legacy is deconstructed within the framework of transhumanism …

“Through My Eyes”, A New Narrative Model Using Memories As Self And Intergenerational Discovery, Rui Tang

Theses - ALL

What keeps us happy and healthy as we go through life? According to psychiatrist Robert Waldinger, the director of a 75-year-old study on adult development, a good life isn’t about wealth or fame. Instead, effective social interactions keep us, especially older adults, happier and healthier. Narrative projects like the oral history and collective memory are widely employed to invite older adults to share their memories about historical significant events. Although there were modest benefits in reducing participants’ social isolation (Bornat 16), the approaches of these projects are limited to narrative analysis, rather than narrative itself. The tension between older adults’ …

Using Gis To Predict Cetacean Strandings Related To Harmful Algal Blooms, Jessica L. Boyd

HCNSO Student Capstones

Exposure to harmful algal bloom (HAB) toxins, such as Karenia brevis, has been linked to cetacean strandings and mortalities. Biological and environmental data from a bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) Unusual Mortality Event (UME) in 2004 are compared to those from pilot whale (Globicephala macrorhynchus) mass stranding events in 2013-2014 in western Florida. Geographical Information Systems (GIS) maps have been created by overlaying stranding locations and select K. brevis presence data in order to identify common spatial and temporal trends. Preliminary results indicate that elevated K. brevis levels (>10,000 cells/L) in Sarasota Bay during January-February and November may …

Emu Today, December 9, 2016, Eastern Michigan University

EMU Today

No abstract provided.

[2016-12-09] Meeting Of The Audit And Compliance Committee, Virginia Commonwealth University. Board Of Visitors

VCU Board of Visitors Minutes

Official minutes of the VCU Board of Visitors and its Executive Committee.

Harbor Notes, December 9, 2016, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. Department Of Marketing And Communications

Harbor Notes

The December 9, 2016, issue of Harbor Notes.

Friday Facts, Lehigh Valley Health Network

Friday FACTS

No abstract provided.

Characterization Of Microparticles Through Digital Holography, Nava Raj Subedi

Theses and Dissertations

In this work, digital holography (DH) is extensively utilized to characterize microparticles. Here, “characterization” refers to the determination of a particle’s shape, size, and, in some cases, its surface structure. A variety of microparticles, such as environmental dust, pollen, volcanic ash, clay, and biological samples, are thoroughly analyzed. In this technique, the microscopically fine interference pattern generated by the coherent superposition of an object and a reference wave fields is digitally recorded using an optoelectronic sensor, in the form of a hologram, and the desired particle property is then computationally extracted by performing a numerical reconstruction to form an image …