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Teacher And Administrator Perceptions Of One-To-One Technology Device Implementation, Stewart F. Pratt

Dissertations

The influence of technology on society shows little sign of diminishing (Puybaraud, 2012). Increased capabilities and the affordability of technology devices have brought a resurgence of one-to-one device implementation in schools (Dawson, 2016). This qualitative study was designed to elicit the perceptions of administrators and teachers on one-to-one device implementation. Marc Prensky’s (2001) premise that students are digital natives embedded in media and digital device-rich environments provided the conceptual framework for this study. Furthermore, Prensky (2001) proposed modern students learn, conceptualize, and respond differently than previous generations. The participants in this study represented six southwest Missouri school districts with student …

Compositing And Rotopainting In A Short Film, Jaime Mundo

All Theses

The purpose of the present project was to use visual effects to enhance a film and save production finances and resources. Using visual effects, digital compositing, and rotopainting impacts the real-world challenges in the filmmaking process as it saves the company money by not having to purchase props, costumes, and hire extras on set. Also, they can film in minimum locations by employing the use of green screens. Traveling fees would be lower, and in a low budget film like this project is presenting, saving money is the most important aspect in finishing and releasing it. FisherFilms directed two films: …

Hydraulic Performance Evaluation Of Evapotranspiration Cover Systems, Brett James De Vries

Civil Engineering Dissertations - Archive

Although alternative covers such as the evapotranspiration (ET) landfill cover system promise to provide equivalent or greater performance than conventional cover systems, uncertainties remain on the performance of these type of cover systems. The uncertainties associated with performance may derive from the relative newness of these covers (when compared to conventional landfill cover systems); and their dependency on relatively site-specific factors such as: climatic, vegetation, and soil conditions. As a results, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) requires a landfill facility to design and then verify the design and performance through site specific field scale testing (TCEQ 2012). Utilizing …

Coupled Geochemical And Nano-Petrophysical Study Of The Spraberry-Wolfcamp Trend; West Texas, U.S.A., Ryan P. Quintero

Earth & Environmental Sciences Theses - Archive

With the rise in interest of unconventional plays, efforts have moved to understand these formations across 12 orders of magnitude through nm-km scale. Recent work by others has shown the importance of the nanometer range due to the fact this is the predominant pore size within shales. In attempt to understand nanopore structure and production behavior within a shale unconventional reservoir, a number of complementary experimental methods must be employed. This research involves the use of wettability droplet analysis for micron scale assessment of wetting properties and Mercury Intrusion Capillary Pressure (MICP) analysis for pore structure characterization within the Spraberry …

Commencement Program 2016 December: College Of Engineering, The University Of Texas At Arlington

Commencement Programs, Photos, and Video

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Commencement Program 2016 December: College Of Architecture, Planning And Public Affairs; School Of Social Work; University College, The University Of Texas At Arlington

Commencement Programs, Photos, and Video

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Commencement Program 2016 December: College Of Education; College Of Science, The University Of Texas At Arlington

Commencement Programs, Photos, and Video

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Coursenetworking And Community: Linking Online Discussion Networks And Course Success, Adrienne L. Traxler, Andrew Gavrin, Rebecca Lindell

Physics Faculty Publications

Large introductory science courses are isolating for many students, and reducing this isolation is an important factor for student retention in college. Active learning courses often build community among students as an explicit goal, but many commuter or non-traditional students have limited on-campus time. Online discussion forums provide one tool for engaging students with each other outside of class time. This study uses social network analysis with forum data from an introductory physics course to examine students' positions in the class discussion network and link it to their final course grades. We find that, contrary to expectations, there is no …

One Small Step: The Impact Of The U.S. Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act Of 2015 On The Exploration Of Resources In Outer Space, P.J. Blount, Christian J. Robinson

North Carolina Journal of Law & Technology

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University Classroom Presentations As Prior Art Disclosures: Are Engineering Capstone Teams Unknowingly Giving Away The Fruits Of Their Labor?, Patricia E. Campbell

North Carolina Journal of Law & Technology

No abstract provided.

Innovative Gtfs Data Application For Transit Network Analysis Using A Graph-Oriented Method, Philippe Fortin, Catherine Morency, Martin Trépanier

Journal of Public Transportation

Public transit networks are constantly evolving in the face of frequent economic and social challenges. There exists a large knowledge base on travel demand; however, there is a shortage of information on travel supply and networks. To our knowledge, no analysis tool can, at this point, systematically characterize a network and observe changes over time in a structured and automated manner. This paper addresses this issue and proposes a graph-oriented method for developing an analysis tool that will characterize a single network and then provide the necessary means to compare two distinct networks. A time-expanded model was applied to import …

Random Walks In A Sparse Random Environment, Anastasios Matzavinos, Alexander Roitershtein, Youngsoo Seol

Mathematics and Statistics Faculty Publications

We introduce random walks in a sparse random environment on ℤ and investigate basic asymptotic properties of this model, such as recurrence-transience, asymptotic speed, and limit theorems in both the transient and recurrent regimes. The new model combines features of several existing models of random motion in random media and admits a transparent physical interpretation. More specifically, a random walk in a sparse random environment can be characterized as a “locally strong” perturbation of a simple random walk by a random potential induced by “rare impurities,” which are randomly distributed over the integer lattice. Interestingly, in the critical (recurrent) regime, …

Bridging The Gap: A Workshop To Support Sexual Education Outside Of School, Rachel Lambrecht

Dissertations, Masters Theses, Capstones, and Culminating Projects

Sex education cannot simply provide the “facts” about sex; students must be given the space and support to make connections between the information they receive and their own behaviors. In order to meet the immediate developmental needs of young people I have created a one-­‐day workshop for girls, which is meant to augment current sexual education programming. The aim of the one-­‐day workshop is to bridge the gap between information that girls have received from school programming or parents with the new emotional and physical sensations specific to their developing sexuality, to foster connections with peers, and instill a sense …

Connections With The Current Generation Of College Students Using Digital Marketing Practices, Michael Galindo

Dissertations, Masters Theses, Capstones, and Culminating Projects

Higher education professionals in college and university admissions utilize various forms of communication in enrolling their fall class. The problem with the digital generation, also known as the Millennials, is that students have disconnected from the personal touch - the connection that is established between the student, their admissions counselor and the institution. Often it is found that this connection helps prospective students find that perfect fit in selecting a college.

This study identifies several technological approaches and evaluates their effectiveness in undergraduate admissions recruitment. A review of the literature revealed that recent technological advances such as social media, personal …

The New Hampshire, Vol. 106 [107], No. 24 (Dec. 1, 2016), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire. This volume was printed as 106, but it is the 107th volume in the series.

Interrogation Of Possible Imaging Conditions For Radiation Sensitive Metal Organic Frameworks In Transmission Electron Microscopes, Wei-Yu Pan

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Although transmission electron microscopy (TEM) is extremely powerful at the characterization of materials on the nano- and atomic scales, the advantages introduce accompanying drawbacks. That is, high energy electrons offer the structural information while imparting radiation damage to the samples. Metal organic frameworks are a new class of materials that have potential applications in gas storage and catalysis. A direct imaging of their lattice structures is highly desired. However, these samples are extremely radiation sensitive. In order to characterize their structures, low-dose TEM need to be performed. To date, there is a lack of a systematic of radiation study of …

Building A Portable Room Temperature Quantum Memory, Ruoxi Wang

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Quantum memory provides a platform for building quantum networks in quantum information processing. Applications of said networks include quantum gates for quantum computing and quantum repeaters for long distance quantum key distribution. An optical quantum memory can be realized by a cold atom system combined with electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT). However, room temperature quantum memory via vapor cells benefit from its easy operation without the need for laser cooling and trapping, promoting the scalability. In this work, we studied and tested EIT in a Rubidium vapor cell at room temperature, by storing and retrieving a classical light source using probe …

Nanoscale Eengineering Of Infrared Plasmons In Graphene, Haiming Deng

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Surface plasmons are collective oscillations of free charge carriers confined in interface between two dielectrics, where the real part of the dielectric changes sign (e.g a metal-insulator interface such as gold film and air). The study of surface plasmon has been a popular research theme with potential applications utilizing the fact that the wavelength of plasmons can be many order smaller than that of the incident lights. The potential applications include transfer of information in hundreds of terahertz instead of upper limit of gigahertz in traditional wires, photodetectors with frequency range from terahertz to mid-IR, and nano-imaging. In our experiment, …

Enhancing Operating Systems With Network Provenance Based Policies For Systematic Malware Defense, Wai Kit Sze

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Todays OSes adopt users as the basic unit of trust. Every file and process owned by the same user has the same userid as the user. This design stems from the very first multi-user OS created, a time when computers were self-contained, and file contents were under the control of users. Today, users frequently download data and code from the Internet, without fully understanding their content or consequences. However, existing desktop OSes reuse the same old trust model and treat downloaded files as if users are fully responsible for them. This trust is exploited by today’s malware. In this dissertation, …

Examining The Functional Role Of The C-Terminal Domain Of The Insulin Like Growth Factor 1 Receptor Kinase Using Naturally Occurring Mutations Present In Human Cancers, Christa Nicole Pappalardo

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Insulin Like Growth Factor 1 Receptor (IGF1R) is a receptor tyrosine kinase that functions to control cell proliferation and apoptosis. Activation occurs upon the binding of the IGF1 ligand to the extracellular domain facilitating trans-autophosphorylation and thus activation. The receptor activates downstream signaling through both the MAPK and PI3K/Akt pathways that contribute to cellular proliferation and preventing cell death, respectively. IGF1R is overexpressed and hyperactive in many human cancers. We postulated that IGF1R could also be activated by mutation. We further hypothesized that particular C-terminal mutations could affect the ability of this domain to autoregulate the receptor. Mutations were chosen …

Tissue Engineering Using 3d Template Casting, Travis Kruse

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

One of the major goals of tissue engineering is to develop methods that reliably fabricate tissues and organs ex vivo for use/implantation in vivo. However, the ability to create large-scale 3D tissues at physiological cell densities is hindered by our inability to sustain cells. The main reason for this is that without an incorporated vascular network, the transport of nutrients and wastes are restricted to molecular diffusion, which is limited to approximately 100 µm in biological tissues. Here we have developed a casting based templating technology to create highly ordered microchannels in polymers for MRI phantom and in vitro tissue …

A West Indian Jubilee In America: British Emancipation And The American Abolition Movement, Dexter Joey Gabriel

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

This dissertation, “A West Indian Jubilee in America: British Emancipation and the American Abolition Movement,†charts the impact of British Emancipation on American abolitionism and free African-American communities from the 1830s through the 1860s. On August 1,1834 the British Abolition Act freed by proclamation 800,000 slaves in the West Indies. In the coming decades, in print and in public rituals, the success of the former slaves in the British West Indies became a crucial focal point in the debate on American slavery. This debate took place in the flourishing American print culture that emerged in the 1830s: antislavery newspapers, tracts, …

The Graphic Memoir And The Cartoonist's Memory, Alice Claire Burrows

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Graphic memoirs embrace the vibrancy and rich social and artistic history of comics, and the intimacy and imagination of autobiographies. Spanning from Justin Green’s 1972 Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary to Riad Sattouf’s 2014 The Arab of the Future, autobiographical comics capture the fragmented, subjective, and visual nature of memory. Reacting against the Comics Code, underground comics introduced the concept of portraying oneself in comics, a practice that achieved mainstream validation in 1992 when Art Spiegelman won the Pulitzer Prize for Maus. Drawing from classic comic strips like Richard Outcault’s The Yellow Kid and comic books like the …

Quando La Letteratura Si Incrocia Con L'Architettura, Violanda Franzese

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Abstract of the Thesis Quando la letteratura si incrocia con l’architettura by Violanda Franzese Master of Arts in Italian Stony Brook University 2016 Premessa Con questa tesi cercherò di spiegare la relazione tra letteratura e architettura e il ruolo dell’architettura nella letteratura. Come sono collegate le due discipline? Tra i più evidenti e famosi esempi di questo legame si trovano nelle opere di: Charles Dickens che nel romanzo di Oliver Twist descrive le case popolari di Londra; Victor Hugo che mette la cattedrale gotica di Notre-Dame al centro del suo racconto; James Joyce che usa la città di Dublino come …

At The Juncture Of Homonationalism And Homophobic Nationalism: Sexual Justice Organizing In Uganda And The Paradox Of Transnational Advocacy, Sasha Maria Rodriguez

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

The Anti-Homosexuality Bill of 2009 propelled Uganda to the forefront of global media. In its initial manifestation, the Bill threatened to penalize “aggravated homosexuality†with the death penalty. The media attention earned by the proposed legislation opened avenues for transnational cooperation and communication between US-based Human and LGBTI Rights organizations and Ugandan kuchus – a Ugandan identity that encapsulates various identities of same gender loving or gender nonconforming peoples. This project focuses on this transnational relationship as it interacts with the dynamic of organizing in the midst of a national project of sexual repression. This dissertation asks how kuchu organizing …

A Comparison Of Two Theoretical Approaches To Addressing Ageism: Education And Extended Contact, Ashley Elizabeth Lytle

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Ageism continues to be a widespread problem and is of increasing concern given the growing older population worldwide and youth-centered focus of many societies. Despite the need for a better understanding of attitudes towards older adults, ageism is a relatively understudied area of social psychology. This dissertation sought, for the first time, to compare two theoretical approaches to addressing ageism: education about aging (providing accurate information about aging) and extended contact (knowledge of positive intergenerational contact) as well as their potential combined impact (education plus extended contact). Across two studies, participants were randomly assigned to one of the four conditions: …

Partisanship, Political Information, And Money, Jeeyoung Park

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

This dissertation contains three parts - three papers. My dissertation tries to bridge the gap between two perspectives: the socio-psychological model and the rational choice model in voting behavior. The first part investigates how partisans behave in the prediction market. Using an agent-based model, my simulation results show that participants’ initial beliefs about a candidate’s winning probability, confirmation biases in accepting information, and monetary incentives strongly increase changes in participants’ beliefs about the electoral outcome captured by price volatility in the prediction market. The second part explores the microfoundation about individuals’ behavioral motivations in evaluating political candidates. My experimental results …

Synthesis Of Binary Nanocrystalline Aluminum Alloys Through High Energy Ball Milling, Lacey Lynn Schwab

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Nanocrystalline metals have useful mechanical properties such as high strength, improved wear resistance, and longer fatigue life; however, they are relatively unstable – grain boundary doping is a viable method towards stabilization [1-3]. After comparing the work of Murdoch and Schuh, that used a thermodynamic model to estimate grain boundary segregation enthalpy to the experimental work of Umbrajkar et al. | it was realized that mechanical alloying is a processing route for grain boundary stabilization [10,11]. Whether or not chemical mixing has occurred is a good indicator of a powder system’s potential for grain boundary doping. 99Al1Si, 99Al1Mg, 99Al1Zr, and …

University Honors Program News, Georgia Southern University

Honors College: News & Publications (2008-2020)

• Honors Research at Georgia Undergraduate Research Conference

• Honors Research at the American Chemical Society

• Honors Research at the Georgia Political Science Association

Daily Eastern News: December 01, 2016, Eastern Illinois University

December

No abstract provided.