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Exploring The Lived Experiences Of Adults Who Stutter: A Qualitative Study, Emilie Scharf

Ursidae: The Undergraduate Research Journal at the University of Northern Colorado

Stuttering is a phenomenon that affects millions of people worldwide, and up until now the disorder has most often been portrayed in a negative light. The purpose of this study is to understand the lived experiences of young adults who stutter, framing the research with more holistic perspective. Two participants will be interviewed in depth using a qualitative research approach to explore what it is like to live with stuttering and how it has affected their daily lives. Literature to date tends to group people who stutter into quantitative studies that problematize the disorder (Blood, G., Blood, I.M., Maloney, K., …

Computing Planarity In Computable Planar Graphs, Patrick Mcmillan

Ursidae: The Undergraduate Research Journal at the University of Northern Colorado

We use methods from computability theory to answer questions about infinite planar graphs. A graph is computable if there is an algorithm, which decides whether given vertices are adjacent. Having a procedure for deciding the edge set might not help compute other properties or features of the graph, however. The goal of this paper is to investigate the extent to which features related to the planarity of a graph might or might not be computable. We propose three definitions for what it might mean for a computable graph to be computably planar and for each build a computable planar graph …

Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Activation Enhances Total Iga Secretion In Leishmania Major-Infected Mice, Madeline Metten

Ursidae: The Undergraduate Research Journal at the University of Northern Colorado

Secretory IgA (antibody A) plays a critical role in neutralizing microbial toxins, regulating non-pathogenic gut microbe populations, and protecting against infections at mucous membranes, like the airways or gut. Altered IgA levels have been associated with increased risk of allergies, infection, and autoimmunity. The aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) is a regulator of immune function, including IgA levels. Chemicals in food or the environment can affect IgA levels, and this has been proposed as a risk factor for human disease. In mice, activation of the AhR with a single dose of 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD), an environmental pollutant, has been shown to alter …

Using Dif To Monitor Equivalence Of Translated Tests In Large Scale Assessments: A Comparison Of Native Speakers In Their Primary And The Test’S Source Language, Jorge Carvajal Espinoza

TAPESTRY

This study utilized a Differential Item Functioning (DIF) methodology for examining translated tests wherein all the examinees have the same native language -the target language of the translation- in order to provide information about the psychometric equivalence of the original and translated versions of the tests at item level. This study has also found possible explanations for translation DIF in certain types of items.

Language Policy And The Preparedness Of Mainstream Teachers For Serving Els In K-12 Classrooms, Laureen A. Fregeau, Robert D. Leier

TAPESTRY

English language learners (ELs) numbers are increasing steadily in classrooms across the United States. Some southeastern states have seen more than a 200% EL student increase in recent years (Migration Policy Institute, 2010). Since the inception of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and especially since Title I “flexibility” revisions, responsibility for educating ELs has shifted from ESOL and bilingual teachers to primarily mainstream teachers. States that have opted out of NCLB under flexibility revisions are no longer as accountable to the U. S. Department of Education for the education of ELs. States and school districts are no longer required to …

Book Review, Nooshan Ashtari

TAPESTRY

Text: Nutta, J. W., Mokhtari, K., & Strebel, C. (2012). Preparing every teacher to reach English learners. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press.

An Esol Curricular Model: Infuse Esol Standards In Teacher Education, Deborah L. Wheeler, Jane M. Govoni

TAPESTRY

Florida approved teacher preparation programs provide coursework in English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) based on a mandate that began for graduates in 2004; however, there are few studies on the effects of an ESOL integrated model. The data show that an ESOL-infused program effectively prepares teacher candidates in demonstrating ESOL standards. The data were applied to a Likert scale and the results revealed that the program ranked between the ranges of average and exceeds expectations. The results will foster further research on a larger scale on ways to effectively prepare teacher candidates to work with English learners (ELs).

Accommodations And English Learners: Inconsistencies In Policies And Practice, Florin M. Mihai, N. Eleni Pappamihiel

TAPESTRY

This article outlines the results of a survey of all the large-scale testing accommodations used with English learners across the United States, addressing the increasing challenge of integrating this population into a state’s accountability system in a valid and reliable manner. This examination of accommodation policies used in standardized content area assessments reveals that there is little consistency across states with regard to testing accommodations for ELs in providing accommodations when ELs are tested in academic content areas.

Editors' Note, Tapestry Staff

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Editors' Note of the Special Issue, 2014

Acknowledgement Note, Tapestry Staff

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A Thank You Note from the editorial team

Book Review, Joe Terantino, Susanne Kelley

TAPESTRY

Stanley, G. (2013). Language learning with technology: Ideas for integrating technology in the classroom. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Cambridge University Press.

Literacy In Our Lives, Past, Present And Future: Exploring Digital Stories By Uae Pre-Service Teachers, Patience A. Sowa

TAPESTRY

The purpose of this research study was to examine how pre-service teachers in a college of education in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) used multimodal digital storytelling to explore their language and literacy learning experiences in Arabic and English. Twenty-one pre-service teachers participated in this qualitative study. Drawing on the digital stories, reflection papers and open-ended surveys as data, the study explored the pre-service teachers’ bilingual literacy language experiences and how they created their digital stories. Emerging themes included early experiences in language and literacy learning at home and at school, and expanded notions of literacy. The memoirs offered a …

Toward Integrative Call: A Progressive Outlook On The History, Trends, And Issues Of Call, Kasumi Yamazaki

TAPESTRY

With the advancement of technology now allowing complex and intricate simulation gaming and virtual reality (VR), current trends and issues in language learning extend their research on the topic of digital literacy, aiming to find the ways in which the use of technology fosters, or perhaps hinders, overall performance of language learning. While there have been many published articles that claim the successful utilization of technology and digital media into the classroom, there are considerably few that deliver a successful integration of theory into practice. To address this issue, this paper provides a historical review of Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL), …

Problems And Possibilities: Emergent Bilinguals And Multimodalities, Kathy Marie Bussert-Webb

TAPESTRY

This commentary and review focuses on my teaching and research experiences with Mexican-heritage youths in the lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas, alongside Mexico and the Gulf of Mexico. Most of these youths were emergent bilinguals of poverty. I argue that high-stakes testing environments limited their experiences in diverse sign systems, including technology, in and out of school. These youths engaged in entertainment and friendship uses of technology outside of school, even though most had access to up-to-date digital tools at home for more higher-order technology use. They did not appear to have mentors or teachers who taught them to use …

Multiliteracy In Three English As A Second Language (Esl) Middle School Classrooms, Elena Andrei

TAPESTRY

This study investigated the teaching of multiliteracy in three middle school English as a Second Language Arts classrooms. The research question was: How are English learners (ELs) developing multiliteracy - defined as critical literacy, electronic literacy, and socio-cultural literacy, if at all, in middle school ESL Language Arts classrooms? Collected data consisted of classroom observations, transcribed teacher and focus student interviews; copies of teacher and student artifacts such as handouts and student notebooks. The findings of the study suggest that teachers did not teach all aspects of multiliteracy and the students seemed to be developing mostly electronic literacy, but not …

Microblogging: Using Digital Literacies To Engage Middle School English Learners, Carolyn J. Stufft, Susan Casey

TAPESTRY

As a result of the changing technologies associated with the 21st century, the definition of literacy has changed and expanded (Antonacci & O’Callaghan, 2011) to encompass e-books, text messages, blogs, and even videogames and the peripheral literacies associated with gaming. These new literacies have demonstrated promise for engaging students in literate practices (Gee, 2007; Gerber, 2009). One practice in particular, microblogging, provides a way to engage English learners in writing and responding to text. Microblogging is a participant web technology that allows users to interact and share information in succinct online posts (Hricko, 2010). For middle school English learners, microblogging …

The Ribbed Drapery Of The Puerto Princesa Underground River (Palawan, Philippines): Morphology And Genesis, Paolo Forti, Giovanni Badino, Jose Maria Calaforra, Jo De Waele

International Journal of Speleology

During the 2011 speleological expedition to the Puerto Princesa Underground River (Palawan, Philippines) a drapery characterized by several close-to-horizontal ribs has been noticed. Even without sampling and analyzing its internal growth layers, a detailed morphological study allowed to present a possible genetic model. The presented model helps to explain its evolution, which is mainly controlled by variation in water flow as a consequence of the Palawan climate. When validated by further analyses, the same genetic mechanism could define also the evolution of the very common but still unexplained complex flowstones, which exhibit several close-to-horizontal steps, widenings and narrowings along their …

Campus Vol 1 N 3, George Todd, Ellen Fanslow, Robert Findeisen, John C. Thomas, Betty Harman

Campus

Todd, George. "The Valentine". Prose. 2.

Fanslow, Ellen. "Campus Canines". Prose. 3.

Anonymous. "Spring Glimpses on Campus". Picture. 4.

Anonymous. "Casual Corners". Prose. 6.

Welch, Vera. "Death is Not Sad". Poem. 7.

Welch, Vera. "I Do Not Love You". Poem. 7.

Taylor, Louis. "Clouds". Poem. 7.

Dancy, Betty Jane. "Pray Tell Me M' Lord". Poem. 7.

Dancy, Betty Jane. "Really Our Friendship is Perfect". Poem. 7.

Dancy, Betty Jane. "You Say You Love Me For My Faith". Poem. 7.

B.Z. "The Mountain". Poem. 7.

Findeisen, Robert. "Do You Want to Be A Doctor?" Cartoon. 8.

Thomas, John C. "Campus Kaleidoscope". …

Flying Without Dying: The Future Of Wingsuit Design, Maria E. Ferguson

ENGR 310: Technical Writing Final Project

Wingsuit flying is an extreme sport practiced by veteran skydivers and BASE jumpers. From 1930 to the 1960s, the attempt to create a functional wingsuit killed 96% of pioneers attempting to realize the dream of human flight. Today, hundreds fly in wingsuits, but flying remains a dangerous sport left to the select few We have the power to change that.

Campus Vol 1 N 2, Thea Wise, Bob Findeisen, Gloria Weber, Winifred Smith, John G. Thomas, Janet Teachnor

Campus

Wise, Thea. "Variation On A Theme". Prose. 2.

Findeisen, Bob. "A Fine Art". Prose. 3.; Anonymous. "Winter Moments On Campus". Picture. 4.

Anonymous. "Transient Types". Cartoon. 6.

Smith, Winifred and Gloria Weber. "A Sweetheart Serenade". Prose. 8.

Anonymous. "High Man on A Bed Post". Prose. 9.

Thomas, John G. "Campus Kaleidoscope". Prose. 10.

Anonymous. "Fraternities: The Way We See 'Em". 12.

Meyer, Marilynn. "Study Time At East". Poem. 14.

Meyer, Marilynn. "IF". Poem. 14.

Leonard, Judy. "Magic Music". Poem. 14.

Teachnor, Janet. "Weighty Words". Prose. 17.

Military Intervention And The Responsibility To Protect In Libya And Kosovo, Thea Fisk

Honors Theses

This research analyzes the interventions in Libya and Kosovo. It analyzes the intents, means, and outcomes involved in each intervention in addition to the effects of both interventions on the Responsibility to Protect doctrine.

Mascaret – An Open Source 1d Simulation Code For Flow Hydrodynamic With A Generic Application Programing Interface, Jean-Marc Lacombe, Fabrice Zaoui, Nicole Goutal

Open Water Journal

MASCARET is an open source software dedicated to the simulation of one-dimensional flow hydrodynamic in open channels networks (http://www.openmascaret.org). It is distributed under the GNU general public license. The code provides a generic Application Programming Interface (API) which allows an easy integration in frameworks or coupling with other simulators.

This API allows the classic main steps of a simulation: initialization, time step integration, and finalization. In addition, it is possible to access and modify all the variables and parameters disseminated in the code through a single interface. It is also possible to obtain all the information about these variables (metadata): …

A Reference Database With Transient River And Drain Boundary Conditions For Modflow, Foncke Koen, De Sutter Renaat, Bronders Jan, Hendrix Rik, Haest Pieter Jan, Johan Lermytte, Andy Louwyck

Open Water Journal

A modelling instrument was built that is able to semi-automatically set up a (steady-state or transient) groundwater model. With a given model area and modelling period, the instrument is able to select the appropriate hydrogeology data and boundary conditions, and to build a Modflow groundwater model. The river and drainage boundary conditions are selected from a PostgreSQL/PostGis database, which has been built with surface water data from various data sources using open source tools like the PostGis geoprocessing functions and the Python programming language.

The basic surface water data cover the area of the Flemish Groundwater Model, which covers Flanders …

Cmf - An Open Source Hydrological Modelling Toolkit, Philipp Kraft, Hans-Georg Frede, Lutz Breuer

Open Water Journal

In the past four decades, hundreds (if not thousands) of hydrological models have been developed to predict the transfer of water through landscapes. Despite this variety of models, the basic challenge for all kind of models is the same: solve the dynamic local to global water mass balance of a landscape. However, the transport processes, surface flow, subsurface flow, snow drift, evaporation and transpiration can be modelled with differing complexity, theory and parameterizations. Clark et al. (2011) denote, that a hydrological model is therefore not one hypothesis of process behaviour, but a multitude of interconnected hypotheses, which remain untested, since …

Adding The Influence Of A Shallow Water Table On Hydrology, Sediment And Pesticide Transport In A Vegetative Filter Strip Model : Development Of A Mechanistic Algorithm, Coupling, And Global Sensitivity Analysis To Evaluate This New Version Of The Open Source Model Vfsmod, Claire Lauvernet, Rafael Muñoz-Carpena, Nadia Carluer

Open Water Journal

A shallow water table can significantly affect soil infiltration and surface runoff during a rainfall event. Simple and robust models used as components of larger scale hydrological models are needed to analyze the impacts of shallow water table in the landscape. Salvucci and Entekhabi (1995) and Chu (1997) proposed an approximate non-uniform Green-Ampt time-implicit integral form solutions to the infiltration case for ponded soils bounded by a water table under initial hydrostatic equilibrium.

Linked Hydraulic And Impact Models In The Drihm Project, J. Lhomme, P. Cleverley, D Kelly, M. Wetton, M. Panzeri, Q. Harpham

Open Water Journal

The Distributed Research Infrastructure in Hydro-Meteorology (DRIHM) project is developing a prototype e-Science environment to facilitate the collaboration between meteorologists, hydrologists, and Earth science experts. The environment aims to promote accelerated scientific advances in hydrometeorological research (HMR) through the provision of end-to-end HMR services (models, datasets and post-processing tools) at the European level, with the ability to expand to global scale.

What the DRIHM e-infrastructure will allow is a connection of all the components in a transparent way for the end-users, thus pooling the dispersed expertise by fostering cross-disciplinary work. In addition, the DRIHM infrastructure will offer a unique framework …

Recent Developments Of The Swim Eco-Hydrological Model To Site-Specific Characteristics Of Large Basins, Stefan Liersch, Hagen Koch, Shaoshun Huang, Tobias Vetter, Fred F. Hattermann, Valentina Krysanova

Open Water Journal

From a hydrological modellers perspective, large river basins are complex systems with several generalisable attributes. Unfortunately, some river basins have very unique features that challenge models and their developers or users, respectively. Heavily modified basins are one example. In this case it is often necessary to incorporate impoundments by dams and reservoirs or to account for water withdrawals directly from the river or from groundwater for agricultural, industrial or domestic uses. Water allocation within the catchment, from another basin into the catchment under study or vice versa can also be an issue that complicates the modelling task. Some river basins …

Assessment The Spatial-Temporal Variation Of Soil Moisture In The Bibischbach Watershed, Grand-Duchy Of Luxembourg, Mohsen Tavakoli, Florimond De Smedt, Patrick Matgen

Open Water Journal

In the present work, an updated version of the Water and Energy Transfer between Soil, Plants and Atmosphere (WetSpa) model is introduced and the performance of the model is evaluated for simulated discharge and soil moisture content in the experimental Bibeschbach watershed, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. The model is applied and validated for 1 year hourly data of river flow and soil moisture content. Discharge data at the outlet are used for model calibration and in situ soil moisture data recorded at 11 monitoring sites are used for validation of the model performance. The model predictions agree well with the …

Qgis/Postgis : Stacking Foss4g For Water Management, Vincent Picavet

Open Water Journal

Hydrological GIS data are widely used by public organizations, environment, water supply and water treatment companies. Water data analysis can be very specific, and is not a GIS-only field.

It is therefore interesting to look at FOSS4G applications, to see how they fit the need to have a real FOSS4G stack for water-related data handling and analysis.

Using The Finite Volume Method For Generalized Approach Of Catchment Models, Ina Plesca, Philipp Kraft, Hans-Georg Frede, Lutz Breuer

Open Water Journal

Classical mathematical models and methods have been constantly applied to solve different hydrological problems, especially for water flux processes description. The Catchment Modeling Framework (CMF) is an open source, modular and expandable platform which has been created to simulate the water balance from plot to landscape scale. CMF consists of several modules, each applied for specific flux-processes depending on different parameters or dimensions. The CMF expandability allows applying hydrological model structures that fit best the current context.