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Elementary Teachers' Perceptions Of English Learners' Instructional Needs For Reading, Elizabeth Mcmullen

Departmental Honors & Graduate Capstone Projects

The population of students who speak a language other than English is accelerating. With inclusion, these students spend the majority of their school day in the mainstream classroom where they receive much of their literacy instruction. However, research shows that mainstream classroom teachers are not being adequately trained to meet the needs of this population of students, resulting in misguided perceptions of ELs' needs for reading instruction. This research provided teachers and school administrators with an understanding of the attitudes mainstream teachers carry in regards to ELs and presents suggestions for training teachers to improve their reading instruction of ELs …

Fsec Meeting Minutes December 12, 2016, University Of Rhode Island Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Executive Committee Minutes

No abstract provided.

A Boost To The Community, University Of Dayton

News Releases

Five community partners have come together to ensure the revitalization of the Montgomery County Fairgrounds will support community and economic development as well as complement the growth and positive momentum already occurring in the area.

Faculty In The News: December 12, 2016, University Of Dayton

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

"iDream," a collaboration between two UD alumni and the theatre, dance and performance technology program made headlines, and other highlights of recent media coverage of College of Arts and Sciences faculty research, scholarship and commentary.

Living Subversive Narratives: Shahrazad’S Stories Of Women, Caleb Nicholas

Honors Projects

Though scholars have examined The 1001 Nights’ Entertainments or The Arabian Nights, few have thoroughly explored the function of Shahrazad’s tales as they relate to her position as a woman. Closely reading the stories of the Nights reveals that there are chiefly two types of female characters who emerge in her stories: the heroic, who have no apparent autonomy, and the villainous, who have overflowing autonomy. These depictions of women are problematic from the viewpoint of present-day feminism, but are understandable, and even genuinely subversive, in Shahrazad’s context. Although some scholars have dismissed questions about the function of the …

Free To Play/Pay To Win: Consuming Competition Through Online Gaming In The Neoliberal Age, Brandon Jones

Honors Projects

This project examines online gaming in the context of decades of deregulation and privatization. In the piece, I examine American culture’s infatuation with the value of competition through a historical and hegemonic scope. Throughout the piece, I make connections between online gaming and the illusion that the populace must compete for unnecessarily scarce resources. The goal of this project is to illustrate how micro-transactions in online gaming is not beneficial for the consumer, but rather coercive reinforcements of the spontaneous philosophy of competition prevalent in the Neoliberal age.

Bgsu Dept. Thfm Elsewhere: "Two Rooms" By Lee Blessing, Baxter Chambers

Honors Projects

A sample of the pre-production documents for the BGSU Dept. of Theatre and Film Elsewhere season production of "Two Rooms" by Lee Blessing which I directed.

Retirement Reboot: A Website Redesign, Christina Gillen

Honors Projects

A website could be created with the latest technology, but after a few years it will still need to be updated. This is what happened to Swanton Health Care and Retirement Center’s website. This project is designed to remedy the problem by creating an entirely new website with updated content, images, and interactive features to bring Swanton Health Care’s online presence back to life.

How Shape Of Simulated Graphene Sheets Affects Debye Scattering Patterns, Lindsay Lesh

Honors Projects

This research is about understanding the structure of a subset of graphitic stardust found in primitive meteorites (e.g. the Murchison meteorite). The carbon grains of interest exhibit a core-rim structure, where the core – with a density less than that of the graphitic rim – comprises the majority of the grain. Previous studies have shown that the cores are comprised primarily of unlayered graphene, and it has been hypothesized that the cores are the result of the rapid freezing (quenching) of a liquid carbon droplet. Electron diffraction is sensitive to small differences in crystal structure and simulated electron diffraction powder …

Community Meal Brings Morris Together, University Relations

Campus News Archive

In 2009 Matthew Johnson ’10 came up with the idea of hosting a community meal in Morris. The now-monthly event has been unifying the community ever since.

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2016-December-12-M.S.W. Info: Abingdon, University Marketing And Commucications, East Tennessee State Univeristy

ETSU News

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Enduring The Battle Of Britain And The Blitz: Perseverance Of The British Home Front From 1940-1941, Tyler Smith

Senior Honors Theses

The Blitz was a roughly nine-month mass bombing of London and other cities in Great Britain by the German Luftwaffe in 1940-1941. It was a time of great destruction and death but also of unity and courage among the British people. After the war had ended, Winston Churchill described how “for a year, all alone, the people of this island defied the tyrants of the world and held the fort for freedom until other great nations, themselves assailed, came into the line of battle.”[1]The Germans aimed to achieve a decisive defeat of Britain. They believed that by attacking …

Defining Dimensions In Schizotypy: Factor Structure Replication And External Validation Of The Schizotypal Personality Questionnaire, Brief Revised Updated (Spq-Bru)., Elaina Montague

Department of Psychology: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Background: Schizotypy is a construct that captures quantitative dimensions of the psychosis continuum from clinical to non-clinical expressions. The purpose of this study was to determine the factor structure and criterion validity of a newly revised self-report measure, the Schizotypal Personality Questionnaire–Brief Revised Updated (SPQ-BRU; Davidson, Hoffman, & Spaulding, 2016) for predicting later cognitive-perceptual experiences in college undergraduates.

Method: The data analytic sample was comprised of 2,474 undergraduate students (female = 71.9%) attending a university in the Midwest. First, we aimed to identify a model of best fit by comparing latent measurement models of schizotypy using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). …

“All Museums Will Become Department Stores”: The Development And Implications Of Retailing At Museums And Heritage Sites, Jamie Larkin

Art Faculty Articles and Research

Museums and heritage sites have provided merchandise for visitors to purchase since their earliest incarnations as public attractions in the 18th century. Despite this longevity scant academic research has been directed towards such activities. However, retailing – formalised in the emergence of the museum shop – offers insights into a range of issues, from cultural representation and education, to eco- nomic sustainability. This paper outlines the historical development of retailing at museums and heritage sites in the UK, before offering a summary of current issues, illustrated by a case study of contemporary retailing at Whitby Abbey. The paper demonstrates how …

Fortaleza's Immigrant Song: Portrait-Narratives And An Identity Needs Analysis Of Recent Immigrants' Lived Experiences, Carl Weitz-Santiago

Capstone Collection

This inquiry sheds light on the personal stories and lived experiences of a group of recent immigrants currently living in Fortaleza, the sprawling capital of the Northeastern state of Ceará, Brazil. Utilizing a theoretical framework guided by “Epistemologies of the South,” ethnographic principles, and constructivist grounded theory, this capstones presents five first person portrait-narratives highlighting intimate details of project participants’ lives prior to immigrating, and uncovers four persistent and recurrent themes expressed by project participants: (1) language and communication, (2) professional opportunity, (3) personal growth, and (4) “saudade” and belongingness.

Through the lens of Johan Galtung’s Basic Needs Approach, …

Liberal Arts Administrator Named Associate Um Provost, Christina Steube

University of Mississippi News

Rich Forgette brings 'administrative abilities, perspectives and knowledge' to post

Student Life E-Newsletter December 12, 2016, Seattle University School Of Law Student Life

Student Life E-Newsletters

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Improving Technology Integration In A Rural High School By Listening To Students' Needs And Experiences, Brandie Nicole Shatto

All Theses And Dissertations

While schools have embraced the mantra of 21st century skills since the early 1990s and access to technology has become nearly ubiquitous, technology use in K-12 classrooms is still largely absent. This has created a situation where teachers are unsure of how to teach with technology and students are unsure how to learn with technology. This transformative mixed methods study sought to give students a voice to articulate their learning needs in relation to technology integration in schools. The study drew on rural high school students’ perceptions of technology use in K-12 classrooms by documenting students’ use of technology at …

Bank Resolution And Bail-In In The Eu: Selected Case Studies Pre And Post Brrd (English), World Bank/World Bank Group

Documents

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Wiki-Based Collaborative Creative Writing In The Esl Classroom, Rima Elabdali

Dissertations and Theses

Despite the growing number of L2 studies examining digitally-mediated collaborative writing, the vast majority of these studies have focused on academic writing tasks. This study examined the dynamics and perceptions of groups of ESL students who used wikis to write collaborative short stories. The study also compared the short stories written in groups with posttest short stories written individually in terms of creativity, accuracy, and complexity. The study involved nine students taking a Creative Writing course in an intensive English program at a large university in the U.S. It followed a multiple case study design; the students were divided into …

Algorithm For Premature Ventricular Contraction Detection From A Subcutaneous Electrocardiogram Signal, Iris Lynn Shelly

Dissertations and Theses

Cardiac arrhythmias occur when the normal pattern of electrical signals in the heart breaks down. A premature ventricular contraction (PVC) is a common type of arrhythmia that occurs when a heartbeat originates from an ectopic focus within the ventricles rather than from the sinus node in the right atrium. This and other arrhythmias are often diagnosed with the help of an electrocardiogram, or ECG, which records the electrical activity of the heart using electrodes placed on the skin. In an ECG signal, a PVC is characterized by both timing and morphological differences from a normal sinus beat.

An implantable cardiac …

Social Facts, Legal Fictions, And The Attribution Of Slave Status: The Puzzle Of Prescription, Rebecca J. Scott

Articles

In case after case, prosecutors, judges and juries therefore still struggle to come up with a definition of slavery, looking for some set of criteria or indicia that will enable them to discern whether the phenomenon they are observing constitutes enslavement. In this definitional effort, contemporary jurists may imagine that in the past, surely the question was simpler: someone either was or was not a slave. However, the existence of a set of laws declaring that persons could be owned as property did not, even in the nineteenth century, answer by itself the question of whether a given person was …

Article, Walking And Talking Florida Nature With Jeff Klinkenberg, December 12, 2016, Thomas Hallock

Creekshed: City Wilds

An article by Thomas Hallock about Jeff Klinkenberg, a Florida naturalist and environmental enthusiast.

Brand New Beginning, Joshua Jasneski

UNH Today Archive

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Factors Determining The Development Of Product Eco-Innovations. The Evidence From Poland, Magdalena Marczewska

Studia i Materiały Wydział Zarządzania Uniwersytet Warszawski

The aim of this paper is to analyse and discuss the actions undertaken by Polish enterprises operating in the field of environmentally sound technologies to create and implement innovative, environmentally friendly products (i.e. environmental innovations, eco-innovations). The qualitative study examines the impact of the determinants, such as technology, market, regulation and firm specific factors, on the development of eco-innovative solutions of analysed companies. Based on the in-depth interviews conducted with forty selected companies, it is possible to specify the determinants of firms’ eco-innovative activity and motivation factors for creating product eco-innovations in Poland. These are mainly market- and technology-related factors. …

Credit Ratings Inflation Phenomenon – Are There Any Diffrences In The Credit Ratings Determinants?, Patrycja Chodnicka-Jaworska

Studia i Materiały Wydział Zarządzania Uniwersytet Warszawski

The aim of the paper was to verify the differences in the estimation of the factors affecting the banks’ credit ratings given the same issuers by two different rating agencies. The literature about the credit ratings’ inflation phenomenon and the credit ratings shopping has been reviewed. The following hypotheses have been put forward: Banks’ credit ratings assigned by the two rating agencies determined the significance of various financial ratios. The bigger the rating agency, the more optimistic assessment. For the purposes of the study, data have been collected on banks’ credit ratings and their financial indicators for the years 1998–2015 …

Effect Of Earnings Quality On The Returns-Earnings Relationship: Evidence From The Warsaw Stock Exchange, Rafał Cieślik

Studia i Materiały Wydział Zarządzania Uniwersytet Warszawski

The paper examines whether and how earnings quality affects the returns-earnings relationship taking into consideration four earnings attributes including persistence, predictability, smooth ness and stability. For a large sample of non-financial firms listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange over the period 2009–2016, the study showed that earnings quality has a positive influence on the tested relationship. Moreover, the nature (parameters) of the returns/earnings relation exhibits considerable instability over time and across sectors.

Home Infrastructure And Consumption Of Selected Food Products Among People Aged 65+ In The Light Of The Results Of The Author’S Own Research, Tomasz Zalega

Studia i Materiały Wydział Zarządzania Uniwersytet Warszawski

The article presents the determinants underlying the satisfaction of needs as regards housing, some durable goods and food products among people aged 65+. Its key objective is to show seniors’ housing situation, degree of contentment with place of residence and housing conditions, as well as to provide some insight into their home infrastructure and consumption of food products. The study is based on the results of the author’s own research conducted among people aged 65 and older.

Modelling For The Index Of Residential Property Prices In Poland, Rafał Zbyrowski

Studia i Materiały Wydział Zarządzania Uniwersytet Warszawski

The main purpose of this article is to describe a dependence between prices of flats and index of creditworthiness in Poland. In the empirical part of this paper, the author tests mentioned relations according to Engle-Granger’s procedure. Moreover, the long time relation was verified by Johansen’s procedure and a VAR model. This case leads to the examination and estimation cointegration with testing lags between very important variables on the real estate market in Poland. The database used in the research contains monthly observations from the middle of 2010 to the begining of 2014.