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Two Latina Teachers: Culture, Success, Higher Education, Laureen Fregeau, Robert Leier

Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education

No abstract provided.

Polluted Postcolonialism Of A White West Virginian, Or, A Transversal Gaze Toward Transnationalism, G. Sue Kasun

Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education

No abstract provided.

Minutes, College Of Arts & Sciences Council Meeting, September 22, 2017, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. College Of Arts & Sciences

College Council Meeting Minutes

Minutes from the September 22, 2017, meeting of the University of South Florida St. Petersburg College of Arts and Sciences' Council.

Docket Entry 21601 - Opinion Of The Ninth Circuit (Sub. 14-Sp-1, Docket Entry 76)

Dockets & Filings: U.S. v. Washington (70-cv-9213)

No abstract provided.

Religion And Esotericism Among Students: A Crosscultural Comparative Study, Franz Höllinger, Timothy B. Smith

Faculty Publications

Analyzing the results of a study on religious and esoteric beliefs and practice among university students from five European and five American countries, we found that the level of religiousness of students depends very much on their cultural environment: the level of religiosity and esoteric beliefs is significantly higher among North- and South-American students than among European students. On the other hand, Asian spiritual techniques and esoteric methods of healing are practiced more frequently by students in North-Western European countries. In the second part of the paper, we examine the relationship between academic discipline and religious worldviews. According to our …

Reciprocity In The Practice Of Publicly Engaged Scholarship: Reflections From A Transnational Literacy Project, Kate E. Kedley, Héctor Efrén Flores A.

eJournal of Public Affairs

In this article, the authors examine the concept of “reciprocity” in publicly engaged literacy scholarship. The idea of reciprocity suggests that projects using a publicly engaged research model should comprise two-way partnerships that strive to balance benefits to the researcher and to community partners. The authors (a researcher and a community partner) explore this dynamic by considering their own experiences working on projects with groups of youth in Honduras and in the United States. The groups shared their cultures and experiences through writing and technology, and challenged ideas about security and public space. Given the national, racial, cultural, economic, linguistic, …

The Echo: September 22, 2017, Taylor University

2017-2018 (Volume 105)

Business is blooming – Accreditation evaluation – Heart and gospel soul – Partners in relief – Bree’s Beat International News – It’s all in the detail – This year’s missionaries in residence – Run! – Bilbo Baggins celebrates 111 years – C.S. Lewis Events – Sign up -- #TaylorU’s Top Tweets – The bi-weekly bachelor and bachelorette – From the cornfields to the big screen – Flocked to each other – The First Brush of Fall – Don’t forget about Dreamers – Put your money where your mouth is – Where is the milk – Neville heads to Tennessee – …

Geographic Distance And The Impact Of Investor Sentiment On Stock Prices, Yan Yang

Lingnan Theses

Based on China’s stock market, this study investigates how firms’ geographic distance from a financial center affects the sensitivity of stock prices to investor sentiment. I find that firms located closer to a financial center are more affected by investor sentiment than firms located far from a financial center. This distance effect holds for different geographic cutting boundaries and after excluding firms located in financial centers. Besides, using China’s High Speed Railway (HSR) as an exogenous shock, I find that HSR connection significantly decreases the effect of geographic distance on the sentiment-driven stock price relationship. In addition, firms with shorter …

Re-Envisioning Kindergarten Learning Spaces In The U.S Education System, Suhina Agarwal

Theses

The thesis work aims at improving the learning environments of the Kindergarten classrooms in the United States by taking inspiration from a very simple and popular play element namely the ‘blocks’. The classroom environments and learning methods have not seen a significant change since the time of the Industrial Revolution. The essence of school education remains the same, which is expected to be a closed classroom, conventional furniture and the teacher determining the learning activities. With the changing times, as new studies on multiple styles of learning and brain functions emerge, there is a need to customize education and cater …

Regulation Of Nursing Profession In Europe, Walter De Caro, Elisabetta Corvo, Julita Sansoni

Biennial Convention (CONV)

This study aimed to explore regulatory systems of the nursing profession in European Union, starting from italian situation, also with the aim to compare competencies, education requirements and regulation of basic nurse and specialist/advanced practice nurses in Europe.

Assessing The Distribution Of Environmental Stewardship Organizations And Their Relationship To The Demographics Of Los Angeles County, Krystle M. Golly

LMU Theses and Dissertations

An equal distribution of environmental stewardship organizations across the urban landscape provides an environment that facilitates community empowerment. The systemic issues found in Los Angeles County play an important role in the social development of the area. Through the utilization of modern technology and geographical mapping software, spatial distribution of environmental stewardship organizations provided an understanding of social conditions within Los Angeles County. Environmental stewardship organizations provide the capability for communities to be more engaged in helping to eliminate environmental injustice. The comparison of minority populations at the census tract-level emphasizes the importance of connecting environmental stewardship organizations with their …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 93, No. 10, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Coyle, Cameron. WKU Gets Tougher on Tailgating Activities
• Collins, Emma. Land of the Fees
• Coyle, Cameron. WKU Police Names New Chief – Mitchell Walker
• Waters, Adrianna. Second Food Pantry Opens on South Campus
• DeLetter, Emily. WKU Organization Receives Gold Star Status – Collegiate Scholars
• King, Jennifer. Editorial Cartoon re: Budget Cuts
• Out of Ink: University of Louisville’s Journalism Death Penalty is Warning to Kentucky Student Publications
• Campbell, Jordan. Perspective of a WKU Musical Theatre Alumni – Budget
• Porter, Sam. A New Test – Football
• Manlove, …

Investigating The Student Enrollment Decision At Wku, Alec Brown

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

The purpose of this research is to investigate the relationships between the enrollment decision of first-time, first-year students admitted to Western Kentucky University and the amount of financial aid awarded, as well as demographic information. The Division of Enrollment Management provided a SAS dataset containing various information about all WKU students admitted in 2013, 2014, and 2015. Additionally, information about the 2016 class of admitted students was provided. The data has been analyzed in SAS Enterprise Miner. We performed analysis using decision tree modeling and logistic regression modeling. Results of these two procedures indicated the importance of credit hours earned …

A Striking New Genus And Species Of Troglobitic Campodeidae (Diplura) From Central Asia

KIP Articles

No abstract provided.

The 2016 Presidential Election: Demographic Transformation And Racial Backlash, Skyler Lillian Brocker-Knapp

Dissertations and Theses

Despite analysts' predictions and assertions prior to the 2016 presidential election, the Hispanic vote did not prove decisive. Donald Trump's victory elucidates a new electoral calculus, one that will be ruled simultaneously by changing demographics and the backlash against such change. While Hispanic voters largely supported Hillary Clinton, structural and individual impediments hinder their access to the voting booth and their turnout on election day. This thesis explores the reasons why the Hispanic electorate did not prove decisive in the 2016 presidential election. It further illuminates the changing Electoral College map, in which the Midwest and the Rustbelt are determined …

Thinking Spatially And Moving Towards The Material: A Essay On Seeking Spatial Justice By Edward Soja, Gabriel Huddleston

Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education

No abstract provided.

“Can We Just Get Rid Of The Classroom?” Thinking Space, Relationally, Sophia Rodriguez

Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education

No abstract provided.

Ricanstruction Sites: Race, Space, And Place In The Education Of Diasporican Youth, Jason G. Irizarry, René Antrop-González

Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education

No abstract provided.

Dreaming And Surviving In Heterotopia: First-Generation Immigrant Girls’ Pursuit Of The American Dream In New York City, Kaoru Miyazawa

Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education

No abstract provided.

Structured Spaces Of Play In A Southwestern U.S. Urban Elementary Classroom: Dialectics Of Community And Academic Rigor, G. Sue Kasun

Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education

No abstract provided.

Sonic Cartography: Mapping Space, Place, Race, And Identity In An Urban Middle School, Walter S. Gershon

Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education

No abstract provided.

Students’ Bodily Carvings In School Spaces Of The Post-Apartheid City, Aslam Fataar

Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education

No abstract provided.

Youth, Space, Cities: Toward The Concrete, Robert J. Helfenbein, Gabriel Huddleston

Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education

No abstract provided.

2017 Convocation Program And Video, Portland State University

Convocation

Convocation program and video of the event.

The video is available online: https://youtu.be/e7CbvYThpWE

Tv Teacher: Is Little Mosque On The Prairie Good For Canadian Muslims?, Öslem Sensoy

Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education

No abstract provided.

Georgetown’S First Six Moocs: Completion, Intention, And Gender Achievement Gaps, Paul A. Healy

Undergraduate Economic Review

This analysis of Georgetown’s first six MOOCs (massive open online courses) comprises three parts, moving from general to specific in scope. I begin with a discussion of demographic factors across all six courses, seeking to answer the following question: “Who takes, and succeeds in these courses?” Next, I discuss the relationship between stated intention and course performance with survey data from a pre-course survey for Georgetown’s very first MOOC, an economics course. I end by examining the gender achievement gap in the same economics course.

Ssd Admission Control For Content Delivery Networks, Dragos Ionescu, Richard Schooler, Kenneth Barr

Defensive Publications Series

Content delivery networks (CDNs) are utilized to deliver content with low latency. Solid State Drive (SSD) devices are a cost-effective option for intermediate tier caches in servers used in CDNs. However, excessive writes of content to SSD devices can degrade useful life of such devices. This disclosure describes admission control techniques to manage content in an SSD cache. In particular, a popularity metric for content items is determined based on an inter-arrival time. The popularity metric takes into account past admission history and is dynamically to account for variations in content popularity over different time periods. These techniques balance the …

Analysis Of Historical Change Of Boundary Of Yadong Area In Tibet, China And Its Geostrategy, Ge Quansheng, He Fanneng, Liu Haolong

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

Yadong area of Tibet Autonomous Region, China locates in a wedge junction of the South slope of the Himalayas of China, India, and Bhutan. And it is an important frontier of defence area and trading port from time immemorial. Under the background that India provoked the dispute in the Donglang border, clarification of the historical change of the boundary of Yadong area and analysis of its geostrategic position can provide a beneficial decision support for the construction of the Belt and Road Initiative and the safeguard of Chinese border's security. In this paper, historical materials, historical map, and GIS technological …

Change Of Geographical Environment In Southern Margin Of Tibetan Plateau Since 1980s, Liu Ronggao, Liu Yang, Xu Xinliang, Ge Quansheng

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

The southern margin of the Tibetan Plateau is located in a transitional zone between the plateau and the South Asia Sub-continent. It is also an intersectional region of the westerlies and the South Asia Summer Monsoon (SASM). This region is quite sensitive to the changes of global climate system and regional environment. Combined with satellite remote sensing and field observations, the inter-annual variability of natural and human geography conditions of the margin have been investigated. The results show that this region is covered mainly by forest (48.62%). The vegetation is mainly distributed in southern edge of the Himalayas and the …

Third Pole National Park Group Construction Is Scientific Choice For Implementing Strategy Of Major Function Zoning And Green Development In Tibet, China, Fan Jie, Zhong Linsheng, Li Jianping, Chen Tian, Huang Baorong, Yu Hu, Chen Dong, Wang Yafei, Guo Rui

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

Third Pole national park group construction is the scientific choice for implementing the strategy of major function zoning and green development in Tibet, China. This study demonstrates that building Third Pole national park group fits for the rules of sustainable development based on analyses of transformation of Tibet's development driving-forces, development positioning by central government of China, and increasing growth trend of human consumption demand. It is proposed that protecting heritage and improving natural and humanistic ecosystem should be put in priority to the construction of national park group, and act as an important driver in Tibet's action of 'bring …