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Promoting Professional Identity, Motivation, And Persistence: Benefits Of An Informal Mentoring Program For Female Undergraduate Students, Paul R. Hernandez, Brittany Bloodhart, Rebecca T. Barnes, Amanda S. Adams, Sandra M. Clinton, Ilana Pollack, Elaine Godfrey, Melissa Burt, Emily V. Fisher

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

Women are underrepresented in a number of science, technology, engineering, and mathe- matics (STEM) disciplines. Limited diversity in the development of the STEM workforce has negative implications for scientific innovation, creativity, and social relevance. The current study reports the first-year results of the PROmoting Geoscience Research, Education, and SuccesS (PROGRESS) program, a novel theory-driven informal mentoring program aimed at supporting first- and second-year female STEM majors. Using a prospective, longitudinal, multi-site (i.e., 7 universities in Colorado/Wyoming Front Range & Carolinas), propensity score matched design, we compare mentoring and persistence outcomes for women in and out of PROGRESS (N = 116). …

Recruiting Women To A Mobile Health Smoking Cessation Trial: Low- And No-Cost Strategies, Kristopher J. Abbate, Melanie D. Hingle, Julie Armin, Peter Giacobbi, Judith S. Gordon

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

Background: Successful recruitment of participants to mobile health (mHealth) studies presents unique challenges over in-person studies. It is important to identify recruitment strategies that maximize the limited recruitment resources available to researchers.

Objective: The objective of this study was to describe a case study of a unique recruitment process used in a recent mHealth software app designed to increase smoking cessation among weight-concerned women smokers. The See Me Smoke-Free app was deployed to the Google Play Store (Alphabet, Inc., Google, LLC), where potential participants could download the app and enroll in the study. Users were invited in-app to participate in …

Evaluating The Utility Of Companion Animal Tick Surveillance Practices For Monitoring Spread And Occurrence Of Human Lyme Disease In West Virginia, 2014-2016, Brain Hendricks, Miguella Mark-Carew, Jamison Conley

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

Domestic dogs and cats are potentially effective sentinel populations for monitoring occurrence and spread of Lyme disease. Few studies have evaluated the public health utility of sentinel programmes using geo-analytic approaches. Confirmed Lyme disease cases diagnosed by physicians and ticks submitted by veterinarians to the West Virginia State Health Department were obtained for 2014-2016. Ticks were identified to species, and only Ixodes scapularis were incorporated in the analysis. Separate ordinary least squares (OLS) and spatial lag regression models were conducted to estimate the association between average numbers of Ix. scapularis collected on pets and human Lyme disease incidence. Regression residuals …

Stumbling Onto New Ideas: Technical Structure And Interactional Norms On Online Social Media, Julia Chmyz

Honors Thesis Collection

In its early stages, the Internet was viewed as an open forum for sharing and learning. Now, with a few dominant social media sites mediating most web access and the popular conception of these sites as polarizing filter bubbles, the promise of the open web appears to have been compromised. However, users of the microblogging website Tumblr do not experience this effect, instead encountering new ideas and topics alongside the content with which they intend to engage. Through a survey of over 250 Tumblr users, computational analysis of blogs, and interviews with users, my thesis seeks to uncover why Tumblr …

Breakfast Of Unsung Heroes: Black Women's Forgotten Crusade For Survival In The Free Breakfast For Children, Meredith Wade

Honors Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.

Electronic On The Ground: Imagining Community And Crafting Culture In Beijing’S Electronic Music Scene, Juliet Liu

Honors Thesis Collection

Electronic music, an art form that has existed in dynamic forms since the 1970s, is rapidly moving from the underground to the mainstream all across the globe. It is therefore a phenomenon that deserves significant cultural analysis in various global contexts. Still, there is a dearth of ethnographic explorations of electronic music and art in China. Over the course of three weeks, I conducted anthropological fieldwork in China to better understand the social worlds, aesthetic impulses, and musical philosophies of electronic producers in Beijing to better understand global circuits of cultural exchange, concepts of cultural authenticity, and the fluid concept …

A Lover Is Never A Sceptic: Five Fragments On The Volcano Lover, Victoria Uren

Honors Thesis Collection

Susan Sontag (1933-2004) is mostly known as a 20^th Century New York intellectual, as a political activist, and – to both her benefit and her disadvantage – as an emblem of a certain avant-garde “cool.” In part due to the overwhelming status of her early essays, most notably “Against Interpretation” (1966) and “Notes on Camp” (1964), her work as a fiction writer – which she herself always maintained was her first life, her primary intellectual activity – has not received significant attention in the critical discourse. These fragments engage with various questions incited by her 1992 novel, The Volcano …

School Choice In Bangladesh: Language And Imperial Legacy, Lamisa Hossain

Honors Thesis Collection

There are a wide variety of schooling options available to parents in Dhaka city. Classes are primarily taught in two languages: Bengali and English. Public schools provide only Bengali medium education. Choosing to enroll your child in a public school is associated with a range of sociocultural benefits and economic incentives, such as free textbooks and network externalities. Nevertheless, there is a persistent demand for English medium education as well. Unfortunately, high-quality English medium education is accessible only to the elite classes. This thesis aims to understand how parents make choices about their child’s education. Key factors include the impact …

The Power And Meaning Of Religion In The Sun Also Rises, Connie Chen

Honors Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.

Touching Base: Isolation And Community On Maine’S Islands, Ruth Weschler

Honors Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.

Everyone Has A Monkey In Her Heart: A Cross-Cultural Study Of Conceptual Metaphors In Literary Narrative And Film, Emily Jin

Honors Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.

Women’S Legal Agency And Property In The Court Records Of Late 19th-Century Brava, Lidwien Kapteijns, Alessandra Vianello

Faculty Research and Scholarship

Drawing on the Islamic court records of Brava, a small Indian Ocean port city on the southern Benadir coast of Somalia, dating from the period 1893-1900, this essay analyzes the legal agency and economic roles of the women of Brava and sheds new light on social (especially family) relations in this town. The qāḍī’s court records give evidence of married women’s fully recognized (even if qualified) legal personhood and their full-fledged financial and economic agency. The free, married women of Brava of this period contributed fully and autonomously to the economic endeavors of their families and also interacted with non-related …

The Writing Center: Fifteen Years Of Transforming Writers At The University Of Montana, Kelly Webster, Demetra Perros, Eli Redeker

The Writing Center: Reports

This milestone [publication] invites a retrospective look at the impact and scope of our services. The many evolutions of the UM Writing Center—from a small “lab” for struggling writers in 2002 to a robust communication center for undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and staff in 2017—have consistently embodied education at its best: communities of practice at the intersection of students, faculty, staff, and tutors.

Women's Rights Are Human Rights, Status Of Women In The Universal Church, Donna Williams

Integrated Studies

Abstract

Status of Women in the Universal Church

This paper will be looking at the status of women from biblical times to their current position in the universal church. Throughout recorded history women have been considered the weaker sex. This concept is taken from biblical writings in the third chapter of 1 Peter ^“Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honor unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered” (1 Peter 3:7,King James Bible (KJB)). Although the text says “honor” …

Keeping Employees Loyal And Content In The 21st Century, Lindsey Horn

Integrated Studies

Abstract

In this thesis, I discuss the necessities that make employees want to work and stay with their current employer. I will discuss and define leadership then discuss flex time and unlimited vacation time as forms of benefits. Under demographics I will discuss education, age, gender, and geography. By discussing business size I will show that some benefits are more feasible for larger companies than smaller businesses. Lastly, I will briefly discuss globalization and its effects on employee retention. Throughout the text, appendixes will be referenced which can be found after my references pages at the end of the thesis.

Fragments From A Feminist: Periscopes Of Poems And Prose Penned In The Wolf’S Den, Shannon Davis

Integrated Studies

In the pages that follow are partial manuscripts. Kentucky and Tennessee imply their influence throughout the collection, while feminist ideology shapes the central themes. In the first work, we explore the world of willow, and willow artists of Kentucky.

Second, I present a selection of poems investigating the life of Austrian-American artist, Victor Hammer. Hammer was a long-term visiting artist at Transylvania University and began the Lexington private press movement that still thrives today.

Third, are poems taken from my own experiences. Finally, a short story that focuses on dysfunctional family, and self-realization.

Poetry, willow, Kentucky, Art, Feminist,

Why Foreign Languages Should Be Taught In Elementary, Victoria Knight

Integrated Studies

Abstract

In this paper, I will be discussing the importance learning a foreign language during Elementary. Learning a foreign language is not only beneficial for a student’s job career and opportunities, but it also helps the brain. Research has shown that learning a foreign language at a younger age is actually easier for students, versus waiting until high school to introduce a foreign language. I will be addressing issues such as why schools wait until high school, the harm in waiting till high school, why this is a problem, oppositions of this topic, and more. Specifically, this paper will discuss …

Film Review: Yoo Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg, David B. Levy

Touro University Libraries Publications and Research

The author presents a review of the documentary Yoo Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg.

It Follows: Precarity, Thanatopolitics, And The Ambient Horror Film, Casey Ryan Kelly

Department of Communication Studies: Faculty Publications

In the 2014 horror film It Follows, a teenage woman is terrorized by a fatal curse that passes from victim to victim via sexual intercourse. The subject of the curse is relentlessly pursued by vacant-minded assassins that take the form of friends, loved ones, and strangers. The film is set near the infamous dividing line of Detroit’s 8 Mile Road, between what remains of the suburban working-class and the sacrifice zone of post-industrial urban triage. I argue that It Follows confronts audiences with the spectral manifestation of precarity: the deliberate and unequal redistribution of human fragility to populations who …

2016/17 Dry Run Creek Geomorphological Watershed Assessment, University Of Northern Iowa. Department Of Earth And Environmental Sciences.

UNI Conservation Corps Projects

Dry Run Creek (DRC) watershed is a primary drainage basin located in northwestern Black Hawk County (Figure 1). It is fed predominantly by agricultural runoff in its upper reaches, and becomes heavily urbanized as it travels through the city of Cedar Falls, before draining into the Cedar River. The stream is perennial, however some are tiled and new segments have developed both naturally and artificially. Re-evaluation of the creek is underway and indicates some changes in urban and rural areas. Data was collected between Fall 2016 & Fall 2017 by University of Northern Iowa geomorphology students, using handheld GPS devices …

Adaptive Optics System Baseline Modeling For A Usaf Quad Axis Telescope, Nathaniel R. Morris

Browse all Theses and Dissertations

Atmospheric turbulence has afflicted accurate observations of celestial bodies since man first gazed upon the stars. In this past century, the technology of adaptive optics was invented to help compensate for the optical distortions that atmospheric turbulence causes. As part of that technology, artificial guide stars, wave front sensors, deformable mirrors, and other optical components were developed to correct these wave aberrations. The purpose of this study focuses on the modeling and configuration of an adaptive optics system that is appropriate for the John Bryan Observatory Quad Axis Telescope System (JBO-Q), which is funded by the United States Air Force. …

Reciprocity In The Practice Of Publicly Engaged Scholarship – Reflections From A Transnational Literacy Project, Kate E. Kedley, Hector Efren Flores A.

College of Education Departmental Research

We examine the concept of “reciprocity” in publicly engaged literacy scholarship. The idea of reciprocity suggests that projects using a publicly engaged research model should be two-way partnerships with an effort given to balancing benefits to the researcher and to community partners. We (the researcher and the community partner) explore this dynamic by considering our own experiences working on a project with groups of youth in Honduras and in the United States. The groups share their cultures and experiences through writing and technology and challenge ideas about security and public space. Given the national, racial, cultural, economic, linguistic, and power …

Taxonomy And Paleolimnology Of The Bacillariophyceae (Diatoms) From Lacustrine Sequences In The Pliocene Hadar Formation, Afar Regional State, Ethiopia, Joseph Mohan

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

A taxonomic description of three novel species and update of two previously described Bacillariophyta (Diatom) species from the Pliocene Hadar Formation, Afar Depression of Ethiopia is presented. The taxonomic description preludes a quantitative reconstruction of the environmental conditions of Paleolake Hadar, also presented herein. This thesis plays an integral role in the Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project (HSPDP), an interdisciplinary investigation into the climate, environment, and ecological context of human and hominin evolution in East Africa. The HSPDP aims to provide a continuous record of paleo-conditions that influenced hominin evolution. This thesis focuses on the Northern Awash Werenso drill-core …

Mathematical Modeling Cycles As A Task Design Heuristic, Jennifer A. Czocher

The Mathematics Enthusiast

There are many approaches to task design (Watson & Ohtani, 2015) from a large number of local and global design heuristics. The purpose of this paper is to present how mathematical modeling cycles, a popular way of describing mathematical modeling processes, were used as a task design heuristic.

The Civil Legal Needs Of Victims Of Crime In New York State: An Assessment Of The Issues, Services, And Challenges In Meeting The Civil Legal Needs Of Victims, Center For Human Services Research, University At Albany

Criminal & Juvenile Justice Services Reports and Research Briefs

In 2015 a team comprised of the New York State Office of Victim Services (OVS), Empire Justice Center (EJC), Pro Bono Net (PBN), and the Center for Human Services Research (CHSR) at the University at Albany, was a awarded a federal grant to develop a comprehensive, collaborative approach to meeting the civil legal needs of crime victims in New York State (NYS). This approach focused on the use of technology to expand access to civil legal services. To assist with this work, the grant partners formed an Advisory Committee of crime victim advocates, civil attorneys, prosecutors, relevant state and local …

University Of New Hampshire Undergraduate Course Catalog, 2017-2018, University Of New Hampshire

Undergraduate Catalog

No abstract provided.

Nebraska, Usa: Wonderful Fossils, Natural History Museums And Public Art Depicting Fossils, Robert F. Diffendal Jr.

Robert F. Diffendal, Jr., Publications

Nebraska is known by vertebrate palaeontologists as the place in North America where there is a very complete Cenozoic geologic record of mammalian evolution over the last thirty-five million years or so. All you have to do is visit any of the many major natural history museums in the USA and in many countries around the world, including the UK, to see fossil skulls, articulated skeletons and large slabs of rock containing bones of fossil mammals from Nebraska to verify this assertion. Nebraska is also the site of Cretaceous rocks containing the oldest known Cretaceous fossil flower and many other …

2017 Annual Campus Security And Fire Safety Report, Larry Banaszak

Otterbein Police Department

The report is designed to provide you with important information about security and fire safety on campus. In addition to outlining the details of the many safety programs Otterbein offers its community members, the report also contains statistics about reported crimes and fire safety initiatives on campus.

12th Susquehanna River Symposium Program With Abstracts, Bucknell Center For Sustainability And The Environment

Susquehanna River Symposium -- Conference materials

No abstract provided.

Expanding Transnational Frames Into Composition Studies: Revising The Rhetoric And Writing Minor At The American University In Cairo, James P. Austin

English Faculty Publications

This chapter examines U.S.-based approaches to curricular revision of the Rhetoric and Writing Minor at the American University in Cairo (AUC) through analysis of faculty interviews and relevant artifacts. Through this analysis, and consideration of AUC’s development in the context of changes in Egypt, the chapter argues that U.S.-based curricular approaches satisfied various local needs among AUC’s writing faculty and students. These findings complicate claims within international composition studies, which are concerned with non-reflective export of U.S. linguistic, pedagogical and program models into international sites. This chapter calls for expanding the perspective of U.S.-based approaches to composition studies to include …