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The Perspective Of Education From Black–White–Biracial Students In Middle And High School, Eric Deville Jackson Ii

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The study examined middle and high school Black–White–Biracial (BWB) students’ perspectives of education. In order to accomplish this qualitative research study, the research I sought to (a) gain an understanding of how biracial students viewed themselves in secondary public school systems, (b) understand how BWB students identified within the school environment, and (c) learn how their identities affected their learning. The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to gain in-depth understanding of the overall educational viewpoints of BWB students in select rural, urban, and suburban public schools in Indiana. The design of this research included data collection from one-on-one …

The Effects Of Secondary School Accountability Grades On College And University Transfer, Jill Robinson Kramer

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Workforce projections indicate that a majority of jobs to be created in the U.S. economy will require some form of postsecondary education (Cappelli, 2015; Carnevale, Smith, & Strohl, 2010). At the same time, colleges and universities are being held accountable for completion and graduation of their students (The Commission, 2014) and secondary schools are being graded under changing accountability systems (Center for Education Policy, 2008; Dee & Jacobs, 2011, Figlio & Ladd, 2008). This study looked at the longer-term implications of high school accountability grades, A–F, and the impact on student transfer, associate’s degree completion, and time to associate’s degree …

An Examination Of The Relationship Between Acoustic Measures Of English Prosody And Holistic Measures Of English Proficiency In Extemporaneous Speech Of Native Chinese Speakers Of English As A Second Language, Carl Tyler Johnson

Open Access Dissertations

English prosody works as a structural and semantic glue that establishes relationships among words and phrases within a sentence, and among sentences within a larger discourse. This dissertation hypothesizes and demonstrates an association between acoustic measurements of English prosody and holistic measures of English proficiency. To test this hypothesis, acoustic data was used from 10 examinees each of low, medium, and high oral English proficiency groups of L1 Chinese speakers who took Purdue’s Oral English Proficiency Test (OEPT). Prosodic measurements of duration, F0, and intensity were gathered from adjacent function and content words in the OEPT audio data and compared …

Explaining Gender Differences In Realistic Interests With Social Cognitive Career Theory, Emily Riewestahl

XULAneXUS

No abstract provided.

2017 Interim Report Neasc Decision Letter, Commission On Institutions Of Higher Education, New England Association Of Schools & Colleges, Inc.

University Accreditation

This is the decision letter from the Commission on Institutions of Higher Education to Bridgewater State University.

Into The Deep: The Role Of Paradigms In Understanding Engineering Education For Sustainable Development, Iacovos Nicolaou, Eddie Conlon, Brian Bowe

Articles

This article presents summary findings of a mixed methods research project exploring the provision of education for sustainable development (SD) in seven Irish engineering degree programmes. Drawing on Sterling’s (2004) iceberg metaphor and Critical Realism it seeks to identify the underlying socio-cultural barriers preventing a holistic integration of SD in engineering education. It argues that the current focus is predominantly on the environmental dimension of SD and that there are a set of reinforcing mechanisms facilitating the provision of disciplinary education aimed at producing technically proficient, employable graduates in which the social dimension of SD is marginalised. This is underwritten …

Does The Stress Inherent To Laboratory Life And Experimentation On Animals Adversely Affect Research Data?, Jarrod Bailey

Validation of Animal Experimentation Collection

Stress and distress in laboratory animals is often inherent and unavoidable. The effect of these factors on the reliability and relevance of experimental data is not sufficiently appreciated. Greater awareness, debate and discussion of this issue are urgently required.

Northern Eurasia Future Initiative (Nefi): Facing The Challenges And Pathways Of Global Change In The Twenty-First Century, Pavel Groisman, Herman Shugart, David Kicklighter, Geoffrey Henebry, Nadezhda Tchebakova, Shamil Maksyutov, Erwan Monier, Garik Gutman, Sergey Gulev, Jiaguo Qi, Alexander Prishchepov, Elena Kukavskaya, Boris Porfiriev, Alexander Shiklomanov, Tatiana Loboda, Nikolay Shiklomanov, Son Nghiem, Kathleen Bergen, Jana Albrechtová, Jiquan Chen, Maria Shahgedanova, Anatoly Shvidenko, Nina Speranskaya, Amber Soja, Kirsten De Beurs, Olga Bulygina, Jessica Mccarty, Qianlai Zhuang, Olga Zolina

GSCE Faculty Publications

During the past several decades, the Earth system has changed significantly, especially across Northern Eurasia. Changes in the socio-economic conditions of the larger countries in the region have also resulted in a variety of regional environmental changes that can have global consequences. The Northern Eurasia Future Initiative (NEFI) has been designed as an essential continuation of the Northern Eurasia Earth Science Partnership Initiative (NEESPI), which was launched in 2004. NEESPI sought to elucidate all aspects of ongoing environmental change, to inform societies and, thus, to better prepare societies for future developments. A key principle of NEFI is that these developments …

Comparison Of Ecosystem Processes In A Woodland And Prairie Pond With Different Hydroperiods, Daniel J. Hornbach, Mark C. Hove, Mira W. Ensley-Field, Matthew R. Glasenapp, Ian A. Goodbar, J. Douglas Harman, Benjamin D. Huber, Emily A. Kangas, Kira X. Liu, Molly Stark-Ragsdale, Long K. Tran

Faculty Publications

Shallow lakes and ponds constitute a significant number of water bodies worldwide. Many are heterotrophic, indicating that they are likely net contributors to global carbon cycling. Climate change is likely to have important impacts on these waterbodies. In this study, we examined two small Minnesota ponds; a permanent woodland pond and a temporary prairie pond. The woodland pond had lower levels of phosphorus and phytoplankton than the prairie pond. Using the open water oxygen method, we found the prairie pond typically had a higher level of gross primary production (GPP) and respiration (R) than the woodland pond, although the differences …

Bet-Hedging In Bacteriocin Producing Escherichia Coli Populations: The Single Cell Perspective, Bihter Bayramoglu, David Toubiana, Simon Van Vliet, R. Inglis, Nadav Shnerb, Osnat Gillor

Biology Department Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

Urinformed December 2017, Urinformed

URInformed: The URI Employees' Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Rigid And Non-Rigid 2d-3d Pose Estimation Using The Bhattacharyya Coefficient And A Locally Linear Embedding, Jeremy Neil Lerner

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

There are many segmentation algorithms in the computer vision field whose general purpose is to separate between object and background in an image. In this work, we take advantage of extra knowledge prior to run-time to speed up the segmentation. Specifically, in the rigid case, we have a three dimensional model of the entire object, and we use the Bhattacharyya coefficient from information theory to segment an image containing a two dimensional projection of that object as well as determine its location relative to the camera. This framework can be particularly advantageous for noisy images and partially hidden objects because …

Bayesian Filtering Estimation Of Statistical Dynamic Factor Model, Yu Mu

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

Statistical factor analysis has been widely used in many areas of investment science such as risk management, portfolio selection, trading strategies, ect.. This dissertation mainly investigates the estimation of dynamic factor model in the Bayesian framework, using the techniques of particle filter with online parameter learning such as marginalized particle filter and particle learning. We also compare our results with the offline conventional method such as Kalman filter combined with EM algorithm in root mean squared error criterion. In the real data analysis, regime switching or structure break in the factor structure will make the estimation of static model difficult …

Studies In Experimental Population Genetics Of Drosophila Melanogaster, Spencer Arran Koury

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

Population genetics is a model based science with three complementary approaches: theoretical, empirical, and experimental. The last of these employs complex experimental designs to directly estimate model parameters or, when possible, tests causal hypotheses through direct manipulation. Building on the long tradition of experimental population genetics in Drosophila species I propose new mechanisms in evolution of chromosomal rearrangements (Chapters 1-3) and then describe a series of experiments directly testing the role of metabolic genes in temperate adaptation of Drosophila melanogaster (Chapters 4-6). In phylogenetic series of gene arrangements, younger chromosomal inversions tend to be distal to older inversions. After Chapter …

Adaptive Search Algorithms For Simulation Optimization In Discrete And Continuous Domains, Qi Fan

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

This thesis includes some newly-proposed adaptive search algorithms for simulation optimization in discrete and continuous domains. We first consider the ranking and selection problem of allocating a given simulation budget among a set of design alternatives in order to maximize the probability of correct selection. Previous research used to take static approaches to allocate certain number of simulation budget on different designs, i.e. pre-calculating the allocation plan before simulation, and among them, sequential optimal computing budget allocation (OCBA) shows the best allocation efficiency so far. Our approach, Dynamic Simulation Budget Allocation (DSBA), allocates this sampling budget dynamically by formulating this …

Elusive Numbers. State Knowledge And Bureaucratic Organization In Chile (1750-1911), Andres Estefane-Jaramillo

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

This dissertation explores the trajectory of the Chilean State’s statistical projects from the mid-eighteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth century. It begins in a moment when the scientific concerns of the Enlightenment dovetailed with the State’s demand for knowledge after the dissolution of the Spanish Empire. It analyzes the construction of a specialized bureaucracy entrusted with the mission of producing the statistical information the Chilean State required for effective government. Due to the relational and spatial implications of producing official numbers, these inquiries opened up permanent spaces of interaction between the central institutions and the administrative peripheries of …

A Real-Time Solution Strategy For Estimation Of Aerothermal Heating For Reentry Vehicles, Bhuvaneswari Rajendra

Theses and Dissertations

Direct measurement of flight environment on a heat shield of a Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV) is critical due to the extremely aerothermal heating experiences during the reentry phase. An alternative approach is to install thermocouple several millimeters below the heat shield surface to measure the heat shield temperature response and solve the associated inverse heat conduction problem (IHCP) in order to reconstruct the surface heat flux using the measured temperature response. The material properties and thicknesses of the Thermal protection system (TPS) make the reconstruction process more challenging when the thermocouples are placed far away from the surface. The focus …

Canines For Disabled Kids, Erin Jerrett, Margarita Mnatsakanyan, Colleen Reynolds, Yin Wang

School of Professional Studies

Canines for Disabled Kids have been working on behalf of children and their families to educate communities and promote service dog partnerships for almost twenty years. Their advocacy with local legislatures, business owners, and community leaders highlighted the difficulties encountered when differentiating service dogs from emotional support/comfort dogs. Service dogs are entitled to access by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), while emotional support/comfort dogs are not protected under the federal statute or to the same rights. Canines for Disabled Kids proposed a study to obtain a current count of licensed service dogs in the Commonwealth and investigate the feasibility …

Baby Bay And The Big, Loud Ocean, Kelcey Salois, Dominique Mellone

Environmental Studies Student Projects

This is a children's book that depicts some of the serious effects of noise pollution on marine organisms, especially larger mammals such as Baleen Whales. Through this little story about a baby whale and his mom, trying to find the rest of their pod amidst an ocean filled with noise pollution, we hope to spread awareness about this problem and provide hope to younger generations that if we work hard enough at protecting our oceans, we can provide a much nicer and safer life for the creatures that live within it.

Electrochemical Synthesis Of Thin Films For Use As Water And Biofuel Electrocatalysts, Morrisa Regis

Open Access Dissertations

In creating a society focused on responsible energy production and consumption, green chemistry is now at the forefront of much scientific research. Interest in renewable energy and alternative fuels is by no means new but with the rapidly depleting fossil fuel resources, and hazardous byproducts of its production and use the areas hold the most promising answers to the looming energy crisis. Suitable catalyst materials for electrochemical water reduction and biomass conversion, specifically 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) reduction, have been previously identified. In the case of water electrolysis, precious metal catalysts are excellent due to the low energy input, however they are …

Ole Miss Engineer 2017-2018

Ole Miss Engineer

No abstract provided.

Stem Stories, December 2017, Ginger L'Heureux

STEM Stories

Program Spotlight - American Society of Biological and Agricultural Engineers (ASABE) Quarter-Scale Tractor Student Design Competition

Stabilization Of Hypoxia Inducible Factor By Cobalt Chloride Can Alter Renal Epithelial Transport, Subhra Nag, Andrew Resnick

Physics Faculty Publications

© 2017 The Authors. Given the importance of the transcriptional regulator hypoxia-inducible factor-1 (HIF-1) for adaptive hypoxia responses, we examined the effect of stabilized HIF-1α on renal epithelial permeability and directed sodium transport. This study was motivated by histological analysis of cystic kidneys showing increased expression levels of HIF-1α and HIF-2α. We hypothesize that compression induced localized ischemia-hypoxia of normal epithelia near a cyst leads to local stabilization of HIF-1α, leading to altered transepithelial transport that encourages cyst expansion. We found that stabilized HIF-1α alters both transcellular and paracellular transport through renal epithelial monolayers in a manner consistent with secretory …

The Classic, Winter 2017-18, Public Relations

The Classic, 2010-2019

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Using Eye-Tracking And Molecular Modeling To Explore Students’ Strategies For Solving Organic Stereochemical Problems, Travis Howard Knowles

Dissertations

Stereochemistry concepts are often some of the most difficult topics for students to grasp in the organic chemistry curriculum. Several factors may influence students’ abilities to solve stereochemistry problems, including their spatial abilities, strategy choice, and ability to use various types of spatial representations. A mixed-method study was conducted to investigate the role that these factors play when novice organic chemistry students solve stereochemistry problems. Eye-tracking methods were used in an attempt to capture cognitive processes of students while solving these problems. Additionally, three-dimensional molecular models and spatial ability measures were used to further analyze and characterize their strategies for …

An Exploration Of The Chromatic Polynomial, Amanda Aydelotte

Mathematics Undergraduate Theses

In 1912, George Birkhoff was studying the Four Color Problem, and in doing so introduced the concept of the chromatic polynomial. While this did not end up directly contributing to proving that every map could be colored with four colors such that no region shares a border with another region of the same color, the chromatic polynomial has been found to have some very interesting properties. In this paper, it will be our goal to examine some of these properties and use them to determine information about their corresponding graphs.

Testing The Limits Of Temporal Stability: Willingness To Pay Values Among Grand Canyon Whitewater Boaters Across Decades, Christopher J. Neher, John Duffield, Lucas Bair, David Patterson, Katherine Neher

Mathematical Sciences Faculty Publications

We directly compare trip willingness to pay (WTP) values between 1985 and 2015 stated preference surveys of private party Grand Canyon boaters using identically designed valuation methods. The temporal gap of 30 years between these two studies is well beyond that of any tests of WTP temporal stability in the literature. Comparisons were made of mean WTP estimates for four hypothetical Colorado River flow level scenarios. WTP values from the 1985 survey were adjusted to 2015 levels using the consumer price index. Mean WTP precision was estimated through simulation. No statistically significant differences were detected between the adjusted Bishop et …

Speckle Effects In Target-In-The-Loop Laser Beam Projection Systems, Mikhail Vorontsov

Electro-Optics and Photonics Faculty Publications

In target-in-the-loop laser beam projection scenarios typical of remote sensing, directed energy, and adaptive optics applications, a transmitted laser beam propagates through an optically inhomogeneous medium toward a target, scatters off the target’s rough surface, and returns back to the transceiver plane. Coherent beam scattering off the randomly rough surface results in strong speckle modulation in the transceiver plane. This speckle modulation has been a long-standing challenge that limits performance of remote sensing, active imaging, and adaptive optics techniques. Using physics-based models of laser beam scattering off a randomly rough surface, we show that received speckle-field spatial and temporal characteristics …

December 2017, Global News, Haenicke Institute

Global News

• Engineering management program now globally certified
• Take advantage of global engagement opportunities in January
• Longtime professor, administrator to become new business dean
• Community, campus programs to honor Dr. Martin Luther Kind Jr.
• Three students receive Gilman Scholarships to study abroad

In Search Of Conversational Grain Size: Modelling Semantic Structure Using Moving Stanza Windows, Amanda L. Siebert-Evenstone, Golnaz Arastoopour Irgens, Wesley Collier, Zachari Swiecki, David Williamson Shaffer

Publications

Analyses of learning based on student discourse need to account not only for the content of the utterances but also for the ways in which students make connections across turns of talk. This requires segmentation of discourse data to define when connections are likely to be meaningful. In this paper, we present an approach to segmenting data for the purposes of modeling connections in discourse using epistemic network analysis. Specifically, we use epistemic network analysis to model connections in student discourse using a temporal segmentation method adapted from recent work in the learning sciences. We compare the results of this …