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Friendship In The Age Of Social Media In Saudi Arabia, Rayan Faleh Alotaibi Nov 2018

Friendship In The Age Of Social Media In Saudi Arabia, Rayan Faleh Alotaibi

Student Theses and Dissertations

The use of social media platforms has grown in recent days. It is well known that social networks are one of the greatest methods that friendships are developed in this age of technology. The world has been reduced to a universal community with an increase in information technology which has influenced social forms such as relationships and friendship. This paper seeks to examine how the use of social media influences friendships in Saudi Arabia; further, this paper seeks to identify how the culture of Saudi Arabia influences the development of friendship. The study used an online survey which involved 407 …

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Clinical Outcomes Of Successful Revascularization Of Chronic Total Coronary Occlusions With Bioresorbable Vascular Scaffolds: A Systematic Review., Roman Marchenko, Salik Nazir, Shelina Malla, Anthony Donato Nov 2018

Clinical Outcomes Of Successful Revascularization Of Chronic Total Coronary Occlusions With Bioresorbable Vascular Scaffolds: A Systematic Review., Roman Marchenko, Salik Nazir, Shelina Malla, Anthony Donato

Reading Hospital Internal Medicine Residency

Revascularization of chronic total occlusions (CTO) with percutaneous coronary intervention is associated with favorable long-term clinical and echocardiographic outcomes. Whether bioresorbable vascular scaffolds (BVS) would be advantageous in the treatment of CTO is unknown as patients with these lesions were generally excluded from large BVS randomized trials. We performed a systematic review, which sought to summarize known data on mid- to long-term clinical outcomes for BVS in CTO. We searched MEDLINE, EMBASE, clinicaltrials.gov, and the Cochrane Library through April 2018 to look for studies on implantation of BVS in CTO. Outcomes of interest included myocardial infarction, cardiac death, all-cause mortality, …

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Faculty Senate Minutes, November 28, 2018, Faculty Senate Nov 2018

Faculty Senate Minutes, November 28, 2018, Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Minutes and Reports

No abstract provided.

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Long-Term Preservation Of Public Art: From Cultural Heritage To The Confederacy, Maliha Ikram Nov 2018

Long-Term Preservation Of Public Art: From Cultural Heritage To The Confederacy, Maliha Ikram

Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy

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A Case Study Of Student And Staff Perceptions Of The School Breakfast Program: Food For Thought From A College Preparatory High School For Underserved Students, Jennifer Lucas Young Nov 2018

A Case Study Of Student And Staff Perceptions Of The School Breakfast Program: Food For Thought From A College Preparatory High School For Underserved Students, Jennifer Lucas Young

Dissertations and Theses

Research suggests that participation in the School Breakfast Program positively impacts academic success by improving student behavior, cognitive functioning, and attendance. Additionally, the School Breakfast Program appears to improve food insecurity, overall health and weight-related issues. However, compared to the National School Lunch Program, participation in the School Breakfast Program has been historically low, especially at the high school level. Using an integrated composite framework, a combination of social cognitive theory and ecological systems theory, as the conceptual model, this qualitative case study explored factors influencing student breakfast eating and participation in the school's breakfast program within a college-preparatory high …

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Volunteering At Hyde Park Middle School, Justice Williams Nov 2018

Volunteering At Hyde Park Middle School, Justice Williams

First-Year Seminar Posters (COE 102/103)

The main social issue addressed at Hyde Park Middle School is education. The students attend school to get an education and learn, and the teachers went to college so they would be qualified to teach. However, when students other needs are not meet, they will not focus on their education. This is why the school does what they can to address other issues that the students may be experiencing. They provide free and reduced breakfast and lunches for students who cannot necessarily afford to eat otherwise. This makes it so they can focus on the lessons rather than their hunger. …

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Dash: Delivering And Serving Hope, Nicole Ross Nov 2018

Dash: Delivering And Serving Hope, Nicole Ross

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

The main purpose of DASH is to reach out to the community with simple acts such as giving food, giving service, and helping those in need.

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Commonwealth Times 2018-11-28 Nov 2018

Commonwealth Times 2018-11-28

Commonwealth Times, 1969-

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Diego Rivera For A "Greater America": The United States Murals, Fascha Denray Decrescenzo Nov 2018

Diego Rivera For A "Greater America": The United States Murals, Fascha Denray Decrescenzo

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

This thesis focuses on several works of art created by Diego Rivera for United States patrons in the early twentieth century. Although these U.S. art patrons and Rivera supported the idea of hemispheric unity, the artist’s viewpoint did not always concur with that of the state-side capitalists. Rivera wished to use Pan-American iconography to idealize the indigenous cultures of Latin America, specifically Mexico. The United States capitalists wanted to use art patronage of Latin American artists to instigate a new brand of imperialism – American Imperialism. Nevertheless, through his murals and other projects, Rivera challenged the ideological foundations of the …

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Increased Excitability Induced In The Primary Motor Cortex By Transcranial Ultrasound Stimulation, Benjamin C. Gibson, Joseph L. Sanguinetti, Bashar W. Badran, Alfred B. Yu, Evan P. Klein, Christopher C. Abbott, Jeffrey T. Hansberger, Vincent P. Clark Nov 2018

Increased Excitability Induced In The Primary Motor Cortex By Transcranial Ultrasound Stimulation, Benjamin C. Gibson, Joseph L. Sanguinetti, Bashar W. Badran, Alfred B. Yu, Evan P. Klein, Christopher C. Abbott, Jeffrey T. Hansberger, Vincent P. Clark

Publications and Research

Background: Transcranial Ultrasound Stimulation (tUS) is an emerging technique that uses ultrasonic waves to noninvasively modulate brain activity. As with other forms of non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS), tUS may be useful for altering cortical excitability and neuroplasticity for a variety of research and clinical applications. The effects of tUS on cortical excitability are still unclear, and further complications arise from the wide parameter space offered by various types of devices, transducer arrangements, and stimulation protocols. Diagnostic ultrasound imaging devices are safe, commonly available systems that may be useful for tUS. However, the feasibility of modifying brain activity with diagnostic tUS …

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Daily Eastern News: November 28, 2018, Eastern Illinois University Nov 2018

Daily Eastern News: November 28, 2018, Eastern Illinois University

November

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The Last Great Equalizer: Education, Curtis Proctor Nov 2018

The Last Great Equalizer: Education, Curtis Proctor

UCF Forum

Some of us have had moments in life when things align and preparation meets opportunity to launch us toward purpose.

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Perceptions Of Infertility As A Barrier To Cervical Cancer Screening In Rural Botswana: A Qualitative Study, Rebecca L. Upton Nov 2018

Perceptions Of Infertility As A Barrier To Cervical Cancer Screening In Rural Botswana: A Qualitative Study, Rebecca L. Upton

Sociology & Anthropology Faculty publications

Background: Cervical cancer screening in Botswana and in particular the use of visual screening in rural areas has been on the rise in the past several years. Despite increased awareness and the introduction of less invasive methods of screening, qualitative data indicate that socio-cultural factors such as infertility related stigma, and beliefs about impaired fecundity affect overall efficacy of screening campaigns. Objective: This study sought to explore barriers to the utilization of cervical cancer screening in rural communities in northern Botswana. Methods: In-depth interviews were conducted in this qualitative research study. All interviews were transcribed and coded both manually as …

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Three Square & Food Insecurity, Holly Slear Nov 2018

Three Square & Food Insecurity, Holly Slear

First-Year Seminar Posters (COE 102/103)

Three Square is dedicated to eradicating food insecurity through food rescue and food bank programs.

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Transfer Learning With Deep Recurrent Neural Networks For Remaining Useful Life Estimation, Ansi Zhang, Honglei Wang, Shaobo Li, Yuxin Cui, Guanci Yang, Jianjun Hu Nov 2018

Transfer Learning With Deep Recurrent Neural Networks For Remaining Useful Life Estimation, Ansi Zhang, Honglei Wang, Shaobo Li, Yuxin Cui, Guanci Yang, Jianjun Hu

Faculty Publications

Prognostics, such as remaining useful life (RUL) prediction, is a crucial task in condition-based maintenance. A major challenge in data-driven prognostics is the difficulty of obtaining a sufficient number of samples of failure progression. However, for traditional machine learning methods and deep neural networks, enough training data is a prerequisite to train good prediction models. In this work, we proposed a transfer learning algorithm based on Bi-directional Long Short-Term Memory (BLSTM) recurrent neural networks for RUL estimation, in which the models can be first trained on different but related datasets and then fine-tuned by the target dataset. Extensive experimental results …

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University Of Richmond Symphony Orchestra, Department Of Music, University Of Richmond Nov 2018

University Of Richmond Symphony Orchestra, Department Of Music, University Of Richmond

Music Department Concert Programs

No abstract provided.

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Does Gottman’S Marital Communication Conceptualization Inform Teen Dating Violence? Communication Skill Deficits Analyzed Across Three Samples Of Diverse Adolescents, Heidi Adams Rueda, Monica Yndo, Lela Rankin Williams, Ryan C. Shorey Nov 2018

Does Gottman’S Marital Communication Conceptualization Inform Teen Dating Violence? Communication Skill Deficits Analyzed Across Three Samples Of Diverse Adolescents, Heidi Adams Rueda, Monica Yndo, Lela Rankin Williams, Ryan C. Shorey

Social Work Faculty Publications

Communication skill deficits are thought to contribute to teen dating violence (TDV), parallel to the inclusion of these throughout prevention curricula. Communication research among adolescents is highly underdeveloped, although a preliminary study utilizing Gottman’s marital communication conceptualization found that a majority of negative communication behaviors predictive of marital distress were also associated with relationship aggression among primarily White college students. Our aim was to replicate this study with diverse samples of adolescents (50.3% Latino, 23.5% Black; Mage = 16.06). Urban high school youth, pregnant and parenting youth in residential foster care, and youth in urban after-school programs self-reported on …

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Eenie Einie Over, Emma Thornton Nov 2018

Eenie Einie Over, Emma Thornton

USU Student Folklore Fieldwork

So from the beginning of my recollection of my time the, the assumption was that this game had been played by our parents by all the cousins for years ahead of me, and once you got old enough to play you were part of the group, I mean you wanted to be in there so bad so when you were younger, you would e in grandma’s house and you would be running back and forth from one side of the house to the other looking out the window wishing you could play. And then somehow someway, they deemed you worthy …

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Foreign Language Education: Methods Of Effective Instruction In The Foreign Language Classroom, Ashley Nicole Jacobs Nov 2018

Foreign Language Education: Methods Of Effective Instruction In The Foreign Language Classroom, Ashley Nicole Jacobs

Senior Honors Theses

This thesis compares the various methods of teaching a foreign language. With the growing diversity of the population of the United States, it is becoming increasingly important for students to expand their knowledge of languages beyond English. Foreign language study has a number of benefits, including the promotion of effective communication and the construction of relationships with those from other countries and cultures. While there are a number of factors that influence effective foreign language acquisition, the factor that will be explored in this thesis is foreign language education methodology. This thesis will present seven methods of teaching foreign language …

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Ay 2018/2019 Fs Meeting Minutes, 2018-11-28, Faculty Senate Nov 2018

Ay 2018/2019 Fs Meeting Minutes, 2018-11-28, Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Archives

No abstract provided.

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Audiovisual Lexical Retrieval Deficits Following Left Hemisphere Stroke, Brenda Hanna-Pladdy, Hyun Choi, Brian Herman, Spenser Haffey Nov 2018

Audiovisual Lexical Retrieval Deficits Following Left Hemisphere Stroke, Brenda Hanna-Pladdy, Hyun Choi, Brian Herman, Spenser Haffey

Student Publications

Binding sensory features of multiple modalities of what we hear and see allows formation of a coherent percept to access semantics. Previous work on object naming has focused on visual confrontation naming with limited research in nonverbal auditory or multisensory processing. To investigate neural substrates and sensory effects of lexical retrieval, we evaluated healthy adults (n = 118) and left hemisphere stroke patients (LHD, n = 42) in naming manipulable objects across auditory (sound), visual (picture), and multisensory (audiovisual) conditions. LHD patients were divided into cortical, cortical⁻subcortical, or subcortical lesions (CO, CO⁻SC, SC), and specific lesion location investigated in …

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Breaking-Up The ‘Precariat’: Personalisation, Differentiation And Deindividuation In Precarious Work Groups, C Manolchev, R Saundry, D Lewis Nov 2018

Breaking-Up The ‘Precariat’: Personalisation, Differentiation And Deindividuation In Precarious Work Groups, C Manolchev, R Saundry, D Lewis

Plymouth Business School

Much-debated and researched, the subject of precarious work remains at the forefront of academic and policy discourses. A development of current interest is the reported growth of employment flexibility and increase in non-standard and atypical work, regarded by some as contributing to the emergence of a class-like ‘precariat’ of insecure and marginalised workers. However, this precariat framework remain largely untested and underexplored. Using in-depth narratives from 77 semi-structured interviews with workers from groups within the precariat spectrum, in this article the authors address this gap. The study finds that cohesion within and between these groups is overstated, and worker collectivisation …

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Montana Kaimin, November 28, 2018, Students Of The University Of Montana, Missoula Nov 2018

Montana Kaimin, November 28, 2018, Students Of The University Of Montana, Missoula

Montana Kaimin, 1898-present

Student newspaper of the University of Montana, Missoula.

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Installation And Methodology For Determining Of Antifrictional Properties Of Antistatic-Heat-Conducting Composite Polymeric Materials Interacting With Fibrous Mass (Cotton-Raw), S.S. Negmatov, N.S. Abed, G. Gulyamov, O.H. Eshkabilov Nov 2018

Installation And Methodology For Determining Of Antifrictional Properties Of Antistatic-Heat-Conducting Composite Polymeric Materials Interacting With Fibrous Mass (Cotton-Raw), S.S. Negmatov, N.S. Abed, G. Gulyamov, O.H. Eshkabilov

Technical science and innovation

The paper Presents a disk tribometer installation and allows to determine the antifriction properties of machine-building composite antistatic-heat-conducting polymer materials working in interaction with the fibrous mass (raw cotton). A method for determining the friction force, temperature and electrostatic charge values arising in the friction zone is developed. The friction of the fibrous material is carried out on the flat surface of the rotating disk sample from the material under study at specified clamping pressures and sliding speeds. Values of friction forces, temperatures and values of electrostatic charges of the tested sample in a zone of friction with cotton-raw are …

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Age-Based Differences In The Usefulness Of Resources: A Multi-Study Investigation Of Work And Well-Being Outcomes, Lale Muazzez Yaldiz Nov 2018

Age-Based Differences In The Usefulness Of Resources: A Multi-Study Investigation Of Work And Well-Being Outcomes, Lale Muazzez Yaldiz

Dissertations and Theses

The labor force is aging globally. It is projected that the number of older workers will increase in the workforce in the near future. At the same time, it is estimated that workplaces will grow more age-diverse, where younger and older workers will work side-by-side more often than they used to. These demographic shifts in the workforce necessitate a further understanding of the differences between the values, needs and motivation, and work outcomes of employees of different ages. To this end, few studies to date have investigated whether job-related resources are differentially useful for the work and non-work outcomes of …

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November 28, 2018, The Daily Mississippian Nov 2018

November 28, 2018, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

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Review Of Facing The Text: Extra-Illustration, Print Culture, And Society In Britain 1769 - 1840 By Lucy Peltz, Madeleine L. Pelling Nov 2018

Review Of Facing The Text: Extra-Illustration, Print Culture, And Society In Britain 1769 - 1840 By Lucy Peltz, Madeleine L. Pelling

ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830

Review of 'Facing the Text: Extra-Illustration, Print Culture, and Society in Britian 1769 - 1840,' Lucy Peltz by Madeleine Pelling

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Review Of Charlotte Lennox: An Independent Mind By Susan Carlile, Alexis Mcquigge Nov 2018

Review Of Charlotte Lennox: An Independent Mind By Susan Carlile, Alexis Mcquigge

ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830

This article reviews Susan Carlile's recent biography of Charlotte Lennox, Charlotte Lennox: An Independent Mind. Because much of Lennox's life story, and many of her works, remain mysterious to contemporary readers, Carlile's work highlights some unique and important aspects of the life of a - at least in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-centuries, a celebrated literary minds. Carlile's work is an important and necessary addition to the study of women's writing in the period, and contributes a great deal to those studying the works of Charlotte Lennox.

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Review Of Royal Shakespeare Company Production Of Mary Pix’S The Beau Defeated, Retitled The Fantastic Follies Of Mrs. Rich, Aparna Gollapudi Nov 2018

Review Of Royal Shakespeare Company Production Of Mary Pix’S The Beau Defeated, Retitled The Fantastic Follies Of Mrs. Rich, Aparna Gollapudi

ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830

Jo Davies’s reprise of Mary Pix’s comedy The Beau Defeated, Or The Lucky Younger Brother,performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company at Swan Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon under the title The Fantastic Follies of Mrs. Rich refocuses the comedy from its original engagement with primogeniture and middling class masculinity towards the female characters. It also diffuses Pix’s Whiggish moralism in Mrs. Rich's portrayal, highlighting instead her energy and verve. Overall, a very successful production, the performance is more Restoration comedy than the transitional work that Pix's play was when it opened in 1700.

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Editing Aphra Behn In The Digital Age: An Interview With Gillian Wright And Alan Hogarth, Laura Runge, Gillian Wright, Alan Hogarth Nov 2018

Editing Aphra Behn In The Digital Age: An Interview With Gillian Wright And Alan Hogarth, Laura Runge, Gillian Wright, Alan Hogarth

ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830

This interview provides a view of the work in progress for the Cambridge University Press edition of the Complete Works of Aphra Behn. Gillian Wright serves as a general editor (with Elaine Hobby, Claire Bowditch, and Mel Evans) as well as the volume editor for Behn’s poetry. Alan Hogarth is the Postdoctoral Research Associate working with Mel Evans on the computational stylistics and author attribution testing. The discussion focuses on the scope and principles of editing the poetry of Aphra Behn, the role of stylometry in establishing the corpus, the status of work, a few particular poems, and some surprises.

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