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Arkansas K-3 Educators' Perceptions Regarding The Effects Of School Entry Age On Young Male Students Kindergarten Through Third Grade, Tamara Dianne Long

Student Theses and Dissertations

This quantitative study explored the perceptions of Arkansas’ K-3 educators regarding the effects of school entry age on young male students, kindergarten through third grade. The purpose of the study was to examine educators’ beliefs about whether these young males encountered more difficulties in reading and mathematics, were less developmentally ready for skills necessary to be successful in their grade and showed more difficulties in social interaction, following directions and staying engaged in tasks when compared to their older male classmates. The study also explored these educators’ perceptions regarding if their school districts were sharing the waiver option with parents …

Blue Marlin (Makaira Nigricans) Horizontal Movements In The Western South Atlantic, Eduardo W. Wanick

HCNSO Student Capstones

Blue marlin (Makaira nigricans) have been documented to undertake long – and sometimes transoceanic – migrations, according to electronic pop-up satellite archival tag (PSAT) data obtained primarily in the western North Atlantic, with additional reported deployments from selected locations in the Pacific. Information on the movements of blue marlin in the South Atlantic, however, is lacking, despite evidence of spawning aggregations off the coast of Brazil during the Southern Hemisphere’s late spring and summer. Additionally, there are no reported long-term PSAT tag deployments on blue marlin in the western South Atlantic. Therefore, their movements in that large area …

Lattice Dynamics Studies Of Negative Thermal Expansion Due To Two Low-Temperature Lattice Instabilities., Sahan Uddika Handunkanda

Doctoral Dissertations

Here I present a complete study of lattice dynamics of negative thermal expansion (NTE) material Scandium trifluoride (ScF₃) and discovery of NTE in mercurous iodide (Hg₂I₂). An inelastic x-ray scattering (IXS) study of ScF₃ reveals copious evidence of an incipient soft-mode instability indicating that the T=0 state of ScF₃ is very close to a structural quantum phase transition (SQPT). Is the anomalously strong and thermally persistent NTE behavior of ScF₃ a consequence of the SQPT? In order to address that, we have explored the coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) and soft …

Modeling Us Historical Time-Series Prices And Inflation Using Alternative Long-Memory Approaches, Giorgio Canarella, Luis A. Gil-Alana, Rangan Gupta, Stephen M. Miller

Molasky Family Department of Economics and Real Estate Faculty Research

We consider two important features of the historical US price data (1774–2015), namely the data’s persistence and cyclical structure. We first consider the persistence of the series and focus on standard long-memory models that incorporate a peak at the zero frequency. We examine different models with respect to the deterministic terms, including nonlinear deterministic trends of the Chebyshev form. Then, we investigate a more general model that includes both persistence and cyclicality of the series and, thus, includes two fractional integration parameters, one at the zero (long-run) frequency and the other at the nonzero (cyclical) frequency. We model the cyclical …

Probabilistic Interpretation Of Solutions Of Linear Ultraparabolic Equations, Michael D. Marcozzi

Mathematical Sciences Faculty Research

We demonstrate the existence, uniqueness and Galerkin approximatation of linear ultraparabolic terminal value/infinite-horizon problems on unbounded spatial domains. Furthermore, we provide a probabilistic interpretation of the solution in terms of the expectation of an associated ultradiffusion process.

As-862-19 Resolution On Creation Of New Department For Interdisciplinary Studies In The Liberal Arts, Interdisciplinary Studies Program And Science, Technology And Society Program

Academic Senate Resolutions

The College of Liberal Arts (CLA) has identified several benefits for formally combining two programs – the Interdisciplinary Studies (BA) program and the Science, Technology and Society (minors) program and elevating the combined programs into one new department called Interdisciplinary Studies in the Liberal Arts Department; and the benefits and the structure of the new department are provided in the attachment to this resolution; and said change in status and name has been approved by the college of Liberal Arts department chairs/program directors and the CLA Interim Dean; and approval for combining these two programs into a new department …

Planning For Enrichment And Equity In Dual Language Education: A Study Of Eight Program Master Plans, Charles Merritt

Doctor of Education (EdD)

This qualitative study analyzed eight dual language master plans developed by school districts on the West Coast of the United States. Each of the plans represented one or more dual language programs within each school district. The purpose of the study was to determine how school districts express their priorities for dual language programming. Master plans were analyzed for their structure, rationales, and their intended impact on students and families. Through numerous coding passes, several themes revealed themselves related to proposed benefits to students in language, academics, and social-emotional growth. The findings of this study indicated an informal community of …

Daily Eastern News: November 27, 2018, Eastern Illinois University

November

No abstract provided.

Using The Theory Of Planned Behavior To Understand University Students Recycling Behavior, Vanessa Sonnenfeld

Department of Environmental Studies: Undergraduate Student Theses

Improving recycling behavior is an important means to reducing the ever-increasing amount of waste sent to landfills. When discussing sustainable behaviors, such as recycling, the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) can be used to explain why people make the decisions they do. The Theory of Planned Behavior utilizes attitude, subjective norm and perceived behavioral control to be the predictors of behavioral intention. Once we can better explain why students decide to recycle or not to recycle we can utilize this data to increase recycling rates. The Theory of Planned Behavior was used as a basis for this study in order …

Psychometric Analysis Of An Instrument To Measure The Sleep Knowledge Of Nursing Students In Taiwan, Hui-Ling Lai, Chiung-Yu Huang

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

It is not appropriate to use raw score and passing rate to describe the students' knowledge and test item difficulty. We used Rasch measurement model to examine the relationship between the nursing students ability level and the test item's difficulty.

Using Mixed Reality Displays For Observational Learning Of Motor Skills: A Design Research Approach Enhancing Memory Recall And Usability, Pwl Watson, D Livingstone

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

When learning an action sequence, observing a demonstration informs the knowledge of movement execution and enhances the efficiency of motor skill acquisition. Three-dimensional (3D) virtual learning environments offer more opportunities for motor skill training as they afford observational learning. Mixed reality platforms (virtual reality, desktop PC, etc.) that render 3D virtual environments can therefore increase accessibility of observational content. To explore the effectiveness of these platforms so as to facilitate observational learning of action sequences, we developed the Recovery Position Application [1] (RPA) at the Interactive System Studio, University of Plymouth. The RPA was originally designed for mobile virtual reality. …

Resiliency In Deep Convolutional Neural Networks, Faiz Ur Rahman

Theses

The enormous success and popularity of deep convolutional neural networks for object detection has prompted their deployment in various real-world applications. However, their performance in the presence of hardware faults or damage that could occur in the field has not been studied. This thesis explores the resiliency of six popular network architectures for image classification, AlexNet, VGG16, ResNet, GoogleNet, SqueezeNet and YOLO9000, when subjected to various degrees of failures. We introduce failures in a deep network by dropping a percentage of weights at each layer. We then assess the effects of these failures on classification performance. We find the fitness …

Dialogues On Voluntary Action And New Commons, Roger A. Lohmann

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

This volume contains a suite of seven one-act plays originating in political and civic themes, voluntary action and new commons, and associated with the 2012 President election.

Virtual Reality As Navigation Tool: Creating Interactive Environments For Individuals With Visual Impairments, Nick Murphy

Master of Science in Computer Science Theses

Research into the creation of assistive technologies is increasingly incorporating the use of virtual reality experiments. One area of application is as an orientation and mobility assistance tool for people with visual impairments. Some of the challenges are developing useful knowledge of the user’s surroundings and effectively conveying that information to the user. This thesis examines the feasibility of using virtual environments conveyed via auditory feedback as part of an autonomous mobility assistance system. Two separate experiments were conducted to study key aspects of a potential system: navigation assistance and map generation. The results of this research include mesh models …

Automatic Identification Of Animals In The Wild: A Comparative Study Between C-Capsule Networks And Deep Convolutional Neural Networks., Joel Kamdem Teto, Ying Xie

Master of Science in Computer Science Theses

The evolution of machine learning and computer vision in technology has driven a lot of

improvements and innovation into several domains. We see it being applied for credit decisions, insurance quotes, malware detection, fraud detection, email composition, and any other area having enough information to allow the machine to learn patterns. Over the years the number of sensors, cameras, and cognitive pieces of equipment placed in the wilderness has been growing exponentially. However, the resources (human) to leverage these data into something meaningful are not improving at the same rate. For instance, a team of scientist volunteers took 8.4 years, …

Understanding Of The Nucleation Induced Cooperative Behavior In Complex Macromolecular Systems, Hailin Fu

Doctoral Dissertations

Archival abstract submitted

The Dragonfly Nearby Galaxies Survey. V. Hst/Acs Observations Of 23 Low Surface Brightness Objects In The Fields Of Ngc 1052, Ngc 1084, M96, And Ngc 4258, Yotam Cohen, Pieter Van Dokkum, Shany Danieli, Aaron Romanowsky, Roberto Abraham, Allison Merritt, Jielai Zhang, Lamiya Mowla, J. Diederik Kruijssen, Charlie Conroy, Asher Wasserman

Faculty Publications

We present Hubble Space Telescope/Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) imaging of 23 very low surface brightness (μ e,V  ~ 25–27.5) galaxies detected in the fields of four nearby galaxy groups. These objects were selected from deep optical imaging obtained with the Dragonfly Telephoto Array. Seven are newly identified, while most of the others had been seen previously in visual surveys of deep photographic plates and more recent surveys. Few have previously been studied in detail. From the ACS images, we measure distances to the galaxies using both the tip of the red giant branch method and the surface brightness fluctuations …

Librarian's Report 11-27-2018, Georgia Southern University

Faculty Senate: Librarian's Reports

No abstract provided.

Comparing And Contrasting Clustering Analysis Methods: K-Means And Vector In Partition, Lauren Sobral

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

This paper delves into the similarities and differences between two methods of exploratory cluster analysis, K-means and Vector in Partition. Known as the traditional clustering approach, K-means does have some limitations when dealing with clustering complex datasets, specifically datasets with variables of multidimensional vectors. This is the gap the Vector in Partition (VIP) algorithm aims to fill. As a novel approach for clustering multidimensional datasets of both continuous and categorical data, the VIP algorithm has preliminary results that support its ability to correctly cluster simulated datasets of the genetic factors, gene expression, DNA methylation, and single nucleotide polymorphisms. After explaining …

Degraded Visual Environment Tracker, Mohammed Eid Abu Hussein

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Compressive Sensing (CS) has proven its ability to reduce the number of measurements required to reproduce images with similar quality to those reconstructed by observing the Shannon-Nyquest sampling criteria. By exploiting spatial redundancies, it was shown that CS can be used to denoise and enhance image quality. In this thesis we propose a method that incorporates an efficient use of CS to locate a specific object in zero-visibility environments. This method was developed after multiple implementations of dictionary learning, reconstruction, detection, and tracking algorithms in order to identify the shortcomings of existing techniques and enhance our results. We show that …

Faculty Senate Agenda

Faculty Senate Agendas

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Structural, Magnetic, And Mössbauer Studies Of Transition Metal-Doped Gd2fe16ga0.5tm0.5 Intermetallic Compounds (Tm = Cr, Mn, Co, Ni, Cu, And Zn), Jiba Dahal, K. S. Syed Ali, S. R. Mishra, J. Alam

Physics & Astronomy: Faculty Publications

The effect of transition metal substitution for Fe and the structural and magnetic properties of Gd₂Fe₁₆Ga_0.5TM_0.5 (TM = Cr, Mn, Co, Ni, Cu, and Zn) compounds were investigated in this study. Rietveld analysis of X-ray data indicates that all the samples crystallize in the hexagonal Th₂Ni₁₇ structure. The lattice parameters a, c, and the unit cell volume show TM ionic radii dependence. Both Ga and TM atoms show preferred site occupancy for 12j and 12k sites. The saturation magnetization at room temperature was observed for Co, Ni, and Cu of …

On Booms That Never Bust: Ambiguity In Experimental Asset Markets With Bubbles, Brice Corgnet, Roberto Hernán-González, Praveen Kujal

ESI Working Papers

We study the effect of ambiguity on the formation of bubbles and on the occurrence of crashes in experimental asset markets à la Smith, Suchanek, and Williams (1988). We extend their framework to an environment where the fundamental value of the asset is ambiguous. We show that, when the fundamental value is ambiguous, asset prices tend to be lower than when it is risky although bubbles form in both the ambiguous and the risky environments. Additionally, bubbles do not crash in the ambiguous case whereas they do so in the risky one. These findings regarding depressed prices and the absence …

Keywords Analysis On Dengue Disease From 2005 – 2014: A Scientometric Study, Issac Newton, Dr.P.Gomathi Mani

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The study has examined the research output of the keyword analysis of ‘Dengue disease’ during the period 2005 - 2014. Bibliometric indicators were existing journal articles, cited reference, authorship pattern, document wise distribution, journal self – citation and author self-citation, keyword analysis in the dengue disease. The keyword analysis of Dengue Disease for ten-years, during the year 2005 to 2014 taken for the study 3517 words were retrieved in the current study. The highest publication is 691 in 2014 rank is first, the second rank is 2012 in 518 records, third rank is 2011 in 414 records and lowest record …

Nobel Laureate Michael Morris Rosbash : A Scientometric Portrait, Mohit Kumar, Surjeet Kumar, Arun Ruhela

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Present Study analysis 201 publications (1972-2008) of Nobel laureate Jeffrey C Hall, an American eminent scientist in geneticist. His publications received 18,896 citations and first paper was reported in Scopus in 1972, subsequently, he published 200 research papers in various journals. The collaboration coefficient of scientist is 0.89 and forty-three (43) are two authored publications, 22 are single authored, scientist has authored highest publication in decade III (1990-1999) with 81(40.30%) publications. The paper entitled "A pdf neuropeptide gene mutation and ablation of PDF neurons each cause severe abnormalities of behavioral circadian rhythms in Drosophila” published in 'Cell' journal in 2000 …

Teacher Action Research In Elementary Social Studies: Use Of Ipads In 6th Grade Geography Instruction, Heather Leaman, Robert Corcoran

i.e.: inquiry in education

A university instructor and master teacher describe the limited examples of practitioner research in elementary social studies found in traditional publications. They present a social studies practitioner research project that investigated the use of various technologies in 6^th grade geography to improve student engagement, collaboration and academic success. The authors suggest that practitioner research provides a structure for elementary teachers to investigate questions related to student learning of key social studies content, the social studies curriculum, and related skills. They suggest that practitioner research, as professional development or alternative to traditional teacher evaluation requirements, creates opportunities for elementary school …

Taking Action: (Re)Imagining Professional Development Through The Teacher Research Project, Joan Gujarati

i.e.: inquiry in education

Grounded in the frameworks of action research, Critical Friends Groups (CFGs), and reflective practice, this article presents an overarching action research study connected by individual action research studies to explore what a cohort of preservice elementary Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) candidates learned from the process of teacher action research as a (re)imagined form of authentic professional development to aid with student achievement in urban settings. Data came from a cohort of 12 urban preservice teachers’ written reflections on their processes of conducting a four-month Teacher Research Project (TRP) during their student teaching semester in Spring 2016. Teachers’ voices …

A Pilot Investigation Into Force Production In Tethered Swimming As An Individual Monitoring Tool, Thomas Wackwitz, Simon Pearson

ISBS Proceedings Archive

Gaining an understanding of the physical capabilities and capacities that underpin the performance of a complex skill are important to help guide performance development at the elite level. The purpose of this study was to improve understanding of the force generating characteristics that relate to performance in elite swimmers. Three elite butterfly swimmers were tested over six weeks to examine the interactions between force-derived variables from 30 s of maximal tethered swimming and maximal 50m swimming performance, both performed using the butterfly stroke. Mean force, peak force and impulse per stroke all displayed very strong relationships with 50m swim time …

Movement Variability Associated With Horizontal Eccentric Towing, Farhan Tinwala, John Cronin, Enrico Haemmerle, Angus Ross

ISBS Proceedings Archive

The purpose of this study was to determine the movement variability associated with a novel custom built horizontal eccentric towing (HET) device. HET involves the athlete trying to move forwards whilst being pulled backwards. The variables of interest were the impulse, peak (PHEF), and mean (MHEF) horizontal eccentric force. Ten elite female field hockey players were tested on four occasions, each of which were separated by seven days. During each session, participants were required to perform three isokinetic maximal effort trials at 0.8 m/s over a distance of 10 m. The data from the three trials was averaged and the …

New Developments In Vector Coding Methods For Assessing Coordination Variability, Holly A. Stock, Laura-Anne M. Furlong, Cassie Wilson, Richard E.A. Van Emmerik, Ezio Preatoni

ISBS Proceedings Archive

The purpose of this study is to propose modifications to current methods for the assessment of coordination variability through vector coding techniques. Commonly, vector coding starts from calculating the vector difference between adjacent data points on an angle-angle plot. This initial stage is analogue to estimating angular velocities from displacement, but with the limitation of differentiating the three axial components in isolation. Instead, the calculation of angular velocities from 3D data should take into account movement in other planes of motion. This study suggests the use of angular velocities in vector coding in place of the difference calculations and demonstrates …