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Synchronous Online Tutoring For Deaf And Hard-Of-Hearing Students: An Analysis Of Observed Functions, Lisa B. Elliot, Rebecca Carpenter

Presentations and other scholarship

Literature on online learning suggests that many faculty members are reluctant to participate in online learning activities. Concerns raised include faculty concerns that the experiences may be impersonal and that technology will stand in the way of the learning experience. Despite this resistance, students are more likely to endorse online learning strategies, especially because they provide more flexibility in managing complex schedules. Previous research from the Deaf STEM Community Alliance project found that students were positive about their experiences—the opportunity to communicate online enabled students to seek out tutoring that they would not have been able to get otherwise due …

Gluon Quasi-Parton-Distribution Functions From Lattice Qcd, Zhou-You Fan, Yi-Bo Yang, Adam Anthony, Huey-Wen Lin, Keh-Fei Liu

Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications

We present the first attempt to access the x dependence of the gluon unpolarized parton-distribution function (PDF), based on lattice simulations using the large-momentum effective theory approach. The lattice calculation is carried out with pion masses of 340 and 678 MeV on a (2+1)-flavor domain-wall fermion configuration with lattice spacing a = 0.111  fm, for the gluon quasi-PDF matrix element with the nucleon momentum up to 0.93 GeV. Taking the normalization from similar matrix elements in the rest frame of the nucleon and pion, our results for these matrix elements are consistent with the Fourier transform of the global fit …

An Explorational Study Of Educational Leaders' Attitudes, Opinions, Understanding, And Application Of Student Growth Percentile (Sgp) Data, J Lyn Turnell

Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership Dissertations

Student Growth Percentiles have recently become popular as a way to report student progress over time. Because of the perception that they are relatively simple to understand, they have also become a popular tool to use when evaluating teachers and school-based administrators, even though this is not the purpose of their design. Previous studies have examined the impact of student growth measures on teachers who are evaluated annually with a tool that includes a component of student growth. This study builds on the previous work of Clauser, Keller, and McDermott (2016) and Collins (2014). It examines the actions and opinions …

Fellow Of Invention, Beth Potier

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

A Poetics Of Temperance: Gender, Genre, And Meaning-Making In Early Modern England, Cristina Maria Rosell

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

For several hundred years, the scholarly discussion of temperance was dominated by the legacy of classical models. This dissertation, titled A Poetics of Temperance: Gender, Genre, and Meaning-Making in Early Modern England, develops said discussion in a new way by forging a language about ethics and aesthetics into a poetics of temperance. The term poiesis derives from Greek and signifies “to make, create, produce” (OED). Accordingly, Aristotle uses the Greek poietes, “from which our word ‘poet’ derives,” to denote a “maker” (Murray xxxii). In brief, this project understands the role of women in emergent genres as …

Evaluating An Educational Cybersecurity Playable Case Study, Tanner West Johnson

Theses and Dissertations

The realities of cyberattacks have become more and more prevalent in the world today. Due to the growing number of these attacks, the need for highly trained individuals has also increased. Because of a shortage of qualified candidates for these positions, there is an increasing need for cybersecurity education within high schools and universities. In this thesis, I discuss the development and evaluation of Cybermatics, an educational simulation, or playable case study, designed to help students learn and develop skills within the cybersecurity discipline.

This playable case study was designed to allow students to gain an understanding of the field …

Parental Habituation To Human Disturbance Over Time Reduces Fear Of Humans In Coyote Offspring, Christopher J. Schell, Julie K. Young, Elizabeth V. Lonsdorf, Rachel M. Santymire, Jill M. Mateo

Wildland Resources Faculty Publications

A fundamental tenet of maternal effects assumes that maternal variance over time should have discordant consequences for offspring traits across litters. Yet, seldom are parents observed across multiple reproductive bouts, with few studies consider‐ ing anthropogenic disturbances as an ecological driver of maternal effects. We ob‐ served captive coyote (Canis latrans) pairs over two successive litters to determine whether among‐litter differences in behavior (i.e., risk‐taking) and hormones (i.e., cortisol and testosterone) corresponded with parental plasticity in habituation. Thus, we explicitly test the hypothesis that accumulating experiences of anthropogenic disturbance reduces parental fear across reproductive bouts, which should have disparate phenotypic …

Narrative Inquiry Into The Barriers To And Facilitators Of Teacher Implementation And Sustainability Of Arts Integration In An Urban Public School District, Cheryl Mcclendon

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

To improve the overall quality of education within under-performing schools across the United States and, in particular, to improve outcomes for diverse learners, it is imperative to find ways to increase the adoption of evidence-based practices.

This study aims to illuminate the barriers and facilitators that confront teachers in the sustained implementation of arts integration using a scientifically research-based Constructivist methodology. Arts Integration (AI) has been proven to increase students’ literacy, mathematics, and critical thinking skills. For decades, the U.S. Department of Education has funded research studies revealing the efficacy of arts integration. Data, however, indicate a lack of sustained …

Analysis Of Coherence Between Electromyographic (Emg) Signals To Examine Neural Correlations In Muscular Activation During Standing Balance Tasks: A Pilot Study, Anuj Ojha

Masters Projects

The motor coordination of the muscles is controlled by the Central Nervous System (CNS), but the precise neural mechanisms for the CNS coordinating the muscles are not completely understood. The purpose of my study was to find the EMG-EMG coherence in different neural frequency bands to examine the neural correlations during muscle activation. EMG signal was recorded from six different healthy young subjects. The EMG signal with sampling frequency fs=1200 Hz was collected for 30 seconds (t=30 sec) from three different muscles on both legs: - tibialis anterior, medial gastrocnemius and soleus. The data were collected for the following four …

Logarithmic Hennings Invariants For Restricted Quantum Sl (2), Anna Beliakova, Christian Blanchet, Alexandra Tebbs

Mathematics and Statistics Faculty Publications

We construct a Hennings-type logarithmic invariant for restricted quantum sl (2) at a 2p^th root of unity. This quantum group U is not quasitriangular and hence not ribbon, but factorizable. The invariant is defined for a pair: a 3–manifold M and a colored link L inside M. The link L is split into two parts colored by central elements and by trace classes, or elements in the 0^th Hochschild homology of U, respectively. The two main ingredients of our construction are the universal invariant of a string link with values in tensor powers of U, and the modified …

Climatic Niche Of The Saker Falcon Falco Cherrug: Predicted New Areas To Direct Population Surveys In Central Asia, Luke J. Sutton, Robert Puschendorf

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

No abstract provided.

Analysis Of Urdu Language Collection In University Libraries Of Lahore, Pakistan, Iftikhar Hussain Mr., Muhammad Shahzad Chaudhry Dr., Imran Ghaffar Sulehri

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Mother language and national language play pivotal role in the educational developments of the nations. Much importance is being awarded for the promotion of these languages all over the world as well as inPakistan. National languages are considered as official languages in many of the countries. In this regard recently the Government of Pakistan and courts ruled out the implementation of Urdu as official language.

Quantitative research method followed by survey was opted for the completion of this study. Two separate questionnaires were used to get the relevant data from the respondents (Librarians and Students). This study explored library collection …

Citation Analysis Of Ph.D. Theses Submitted To Panjab University, Chandigarh (India) During 2002-2012, Anil Kumar, Preeti Mahajan

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

University libraries are playing an important role to collect and organize the records of knowledge to support teaching and research programmes. Citation analysis is very helpful for Librarian to know researchers literature usage patterns, and helps to analyse the most useful journals to subscribe. In this paper, citation analysis is engaged in studying Ph.D. theses submitted to the Department of Economics, Panjab University Chandigarh, during the period (2002 – 2012) with a view to find out citation practice in the thesis. Citation analysis is a important component of bibliometric studies. The bibliometric studies help to assess research publications and help …

Measuring Research Performance Of Himachal Pradesh Institutions: Using Citation Analysis, Suresh K. Chauhan

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

At higher education front, Himachal Pradesh has been focusing on delivering quality education and research. Currently, the state has over 25 prominent institutions which are dealing with higher education. In this study, an effort is being made to know the research output of the 10 prominent institutions of the state. The data for the period from 2001 to 2015 were extracted from the Scopus. The analysis for assessing the total number of publications, citations, cited rate, an average annual growth rate of publications was derived for an individual institute. The degree of author collaboration for each institute was also assessed. …

Application Of Bradford’S Law Of Scattering On Research Publication In Astronomy & Astrophysics Of India, Satish Kumar, Senthilkumar R.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The present study is focused on examining the application of Bradford’s law of scattering on research articles published in the field of Astronomy & Astrophysics by Indian scientist during 1988-2017. The bibliographic data was retrieved from Web of Science (WoS) bibliographic data base for different period of time. Total 18,877 journal’s article have been published by Indian scientist in the field of Astronomy & Astrophysics during 1988-2017 which was further retrieved and analyzed separately for different blocks of 10 years as well as for 30 years consolidated too. The core journal of the field was identified. The Bradford law of …

Wofford Today Winter 2018, Wofford College. Office Of Marketing And Communications

Wofford Today

No abstract provided.

Results Of Numerical Research Of Discharge Capacity Of A Spillway With A Wide Threshold, D R. Bazarov, M. S. Berdiyev, Z. V. Urazmukhamedova, B. M. Norkulov, U. U. Kurbanova, A. S. Bestuzheva

Irrigation and Melioration

The problem of dramatically changing river flow in the reaches of hydro-technical structures is considered in the paper. The discharge capacity of these structures is determined by the well-known formula of a spillway with a wide threshold based on the Saint-Venant system of equations. It was stated that the Froude number in an undisturbed flow increases at the narrowing of the channel and decreases with its widening, and in a turbulent flow the Froude number decreases with the narrowing of the channel, and increases with its widening. Proceeding from this, the transition of a flow from a calm regime to …

Study Of Dynamic Behavior Of Earth Dams Considering The Dam Base, M. M. Mirsaidov, E. S. Toshmatov, S. M. Takhirov

Irrigation and Melioration

The methods have been developed for solving various dynamic problems for inhomogeneous viscoelastic "structure-base" systems taking into account wave entrainment of energy, i.e. non-reflecting conditions at the boundary of the finite site of the base. The dynamic behavior and the stress-strain state of the inhomogeneous “viscoelastic dam-elastic base” system using wave entrainment of energy through the boundaries of the finite site of the base under short-term intense effect in the base are investigated.

Filtration Study In The Body Of Earth Dam And Its Chemical Effect On Piezometers, A. A. Yangiev, F. A. Gapparov, D. S. Adzhimuratov, P Kovar

Irrigation and Melioration

An aggressiveness assessment of the filtration flow in the body of the dam is important to ensure the stability of water reservoir dam and its sections. The gradients of filtration flow, analysis of the reasons for their change in cross section of the Tashkent reservoir dam is studied in the paper as an example. High gradients in the core (0.75) and their gradual decrease in the body and drainage of the dam (0.55-0.031) are observed. Chemical compound of water in piezometers was analyzed, an aggressive effect of sulfate salts on piezometers, in particular, on their corrosion, was studied. In studies, …

Strain Characteristics Of Soils And The Methods Of Their Determinatio, K. S. Sultanov, P. V. Loginov, Z. R. Salikhova, S. M. Takhirov

Irrigation and Melioration

A method is proposed for determining the strain characteristics of soils under dynamic loads, based on the results of experiments on dynamic compression of soils in laboratory conditions on a device of dynamic loading and for solving a wave problem, the statement of which is identical to the statement of the experiment. With the proposed method, the dynamic and static compression moduli, the unloading modulus, the viscosity coefficient of loess soil in the range of seismic loads were determined in accordance with the elastic-viscoelastic soil model developed by G.M. Lyakhov.

Strength Assessment Of Earth Structures, M. M. Mirsaidov, T. Z. Sultanov, Isaya Kisekka, Zh. A. Yarashov

Irrigation and Melioration

A review of theories and methods for assessing the strength of earth structures is given in the paper. A number of criteria is proposed that makes it possible to reliably assess the strength of earth structures. The strength of the Gissarak dam under the influence of mass forces is estimated taking into account inhomogeneous features of the structure, the strength of the Nurek dam near the resonance regimes is assessed considering for viscoelastic properties of soil and inhomogeneous structural features under various dynamic impacts.

Study Of Dynamic Behavior Of Earth Dams Considering The Dam Base, M. M. Mirsaidov, E. S. Toshmatov, S. M. Takhirov

Irrigation and Melioration

The methods have been developed for solving various dynamic problems for inhomogeneous viscoelastic "structure-base" systems taking into account wave entrainment of energy, i.e. non-reflecting conditions at the boundary of the finite site of the base. The dynamic behavior and the stress-strain state of the inhomogeneous “viscoelastic dam-elastic base” system using wave entrainment of energy through the boundaries of the finite site of the base under short-term intense effect in the base are investigated.

Filtration Study In The Body Of Earth Dam And Its Chemical Effect On Piezometers, A. A. Yangiev, F. A. Gapparov, D. S. Adzhimuratov, P Kovar

Irrigation and Melioration

An aggressiveness assessment of the filtration flow in the body of the dam is important to ensure the stability of water reservoir dam and its sections. The gradients of filtration flow, analysis of the reasons for their change in cross section of the Tashkent reservoir dam is studied in the paper as an example. High gradients in the core (0.75) and their gradual decrease in the body and drainage of the dam (0.55-0.031) are observed. Chemical compound of water in piezometers was analyzed, an aggressive effect of sulfate salts on piezometers, in particular, on their corrosion, was studied. In studies, …

Results Of Numerical Research Of Discharge Capacity Of A Spillway With A Wide Threshold, D R. Bazarov, M. S. Berdiyev, Z. V. Urazmukhamedova, B. M. Norkulov, U. U. Kurbanova, A. S. Bestuzheva

Irrigation and Melioration

The problem of dramatically changing river flow in the reaches of hydro-technical structures is considered in the paper. The discharge capacity of these structures is determined by the well-known formula of a spillway with a wide threshold based on the Saint-Venant system of equations. It was stated that the Froude number in an undisturbed flow increases at the narrowing of the channel and decreases with its widening, and in a turbulent flow the Froude number decreases with the narrowing of the channel, and increases with its widening. Proceeding from this, the transition of a flow from a calm regime to …

Strain Characteristics Of Soils And The Methods Of Their Determinatio, K. S. Sultanov, P. V. Loginov, Z. R. Salikhova, S. M. Takhirov

Irrigation and Melioration

A method is proposed for determining the strain characteristics of soils under dynamic loads, based on the results of experiments on dynamic compression of soils in laboratory conditions on a device of dynamic loading and for solving a wave problem, the statement of which is identical to the statement of the experiment. With the proposed method, the dynamic and static compression moduli, the unloading modulus, the viscosity coefficient of loess soil in the range of seismic loads were determined in accordance with the elastic-viscoelastic soil model developed by G.M. Lyakhov.

Strength Assessment Of Earth Structures, M. M. Mirsaidov, T. Z. Sultanov, Isaya Kisekka, Zh. A. Yarashov

Irrigation and Melioration

A review of theories and methods for assessing the strength of earth structures is given in the paper. A number of criteria is proposed that makes it possible to reliably assess the strength of earth structures. The strength of the Gissarak dam under the influence of mass forces is estimated taking into account inhomogeneous features of the structure, the strength of the Nurek dam near the resonance regimes is assessed considering for viscoelastic properties of soil and inhomogeneous structural features under various dynamic impacts.

A Proficient Two-Stage Stratified Randomized Response Strategy, Tanveer A. Tarray, Housila P. Singh

Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods

A stratified randomized response model based on R. Singh, Singh, Mangat, and Tracy (1995) improved two-stage randomized response strategy is proposed. It has an optimal allocation and large gain in precision. Conditions are obtained under which the proposed model is more efficient than R. Singh et al. (1995) and H. P. Singh and Tarray (2015) models. Numerical illustrations are also given in support of the present study.

Don Cole Retires After Storied History At Ole Miss, Benita Whitehorn

University of Mississippi News

Longtime mathematics professor, administrator credited with leaving lasting legacy at UM

On The Apparent Absence Of Wolf–Rayet+Neutron Star Systems: The Curious Case Of Wr124, Jesus A. Toala, Lidi Oskinova, W.R. Hamann, Richard Ignace, A.A. C. Sander, H. Todt, Y.H. Chu, M. A. Guerrero, R. Hainich, R. Hainich, J. M. Terrejon

ETSU Faculty Works

Among the different types of massive stars in advanced evolutionary stages is the enigmatic WN8h type. There are only a few Wolf–Rayet (WR) stars with this spectral type in our Galaxy. It has long been suggested that WN8h-type stars are the products of binary evolution that may harbor neutron stars (NS). One of the most intriguing WN8h stars is the runaway WR 124 surrounded by its magnificent nebula M1-67. We test the presence of an accreting NS companion in WR 124 using ~100 ks long observations by the Chandra X-ray observatory. The hard X-ray emission from WR 124 with a …

Open Source Foundations For Spatial Decision Support Systems, Jochen Albrecht

Publications and Research

Spatial Decision Support Systems (SDSS) were a hot topic in the 1990s, when researchers tried to imbue GIS with additional decision support features. Successful practical developments such as HAZUS or CommunityViz have since been built, based on commercial desktop software and without much heed for theory other than what underlies their process models. Others, like UrbanSim, have been completely overhauled twice but without much external scrutiny. Both the practical and the theoretical foundations of decision support systems have developed considerably over the past 20 years. This article presents an overview of these developments and then looks at what corresponding tools …