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Media Guide And Strategic Plan, Ella Greer

Master of Arts in Professional Writing Capstones

An MAPW candidate composes a strategic plan and media guide for a local government office.

November 26, 2018, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

Estimating Actual Evapotranspiration From Stony-Soils In Montane Ecosystems, Kshitij Parajuli, Scott B. Jones, David G. Tarboton, Gerald N. Flerchinger, Lawrence E. Hipps, L. Niel Allen, Mark S. Seyfried

Plants, Soils, and Climate Faculty Publications

Quantification of evapotranspiration (ET) is crucial for understanding the water balance and for efficient water resources planning. Agricultural settings have received most attention regarding ET measurements while less knowledge is available for actual ET (ET_A) in natural ecosystems, many of which have soils containing significant amounts of stones. This study is focused on modelling ET_A from stony soil, particularly in montane ecosystems where we estimate the contribution of stone content on water retention properties in soil. We employed a numerical model (HYDRUS-1D) to simulate ET_A in natural settings in northern Utah and southern Idaho during the …

Testing The Measurement Invariance And Latent Mean Differences Of Data From The Employee Perceptions Of Supervisor/Line Manager Coaching Behavior Measure Between Virtual And Traditional Employees From Generation X And Y, Bryn Hammack-Brown

Human Resource Development Theses and Dissertations

Currently, the workforce is comprised of multiple generations, of which Generation X and Y are the largest, working in a variety of arrangements. These include working from home, satellite centers, on the road, collaboration offices, and brick and mortar locations. As information and communication technology advances, more opportunities for individuals to supplement or change their working environments are available. Along with these different modes of work comes occasions and challenges for managers to demonstrate coaching behaviors toward employees who work alongside them on an on-going basis, and simultaneously to those who are removed from the face-to-face interactions and instead rely …

The George-Anne Daily, Georgia Southern University

George-Anne Media Group: Newsletters & Magazines

No abstract provided.

Investigating The Effects Of Popularity On Comment Civility: A Youtube Case Study, Isaac Smith

Honors Theses

This study will explore the connection between the civility of internet comments and their popularity- through the example of two YouTube videos. By using a combination of manual review and computer analysis, to help readers discover if video popularity has a negative effect on comment civility. Findings also examined correlations between factors that indicate civility, while also including examples of notable and intriguing comments found during this study.

The Role Of Epistemic Beliefs About Authority And Source Presence On Multiple Text Comprehension, Erica Kessler

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

The current research examined the role of epistemic beliefs about authority as well as source presence influence multiple text comprehension. Our sample was insensitive to our manipulation of source information availability (no source information, source information, embedded source information), however, several interesting relationships between the individual differences and measures of multiple text comprehension were observed. Prior knowledge was positively related to accurate essay information as well as source mentions in essays and rank-order justifications. In addition, justification by authority beliefs emerged as a positive predictor of source mentions in essays. Misconceptions about vaccines emerged a negative predictor of inclusion of …

Parallel Adaptive Collapsed Gibbs Sampling, Craig Nathan Kelly

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Rao-Blackwellisation is a technique that provably improves the performance of Gibbs sampling by summing-out variables from the PGM. However, collapsing variables is computationally expensive, since it changes the PGM structure introducing factors whose size is dependent upon the Markov blanket of the variable. Therefore, collapsing out several variables jointly is typically intractable in arbitrary PGM structures. This thesis proposes an adaptive approach for Rao-Blackwellisation, where additional parallel Markov chains are defined over different collapsed PGM structures. The collapsed variables are chosen based on their convergence diagnostics. Adding chains requires re-burn-in the chain, thus wasting samples. To address this, new chains …

Development And Impact Of A Stem Educational Outreach Program For K-12 Students, Holland Maye Aguayo

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Studies show that K-12 students struggle more with math and science courses than other topics, which can deter K-12 students from pursuing opportunities in these fields. This leads to a shortage of STEM workers while job opportunities in STEM continue to grow at a faster pace than others. The STEM Ambassador program is designed to increase K-12 students’ interest in and preparation for STEM opportunities through employing undergraduate students as mentors, STEM activity leaders and tutors in K-12 schools. Impact of the program was assessed by analysis of K-12 student test score data and survey data from K-12 students, K-12 …

Your Journalism Is Transparent, But Is It Complete? Examining Objectivity's Successors, Alvie Proctor Hackle

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Critics have assailed objectivity as a guiding principle of journalists for more than half a century, dismissing its practices as defensive routines or strategic rituals. This study compares transparency, often touted as a new ethical framework for news media, and substantial completeness, a truth-telling strategy that has received less attention, to gauge whether substantial completeness could more adequately replace objectivity as journalism's core principle. A survey emailed to journalists nationwide drew 70 responses and confirmed the hypothesis that a majority of American newspaper and newspaper website journalists view substantial completeness as an ethical obligation when it is described as a …

Street Art And Museums: Their Similarities Applied, Samira Rahbe

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Street art and museums are posited as antithetical to one another. The former is essentially vandalism-as-art while the latter is the gatekeeper of culture. Although street art actively contests authority through its illegal existence in public, that does not prevent it from exisiting inside museums. This literal incorporation is explored briefly by way of the exhibition Banksy versus the Bristol Museum (2009), but it is not the primary concern of this thesis. Instead, the focus is how street art and museums operate from a similar goal of social justice apparent through their efforts to engage communities, increase accessibility, and nourish …

Trēfolio: Protecting Trees Through Emotional Connections And Greater Awareness, Surudhakeerthi Sivakumar

Theses

Trees are being burned, degraded, and logged at astonishing rates. 80% of the world’s forests are already destroyed. It is estimated that within 100 years there will be no rainforests left. Urbanization, Mining, Fires, Logging, and Agricultural activities are all to blame for this destruction (Vidal 2017).

The first step in solving this problem is to raise awareness. Each tree is unique, and every tree has an interesting story to tell. When people realize this and start building a personal connection with the trees around them, they will naturally develop a protective instinct towards the trees they like. The goal …

The Rider (2018-11-26), Victor G. Ramirez

The Rider Archives

Vol.4 No.13

Is Lilongwe Technical College Ready To Manage An Electronic Library?, Symon C Lubanga

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

E-library is a relatively new concept in technical colleges in Malawi. Over the past three decades, Technical College libraries have been traditional in nature despite the world of information and communication is going through a period of supreme and accelerating transformations. To stay abreast with the latest changes in technologies, the Malawi’s technical educational institutes have now started adopting agile services such as e-libraries to utilize on the internet technology to provide a variety of information resources and services to the scholarly community. The e-library initiative at Lilongwe Technical College was championed by African Development Bank (AfDB) under Higher Education …

Patient And Public Involvement In The Design, Administration And Evaluation Of Patient Feedback Tools, An Example In Psychiatry: A Systematic Review And Critical Interpretative Synthesis., Rebecca Baines, John Donovan, De Bere S Regan, Julian Archer, Ray Jones

Peninsula Medical School

No abstract provided.

Empowering The Oppressed: Factors Related To The Advanced Education Of Nurses, Mary Helen Durland, Ehrin Irvin, Rebecca Brown, Kristy Henegar, Diana Morrison, David Alex Snyder, Kate Rocklein Kemplin

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

There are many factors that influence a registered nurse's decision to return to school once in the workforce. Our study examines the roles of institutions, culture of nursing, and nurses' intrinsic factors in the motivation to pursue further education in nursing.

Medical School Watercooler Newsletter - November 25, 2018, Lindsey Lyle

Watercooler Newsletter

This is the November 25, 2018 edition of the Frederick P. Whiddon College of Medicine's newsletter - Watercooler.

Contents Include:

• Dr. Glen Borchert Joins USA College of Medicine Faculty
• Mark Your Calendar: Pediatric Grand Rounds Dec. 21
• USA Physicians Group to Recognize Outstanding Employees
• USA Medical Students Take First Place in APPA Poster Contest

Respect The Non Intervention, Disrespect The Humanity, Uum Humairoh

Journal of Islamic Law Studies

The non-intervention means that the equal sovereign states shall not intervene in each other’s internal affairs. The non-intervention would be regarded as an equivalent of non-intervention. The countries have obligation to obey this term to avoid other country’s intervention. Sometimes, it brings positive impact to the country, meaning that the country can stand alone to handle any issues, internal or external.

However, as the time goes by, this issue of non-intervention has become debatable. ASEAN, regional organization in South East Asian, has used this term as basic prin- ciple to run the organizational function. ASEAN cannot be involved in the …

Making The Best Out Of The Worst: Utilizing Indonesia’S Existing Laws To Protect Asylum Seekers In Transit, Tanita Dhiyaan Rahmani

Journal of Islamic Law Studies

Being a party in the 1951 Convention on the Status Relating to Refugees and its 1967 Protocol is not an exclusive solution to legal protection of asylum seekers and refugees in Indonesia. Although the Government of Indonesia has not ratified both instruments, it has acknowledge the protection of asylum seekers and refugees under the People Consultative Assembly (MPR) Decree Number XVII Year 1998 and Law Number 37 year 1999 regarding Foreign Relations. A 2016 United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees reported that Indonesia has become a transit destination for more than 13,000 asylum seekers and refugees, including nearly 1,000 Rohing- …

Scaling Up Humanitarian Agenda Within Communal Violence In Myanmar, Mega Ayu Lestari

Journal of Islamic Law Studies

Following the historical origins, social triggers, and ethics about their status of citizenship, theRohingya should be treated properly as human-being. Even there are contradictions between the Burma Citizenship Law who did not admit them as an ethnic group of Myanmar, and Rohingya leaders who claimed as the descendants of the precolonial Muslim community of Rakhine State, it could not allow discrimination, confiscation of land, violence, and any other forms of injustice against the Rohingya. Hence, this paper would like to explain how they can be recognized in achieving their rights and reshaping the importance of humanitarian agenda, in which these …

Building Peaceful Coexistence Between Rohingya Refugees And Buffer Com- Munities In Langsa City And East Aceh, Yulia Rina Wijaya

Journal of Islamic Law Studies

The arrival of Rohingya refugees in East Aceh in 2015 is different, in terms of num- ber and people’s response. From the first week to the beginning of the third month, aids flow in daily, piling up at government warehouses. So many people from the Langsa City and neighbouring areas come to see the refugees or offer helps. Sponta- neous social solidarity is evident out of collective memories of Tsunami disaster and spiritual connection. Impact of Rohingya refugees presence that receive humanitari- an aid from many local, national and international organizations which put refugees too special and full of aid …

Orientation Of Zakat As Humanitarian Assistance To Rohingya Refugees In Indonesia, Nur Mohamad Kasim, Mellisa Towadi

Journal of Islamic Law Studies

The aim of this writing, reviewing the existence of Zakat as humanitarian assistance can be allocated for the Rohingya refugees who are in Indonesia. Given zakat is of national income devoted to indigenous citizens. This writing is normative, is the principal legal study is conceived as norms or rules which apply, both Islamic Law and International Law. Moreover, the authors did a qualitative approach through the study of Islamic law and supported the chart data on Zakat nationally and internationally. In the conclusion showed, firstly, the Rohingya refugees stranded in Indonesia must be given humanitarian aid as well as …

Aesthetics Of Translocality And Crossmediality In Isaac Julien's Ten Thousand Waves, Yingjin Zhang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

This article examines translocality and crossmediality as new developments in cinema and visual studies. Isaac Julien's 9-screen video installation Ten Thousand Waves (2010) represents a migratory aesthetics based on translocal evocation, crossmedial interaction, and mobile spectatorship. As Julien reconstructs the legend of Mazu and memories of Shanghai in radically different modes (e. g., the idyllic versus the phantasmagoric, the nostalgic versus the post-nostalgic), their screen images and sounds enter a constant circulation and produce intriguing multi-directional, multi-spatial, and multi-temporal dissonance/resonances across different media and genres — cinema, art photography, video installation, police rescue footage, calligraphy, poetry, painting, and star performance. …

The Challenge Of A Definition For Spirituality With A “Four Domains” Model, Harold Ristau

Consensus

No abstract provided.

G-A Gameday Newsletters- Post Game, Georgia Southern University

George-Anne Media Group: Newsletters & Magazines

No abstract provided.

Food Safety Knowledge And Practices Among Saudi Mothers, Wafa O. Ayaz, Anushree Priyadarshini, Amit Jaiswal

Articles

This study examines food safety knowledge and practices of mothers in Saudi Arabia. A total of 979 respondents participated in the study and completed a questionnaire that accessed their knowledge of food storage, food handling, usage and maintenance of kitchen facilities, personal hygiene and food poisoning. Results showed that mothers in Saudi Arabia had moderate knowledge of food storage (passing rate 64.9%) and usage and maintenance of kitchen facilities (passing rate 66.5%). While they had good knowledge of personal hygiene (passing rate 83.8%) and food poisoning (passing rate 78.5%), their knowledge with regard to food handling was poor (passing rate …

Decreasing Phosphatidylcholine On The Surface Of The Lipid Droplet Correlates With Altered Protein Binding And Steatosis, Laura Listenberger, Elizabeth Townsend, Cassandra Rickertsen, Anastasia Hains, Elizabeth Brown, Emily G. Inwards, Angela K. Stoeckman

Chemistry Faculty Publications

Alcoholic fatty liver disease (AFLD) is characterized by an abnormal accumulation of lipid droplets (LDs) in the liver. Here, we explore the composition of hepatic LDs in a rat model of AFLD. Five to seven weeks of alcohol consumption led to significant increases in hepatic triglyceride mass, along with increases in LD number and size. Additionally, hepatic LDs from rats with early alcoholic liver injury show a decreased ratio of surface phosphatidylcholine (PC) to phosphatidylethanolamine (PE). This occurred in parallel with an increase in the LD association of perilipin 2, a prominent LD protein. To determine if changes to the …

Mckenzie, Ellen, Caroline Wheeler, Marwa Ibrahim

Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection

This interview features Ellen McKenzie, an African-American lesbian woman living in Portland, Maine. Having lived in Portland for almost her entire life, Ellen can provide insight on growing up in one of the only black families in her community, the intersections between race and sexuality, co-parenting children from a spouse’s previous marriage and generally navigating the world and her career as a queer woman of color. Throughout this interview, we hear a lot about her childhood and her family’s history as civil rights activists in Maine, her relationship with her spouse and and co-parenting their children with both her spouse, …

Blended Teaching Competency Assessment, Emily Pulham

Instructional Psychology and Technology Graduate Student Projects

This report details the process of developing a competency assessment for K-12 blended teaching competence in four areas: technology-mediated interactions, personalization, blending online and in-person learning, and real time data practices. It was pilot tested with a group of students in a blended and online teaching course.

G-A Gameday Newsletters- Pre Game, Georgia Southern University

George-Anne Media Group: Newsletters & Magazines

No abstract provided.