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Examining The Effects Of Behavioral Skills Training On Movement Patterns In Youth Female Soccer Athletes, Marrissa Harris

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

In certain sports, the ability of an athlete to change direction while sprinting is considered a vital skill required to be successful. Soccer is one of those sports and because of that learning to properly execute change of direction movements become very important. Statistics show a growing increase in youth female participation in soccer and as a result, injuries within this population has also increased. Because female athletes are at a greater risk for ACL injuries than males, coaches have acknowledged the need for proper training that will assist female athletes in executing skills safely. Current training programs for ACL …

Professional Identity, Commitment, And Intent To Persist: The Facilitative Role Of Mindfulness For Pre-Service Teachers, Sean Holden

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Researchers have long observed issues with teacher retention, particularly early in ones career (Ingersoll, 2003; Gray & Taie, 2015). In order to address this issue, many researchers have investigated retention by exploring the development of ones perceptions and beliefs about the profession. Encompassing this trend, interest has been placed on teachers professional identity, a comprehensive construct acknowledging the influence of personal factors and internalized external experience (Schaefer et al., 2014). Based in this perspective, Hong (2010) proposed that ones beliefs about teaching and perceptions of self-efficacy, value, empowerment, burnout, and commitment are particularly salient in the decision to remain in …

Examining Cerebellar Modulation Of Mesolimbic Dopamine Transmission Using Fixed Potential Amperometry, Zade Ramses Holloway

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Elucidating how dopamine neurons operate regularly in aspects of neurochemical release and in pathological systems is essential for understanding their role in behavior, drug treatment, and disease. Fixed-potential amperometry (FPA) combined with carbon fiber microelectrodes has proven to be effective at probing these dynamic microsystems and precisely describing the regulatory mechanisms that govern dopamine neurotransmission. To date, we have utilized FPA to: a) observe and quantify differences in the neurochemical profile of phasic dopamine release in major dopaminergic afferents including the striatum, nucleus accumbens (NAc), amygdala, and prefrontal cortex through stimulation of the medial forebrain bundle (MFB), b) provide evidence …

Graduate Survey, 2017-2018, Hart Career Center, Illinois Wesleyan University

First Destination Survey

No abstract provided.

Biomarkers To Localize Seizure From Electrocorticography To Neurons Level, Bahareh Elahian

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Epilepsy—a disorder that is far more common than is widely realized—results in high morbidity and even mortality. It is defined semiologically in part, but it is a disorder caused by the disturbed synchronization of natural brain oscillations. The current standard treatment is implanting intracranial electrodes that are continuously connected to an acquisition system while the patient waits in an Epilepsy Monitoring Unit (EMU) until the patient has a seizure. Given enough seizures, this information can be taken to the operating room. Then, the electrodes, which had shown pathologic activity, are marked and surgical resection of the determined pathologic …

Avoidance Of English Phrasal Verbs Among Saudi Esl Students, Abdullah Saleh Alshayban

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Students of English as a second language (ESL) are often perplexed by English phrasal verbs (PVs) and must seek aid to understand the meanings of such phrases. Understanding an independent verb is simple, but the meaning of a verb can change depending on the context in which it is used as well as its object(s). In other words, since PVs using the same verb or particle do not correspond semantically, many English learners struggle with understanding some sentences. For example, when a preposition (as a particle) is used with a verb to form a PV, the meaning of the sentence …

An Analysis Of The Relationship Between Educators Self-Assessed Efficacy For Multi-Tiered Instruction And Their Perceptions Of The Climate For School Leadership, Greg Barclay

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Response to Intervention (RTI) was mandated in the state of Tennessee in 2013. Since that time, it has progressed into all school in the state. However, since its undertaking in Tennessee schools, teachers report that they do not believe they possess the ability to effectively implement RTI. Therefore, it is worthy of determining if school leaders implement practices to enhance teachers ability to successfully implement RTI, which will ultimately enhance their self-efficacy.In order to determine teacher self-efficacy for RTI and discern if any leadership characteristics impact teacher self-efficacy for RTI, a combination of the Response to Intervention Self-Efficacy Scale II …

Longitudinal Examination Of Forms Of Childrens Antipathetic Relationships And Peer Social Competence: An Autoregressive Cross-Lagged Panel Analysis, Sarah Elaine Barnes

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

The present research (N = 121) examined a) the stability of previously established, empirically derived profiles of forms of childrens dislike relationships (i.e., unilateral-received dislike, unilateral-given dislike, mutual dislike) at two time points (one academic year apart) and, b) the reciprocal, cross-lagged relations between these antipathetic profiles and a number of peer social competence measures (i.e., loneliness, peer optimism, self-perceived social competence, mutual friends, sociability nominations, and popularity nominations). The three profiles included a High Disliked profile (characterized by high unilateral-received and mutual dislike nominations), an Average Dislike profile (characterized by average dislike nominations across all indicators), and a High …

The Voices Of Low-Income African American Single Mothers As Potential Agents For Change: Education For Transformative Learning, Heather Bonds

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

AbstractMany African American single mothers have embarked on an academic journey, which oftentimes symbolizes the desire of these mothers to fight against structural and personal forces that have prevented them from achieving life goals, one of which is moving beyond poverty. Despite their efforts, this population continues to encounter barriers to access, retention, and completion of their educational endeavors. There is much literature documenting public and political discourse surrounding poverty policy and the dominant imagery created by this discourse that influence policy decisions. However, is this discourse taking space from individuals who most need to talk? Historically, this is a …

James Baldwin On The Question Of The Identities Of Americans And The Black Muslim Movement, Minzhao Liu

Outstanding Gateway Papers

One of the tactics the director Raoul Peck employed to make the I Am Not Your Negro documentary so powerful is the juxtaposition of violence against the black population in the 1960s and the brutalities taking place right now. He reveals on a more profound level the wretchedness of the current racial situation and the lack of real change. Peck’s film is built on James Baldwin’s unfinished manuscript Remember This House. Baldwin’s treatment of the racial issue is uniquely interrogative, demanding a clear picture of the reality of both the environment and individuals’ identities. This principle of digging for …

Danish Creativity And Resilience In The Face Of Adversity, Delane Ingalls Vanada

The Bridge

Danish people are known for being innovative thinkers. They are independent, willing to take risks, able to stand up for their thoughts and beliefs, daring enough to commit themselves without fear of failure, and deeply trusting of each other. They are hardworking, flexible, and intellectual (Nordic Reach 2008). This is the stuff of creativity and the dispositions that support it, according to current research on the psychology of creativity (Piirto 2001). As the granddaughter of Jens Peder Jensen, a Danish immigrant who homesteaded in South Dakota in 1907, my life was shaped by the influence of our close family in …

The Effects Of Child Literacy And Self-Control On School Readiness Based On Teacher Report, Alyssa Ribeiro

Open Access Master's Theses

School readiness has been identified as one of the major determinants of an individual’s later academic success (Cappelloni, 2011; Kim, 2008; Lunenburg, 2011). School readiness encapsulates academic readiness and socio-emotional development, and is impacted not only by the child, but also by the child’s family, the early environment, the school, and the community (Cavanaugh, Lippitt, & Moyo, 2000; Huffman, Mehlinger, & Kerivan, 2000; Maxwell & Clifford, 2004; National Research Council and Institute of Medicine, 2000; Peth-Pierce, 2000; Raver, 2002).

Despite a plethora of studies in school readiness, there has been a lack of examination of school readiness through the lens …

Saudi Arabian Fashion E-Shopping: Effects Of Social Media, Perceived Risks And Innovation Attributes, Alla Abood

Open Access Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Finding The Words: The Impact Of Voca On Language Acquisition, Sarah Aldrich

Open Access Master's Theses

The current study researches the impact of voice output communication aids (VOCA) on the language acquisition of toddlers and school-aged children with developmental disabilities. There are a wide variety of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) devices available to nonverbal individuals, making the decision of parents, teachers, and speech pathologists of which to use and implement a substantial task, one that needs the guidance of research based evidence. SPSS software was used to conduct a series of analyses with secondary data from Nancy Brady’s study Language Development of Non-verbal Children Age 3 Years through 7 Years, 2007 to 2012, looking specifically …

A Statistical Analysis Of Students’ Attitudes And Achievement In Introductory Statistics Courses, Kaitlin M. Dio

Open Access Master's Theses

The Millennial Generation has been phasing out of undergraduate classrooms since 2013 and is being replaced by the technologically savvy and visual learners of Generation Z. To help to increase our understanding of the learning needs and attitudes of this new population of students, a two-fold data collection design has been implemented in undergraduate statistics classes at the University of Rhode Island. In the first round of data collection during the spring 2016 semester, survey and grade data was collected from an introductory biostatistics class pertaining to 146 students. Results from the analysis including the use of longitudinal generalized linear …

Sentiment Features For Yelp Not-Recommended Online Reviews Study, Na Li

Open Access Master's Theses

Nowadays, online reviews have become an important source of opinions that people refer to while making decisions. For instance, there are more and more people who refer to Yelp reviews to judge the quality of services that are provided by local businesses. Due to the popularity and guidance of online reviews, many reviews have been imposed for the purpose of either promoting or downgrading target services. Yelp develops its own automatic review recommendation algorithm, which has marked many suspicious reviews as Not-recommended Reviews. Yelp has automatically grouped its online reviews in two different categories, and it is a common …

Evaluating The Effects Of Attitudes On Health-Seeking Behavior Among A Network Of People Who Inject Drugs, Ayako Miura

Open Access Master's Theses

The transmission of HIV/AIDS remains a great concern among people who inject drugs (PWIDs) in the United States. PWIDs are often embedded in a unique HIV/AIDS risk network via the shared use of drug equipment and risky sexual behavior. However, the characteristics of PWIDs in risk networks present challenges in a collection of network data resulting in limited studies of these networks of PWIDs. Our study employed causal inference methods applied to an observational study with dissemination to assess attitudes toward HIV/AIDS risk among PWIDs and their effect on health-seeking behaviors.

We used data from the Social Factors and HIV …

The Equity And Inclusion Of Underrepresented Populations In Ap Computer Science Principles, Michael Conti

Open Access Master's Theses

Advanced placement exams in Computer Science have been identified as having one of the largest disparities in student gender, race, and ethnicity across all College Board advance placement courses. Historically, the demographic compositions of advance placement exams AP Computer Science A and AP Computer Science AB have primarily consisted of White males. For the 2016-2017 academic year, College Board administered the first AP Computer Science Principles exam with the goal to increase diversity in computer science and appeal to marginalized populations that are often underrepresented in computing. This research provides a comprehensive analysis of the equity and inclusion of the …

Behavior Of Frp Pedestrian Bridges Under Human Induced Excitation, Laura Schmidt

Open Access Master's Theses

The prediction of the dynamic response of pedestrian bridges under human-induced excitation is a challenge in the design of pedestrian bridges, caused by the wide range of variables and the complex interaction effects. The use of new, lightweight materials, like FRP, and the trend to design long span and slender constructions lead to structures more sensitive to dynamical impact, which caused some vibrational problems at newly built bridges in the recent past. This brought increased attention to this topic.

The present thesis aims to analyze the dynamic properties of the new material fiber reinforced polymer (FRP), to estimate the changes …

Exploration Of Classifying Sentence Bias In News Articles With Machine Learning Models, Martha Bellows

Open Access Master's Theses

Sentiment analysis within the Natural Language Processing (NLP) field is an active area of research that attempts to classify pieces of text in terms of the opinions expressed. A sub-specialization in this area focuses on classifying or identifying biased text and is growing more important in the era of “fake news.” There are many methods used across researchers so it can be difficult to find a entry point into the field. Not only are there different machine learning methods applied, text embedding techniques have grown in recent years making it difficult to determine the correct avenue to use in research. …

Attitudes And Behavior For Sustainable Team Performance, Md. Hasan Shahriar Simanto

Open Access Master's Theses

As climate change in conjunction with the fourth wave of industrialization necessitates the world to move toward a sustainable future, research needs to focus on the intertwined connection between team work and sustainability. Currently, it is unknown whether teams that are successful at accomplishing sustainability-related tasks have different team composition than the teams who are not. This research explored the composition of teams performing sustainability-related tasks in regard to the individuals’ pro-environmental attitude, individuals’ self-reported pro-environmental behavior, individuals’ pro-environmental identity and team cohesion. Data was collected on real-world teams at the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon, which is a …

Grungewave: The Authenticity Of Neo-Tribes, Elizabeth Beasley

Open Access Master's Theses

Neo-tribes are characterized by fragmented identities, noncommittal membership, fascination with style and image, and social connections between members. They are often confused with subcultures due to sharing characteristics with subcultures. This has resulted in the authenticity of neo-tribes to be questioned. The confusion between neo-tribes and subcultures could be from the lack of detailed study on the use of apparel and style in neo-tribe identity. Previous studies on neo-tribes have incorporated the visual of apparel and style, however; these studies do not focus on the logistics of identity creation and authenticity through apparel and style of its members.

This study …

Perspectives From Select Women Working In Alaskan Commercial Fisheries, Berenice Yang Gonzalez

Open Access Master's Theses

Women have a long history of being actively involved in fisheries worldwide. Despite this fact, the popular image of fishers still assumes a male identity. An understudied yet important factor is women’s involvement in the commercial fishing beyond the family unit. This research was exploratory in scope, taking a thematic analysis approach, which allowed for the identification of patterns and themes within the qualitative data. Through eighteen interviews with women who have experience working in various sectors and segments of the Alaskan commercial fisheries, this thesis identifies: some of the women’s roles; the unique challenges that women face to break …

The Study Of Multicultural Students Perception Of Professors’ Nonverbal Behavior In The Classroom, Jacqueline Britto

Open Access Master's Theses

This study examined Nonverbal communication which consists of construction of meaning via non-word codes that are comprised of various forms such as intrinsic, iconic, and arbitrary. Intercultural communication occurs when there is communication within cultures. When considering environment, culture can have an influence. However, culture is not principally geographical, political, or racial. Culture is behaviors, perceptions and values that are learned and passed on from one group to another. Higher education is essential when it comes to producing economic growth and stability. In the US, the multicultural student population in higher education has been challenged with student affective learning and …

Photography And Mourning: Excavating Memories Of My Great-Grandmother, Eva Weiner

Scripps Senior Theses

This paper explores how photographs have affected mourning processes in the past and how photo-technology may be able to change the way in which we mourn in the future. It includes an overview of the history of post-mortem photography and discusses the perspectives of well-known media theorists such as Roland Barthes and Susan Sontag. It engages with psychologists by including their perspectives on the effect that photographs have on the mourning process. A project was created to investigate how photo-technology can affect the bereaved. The project places photographs of a mother into pictures of her children taken after she had …

Why Weight? Zines As Effective Health Communication Tools Against Fat Phobia, Evelyn Gonzalez

Scripps Senior Theses

The current models for health care hold at their core a pathologization of fat bodies informed by discriminatory methods and ideologies leading to an explicit lack of quality medical care for those who fail to meet normative standards of health and size. This project is interested in examining alternative public health models that provide interventions into those systems. Specifically, this work will seek to understand how the grassroots movement, Health at Every Size (HAES), serves to interrupt current limited understandings of health and weight. HAES individualized, weight-neutral approach to health and wellness exists in seeming opposition to contemporary ideas around …

Men's Receptivity To Mental Health Help Seeking Intervention Messages: The Effects Of Message Sender Gender And Message Content, Faye Lafond

Scripps Senior Theses

Men are much less likely to seek out mental health care services than women, despite having equally significant mental health related needs. The purpose of this study was to explore the impact of the construction and delivery of intervention messages designed to encourage men to seek help for mental health concerns. 225 men in the United States were randomly assigned to one of 4 vignette conditions featuring a pro-mental health help seeking message, varying based on the gender of the sender of the message (male vs. female) and based on the inclusion of information concerning misconceptions about therapy (inclusion vs. …

"This Sacred Land Is Our Shield": Deploying The Sacred In Indigenous Art And Activism, Charlotte Jones

Scripps Senior Theses

My art historical and sociological thesis will take Cheyenne-Arapaho artist Edgar Heap of Birds’ Defend Sacred Mountains print series as the point of departure for examining the interventions of Native artists and grassroots activists in their decolonizing campaigns. Heap of Birds’ exhibition of sixty-four mono-prints, to be exhibited at Pitzer College Art Galleries in January 2018, calls attention to the ongoing injustices committed against four indigenous sacred sites across the United States: Bear Butte, South Dakota; Bear’s Lodge, Wyoming; San Francisco Peaks, Arizona; and Mauna Kea, Hawaii. Heap of Birds’ monoprints address and allude to indigenous struggles to undermine insensitive …

Analysis Of Newspaper Coverage Of Offshore Wind Energy In The United States, Christine Gilbert

Open Access Master's Theses

The Block Island Wind Farm (BIWF) is the first operational offshore wind farm in the United States. Two different theoretical frameworks are applied in an attempt to understand the nature of media coverage about offshore wind energy in the United States. Chapter 1 utilizes gatekeeping theory (Shoemaker & Vos, 2009) in comparing the local and regional newspaper coverage of the BIWF. Specifically, chapter 1 is focused on understanding the use of sources. The data from chapter 1 suggests that the gatekeeping processes at regional and local outlets are more similar than different, but business sources are more dominant than has …

Living With No: Political Polarization And Transformative Dialogue, Erik Cleven, Robert A. Baruch Bush, Judith A. Saul

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

We argue that dispute resolution processes should not be seen as a substitute for the political process, but rather a complement that can help strengthen it. Based on this view, and on the authors’ experience with dialogue work in the former Yugoslavia, as well as in urban and rural settings in the United States, we argue that transformative processes, specifically an approach we call Transformative Dialogue, are best suited to addressing the challenges of political polarization both in the United States and internationally. This is because the primary goal of transformative processes is not to reach agreement or find common …