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Birds And Sculpture Exhibit At Slocumb Galleries.Pdf, College Of Arts And Sciences, East Tennessee State University, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

The ETSU Department of Art & Design and Slocumb Galleries in partnership with the Johnson City Public Library and AROHA Philanthropies present Artful Aging: Birds & Sculptures, curated by Angelique Lynch. The exhibition will be on display through September 15, with an artist's reception on September 14 from 5 to 7 p.m.

Artful Aging workshop participants created the mixed media sculptural birds and various avian forms, mentored by ETSU adjunct faculty Angelique Lynch, using various techniques in molding, casting, carving, and assemblage. Lynch is an ETSU alumna who received her Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) and Master of Fine Arts …

Bfa Alum Laken Bridges Is New Director Of Adult Education At William King Museum Of .Pdf, College Of Arts And Sciences, East Tennessee State University, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

Congratulations to BFA Printmaking Alum and former department adjunct faculty member Laken Bridges on her new job as Director of Adult Education at William King Museum of Art. She received her MFA in printmaking from Clemson University and holds a BA in French and a BFA in studio art from ETSU. Though she is trained as a printmaker, Bridges engages in a cross-disciplinary studio practice involving print, drawing, sculpture, books, and writing. 

Bridges will be in charge of the adult education classes offered at the museum, which is located in Abingdon, Virginia. If you are interested in any of their …

Kelly Porter Honored By Etsu Sustainability Department.Pdf, College Of Arts And Sciences, East Tennessee State University, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

Graphic Design Assistant Professor Kelly Porter, was honored by the ETSU Sustainability Department as a Sustainability Champion.This award is in recognition for her ongoing efforts to make the ETSU community a more sustainable place. Congratutlations Kelly!

Fpa Honors Scholar And Bfa Graphic Design Candidate Shelby Maiden Has Thesis Published.Pdf, College Of Arts And Sciences, East Tennessee State University, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

Shelby Maiden, FPA honors scholar and BFA Graphic Design candidate, recently had her honors thesis published on ethesis.org. In her thesis Maiden states, "The visual and performing arts are inherently bonded to the art of literature; all additionally lend themselves to the narratives of women and their specific hardships. Examination of the relationship between each art form and its history is vital, but perhaps even more essential is the relationship that contemporary art shares with historical activist literature."

To read Maiden's work please follow this link: http://esthesis.org/creating-a-room-of-ones-own-the-feminine-placemaking-of-womanhouse-shelby-maiden/

Mfa Alum Rickey Bump Featured In Etsus Illuminated Magazine.Pdf, College Of Arts And Sciences, East Tennessee State University, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

2016 MFA alum Rickey Bump is featured in the Where are They Now? section of ETSU's Graduate Studies magazine Illuminated. Bump currently teaches art at the World Foreign Language School in Shanghai, China where he instructs children first through fifth grade. Besides being an educator, he actively makes and exhibits art in Shanghai. To read the article on Bump please follow this link: https://www.etsu.edu/gradstud/documents/illuminated/illuminated_graduate_research_magazine.pdf

Studio Visit With Alum Jake Ingram.Pdf, College Of Arts And Sciences, East Tennessee State University, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

A studio visit with BFA alum Jake Ingram will be streamed live from his studio at the Tamarind Institute on September 12 at 5:30pm.

Jake received his BFA in drawing at ETSU in 2012. He went on to receive his MFA from the New York Academy of Art, in 2015.
For more information on the artist please visit his website at: http://jakeingram.weebly.com/

Understanding The Bridging Social Capital Of Latinx Immigrant Students In The American Southeast, Clifford Joseph Lee

All Dissertations

In this dissertation, I report the findings of an ethnographic study I conducted in a large suburban high school in the Upstate of South Carolina. The purpose of this study was to understand the factors that affect the formation of the bridging social capital of Latinx immigrant high school students and to provide recommendations to school leaders. For this study, I interviewed eleven Latinx immigrant high school students in Spanish about their experiences as they integrated into their new academic environment. In addition to the interviews, I conducted observations in several common areas of the school and collected stylized written …

Jnchc Front & Back Matter, Vol. 20, No 2, Fall/Winter 2019

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

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Masthead

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Call for Papers, Editorial Policy, & Submission Guidelines

Dedication -- Art L. Spisak

About the Authors

About the NCHC Monograph Series

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Roahd Package: Robust Analysis Of High Dimensional Data, Francesca Ieva, Anna Maria Paganoni, Juan Romo, Nicholas Tarabelloni

The R Journal

The focus of this paper is on the open-source R package roahd (RObust Analysis of High dimensional Data), see Tarabelloni et al. (2017). roahd has been developed to gather recently proposed statistical methods that deal with the robust inferential analysis of univariate and multivariate functional data. In particular, efficient methods for outlier detection and related graphical tools, methods to represent and simulate functional data, as well as inferential tools for testing differences and dependency among families of curves will be discussed, and the associated functions of the package will be described in details.

Reading Fluency And Gonoodle© Brain Breaks Among Elementary-Aged Children, Hannah Jeanne Wold

Theses and Dissertations

This study examines the immediate and chronic effects of physical activity (PA) breaks on reading fluency. While many teachers recognize the value of PA for increasing engagement and focus (getting the wiggles out) in academic endeavors, these results reveal increases in academic achievement in reading fluency are also possible.This study examines 384 second and third grade students with low income backgrounds from the Rocky Mountain region. A two-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to examine the effects of chronic and acute brain breaks via GoNoodle© (McQuigg, 2013) on reading fluency and physical activity (steps). Between group differences were further …

The Importance Of Being A Consequential Public Health Journal, Alfredo Morabia

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

’Let’S Call Ourselves The Super Elite’: Using The Collective Behavior Tradition To Analyze Trump’S America, Todd Nicholas Fuist, Rhys Williams

Sociology: Faculty Publications and Other Works

The mid‐twentieth century “collective behavior” school asserted that (1) collective behavior—the actions of crowds, movements, and other gatherings—had distinct dynamics; (2) such action was often “nonrational,” or not governed by cost‐benefit calculation; and (3) collective behavior could pose a threat to liberal democracy because of these features. While this tradition fell out of scholarly favor, the 2016 election has given us empirical reasons to revisit some elements of collective behavior approaches. We argue for three key orienting concerns, drawn from this tradition, to understand the current political era. First is a focus on authoritarianism and populism, particularly among those who …

A Pilot Genome-Wide Analysis Study Identifies Loci Associated With Response To Obeticholic Acid In Patients With Nash., Samer Gawrieh, Xiuqing Guo, Jingyi Tan, Marie Lauzon, Kent D Taylor, Rohit Loomba, Oscar W Cummings, Sreekumar Pillai, Pallav Bhatnagar, Kris V Kowdley, Katherine Yates, Laura A Wilson, Yii-Der Ida Chen, Jerome I Rotter, Naga Chalasani

Articles, Abstracts, and Reports

A significantly higher proportion of patients with nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) who received obeticholic acid (OCA) had histological improvement relative to placebo in the FLINT (farnesoid X nuclear receptor ligand obeticholic acid for noncirrhotic, NASH treatment) trial. However, genetic predictors of response to OCA are unknown. We conducted a genome-wide association study (GWAS) in FLINT participants to identify variants associated with NASH resolution and fibrosis improvement. Genotyping was performed using the Omni2.5 content GWAS chip. To avoid false positives introduced by population stratification, we focused our GWAS on white participants. Six regions on chromosomes 1, 4, 6, 7, 15, and 17 …

Large Scale Improvement Model In Primary Care, Lisa Scardina, Evan Krause

Articles, Abstracts, and Reports

It can be surprisingly hard for organizations to prioritize, structure, and pace initiatives in a way that creates focus and alignment. Often leaders are unaware of all the initiatives under way and their impact on the organization. Overload can result in costly productivity and quality problems and caregiver burnout. With record low unemployment, companies that do not adjust the workload are also at risk of losing valuable talent.

Recovery After The Rupture: Linking Colonial Histories Of Displacement With Affective Objects And Memories, Aarzoo Singh

disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory

The notion of home and belonging, specifically in the context of South Asian postcolonial diasporas, is connected to past traumas of colonization and displacement. This paper addresses how trauma, displacement, and colonialism can be understood through and with material culture, and how familial objects and items emit and/ or carry within them, emotional narratives. I turn to the affective currency that emit and are transferred on and down from objects, by diasporic subjects, to access the possible reclamation of otherwise silenced narratives within colonial and postcolonial histories. By following the events of the Partition of India in 1947 as a …

I May Be Slightly Broken: Experiences Of Children Of Parents With Personality Disorders, Miriam Tepper

Social Work Theses - Archive

Child abuse is defined as any emotional, psychological or physical abuse or neglect inflicted on a child, that causes distress and impaired functioning for that child. A child’s caregiver was reported to be the main source of child abuse, with increasing chances if the parent struggles with a mental health disorder and or co-morbid substance use disorder or physical issues. The mental health issues that have been noted as a significant source of abuse include a parent who struggles with a personality disorder including borderline personality disorder (BPD) and narcissistic personality disorder (NPD). These personality disorders stem from years of …

I, Gamer: Addressing Toxic Ludology And Narratology In The Gamer Discourse Community Through Reinterpreting Video Games As Hypertexts, Andrew S. Latham

English Dissertations - Archive

My research examines two points crucial to the continuing discipline of video game rhetoric. First, it discusses the formation of toxic ludology and narratology in the gamer discourse community over the course of decades. I begin in the 1980s, showing how privilege in the gamer discourse community sowed toxicity that culminated in Gamergate in the 2010s, an event that is still ongoing and destructive to player discourse. In this half of the dissertation, I explore how uninviting gamers can be to new players and also provide examples where more progressive gamers are showing signs of being more inviting to new …

Social Media Platforms For Small Fashion Businesses, Madison Noonan

Major Papers by TMD Master of Science Students

This major paper examined the effectiveness of social media platforms for small fashion businesses. The social media platforms investigated were Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, and Pinterest. Many factors such as target market, product mix, and budget need to considered. Once these factors are clearly defined, the information in the paper can be applied to the small fashion business.

Street Affects: An Exercise On Why We Listen To But Don't Hear The Street Music, Laçin Tutalar

disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory

This paper argues that affective moments between street musicians and the audience in Istanbul, Turkey suggest a loose connection to open and highly affective practices of hearing. The street brings them together during the moments of performance. The performance twists the power of sound that the musician makes and draws that into visualization of the moment, which underlines a peculiar affective attachment on the audience's side. The city's, musician's, and the listening practices' significance in these moments are taken into account and narrated with examples from the fieldwork.

Reggio Emilia And The Arts Approach: Two Exceptional Examples Of Multimodal Learning In Early Years, Fadumo Aden, Evgenia Theodotou

Journal of Global Education and Research

The Reggio Emilia approach offers children a unique experience of self-exploration embedded in the arts. This has strong links with multimodal teaching and learning. This is based on the argument that they both offer children the opportunity to communicate in multimodal ways such as drawing, drama play, gestures, music and speaking whilst placing children at the centre of their learning. This paper focuses on the concept of multimodal learning and discusses the Reggio Emilia approach and the arts approach in an effort to create links with the contents of multimodal learning. Furthermore, it compares and contrasts both approaches and identifies …

Ethics In Academic Research And Scholarship: An Elucidation Of The Principles And Applications, Olajide O. Agunloye

Journal of Global Education and Research

Responsible, respectable, and successful engagement in research and scholarship in academia requires adherence to certain basic professional ethical principles to sustain the fidelity of academic work and the integrity of the researcher-scholar. This is more so for works which are intended for dissemination, information, attention, and consumption of audiences beyond the researcher-scholar’s proximal academic habitat. Ethical principles in research and scholarship apply whether the intended work, to be made public, is a conceptual scholarly narrative of ideas and thoughts or a narration of actual scientific-process-based research. This paper explores some of the key ethical principles in research and scholarship, their …

Genealib Archive 2019-12, Genealib

GENEALIB Archive

No abstract provided.

Reviewing Basic Leadership Competencies--Emotional Intelligence, Jennifer A. Bartlett

Library Faculty and Staff Publications

In this "New and Noteworthy" column, we highlight recent and basic publications pertaining to emotional intelligence, one of the 14 Foundational Competencies identified by LLAMA as being necessary for leaders and managers.

Nonlinear Optics And Bio-Sensing With Silicon Nitride Waveguides, Subrata Das

Electrical Engineering Dissertations - Archive

Silicon Nitride (SiN) is a CMOS compatible optical material that can be used for both linear and nonlinear optics applications. SiN has high refractive index (1.99-2.0) and low two photon absorption (TPA) coefficient. As a result, SiN can be used as a core material to guide and bend light, and the development of compact on-chip SiN optical devices exploiting both linear and nonlinear optical phenomena is very much feasible. In this thesis work, two independent research projects are presented. The first work presents the design of a hybrid SiN/Polymer slot waveguide for second-harmonic generation (SHG) of a 1550-nm wave at …

Hypertension Self-Management Intervention: Text Messages To Improve Blood Pressure And Medication Adherence Among African American Older Adults, Elesha R. Roberts

Nursing Dissertations - Archive

The most widely used form of mobile health technology has been text messaging. Because of the wide use, acceptability, and cost effectiveness of text messaging it may be a useful tool to develop hypertension self-management interventions for African American older adults with hypertension. Despite the wide use of text messaging interventions, no studies were found that include a large sample of African American older adults, with hypertension and the use of text messaging to improve blood pressure control and medication adherence. Therefore, the purpose of this pilot feasibility study was to determine if a text message intervention has an effect …

Experiences Of Parents And Caregivers Of Children With Disability On Community-Based Rehabilitation (Cbr) Services In Malaysia: A Qualitative Study, Haliza Hasan, Syed Mohamed Aljunid Syed Junid

Makara Journal of Health Research

Background: The rehabilitation program for disabled children is provided through community-based rehabilitation (CBR) services by an initiative of the Department of Social Welfare Malaysia. This long-term program needs commitment and compliance, which relates to the quality of services experienced by parents and caregivers. Thus, the purpose of this study was to explore the experiences of the parents and caregivers of disabled children on the CBR services. Methods: This qualitative study utilized in-depth interview sessions held from March to May 2015. Fifteen parents and caregivers who had disabled children participating in the CBR program were selected using a purposive …

Bandon Dunes Golf Resort Emergency Response And Preparedness Project Proposal, Georgia Williams

CUP Undergraduate Research

Bandon Dunes Golf Resort has the priority of keeping their employees and guests safe on the property. This means the Resort must understand, plan, and respond to various threats in the area. Bandon Dunes Golf Resort is located along the Oregon coast just outside of the City of Bandon. The Resort must be prepared to respond to more common business disruptions and threats to the hospitality industry or private sector as well as infrequent catastrophic threats like an earthquake/tsunami on the Cascadia Subduction Zone. This catastrophic earthquake has been looming for years and would have a great effect on the …

A Governance Perspective For System-Of-Systems, Polinpapilinho F. Katina, Charles B. Keating, James A. Bobo, Tyrone S. Toland

Engineering Management & Systems Engineering Faculty Publications

The operating landscape of 21st century systems is characteristically ambiguous, emergent, and uncertain. These characteristics affect the capacity and performance of engineered systems/enterprises. In response, there are increasing calls for multidisciplinary approaches capable of confronting increasingly ambiguous, emergent, and uncertain systems. System of Systems Engineering (SoSE) is an example of such an approach. A key aspect of SoSE is the coordination and the integration of systems to enable ‘system-of-systems’ capabilities greater than the sum of the capabilities of the constituent systems. However, there is a lack of qualitative studies exploring how coordination and integration are achieved. The objective of this …

Arkitektura E Mikroshërbimeve Duke Perdorur .Net Core Dhe Reactjs, Gurakuq Krasniqi

Theses and Dissertations

Në këtë punim diplome do të trajtohet implementimi i arkitekturës së mikroshërbimeve duke përdorur teknologjitë më bashkëkohore si .NET Core dhe React duke u bazuar në sistemin për menaxhimin e temës së diplomës. Mënyra e dizajnimit të arkitekturës softuerike ka evoluar që nga fillimi i përdorimit e deri në ditët e sotme dhe si rezultat i evoluconit kemi dizajne të ndryshme, ku secila nga to përdoret varësisht nga specifikat e sistemit dhe kërkesat që ato i përshtaten në mënyrën më efektive. Qëllimi kryesor i këtij punimi të diplomës është shtjellimi i realizimit dhe implementimit të sistemit për menaxhimin e temave …

Objekt Multifunksional Për Komunitet, Arnisa Muja

Theses and Dissertations

Arkitektura është krijimi i hapësirës-Louis Kahn. Sot hapësirat tona mund t’i ndajmë lirshëm në hapësira inividuale dhe ato publike apo të përbashkëta. Ndër vite ka lindur nevoja në shoqëri të krijohen hapësira të tilla, që do t’i shërbenin aktiviteteve sociale të përbashkëta. Për të filluar me atë se cfarë do të thotë aktivitet social, nga burimet sociologjike dhe psikologjike kuptojmë se një term i tillë u referohet disa aktiviteteve në shënjestër të njeriut që marrin parasysh nevojat e të tjerëve, preferencat dhe dëshirat në kuadër të normave të pranuara shoqërore. Pra aktiviteti social është kuptuar më shpesh si çdo veprim …