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The U.S. - Mexico Border Wall - A Sentiment Analysis, Jeffrey Easter, Qiuyue Yang, Choji Daches, Wen Bin Yu, Craig C. Claybaugh

Business and Information Technology Faculty Research & Creative Works

The central focus of our study is to apply a computer-based sentiment analysis on twitter data on the U.S.-Mexico border wall. we want to be able to validate the results from traditional polling method and also create a pointer for decision making. From our results, we were able to show that a computer-based sentiment analysis is as valid as a traditional base method on topics such as the considered for the study. Our results compared favorably with the results obtained by organizations who did a polling survey on the issue. Also, we were able to visualize our results to present …

Students’ And Their Supervisors’ Evaluations On Professional Identity In Work Placements, Denise Jackson

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

This study explored the extent to which undergraduates demonstrate capabilities associated with professional identity (PI), an individual’s connection with the ideology of professional practice and a critical element of graduate employability. It gathered quantitative and qualitative data from 212 Australian business undergraduates and their workplace supervisors on 17 capabilities associated with PI. It also examined the value of Work-Integrated Learning (WIL) in developing these capabilities. Findings indicated broad agreement on areas of strength and weakness yet supervisors assigned consistently higher ratings than students. Areas for development aligned with the advanced stages of PI and ratings were fairly uniform by gender, …

Patrimoine/Cultural Heritage In France And Ireland, Eamon Maher, Eugene O'Brien

Books

This collection of essays explores the concept of patrimoine, a French word used to denote cultural heritage, traditional customs and practices – the Gaelic equivalent is dúchas – and the extent to which it impacts on France and Ireland. Borrowing from disciplines as varied as sociology, cultural theory, literature, marketing, theology, history, musicology and business, the contributors to the volume unearth interesting manifestations of how patrimoine resonates across cultural divides and bestows uniqueness and specificity on countries and societies, sometimes in a subliminal manner.

Issues covered include debt as heritage, Guinness as a cultural icon of «Irishness», faith-based tourism, …

Barnette And Masterpiece Cakeshop: Some Unanswered Questions, Abner S. Greene

FIU Law Review

No abstract provided.

Deconstitutionalizing Dewey, Aaron Saiger

FIU Law Review

No abstract provided.

Visual Prognosis After Explantation Of Small-Aperture Corneal Inlays In Presbyopic Eyes: A Case Series, Majid Moshirfar, David F. Skanchy, David J. Rosen, Madeline B. Heiland, Harry Y. Liu, Benjamin Buckner, Aaron T. Gomez, Yasmyne C. Ronquillo, Tim Melton, Phillip C. Hoopes

School of Medicine Publications

The purpose of this study was to report visual prognosis after explantation of a small-aperture corneal inlay used for the treatment of presbyopia. This is a retrospective case series conducted at a single site in Draper, Utah, USA (Hoopes Vision). Medical records of 176 patients who had received a small-aperture corneal inlay (KAMRA™, AcuFocus Inc., Irvine, CA, USA) were reviewed. Patients who had undergone explantation of the device were identified. Uncorrected distance visual acuity (UDVA), uncorrected near visual acuity (UNVA), corrected distance visual acuity (CDVA), and manifest refraction spherical equivalent (MRSE) were measured pre-implantation, post-implantation, pre-explantation, and post-explantation of the …

Ignatian Pedagogy For Sustainability To Support Community-Based Projects: Client-Focused Sustainable Energy Solutions, Andrew Baruth

Jesuit Higher Education: A Journal

Seeing the words of Laudato Si’ as a call to action, we are engaging students in Ignatian Pedagogy for Sustainability through a series of community-based projects with the goal of client-focused sustainable energy solutions and associated dialogue. We outline the development of a purpose-created Energy Technology undergraduate program housed in the College of Arts and Sciences at Creighton University, born from Ignatian Sensibilities, and highlight the role of client engagement to engross students in a client-focused design process to deliver sustainable energy initiatives that become practically feasible with student leadership. For the senior capstone of this program, students engage in …

Wholeness: Thoughts On Law Teaching, Lawyering, And Living, Patti Alleva

North Dakota Law Review

No abstract provided.

A Tribute To Patti Alleva, Gerald Vandewalle, Shon Hastings, Karen Klein, Mary Muehlen Maring, W. Jeremy Davis, James Grijalva, Candace M. Zierdt, Margaret Moore Jackson, Anne E. Mullins, Joshua P. Fershee, Kendra H. Fershee, Gerald Hess, Jane Voglewede, Amy K. Posner, Levi Andrist, Lori Conroy, Melissa H. Burkland, Alana K. Bassin, Patric M. Verrone

North Dakota Law Review

No abstract provided.

Retrieving The Real Frederick May, Mark Fitzgerald

Articles

Although Frederick May (1911–85) is seen as holding an important position in the history of twentieth-century composition in Ireland, writing about May has been sporadic. There exists no serious biographical study to date and most of the commentary on the music has been superficial and frequently misleading. Utilizing the recently re-catalogued collection of May’s manuscripts in the Manuscripts and Archives Research Library in Trinity College Dublin (TCD) and also libraries and public collections in Cork, the United States, London, the Czech Republic and Vienna as well as a number of private archives, this essay attempts to build a clearer picture …

The Sons Report (1989-1994, Mathematical Association Of America): The Way It Was, Linda R. Sons

Numeracy

Recollections and commentary by Linda R. Sons on a 1994 national report entitled Quantitative Reasoning for College Graduates: A Complement to the Standards. Professor Sons chaired the committee which wrote the report and championed its use.

This paper traces the development of the 1994 MAA report Quantitative Reasoning for College Graduates: A Complement to the Standards--a report which is still surprisingly relevant. The paper highlights some major parts of the report, describing the context in which its conclusions were made. Additionally, it challenges and encourages those continuing the quest for QL in the nation by noting progress made …

Actual And Self-Assessed Financial Literacy Among Employees Of A South African University, Gizelle D. Willows

Numeracy

This study examines the level of financial literacy and self-assessed financial literacy amongst members of a South African tertiary institution’s retirement fund. Based on surveys of the fund’s members, I employ descriptive statistics and multivariate regression analyses to examine differences in financial literacy within and across groups. The results show that, despite working for an employer implementing many best practices identified by financial literacy advocates, respondents from all demographic subgroups possess relatively low levels of financial knowledge. Men, White respondents, and those with a higher cost of employment or higher educational attainment were more likely to have a higher level …

Coastal Dune Vegetation Mapping Using A Multispectral Sensor Mounted On An Uas, Chen Suo, Eugene Mcgovern, Alan Gilmer

Articles

Vegetation mapping, identifying the type and distribution of plant species, is important for analysing vegetation dynamics, quantifying spatial patterns of vegetation evolution, analysing the effectsof environmental changes and predicting spatial patterns of species diversity. Such analysis can contribute to the development of targeted land management actions that maintain biodiversity and ecological functions. This paper presents a methodology for 3D vegetation mapping of a coastal dune complex using a multispectral camera mounted on an unmanned aerial system with particular reference to the Buckroney dune complex in Co. Wicklow, Ireland. Unmanned aerial systems (UAS), also known as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) or …

William Stokes Papers - Accession 882, William Stokes, American Civil War

Manuscript Collection

The William Stokes Papers mainly consist of personal correspondence from William Stokes (1833-1905) to his wife, Eliza Jane Boulware Stokes (1837-1916), during the American Civil War. William Stokes served in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War with the 4^th Regiment South Carolina Calvary as Lieutenant Colonel. After the conclusion of the war he would be given the rank of Brigadier General by then Governor Wade Hampton. He was born on October 20, 1833, and died on June 30, 1905. The collection includes pre-Civil War, Civil War, and post-Civil War letters and military orders. Also includes writings by …

An Investigation Of Therapeutic Rapport Through Prosody In Brief Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Carolina De Pasquale, Charlie Cullen, Brian Vaughan

Conference Papers

Therapeutic alliance, a concept closely related to rapport, is one of the most important variables in psychotherapy. High degrees of synchrony/coordination in the therapeutic session are considered to contribute to rapport, and have received attention in the psychotherapy literature. Coordinative behaviours are observable in speech, and they manifest in phenomena such as prosodic accommodation, a dynamic phenomenon closely related to conversational success. A preliminary investigation of interpersonal prosodic dynamics in psychotherapy was performed on a database obtained in collaboration with the University of Padua, consisting of 16 recordings making up the entire course of a brief psychodynamic psychotherapy intervention for …

Presentations & Infographics, Quality Blended Learning Consortium

Open Educational Resources

This tutorial introduces the users to the fundamental concepts on how to create presentations and infographics, as well as provides guidance on the tools to be used, best practices, and mistakes to avoid. The tutorial includes quizzes for self-assessment.

High-Speed Distributed Data Process Of Photometric Astronomical Data, Paul Doyle

Other

Since the 1970s the CCD has been the principle method of measuring flux to calculate the apparent magnitude of celestial objects within astronomical photometry. Each CCD image must be digitally cleaned and calibrated prior to its use. As data archives increase in size to Petabytes, the data processing challenge requires image processing techniques to continue to exceed the rate of data capture.

This paper describes NIMBUS, a rapidly scalable, failure resilient distributed network architecture capable of processing CCD image data at a rate of hundreds of Terabytes per day. NIMBUS is implemented using a decentralized web queue to control the …

What Is A Bim Design Model?, James Peters, Malachy Mathews

Conference papers

The recent report into Building Information Management or BIM, by construction law experts May Winfield and Sarah Rock entitled “Winfield Rock Report” [1] gives reason to state that the UK architectural, engineering and construction industry or AEC, is hindered by the absence of a clear definition of Level 2 BIM. The ISO 19650-2 standard published in 2019, is based upon PAS1192-2:2013. The intent of ISO 19650-2 is to provide a road map to facilitate the standardisation of BIM process in a uniformed fashion. A key pillar of ISO 19650 is the “information cycle” and central to this is a federated …

Systematics And Evolution Of Antennaria (Asteraceae, Gnaphalieae) And New Insights Into The Antennaria Rosea Polyploid Agamic Complex, Ramhari Thapa

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Antennaria are dioecious perennial herbs distributed mainly in the Holarctic Region with their major center of diversity in the Rocky Mountains of Western North America. The genus, which consists of 34 known sexual diploid/tetraploid species and at least five polyploid agamic complexes has a complex evolutionary history due to dioecism, excessive polyploidy, and the evolution of polyploid agamic complexes. In this study, a phylogenetic reconstruction of the 34 sexually reproducing Antennaria species using a target enrichment method, development of microsatellite markers for the genus, and study of the genetic diversity, population structure, and estimation of ancestry was carried out in …

Social Recognition As A Problem For Black Rectificatory Justice, John Torrey

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Within academic circles, arguments supporting the rectification of anti-Black injustice in America have become more widespread in recent years. Three questions arise from these arguments: How should we understand what it means to rectify those injustices? What explains why these arguments, despite the increased attention by scholars, have not been taken seriously in mainstream American social and political discussions? Finally, what can be done to change this lack of mainstream attention? My dissertation answers these questions by advancing a new moral framework for understanding what it means to rectify anti-black injustice. On this view, rectificatory justice requires possessing a moral …

Military Workplace: Employee Perception On Leadership Involvement And Safety, Kelley R. Vandecoevering

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

The purpose of this qualitative case study was to describe the employee perspective of how leadership influenced their workplace safety in a military environment. The participants in this case study were observed while working in their normal environment, interviewed, and historical records were reviewed. During the interviews and observations, the researcher attempted to describe how the participants engaged in workplace safety with and without their supervisors present. Data obtained through the case study was analyzed and two major themes emerged: (1) recreating a military structure; and (2) leading from the front. Based on the data from this case study, it …

Site Effects Study In The Mississippi Embayment And Uncertainties Evaluation In Site Response Analysis, Arash Yarahmadi

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

The local site conditions have paramount influence on the characteristics of seismic ground shaking. There are several methods of investigating seismic site effects which can be classified into two major categories; common site-specific response analysis, and procedures that use solely earthquake time series like the Standard Spectral Ratio (SSR), and Horizontal to Vertical Ratio (HVSR) methods. In the SSR method, the spectral ratios of earthquake records at a certain station can be evaluated with respect to a reference station located on a nearby outcrop rock. In the first part of the dissertation, we use earthquake records to find reference stations …

Applications Of Sparse Representations, Pulin Agrawal

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

In this dissertation I explore the properties and uses of sparse representations. Sparse representations use high dimensional binary vectors for representing information. They have many properties which make this representation useful for applications involving pattern recognition in highly noisy and complex environments. Sparse representations have a very high capacity. A typical sparse representation vector has a capacity of 10^84 distinct vectors, which is more than the number of atoms in the universe. Sparse representations are highly noise robust. They can tolerate even up to 50% noise. A very powerful and useful property of sparse representations is that they allow us …

Investigating Vocabulary Learning Strategies Of Saudi University Students In The Us, Ahmed Abdullah Alahmadi

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

The main purpose of this study was to investigate the use of vocabulary learning strategies reported by Saudi university students in the US. It also explored how the use of vocabulary learning strategies varied based on gender in this population. An explanatory mixed-methods design was used to provide an in-depth understanding of strategies employed. In the quantitative phase, data were collected using self-reported questionnaires, while semi-structured interviews were conducted to collect the qualitative data. A total of 123 students participated, eight of whom were interviewed. The quantitative results showed participants used various vocabulary learning strategies. The most common were guessing …

An Investigation Of Efl Learners Attitudes Toward Computer-Assisted Writing (Caw), Ahmed Almenei

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

This dissertation studies attitudes of the Saudi university learners studying English as a Foreign Language (EFL) toward using the Computer-assisted Writing (CAW) applications, e.g., up-to-date versions of word processing programs, for doing English writing assignments. Research has confirmed that CAW applications, e.g., up-to-date versions of word processing program, have been utilized in and out of the class to supplement, but not to replace, the methods of learning and teaching writing. Previous studies have revealed that students attitude towards writing improves when they use the word processor. The current study aims at examining the hypotheses that the EFL learners have effective …

Exploring Teaching Intercultural Communicative Competence Among Saudi University Efl Teachers, Abdulrahman Alqefari

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Intercultural communicative competence (ICC) is an essential part of instruction in the diverse English as a Foreign or Second Language classroom (EFL, ESL), but instructors may not have sufficient knowledge, skills, or tools to be able to promote ICC in their classes. The Saudi Arabia Ministry of Education's (MoE) policies on teaching English encourage students to be cross-culturally competent, yet various people, including students and parents, have demonstrated concerns regarding the inclusion of Western values, beliefs, and cultures into the EFL curriculum. Consequently, these differences lead to teachers facing various content and process barriers in the EFL classroom.Using Byrams Intercultural …

From My Side Of The Screen: A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study Of Older Teachers, Administrators, Technology Coordinators, And Their Experiences With The Implementation Of Technology In Rural West Tennessee Schools, Donnie Lee Bailey

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

This hermeneutic phenomenological study centered on the lived experiences of older teachers, administrators, and technology coordinators as they navigate the acquiring, teaching, learning, using, and evaluating of technological resources in the classroom. In particular, this study sought to understand this phenomenon through the eyes of the participants as they interact with teachers with 20 or more years of teaching experience in two rural West Tennessee school districts. Using social learning theory as the backbone of analysis, I had nine participants engage in three in-depth interviews each. The first interview acquired background and foundational knowledge in relation to the use of …

A Simulation-Enhanced Intraoperative Planning Tool For Robotic-Assisted Total Knee Arthroplasty, Daniel Farley

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

The purpose of the present study was to investigate current methods of surgical planning used in conjunction with robotics-assisted total knee arthroplasty (raTKA) to determine if improvements could be made using advanced computational techniques. Thus, through the use of musculoskeletal multi-body dynamic simulations, an enhanced surgical planning tool was developed, which provides insight on active postoperative joint mechanics. Development of the tool relied on patient-specific simulations using single-leg and full-body models. These simulations were constructed using two publicly-available datasets (Orthoload and SimTK); in particular, joint loading data obtained from subjects during various activities. Simulation parameters were optimized using a design-of …

Towards Building Intelligent Collaborative Problem Solving Systems, Dipesh Gautam

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Historically, Collaborative Problem Solving (CPS) systems were more focused on Human Computer Interaction (HCI) issues, such as providing good experience of communication among the participants. Whereas, Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) focus both on HCI issues as well as leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques in their intelligent agents. This dissertation seeks to minimize the gap between CPS systems and ITS by adopting the methods used in ITS researches. To move towards this goal, we focus on analyzing interactions with textual inputs in online learning systems such as DeepTutor and Virtual Internships (VI) to understand their semantics and underlying intents. In order …

Active Perception By Interaction With Other Agents In A Predictive Coding Framework: Application To Internet Of Things Environment, Masoumeh Heidari Kapourchali

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Predicting the state of an agent's partially-observable environment is a problem of interest in many domains. Typically in the real world, the environment consists of multiple agents, not necessarily working towards a common goal. Though the goal and sensory observation for each agent is unique, one agent might have acquired some knowledge that may benefit the other. In essence, the knowledge base regarding the environment is distributed among the agents. An agent can sample this distributed knowledge base by communicating with other agents. Since an agent is not storing the entire knowledge base, its model can be small and its …