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The “Brics Plus” As The First International Platform Connecting Regional Trade Agreements, Ekaterina Y. Arapova Jun 2019

The “Brics Plus” As The First International Platform Connecting Regional Trade Agreements, Ekaterina Y. Arapova

Asia-Pacific Social Science Review

During the 2017 BRICS Summit, the Chinese government announced the idea to promote the “BRICS Plus” cooperation approach, encouraging closer partnership among the group of emerging markets and developing countries. The idea was fixed in the final declaration, but the mechanism of its implementation remains uncertain, as well as the list of participants. At the same time, China’s approach to “build an open and diversified network of development partnerships to get more emerging market and developing countries involved in our concerted endeavors for cooperation and mutual benefits” (Huang, 2017, September 5) may push the developing world to integrate and challenge …

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A Different Take On The Development Of Asian Cities, Patrick David Cenon Jun 2019

A Different Take On The Development Of Asian Cities, Patrick David Cenon

Asia-Pacific Social Science Review

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Inquiry-Based Learning In The Elementary And Middle School Setting, Dale Uselman Jun 2019

Inquiry-Based Learning In The Elementary And Middle School Setting, Dale Uselman

Graduate Teacher Education

There are many instructional strategies available to educators for use in the classroom. With this variety of strategies, there is a responsibility for educators to ensure the strategies selected for use have a positive impact on student learning. One such instructional strategy used in classrooms around the world is inquiry-based learning. This strategy allows students to create their own understanding of content while teachers act as facilitators. Research about inquiry-based learning in the elementary and middle school setting indicates it has a positive impact on student learning. These positive influences on learning include greater academic achievement in multiple content areas …

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Seeing The Forest And The Trees: A Historical And Conceptual Look At Danish Forest Schools, Steph N. Dean Jun 2019

Seeing The Forest And The Trees: A Historical And Conceptual Look At Danish Forest Schools, Steph N. Dean

Publications

This narrative review examines the history and future implications of Forest School, a pedagogical approach to early years outdoor education. Forest School is considered a philosophical perspective towards learning outdoors that values holistic development. There are numerous benefits to Forest School and the opportunities that it presents for young children to learn within a natural environment and to engage with nature. Due to the significance of a region’s culture and history, the consideration of education and outdoor learning differs greatly depending on the geographical context. The theory of social constructionism allows for a more precise analysis of Forest School’s history …

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High-Efficiency Gravel Longshore Sediment Transport And Headland Bypassing Over An Extreme Wave Event, R. J. Mccarroll, G. Masselink, M. Wiggins, T. Scott, O. Billson, D. C. Conley, N. G. Valiente Jun 2019

High-Efficiency Gravel Longshore Sediment Transport And Headland Bypassing Over An Extreme Wave Event, R. J. Mccarroll, G. Masselink, M. Wiggins, T. Scott, O. Billson, D. C. Conley, N. G. Valiente

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

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Improving Literacy Outcomes For Adolescent English Language Learners, Grace Diaz-Peterson Jun 2019

Improving Literacy Outcomes For Adolescent English Language Learners, Grace Diaz-Peterson

Graduate Teacher Education

As the population of English Language Learners in United States public schools has risen significantly in recent years, the unique academic challenges these students faced, particularly in middle and high school, became more apparent. A widening reading and vocabulary gap between English Language Learners and their native English-speaking peers posed particular barriers in secondary content area classes, where many teachers reported feeling ill-prepared to meet the specialized linguistic needs of their English Language Learner students. This paper analyzed a mix of recent, available qualitative and quantitative research on best practices to improve literacy outcomes for adolescent English Language Learners. As …

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Geographic And Climatic Attributions Of Autumn Land Surface Phenology Spatial Patterns In The Temperate Deciduous Broadleaf Forest Of China, Weiguang Lang, Xiaoqiu Chen, Liang Liang, Shilong Ren, Siwei Qian Jun 2019

Geographic And Climatic Attributions Of Autumn Land Surface Phenology Spatial Patterns In The Temperate Deciduous Broadleaf Forest Of China, Weiguang Lang, Xiaoqiu Chen, Liang Liang, Shilong Ren, Siwei Qian

Geography Faculty Publications

Autumn vegetation phenology plays a critical role in identifying the end of the growing season and its response to climate change. Using the six vegetation indices retrieved from moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer data, we extracted an end date of the growing season (EOS) in the temperate deciduous broadleaf forest (TDBF) area of China. Then, we validated EOS with the ground-observed leaf fall date (LF) of dominant tree species at 27 sites and selected the best vegetation index. Moreover, we analyzed the spatial pattern of EOS based on the best vegetation index and its dependency on geo-location indicators and seasonal temperature/precipitation. …

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Capturing And Analyzing Multispectral Uav Imagery To Delineate Submerged Aquatic Vegetation On A Small Urban Stream, Riley Sessanna Jun 2019

Capturing And Analyzing Multispectral Uav Imagery To Delineate Submerged Aquatic Vegetation On A Small Urban Stream, Riley Sessanna

Theses - ALL

For decades, remote sensing has been used by scientists and planners to make detailed observations and decisions on areas with industrial problems, remediation and development sites, and resource management. It is challenging to make high spatial and temporal resolution observations along headwater and small streams using traditional remote sensing methods, due to their high spatial variability and tendency for rapidly changing water quality and discharge. With improved technology in sensors and launching platforms, remote sensing via Unoccupied Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) now allows for imagery to be collected at high spatial and temporal resolution, with the goal of providing a deeper …

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Credible And Actionable Evidence Across Extension Program Areas: A Case Example, Mary S. Marczak, Emily H. Becher, Patricia Olson Jun 2019

Credible And Actionable Evidence Across Extension Program Areas: A Case Example, Mary S. Marczak, Emily H. Becher, Patricia Olson

Journal of Human Sciences and Extension

What is credible and actionable evidence can vary by program discipline in the Cooperative Extension Service. Through a series of interviews with program leadership from Agriculture, Natural Resources, Youth Development, Family Development, and Community Vitality, a case study of one state’s Extension system is described. While programs certainly vary in epistemological, ontological, and methodological underpinnings, each collects and delivers credible and actionable evidence in ways unique to their stakeholder audience. Diverse Extension programs do share a common mission and a common delivery mechanism (i.e., each works to promote knowledge gain, skill development, and behavior change in people). Therefore, the future …

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Dating Application Facilitated Victimization: An Examination Of Lifestyle-Routine Activities, Self-Control, And Self-Efficacy, Vanessa Centelles Jun 2019

Dating Application Facilitated Victimization: An Examination Of Lifestyle-Routine Activities, Self-Control, And Self-Efficacy, Vanessa Centelles

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The current study examines how college students participate in the use of location-based real-time dating (LBRTD) applications and the correlates of in-person and cyber victimization. Using an exploratory lens, the present study draws on the classical criminological theories of lifestyle-routine activities (L-RAT), self-efficacy, and low self-control which have been applied to various forms of abuse. Although the use of LBRTD applications has become relatively common place, with approximately 15% of Americans reporting having used a mobile dating application or online dating site, little is known concerning the role these applications play, particularly among college students (Boillot-Fansher, 2017; Smith, 2016). Using …

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Translating Theory To Practice: Integrating Global Health Curricula And Healthcare Across Nations, Olivia Catolico, Jane Anyango, Leandra Wallace Jun 2019

Translating Theory To Practice: Integrating Global Health Curricula And Healthcare Across Nations, Olivia Catolico, Jane Anyango, Leandra Wallace

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

This presentation highlights the integration of intercultural knowledge and translation of theory to practice in nursing curricula. Conference participants will be able to design a course or curriculum using global learning outcomes, and develop effective measures of learning appropriately leveled within the curriculum.

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Using Course Analytics For Measuring Student Engagement And Outcomes In On-Line Msn Students, Patricia A. Riccio, Joanne Farley Serembus Jun 2019

Using Course Analytics For Measuring Student Engagement And Outcomes In On-Line Msn Students, Patricia A. Riccio, Joanne Farley Serembus

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

The purpose of this study was to examine associations between student engagement and student outcomes in online MSN students. While learning analytics have been used to analyze the association between student activity and performance in online higher education, studies on this topic were sparsely found in the nursing literature.

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The Most Beautiful Place On Earth: Wallace Stegner In California, 1945-1993, Matthew Dougall Stewart Jun 2019

The Most Beautiful Place On Earth: Wallace Stegner In California, 1945-1993, Matthew Dougall Stewart

Dissertations - ALL

This dissertation explores the life and work of the writer Wallace Stegner (1909-1993) and his intellectual efforts to create, clarify, and defend the contours of a “geography of hope” in the American West. Chapter 1 begins with Stegner’s move to California in 1945. In the context of his developing regional vision as expressed in early articles and books, it traces Stegner’s attempts to build a range of institutions in California as well as his first writings that either adopted the state as its subject or used it as a setting for fictional work. Chapter 2 explores a research project that …

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Popular Geography Writing In America, 1783–1888, Shane Patrick Avery Jun 2019

Popular Geography Writing In America, 1783–1888, Shane Patrick Avery

Dissertations - ALL

“Popular Geography Writing in America, 1783–1888” is an intellectual and cultural history that traces the connections among geography writing, print culture, and nationalism. It challenges the conventional historiographical paradigm that understands antebellum and postbellum periods in United States history as fundamentally discontinuous. The study suggests that the published geographies of Jedidiah Morse, Thomas Jefferson, Samuel Griswold Goodrich, Arnold Guyot, William Gilpin, George Perkins Marsh, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Albert Richardson, Clarence King, and John Wesley Powell created a popular discursive sense of equivalency between the physical landscape of a North American continent and the United States as a nationstate.

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Apostles For Capitalism: Amway, Movement Conservatism, And The Remaking Of The American Economy, 1959-2009, Davor Mondom Jun 2019

Apostles For Capitalism: Amway, Movement Conservatism, And The Remaking Of The American Economy, 1959-2009, Davor Mondom

Dissertations - ALL

This dissertation examines the Amway Corporation, the world’s largest multi-level marketing company. Since its inception, Amway has purported to offer individuals the ability to go into business for themselves and to participate in free enterprise through direct sales. At the same time, many have attacked Amway as a fraudulent pyramid scheme that trades in false promises and leaves its distributors financially and psychologically worse off than before they joined. In addition to running the company for over three decades, Amway’s cofounders, Richard DeVos and Jay Van Andel, along with members of their families, have been influential players in the Republican …

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A Resource Constrained Shortest Paths Approach To Reducing Personal Pollution Exposure, Elling Payne Jun 2019

A Resource Constrained Shortest Paths Approach To Reducing Personal Pollution Exposure, Elling Payne

REU Final Reports

As wildfires surge in frequency and impact in the Pacific Northwest, in tandem with increasingly traffic-choked roads, personal exposure to harmful airborne pollutants is a rising concern. Particularly at risk are school-age children, especially those living in disadvantaged communities near major motorways and industrial centers. Many of these children must walk to school, and the choice of route can effect exposure. Route-planning applications and frameworks utilizing computational shortest paths methods have been proposed which consider personal exposure with reasonable success, but few have focused on pollution exposure, and all have been limited in scalability or geographic scope. This paper addresses …

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Beyond The Land: Maritime Interactions, Border Control, And Regional Powers Between China And Korea, 1500-1637, Jing Liu Jun 2019

Beyond The Land: Maritime Interactions, Border Control, And Regional Powers Between China And Korea, 1500-1637, Jing Liu

Dissertations - ALL

This dissertation interweaves the maritime dynamics of Ming China and Chosŏn Korea’s northern sea space, the Bohai Sea and the northern Yellow Sea, with the Northeast Asian transition of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. This region formed an arena in this time period that allowed various players to communicate, negotiate, and contest. It also established a linkage between Northeast Asian terra-centered states and maritime East Asia. A systematic investigation of this particular region is thus essential to improving our understanding of interactive territorial and maritime relations. This dissertation investigates the increase of maritime commerce, wartime logistics, and military intervention …

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Measuring And Understanding Food Accessibility In The Tampa Bay Area, Bailey I. Glover Jun 2019

Measuring And Understanding Food Accessibility In The Tampa Bay Area, Bailey I. Glover

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

In the Tampa Bay region, increasing population and changing demographics have begun to alter the characteristics of established neighborhoods. An increase in suburban growth has triggered a shift in the location and profitability of food establishments in socially disadvantaged neighborhoods. Supermarket closures have garnered attention from public health officials who are concerned with the overall availability of fresh food throughout Hillsborough and Pinellas Counties. Unfortunately, there has been little research surrounding the quality of food sold at establishments in both the Tampa Bay region and abroad. Instead, many geographic studies have chosen to group both fresh and prepared food establishments …

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Spatial Analysis Of Burglary And Robbery Crime Concentration Near Mass-Transit In Portland, Bryce Edward Barthuly Jun 2019

Spatial Analysis Of Burglary And Robbery Crime Concentration Near Mass-Transit In Portland, Bryce Edward Barthuly

Dissertations and Theses

The relationship between mass-transit and the concentration of burglary and robbery crimes is inconsistent within the available literature in environmental criminology. A number of studies have provided evidence of crime concentration at and near mass transit locations where paths intersect, referred to as a node. These empirical studies bring in environmental criminology theory with the idea that crime is clustered, and the pattern of the concentrations is substantially influenced by how and why people travel and move in a city. It is suggested that public transit allows for a large proportion of the population to move around the community along …

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Biodiversity Of Large Bivalve Mollusks (Mollusca: Unionidae, Corbiсulidae)Of The Reservoirs Of Uzbekistan, Z.I. Izatullayev, Kh.T Boymurodov Jun 2019

Biodiversity Of Large Bivalve Mollusks (Mollusca: Unionidae, Corbiсulidae)Of The Reservoirs Of Uzbekistan, Z.I. Izatullayev, Kh.T Boymurodov

Scientific Journal of Samarkand University

The fauna and ecological complexes of large bivalve mollusks of three reservoirs from Central and southern Uzbekistan: Kattakurgan, Chimkurgan and Tallimarzhan were studied.According to the number of species - 10 and ecological complexes of mollusks is the richest, the first two reservoirs, the poor species (6) were Tallimarzhan.The reasons for their distribution in reservoirs are established. These bodies of water are analyzed by morphology, origin, biological type and saprobity.

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Issue 330: June 27-July 11, 2019, The Local Voice Jun 2019

Issue 330: June 27-July 11, 2019, The Local Voice

The Local Voice

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Vol.46 N.49 June 27th 2019, Voice Media Ventures Jun 2019

Vol.46 N.49 June 27th 2019, Voice Media Ventures

Black Voice News

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Exploring The Link Between Students’ Usage Of Aleks And Their Performance On State Benchmark Assessments In Mathematics, Verna Marie Richard Jun 2019

Exploring The Link Between Students’ Usage Of Aleks And Their Performance On State Benchmark Assessments In Mathematics, Verna Marie Richard

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

The purpose of this mixed methods study was to investigate relationships between students’ ALEKS usage, teachers’ implementation of ALEKS, and student performance on the 2017 – 2018 LEAP 2025 mathematics assessment. The quantitative portion of the study involved district-level analyses and teacher-level analyses that explored relationships between students’ ALEKS usage and LEAP performance. The qualitative portion of the study took into consideration previous research findings that have reported associations between program implementation and student achievement. This portion of the study included thematic analyses that examined the following relationships: ALEKS implementation in relation to teacher groups (i.e., RtI 8, Math 8, …

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The Religion Of Policing: Race, Riots, And The Killing Of Alton Sterling, Landon Jay Douglas Jun 2019

The Religion Of Policing: Race, Riots, And The Killing Of Alton Sterling, Landon Jay Douglas

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Deadly force encounters with black people and law enforcement officials are far too numerous and encounters that result in the death of civilians do not always result in disciplinary actions against officers, many of whom are white. The high-profile killings of black people in America require an in-depth analysis of race, policing, and the origins of tactics used by law enforcement against black people, which is not merely data-driven, but also theory driven. In trying to understand the disparate treatment experienced by black people at the hands of law enforcement officials, and the extent to which many Americans, mostly white …

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Habitat Suitability Index Model Of The Florida Sandhill Crane (Grus Canadensis Pratensis) In West-Central Florida, Courtney E. Buck Jun 2019

Habitat Suitability Index Model Of The Florida Sandhill Crane (Grus Canadensis Pratensis) In West-Central Florida, Courtney E. Buck

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The Florida Sandhill Crane (Grus canadensis pratensis) is a state threatened endemic subspecies of the Sandhill Crane (Nesbitt & Tacha, 1997). With a population that was estimated at a maximum of 5,000 individuals in 2003 (Nesbitt & Hatchitt, 2008), it is imperative to identify potentially viable habitats, as Florida is rapidly developing. This research develops a Habitat Suitability Index model to determine unsuitable to optimally suitable habitat locations throughout west-central Florida. To do so, six suitability variables based on the crane’s life history were evaluated: Potential nesting area, immediate nesting area, wetland coverage, foraging area, brooding area, and road proximity. …

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Coral Reef Change Detection In Remote Pacific Islands Using Support Vector Machine Classifiers, Justin J. Gapper, Hesham El-Askary, Erik Linstead, Thomas Piechota Jun 2019

Coral Reef Change Detection In Remote Pacific Islands Using Support Vector Machine Classifiers, Justin J. Gapper, Hesham El-Askary, Erik Linstead, Thomas Piechota

Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science Faculty Articles and Research

Despite the abundance of research on coral reef change detection, few studies have been conducted to assess the spatial generalization principles of a live coral cover classifier trained using remote sensing data from multiple locations. The aim of this study is to develop a machine learning classifier for coral dominated benthic cover-type class (CDBCTC) based on ground truth observations and Landsat images, evaluate the performance of this classifier when tested against new data, then deploy the classifier to perform CDBCTC change analysis of multiple locations. The proposed framework includes image calibration, support vector machine (SVM) training and tuning, statistical assessment …

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The Impact Of Waves And Tides On Residual Sand Transport On A Sediment‐Poor, Energetic, And Macrotidal Continental Shelf, E. V. King, D. C. Conley, G. Masselink, N. Leonardi, R. J. Mccarroll, T. Scott Jun 2019

The Impact Of Waves And Tides On Residual Sand Transport On A Sediment‐Poor, Energetic, And Macrotidal Continental Shelf, E. V. King, D. C. Conley, G. Masselink, N. Leonardi, R. J. Mccarroll, T. Scott

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

No abstract provided.

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Correction To: Particle Toxicology And Health - Where Are We?, M Riediker, D Zink, W Kreyling, G Oberdörster, A Elder, U Graham, I Lynch, A Duschl, G Ichihara, S Ichihara, T Kobayashi, N Hisanaga, M Umezawa, T-J Cheng, R Handy, M Gulumian, S Tinkle, F Cassee Jun 2019

Correction To: Particle Toxicology And Health - Where Are We?, M Riediker, D Zink, W Kreyling, G Oberdörster, A Elder, U Graham, I Lynch, A Duschl, G Ichihara, S Ichihara, T Kobayashi, N Hisanaga, M Umezawa, T-J Cheng, R Handy, M Gulumian, S Tinkle, F Cassee

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

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Assessing The Rock Island Community Garden Program, Christian Elliott, Hunter Ridley, Robert Burke, Alexander Disabato, Abby Huffman, Dr. Christopher Strunk Jun 2019

Assessing The Rock Island Community Garden Program, Christian Elliott, Hunter Ridley, Robert Burke, Alexander Disabato, Abby Huffman, Dr. Christopher Strunk

Celebration of Learning

As part of Sustainable Working Landscapes Initiative with Augustana College’s Upper Mississippi Center, students in Urban Design and Environmental Justice (Geography 325) conducted research on Rock Island’s community garden program this fall. The City of Rock Island currently has 21 vacant-lot community gardens and plans to expand the program to 24 gardens in 2019. The purpose of this project was to develop an initial assessment of the community garden program and provide general information about the benefits of urban gardens. Students worked with Dr. Strunk to conduct a survey with current garden program participants and tested soil from 14 gardens …

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Social Class And The Stubbornness Of Family Myths: How Nonbeliever And Pagan Parents Cope With Intrusions On Parenting By Proselytizing Christian Family Members In The U.S. Bible Belt, Amy Mcclure Jun 2019

Social Class And The Stubbornness Of Family Myths: How Nonbeliever And Pagan Parents Cope With Intrusions On Parenting By Proselytizing Christian Family Members In The U.S. Bible Belt, Amy Mcclure

Faculty Publications

Family scholars have documented how powerful institutions intrude upon marginalized parents. Yet, few have examined the effect that intrusion on parenting takes on a more intimate level. Guided by insights from theories of emotion management and family inequality, I compare how two religiously marginalized groups in the Bible Belt cope with a ubiquitous experience they face as parents—unwelcomed proselytizing by Christian family members. Based on participant-observation and forty in-depth interviews, I document nonbeliever and Pagan parents’ experiences with proselytizing by Christian family members to be common, intrusive, and often perceived as potentially harmful to children. Failing to enforce desired boundaries …

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