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Intraspecific And Interspecific Interactions Between Two Species Of North American Vulture At Feeding Sites., Dixie Claire Grammer

Theses and Dissertations

Vultures are a necessity to the natural world. These elite scavengers have the ability to eliminate disease, bacteria, and other harmful pathogens from the environment by simply eating infected carcasses. There are several species of vulture that are threatened with extinction due to a number of reasons, human connotation being one of them. These birds are often persecuted because of their appearance and also because of damage that they have caused. Although at times they may be considered nuisance animals, their need in their environment greatly outweighs the problems they sometimes cause. Research is a way to educate the public …

The George-Anne Inkwell Edition, Georgia Southern University

The Inkwell

No abstract provided.

An Analysis Of The Language And The Relationship Of The President Of The Usa Related Twitter Accounts Toward The National Media, Sait Serif Turhan

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This research focuses on the language tone of the United State of America’s presidentrelated Twitter accounts and the ways of the interaction with the national media with their tweets. The literature provides how politicians utilize and for what purposes they use Twitter. Framing theory was applied to conceptualize the manner of conveying messages and impressions of politicians toward the national media. Content analysis was utilized to analyze 902 mediarelated tweets to find out the ways of the interactions and language tone and the level of emotions in tweets of US president-related Twitter accounts with the national media during the period …

Kurdish Women Guerrilla Fighters, Meagan Muschara

History in the Making

This article focuses on the female fighters of the PKK. The media over the past four years have continued to report about the female inclusion into this male dominated resistance group, the PKK in Turkey. The addition of women to the fight spread to various Kurdish resistance groups throughout the Middle East. The interviews brought about a plethora of questions about egalitarian rights for women entering the PKK. The questions that arose are: How equal are women’s rights? Are there any stipulations? Why are females willing to fight for the cause and what do these women gain by fighting alongside …

Nationalism And Montesquieu’S Lettres Persanes, Tristan Murray

History in the Making

Nationalism as a subject has a long and convoluted history. Many historians and scholars of other fields have tried to explore and understand the arrival and evolution of nationalism. While the subject of how it arrived is under heavy debate, the clarity of its implications remains clear. Nationalism is a long standing and strong force in the modern world. This paper attempts to capture a specific moment in time when nationalism would be beginning its powerful ascent into the world. Through one of France’s most prominent intellectuals, Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu, this paper analyzes …

Year 2019 Position Statement: Principles And Guidelines For Early Hearing Detection And Intervention Programs

Journal of Early Hearing Detection and Intervention

No abstract provided.

2019 October 23 - Undergraduate Curriculum Council Minutes, Undergraduate Curriculum Council, East Tennessee State University

Undergraduate Curriculum Council Minutes

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Documents From The October 23,2019 Meeting Of The Associated Students Of The University Of Montana (Asum), Anna-Marie David

Senate Meeting Agendas and Minutes, 2007-Present

Minutes for the October 23, 2019 ASUM Senate Meeting

Send The Right Message: The Dos And Don’Ts Of Color In Data Visualization, Joseph A. Stanley, Meagan Duever

Faculty Publications

Three dimensions of color

• hue, lightness, and saturation
• Hue = color
• Lightness - measures the relative degree of black or white that’s been mixed with a given hue. Adding white makes the color lighter (creates tints) and adding black makes it darker (creates shades).
• Saturation - how pure or intense a color is; the more saturated a color, the more vivid or brighter it appears

The Comparison Of Live Therapist Delivered Music To Original Artist Recording Interventions On Reminiscing Responses In Adults With Alzheimer's, Rajahna Desiree Schneekloth

Theses and Dissertations

Background: As the growing number of older adults diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease is resort to living in residential care facilities, this population requires purposeful activities in which they can improve and maintain their quality of life. Studies have shown that music therapy positively influences older adults in typical settings such as hospice or other residential care facilities, by providing a source of investigation in to the reminiscing aspect of their memory.

Purpose: This study targets the qualitative and quantitative values of reminiscing responses by comparing the data received from a non-musical baseline response, an original artist recorded musical response, and …

The George-Anne Daily, Georgia Southern University

George-Anne Media Group: Newsletters & Magazines

No abstract provided.

Bilingualism Enhances Preterm-Born Children’S Executive Function: An Fnirsstudy, Ashley Darcy Mahoney

All Publications

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The Solitary Mainstream Experience In Retrospect: The Adult Voice—Preliminary Findings, Gina A. Olivia

JADARA

The Solitary Mainstream project involved 60 deaf and hard of hearing adults ranging in age from 25 to 65, looking back on their K-12 years in the mainstream apart from other D/HH children. A majority of the informants spent their entire school career as "the only one," and the remainder spent at least seven years as such. Essays written in response to an initial global prompt and four specific prompts about these school years were collected and analyzed. A qualitative analysis yielded several common themes which are reported. The Solitary Mainstream Project reflects the collective retrospect of 60 adults eager …

Personality And Social Development Of Deaf Persons, Kathryn P. Meadow

JADARA

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Summary: Conclusions And Recommendations, None None

JADARA

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Special Competencies Of Psychological Service Providers To The Deaf, None None

JADARA

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Decolonizing Reservation Economies: Returning To Private Enterprise And Trade, Adam Crepelle

The Journal of Business, Entrepreneurship & the Law

Tribes can solve many of their socioeconomic problems by embracing their traditional economic practices. Transforming reservation conditions begins by tribes enacting laws and developing institutions that are conducive to private enterprise. Similarly, tribes must embrace trade—both with foreign nations and other tribes. By returning to trade-based economies and adopting laws that facilitate private enterprise, tribes can decolonize reservation economies. The rest of the article proceeds as follows. Part I discusses Indian economic practices prior to European contact and examines the United States’ various Indian policies, removal to the present-day self-determination era. Part II of the paper analyzes various federal, state, …

Egrove Turns 1, Michelle Emanuel

Open Access Week

A look at how eGrove, UM's institutional repository, has grown during its first year.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 95, No. 9, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Burris, Lily. The World Was Truly Robbed – Taylor Grider
• Sisler, June. Interfraternity Council Plans On-Campus Benefit Concert
• Nutter, Abbey & Lily Burris. LifeWorks Helps Students on Autism Spectrum
• Nutter, Abbey. First Year Village to Have Living Learning Communities, Communal Bathrooms Stay
• Stack, Madalyn. Editorial Cartoon re: Voting
• Every Vote Counts
• Heath, Esther. Coming Home – Decades of Spirit
• Holland, Kelley. Express Yourself – Colby Wicker
• Latture, Katelyn. Gatton Academy Student Proves Age Is No Obstacle – Samuel Chang
• Sisler, Julie. Speech to Text: One …

Independent - Oct. 22, 2019, Robin Bridges

The Independent (1988-present)

No abstract provided.

The College Voice, Vol. 43, No. 3 [October 22, 2019], Connecticut College

2019-2020

No abstract provided.

The Effects Of Using Interactive Task-Based Activities In Online Eng-Lish Writing Classes, Soha Y. Masalmh, Mohammed A. Farrah

Journal of Educational and Psychological Studies

This quantitative and qualitative study aims to scrutinize the effectiveness of utilizing interactive task-based activities to teach English writing in Bethlehem Secondary School for Girls. The experiment was conducted at the second semester of the academic year 2016/2017. Two scientific sections from the 11th grade participated in the study; section B was the control group and section C was the experimental one. The former group practiced writing traditionally. The students in the latter group were enrolled in two online platforms, “Facebook” and “PBworks”, to practice the target skill electronically. A questionnaire, pre/posttests, online platforms, a text content analyzer tool and …

Math And Science Post-Basic Education School Teachers’ Use Of As-Sessment For Learning And Assessment Of Learning Practices In Oman, Mahmoud F. Alquraan, Ahmed A. Al-Shaqsi

Journal of Educational and Psychological Studies

The present study aimed at investigating math and science post-basic education school teachers’ use of Assessment for Learning (AfL) and Assessment of Learning (AoL) Practices in Oman from teachers’ points of view and as perceived by their educational supervisors. To achieve the objectives of this study, a 31-item of Likert type questionnaire was used. The questionnaire was divided into two subscales. The first subscale contains 12 AoL practices while the second one contains 19 AfL practices. The questionnaire was distributed to 288 math, biology, physics, and chemistry teachers and to 78 math and science educational supervisors. The results show that …

The Impact Of Drama Instruction On Efl Omani Fifth Graders’ Read-Ing Comprehension, Ruqaya Al Rabeei, Salma Al-Humaidi, Saleh Al-Busaidi

Journal of Educational and Psychological Studies

Drama instruction is one of the methods recommended in EFL literature. This study aimed to investigate the impact of drama instruction on EFL fifth graders’ reading comprehension. It also explored the students’ and the teacher’s perceptions of the use of drama in reading lessons. A total of 74 randomly selected students participated in the study and formed the control group and the experimental group. The study followed the mixed quasi-experimental design. A pre- and posttest reading test was administered to examine the impact of drama on reading comprehension. A questionnaire was implemented to explore students’ perceptions of drama. Semi-structured interviews …

Russian Language Use In The United States: Demographics And Implications, Julie Brock, Sadia Zoubir-Shaw

Posters-at-the-Capitol

As a large nation covering 1/9 of the Earth’s surface, Russia and its language necessarily draw linguistic attention. Between the time of the Russian Revolution (1917) until now, Russian speakers (both from Russia itself and former Soviet territories) immigrated to the United States in four or five waves. Russian is currently identified as one of the world’s Critical Languages, according to the U.S. State Department. U.S. Census data indicate that Russian language spoken in respondents’ homes increased by 393% between 1980-2010, with just under a million people speaking Russian in their homes in 2011. English language use among this population …

'Our Faith Is Good, But Strict': The Transformation Of The Apostolic Christian Church-Nazarene In North America, Aleksandra Djurić-Milovanović

Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies

The number of religious minorities from Central and Eastern Europe prone to migration to the English-speaking world increased considerably during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Among them were the Evangelical Baptists, or Neutäufer, founded by a former Reformed minister, Samuel Fröhlich, around 1830 in Switzerland. Reviving some of the old Mennonite principles, this newly emerging religious community was emphasizing nonresistance, a refusal of taking oaths, the rejection of infant baptism, and separation from the world. Their expansion to Southeastern Europe in the late nineteenth century attracted new members from various ethnic groups. Because of state oppression and religious persecution, the …

October 21, 2019, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

The George-Anne Daily, Georgia Southern University

George-Anne Media Group: Newsletters & Magazines

No abstract provided.

Cs For What? Diverse Visions Of Computer Science Education In Practice, Rafi Santo, Sara Vogel, Dixie Ching

Publications and Research

CS Visions highlights the importance of core values when it comes to computer science education. Understanding different reasons for teaching computer science isn’t just important so that we can get other people to care about CS, they should also shape what computer science education efforts look like - who gets opportunities to learn, what kinds of things get taught and in what ways. Our values should be expressed in our practice.

Interpreting For The Deaf In A Psychiatric Setting, Edward G. Straub

JADARA

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