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The East Texan, 2019-12-05, Texas A&M University-Commerce

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A color copy of The East Texan, a student newspaper published at Texas A&M University-Commerce.

Near-Coastal Ultrahigh Resolution Scatterometer Winds, Nolan Lawrence Hutchings

Theses and Dissertations

RapidScat 2.5 km ultrahigh resolution (UHR) wind estimation is introduced and validated it in near-coastal regions. In addition, this thesis applies direction interval retrieval techniques and develops a new wind processing method to enhance the performance of RapidScat UHR wind estimation in the nadir region. The new algorithm is validated with L2B wind estimates, Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) wind products, and buoy measurements. The wind processing improvements produce more spatially consistent UHR winds that compare well with the wind products mentioned above. Hawaii regional climate model (HRCM), QuikSCAT, and ASCAT wind estimates are compared in the lee of the Big …

The George-Anne Daily, Georgia Southern University

George-Anne Media Group: Newsletters & Magazines

No abstract provided.

Exploring The Development Of A Hybrid And Synthetic Meaning Of Citizenship At A British University Law School, P Von Berg

School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences

This study uncovers a previously underappreciated role of the social experience of university in shaping undergraduates’ civic identities. A multidisciplinary theoretical approach to citizenship is used to understand an individual’s attempts to negotiate meaning along with a qualitative methodology that allowed students a voice in the data collection and analysis. The findings show that some of the most formative experiences in a student’s civic identity is their interaction with peers and friends in a diverse student community. There is also a strong influence of a culture of performativity and credentialism on students’ attitudes to learning about citizenship. Both combine in …

The George-Anne, Georgia Southern University

The George-Anne

• Happy Holidays
• #SeenAtSouthern
• New learning center in Ireland
• Courageous Conversations at Georgia Southern
• Fencing: Georgia Southern's Best Kept Secret
• Presentation sparks Outrage
• Miss Black Georgia Southern University
• Senior Picture Confetti Clean Up
• How did the Merger Affect Student Athletes at Armstrong?
• Panthers Go Down in Paulson Stadium
• Reflecting on the Rollercoaster Season of Georgia Southern Volleyball
• Puzzles

Snord94 Expression Level Alters Methylation At C62 In Snrna U6., Allison Ogren, Nataliya Kibiryeva, Jennifer A. Marshall, James O'Brien, Douglas C. Bittel

Manuscripts, Articles, Book Chapters and Other Papers

Understanding the regulation of development can help elucidate the pathogenesis behind many developmental defects found in humans and other vertebrates. Evidence has shown that alternative splicing of messenger RNA (mRNA) plays a role in developmental regulation, but our knowledge of the underlying mechanisms that regulate alternative splicing are incomplete. Notably, a subset of small noncoding RNAs known as scaRNAs (small cajal body associated RNAs) contribute to spliceosome maturation and function through guiding covalent modification of spliceosomal RNAs with either methylation or pseudouridylation on specific nucleotides, but the developmental significance of these modifications is not well understood. Our focus is on …

Digital Library Challenges And Opportunities: An Overview, Vipan Kumar Sharma, Suresh Kumar Chauhan

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Libraries have been long been endless sources of information for users. The face of libraries is changing as content is moving toward a digital platform and internet access is becoming more of human necessity than a privilege, which got influenced by technology. New technology has given rise to a new concept of modernization of academic libraries using digital technology and now going to become a part of daily work culture of under-developed the scenario. This paper also examines some of these challenges and opportunities in context to academic libraries. Digital library is an innovative technology to develop the learning and …

Jay Schroeder Pro-Practice, Jennifer Schroeder

Professional Practices (ART 399)

My Art is mainly reality based, focusing on social commentary or narrative. Often covering themes of depression, disorders, disability, dilapidation, inequality, and struggles. I provide art that people can connect to on a personal and emotional level. Experience with bigotry and struggles with disorders and learning disabilities has influenced me to explore art that is unapologetically honest. With the goal of reaching out to people so they can see the good and the bad in the world, creating something they can relate to and connect with, so we can all stand together in solidarity.

I have experience with 2D and …

A Twitter-Based Network Analysis Of Brain Tumor Social Media, Josemari T. Feliciano

Yale Day of Data

The Brain Tumor Social Media (#BTSM) Twitter hashtag was founded in February 2012 as a disease-specific hashtag for brain tumor patients. To understand #BTSM’s role as a patient support system we describe user descriptors, growth, interaction, and content sharing.

Saving Software And Using Emulation To Reproduce Computationally Dependent Research Results, Euan Cochrane, Limor Peer, Ethan Gates, Seth Anderson

Yale Day of Data

Using digital data necessarily involves software. How do institutions think about software in the context of the long-term usability of their data assets? How do they address usability challenges uniquely posed by software such as, license restrictions, legacy software, code rot, and dependencies? These questions are germane to the agenda set forth by the FAIR principles. At Yale University, a team in the Library is looking into the application of a novel approach to emulation as a potential solution. In this presentation, we will outline the work of the Emulation as a Service Infrastructure (EaaSI) program, discuss our plans for …

Saving Adele: A History Of The Portrait Of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, Ariel A. Furman

Quest

Individual Research Project

Research in progress for HIST 1302: United States History II

Faculty Mentor: Kyle Wilkison, Ph.D.

Nothing ruins an enriching intellectual experience quite like having it assigned. Consequently, Honors History 1302 students began by identifying their own passions and interests. They then chose topics of immediate and abiding personal interest and produced research projects that reflected that energy and commitment. Their research probed a marvelous variety of historical topics from culture, medicine, science, politics, and economics. They researched and wrote about anti-fascist American comic books during World War II, disturbing historic treatments for the mentally ill, advances in …

Job Satisfaction Of Automotive Technicians: A Comparison Of Graduates From General Programs To Manufacturer-Sponsored Programs, Bobby Gene Rowe

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The purpose of this casual-comparative study was to compare the job satisfaction levels of graduates from postsecondary two-year automotive programs that included specialized manufacturer-sponsored training to those graduates of postsecondary two-year general automotive programs. The study used the results of surveys answered by graduates working in dealerships within a 50-mile radius of postsecondary schools that have four of more Mopar CAP, Honda PACT, GM ASEP, Ford Asset, or Toyota T-TEN programs. Job satisfaction was measured using Spector’s Job Satisfaction Survey and consisted of pay, fringe benefits, assigned job tasks, and total job satisfaction. An independent t-test measured the differences in …

Implications And Concerns Regarding The Mammogram Debate, Kristen Quertinmont, Breanne Rizzo, Caitlin Swan, Mary E. Klein, Lindsay Coram, Whitney N. Detillion, Anne F. Gentry, Natalie Dipietro, Brenda Rizzo

Pharmacy and Wellness Review

Screening procedures that detect breast cancer in its early stages are an important element of preventative health care for all women. When official guidelines and recommendations for screening are modified, their changes impact health care at both the population and individual patient levels. Recently, the United States Preventive Service Task Force (USPSTF) has developed new recommendations regarding when to start mammogram screening for breast cancer in women of average risk for the development of breast cancer. This article discusses the rationale behind the updated USPSTF recommendations and also presents the current American Cancer Society (ACS) guidelines.

Prescription Drug Abuse: A Guide For Pharmacists, Brieann J. Miller, Amanda C. Mcdavid, Nicholas J. Edmonds, Joshua P. Stevens, Cynthia C. Nguyen, Ryan W. Naseman, Michael M. Milks

Pharmacy and Wellness Review

Millions of Americans use prescription psychotherapeutc drugs for nonmedical purposes. The most commonly abused prescription drugs are painkillers, followed by sedatives and stimulants. The first step towards ending prescription drug abuse must be taken by the pharmacist. Professional and student organizations, as well the as the newly founded Ohio Rx Abuse Prevention (OhioRAP) Coalition, provide resources to pharmacists and pharmacy students who want to reduce prescription drug abuse. This article discusses these various resources and provides a guide for pharmacists to take an active role in reducing prescription drug abuse and positively impact patient outcomes and their communities.

Detection Of And Response To Accessibility-Related Behavioral Cues, Collin Irwin, Rachel Hausmann

Defensive Publications Series

A system is described that enables a computing device (e.g., a mobile phone, smart watch, tablet computer, etc.) to detect behavioral cues from a user and recommend relevant accessibility settings for the user based on the detected behavioral cues. The computing device may use various sensors to detect accessibility-related behavioral cues and analyze the detected behavioral cues to identify a relevant accessibility setting. For example, a computing device may use a radio detection and ranging (radar) system to detect behavioral cues from a user as inputs and may identify a relevant accessibility setting that benefits the user based on the …

Automatic Network Device Identification Using Identifiers Of Contacted Servers, Jan Kohout

Defensive Publications Series

This proposal provides techniques for a system to identify network devices (e.g., classify their types, operating system families, etc.) based on information associated with contacted servers. In some implementations, the system may be designed to include an auto-update mechanism that enables the system to adapt to changing behavior of devices automatically. Thus, only initial labeled seeds may be needed to initialize the system, which may then automatically adapt itself without manual retraining.

Meeting Minutes, Wku Staff Council

Staff Council

Minutes of December 2019 meeting.

Seeing In Color: How Are Teachers Perceiving Our Diverse Autistic Students?, Merida Lang

Ought: The Journal of Autistic Culture

Although the discipline gap between Black and White students is well documented and the discipline gap between students with disabilities and those without has also been researched, the discipline gap between autistic students of color and White students has received very little attention. This essay asks educators to consider the ways in which autistic students of color exist in a specific cross section of double-discrimination and considers what can be done to reduce unconscious bias, including developing a broader and more diverse understanding of autistic culture.

Oughtism And Oughtistic Narratives In The Lives Of Autistic People And Their Families, Mairi Evans

Ought: The Journal of Autistic Culture

No abstract provided.

Truffaut’S L’Enfant Sauvage (The Wild Child, 1970): Evoking Autism And The Nascent “Eugenic Atlantic”, Joy C. Schaefer

Ought: The Journal of Autistic Culture

This essay analyzes François Truffaut’s L’Enfant sauvage (The Wild Child, 1970) as an early representation of autism that metaphorizes the neurodiverse child as the colonial subject. The film takes place in 1798, only a decade after the French Revolution, and depicts the true events of the “wild boy of Aveyron,” a feral child found in the Southern French forest when he was twelve years old. Before the film’s production, Truffaut—who also plays the boy’s teacher, Dr. Jean-Marc Itard—collected articles and books on autism and viewed videos of autistic children to create his main character’s behavioral patterns. The film …

Analyzation Of Awareness Methods Of Air Quality In Pristina, Kosovo And A New Method To Help Increase Awareness, Justin Lawlor

Student Research Symposium (SRS)

Power plants have become a huge problem in Kosovo and have caused the air quality to become hazardous to health, but people don’t consider it a big concern. The focus of this study is to evaluate the current methods of awareness of air pollution observed and investigate a new method to implement to increase awareness. The methods to collect this data included an interview, observations, and a media analysis. The researcher observed three methods of awareness, an air quality monitor at the U.S. Embassy, the Newborn sign, and stickers around light switches at the Rochester Institute of Technology Kosovo (RITK) …

High Rate Quasi-Steady-State Pattern Visual Evoked Potentials For Brain-Computer Interface, Ibrahim Kaya

Open Access Dissertations

Visual Evoked Potentials (VEPs) are electrophysiological signals recorded from occipital areas of the scalp in response to visual stimulation. VEPs are used for clinical monitoring of diseases and Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs). Depending on the stimulation rate, there are two types of VEPs, transient (low stimulation rates < 3Hz) and Steady-State (higher stimulation rates >5Hz). However, a novel VEP stimulation paradigm was developed at the University of Miami, Neurosensory Laboratory. This paradigm generates low jittered VEPs similar to Steady-State VEP (SSVEP) and called Quasi-Steady State VEPs (QSS-VEPs). QSS paradigm has proven itself in the fast acquisition of Auditory Brainstem Responses (ABRs) and Pattern Electroretinograms (PERGs). One major advantage …

December 4, 2019, University Of Mississippi. S. Gale Denley Media Center

Daily Mississippian

No abstract provided.

Leading Ethically Ii Spc 506, Joanna Burkhardt

Library Impact Statements

No abstract provided.

Capstone Project: Nonprofit Leadership Ii Spc 551, Joanna Burkhardt

Library Impact Statements

No abstract provided.

Commonwealth Times 2019-12-04

Commonwealth Times, 1969-

No abstract provided.

Mary In The News: Dec. 4, 2019, Michael Duricy

Marian Library Blog Archive

Read recent items about Mary in both Catholic and secular news. Also, see International Marian Research Institute as well as Marian Library news and updates.

Issue 341: December 5-19, 2019, The Local Voice

The Local Voice

No abstract provided.

Spartan Daily, December 4, 2019, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily, 2019

Volume 153, Issue 41

Ohio Undergraduate Researchers Rock The Insect World, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

No abstract provided.