Maladaptive, Megan Thomas

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023

This ceramics MFA thesis presents themes of environmental and emotional transition through metaphorical bird imagery. The artist juxtaposes humans and ravens, who are capable of adapting to changing environments, with songbirds, who are less capable of surviving change. The artist asks viewers to consider the loss of ways of existing in the world that goes hand in hand with loss of biodiversity. Works include sculpture, sculptural and functional vessels, and drawings.

Effects Of A Telerehabilitation Group On Continuing Language Treatment After Participation In An Intensive Comprehensive Aphasia Program (Icap), Alexis Missel

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023

Aphasia is an acquired neurogenic language disorder encompassing oral and/or written language expression and comprehension affecting an estimated two- to two to four million people in the United States, (Simmons-Mackie, 2018; National Aphasia Association, 2016). The primary aim of the current study was to investigate an option for targeted intervention as a follow-up to an Intensive Comprehensive Aphasia Program (ICAP). There is little research assessing maintenance of communication profile gains following conclusion of the ICAPs, and there are few options that exist as tailored ICAP follow-up programs or continued intervention guided by the ICAP principle features. To address this, a …

Engaging Empirical Dynamic Modeling To Detect Intrusions In Cyber-Physical Systems, David R. Crow, Scott R. Graham, Brett J. Borghetti, Patrick J. Sweeney

Faculty Publications

Modern cyber-physical systems require effective intrusion detection systems to ensure adequate critical infrastructure protection. Developing an intrusion detection capability requires an understanding of the behavior of a cyber-physical system and causality of its components. Such an understanding enables the characterization of normal behavior and the identification and reporting of anomalous behavior. This chapter explores a relatively new time series analysis technique, empirical dynamic modeling, that can contribute to system understanding. Specifically, it examines if the technique can adequately describe causality in cyber-physical systems and provides insights into it serving as a foundation for intrusion detection.

Online Interpretation Guideline For Historic House Museums, Olivia A. Weixlmann

Museum Studies Theses

What does it mean to be a museum in 2020? How do cultural institutions, charged with preserving our history, navigate the challenges of the modern world? Technological advances including the internet, quickly produce an abundance of media outlets baiting attention that impact the sociopolitical climate driving civil unrest, and ideological division. The surplus of competing information from technology driven outlets result in audiences being overwhelmed and left questioning if the information they're receiving is from a reliable source.

Front Matter

The Foundation Review

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British Piracy Policy In Jamaica, Aaron M. Goins

Masters Theses

The British used piracy as a tool of empire to gain a foothold the Caribbean until they had enough resources to create an empire of their own. Piracy functioned as an insurgency for the British keeping the competition in the new world below the threshold of war in Europe but still detrimental to the Spanish. The British used this chaos and the resources it brought in to build themselves while hurting the Spanish. Then, once the British desired stability over chaos they ceased use of pirates and started hunting pirates.

Reflections Of Female Band Directors: The Perceived Effect Of Sex, Gender, And Race On Career Experiences And Professional Practices, Robyn M. Olichwier Lawrence

Masters Theses, 2020-current

The purpose of this study was to examine the introspections of female band directors, and their perceived beliefs about the effect of sex, gender, and race on their own personal career experiences and professional practices. Participants (N=82) were all current members of Women Band Directors International. After contact through the organization’s website, participants were invited to complete an online survey that consisted of 39 multiple choice, Likert-scale based questions. An optional short answer question was included in the survey (totaling 40 questions), to offer participants the opportunity to share information about personal experiences if they felt comfortable. …

Holiday 2020

The Weldon Times

A student-run publication from the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University.

Co-Editors in Chief: Tiffany Leung, Madison Ranta

Graphic Design & Layout: Alexandra Fox

Peeling Back The Layers - Perceptions Of Parents Of Urban Elementary Students, Kellie Scruggs Baldwin

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of this study was to determine the educational experiences of an identified urban elementary school in Central Virginia parents (similar to the researcher’s school’s parents) as lived through their own experience and how these educational experiences determine their academic parent involvement for their child. By examining parents’ educational experiences, educational professionals may be able to bridge the home and school communities and determine support needed to aid families in educating children.

Smart Irrigation System For A Small Plant Nursery Based On Soil Moisture Level, I.M. Methsarani Fernando, Sachini Gunasekara

Journal of Innovation in Science, Engineering and Technology

This study is an examination about soil moisture level based on an automated watering system for a small plant nursery. The soil moisture sensors sense the current soil moisture level and send a notification to the user if the current soil moisture level is below than the required soil moisture level. Then the user should select the plant which requires watering, and then it displays the current soil moisture level and the required soil moisture level. To start watering automatically, the user must switch on the motor from the mobile application, and if not, he gets a notification to turn …

Gamanak – The Travel Planner With Social Media Mobile Application, L.C.S. Lokuliyanage, D. Dhammearatchi

Journal of Innovation in Science, Engineering and Technology

Travelling is an immensely popular hobby for most people nowadays since it allows them to be relieved of their stress and enjoy various activities among friends and family. It is a form of adventure which allows them to discover new places, meet people of various ethnicities, learn new languages and relish the beauty of the world. While all these make traveling sound amazing, planning such a journey can turn out to be a very tiresome task which requires a lot of time and effort. The modern world has many solutions for this and out of them, digital solutions come out …

Access Control & Security Alarm System For Bts Management With Microcontroller, W.S.R.M. Charls Karawita, Dhishan Dhammearatchi, Rajeewa De Silva

Journal of Innovation in Science, Engineering and Technology

This paper describes the design of Microcontroller based security and Access control system for use in Mobile base station premises. The system combines Microcontroller technology and Mobile Network to accomplish the required task. When the Visitor sends Short Message Service (SMS) to the centre office, the Centre office detects a mobile number, and then the system captures the user image and scans the database for a match. If both the Database image and captured image belong to a registered user, access is granted. When an unauthorized user opens the base station door without permission from centre office system turns on …

Factors Affecting For The Service Quality Of Three-Wheeler Transportation In Kurunegala City, S.M. Nuwarapaksha, C.A. Kankanamge, D.G.N.D. Jayarathna

Journal of Innovation in Science, Engineering and Technology

Public Transport service is vital to the wellbeing of any country. Three-wheeler transportation service in Sri Lanka has become poor in quality and unreliable due to the expectations of passengers. Therefore, the scope of this study was limited three-wheeler transportation in Kurunegala city. Quality service is a procedure of total evaluation of service or product. If the service provider is separate from the service it offers, then the passengers regularly get attached to the service quality. Transportation service in Sri Lanka is in poor quality because it does not meet the passenger expectations and needs. Quality three-wheeler service implementation in …

Dynamic Route Planning (Drp) Module For Distribution Business, Darshana T. Dayaratne, Sachini Gunasekara

Journal of Innovation in Science, Engineering and Technology

In the Sri Lankan logistics industry, delivery route planning is a very important and critical task. It requires many skilled labours and is time-consuming as well. The project aims to develop a Dynamic Route Planning (DRP) Algorithm to computerize the task and make it fast and efficient. The system comprises many features, including identifying the fastest route to deliver goods to all the given delivery locations (drop points). It also captures the cargo volume, vehicle capacity and provides an indication of the number of vehicles required to complete the full delivery by running a calculation using the volume of the …

Prescription Analysis Of Short Dosage Forms Of Metformin As Monotherapy Or Combined Therapy In Type Ii Diabetes Mellitus; Pilot Study, N.T. Thotawatte, H. H. V. K. N. De Silva, R. G. W. D. B. Rajapaksha

Journal of Innovation in Science, Engineering and Technology

This pilot study was done to evaluate the prescribing pattern of insulin and metformin in both monotherapy and combined therapy used in type II diabetes mellitus in Sri Lanka. The study was conducted at community pharmacies and the data was collected for a week. Results shows that total of 67 prescriptions were male 59.7% and 40.2% were female. Individuals of the 50-60 year age category was the most risk group having DM and were prescribed with twice a daily, thrice a daily doses of metformin. Different dosage forms were used but the monotherapy was the more frequent prescription in type …

Leading The Children In Sri Lanka To Right Choice Of Education, Lalith Edirisinghe

Journal of Innovation in Science, Engineering and Technology

Note: This article is a brief communication of the original research presently being conducted by the Faculty of Management and Social Sciences of CINEC Campus. The author believes this will be useful to many researchers, and will undoubtedly stimulate further research in the field of education. Following the norms of research writing, some experimental details haven’t been incorporated in this briefing since the author is yet to publish a series of original research manuscripts.

Use The Moment Method To Estimate The Reliability Function Of The Data Of Truncated Skew Normal Distribution, Hatem Kareem Abbas, Ahmed Dheyab Ahmed

Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences

The Estimation Of The Reliability Function Depends On The Accuracy Of The Data Used To Estimate The Parameters Of The Probability distribution, and Because Some Data Suffer from a Skew in their Data to Estimate the Parameters and Calculate the Reliability Function in light of the Presence of Some Skew in the Data, there must be a Distribution that has flexibility in dealing with that Data. As in the data of Diyala Company for Electrical Industries, as it was observed that there was a positive twisting in the data collected from the Power and Machinery Department, which required distribution that …

The Quality Of The Auditor's Report In The Local Environment In Compliance With The Requirements Of The Isa 701 Standard, Haya Ayad Ali, Lubna Zaid Ibrahim

Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences

The research aims to demonstrate the quality of the auditor’s report by analyzing a number of models represented by the auditor’s report based on the Iraqi audit evidence and the auditor’s report in light of the application of international auditing standards for the report and the auditor’s report in light of the application of the International Auditing Standard 701, in addition to explaining the impact of applying the International Auditing Standard 701. International Auditing 701 in enhancing the quality of the auditor's report, and in order to reach these goals, a comparison was made on international experiences before and after …

Identifying, Increasing Awareness, And Supporting Military-Connected Adolescents In Public Schools, Amanda Bushman

Theses and Dissertations

Of the nearly 1,000,000 children of active duty members of the military, around 80% attend civilian schools not affiliated with the Department of Defense Education Activity ([DoDEA] DoDEA, 2018; Department of Defense [DoD], 2018). This creates a need for schools to be aware of the challenges that military-connected (MC) students face and understand how best to support them. Recent research indicates that the prevalence of mental health problems in MC youth populations has been rising since the war on terrorism began (De Pedro et al., 2011). MC youth experience an array of internalizing and externalizing problems, including stress disorders (Gorman …

Lightgwas: A Novel Machine Learning Procedure For Genome-Wide Association Study, Ambrozio Bruno, Luca Longo, Lucas Rizzo

Articles

This paper proposes a novel machine learning procedure for genome-wide association study (GWAS), named LightGWAS. It is based on the LightGBM framework, in addition to being a single, resilient, autonomous and scalable solution to address common limitations of GWAS implementations found in the literature. These include reliance on massive manual quality control steps and specific GWAS methods for each type of dataset morphology and size. Through this research, LightGWAS has been contrasted against PLINK2, one of the current state-of-the-art for GWAS implementations based on general linear model with support to firth regularisation. The mean differences measured upon standard classification metrics, …

The Layered Frames Of Performed Tabletop: Actual-Play Podcasts And The Laminations Of Media, Brendan Decicio

Theses and Dissertations

Despite their sudden growth in popularity, the role-playing actual-play podcasts have either been ignored or grouped with the genre of audio drama in prior scholarly works. Examination using frame analysis shows, however, that these podcasts are distinct in their engagement of the audience on multiple, simultaneous levels; levels which correspond with well-known media genres such as Documentary, Fiction, and Game Play. Each frame has its own layer of identities, conduct, and avenue for appealing to audiences just as these genres have their own distinct appeals. Through the combinations of these frames, familiar tropes and techniques such as Short-Form Improv and …

Embodiment In Early Development: Exploring The Relationships Between Sensorimotor Skills, Gesture, And Language, Jessica R. Stewart, Ruth Crutchfield, Melissa Pierce, Debra C. Vigil

Communication Sciences & Disorders Faculty Publications

Purpose: This study examined the relationship between sensorimotor abilities, gesture, and language in prelinguistic typically developing children from an embodied cognition perspective.

Method: Participants included a total of 54 typically developing infants and toddlers between the ages of 9 months and 15 months. All participants were administered the Mullen’s Scale of Early Learning (MSEL) and two gesture samples were obtained and coded. The MSEL was used to analyze sensorimotor and language abilities which were explored in relation to gesture.

Results: Results established that sensorimotor skills are related to gesture and expressive language, but not receptive language. Visual reception was …

Deaf Cultural Capital And Its Conflicts With Hearing Culture: Navigational Successes And Failures, Ashley Greene-Woods, Natalie J. Delgado, Beverly Buchanan, Misty Sides, Abbas Ali Behmanesh, Brian Cheslik, Caroline K. Koo, M. Diane Clark

Communication Sciences & Disorders Faculty Publications

Despite the creation and implementation of laws intended to support and protect Deaf individuals, stories of limited opportunities and oppression within the workplace still exist and are pervasive. Current research in regard to Deaf individuals’ upward mobility includes a discussion of cultural capital, Imposter Syndrome, and navigational capital. To further understand the experiences of Deaf individuals, the research team conducted a mixed-methods study utilizing surveys and interviews. The results provided insight regarding challenges experienced by the participants in either-or-both their education and employment. The data suggests that the use of navigational capital was the most significant predictor for upward mobility.

Voice Therapy Techniques For Male-To-Female Versus Female-To-Male Transgender Individuals And Stereotypical Gender Beliefs That Affect These Techniques, Bailey Lyman

Honors College Theses

This research was conducted to determine the differences and similarities between the therapeutic techniques used with male-to-female versus female-to-male transgender voice clients resulting from their existing and potentially changing anatomy and physiology. It was also conducted to determine the potential impacts of gender stereotyping on therapeutic techniques and a client’s therapeutic course. A review of the literature suggests that although there are quite a few similarities between the therapeutic techniques of male-to-female and female-to-male voice clients, there are crucial differences in these techniques that must also be considered. A few of the differences include considering a degree of change based …

Voice Therapy Techniques For Male-To-Female Versus Female-To-Male Transgender Individuals And Stereotypical Beliefs That Affect These Techniques, Bailey Lyman

Honors College Theses

This research was conducted to determine the differences and similarities between the therapeutic techniques used with male-to-female versus female-to-male transgender voice clients resulting from their existing and potentially changing anatomy and physiology. It was also conducted to determine the potential impacts of gender stereotyping on therapeutic techniques and a client’s therapeutic course. A review of the literature suggests that although there are quite a few similarities between the therapeutic techniques of male-to-female and female-to-male voice clients, there are crucial differences in these techniques that must also be considered. A few of the differences include considering a degree of change based …

The Road To Inclusion: Special Education In The United States And Mexico, Elena Hammann

Honors College Theses

This report addresses the laws, views, funding, and school system policies in the United States and Mexico. Children with disabilities are typically subject to misrepresentation, prejudice, and a lack of opportunities. The best chance these children have to succeed is an adequate education. The intention of both countries for the last five decades is to provide an equitable and inclusive education for students with disabilities. Although educational planners and policy makers in each country pass federal legislation and educational policy, there is further work for improvement. The results of current research through a questionnaire shows continued negative social bias towards …

Modeling And Analysis Of Scheduling Problems Containing Renewable Energy Decisions, Shasha Wang

All Dissertations

With globally increasing energy demands, world citizens are facing one of society's most critical issues: protecting the environment. To reduce the emission of greenhouse gases (GHG), which are by-products of conventional energy resources, people are reducing the consumption of oil, gas, and coal collectively. In the meanwhile, interest in renewable energy resources has grown in recent years. Renewable generators can be installed both on the power grid side and end-use customer side of power systems. Energy management in power systems with multiple microgrids containing renewable energy resources has been a focus of industry and researchers as of late. Further, on-site …

Women Student Veteran’S Help-Seeking Behaviors With Faculty, Outside The Classroom: A Descriptive Phenomenological Study, Jessica Rose Pelfrey

All Dissertations

As of February 2020, women made up approximately ten percent of the overall veteran population in the United States (U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, 2020, February). The National Center for Veterans Analysis and Statistics anticipated an increase in the number of women veterans to the tune of 18 percent each year, through 2027 (U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, 2017, February). Interestingly, while the overall veteran population has decreased in recent years, the number of women veterans has simultaneously increased (U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, 2017, February).

Nonetheless, institutions of higher education have seen an influx in student veteran enrollments (U.S. …

Effects Of Hand Preference On Digit Lengths And Digit Ratios Among Children And Adults, Sanjay Kumar, Maharaj Singh, Martin Voracek

Mathematical and Statistical Science Faculty Research and Publications

Background

Prenatal sex hormones may not exclusively determine effects of hand preference on digit ratios. Genetic determination is an alternative possibility.

Aim

To study the likelihood of similar effects of hand preference on digit lengths and digit ratios.

Methods

We selected similar numbers of left-handers and right-handers in samples of kindergarten children (N = 101, age range: 3.5–7 years) and adults (N = 189, age range: 17–28 years) and measured digit lengths (excluding the thumb) directly on the palmar hand.

Results

Compared to right-handers, left-handers had longer digits and lower third-to-fourth (3D:4D) digit ratios among children, whereas an …

A Patient-Centered Asthma Management Communication Intervention For Rural Latino Children: Protocol For A Waiting-List Randomized Controlled Trial, Robin Dawson Phd, Rn, Cpnp-Pc, Sue P. Heiney Ph.D., Rn, Faan, Deanne Hilfinger Messias, Dennis Ownby

Publications

Background: Rural Latino children with asthma suffer high rates of uncontrolled asthma symptoms, emergency department visits, and repeat hospitalizations. This vulnerable population must negotiate micro- and macrolevel challenges that impact asthma management, including language barriers, primary care access, parental time off from work, insurance coverage, distance from specialty sites, and documentation status. There are few proven interventions that address asthma management embedded within this unique context. Objective: Using a bio-ecological approach, we will determine the feasibility of a patient-centered collaborative program between rural Latino children with asthma and their families, school-based nursing programs, and primary care providers, facilitated by the …