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Work-Integrated Learning For Mining Engineering Training And The Employability Nexus In Traditional Research Universities: A Case Of Selected South Africa Universities, Paul Othusitse Dipitso

Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education

No abstract provided.

The Effect Of Social Networks Advertisements On Egyptian Consumers’ Purchase Behaviour, Madiha Metawie, Rasha Hussien Mostafa Faculty Of Commerce

Business Administration

The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of perceived advertising value of Social Networks adverts (SN ads) on Egyptian consumers’ purchasing behaviour. The researchers based their study on Ducoffe (1996) Advertising Value Model that includes informativeness, entertainment, credibility, and irritation, in addition to materialism and peer influence. Data were obtained from 375 Egyptian respondents. Structural Equation Modelling was applied to examine the research hypotheses. The results supported the positive mediating effect of attitude towards SN ads and purchase intention on the relationship between informativeness, entertainment, irritation, materialism and peer influence on consumers purchasing behaviour. Yet, SN ads …

Determining Faculty Capacity For Transdisciplinary Instruction, Dominic Swayne

Dissertations, 2020-current

The purpose of this study was to develop a reliable and valid survey instrument that would prove useful in identifying faculty with the capacity and inclination to succeed in team-taught, hands-on, transdisciplinary course programming. Using an exploratory, mixed-methods design, the qualitative component consisted of semi-structured interviews of nine experienced X-Labs faculty. The qualitative analysis process identified attributes that were vital to transdisciplinary teaching and demonstrated patterns that were consistent with complex leadership development. During the mixing process, these data were translated into a quantitative instrument. A panel of experts reviewed the prototype instrument and reduced the number of items included …

Investigating Teachers’ Perspectives Of Gifted Students With Specific Learning Disabilities In Saudi Arabia, Mohamed Aladsani

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to examine teachers’ perspectives of gifted students with SLD in Saudi Arabia. Specifically, this study aimed at examining the relationships between teachers’ perspectives and background factors, including years of teaching experience and gender, that might affect the teachers’ perspectives. In addition, it investigated the teachers’ perspectives about the existence, identification, and education of gifted students with SLD in different regions in Saudi Arabia. This study used statistical analysis of quantitative data collected from an online survey that was adopted and modified specifically for this study. The study participants included 936 teachers with various backgrounds …

An Investigation Of Postsecondary Centers For Teaching Excellence Support For Universal Design For Learning, David Mcgeehan

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The research examined factors related to support for Universal Design for Learning (UDL) in faculty professional development training programs offered by Centers for Teaching Excellence (CTE) in postsecondary institutions. The factors examined were: administrative support, staffing for CTEs, CTE staff characteristics, CTE level of use of technology, CTE directors’ educational backgrounds, and the espoused support for students with disabilities in university mission statements.

Universal Design for Learning is a pedagogical framework that can be used to design and retrofit curricula to reduce access barriers to course content and activities for all students, particularly students with disabilities. Students with disabilities is …

Control Of Corrosion On Ss316l Using Surface Initiated Polymers, Alexander Rupprecht

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Pitting corrosion is arguably one of the most destructive and dangerous forms of corrosion, resulting in damage to structures, the environment, and public health. In addition, damage caused to structures such as bridges, pipelines, and boats, corrosion also has a profound effect on the biomedical community. Implanted metallic devices (i.e., vascular stents and artificial joints) are prone to pitting corrosion caused by aggressive ions present in extracellular fluid. To provide a corrosion-resistant surface on SS316L, films of poly(styrene), poly(methyl acrylate), and poly(methyl methacrylate) were formed using surface-initiated atom transfer radical polymerization (SI-ATRP). The resulting hydrophobic polymer films had a fractional …

Fish Out Of Water, Francesca Krempa

Capstones

On screen, romantic comedies provide a certain kind of predictability and escape. In real life, the cliches can be unnerving and less promising. But life isn’t always stranger than fiction – when an urbanite writer falls in love with a salt-of-the-earth voracious angler at a fishing tournament, she finds the hopeful cliches are unavoidable. https://francescakrempa.com/capstone/

Multibeam Array Antenna For Base Station In The Fifth-Generation Mobile Communication System, Intan Izafina Idrus

Student Works (2020-2029)

Research on the fifth-generation (5G) mobile communication system has been accelerated to meet the standardization of the International Telecommunications Union for higher data traffic and higher data rates. The main requirements of the 5G mobile communication systems are the utilization of millimeter waves, the deployment of small cells, and the use of multibeam array antennas for multiple-input multiple-output schemes. Multibeam array antennas play an important role in developing a new base station to enhance system capacity, improve network coverage, and reduce co-channel interference. The main objective of this thesis is to design a single-layer multibeam array antenna at 28 GHz …

A Rapid Response Vaccine Development Strategy For Newcastle Disease In Poultry, Sr R. Maremagae, Cc C. Bezuidenhout, Am M. Murphy, Ma A. Jarvis, P Naicker, P. J. Lebea

School of Biomedical Sciences

Poultry is a major source of protein in sub-Saharan Africa and many other lower-income regions. Newcastle disease virus (NCDV) comprises a significant threat toward poultry production. While NCDV vaccines are routinely used in developed countries, those used in sub-Saharan Africa are mostly imported and are not specific to locally circulating strains. Indeed, the lack of rapid, field-based NCDV detection and the absence of cost-effective production methods for pure, strain-specific vaccines hampers efficient poultry production throughout these regions. This remains a major problem for both subsistence and commercial farming.The aim for this study was firstly, to develop a field-based isothermal PCR …

The Language Of Empire, Carmin Wong

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

This manuscript focuses on Caribbean and American culture, in addition to, Guyanese Creolized English and American Standard English. The poems in this collection infuse oral and written poetic techniques to write back to the hierarchies of language and literature set by the British empire. Upon defense, this collection was distinguished as an affirming love letter to Black women.

The Career Advancement Narratives Of Black Women Presidents Of Historically Black Colleges And Universities (Hbcus), Tonia W. Horton

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this narrative study was to chronicle the career advancement journeys of the Black women who have been successful in ascending to the presidency in Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Currently, only a small percentage of Black women serve as presidents of HBCUs. More specifically, there is literature suggesting that race and gender discrimination towards Black women is not confined by institution type, and that some of the same issues plaguing Black women in Predominantly White Institutions (PWIs), exist within HBCUs as well (Bonner, 2001; Gasman, 2007; Kennedy, 2012). Although many studies exist relative to the career …

Mechanical Engineering News, Georgia Southern University

Mechanical Engineering: News & Publications (2013-2023)

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Feasibility Of Geothermal Energy Piles In New Orleans Alluvial Soils, Patrick A. Thurmond

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Geothermal energy piles offer the benefits of modifying existing construction practices to reduce costs associated with heating and cooling. A major obstacle today in effective utilization of these systems is a general lack of site-specific data on the thermal properties of subsoils. To maximize the potential efficiency of these systems, engineers require an understanding of the potential impact of this technology on existing foundation design methodology as well as a means for quantifying potential heat transfer through soil by determination of the soil’s thermal conductivity. This study examines the feasibility of energy piles with a focus on alluvial soils found …

Applied Molecular Dynamics: From Targeting Viral Helicases, To Understanding The Interactions Of Cucurbituril Complexes In Ionic Solutions, Bryan Raubenolt

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Molecular Dynamics simulations are a highly useful tool in helping understand the fundamental interactions present in a variety of chemical systems. The work discussed here illustrates it’s use in determining the conformational dynamics of the Zika and SARS-Cov-2 helicase in a physiological environment, largely in an effort to discover inhibitors capable of rendering the protein inert. Additionally, we show how it can be used to understand paradoxical trends in the anion-induced precipitation of Cucurbituril cavitands.

Viral helicases are motor proteins tasked with unwinding the viral dsRNA, a crucial step in preparing the strand to be translatable by host cells. By …

From May To Shall: The Status Of Financial Education With The Passing Of Louisiana House Bill No. 401 In 2016, Leigh Erin J. Lundy

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Louisiana has a financial literacy problem. In 2016, 2018, and 2019, the Louisiana legislature responded to the financial illiteracy plaguing Louisiana by mandating personal financial management education. Though now required, no studies to date have examined if or to what extent personal financial management is being implemented across Louisiana.

Using a quantitative, non-experimental survey approach, I gathered and analyzed baseline data about Louisiana’s statewide implementation of personal financial management mandates in K-12 classrooms. Areas examined included the extent and frequency of implementation as well as educators’ readiness and perceptions about personal financial management education. In order to address the research …

Not The Only Star In The Sky, Faith Elizabeth Poynor

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

This thesis is a collection of fiction short stories written in fulfillment of the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at the University of New Orleans. These speculative stories share a common theme of longing for connection. The characters are searching for meaningful connections with each other to alleviate their loneliness.

Numerical Investigation On The Effect Of Surface Perturbations On Aerodynamics Of Cambered Airfoils, Ahmed Elbaz

Mechanical Engineering

The issue of the flow separation and the urge to reach higher performance ratings in airfoils can be acquired through the passive surface modification. By altering the shape of the upper surface to have a perturbated shape using a simple sinusoidal wave, the flow characteristics of airfoils can be enhanced to yield higher desired outputs. This study proposes the effect of both the wave amplitude and the number of waves for the perturbated upper surface on the lift and drag characteristics for SG-6040 and SG-6042 airfoils. Perturbating the upper surface of the airfoil can be of a great advantage as …

Numerical Investigation Of Flow Over An Airfoil With Active Cavity, Ahmed Elbaz

Mechanical Engineering

Wind turbine blades are commonly made of airfoils due to their high lifting characteristics. The performance of the airfoils can reach higher optimal conditions with applying various modifications on the airfoil geometry.  The need to improve airfoil performance at low values of Reynolds number is essential to small power wind turbines. Therefore, the objective of this study is to investigate methods to increase the lift to drag ratio, which results in better aerodynamic performance of the airfoil used in wind turbines at low Reynolds number using active flow control by employing a surface cavity with suction. The investigation considered both …

The Business Of The Nba Could Be Changed Forever Because Of The Coronavirus, Korey S. Matthews

Capstones

This project explores the possible changes that the NBA could make to help its business thrive after the coronavirus pandemic. The pandemic has caused the league to lose revenue, and because of this, new business practices could be put in place to help the league recoup some of the revenue that it has lost. These practices could also help the league grow in the future. In this project, you will hear from experts that will give their opinion on new avenues that the NBA could look to gain revenue from. You'll also hear from fans about their view of the …

The Long Return, Diane Bezucha

Capstones

When COVID-19 hit New York in March 2020, the city’s 1,800 public schools were forced to make a sudden pivot to remote instruction. The scramble to transition 1.1 million students to online learning brought unprecedented challenges for principals, teachers, students and families, leaving everyone eager for a return to “normal.”

For schools in low-income neighborhoods, and those serving students with disabilities, this disruption has been especially difficult. But as the months passed, it became clear that the pandemic was not ending anytime soon. Without clear guidance from the city, schools grappled with the uncertainty of how to safely reopen, and …

Her Story: Ecuadorian Women In New York City, Benjamin Chambers

Capstones

My Capstone Project is an 80-photo reportage about women of Ecuadorian origin living in New York City, including text and video elements. The project is broken down into a general introduction; four photo stories each with captions and story text; and two videos. The project is entitled:

HER STORY: ECUADORIAN WOMEN IN NEW YORK CITY

https://www.chambersphotojournalist.com/capstone/

Through The Screen: Disability, Aging And Technology, Shoshannah E. Buxbaum

Capstones

The Covid-19 pandemic has fundamentally altered what it means to stay connected. These are stories of how technology has shaped the lives of people with disabilities and seniors in Utah. This half-hour audio documentary, accompanying images and text delve into everything from getting hooked up to the internet for the first time, to the hurdles and expanded opportunities of remote work.

https://shoshannah-buxbaum.medium.com/through-the-screen-bb14b1c992ca

Profits For Spotify, Pennies For Artists, Joshua R. Rosenberg

Capstones

Major recording labels have always been king-making investment houses. They market the music and manage the careers of artists such as New York singer-songwriter Blake Morgan, who has to fight tooth and nail to escape being mistreated financially. But digital distribution services have now come along and upped the parasitic ante. By dominating global market share and distributing millions of songs for the labels, companies like Spotify are piggybacking on the music industry’s already exploitative system and magnifying it exponentially. The more content you control, the larger the overall profit–even if the overwhelming majority of content creators are essentially starving. …

Investigating The Performance Of A Novel Multi-Element Airfoil Concept Using Numerical Analysis, Ahmed Elbaz

Mechanical Engineering

Separation control is one of the trending topics recently for Vertical Axis Wind Turbine (VAWT) applications, flow separation that occur on the suction side of an airfoil is a major limitation for VAWTs starting and power coefficient; passive control of flow separation has been attracting wind energy research community recently. The principle objective of this paper is to investigate the effect of the multi-element airfoil on the aerodynamic characteristics at wide range of angles of attack at a Reynolds number of 140,000. The multi element airfoil modification has been implemented by replacing the baseline airfoil with two airfoil members within …

The Generalised Lkf Transformations For Arbitrary $N$-Point Fermion Correlators, N Ahmadiniaz, Jp Edwards, J Nicasio, C Schubert

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

No abstract provided.

Core Commitments For Field Trials Of Gene Drive Organisms, Kanya C. Long, Luke Alphey, George J. Annas, Cinnamon S. Bloss, Karl J. Campbell, Jackson Champer, Chun-Hong Chen, Amit Choudhary, George M. Church, James P. Collins, Kimberly L. Cooper, Jason A. Delborne, Owain R. Edwards, Claudia I. Emerson, Kevin Esvelt, Sam Weiss Evans, Robert M. Friedman, Valentino M. Gantz, Fred Gould, Sarah Hartley, Elizabeth Heitman, Janet Hemingway, Hirotaka Kanuka, Jennifer Kuzma, James V. Lavery, Yoosook Lee, Marce Lorenzen, Jeantine E. Lunshof, John M. Marshall, Philipp W. Messer, Craig Montell, Kenneth A. Oye, Megan J. Palmer, Philippos Aris Papathanos, Prasad N. Paradkar, Antoinette J. Piaggio, Jason L. Rasgon, Gordana Rašić, Larisa Rudenko, J. Royden Saah, Maxwell J. Scott, Jolene T. Sutton, Adam E, Vorsino, Omar S. Akbari

United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services: Staff Publications

We must ensure that trials are scientifically, politically, and socially robust, publicly accountable, and widely transparent.

Gene drive organisms (GDOs), whose genomes have been genetically engineered to spread a desired allele through a population, have the potential to transform the way societies address a wide range of daunting public health and environmental challenges. The development, testing, and release of GDOs, however, are complex and often controversial. A key challenge is to clarify the appropriate roles of developers and others actively engaged in work with GDOs in decision-making processes, and, in particular, how to establish partnerships with relevant authorities and other …

Solution Of The Beer Problem For Prohibition Trade, Standard Vacuum Machine Company

Dayton Liederkranz-Turner Ephemera

This flyer details information on the process pioneered by the Standard Vacuum Machine Company. The flyer is a sales pitch for their method of removing the alcohol from beer, and how it can best suit the company during prohibition times.

Highly Cited Articles Of Desidoc Journal Of Library And Information Technology Indexed In Google Scholar:An Informetric Analysis, Renjith V R, Mini Devi B

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The impact of scientific articles in respective subject fields are reflected by its citation counts in citation databases. Google Scholar (GS), a freely accessible database of scholarly papers along with their citations data, has an extensive coverage of Library and Information Science (LIS) literature. It is the only availableglobal database for the citation analysis of Indian LIS journals.The purpose of this study is an attempt to analyzethe publication age, citation density, most prolific authors and most occurred terms in the titles of highly cited articles of the journal“DESIDOC Journal of Library and Information Technology (DJLIT)”based on Google Scholar data.Harzing’s Publish …

Novel Secured Inter-Personal Area Network Group Management In Low-Power And Lossy Networks, Nan Yi, Wenjia Wu, Huimin She, Lele Zhang

Defensive Publications Series

Low-power and Lossy Network (LLN) environments may comprise, possibly among other things, different personal area networks (PANs) resulting in, for example, node communication challenges across or between PANs. To address these types of challenges, techniques are presented herein that support a novel secure group management method to self-solve the inter-PAN problem that is both low-cost and customer-friendly. Aspects of the techniques presented herein encompass establishing a secure node-to-node (N2N) communication link between involved inter-PAN nodes, automatically looking for the relay neighbors between different PANs (as the inter-PAN node can help with forwarding the local the Routing Protocol for LLN (RPL) …

Methodological Aspects Of Distance Learning For Developing The Professional Competence Of Students Of The Direction "Computer Engineering, B Kuznetsova, Gulnora Muxtarova, Umida Azimova, Kim Yelena

Bulletin of TUIT: Management and Communication Technologies

This work is based on the use of distance learning technologies in education, which will make it possible to individualize training, and in turn contributes to the formation of professionally important qualities for students of the direction of "Computer Engineering". The experimental work was aimed at developing a technology for the formation of students' professional competence.

The article shows that the mastery by students of knowledge, skills and abilities in the field of computer engineering was aimed at their conscious application in solving problems of the educational and cognitive process, and subsequently in professional activity.

The article presents the results …