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A Case Study: School Professionals’ Perspectives On Students Exiting Middle School Entering An Achievement High School, Joy Davis Lee Dec 2020

A Case Study: School Professionals’ Perspectives On Students Exiting Middle School Entering An Achievement High School, Joy Davis Lee

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Each year approximately 1.3 million students dropout of high school and an estimated 40% of minority students do not graduate on time (Roybal, Thornton, & Usinger, 2014). In high school, 22% of students repeat 9th-grade classes because students fail to make a smooth transition. This gives the 9th-grade the highest enrollment rate and the highest dropout rate (McCallumore & Sparapani, 2010). In an effort to increase high school graduation rates, the Peabody County Public School District created Achievement schools, an initiative to recruit highly effective administrators, teachers and staff members to support students with the highest academic and nonacademic needs. …

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Housing Prefabrication And Resource Optimization, Megan Scherpereel Dec 2020

Housing Prefabrication And Resource Optimization, Megan Scherpereel

Honors Theses

Enclosure during construction is often time-consuming, expensive, and at the mercy of the weather. By introducing methods for manufacturing prefabricated enclosure components such as wall panels and roof sections, the impact of the three major variables is reduced. Designs for trusses, roof sections, wall sections, and foundations were developed and selected using civil engineering principles; and manufacturing and logistical processes were optimized using engineering and project management skill sets. These multi-disciplinary efforts were combined to create an accessible and versatile set of designs and instructions that can improve the effectiveness of both a skilled and non-skilled volunteer workforce. By creating …

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Primal-Dual 2-Approximation Algorithm For The Monotonic Multiple Depot Heterogeneous Traveling Salesman Problem, S. Rathinam, R. Ravi, J. Bae, K. Sundar Dec 2020

Primal-Dual 2-Approximation Algorithm For The Monotonic Multiple Depot Heterogeneous Traveling Salesman Problem, S. Rathinam, R. Ravi, J. Bae, K. Sundar

Michigan Tech Publications, Part 1

We study a Multiple Depot Heterogeneous Traveling Salesman Problem (MDHTSP) where the cost of the traveling between any two targets depends on the type of the vehicle. The travel costs are assumed to be symmetric, satisfy the triangle inequality, and are monotonic, i.e., the travel costs between any two targets monotonically increases with the index of the vehicles. Exploiting the monotonic structure of the travel costs, we present a 2-approximation algorithm based on the primal-dual method.

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Quantitative Description Of The Pastoral Economy Of Western Tuvan Nomads, Paul L. Hooper Dec 2020

Quantitative Description Of The Pastoral Economy Of Western Tuvan Nomads, Paul L. Hooper

ESI Publications

Nomadic pastoralism persists at a substantial scale in Tuva and neighboring regions of Inner Asia. Tuvan pastoral lifeways reflect adaptations to both local environments and current economic realities. Much of our quantitative understanding of the economics of Tuvan nomads is derived from data collected in the first half of the 20th century. Accordingly, this paper provides an updated picture of the inner workings of nomadic households using data collected in Barun-Khemchik and Bai-Taiga provinces in 2013–2015. It analyzes herd composition and size, and compares the frequency of different animals kept today with values recorded in Tuva in 1916 and 1931. …

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Clinical Prediction Of Coronavirus Disease-2019: How Accurate Can One Be?, Gabriel Aisenberg, Kevin O Hwang Dec 2020

Clinical Prediction Of Coronavirus Disease-2019: How Accurate Can One Be?, Gabriel Aisenberg, Kevin O Hwang

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Background Some models based on clinical information have been reported to predict which patients have Coronavirus Disease-2019 (COVID-19) pneumonia but have failed so far to yield reliable results. We aimed to determine if physicians were able to accurately predict which patients, as described in clinical vignettes, had, or did not have this infection using their clinical acumen and epidemiological data. Methods Of 1177 patients under investigation for COVID-19 admitted, we selected 20 and presented them in a vignette form. We surveyed physicians from different levels of training (

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Dysphoria Ballet: A Morning Routine, Andrew Sonntag Dec 2020

Dysphoria Ballet: A Morning Routine, Andrew Sonntag

Theses

Dysphoria Ballet is a short, stop-motion film that portrays the internal morning routine of a particular trans woman. It is based on a series of interviews with a woman early in transition, and is what I consider to be a deconstruction, compression, and expressionist interpretation of these interviews. It was made with her enthusiastic support and approval. In this way, it might be considered a kind of animated documentary, but it is deconstructed to the point of ultimately being shown as a kind of “experimental-narrative” dance film. It is motivated by an exploration and validation of using performative expression as …

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Estimation Of Mean Velocity In Mountainous Streams And The Effect Of Slope And Froude Number., M. Attia Dec 2020

Estimation Of Mean Velocity In Mountainous Streams And The Effect Of Slope And Froude Number., M. Attia

Mansoura Engineering Journal

It is necessary to estimate the mean velocity and thus the corresponding discharge in the ungauged mountainous streams, but the flow resistance equations available for this purpose require further testing and development for mountainous streams. Such streams are characterized by coarse bed materials, steep slopes and small water depths. For these conditions, boulders, cobbles and gravels protrude well into or completely through the flow, and the bed roughness is very large. In the present attempt, equations of Darcy - Weisbach friction factor were developed already to address this problem from which the mean velocity can be predicted. Data of different …

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Boiling Heat Transfer For Aqueous Surfactants Solutions On Flat Surface., Hesham Mostafa Dec 2020

Boiling Heat Transfer For Aqueous Surfactants Solutions On Flat Surface., Hesham Mostafa

Mansoura Engineering Journal

Experimental study for boiling heat transfer over a flat surface was achieved by using aqueous surfactants solutions and compared wi1h pure water. An experimental lest loop equipped with the required measuring devices was designed and constructed to assess the effects of surfactants type , concentration of aqueous surfactants solutions, and the applied heat flux on the boiling heat transfer process. The tested surfactants are Polyvinyl Alcohol (nonionic surfactant) and Sodium Laury] Sulfate (anionic surfactant). Concentrations of aqueous surfactant solutions varied in this work from zero up to 3000 ppm and the applied heat flux from 15300 to 31230 W/m2. The …

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Mixed Messages: Reading Contemporary U.S. Literature Of Biracial Girlhood, Candice Nicole Hale Dec 2020

Mixed Messages: Reading Contemporary U.S. Literature Of Biracial Girlhood, Candice Nicole Hale

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

The tragic mulatta character is no longer an accurate representation of biracial female characters in literature. This dissertation considers the vast history of the tragic mulatto genre and its tragic and mired representations of biracial women and how they are often portrayed in literature. Within a historical, legal, and political analysis, I highlight the ways perceptions, attitudes, and representations about biracial individuals have changed, so those same shifts should change in the literature. Because of the bourgeoning field of Critical Mixed Race Studies (CMRS), both scholars and authors are recasting and rewriting the narratives and discourses of mixed-race in the …

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Theoretical Study For One Row Of Piles Used As A Breakwater., E. Heikal, T. Salem, A. Koraim Dec 2020

Theoretical Study For One Row Of Piles Used As A Breakwater., E. Heikal, T. Salem, A. Koraim

Mansoura Engineering Journal

The performance of the pile breakwater consisted of one row of vertical circular or square piles was investigated theoretically using the Eigenfunction expansion method. The transmission and the reflection coefficients were calculated for different wave and structure parameters. The validity of the theoretical model was examined by comparing the results with the theoretical and the experimental results from different studies. It was concluded that; the proposed theoretical model could be used efficiently to predict the performance of the pile breakwaters consisting of one row.

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Routing Protocol For Ad Hoc Wireless Networks Based On Cdma., Fayez Zaki, Nagy Hassan Dec 2020

Routing Protocol For Ad Hoc Wireless Networks Based On Cdma., Fayez Zaki, Nagy Hassan

Mansoura Engineering Journal

A Mobile ad hoc network is a collection of wireless nodes, all of which may be mobile, laptop, personal digital assistants that dynamically create a network without using any infrastructure. Each host participating in the network acts both as a host and as a router. As mobile hosts are no longer just end systems; cach nodes must be able to function as a router is wcl) as to rclay packets generated by other nodes. As the nodes move in and out with respect to each other, the resulting changing topology must somehow be able to communicate to all other nodes …

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Freshly Compressed Fiber Reinforced Concrete., A. Al-Tuhami, M. Seleem Dec 2020

Freshly Compressed Fiber Reinforced Concrete., A. Al-Tuhami, M. Seleem

Mansoura Engineering Journal

One of the most famous problems in concrete Technology is reducing the water cement ratio (w/c) to obtain high strength concrete. An innovative method 10 do so is to compress the freshly caste concrete under pressure using special Trains. The method remarkably reduces the water-cement ratio through expelling the excess water from the mix. In addition, compressing the freshly cast concrete resulting in packing the concrete particles together which reduces the voids and increase the interlocking between aggregates. Consequently, the resulting concrete from this process has higher compressive strength, lower water-cement ratio. In addition, the uses of natural fiber add …

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Economical Insertion Of Static Reactive Power Compensators In Power Systems., Sahar Kaddah, K. Shebl, E. Haikal Dec 2020

Economical Insertion Of Static Reactive Power Compensators In Power Systems., Sahar Kaddah, K. Shebl, E. Haikal

Mansoura Engineering Journal

The appearance of flexible AC Transmission System (FACTs) controllers Is completely changing the way transmission systems are controlled and operated. Most facts controllers are basically based on variable shunt and/Qr series compensation of transmission systems. One of the most famous type of FACTs Is the Static VAr Compensator to r (SVC), which is basically used liS It ture for both voltage and voltage stability problems. However, SYC may also affects the Available Transfer Capability of the system (ATC), line Overload and losses. As the power system is economical1y operated, hence it is important to study the. economical effects of SVC …

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Heat Transfer Performance Of A Two Phase Closed Corrugated Tube Thermosiphon., H. Sarhan Dec 2020

Heat Transfer Performance Of A Two Phase Closed Corrugated Tube Thermosiphon., H. Sarhan

Mansoura Engineering Journal

The two phase closed Thermosyphons are highly sufficient heat transfer element At present. however, actual applications are mostly limited for thermosyphon using smooth tube as its container. In the present work, a corrugated. tube was used as its container with distilled water as the working fluid. The corrugated tube container is flexible and has several features to allow the thermosyphon to be used in a wide range of applications The influence of liquid filling ratio, inclination angle, evaporator heat flux and condenser to evaporator length ratio on the heal transfer performance was experimentally studied The experiments are carried out for …

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Analytical Performance Evaluation Of Hybrid Desiccant Air Conditioning Systems., A. Elzahaby, M. Fouad, A. Kabeel, A. Khalil, M. Bassuoni Dec 2020

Analytical Performance Evaluation Of Hybrid Desiccant Air Conditioning Systems., A. Elzahaby, M. Fouad, A. Kabeel, A. Khalil, M. Bassuoni

Mansoura Engineering Journal

Atheoretical evaluation of a hybrid desiccant air conditioning in post and pre· cooling arrangements is studied and compared versus the traditional vapor compression system {VCS- The performance of the rotary desiccant wheel Is also studied as the heart of the hybrid desiccant cooling system. Lithium chloride IS applied as the working desiccant material In this investigation. A mathematical model of coupled heal and mass transfer of the desiccant wheel is presented and numerically solved. The model validity is check against other work and results are in good agreement. Effect of rotary wheel speed , number of transfer units (NTU) and …

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Natural Convection Heat Transfer Between Two Concentric And Eccentric Oblate Hemi Spheroids With Different Elliptical Ratios., El-Desouki Eid Dec 2020

Natural Convection Heat Transfer Between Two Concentric And Eccentric Oblate Hemi Spheroids With Different Elliptical Ratios., El-Desouki Eid

Mansoura Engineering Journal

In this paper, !.he natural convection heal transfer between a pair of concentric and eccentric oblate hemi-spheroids with different elliptical ratios was: depicted experimentally and numerically. Four pairs of oblate hemi-spheroids having elliptical ratios of 0.0, 0.25, 0.5, 075 and 3 diameter ratio of 2 for each pair were cut using the wire-cut JSEDM CNC machining. The inner hemi-spheroid was heated while the outer one was exposed to the room temperature. The experimental tests SC3Jl the effect of the orientation modes (horizontal, inclined, ver1ical inclined revolved and vertical revolved) on the natural- convection heat transfer between the inner and outer …

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Optimum Tire Pressure For Legal Axle Loads On Egyptian Road., Mohamed Abdel-Motaleb Dec 2020

Optimum Tire Pressure For Legal Axle Loads On Egyptian Road., Mohamed Abdel-Motaleb

Mansoura Engineering Journal

In recent years, the effect of increased truck-axle load on pavement performance has become a subject of great concern under the allowance of increasing the limits of legal axle loads. So, the purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of increased truck-axle load and tire pressure on the pavement life with respect to fatigue and rutting, to recognize the optimum truck-tire pressure for the recommended truck-axle loads in Egypt. Ten axle loads levels ranging from 16-kip to 34-kip and from 20-kip to 56-kip for single and tandem axles, respectively, along with ten levels of tire contact pressure; 80-psi …

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De-Mystifying The “Mixifusor”, Anthony R. Absalom, Ann E. Rigby-Jones, Andrew R. Rushton, J. Robert Sneyd Dec 2020

De-Mystifying The “Mixifusor”, Anthony R. Absalom, Ann E. Rigby-Jones, Andrew R. Rushton, J. Robert Sneyd

Peninsula Medical School

Total intravenous anesthesia (TIVA) using a mixture of propofol and remifentanil in the same syringe has become an accepted technique in Pediatric Anesthesia. A survey by a group of respected UK anesthetists demonstrated a low incidence of serious complications, related to the pharmacology and dose of the drugs. However, a current guideline for the safe use of TIVA recommends against this practice. Pharmaceutical concerns include the physical stability of the emulsion when remifentanil is mixed with propofol; changes in drug concentration over time; nonuniform mixing of propofol and remifentanil; the risk of bacterial contamination; and the potential for drug administration …

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How Canadian Farmers Are Extending The Grazing Season--A Research Success Story, Duane H. Mccartney Dec 2020

How Canadian Farmers Are Extending The Grazing Season--A Research Success Story, Duane H. Mccartney

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

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Utilisation Of Near Infrared Spectroscopy To Optimise Productivity Of Grazing Animals In The Western Australian Rangelands, Peter Mccafferty, Gaye Krebs, Kevin Ho, Ken Dods, Kumara Mahipala Dec 2020

Utilisation Of Near Infrared Spectroscopy To Optimise Productivity Of Grazing Animals In The Western Australian Rangelands, Peter Mccafferty, Gaye Krebs, Kevin Ho, Ken Dods, Kumara Mahipala

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

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Intake And Apparent Digestibility Of Silages Obtained From Four Sunflower (Helianthus Annuus) Genotypes, Rogerio M. Mauricio, N. M. Rodriguez, L. C. Gonçalves, D. G. Jayme, J. A. S. Rodrigues, L. F. Sousa, W. G. Faria, G. O. Ribeiro Dec 2020

Intake And Apparent Digestibility Of Silages Obtained From Four Sunflower (Helianthus Annuus) Genotypes, Rogerio M. Mauricio, N. M. Rodriguez, L. C. Gonçalves, D. G. Jayme, J. A. S. Rodrigues, L. F. Sousa, W. G. Faria, G. O. Ribeiro

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

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Tolkien And The Age Of Forgery: Improving Antiquarian Practices In Arda, Will Sherwood Dec 2020

Tolkien And The Age Of Forgery: Improving Antiquarian Practices In Arda, Will Sherwood

Journal of Tolkien Research

This article situates J.R.R. Tolkien's legendarium as a literary descendent of the antiquarian projects from the 'Age of Forgery' in the 1760s. It argues that Tolkien's motivation to create a national mythology echoed those of James Macpherson and Thomas Chatterton. Drawing on previously unpublished folios from Tolkien's undergraduate notebooks, it showcases his familiarity with the two forgers, their feigned literary heritages, and British antiquarian practices in the eighteenth century. It further argues that Tolkien improved on Macpherson's and Chatterton's antiquarian methodologies by marrying the oral tradition with the written word in The Book of Lost Tales, The Hobbit, and The …

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New Research On A Case Of Linear Discontinuous Ground Deformation (Ldgd), Andrzej Kowalski, Bartosz Apanowicz, Piotr Polanin Dec 2020

New Research On A Case Of Linear Discontinuous Ground Deformation (Ldgd), Andrzej Kowalski, Bartosz Apanowicz, Piotr Polanin

Journal of Sustainable Mining

LSDS is defined as surface fissures, steps as well as structures formed by them in the form of stairs (several steps), thresholds, ditches, and flexure. The paper presents a case study of formed LSDS – the origin, and possible methods to assess its occurrence on the basis of the research carried out in the Central Mining Institute. The authors showed that the presence of LSDS leads not only to the horizontal deformation but also contributes to the formation of vertical curvatures of terrain that cause fissures in the near-surface layer of the rock mass in the areas with a thick …

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The Wonders Of The Galapagos Islands: Experiential Learning Is Deep Learning, Paul Ax Bologna Dec 2020

The Wonders Of The Galapagos Islands: Experiential Learning Is Deep Learning, Paul Ax Bologna

Sustainability Seminar Series

Experiential learning is one way of creating deep understanding of subject matter, as well as developing a passion for the field. I have been engaged in leading extended field experiences with students for almost 20 years to ‘immerse’ students in the natural world. In March 2020, Dr. Krumins and I led a group of graduate and undergraduate students to Ecuador to explore and learn about the incredible wildlife and the enduring legacy of revolutionary ideas that this region has generated. Our time in the Galapagos, while short, spanned centuries of scientific thought and millions of years of geologic history. The …

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Fault Diagnosability Of Regular Graphs, Mei-Mei Gu, Rong-Xia Hao, Eddie Cheng Dec 2020

Fault Diagnosability Of Regular Graphs, Mei-Mei Gu, Rong-Xia Hao, Eddie Cheng

Theory & Applications of Graphs

An interconnection network's diagnosability is an important measure of its self-diagnostic capability. In 2012, Peng et al. proposed a measure for fault diagnosis of the network, namely, the h-good-neighbor conditional diagnosability, which requires that every fault-free node has at least h fault-free neighbors. There are two well-known diagnostic models, PMC model and MM* model. The h-good-neighbor diagnosability under the PMC (resp. MM*) model of a graph G, denoted by thPMC(G) (resp. thMM*(G)), is the maximum value of t such that G is h-good-neighbor t-diagnosable under the PMC (resp. MM*) …

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Looking Back To Move Forward: Reflections Of Practicing Teachers On Their Pre-Service Preparation, Brian Bowen Dec 2020

Looking Back To Move Forward: Reflections Of Practicing Teachers On Their Pre-Service Preparation, Brian Bowen

Journal of Educational Research and Innovation

The purpose of this study was to better understand the knowledge and skills related to teaching of mathematics in-service teachers perceived as important for beginning teachers and what knowledge from their pre-service preparation they were able to apply in their instruction. Data was collected from practicing elementary and middle grades teachers who received their undergraduate preparation within the past eight years from a university in the Northeastern United States. Results suggest that even a single learning opportunity can have a lasting impact on the pedagogical practice of novice teachers.

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Decision In Art. 78 Proceeding - Lackwood, Mark (2018-07-06) Dec 2020

Decision In Art. 78 Proceeding - Lackwood, Mark (2018-07-06)

Decisions in Art. 78 Proceedings

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Decision In Art. 78 Proceeding - Hill, George (2020-10-23) Dec 2020

Decision In Art. 78 Proceeding - Hill, George (2020-10-23)

Decisions in Art. 78 Proceedings

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Decision In Art. 78 Proceeding - Stokes, Robert (2014-06-09) Dec 2020

Decision In Art. 78 Proceeding - Stokes, Robert (2014-06-09)

Decisions in Art. 78 Proceedings

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Effect Of Defoliation Frequency And Severity During Winter On Herbage Regrowth And Water‐Soluble Carbohydrate Content Of Perennial Ryegrass (Lolium Perenne L.) Dominant Swards, Julia M. Lee, D. J. Donaghy, P. Sathish, J. R. Roche Dec 2020

Effect Of Defoliation Frequency And Severity During Winter On Herbage Regrowth And Water‐Soluble Carbohydrate Content Of Perennial Ryegrass (Lolium Perenne L.) Dominant Swards, Julia M. Lee, D. J. Donaghy, P. Sathish, J. R. Roche

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

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