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Crocheted Blankets Project, Andrew Cheney

Final Projects

This project analyzes the patterns in color, design, use, passing on, and value of crocheted blankets.

Comparing Multiple Comparisons: Practical Guidance For Choosing The Best Multiple Comparisons Test, Stephen Midway, Matthew Robertson, Shane Flinn, Michael Kaller

Faculty Publications

Multiple comparisons tests (MCTs) include the statistical tests used to compare groups (treatments) often following a significant effect reported in one of many types of linear models. Due to a variety of data and statistical considerations, several dozen MCTs have been developed over the decades, with tests ranging from very similar to each other to very different from each other. Many scientific disciplines use MCTs, including >40,000 reports of their use in ecological journals in the last 60 years. Despite the ubiquity and utility of MCTs, several issues remain in terms of their correct use and reporting. In this study, …

Citation Metrics For Promotion And Tenure Presentation Powerpoint, Carolyn V. Mills

UConn Library Presentations

No abstract provided.

Blenny Territoriality At Oyster Landing, North Inlet Estuary, South Carolina: Seasonal Patterns And Ecological Factors, Sydney Davis, Juliana Harding

Honors Theses

Temperate oyster reef blennies use oyster shells that are still articulated as habitat year round. During the breeding season when water temperatures are > 18-20°C, many species of blenny males use the oyster valves as nesting sites. Male blennies exhibit territorial behavior when guarding their nesting sites and can interact differently with conspecific and transient species. Striped blenny (Chasmodes bosquianus) and freckled blenny (Hypsoblennius ionthas) behavior was described from April 2020 to August 2020 at Oyster Landing, North Inlet estuary, South Carolina to quantify typical blenny behavior, general presence or absence of residents, and potential environmental parameters …

Infaunal Bivalve Density And Richness In North Inlet Estuary, South Carolina: Seasonal Patterns And Ecological Factors, Valerie M. Knowles, Juliana Harding

Honors Theses

Estuarine bivalves recruit to benthic habitats after the larvae are in the planktonic stage. The observed infaunal bivalve density relates to larval supply from adult reproduction during warmer months as well as larval and juvenile mortality post-recruitment. The purpose of this research was to examine annual and seasonal patterns of infaunal bivalve density and richness in the context of habitat water temperature and salinity. Cores were collected biweekly from Bly Creek in North Inlet estuary between January 2019 and February 2020. Temperatures ranged from 9-30 ºC and salinity ranged from ~17-36 psu. Bivalves were sieved out of the cores, counted, …

Using Track Widths Of Loggerhead (Caretta Caretta) Sea Turtles As A Proxy For Predicting Nesting Characteristics, Kelly M. Detmer

All HCAS Student Capstones, Theses, and Dissertations

Global populations of sea turtles have suffered major declines over the past century. Thus, it is critical to determine accurate demographic parameters and abundance estimates to fill current data gaps and inform effective conservation and recovery strategies. Population models with greater complexity and predictive capacities are necessary to more accurately assess population trends and responses. This study examines the relationships between track width, female body size (as measured by straight and curved carapace lengths and widths), and nesting variables (chamber depth, clutch size, and hatching success) of loggerhead turtles (Caretta caretta) nesting in southeastern Florida. Track width was significantly …

Ocean Acidification And Fish Respiration: A Study On The Anatomical, Physiological, And Behavioral Adaptations Of Fishes And Their Ability To Cope With Decreasing Seawater Ph, Mark P. Rogers

All HCAS Student Capstones, Theses, and Dissertations

Abstract

Fish stocks across the globe are increasingly being relied upon to supply the ever-growing human population with high quality protein and other nutrients. In addition to fishing pressure, stressors brought on by climate changes, including ocean acidification and hypoxic conditions, have the potential for providing substantial negative impacts on the efficiency of fish respiration, internal acid-base balance, and energy budgets. To meaningfully integrate the potential impacts of ocean acidification on fishes into management practices it is important to study the anatomical, physiological, and behavioral adaptations that enable fish to cope with decreasing seawater pH and how those mechanisms might …

33. Rlc Parallel Circuit. Resonant Ac Circuits, Gerhard Müller, Robert Coyne

PHY 204: Elementary Physics II -- Lecture Notes

Annotated lecture slides of lecture 33 for Elementary Physics II (PHY 204), taught by Gerhard Müller and Robert Coyne at the University of Rhode Island.

Some of the slides contain figures from the textbook, Paul A. Tipler and Gene Mosca. Physics for Scientists and Engineers, 5th/6th editions. The copyright to these figures is owned by W.H. Freeman. We acknowledge permission from W.H. Freeman to use them on this course web page.

Seeking Calm Among The Chaos: A Letter From The Editor, Shannon Tovey

Georgia Journal of Literacy

A letter from the Editor of the Georgia Journal of Literacy

A Formative Evaluation Of The Family Strengthening Program In The Treasure Valley, Seung Youn Chyung Edd, Megan Miller Ms, Jennifer A. Shamsy Ms, Jaime Hansen Mpa, Sarah Leeds Mph

Journal of Family Strengths

Family Advocates, a nonprofit organization serving families in the Treasure Valley in Idaho, offers the Family Strengthening Program. This is a 20-week program providing weekly meetings for families who need to develop strong family cohesion, resilience, and parenting skills to maintain healthy families. The program uses the Strengthening Families’ approach with an emphasis on the protective factors framework and provides incentives to participants for participation. A third-party evaluation team from a local university conducted a formative evaluation of the program to help improve its quality. The evaluation team used both goal-based and goal-free, needs-based evaluation approaches, and analyzed quantitative and …

Strengths-Based Group Supervision: Restoring Child And Adolescent-Centered Social Work Team Meetings, Whitney Grube, Dr. Amy Mendenhall

Journal of Family Strengths

Child mental health social workers are inundated on a daily basis with complex family dynamics. Burn-out and cynicism towards change become frequent. Strengths-based group supervision is a client-based alternative to the “team meeting as usual” approach and combats some of the challenges workers often experience. Strengths-based group supervision is based on The Strengths Model, a case management model with four distinct components. The Model has been implemented in adult mental health settings and recently has been adapted for work with youth with mental illness. This paper describes strengths-based group supervision and discusses it’s applicability to different child serving systems.

Are Teachers’ Formative Assessment Practices Reliable Indicators Of Students’ Mastery Of Standards?, Olivia Hall

Doctor of Education in Teacher Leadership Dissertations

Some students, parents, and teachers are concerned over the apparent disparity between a student’s classroom grades and his/her proficiency levels reported from criterion-referenced standardized assessments, such as the Georgia Milestones. The purpose of this research project was to determine if teachers’ formative assessment practices were reliable indicators of students’ mastery of grade-level standards. This study was a mixed-methods study with an explanatory research design. Qualitative data were collected through observations and interviews that analyzed teachers’ perceptions of the meaning of formative assessments and how they are impacted by the summative assessment system. Also, samples of teacher-selected assessments were analyzed to …

Ud In The News Nov. 20-Dec. 4, University Of Dayton

News Releases

Several prominent regional and national news outlets highlighted the University's culture, values and mission, including President Eric F. Spina talking to The Chronicle of Higher Education about how "campus values really can influence behavior." Catholic News Service, TV stations in Dayton and Columbus, the magazine of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati and the website, Diverse Military, are among the others that wrote about our Marianist student communities, Christmas on Campus, Marian Library nativities, and an advisory committee for military personnel and veterans.

Altrusa Club Scrapbook, 1966-1967, Special Collections, Leonard H. Axe Library

Finding Aids

A scrapbook of activities, photographs, clippings, programs, minutes, and other documents related to the Altrusa Club of Pittsburg, Kansas, 1966-1967. Altrusa International is an organization committed to community service. It was founded in 1917 in Nashville, Tennessee. The Pittsburg Club was active in the 1960s but is no longer active today.

Reinecke, John E., Collection, 1923-1974, Special Collections, Leonard H. Axe Library

Finding Aids

A collection of writings by John E. Reinecke and Kansas State Teachers College publications.

John E. Reinecke was born in Southeast Kansas in 1904. He graduated with a BS from Kansas State Teachers College in 1925 before moving to Hawai’i to become a professor of creole languages at the University of Hawai’i in 1926. John earned his PhD from Yale in 1937. Reinecke was a strong advocate against the plantocracy and the military in Hawai’i. He and his wife, Aiko, protested with the workers’ unions, calling for a living wage. Branded as communists, both John and Aiko were fired from …

Tisot, Jr., Frank, Collection, 1919-1953, Special Collections, Leonard H. Axe Library

Finding Aids

A collection of documents, correspondence, and items regarding Società Di Mutuo Soccorso and the Foresters of America.

Frank Tisot, Jr. (1925-2016) was a resident of Frontenac, Kansas. He married Virginia Fenoglio in 1952. They both enjoyed photography, traveling all of the continental United States and Canada to photograph nature. Frank Tisot worked at the Pittsburg Post Office, holding many positions throughout his 38-year career as well as being appointed postmaster. Frank was a part of the Colorama Camera Club, the National Association of Retired Federal Employees, and the Frontenac United Methodist Church. Either he or his father, Frank Tisot Sr., …

Mccaslin, Donald, Collection, 1940-1945, Special Collections, Leonard H. Axe Library

Finding Aids

A collection of World War II flight publications, pins, and other memorabilia from the life of Donald A. McCaslin.

Donald A. McCaslin was born in Coffeyville, Kansas in 1917. He enlisted in the US Army Air Force on August 30, 1941. Donald was a Private in the Air Corps and it is likely that he trained at Moody Army Air Field in Valdosta, Georgia. He served in the Army Air Force during World War II. In 1948, Donald graduated from the University of Illinois. He and Norma Rouch married in 1954. Donald worked for the United States Postal Service until …

Carlson, Paul, Papers, 1944-2013, Special Collections, Leonard H. Axe Library

Finding Aids

Music, papers, and photographs relating to the career of PSU music professor Paul Carlson.

Paul Carlson (1932-2019) was born to Rev. Carl Carlson and Ava B. Carlson in Chicago, Illinois. Throughout his childhood he played violin for the school ensembles including Roosevelt Middle School and Chicago Christian High School. After graduating high school in 1950, he immediately began pursuing his bachelors of music at the Chicago Conservatory of Music. After receiving his diploma in 1954, he taught at the Messiah College is Harrisburg, Pennsylvania for two years. In 1957, he received a master’s degree in music from Northwestern University. That …

Brinkerhoff, Fred, Papers, 1905-1930, Special Collections, Leonard H. Axe Library

Finding Aids

A collection of correspondence and newspaper clippings related to Fred Brinkerhoff and the Pittsburg Headlight- now the Morning Sun.

Fred W. Brinkerhoff, born in 1885, was the editor for the

Pittsburg Headlight (now the Pittsburg Morning Sun) for approximately fifty years. Brinkerhoff first began working for newspapers while in high school, working under Henry J. Allen at the Ottawa Herald. He studied at the University of Kansas before working at Fort Scott and Chanute papers as well at the Kansas City Star. Brinkerhoff moved to Pittsburg in May 1911 and became the editor of the …

Ascension Via Christi Hospital Collection, Circa 1940-2004, Special Collections, Leonard H. Axe Library

Finding Aids

A collection of documents, photos, scrapbooks, and other items regarding Mt. Carmel Hospital and Ascension Via Christi Hospital in Pittsburg, Kansas.

In 1903, the Mt. Carmel Hospital was opened to the public in Pittsburg, Kansas by the Sisters of St. Joseph, of Wichita, Kansas, serving local citizens and miners. The hospital was operated by the Sisters, who performed the cooking, cleaning, nursing, and other tasks while doctors donated their services and time. Throughout the years, many additions were added to the hospital. Though the final expansion was finished in 1951, by 1960 it showed signs of needing its own doctor …

Girard Chamber Of Commerce Collection, 1921-1968, Special Collections, Leonard H. Axe Library

Finding Aids

A collection of financial documents, legal papers, correspondence, and publications regarding Girard, Kansas, and the Girard Chamber of Commerce, 1921-1968.

The Girard Chamber of Commerce, founded in 1948, focuses on local businesses, economic climate, and quality of life for residents in Girard, Kansas, founded in 1868. Their mission is to “promote and enhance commerce and community development in the Girard area.”

Daily Eastern News: December 04, 2020, Eastern Illinois University

December

No abstract provided.

Suffix Tree, Minwise Hashing And Streaming Algorithms For Big Data Analysis In Bioinformatics, Sairam Behera

School of Computing: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

In this dissertation, we worked on several algorithmic problems in bioinformatics using mainly three approaches: (a) a streaming model, (b) sux-tree based indexing, and (c) minwise-hashing (minhash) and locality-sensitive hashing (LSH). The streaming models are useful for large data problems where a good approximation needs to be achieved with limited space usage. We developed an approximation algorithm (Kmer-Estimate) using the streaming approach to obtain a better estimation of the frequency of k-mer counts. A k-mer, a subsequence of length k, plays an important role in many bioinformatics analyses such as genome distance estimation. We also developed new methods that use …

Scenario Analysis Of Downtown One-Way Street Conversions In Lincoln, Nebraska, A Case Study For Downtown Livability And Pedestrian Safety, Terrence Lage

Community and Regional Planning Program: Theses

An era of downtown street design benefiting the automobile has become over designed for the movement of volumes of traffic in many North American cities. Since the 1950s, the primary focus of planners and traffic engineers has been to address the growing problem of traffic congestion caused by the suburban traveler coming into and out of downtown. The solution was retrofitting the original two-way street grid into a network of wide and straight multi-lane one-way corridors. This design successfully moved volumes of traffic through downtown streets but induced behavior to favor the automobile instead of design that favors active mobility …

“How Can We Do Better?”: Empowering Diverse Voices Through An Academic/Public Library Partnership, Annie E. Tummino, Jo-Ann Wong

Publications and Research

Queens Memory is a local community archiving and oral history project, co-administered by Queens Public Library and Queens College, CUNY. During COVID-19, members from both institutions collaborated to create a series of virtual roundtables hosted on Facebook Live, centered on social justice, current events, and creating positive social change. Specific examples include xenophobia and Asian Americans during COVID-19; the Black Lives Matter movement; student activism and political engagement; and equity/inclusion in archives. In selecting these topics and speakers, we made sure that the diversity and lived experiences of our communities were represented, and that speakers included both scholars and students. …

The Lumberjack, December 04, 2020

Cal Poly Humboldt's Student Newspaper

The student newspaper of Humboldt State University.

Whalesong 2020-12-04 (V.40 No.6), Mike Flunker, Baylee Schneider, Kennedy Williams, Sierra Lissick, Keni Campbell

Whalesong

No abstract provided.

Evaluating Digital Transformation During A Worldwide Pandemic In Research Administration, Michael Jones

School of Business Student Papers

Introduction

The purpose of this project is to evaluate how research administrators have performed during a pandemic after switching to a remote and digital environment. The research will include exploring the perspectives of Jefferson research administrators, University leaders, and DICE team personnel. The overall objective is to understand the research administration field, digital transformation techniques for research administration, and RA leadership's role in a digital environment. The paper is organized as follows:

(1) Research Administration Literature Review

(2) Research Administration Overview at Jefferson

(3) Digital Transformation Literature review

(4) Research Design Methodology

(5) Research Results

(6) Analysis, Findings, Limitations, and …

Faqs: Primary Market Corporate Credit Facility And Secondary Market Corporate Credit Facility, Effective December 4, 2020, Federal Reserve System: Federal Reserve Bank Of New York

Documents

No abstract provided.

Dysphagia, Dyspnea, And Diverticulum: A Right Sided Aortic Arch With Aberrant Left Subclavian Artery, Piotr Wlodkowski, Sasirekha Pandravada, Christopher Wagner, Elizabeth Klein

Advocate Internal Medicine Residents - Lutheran General

No abstract provided.