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Who Am I, Alanah Hunsdorfer

In the Ords: CSUMB Literary Arts Journal

No abstract provided.

Tainted Memories, Alanah Hunsdorfer

In the Ords: CSUMB Literary Arts Journal

No abstract provided.

Writing: The Lost Literacy… Found!, Tahlya Stevenson

Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) in Literacy

According to the National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP, 2012), writing proficiency across the country has been stagnant for the past generation. This “writing crisis” has the potential to impact job preparedness, reading development, and the future of our nation’s students. Additionally, teachers are ill-prepared with the knowledge and time to best teach writing. The purpose of this study was to identify best practices in elementary narrative writing and to explore the effectiveness of implementation in a grade 2 classroom. Experts agree that process writing, use of mentor text, explicit instruction in text structure, and peer feedback increase student writing …

Music Therapy Pre-Internship Education And Training: Support For A Methods-Based Approach, Susan Gardstrom, Annie Heiderscheit, James Hiller, Nancy Jackson

Faculty Authored Articles

In this article, we advance our support for a methods-based approach to music therapy undergraduate education and training. We review the population-based approach upon which the profession was founded in the United States and that continues to be emphasized in many degree programs across the country. Next, we explain the nature of a methods-based approach, in which students consistently and authentically engage in the four music therapy methods (Bruscia, 2014) as their predominant means of understanding clinical practice. Lastly, we highlight certain limitations of the population-based perspective and advance certain benefits of the methods-based perspective. We claim that the latter …

How Does It Feel To Have Clouds Swoop In Your Face, Zimu Fang, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Baker & Whitehill supplemental content

No abstract provided.

We Are ... Marshall, December 1, 2021, Office Of Marshall University Communications

We Are ... Marshall: the Newsletter for Marshall University 1999-2023

No abstract provided.

February 14, 2018, Yadelis Gomez, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Baker & Whitehill supplemental content

No abstract provided.

My Grandmother, Jinghong Chen, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Baker & Whitehill supplemental content

No abstract provided.

A Healthy World Starts With Healthy Women, International Partnership For Microbicides

International Partnership for Microbicides (IPM)

No abstract provided.

The Duty Not To Continue Distributing Your Own Libels, Eugene Volokh

Notre Dame Law Review

Say something I wrote about you online (in a newspaper, a blog, or a social media page) turns out to be false and defamatory. Assume I wasn’t culpable when I first posted it, but now I’m on notice of the error.

Am I liable for defamation if I fail to remove or correct the erroneous material? Surprisingly, courts haven’t settled on an answer, and scholars haven’t focused on the question. Libel law is stuck in a time when newspapers left the publisher’s control as soon as they are printed—even though now an article or a post can be seen on …

Waters Rising Team And Contributors, Chrysler Museum Of Art, Institute For Coastal Adaptation And Resilience, Old Dominion University

Acknowledgements and Dedication

Acknowledgements to the exhibition contributors.

College Street Journal (December 2021), College Of The Holy Cross

College Street Journal

College Street Journal serves as a student platform for business-related news, opportunities and resources at Holy Cross. Readers will discover a broad range of important topics from relevant news and economic issues, career development opportunities and advice, as well as Ciocca center and campus-wide opportunities to grow outside of the classroom.

Highlights of this issue include the Facebook rebrand, travel, supply chain issues, the auto industry, an alumni interview with Ted Lynch and a faculty editorial.

A Comparison Of Drill And Broadcast Planting Methods Forbiomass Production Of Two Legume Cover Crops, Ricardo St Aime, Enoch Noh, William C. Bridges, Sruthi Narayanan

Open Access Publishing Fund

The effects of drill and broadcast planting methods on cover crop biomass production depend on various environmental and operational factors. We investigated whether drilling and broadcasting result in different amounts of biomass production by crimson clover (Trifolium incarnatum L.) and hairy vetch (Vicia villosa Roth) in the upstate of South Carolina, and results vary when seeding rates are increased by 50% from the standard value (22.4 kg ha−1). Field trials were conducted during the fall–winter of 2019–2020 (season one) and 2020–2021 (season two) at the Piedmont Research and Education Center in Pendleton, SC, USA. Cover crop (hairy vetch, crimson clover), …

Warming And Labile Substrate Addition Alter Enzyme Activities And Composition Of Soil Organic Carbon, Mioko Tamura, Vidya Suseela

Open Access Publishing Fund

Warming can increase the efflux of carbon dioxide (CO2) from soils and can potentially feedback to climate change. In ajout to warming, the input of labile carbon can enhance the microbial activity by stimulating the co-metabolism of recalcitrant soil organic matter (SOM). This is particularly true with SOM under invaded ecosystems where elevated CO2 and warming may increase the biomass of invasive species resulting in higher addition of labile substrates. We hypothesized that the input of labile carbon would instigate a greater soil organic carbon (SOC) loss with warming compared to the ambient température. We investigated this by incubating soils …

Climate Change Planning: Soil Carbon Regulating Ecosystem Services And Land Cover Change Analysis To Inform Disclosures For The State Of Rhode Island, Usa, Elena A. Mikhailova, Lili Lin, Zhenbang Hao, Hamdi A. Zurqani, Christopher J. Post, Mark A. Schlautman, Gregory C. Post, Peyton I. Mitchell

Open Access Publishing Fund

The state of Rhode Island (RI) has established its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction goals, which require rapidly acquired and updatable science-based data to make these goals enforceable and effective. The combination of remote sensing and soil information data can estimate the past and model future GHG emissions because of conversion of “low disturbance” land covers (e.g., evergreen forest, hay/pasture) to “high disturbance” land covers (e.g., low-, medium-, and high-intensity developed land). These modeled future emissions can be used as a predevelopment potential GHG emissions information disclosure. This study demonstrates the rapid assessment of the value of regulating ecosystems services …

Whose Turn Now? The Enactment & Expansion Of Private School Choice Programs Across The Us, Yujie Sude, Patrick Wolf

School Choice Demonstration Project

Private school choice policies have been enacted and expanded across the United States since the 1990s. By January 2021, 30 states plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico hosted 67 distinct private school choice policies. Why have some states adopted and expanded this education reform while others have demurred? Which states are more likely to adopt specific types of private school choice initiatives in the coming years? We present the results of an exploratory empirical analysis examining which state-level political, economic, and educational factors predict past policy decisions regarding the enactment and expansion of private school choice in 49 …

The Critical Need For Peer Clinical Supervision Among School Counselors, Pamelia E. Brott, Lorraine Dekruyf, Jung H. Hyun, Christopher R. Lafever, Sarah Patterson-Mills, Miriama I. Cook Sandifer, Victoria Stone

Faculty Publications - Graduate School of Counseling

The ongoing need for clinical supervision of practicing school counselors in the United States has reached a critical point. Given the acute mental health needs of children and adolescents, staggering caseloads, and pandemic repercussions, school counselors often receive insufficient clinical support. Clinical supervision is necessary to safeguard against burnout, promote ethical practice, and encourage continual skill development for school counselors worldwide. Unfortunately, there remains a lack of available clinical supervision, trained supervisors, and practice-based strategies for providing consistent quality supervision for post-master’s school counselors. The authors present a rationale for peer clinical supervision of practicing school counselors in the United …

Cover Crops To Improve Soil Health In The North American Great Plains, Augustine K. Obour, Logan M. Simon, Jonathon D. Holman, Patrick M. Carr, Meagan Schipanski, Steven Fonte, Rajan Ghimire, Thandiwe Nleya, Humberto Blanco-Canqui

Agronomy, Horticulture and Plant Science Faculty Publications

Rotating cereal crops (e.g., wheat [Triticum aestivum L.] with a 10- to 21-mo summer fallow period [fallow]) is a common farming practice in dryland (rainfed) agricultural regions. Fallow is associated with several challenges including low precipitation storage efficiency, depletion of soil organic carbon (SOC), loss of soil fertility, little crop residue retention and soil erosion, and few control options for herbicide-resistant (HR) weeds. The inability to effectively control HR weeds poses a major challenge to maintaining soil and water conservation practices such as no-tillage, as some producers are considering tillage to control weeds. Cover crop (CC) integration into wheat-based …

Kshv Susceptibility And Transmission Within Tonsillar Specimens, Farizeh Aalam

Pharmaceutical Sciences (PhD) Dissertations

Despite nearly three decades of research, not much is known regarding the early stages of development for KSHV lymphoproliferative disorders, hindering our ability to develop prophylactic measures or effective treatments. This dissertation will focus on the host and viral factors influencing the magnitude and dynamics of KSHV infection in the human tonsil to pave the way for future interventions directed at limiting person-to-person transmission of KSHV.

To understand the contribution of host factors to KSHV susceptibility in B lymphocytes, we generated a library of 40 tonsillar specimens. Our results indicate that the immunological composition of tonsillar lymphocytes varies across our …

Relationships Among Mentoring Support And Student Success In A Chinese First-Year Experience Program, Tianxiang Liu

Education (PhD) Dissertations

China’s higher education reform led to the rise of private universities leading to a surge in the number of private universities, which have lacked funds and resources compared to their public peers. While private universities have allowed for expanded access to higher education, quite a few students have not been well prepared for study at this level. Therefore, private colleges in China need to provide more resources for students to help them succeed. Western countries, with more robust histories of private higher education, adopted the strategy of peer mentoring to solve the problem of first-year students’ retention, which guided significance …

Learning Orbital Dynamics Of Binary Black Hole Systems From Gravitational Wave Measurements, Brendan Keith, Akshay Khadse, Scott E. Field

Faculty and Student Publications

We introduce a gravitational waveform inversion strategy that discovers mechanical models of binary black hole (BBH) systems. We show that only a single time series of (possibly noisy) waveform data is necessary to construct the equations of motion for a BBH system. Starting with a class of universal differential equations parameterized by feed-forward neural networks, our strategy involves the construction of a space of plausible mechanical models and a physics-informed constrained optimization within that space to minimize the waveform error. We apply our method to various BBH systems including extreme and comparable mass ratio systems in eccentric and noneccentric orbits. …

Tracing The Origin Of The Crayfish Plague Pathogen, Aphanomyces Astaci, To The Southeastern United States, Laura Martín-Torrijos, María Martínez-Ríos, Gloria Casabella-Herrero, Susan B. Adams, Colin R. Jackson, Javier Diéguez-Uribeondo

Faculty and Student Publications

The oomycete Aphanomyces astaci is an emerging infectious pathogen affecting freshwater crayfish worldwide and is responsible for one of the most severe wildlife pandemics ever reported. The pathogen has caused mass mortalities of freshwater crayfish species in Europe and Asia, and threatens other susceptible species in Madagascar, Oceania and South America. The pathogen naturally coexists with some North American crayfish species that are its chronic carriers. Presumptions that A. astaci originated in North America are based on disease outbreaks that followed translocations of North American crayfish and on the identification of the pathogen mainly in Europe. We studied A. astaci …

Library Quarterly - December 2021, Amy An, Leecy Barnett, Tsukasa Cherkaoui, Jordan Chussler, Sabine Dantus, Amy Filiatreau, Lea Iadarola, Robert Leigh, Jared Wellman

Library Newsletter

In this issue:

• SPIRAL Redesign
• New Databases Take Flight
• Introducing Amy An
• Don't Have Time to Write an iBook?
• Investigating the Legacy of the Nuremberg Trials
• Scholarly Endeavors in 2021

Monarch Science Observer, Volume 12, College Of Sciences, Old Dominion University

College of Sciences Newsletter

Winter 2021 issue of Monarch Science Observer, ODU College of Sciences Newsletter.

Essential Programs And Services Report Of Findings: Gifted And Talented Education, Lisa Morris, Amy Johnson

School Funding - Essential Programs and Services (EPS)

Report Overview

This review of the Gifted and Talented (G&T) funding component within the Essential Programs and Services (EPS) education cost model begins with a summary of our most recent (2019) analyses of the G&T funding patterns and trends in Maine. Next we provide updated data (Part I) about G&T program implementation and enrollment in Maine public schools in FY2020 and FY2021 to confirm that trends from prior studies persist. We then provide a summary of the available research literature on the rationale and effectiveness of G&T programming in order to revisit the underlying tenets of this aspect of Maine’s …

A Barn That's Never Empty, Elizabeth Wiles

In the Ords: CSUMB Literary Arts Journal

No abstract provided.

Her Shadow, Marisa Mccormick

In the Ords: CSUMB Literary Arts Journal

No abstract provided.

The Day I Met Her, José Arzola

In the Ords: CSUMB Literary Arts Journal

No abstract provided.

Learning To Fly ~ Don’T Hold My Hand, Zoe Atlas

In the Ords: CSUMB Literary Arts Journal

No abstract provided.

A Midsummer Night's Dream Program, Collin College

Theatre Programs

Program for A Midsummer Night's Dream.