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Connectivity And Directionality In Estuarine Channel Networks, Matthew Hiatt, Elisabeth A. Addink, Maarten G. Kleinhans Mar 2022

Connectivity And Directionality In Estuarine Channel Networks, Matthew Hiatt, Elisabeth A. Addink, Maarten G. Kleinhans

Faculty Publications

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Periyar: A Study In Political Atheism, Karthick Ram Manoharan Mar 2022

Periyar: A Study In Political Atheism, Karthick Ram Manoharan

Books

This volume is a thematic study of the work and ideas of Periyar E. V. Ramasamy. It analyses Periyar's emancipatory, irreverent and revolutionary critique of religion using the idea of 'political atheism'. Drawing extensively from Periyar's own writings, contemporary accounts of Dravidian politics and the theory of Anarchism, this groundbreaking study provides a new perspective on Periyar's engagements with religion, caste and their collaborations with the state. Periyar is not just a new appraisal of 'Periyarism' but a reminder of its continuing significance in global conversations on justice, equality and liberty.

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Symposium Keynote Address, Rebecca Dixon Mar 2022

Symposium Keynote Address, Rebecca Dixon

Seattle Journal for Social Justice

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Editorial: Re-Purposing Universities For Sustainable Human Progress, Iain S. Stewart, Victoria Hurth, Stephen Sterling Mar 2022

Editorial: Re-Purposing Universities For Sustainable Human Progress, Iain S. Stewart, Victoria Hurth, Stephen Sterling

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Editorial on the Research TopicRe-Purposing Universities for Sustainable Human ProgressHumanity is confronting the most acute and urgent threat it has ever consciously faced. Soaring inequality, accelerating climate crises, ecological collapse, and social and psychological breakdown represent a multi-faceted socio-ecological crisis that is threatening viability of life on Earth. The undeniable evidence of this is fueling a growing global recognition that something has gone badly wrong with the ways in which our society has sought to optimize its wellbeing and that of non-human life which it brings into its ethical sphere of care. But what is the culpability of universities in …

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Evaluation Of Delivery Service In Rural Areas With Cav, Panos Prevedouros, Abdulrahman Alghamdi Mar 2022

Evaluation Of Delivery Service In Rural Areas With Cav, Panos Prevedouros, Abdulrahman Alghamdi

CSET Project Reports

Urban areas have been experiencing automated delivery technology for several servings of food or a few bags of groceries, with automated (robotic) mini vehicles. The benefits of such automated delivery may be much more significant for rural areas with long distances due to the large potential savings in travel time, travel cost, and crash risk. Compared to urban areas, rural areas have older and more disabled residents, longer distances, higher traffic fatality rates, and high ownership of less fuel-efficient vehicles such as pickup trucks. An evaluation of connected autonomous vehicle (CAV) delivery service in rural areas was conducted. A detailed …

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Rural Adults Report Worse Covid-19 Impacts Than Urban Adults, Shannon M. Monnat Mar 2022

Rural Adults Report Worse Covid-19 Impacts Than Urban Adults, Shannon M. Monnat

Population Health Research Brief Series

COVID-19 infection and mortality rates have been higher in rural than in urban America since late-2020. However, the consequences of COVID-19 extend far beyond the deaths that it has caused. This brief uses data from a national survey of working-age adults (ages 18-64) collected in February and March of 2021 to describe rural-urban differences in reported impacts of COVID-19 on physical and mental health, employment, financial wellbeing, and social relationships. Nearly 3 out of 5 respondents (58%) reported that COVID-19 has had a negative impact on their lives. Across most outcomes, rural residents fared worse than their urban peers. Recovery …

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Le Gout Qui Reste: Cultural Identity And Belonging In Ook Chung's Kimchi, Taurean James Weber-Laurencio Mar 2022

Le Gout Qui Reste: Cultural Identity And Belonging In Ook Chung's Kimchi, Taurean James Weber-Laurencio

Dissertations and Theses

The emphasis placed on the questioning of identity in Québécois society since the Quiet Revolution of the mid-twentieth century continues to this day. Whereas this search for a specifically Québécois identity was originally cast in terms of an Anglophone/Francophone divide, the influx of migrants from around the world to the province since the 1970s has rendered such a simplistic, binary discourse impossible. The population of Québéc in general and of Montréal in particular is now multicultural; visible minorities now constitute twenty-six percent of the Montréal populace. While most migrants in Québéc are able to find a niche in Montréal in …

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Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, With Miami Men, Circa 1920 Mar 2022

Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, With Miami Men, Circa 1920

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46-page prospectus titled "With Miami Men" published by Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, circa 1920.

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The Hybridization Of Home: Establishing Place Between The Garrison And The Wilderness In Mary Rowlandson's (1682) Captivity Narrative, Brooke M. Weltch Mar 2022

The Hybridization Of Home: Establishing Place Between The Garrison And The Wilderness In Mary Rowlandson's (1682) Captivity Narrative, Brooke M. Weltch

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Scholarship surrounding captivity narratives long agrees that the psychological and philosophical beliefs of their authors lend insight into the contemporaneous hegemonic power structures through literary forms. Looking beyond these forms to the places they describe, however, illustrates the extent to which cultural perceptions infiltrate even the mere relationships that individuals have with their environment as well as the material structures surrounding them. I focus the role of place in Mary Rowlandson’s narrative, The Soveraignty and Goodness of God (1682). I argue that Rowlandson forms an attachment with the wigwam on account of her traumatic experiences while in captivity. Her displacement …

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Environmental Assessment Of Indicators Of Contamination Of Wastewater And Household Tanks In The Areas Of (Mansour - New Baghdad), Ali Abdul Wahhab Majeed Mar 2022

Environmental Assessment Of Indicators Of Contamination Of Wastewater And Household Tanks In The Areas Of (Mansour - New Baghdad), Ali Abdul Wahhab Majeed

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

This research is based on the study of some characteristics of drinking water (physical , chemical , biological) in the areas of ( Al-Mansour and New Baghdad ) in Baghdad governorate by taking random samples of water (liquefaction , house tanks) for some homes in the two study areas during the specified months (February , July) for 2018, It was found through the results of the researcher's analysis that some indicators of pollution in water samples (liquefaction , house tanks) increased as the concentration of turbidity in the liquefaction water increased as a result of overtaking the water transmission lines …

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The Effect Of Climate Water Balance On Determining The Water ‎Needs Of Some Agricultural Crop Models In Al-Muthanna ‎Governorate, Rafah Muhana Mohammad Mar 2022

The Effect Of Climate Water Balance On Determining The Water ‎Needs Of Some Agricultural Crop Models In Al-Muthanna ‎Governorate, Rafah Muhana Mohammad

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

Knowing and analyzing the climatic water balance of the study area is useful in determining the periods of water surplus and deficit in the agricultural side, depending on the monthly rates of maximum and minimum temperatures, the average wind speed, the number of actual and theoretical sun hours, and the relative humidity. The application of the (CROP WAT8.0) program gives a methodology in estimating needs Hydroponics for agricultural crops, depending on the climatic data and the values ​​of the yield factor, contribute to determining the characteristics of the area, and thus estimating the amount of water using mathematical methods to …

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British Colonial Strategies To Control The Influenza Epidemic Of 1918 To 1919 In Ashanti, Dennis Baffour Awuah Mar 2022

British Colonial Strategies To Control The Influenza Epidemic Of 1918 To 1919 In Ashanti, Dennis Baffour Awuah

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis seeks to examine the strategies and policies that were employed by the British colonial administration to control the influenza epidemic of 1918-1919 in Ashanti. I argue that the varying philosophies of both the colonial administration and the Native population in Ashanti on health and medicine influenced the response trajectory to the disease. It also explores the aspects of Indigenous medical practices which are largely concerned with the religion or beliefs of the people. Before the outbreak of influenza, the colonial administration started a campaign to promote Western medicine while antagonizing Indigenous medicine. To an extent, this made the …

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Enhancing The Higher Education Quality With Mooc Penetration: Role Of Policy, Library And Curriculum, Flora Charles Lazarus, Rajneesh Suryasen Mar 2022

Enhancing The Higher Education Quality With Mooc Penetration: Role Of Policy, Library And Curriculum, Flora Charles Lazarus, Rajneesh Suryasen

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The governments of emerging economies have realized the potential of MOOCs for enhancing the quality of higher education, but still, the MOOC penetration is very low in countries like India. This study explores the issues relating to MOOC integration and attempts to identify the key drivers for the adoption of MOOC based curriculum. 'Integration into Curriculum', 'MOOC Services of Academic Library', and 'MHRD Policy and Support' are identified as the key drivers for increasing the MOOC Penetration. The higher the level of MOOC penetration the greater would be the improvement in the quality of higher education. The practical implications for …

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Cseas Weekly Bulletin (March 14, 2022), Center For Southeast Asian Studies Mar 2022

Cseas Weekly Bulletin (March 14, 2022), Center For Southeast Asian Studies

CSEAS Bulletin

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Righteous: What Holocaust Rescuers Can Teach Us About A More Altruistic Society, Jill Bodnar Mar 2022

Righteous: What Holocaust Rescuers Can Teach Us About A More Altruistic Society, Jill Bodnar

Graduate Student Research Symposium

Stories about Holocaust rescuers are not well known to the general American public. These unsung heroes were a small subset of non-Jews from across Europe who went against the dark climate of antisemitism and racial cleansing led by Nazi Germany in the 1930s and 40s. As the reality of the Final Solution grew, these rescuers made the moral decision to risk their lives to save innocent Jewish friends, neighbors, and strangers from capture and death. On top of the rarity of their actions, after the war they often did not speak of their work, largely because they did not see …

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The Daily Gamecock, In Bloom, March 2022, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media Mar 2022

The Daily Gamecock, In Bloom, March 2022, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

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Thinking With Semiotic-Dialogism: Re-Orientating Augmented Reality And Visual Literacy, Zoe Hurley Mar 2022

Thinking With Semiotic-Dialogism: Re-Orientating Augmented Reality And Visual Literacy, Zoe Hurley

All Works

Augmented reality (AR) apps, like Adobe’s Aero, enable users to turn Photoshop layers into interactive AR experiences and are considered promising for higher education. But what we see or do not see are mediated via histories, cultural values, ideologies, social practices and technologies. Simultaneously, the ways we receive knowledge, communicate and learn are more than ever being communicated via visual technologies. Yet, theories of visuality within educational research represent a longstanding gap within scholarship and theorising of visual technologies, including AR, is lacking. This study re-orientates conceptions of AR visual literacy through ‘thinking with’ semiotics, which is the study of …

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Impact Of Care For Life- Mozambique's Cyclone Recovery Program, Anna Osguthorpe Mar 2022

Impact Of Care For Life- Mozambique's Cyclone Recovery Program, Anna Osguthorpe

Undergraduate Honors Theses

My research is primarily an impact evaluation of the cyclone recovery efforts of the non- profit organization Care For Life, based in Beira, Mozambique. I determine the causal effects of this program on business creation and several inputs to health (serious sickness, improved latrines, meals per day, and access to a vegetable garden). The treatment intervention consists of Care For Life workers providing mosquito nets, water purification, and soap, improving available latrines, and providing gardening materials (seeds, fertilizer, hoes, and watering cans). I analyze the effect of this treatment on five different outcome variables chosen because they are deeply affected …

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Subaerial Volcanism Is A Potentially Major Contributor To Oceanic Iron And Manganese Cycles, Jack Longman, Martin R. Palmer, Thomas M. Gernon, Hayley R. Manners, Morgan T. Jones Mar 2022

Subaerial Volcanism Is A Potentially Major Contributor To Oceanic Iron And Manganese Cycles, Jack Longman, Martin R. Palmer, Thomas M. Gernon, Hayley R. Manners, Morgan T. Jones

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Surface ocean availability of the micronutrients iron and manganese influences primary productivity and carbon cycling in the ocean. Volcanic ash is rich in iron and manganese, but the global supply of these nutrients to the oceans via ash deposition is poorly constrained. Here, we use marine sediment-hosted ash composition data from ten volcanic regions, and subaerial volcanic eruption volumes, to estimate global ash-driven nutrient fluxes. Using Monte Carlo simulations, we estimate average fluxes of dissolved Iron and Manganese from volcanic sources to be between 50 and 500 (median 180) and 0.6 and 3.2 (median 1.3) Gmol yr−1, respectively. Much of …

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“Worthy Of Emulation:” Mira Behn And Indian Independence, 1925-1959, Tamala Malerk Mar 2022

“Worthy Of Emulation:” Mira Behn And Indian Independence, 1925-1959, Tamala Malerk

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is lauded for his work in helping to bring independence to India. Historians and authors are correct in asserting Gandhi’s importance to the independence movement of India, but he did not do it alone. Gandhi was helped by followers, foreign and domestic, who believed in his vision of an independent India. One of these disciples was Madeleine Slade, or as she would later be known, Mira Behn. Behn was born into an upper-class British family: her father an Admiral in the Royal Navy and her mother a housewife. Behn came upon a copy of French philosopher, Romain …

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Assessing Changes In Actual Air Quality And Public Perceptions Of Air Quality In Kathmandu Valley Nepal Pre And Post Covid-19 Lockdown, Robin Margherita Rives Mar 2022

Assessing Changes In Actual Air Quality And Public Perceptions Of Air Quality In Kathmandu Valley Nepal Pre And Post Covid-19 Lockdown, Robin Margherita Rives

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Air pollution is a global concern. Cities around the world fail to meet air quality standards set by the World Health Organization Air Quality Guidelines, which has a significant impact on public health. As the capital city and largest metropolitan region of Nepal, Kathmandu is a hotspot for urban pollution in South Asia. Nepal faces emissions from both internal and external sources. External sources include emissions from Nepal’s neighboring countries of India and China and emissions resulting from tourism. Internal sources of pollution in the country include brick and cement factories, consumption of energy from traditional sources such as biomass, …

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Clarksville Female Academy, Tennessee, Fiftieth Annual Register And Announcement, 1896 Mar 2022

Clarksville Female Academy, Tennessee, Fiftieth Annual Register And Announcement, 1896

Documents

Fiftieth Annual Register and Announcement of the Clarksville Female Academy, Clarksville, Tennessee, for the 1896-1897 session.

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Clarksville Female Academy, Tennessee, Catalogue And Announcement, 1878 Mar 2022

Clarksville Female Academy, Tennessee, Catalogue And Announcement, 1878

Documents

Catalogue and Announcement of the Clarksville Female Academy, Clarksville, Tennessee, for 1878.

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Gone With The Soul, Japheth Asiedu-Kwarteng Mar 2022

Gone With The Soul, Japheth Asiedu-Kwarteng

Theses and Dissertations

The artworks presented in this statement are my visual vocabulary discussing the experiences of the diaspora. They discuss how people of the diaspora, especially the Ghanaian/African diaspora, negotiates spaces away from their homeland. On the other hand, they discuss the “diasporan’s” experiences of being a stranger in their homeland during a visit after a long stay away. Premised on being in the diaspora without my young family, I discuss my experiences of separation, belonging, fear, anxiety, perception, pain, stress, nostalgia, confusion, acceptance, rejection, and other complexities of living a dual life and having a transnational identity.

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Diminutive Noun Class In Bantu Languages: Is Kiswahili Deviant?, Rodrick G. Ndomba Mar 2022

Diminutive Noun Class In Bantu Languages: Is Kiswahili Deviant?, Rodrick G. Ndomba

Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

Noun class prefixes ki-/vi- and ka-/tu- found in Bantu diminutives are widespread despite claims that these affixes are missing in Kiswahili. This study was qualitative, employing data from Kiswahili native speakers, selected literary works of art written in Kiswahili by Kiswahili speakers, and Kiswahili chat messages from WhatsApp forums of Kiswahili speakers. The study reveals that Kiswahili speakers use ka- and tu- affixes in addition to ki /vi- to form diminutives. These affixes may attach to noun stems as in ka-toto/tu-toto ‘tiny child/tiny children’; or may attach to prefixed stems as pre-prefixes as in ki-m-nazi ‘small/short coconut tree’ and vi-mi-nazi …

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Confusions Between English Nominal And Adjectival Forms Among Students At The Dar Es Salaam University College Of Education:, Loveluck Philip Muro, Benedict P. Lema Mar 2022

Confusions Between English Nominal And Adjectival Forms Among Students At The Dar Es Salaam University College Of Education:, Loveluck Philip Muro, Benedict P. Lema

Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

This paper examines confusions between English nominal and adjectival forms among students at the Dar es Salaam University College of Education (DUCE). In particular, it establishes consistencies and inconsistencies in the use of English nominal and adjectival forms; and informs pedagogical interventions that can be adopted to redress the situation. Data was collected from a review of selected students’ examination scripts, and then subjected to error analysis in relation to the identified themes. The findings show that students vary greatly in the way they use nominal and adjectival forms such that some errors are consistently predictable, while others are intricately …

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Africa In Our Century: Proceedings Of The 2022 Global Voices Symposium, Julius A. Amin Mar 2022

Africa In Our Century: Proceedings Of The 2022 Global Voices Symposium, Julius A. Amin

Proceedings: 2022 Global Voices on the University of Dayton Campus

Full proceedings of the 2022 Global Voices Symposium

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A Closer Look At Precision Hard Turning Of Aisi4340: Multi-Objective Optimization For Simultaneous Low Surface Roughness And High Productivity, Mohamed F. Aly, Islam H. Abdelgaliel, Adel T. Abbas, Abdulhamid A. Al-Abduljabbar Mar 2022

A Closer Look At Precision Hard Turning Of Aisi4340: Multi-Objective Optimization For Simultaneous Low Surface Roughness And High Productivity, Mohamed F. Aly, Islam H. Abdelgaliel, Adel T. Abbas, Abdulhamid A. Al-Abduljabbar

Faculty Journal Articles

This article reports an extended investigation into the precision hard turning of AISI 4340 alloy steel when machined by two different types of inserts: wiper nose and conventional round nose. It provides a closer look at previously published work and aims at determining the optimal process parameters for simultaneously minimizing surface roughness and maximizing productivity. In the mathematical models developed by the authors, surface roughness at different cutting speeds, depths of cut and feed rates is treated as the objective function. Three robust multi-objective techniques, (1) multi-objective genetic algorithm (MOGA), (2) multi-objective Pareto search algorithm (MOPSA) and (3) multi-objective emperor …

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Sustainable Management Of Rangelands: An Assessment Of Invasion Cover Trajectories And Their Contribution To Invasion Management In Marigat Sub-County, Kenya, Beatrice Adoyo, Albrecht Ehrensperger, Mikalitsa S. Mukhovi, Boniface Kiteme, Purity Mbaabu Rima, Sandra Eckert, Simon Choge, Urs Schaffner Mar 2022

Sustainable Management Of Rangelands: An Assessment Of Invasion Cover Trajectories And Their Contribution To Invasion Management In Marigat Sub-County, Kenya, Beatrice Adoyo, Albrecht Ehrensperger, Mikalitsa S. Mukhovi, Boniface Kiteme, Purity Mbaabu Rima, Sandra Eckert, Simon Choge, Urs Schaffner

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

Invasive alien species have complex spatiotemporal patterns of spread beyond geographical and jurisdictional boundaries. This calls for a coordinated management approach that is spatially explicit, extends beyond individual plot levels, and incorporates land users’ perceptions and decisions. This study, therefore, aims at assessing spatiotemporal invasion trajectories of the invasive tree Prosopis juliflora in Baringo County, Kenya, and evaluating their possible relation to land users’ management decisions. Pre-classified land cover data over a seven-year time period (1988–2016) were reclassified based on the presence or absence of P. juliflora and integrated into ArcGIS to produce P. juliflora cover trajectories for analysis. The …

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Prevalence Of Physical Inactivity And Its Geographical Distribution In Yazd City, 2014–2015, Masoud Mirzaei, Mohsen Mirzaei, Seyed Ali Almodaresi, Hossein Fallahzadeh, Mahdi Shahryari, Shahin Eslami Farsani, Seyyed Mohammad Hossein Hosseini Mar 2022

Prevalence Of Physical Inactivity And Its Geographical Distribution In Yazd City, 2014–2015, Masoud Mirzaei, Mohsen Mirzaei, Seyed Ali Almodaresi, Hossein Fallahzadeh, Mahdi Shahryari, Shahin Eslami Farsani, Seyyed Mohammad Hossein Hosseini

Baltic Journal of Health and Physical Activity

Background: One of the most important risk factors for non-communicable diseases is physical inactivity. This study was conducted to determine the geographical distribution of physical inactivity in Yazd City to identify places that need intervention. Methods: This is a cross-sectional descriptive analysis conducted based on Geographic Information System (GIS). The data for residents between 20 to 69 years in Yazd city of Yazd Health Study (YaHS) yielded 8727 people. The short form of the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ-SF) was used. The SPSS V.19 and ARC Map10.5 software were used to analyze the data. Results: The pattern of geographical distribution …

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