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A Methodological Framework For Parametric Combat Analysis, Dustin L. Hayhurst Sr.

Theses and Dissertations

This work presents a taxonomic structure for understanding the tension between certain factors of stability for game-theoretic outcomes such as Nash optimality, Pareto optimality, and balance optimality and then applies such game-theoretic concepts to the advancement of strategic thought on spacepower. This work successfully adapts and applies combat modeling theory to the evaluation of cislunar space conflict. This work provides evidence that the reliability characteristics of small spacecraft share similarities to the reliability characteristics of large spacecraft. Using these novel foundational concepts, this dissertation develops and presents a parametric methodological framework capable of analyzing the efficacy of heterogeneous force compositions …

Evaluation Rubric For An Oer Source In Philosophy, Alina N. Feld

Open Educational Resources

Criteria of evaluating an OER source in Philosophy

Hughes, B. S., Corrigan, M. W., Grove, D., Anintegrating Arts With Stem And Leading With Steam To Increase Science Learning With Equity For Emerging Bilingual Learners In The United States, Bradley S. Hughes, Michael W. Corrigan, Douglas Grove, Sage B. Andersen, Joseph T. Wong

Elementary & Secondary Education Faculty Research

Background: To inform STEM education for benefiting emerging bilingual (EB) and English fluent (EF) students, the present study evaluated the order effects of integrating science and arts within a large-scale, ongoing effort investigating the efficacies of Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)-aligned Science Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) methodologies to provide more equitable opportunities to students to learn science through Arts integration (STEAM). The experiment examines the curriculum integrating order of implementing combinations of STEM and STEAM approaches in fifth grade life and physical science instruction, comparing (STEM → STEAM) vs (STEAM → STEM).

Results: T tests and a three-way between-groups …

Full Issue 14(4) 2022

Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education

No abstract provided.

Natural Language Processing For Novel Writing, Leqing Qu, Okan Ersoy

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

Evaluation Of The Control Of Water Sanitation And Hygiene Related Disease Through Community Hygiene Club Intervention In Rwanda, Amans Ntakarutimana, Elias Nyandwi, Nadine Rujeni, Chantal Marie Ingabire Dr, Kato Jonas Njunwa, Théoneste Ntakirutimana, Gaspard Rwanyiziri, Joseph Tuyishimire, Schaddrack Ngabonziza

Journal of Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences

This article consists of a review article reporting the results of previous evaluations of the control of water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) related disease through the Community Hygiene Club (CHC) intervention from 2010 to 2020. CHC constitutes the main intervention for the control of WASH-related disease in Rwanda and is implemented countrywide. The study objective was to evaluate if the CHC intervention significantly reduced the prevalence of WASH-related disease after 10 years of its implementation in Rwanda. The study utilized online existing policy documents, research reports, and experiences on the CHC intervention in Rwanda published between 2010 and 2020. We …

Bridge Building In Higher Education: Multi-Modal Mentoring Programs To Support Retention & Career Preparedness, James Hutson, Roger Nasser, Michael Marzano, Ryan Curtis, Elizabeth Macdonald, Sue Edele, Barbara Hosti-Marti

Faculty Scholarship

Despite the limitations on time for career preparedness and shrinking professional development budgets, mentoring remains as important as ever due to the interconnectedness in a global society and the changing demographics of postsecondary education students. The traditional-age population in college that lives on campus and does not work has been declining for over three decades. The majorities of current students that are now non-traditional, and work at least part-time are first-generation, and are pursuing degrees via distance or online learning. The importance of providing a diverse mentoring strategy for this new population is borne out in research in order to …

Evaluating Preservice Teachers’ Performance In A Blended Field Experience Course During The Quarantine Of Covid-19, Laila Mohebi, Areej Elsayary

All Works

This paper aims to evaluate the preservice teachers’ teaching performance in a blended field experience during the quarantine of COVID-19. An exploratory sequential mixed method approach was adopted using Strength, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT) analysis as a qualitative tool and quantitative data collected using a teacher evaluation rubric that merged the INTASC standards in the Danielson domains. The results show that using SWOT analysis positively impacts teachers’ performance: they understand how to use the external environment (seizing opportunities and avoiding threats) to control the internal environment (enhancing strengths and removing weaknesses).

Impact Of Immigration Parent-Child Separation Policies On Children’S Attachment Experiences, Daisy Casasnovas

Dissertations

This critical literature review (CRP) project explores the consequences of child-parent separation by deportation laws. Considering the number of Latinx immigrant families immigrating to the United States, this review focused on how the unexpected separation by deportation impacted immigrant families and how these separations affect their children’s development, attachment style, and overall well-being. The review explored the short- and long-term consequences for immigrant children and their families, including children who are U.S.-born and remain in the country without their parents. Results from the review indicate an extensive and significant impact on attachment style and overall developmental impairments. The unexpected separation …

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SEPTEMBER 2022

Project-Based Learning Promotes Students’Perceived Relevance In An Engineering Statistics Course: A Comparison Of Learning In Synchronous And Online Learning Environments, Wen Huang, Jeremi S. London, Loga A. Perry

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering: Faculty Publications

Understanding statistics is essential for engineers. However, statistics courses remain challenging for many students, as they find them rigid, abstract, and demanding. Prior research has indicated that using project based learning (PjBL) to demonstrate the relevance of statistics to students can have a significant effect on learning in these courses. Consequently, this study sought to explore the impact of a PjBL intervention on student perceptions of the relevance of engineering and statistics. The purpose of the intervention was to help students understand the connection between statistics and their academic majors, lives, and future careers. Four mini-projects connecting statistics to students’ …

Robustness And Cross-Lingual Transfer: An Exploration Of Out-Of-Distribution Scenario In Natural Language Processing, Yu, Sicheng

Dissertations and Theses Collection (Open Access)

Most traditional machine learning or deep learning methods are based on the premise that training data and test data are independent and identical distributed, i.e., IID. However, it is just an ideal situation. In real-world applications, test set and training data often follow different distributions, which we refer to as the out of distribution, i.e., OOD, setting. As a result, models trained with traditional methods always suffer from an undesirable performance drop on the OOD test set. It's necessary to develop techniques to solve this problem for real applications. In this dissertation, we present four pieces of work in the …

Csd 430.01: Senior Capstone, Danielle K. Fahey

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2021-2025

No abstract provided.

Slp 546.01: Argumentative & Alternative Communication, Leah Jean Meloy

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2021-2025

No abstract provided.

Anty 101h.03: Anthropology And The Human Experience, Holli K. Mcdonald, Mykala D. Ward

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2021-2025

No abstract provided.

Edec 434.01: Social Emotional Development & Child Guidance, Danielle L. Bailey

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2021-2025

No abstract provided.

Edld 502.50: Philosophy Of Education, Robert D. Dobell

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2021-2025

No abstract provided.

County-Level Social Vulnerability And Breast, Cervical, And Colorectal Cancer Screening Rates In The Us, 2018, Cici Bauer, Kehe Zhang, Qian Xiao, Jiachen Lu, Young-Rock Hong, Ryan Suk

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

IMPORTANCE: Area-level factors have been identified as important social determinants of health (SDoH) that impact many health-related outcomes. Less is known about how the social vulnerability index (SVI), as a scalable composite score, can multidimensionally explain the population-based cancer screening program uptake at a county level.

OBJECTIVE: To examine the geographic variation of US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF)-recommended breast, cervical, and colorectal cancer screening rates and the association between county-level SVI and the 3 screening rates.

DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: This population-based cross-sectional study used county-level information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's PLACES and SVI data …

Diacritics Correction In Turkish With Context-Aware Sequence To Sequence Modeling, Asi̇ye Tuba Özge, Özge Bozal, Umut Özge

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Digital texts in many languages have examples of missing or misused diacritics which makes it hard for natural language processing applications to disambiguate the meaning of words. Therefore, diacritics restoration is a crucial step in natural language processing applications for many languages. In this study we approach this problem as bidirectional transformation of diacritical letters and their ASCII counterparts, rather than unidirectional diacritic restoration. We propose a context-aware character-level sequence to sequence model for this transformation. The model is language independent in the sense that no language-specific feature extraction is necessary other than the utilization of word embeddings and is …

Experiences Of East African Students In Norway: Development Of A Process Mode, Agnes Akoth, Elisabeth Enoksen

Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education

No abstract provided.

Claiming Power In African American Women Storytelling, Heather Bergeson

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

Beginning with slave narratives and continuing to the contemporary day, black autobiographers have shared and perpetuated the values and experiences of their communities through the medium of stories, which seek to expose perspectives that are often withheld or overshadowed by white voices. Tracy K. Smith’s memoir Ordinary Light participates in this tradition as she writes about her experiences as an African American woman in the United States. Near the text’s close, Smith asserts that storytelling is an act of “claiming the power to name and state and face the events, even the most awful events, making up a life” (279). …

Csd 222.01: Introduction To Audiology, Kevin D. Duffy

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2021-2025

No abstract provided.

Slp 550.01: Language Assessment And Intervention For Children, Birth Through Preschool, Danielle K. Fahey

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2021-2025

No abstract provided.

Slp 570: Clinical Processes In Professional Practice I & Ii, Fasst Model (Friday Afternoon Specialty Skills Training), Leah Jean Meloy

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2021-2025

No abstract provided.

Slp 591.52: Voice & Resonance Disorders, Jane E. Reynolds

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2021-2025

No abstract provided.

Psyx 525.01: Psychological Evaluation I, Gregory R. Machek

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2021-2025

No abstract provided.

Psyx 580.01: Principles And Practices Of Professional School Psychology, Jacqueline A. Brown

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2021-2025

No abstract provided.

Slp 560.00: Language Assessment And Intervention For School-Age Children And Adolescents, Ginger G. Collins

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2021-2025

No abstract provided.

Edec 420.01: Implementing Standards And Assessment In Play-Based Environments, Allison B. Wilson

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2021-2025

No abstract provided.

The Normal Review, A Literary And Arts Publication, Fall 2022, The Normal Review

The Normal Review

No abstract provided.