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From Sierra To Alma: A Transformative Experience At Saint Mary’S College Of California, Elise Y. Wong

Staff Works

No abstract provided.

Student Perceptions In Conferring: A Phenomenographic Exploration Of Student Perceptions On Teacher-Student Writing Conferences, Jacqueline Johnson

Doctor of Education in Secondary and Middle Grades Education Dissertations

This phenomenographic research explores how students perceive one-on-one (teacher-student) writing conferences. At least twice a year, I sit with my 9th-grade English students to discuss their writing. Together, we go over their last writing assignment. I coach them to make their writing better while pointing out positive elements of their writing. I check for understanding by having the students verbally repeat a summary of their conference. While I feel connected to the students and their writing by conferring, I have rarely considered what they thought about the conference. After our conference, do they feel like they truly learned something? I …

Teachers’ Burnout Experience In A Title I Suburban Elementary School, Shakoiya Aiken

Doctor of Education in Teacher Leadership Dissertations

This qualitative case study focused on the experiences of Title I suburban elementary school teachers in the Southeastern United States. The purpose of this study was to gain an in-depth understanding of the reasons why teachers in Title I suburban schools experience burnout and how their burnout manifests. I also conducted this study to fill the gap in the literature and gain insight on the specific supports and strategies that Title I suburban school teachers need to help manage or eliminate their burnout. The theoretical framework that informed this study was the Burnout Theory. Several data gathering techniques (interview, reflective …

Of Bugs And Wildfires: Tracing The Impacts Of Changing Wildfire Regimes On Aquatic Bacteria And Macroinvertebrates Using Edna, Isabella M. Errigo

Theses and Dissertations

Human disruption of climate, habitat, and ignition has altered the behavior of wildland fire at local to continental scales. In many regions, novel fire regimes are emerging that threaten to exceed the capacity for local management to protect human wellbeing and ecosystem function. Simultaneous changes in climate, species composition, and fire management have resulted in extreme fire behavior in many regions. For the Western United States, the emerging novel fire regime consists of more frequent, severe, and intense wildfires, with annual area burned by wildfire having doubled and high-severity wildfire area having increased 8-fold since the 1980s. The impacts of …

Native American Boarding School Bands And Their Bandmasters. Project File 2: Bands At The Omaha Indian Congresses, 1898 & 1899, Peter M. Lefferts

Glenn Korff School of Music: Faculty Publications

This is the second of five on-line text files in which I assemble my research notes about boys’ bands and their bandmasters at the US government’s Native American off-reservation inter-tribal boarding schools. In general, it is material that covers a span of about fifty years from the 1880s to the 1930s, though the present document concentrates on the Omaha expositions of 1898 and 1899. I principally have put into some kind of order a mass of data that draws upon online digital newspapers and genealogy databases. What follows here is not a finished, polished document. Everything on offer is still …

The Benefits Of Using Inclusive Literature In Kindergarten Through Fifth Grade Classrooms, Guidelines For Selecting Inclusive Texts, And Resources To Help Teachers, Librarians, And Community Members Use Inclusive Children’S Books, Erin Lynch

Honors Projects

This project outlines the great importance of inclusive children’s literature and the benefits of implementing high-quality, inclusive picture books within elementary school classrooms. Additionally, the project provides suggested guidelines for selecting inclusive literature as well as copious examples of high-quality picture books within a variety of subject matter categories. In addition to a thorough paper, this project contains a large online resource referred to as the “Virtual Library” that utilizes technology and graphic design to simulate a real library full of inclusive literature.

Central Bank Liquidity Lines, European Central Bank (Ecb): Eurosystem

Documents

No abstract provided.

Performance Analysis Of A Solar-Driven Integrated Direct-Contact Membrane Distillation And Humidification–Dehumidification System, Abdellah Shafieian, Amin Roostaee, Pooria Behnam, Mehdi Khiadani

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

Despite significant advantages of solar-driven membrane-based distillation systems, their large-scale application is limited due to high energy losses, and low technical and economic feasibility. To overcome the mentioned issues, a Direct-Contact Membrane Distillation (DCMD) module (as the primary distillation stage) was coupled with a hollow-fibre membrane-based air humidification–dehumidification (HD) unit (as the secondary distillation stage) to increase the water productivity of the system by recovering some of the lost energy in the first stage. The membrane-based humidifier was designed and implemented instead of the conventional packed columns to avert their drawbacks of being bulky, complex, less durable, and less reliable. …

For The Poor, It Was Just Friday: The Implicit Focus On Middle-Class Habitus In Conceptualizing Disaster, Amy Sorensen, Shelley Koch

Critical Disaster Studies

The importance of the academic study of disaster is in its potential application to policy and practice in times of dire circumstance and human suffering. In this paper, we situate the Covid-19 pandemic as an exemplar for an exploration of “disaster” using a framework that connects sociological theory and critical disaster studies. We use a Bourdieusian approach to situate the re-stabilization of the middle class habitus as implicitly central to disaster mitigation strategies. This theoretical approach illuminates the disconnect between critical disaster studies and on-the-ground disaster recovery approaches. It is this disconnect that leads to the disparate impact of disaster …

Uneasy Attachments: Postcolonial Anglophilia And Identity Formation In Twentieth-Century Anglophone Autobiographies, Anwesha Kundu

Arts & Sciences Graduate Student Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation focuses on the impact of anglophilia on identity formation in the British empire. Since Britishness was an identity unavailable to non-white citizens of the empire, this attachment was necessarily unrequited. Analyzing works by Cornelia Sorabji, E.R. Braithwaite, V.S. Naipaul, and Tsitsi Dangarembga, I argue that the critical significance of anglophilia does not lie in the postcolonial subject’s success or failure in achieving a British-coded identity, but in the ways in which an affiliation to Britishness can be mobilized to accomplish a variety of personal, political, and social ends. I use a range of autobiographical literature—travel narratives, autobiographical novels, …

Evaluation Of Blood-Based, Extracellular Vesicles As Biomarkers For Aging-Related Tdp-43 Pathology, Charisse N. Winston, Sonal Sukreet, Haley Lynch, Virginia M. -Y. Lee, Donna M. Wilcock, Peter T. Nelson, Robert A. Rissman

Neurology Faculty Publications

Introduction: Limbic predominant age related TDP-43 encephalopathy neuropathological change (LATE-NC) is a recently characterized brain disease that mimics Alzheimer’s disease (AD) clinically. To date, LATE-NC is difficult to diagnose antemortem using clinical information or biomarkers. Recent studies suggest concentrations of extracellular vesicle (EVs) protein cargo derived from neuronal and glial cells may serve as useful diagnostic biomarkers for AD and other neurodegenerative diseases.

Methods: TDP-43 was evaluated in neuronal (NDEVs), astrocyte (ADEVs), and microglial derived extracellular vesicles (MDEVs). EV preparations were isolated from the plasma of research subjects with autopsy-confirmed diagnoses, including many with LATE (n = 22). …

Native Language Attrition Among Immigrants, Fawzia Riji

Dissertations, Theses, and Projects

This study was a literature review, and it focused on native language attrition among immigrants. For many years, immigrant families have moved to places such as the United States and Europe as well as Canada because of war, abuse, persecution, environmental degradation, and poverty in their home countries. Once immigrant families arrived in their designated country, their children were placed in school. Due to the struggle with the language barrier, kids and adults quickly started to focus extensively on learning the English language.

The research occurred due to parents' raised concerns regarding their children's inability to communicate in their first …

Northwestern Corporation Financial Statement Analysis, Dakotah Herrmann

Dissertations, Theses, and Projects

The main company that I chose to research and analyze is NorthWestern Corporation. NorthWestern is an energy producer and distributor that supplies both electricity and natural gas to the states of South Dakota, Montana, and Nebraska. NorthWestern was founded in 1923 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The benchmark company that I chose was MGE Energy. MGE Energy is another energy producer and distributor of electricity and natural gas in the state of Wisconsin. MGE Energy was founded in 2001 in Madison, Wisconsin. I was able to obtain the most recent six fiscal years for both firms and analyze them in …

The Contemporary "White Trash" Memoir In Literary, Social And Political Contexts, Ursula Hansberry

Student Theses and Dissertations

This senior thesis is about class in the United States, as expressed and represented in three critically and popularly successful memoirs published by white working-class writers between 2005 and 2018. My thesis explores how these memoirs and their critical and commercial reception demonstrate a profound shift in cultural and social representations of white working-class upbringings in the United States, although not in any simple or obvious way. While readers intuitively grasp that a memoir is not the truth in a directly literal sense, but rather a document that is constructed, edited, framed, shaped, and dramatized, readers and critics at the …

Data Dimensionality Reduction Techniques: What Works With Machine Learning Models, Yuting Chen

Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020-2023

High-dimensional data has a wide range of applications in research, such as education, health, social media, and many other research fields. However, the high dimensionality of data can raise many problems for data analyses. This study focuses on commonly used techniques of dimensionality reduction for machine learning models, which play an essential and inevitable role in data prepossessing and statistical analysis. The main issues of high-dimensional data for machine learning tasks include the accuracy of data classification and visualization in machine learning models. Therefore, in this study, machine learning algorithms are used to predict and classify datasets to evaluate the …

Distributed Detection In Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensor Networks, Ghazaleh Ardeshiri

Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020-2023

A conventional wireless sensor networks (WSN), consisting of sensors powered by nonrechargeable batteries, has a strictly limited lifetime. Energy harvesting (EH) from the environment is a promising solution to address the energy constraint problem in conventional WSNs, and to render these networks to self-sustainable networks with perpetual lifetimes. In EH-powered WSNs, where sensors are capable of harvesting and storing energy, power control is necessary to balance the rates of energy harvesting and energy consumption for data transmission. In addition, wireless communication channels change randomly in time due to fading. These together prompt the need for developing new power control strategies …

Designing A Supervised Feature Selection Technique For Mixed Attribute Data Analysis, Dong Hyun Jeong, Bong Keun Jeong, Nandi Leslie, Charles Kamhoua, Soo Yeon Ji

Management and Decision Sciences

Identifying optimal features is critical for increasing the overall performance of data classification. This paper introduces a supervised feature selection technique for analyzing mixed attribute data. It measures data classification performances of features with a user-defined performance criterion and determines optimal features to boost the overall data analysis performance. A performance evaluation is managed to highlight the usefulness of the technique with existing feature selection techniques such as analysis of variance test, chi-square test, principal component analysis, and mutual information. Visualization is also utilized to understand the differences in classifying instances with different features. From a comparative performance testing and …

Leveraging System Context To Understand Collaborative Systems In Modern Public Management, Catherine Annis

Dissertations - ALL

Complex and boundary-spanning problems like overpopulation, hunger, pandemics, homelessness, and environmental degradation occur more frequently now than ever (Bynander & Nohrstedt, 2019; Criado & Guevara-Gómez, 2021; Huang, 2020; Kapucu, 2015; Getha-Taylor, 2007; Jayasinghe et al., 2022). Policymakers increasingly address these challenges through interorganizational collaboration (Isett et al., 2011). Countries worldwide now use collaborative governance to respond to such wicked problems (Jayasinghe et al., 2022; Huang, 2020; Megawati et al., 2020). Despite growing in popularity, gaps remain in understanding collaborative governance at scale. In this dissertation, I present research on the interconnected nature of collaborative governance initiatives in the United States …

Working Paper No. 63, On Karl Polanyi And His Conception Of Fascism, Serene Mistkawi

Working Papers in Economics

This inquiry seeks to establish that the writings of author Karl Polanyi offered insights into key variables and historical conditions that gave rise to the system we know of as “fascism.” Integral to his insights, Polanyi describes economic conditions attendant for fascism to emerge, with one condition noted as widespread and persistent unemployment. Polanyi stresses that fascism needs to be understood as reactionary, a responding to features integral to classical liberalism. Considering a broad historical context Polanyi teaches us of the political conditions necessary for fascism to emerge and take form as political movements wielding power. He considers conflicts in …

Commander-In-Chief Authority And The Religious Rights Of Service Members In Crisis Times: The Vaccine Mandate As A Call For Reincorporating The Standing Army Fears In Jurisprudence And Depoliticizing The Bench, Joshua E. Kastenberg

Louisiana Law Review

No abstract provided.

Mommy Issues: Louisiana’S Gap In Parental Rights For Unmarried, Same-Sex Couples, Lily Pavy

Louisiana Law Review

No abstract provided.

Uneggspected: Louisiana’S Scrambled Approach To Ownership Of Frozen Embryos After Dissolution Of Marriage, A. Brooke Reedy

Louisiana Law Review

No abstract provided.

Understanding Self-Imposed Limitations On The Executive As Meaningful Restrictions On Authorizations For The Use Of Military Force (Aumfs), Fallon A. Voltolina

Louisiana Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Law Of Defamation, The First Amendment, And Justice William H. Rehnquist’S Attempts To “Hold The Balance True”: A Framework For Assessing The Continuing Viability Of New York Times V. Sullivan, David Elder

Louisiana Law Review

No abstract provided.

Wmu Board Of Trustees Formal Session December15, 2022, Wmu Board Of Trustees

WMU Board of Trustees Meetings

Acceptance of the Agenda

Approval of the Minutes (November 3, 2022 Meeting)

Remarks by the Chair

Remarks by the President

Updates by the Faculty Senate President

Updates by the Western Student Association President

Updates by the Graduate Student Association President

Solving the Unsolvable

Public Comments Regarding Action Items

Action Items

• Building Name Adjustment – Stadium Club
• Honorary Degree Recommendation for Frederick S. Upton

Consent Items

• Personnel Report
• Flexibility on Use of Funds – Beauregard Endowment

General Public Comments

Health Management And Adaptive Control Of Distributed Spacecraft Systems, Tatiana Alejandra Gutierrez Martinez

Doctoral Dissertations and Master's Theses

As the development of challenging missions like on-orbit construction and collaborative inspection that involve multi-spacecraft systems increases, the requirements needed to improve post-failure safety to maintain the mission performance also increases, especially when operating under uncertain conditions. In particular, space missions that involve Distributed Spacecraft Systems (e.g, inspection, repairing, assembling, or deployment of space assets) are susceptible to failures and threats that are detrimental to the overall mission performance. This research applies a distributed Health Management System that uses a bio-inspired mechanism based on the Artificial Immune System coupled with a Support Vector Machine to obtain an optimized health monitoring …

Noise And Propulsive Efficiency Interactions For Rotors And Propellers At Constant Thrust, Riccardo Roiati

Doctoral Dissertations and Master's Theses

In the emerging market of Advanced Air Mobility (AAM), aerospace companies have been designing and prototyping electric and hybrid vehicles to revolutionize travel. These vehicles must have low noise and particulate emissions while also having enough propulsive efficiency to complete the mission. This thesis aims to study the relationship between noise and propulsive efficiency as related to any aircraft equipped with an electric motor and a variable pitch rotor/propeller. The combination of the electric motor with the variable pitch propeller/rotor allows for a decoupled rotational speed and torque generation, meaning that the electric motor can generate the same amount of …

On-Board Artificial Intelligence For Failure Detection And Safe Trajectory Generation, Eduardo Morillo

Doctoral Dissertations and Master's Theses

The use of autonomous flight vehicles has recently increased due to their versatility and capability of carrying out different type of missions in a wide range of flight conditions. Adequate commanded trajectory generation and modification, as well as high-performance trajectory tracking control laws have been an essential focus of researchers given that integration into the National Air Space (NAS) is becoming a primary need. However, the operational safety of these systems can be easily affected if abnormal flight conditions are present, thereby compromising the nominal bounds of design of the system's flight envelop and trajectory following. This thesis focuses on …

Integration Of In Vitro And In Vivo Models To Predict Cellular And Tissue Dosimetry Of Nanomaterials Using Physiologically Based Pharmacokinetic Modeling, Zhoumeng Lin, Santosh Aryal, Yi-Hsien Cheng, Andre J. Gesquierre

Pharmacy Faculty Publications and Presentations

Nanomaterials (NMs) have been increasingly used in a number of areas, including consumer products and nanomedicine. Target tissue dosimetry is important in the evaluation of safety, efficacy, and potential toxicity of NMs. Current evaluation of NM efficacy and safety involves the time-consuming collection of pharmacokinetic and toxicity data in animals and is usually completed one material at a time. This traditional approach no longer meets the demand of the explosive growth of NM-based products. There is an emerging need to develop methods that can help design safe and effective NMs in an efficient manner. In this review article, we critically …

Interpretive Language And Museum Artwork: How Patrons Respond To Depictions Of Native American And White Settler Encounters--A Thematic Analysis, Holli D. Rogerson

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study is to conduct a thematic linguistic analysis of survey responses to museum-quality images depicting various Native American and white settler encounters. The survey asked participants to provide written responses (fill in the blank prompts) to a selection of twelve images composed of photographs and paintings representing one or more of three overarching themes: violence, immersion, and goodwill/collaboration. The research focused on four demographic groups: Latter-day Saints, Native Americans, museum employees, and total participants. Each response was individually analyzed by hand and assigned appropriate classification tags based on the types of words their responses contained including …