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Interactive And Engaging Virtual/Online English Classes: Fostering Teaching And Social Presence, Merve Beyazit Taner

Master's Projects and Capstones

The COVID-19 pandemic brought many challenges to the education field. Due to the enforced immediate transition from in-person to online teaching, teachers, policymakers, administrators, and students had difficulty adapting themselves. Nearly three years since the pandemic began, it is clear that English language teachers have improved their digital literacy skills to sustain effective teaching. However, more than digital literacy skills are required to build community in the online learning environment. The claim for the literature review is that fostering interaction and creating presence, especially high levels of social and teaching presence, may contribute to academic achievement in online English learning. …

Energy Efficiency Retrofit And Decarbonization Of Old And Historic Buildings In California, Daria Nikolaeva

Master's Projects and Capstones

Buildings are responsible for almost 40% of total global greenhouse gas emissions and the retrofitting of existing buildings is an essential part of solving the problem. About 75% of buildings in Californian were constructed before the first energy-efficiency building code was adopted in 1978. Old buildings are inefficient, responsible for large carbon footprints and must be retrofitted to stay on track with the state's climate targets. However, current policies do not require substantial changes and tend to favor historic preservation over energy efficiency, missing improvement opportunities. Recognizing the significance of carbon intensity, the 2019 California Energy Efficiency Action Plan shifted …

Participatory Research (The Basics; 101) - Presentation At Uk Food Systems Research Ecr Conference, Hannah Gardiner

School of Health Professions

Many authors have noted a 'participatory turn' in research; present across disciplines. There has been a proliferation of approaches and terminology, and diversity in the use and application of even the same terms. This presentation aimed to outline some origins of modern participatory research practices, and presents the audience with some key considerations, questions, and tools for use when planning or delivering such research.

Korelasi Hasil Padi Sawah Dengan Sulfur Tersedia Dan Sifat Kimia Tanah Sawah, Purwandaru Widyasunu, Rosi Widarawati

Jurnal Kultivasi

Pemberian belerang dapat digunakan untuk mengatur sifat kimia tanah sawah. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui: (1) distribusi unsur hara S tanah di lahan sawah yang digunakan untuk budidaya tanaman padi sawah, (2) sifat kimia tanah meliputi pH H2O, pH KCl, Potensial redoks dan DHL (Daya Hantar Listrik) pada lahan sawah, (3) hubungan S-tersedia, sifat kimia tanah, dengan hasil tanaman. Penelitian dilaksanakan di lahan sawah di Sub DAS Serayu Hilir Wilayah Kecamatan Maos, Kabupaten Cilacap dengan ketinggian tempat 8 m dpl dan Laboratorium Ilmu Tanah, Fakultas Pertanian, Universitas Jenderal Soedirman pada Juni hingga September 2021. Penelitian ini dilakukan dengan metode survei …

Studi Pendahuluan Regenerasi Eksplan Teh Sebagai Upaya Percepatan Penyediaan Bibit Unggul Secara In Vitro, Intan Ratna Dewi Anjarsari, Erni Suminar, Murgayanti

Jurnal Kultivasi

Pembiakan generatif tanaman teh yang dilakukan dengan biji, sementara secara vegetatif dengan setek tunas yang mempunyai kelemahan, antara lain jumlah bibit yang dihasilkan terbatas, perlu waktu lama untuk menyeleksi pohon induk, dan bibit yang dihasilkan kurang optimal dalam penyerapan air dan unsur hara karena perakarannya dangkal sehingga kurang toleran terhadap kekeringan. Kultur jaringan menjadi salah satu alternatif dalam perbanyakan teh memperoleh klon teh unggul, seperti klon Seri Gambung 1-11, dalam jumlah banyak dan sifatnya yang seragam. Penelitian pendahuluan ini dilaksanakan di Laboratorium Kultur Jaringan Departemen Budidaya Pertanian Fakultas Pertanian UNPAD, mulai bulan Juni hingga Desember 2021. Penelitian terdiri dari dua …

Resistensi Gulma Echinochloa Crusss-Galli Terhadap Herbisida Berbahan Aktif Metamifop Di Areal Persawahan Sulawesi Selatan, Annisa Nadiah Aprilia, Denny Kurniadie, Uum Umiyati

Jurnal Kultivasi

Barnyardgrass [Echinochloa cruss-galli (L.) P. Beauv.] diakui sebagai gulma paling bermasalah di areal persawahan Provinsi Sulawesi Selatan, Indonesia. Herbisida metamifop sudah lama digunakan untuk mengendalikan gulma tersebut pada areal pertanaman padi sawah di Sulawesi Selatan dengan intensitas aplikasi yang cukup tinggi. Hal tersebut menimbulkan E. cruss-galli yang sulit dikendalikan dan diperkirakan resisten terhadap herbisida metamifop. Namun demikian, kasus resistensi gulma terhadap herbisida metamifop di Indonesia belum banyak dilaporkan dan diteliti. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui (1) adanya resistensi gulma E. cruss-galli terhadap metamifop, (2) tingkat resistensi yang terjadi pada gulma E. cruss-galli terhadap metamifop. Penelitian dilakukan di rumah kaca Fakultas …

Tiam1-Mediated Synaptic Plasticity Underlies Comorbid Depression-Like And Ketamine Antidepressant-Like Actions In Chronic Pain, Qin Ru, Yungang Lu, Ali Bin Saifullah, Francisco A Blanco, Changqun Yao, Juan P Cata, De-Pei Li, Kimberley F Tolias, Lingyong Li

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Chronic pain often leads to depression, increasing patient suffering and worsening prognosis. While hyperactivity of the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) appears to be critically involved, the molecular mechanisms underlying comorbid depressive symptoms in chronic pain remain elusive. T cell lymphoma invasion and metastasis 1 (Tiam1) is a Rac1 guanine nucleotide exchange factor (GEF) that promotes dendrite, spine, and synapse development during brain development. Here, we show that Tiam1 orchestrates synaptic structural and functional plasticity in ACC neurons via actin cytoskeleton reorganization and synaptic N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) stabilization. This Tiam1-coordinated synaptic plasticity underpins ACC hyperactivity and drives chronic pain-induced depressive-like behaviors. …

Pavement Ants (Tetramorium Immigrans Santschi), Ryan S. Davis, Lori R. Spears, Austin Taylor

All Current Publications

This fact sheet describes pavement ants. It covers identification, biology and habits, and management.

Invasive Fruit Pest Guide For Utah: Insect & Disease Identification, Monitoring & Management, Claudia Nischwitz, Diane G. Alston, Lori R. Spears, Clint Burfitt

All Current Publications

This invasive fruit pest guide covers insects and diseases affecting fruit in Utah and reviews monitoring and management.

Japanese Beetle (Popillia Japonica Newman), Lori R. Spears, Diane G. Alston, Joey Caputo, Erin Hodgson, Cory Stanley, Kristopher Watson

All Current Publications

This fact sheet describes Japanese beetles and reviews damage symptoms, life cycle, monitoring, and management.

Invasive Pests Of Landscape Trees In Utah, Lori R. Spears, Ann Mull, Anna Fabiszak, Marion Murray, Ryan Davis, Diane G. Alston, Ricardo Ramirez

All Current Publications

This guide provides an overview of the Utah First Detector Program and how to submit samples. The guide reviews the diseases and insects that affect landscape trees in Utah.

Invasive Species Handbook: A Resource For Educators - Grades 3-8, Natalie D'Souza, Marion Murray, Lori R. Spears

All Current Publications

This handbook includes six chapters that discuss invasive species and their environmental, economic, and health impacts. It also reviews pathways of invasive species spread and prevention, monitoring, and control. The handbook is a resource for educators teaching children in grades 3 through 8. Learning objectives, activities, and vocabulary are also included.

Asian Giant Hornet (Vespa Mandarinia Smith), Lori R. Spears, Carson Wise, Ryan Davis

All Current Publications

This fact sheet describes Asian giant hornet and reviews similar-looking insects, its life cycle, predatory strategies, monitoring and management, and the related public health concerns.

Leveraging Fpga Primitives To Improve Word Reconstruction During Netlist Reverse Engineering, Reilly Mckendrick, Corey Simpson, Brent Nelson, Jeffrey Goeders

Faculty Publications

While attempting to perform hardware trojan detection, or other low-level design analyses, it is often necessary to inspect and understand the gate-level netlist of an implemented hardware design. Unfortunately this process is challenging, as at the physical level, the design does not contain any hierarchy, net names, or word groupings. Previous work has shown how gate-level netlists can be analyzed to restore high-level circuit structures, including reconstructing multi-bit signals, which aids a user in understanding the behavior of the design. In this work we explore improvements to the word reconstruction process, specific to FPGA platforms. We demonstrate how hard-block primitives …

Mitochondria Clumping Vs. Mitochondria Fusion In Cmt2a Diseases, Antonietta Franco, Caroline E Walton, Xiawei Dang

2020-Current year OA Pubs

Phenotypic variations in Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 2A (CMT2A) result from the many mutations in the mitochondrial fusion protein, mitofusin 2 (MFN2). While the GTPase domain mutations of MFN2 lack the ability to hydrolyze GTP and complete mitochondrial fusion, the mechanism of dysfunction in HR1 domain mutations has yet to be explored. Using

Preferential Stiffness And The Crack-Tip Fields Of An Elastic Porous Solid Based On The Density-Dependent Moduli Model, Hyun C. Yoon, S. M. Mallikarjunaiah, Dambaru Bhatta

School of Mathematical & Statistical Sciences Faculty Publications

In this paper, we study the preferential stiffness and the crack-tip fields for an elastic porous solid of which material properties are dependent upon the density. Such a description is necessary to describe the failure that can be caused by damaged pores in many porous bodies such as ceramics, concrete and human bones. To that end, we revisit a new class of implicit constitutive relations under the assumption of small deformation. Although the constitutive relationship \textit{appears linear} in both the Cauchy stress and linearized strain, the governing equation bestowed from the balance of linear momentum results in a quasi-linear partial …

Metacognitive Awareness For Il Learning And Growth: The Development And Validation Of The Information Literacy Reflection Tool (Ilrt), Sara Robertson, Michele Burke, Kimberly Olson-Charles, Reed Mueller

Communications in Information Literacy

This article describes the development and validation of the Information Literacy Reflection Tool (ILRT), a metacognitive self-assessment for use with undergraduate researchers. It was developed as a teaching and learning tool with the intent to help students recognize and engage the metacognitive domain as a step toward developing personal agency and self-regulation as lifelong, metaliterate learners. Throughout the scale development, three studies were conducted with nine expert reviewers and 44 community college students to consider content and face validity and 542 community college students as part of an item-reduction and construct validation effort. The resulting scale is most appropriately construed …

Listening To First Generation College Students In Engineering: Implications For Libraries & Information Literacy, Emily Dommermuth, Linds W. Roberts

Communications in Information Literacy

First-generation college students (FGCS) in engineering bring a wealth of knowledge to their academic and social experiences in higher education, in contrast to deficit-based narratives that students are underprepared. By listening to FGCS’ own experiences navigating higher education and using information literacy in their project-based work, librarians and educators can better understand students’ funds of knowledge, social capital, and identities, as well as the institutional barriers that must be removed. This paper shares interview findings with (n = 11) FGCS and suggests implications for professional practice that are relevant to information literacy for design, project-based, or practitioner focused disciplines.

Instruction Librarians’ Perceptions Of The Faculty–Librarian Relationship, Lisa Becksford

Communications in Information Literacy

This study investigates instruction librarians’ perceptions of their relationships with teaching faculty. Respondents to a survey of U.S. instruction librarians indicated that they tended to agree that their teaching was valued and they had autonomy in what they taught. However, the often one-time nature of library instruction limited their effectiveness as teachers, and respondents felt that faculty did not view librarians’ teaching as equivalent to their own. Respondents also reported a disconnect between their professional identities and others’ viewpoints, describing having their teaching role minimized or misunderstood by others, especially faculty. Additionally, a relationship was found between some aspects of …

The Stories We Tell: Engaging With Authority In Critical Health Pedagogy, Rosalinda Hernandez Linares-Gray, Sara Newman Carroll, Emily K. Smith

Communications in Information Literacy

This Innovative Practices piece details the design of a scaffolded project in a public health course that paired a narrative inquiry assignment with an empirical health literature review assignment to highlight both the positivist and constructivist epistemologies of critical health research in public health. The authors discuss and reflect on the five parts that constitute the project, student learning outcomes, and the benefits of engaging with critical information literacy in an undergraduate public health course. The goal of this article is to provide practical applications of critical information literacy to librarians in the health sciences who work with undergraduate students.

Traditional Beliefs, Practices, And Migration: A Risk To Malaria Transmission In Rural Nepal, Kr Awasthi, J Jancey, Aca Clements, Rk Sah, Et Al

Peninsula Medical School

The study aimed to explore sociocultural factors influencing the risk of malaria and practices and beliefs towards malaria prevention, transmission and treatment in a remote village in Khatyad Rural Municipality (KRM) of Nepal. A sequential exploratory mixed methods approach was used. Qualitative data were collected through 25 one-on-one, in-depth interviews followed by a face-to-face household survey (n = 218) among people from a village in KRM believed to have a high risk of malaria. Traditional practices such as Chhaupadi requiring the seclusion of women during menstruation and post-partum, transhumance, and reliance on traditional healers for the management of malaria were …

Diagnosis Of Neurodegenerative Diseases Using Higher Order Statistical Analysis Of Electroencephalography Signals, Seyed Alireza Khoshnevis

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The field of signal processing has many applications, one of which is in the field of biomedical engineering where it has improved the performance of biomedical devices and the accuracy of medical diagnosis. One of the areas that have benefited from this field is the diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease (PD). This disease is one of the most common neurodegenerative diseases of the central nervous system. Nearly one million Americans suffer from PD, and this number goes up to over ten million people worldwide. The main symptoms of PD include bradykinesia, rest tremor, rigidity, and impaired balance. There are many types …

Green Advertising: The Progress Of Three Decades (1991-2020), Abhishek Abhishek, Birud Sindhav, Jonna Holland, Phani Tej Adidam

Mountain Plains Journal of Business and Technology

This paper presents an integrated review of 144 articles published on green advertising (GA) between 1991-2020. The extant literature is reviewed to aid taxonomical analysis of definitions, methodologies, and theoretical frameworks. The review suggests that the GA literature tracks the stimuli-moderators-outcome template of the general advertising literature. Consequently, advertising claims and appeals, consumer related factors, and product related factors are the organizing themes of the review. Emerging trends and possible research gaps for each of these three categories are identified. Based on a thorough discussion of current knowledge in the domain, detailed recommendations are presented to advance research in the …

Editors' Introduction, Sophia Ziegler, Leah Powell Duncan

Journal of Critical Digital Librarianship

Introduction to Journal of Critical Digital Librarian, Vol.2 Issue 1

Nonconsensual Deepfakes: Detecting And Regulating The Rising Threat To Privacy, Natalie Lussier

Idaho Law Review

No abstract provided.

Idaho’S Llc Act: Oral Operating Agreements And The Statute Of Frauds, Marcus H. Waterman

Idaho Law Review

No abstract provided.

Third Time’S A Charm: The Case For Ban The Box Legislation In Idaho, Alaina Heuring

Idaho Law Review

No abstract provided.

Idaho’S Noneconomic Damage Cap On Whistleblowers: Adding Another Claim To The List Of Unconstitutional Caps In Idaho, Brooke Kenney

Idaho Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Public Trust Doctrine: The Nevada And California Supreme Courts’ Divergent Views In Mineral County And National Audobon Society, Roderick E. Walston

Idaho Law Review

No abstract provided.

Peering Into Passive Electioneering: Preserving The Sanctity Of Our Polling Places, Rebecca M. Fitz

Idaho Law Review

No abstract provided.