Digital Commons Network^™

Passing Time On A Mountain: Building Walls And Reaching Beyond Them On Denali, Brian J. Glenn

Appalachia

No abstract provided.

Waterman Fund Essay Contest Winner: Hunting The Woolly Adelgid, Dianne Fallon

Appalachia

No abstract provided.

Mountain Voices: Ben English, Jr.: Quiet And Unassuming, His Reach In The White Mountains Is Far And Wide, Doug Mayer, Rebecca Oreskes

Appalachia

No abstract provided.

Pemigewasset Dreams: Perched On The Edge Of Cataclysm, Jonathan Mingle

Appalachia

No abstract provided.

A Northern Forest Mosaic: Community-Based Conservation After The Weeks Act, Sally Manikian

Appalachia

No abstract provided.

Public Land Conservation In The East: The Weeks Act Story, Tom Wagner

Appalachia

No abstract provided.

The Slide Show That Saved The Whites: How Philip Ayres Made The Public Care, Christopher Johnson, David Govatski

Appalachia

No abstract provided.

The Long Way Home: Where Exit Ramps Are Nameless, Christine Woodside

Appalachia

No abstract provided.

Appalachia Winter/Spring 2011: Complete Issue

Appalachia

Winter/Spring 2011 - Volume LXII, Number 1 - issue #231. Up from Devastation: How the Weeks Act Saved the Eastern Forests

Of Crowns, Pilgrims, And Non-Asinine Mules, Moshe Gold

Jesuit Higher Education: A Journal

John O’Malley, S.J.’s emphasis on rhetoric challenges students to reconsider not only the significance of the history of rhetoric in relation to St. Ignatius’ texts, but also the importance of rhetoric in their own discourses. In this essay, I focus on one specific event in Ignatius’ Acts, an event replete with rhetorical, textual, biblical (both the New Testament and Tanakh, the Hebrew scriptures), and historical considerations, but which, surprisingly, does not appear as a major focus in John O’Malley, S.J.’s voluminous books: Ignatius on a mule, encountering “the Moor” (un moro). I outline a method of guiding students through …

S9 E8: Inspire Of Central Florida, Rebecca Hines, Lisa Dieker

Practical Access Transcripts

In today’s episode, we have two special guests from Inspire of Central Florida, Nashalie Soto and Liliana Continanzi. Tune in to learn more about Inspire of Central Florida and how they provide educational, vocational, residential, and transportation services to adults with special needs in Central Florida. Their various Special Needs Adults Day Programs provide a safe environment for adults of differing abilities as they pursue independence and success in their lives and careers.

Don't forget we love to hear from our listeners! If you have any questions, feel free to reach out. We look forward to receiving your questions on …

Adding Equity To Transformative Agreements And Journal Subscriptions –The Read & Let Read Model, Arthur J. Boston

Faculty & Staff Research and Creative Activity

The transition towards open access to research articles has become a question of how, rather than why and the rise of transformative agreements has enabled publishers to strike agreements with large institutions and national research organisations to provide open access and authorship to their members. In this post, Arthur J. Boston puts forward an alternative Read & Let Read model, which could extend access beyond these limited groups and create a framework for more collaborative funding for access to open access research.

Impact Of Organizational Structure On Community Engagement Outcomes, Christy Arrazattee

School of Education Doctoral Projects - Higher Education

Community engagement has been embedded into higher education institutions since the early 1990s, yet scholars and practitioners still debate if there is an ideal reporting structure for coordinating offices (Jacoby, 2014). This study involved a quantitative analysis of 72 institutions who submitted information to the National Inventory of Institutional Infrastructure for Community Engagement survey (NI³CE – pronounced “nice”) between 2017 and 2020. Institutions were categorized by organizational structure (centralized vs. decentralized) and by reporting line (Academic Affairs, Student Affairs, Joint Academic Affairs/ Student Affairs, Outreach, and decentralized). Using the NI³CE inventory and scoring system, points were awarded to institutions based …

I’M Not That Needy: Black Students’ Perceptions Of Food Assistance And The Impact Of Self-Categorization On Campus Food Pantry Utilization, Catherine M. Jermany

School of Education Doctoral Projects - Higher Education

The purpose of this qualitative study was to identify which student groups Black students perceive as needing food assistance, to explore how Black students’ perceptions of students in need impacts their decision to utilize the on-campus food pantry at California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH), and to identify the circumstances that influence Black students’ self-categorization. Nine, Black-identified students enrolled at CSUDH participated in semi-structured interviews that were transcribed and coded using a grounded theory approach. Results of the study revealed that Black students generally perceived low-income students, unemployed or overemployed students, students experiencing food insecurity, and students with non-traditional housing …

Pac Minutes - Enp1 - December 8, 2022, Fanshawe College

PAC Minutes

No abstract provided.

New Perspectives On The Ocean Economy Of The Mid-Atlantic States, Charles Colgan

Publications

No abstract provided.

Medical School Watercooler Newsletter - December 8, 2022, Lindsey Lyle

Watercooler Newsletter

This is the December 8, 2022 edition of the Frederick P. Whiddon College of Medicine's newsletter - Watercooler.

Contents include:

• Disaster healthcare preparedness director retires from USA
• Meet a Med Student: Meagan Jones
• Graduate student to train in clinical and translational research program
• MAA calls for 50 People of Influence Award nominations
• In Memoriam: Tony G. Waldrop, Ph.D. (1951-2022)

Interdisciplinary Convergence To God: A Supplement To The Big Bang & God– An Astro-Theology, Theodore Walker

Perkins Faculty Research and Special Events

Here is a December 2022 supplement to the 2015 book—The Big Bang and God: An Astro-Theology wherein an astronomer and a theologian offer a study of interdisciplinary convergences with natural theology both in the scientific researches of Sir Fred Hoyle and in the philosophical researches of Charles Hartshorne and Alfred North Whitehead, thereby illustrating a constructive postmodern trend (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) by Theodore Walker Jr. and Chandra Wickramasinghe, with editing and co-authoring by Alexander Vishio.

Biology, astronomy, astrobiology, cosmology, and theology converge when the word “God” refers to “that than which none greater can conceived” (St. Anselm), …

Lynn Chamber Music Competition - Winners' Recital, Sungkyun Lee, Kari Jenks, Nataniel Farrar, Fabiola Hoyo, Clair Ives, Sebastian Orellana, Benjamin Kremer, Carlos Avendano, Niloufar Mirzanabi Khani, Gioia Gedicks, Victoria Bramble, Daniel Guevara, Megan Savage

Lynn Chamber Music Competition

No abstract provided.

Infographic: From One Teacher To Another – Learning To Let Go, Zoe Kaskamanidis

Teacher infographics

In our annual Teacher magazine reader survey, we ask you to share one piece of advice with a fellow educator. In this infographic, we share some of the responses we received on the theme of learning to let go.

Conquer And Prevail Issue 127 December 8 2022, Wofford College. Office Of Marketing And Communications

Conquer and Prevail Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Deep Field: Music By Garrett, Lopez, Maslanka, Mozart, Price, Sibelius, & Whitacre, Old Dominion University Symphony Orchestra, Paul Sanho Kim (Music Director And Conductor), Old Dominion University Wind Ensemble, Tyler Austin (Music Director And Conductor), Old Dominion University Concert Choir, Nancy Klein (Music Director And Conductor), Keaton Garrett (Guest Composer)

Ensemble Performances

No abstract provided.

Iitd At The Wanlp 2022 Shared Task: Multilingual Multi-Granularity Network For Propaganda Detection, Shubham Mittal, Preslav Nakov

Natural Language Processing Faculty Publications

We present our system for the two subtasks of the shared task on propaganda detection in Arabic, part of WANLP'2022. Subtask 1 is a multi-label classification problem to find the propaganda techniques used in a given tweet. Our system for this task uses XLM-R to predict probabilities for the target tweet to use each of the techniques. In addition to finding the techniques, Subtask 2 further asks to identify the textual span for each instance of each technique that is present in the tweet; the task can be modeled as a sequence tagging problem. We use a multi-granularity network with …

Barriers To Implementing A Work-Based Learning Program: A Health Science Educator Perspective, Daniel Harrison

Dissertations

Career and Technical Education programs’ mission statement is to supply a skilled workforce for all industries (ACTE, 2021). The Health Science pathway lags behind other industry sectors in active work-based learning programs (Greenfield & Stevens, 2018). Therefore, this study examines the potential barriers to implementing work-based learning programs within the Health Science pathway. The qualitative descriptive investigation into the three types of work-based learning of visits to the workplace, work-like experiences, and employment discovered critical findings regarding healthcare requirements, scheduling conflicts, and access to facilities. Finding 1 details healthcare requirements as the most significant barrier to work-based learning programs. The …

Sharmein Denise Sloan, Jamila Jones, Kelli Johnson

Oral Histories – NPS AACR Civil Rights In Appalachia Grant

This is Jamila Jones and Dr. Kelli Johnson and we are conducting an oral history interview with Sharmein Sloan.

And this is a part of the National Park Service African Americans Civil Rights History and Appalachia Grant Program.

Virtual Reality For Pediatric Pain Management, Leonard Paulo

Master of Science in Nursing Family Nurse Practitioner

Abstract: It is well-studied that inadequate pain management is detrimental to the pediatric population because inadequate pain management can lead to noncompliance when pertaining to needle sticks that can carry into adulthood, one out of four adults is estimated to have a fear of needles which often develops in childhood. Evidence-based practice report that the use of distraction is a simple and efficient method to minimize the trauma that some children feel when getting immunization or venipuncture. Under the lens of pain gate theory and capacity theory, Virtual Reality has been studied and shown to minimize pain. VR is …

Educators’ And Parents’ Attitudes Toward The Inclusion Of Students With Emotional And Behavior Disorders, Shannon L. Howze

Dissertations

Educating students with emotional and behavior disorders (EBD) has historically been a difficult task for educators (McKenna et al., 2021). The general education setting comes with many barriers when attempting to include students with EBD to the equation. Parents are instrumental to the success of their students with EBD regardless to the setting. Educators may lack in the skills needed to communicate, educate, and understand students with EBD. Without educators and parents collectively communicating and collaborating, students with EBD will not have the opportunity to have the positive experiences and outcomes to be successful. Applying the theoretical frameworks of Bandura’s …

Using The Social-Ecological Model To Better Understand Sexual Assertiveness Among Undergraduate Women At An Institution Of Higher Education In The Southeastern United States, Lisa Wright

Dissertations

This study examined sexual assertiveness among female undergraduate students at an institution of higher education in the southeastern United States from the context of the social-ecological model. An online survey instrument examined sexual assertiveness, sexual communication self-efficacy, campus climate, and sexual scripts. Structural equation modeling was used to examine the relationships between these variables and all variables significantly predicted sexual assertiveness individually, but when examining the relationships collectively, only sexual communication self-efficacy and campus climate remained significant predictors of sexual assertiveness.

The Impact Of A Five-Day Number Sense Intervention On High School Student's Quantitative Reasoning Skills And Self-Efficacy, Rebecca Steele-Mackey

Dissertations

Understanding numerical quantities and applying this knowledge in practical applications is essential throughout life. A well-developed number sense comes from learning foundational skills and continuing to rely on these skills and concepts in higher mathematical education as well as in adulthood. Prior research shows that K-8 students lack a conceptual understanding of fraction, decimal, and percentage concepts (NCTM, 2009). While there is literature that identifies a deficit in these mathematical areas, there is a need to examine possible activities and interventions that can be performed throughout secondary education courses that support growth in students' conceptual understanding of rational number concepts. …

An Assessment Of Attitudes, Knowledge And Willingness To Disclose Disability And Military Veteran Status In The Higher Education Workplace, Kerri Fontenot Liuzza

Dissertations

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study was twofold. In Part 1 of this study, using a quantitative, cross-sectional survey research design, the purpose was to examine the dimensionality of an instrument developed by the researcher, the Employee Disability and Military Veteran Attitudes, Awareness, and Disclosure Questionnaire (EDMVAAD) and the relationships among the three variables of interest. In Part 2 of this study, using a quasi-experimental pretest/posttest design, the aim was to analyze whether a brief training session on diversity policies and practices related to employees with disabilities and military veterans in the higher education workplace, influenced participants knowledge levels and …