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Analysis Of Transport Networks In The Urban Environment In Order To Plan The Integration Of High-Speed Rail, Miguel A. L?Pez, Raquel Mart?Nez, Carmen Mota

Applied Mathematics & Information Sciences

This paper mainly analyses the degree of accessibility of high-speed rail stations within the local context aiming at establishing a comparative framework on the different integration policies carried out in similar cities. A model based on graph theory and the dynamic study of networks applied to urban bus transport.

Community Health Needs Assessment Malheur County 2023, Mcallister Hall, Lantz Mcginnis-Brown, Aisha Kayed, Taylor Neher, Vanessa Fry

Idaho Policy Institute Reports

The 2023 Malheur County Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) aims to identify the health needs of Malheur County, Oregon through a social influencer, or determinant, of health (SIoH) framework. This framework defines health in the broadest sense and recognizes SIoH factors such as employment, housing, and access to health care have an impact on the community’s health.

Community Health Needs Assessment Wood River Valley Region 2023, Mcallister Hall, Lantz Mcginnis-Brown, Aisha Kayed, Taylor Neher, Vanessa Fry

Idaho Policy Institute Reports

This Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) aims to identify the health needs of various populations in Blaine County, Idaho through a Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) framework, which defines health in the broadest sense and recognizes numerous factors—from employment to housing to access to health care—that have an impact on the community’s health.

Community Health Needs Assessment Baker County 2023, Mcallister Hall, Lantz Mcginnis-Brown, Aisha Kayed, Taylor Neher, Vanessa Fry

Idaho Policy Institute Reports

The 2023 Baker County Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) aims to identify the health needs of Baker County, Oregon through a social influencer, or determinant, of health (SIoH) framework. This framework defines health in the broadest sense and recognizes SIoH factors such as employment, housing, and access to health care have an impact on the community’s health.

Community Health Needs Assessment Magic Valley Region 2023, Mcallister Hall, Lantz Mcginnis-Brown, Aisha Kayed, Taylor Neher, Vanessa Fry

Idaho Policy Institute Reports

This Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) aims to identify the health needs of Jerome and Twin Falls Counties in the Magic Valley region of Idaho through a Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) framework, which defines health in the broadest sense and recognizes numerous factors— from employment to housing to access to health care—that have an impact on the community’s health. This report is specifically focused on Twin Falls and Jerome counties.

Restaurant Revenue Prediction Applying Supervised Learning Methods, Md Yasin Ali Parh, Mst Sharmin Akter Sumy, Most Sifat Muntaha Soni

Journal of Statistics Applications & Probability

In the competitive world, it is difficult to make a decision where to open a restaurant outlet that produces maximum revenue. Especially, it is difficult to accurately extrapolate across geographies and culture based on the personal judgement and experiences. Supervised learning approach may play a vital role to determine the feasibility of a new outlet with the prediction of revenue. The goal of this study was to predict restaurant revenue of 100,000 regional tab food investment (TFI) restaurant locations across Turkey. Several supervised learning techniques were used to select the optimal model for prediction. The LASSO method was selected as …

Impact Of Blockchain On Financial Technology Innovation In The Banking, Financial Services And Insurance (Bfsi) Sector, Ritesh Khatwani, Mahima Mishra, Madhura Bedarkar, Kiran Nair, Janki Mistry

Journal of Statistics Applications & Probability

This research paper aims to highlight the progression of the technological advancements emerging in the BFSI sector across the globe, evaluate them, and find the merits and shortcomings in this sector using literature review assisted by the prior knowledge from the renowned works published in reputed journals. The information was obtained from secondary sources, thereby helping us draw a picture of the existing state of technology in the BFSI sector and its future potential/applicability within the field. We have used advanced search criteria of two levels to comprehensively cover the existing research papers on the topic for evaluation. With the …

Orts 78, 2023, The George Macdonald Society

Orts: The George MacDonald Society Newsletter

The main purpose of this edition of Orts is to give our George MacDonald Society members and friends early notice that registration for our 2024 George MacDonald Conference at Wheaton College has now gone live. You can see the current line up of Keynote Speakers on the registration page, and more speakers and participants will be added over the coming weeks. We have some exciting plans that we truly hope will make this a celebration worthy of George for everyone. We anticipate this event will prove popular and spaces are limited, so we would encourage you to take full advantage …

Disaggregating Foreign Aid: What Have We Learned From Research On Sub-National Foreign Aid?, Josiah F. Marineau

Commonwealth Review of Political Science

Over the past several years, a new wave of research has mapped the location of foreign aid projects within countries to understand the causes and effects of sub-national aid allocation. This effort, affiliated with the AidData research program (albeit not exclusively), is ongoing, and new datasets on foreign aid donors and for particular countries are being released. After several years of continuing research into the correlates and effects of sub-national foreign aid on aid-recipient countries, it is worthwhile to pause and consider what this research program has uncovered and suggest directions where it might go.

Climate Resources For Camping: A Resource-Based Theory Perspective, Christopher Craig, Siyao Ma, Song Feng

Faculty & Staff Research and Creative Activity

Camping is a salient economic contributor to nature-based tourism that is also beholden to the natural environment. Climate resources are the combination of naturally occurring meteorological variables of empirically observable importance to firm performance. Tourism climatologist are at the forefront of climate resource research, where investigations have been primarily empirically derived rather than guided by theory. Accordingly, we introduce climate resources to the management discipline’s resource-based theory, operationalizing climate resources as public goods in addition to other public goods like open access innovation. We investigate the value, rareness, and inimitability of climate resources at 36 managed United States National Park …

The Voice Of Community: Nurturing Personal And Professional Communities On Voxer Among Ap Literature Teachers During The Pandemic, Tia D. Miller

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

The COVID-19 pandemic interrupted education around the world. During that time, teachers often turned to online communities to compensate for an inability to connect with in-person professional communities. This study aims to highlight a single, successful online community of AP Literature teachers who use the app Voxer to communicate. The purpose of this project was to provide insight into how this group creates personal and professional community, and how they specifically did so during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Data for this ethnography was collected from the group’s posts on the Voxer app from March 11, 2020 to …

Collegiate Athletics Impact On Academic Performance, Chris Hill

Integrated Studies

The complex world of collegiate athletics in American universities presents a unique intersection of sports and academics, each influencing student-athlete trajectory. This research project explores the numerous factors impacting these individuals' academic performance and overall educational experience. Drawing on sources ranging from studies on institutional policies (Brecht & Burnett, 2019) to personal motivations (Firth-Clark et al., 2019), the investigation paints a comprehensive picture of the challenges and opportunities faced by student-athletes. Key findings highlight the powerful influence of external entities like the NCAA and the inherent pressures of media attention (Torres-Ronda et al., 2022). Similarly, internal dynamics such as peer …

National Health Insurance For The United States, Ashley Herrell

Integrated Studies

Approximately 46 million U.S. citizens lack health insurance despite the nation's abundant resources. The imperative for universal healthcare arises, with a proposed solution being mandatory national health insurance. This paradigm shift, championed by the U.S. House of Representatives, Senate, and citizens, aims to eradicate the issue of people foregoing healthcare due to lack of insurance, promising to enhance collective well-being. The U.S. stands out among high-income countries without comprehensive universal healthcare, leading to disproportionately high out-of-pocket expenses and inferior health outcomes. Social determinants like income, race, and rural residence exacerbate the challenge by limiting healthcare access for vulnerable groups. Embracing …

The Role Of Stress Barriers On The Shape Of Future Earthquakes In The Mentawai Section Of The Sunda Megathrust, Süleyman Sami̇ Nalbant, Mairead Nic Bhloscaidh, John Mccloskey, Cengi̇z İpek, Murat Utkucu

Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences

The underlying causes of apparent barriers to rupture propagation on earthquake faults that appear strongly to constrain rupture shape and slip distributions, are the ongoing subject of research. Preseismic stress shadows on the rupturing segment, resulting from the history of slip preceding a great earthquake, are proposed here as one possible cause of such barriers. We focus on the Mentawai section of the Sunda megathrust since it is unique in having its long seismic history recorded in shallow water corals, as well as detailed slip distributions for events in the last ?seismic cycle?, and modern geodetic information on the distribution …

Arming Zambia In The “Dark Forest Of International Politics”: Kenneth Kaunda, Britain, And Arms Diplomacy, 1963-1971, Jeff Schauer

Zambia Social Science Journal

From the breakup of the Central African Federation in 1963 until the departure of British officers and trainers in the early 1970s, Kenneth Kaunda led the Zambian government in negotiating arms purchases from British arms manufacturers, with the assistance of the British government. These transactions were intimately connected to security guarantees against Rhodesian aggression that Kaunda negotiated with the former colonial power, and British attempts to foster Zambian foreign policy and technological dependency. While this decade of negotiations had its origins in the contentious local distribution of military resources at the end of Federation, by the time it ended, it …

Nonconsumptive Effects Of Crustaceans And An Echinoderm On Spat Of The Eastern Oyster Crassostrea Virginica (Gmelin, 1791), Maria Rosa, Mike Gilman, Sarah Anderson, Adrian Beckford, Ben Gilfond, Nicole Wright, David M. Hudson

Biology Faculty Publications

Predation by crustaceans and echinoderms is a significant driver of mortality for sessile invertebrates in near-shore marine ecosystems. As a response, shellfish growers use predator exclusion cages to grow their product. Oysters grown in these cages and clams in and under nets have been observed to exhibit thinner, brittle shells, which is not optimal for market, nor for those being grown for restoration purposes. Here, the nonconsumptive predator effects of several native and nonnative predators on shell morphology of Crassostrea virginica oyster spat. Juvenile (1–3 mm) seed oysters were exposed separately to chemical cues of five different predators and one …

The Effects Of Trailside/Non-Trailside Sample Collection And Tree Communities On Biodiversity Of Mushroom-Forming Fungi In Public Green Spaces Of New London, Connecticut, Quincy Dowling

Botany Honors Papers

The Kingdom Fungi holds a wealth of biodiversity and potential for better supporting both natural and human communities (Lange, 2014). Mushroom-forming fungi have potential value as sustainable and accessible sources of food in public green spaces (Rombach & Dean, 2023). The purpose of this investigation was to examine the effect of trailside disturbance and tree communities on the diversity and community composition of mushroom-forming fungi in New London, Connecticut. Six public green spaces were identified and surveyed for species richness of mushroom-forming fungi. At each site, two foraging areas of equal area were defined: one along either side of a …

Elementary School Teachers’ Attitudes And Criteria For Special Education Services, Geraldine Maurice

Theses and Dissertations

This exploratory study examines the correlations between teachers’ attitudes and the disproportionate representation of African American males in special educational services in the United States education system. Using a sample of teachers from two elementary schools with special education student representation proportional to the student body population, the purpose of this study is to examine the attitudes of teachers with regard to student placement in special education programs. Specifically, this study will focus on African American male student placements in special education and their achievement on the Grade 3 English Language Arts (ELA) proficiency test. This study employed a purposive …

Exploring Teachers’ And Administrators’ Perceptions Of Steam Education In K-12 Schools And Its Implications On The Development Of Steam: An Explanatory Sequential Mixed Method Design, Royce J. Lopez

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this explanatory sequential mixed method design was to investigate, identify and document the similarities and differences in perceptions when implementing a STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics) education between teachers and administrators at the K-12 level. Throughout this process, teachers’ and administrators’ beliefs and perceptions towards STEAM instruction were analyzed to determine how they perceived, interpreted, implemented and sustained this new initiative. The problem, however, is that studies have demonstrated that educators have a limited understanding of STEAM content knowledge (CK), pedagogical content knowledge (PCK), as well as low self-efficacy in teaching STEAM concepts, which results …

Determining Correlations Between Global History Teacher’S Metacognitive Awareness And Teaching Demographics, Philip D. Farrelly

Theses and Dissertations

Partnership for 21st Century Skills has continuously identified critical and metacognitive thinking skills to be essential for life and career in post-secondary education and workforce settings. As a response to the Race to the Top (2010) initiative and Common Core State Standards (2009), New York State Board of Regents began an overhaul for all the curriculum standards and anchored assessments. These changes require comprehensive preparation for teachers to effectively transfer thinking practices and skills to their students. Educators and constituents have been consistently apprehensive of its implementation due to the needed preparedness and implications of high-stakes evaluative measures. The purpose …

An Analysis Of If The Advanced Placement: World History Modern Reading Is Effective Teacher Professional Development, Christina A. Cone

Selected Full Text Dissertations, 2011-

This study explored if the AP World History: Modern Reading is effective teacher professional development and if it impacts teachers and students. Desimone’s Core Conceptual Framework served as the foundation for which to evaluate professional development. Adult learning theory served as the theoretical framework. The researcher used a mixed methods explanatory sequential design. A survey was completed by 83 AP World History: Modern high school teachers who had attended the AP World History: Modern on-site Reading. The survey provided data on teacher perceptions of the Reading as well as the perceived impacts on student learning. The researcher then conducted a …

Umsl Bulletin 2022-2023, University Of Missouri-St. Louis

Bulletins

The 2022-2023 Bulletin and Course Catalog for the University of Missouri St. Louis.

Undergraduate Catalog Of Studies, 2022-2023, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville

Undergraduate Catalog of Studies

No abstract provided.

Tilted Upwards, Tanu Sankalia

Art + Architecture

G.K. Chesterton’s short and surreal parable, “The Angry Street: A Bad Dream,” reminds us to not overlook things that surround us in everyday life, and to show them respect. Wayne Thiebaud’s paintings of cityscapes, inspired by San Francisco’s steep, building-lined streets, reestablish our links to the built environment with a vitality that sometimes the real—and the camera—lacks, but which drawing and painting bring to that which is represented. Chesterton and Thiebaud underscore how fictions are more evocative than truths. In this essay, accompanied by my own drawings of San Francisco’s steep streets, I suggest that fantastical fiction and art, in …

The Search Behavior Of Terrestrial Mammals, M. Noonan, C. Martinez-Garcia, C. H. Fleming, A. R. Little Et. Al

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Panta Rhei Benchmark Dataset: Socio-Hydrological Data Of Paired Events Of Floods And Droughts, Heidi Kreibich, Elliot Wickham, Et Al.

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

As the adverse impacts of hydrological extremes increase in many regions of the world, a better understanding of the drivers of changes in risk and impacts is essential for effective flood and drought risk management and climate adaptation. However, there is currently a lack of comprehensive, empirical data about the processes, interactions, and feedbacks in complex human–water systems leading to flood and drought impacts. Here we present a benchmark dataset containing socio-hydrological data of paired events, i.e. two floods or two droughts that occurred in the same area. The 45 paired events occurred in 42 different study areas and cover …

Taps Program Evaluation – Producers, Stephanie M. Kennedy, Mark E. Burbach

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Connecting Distinct Realms Along Multiple Dimensions: A Meta-Ecosystem Resilience Perspective, David G. Angeler, Jani Heino, Juan Rubio-Ríos, J. Jesús Casas

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

Resilience research is central to confront the sustainability challenges to ecosystems and human societies in a rapidly changing world. Given that social-ecological problems span the entire Earth system, there is a critical need for resilience models that account for the connectivity across intricately linked ecosystems (i.e., freshwater, marine, terrestrial, atmosphere). We present a resilience perspective of meta-ecosystems that are connected through the flow of biota, matter and energy within and across aquatic and terrestrial realms, and the atmosphere. We demonstrate ecological resilience sensu Holling using aquatic-terrestrial linkages and riparian ecosystems more generally. A discussion of applications in riparian ecology and …

The Economic Impacts Of The Maine Seafood Sector, Charles Colgan, Ryan Wallace

Publications

The Center for the Blue Economy at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies recently prepared a report for the Seafood Economic Accelerator for Maine, along with collaborators from the Maine Center for Business and Economic Research at the University of Southern Maine.

The analysis utilizes the best available data from the Maine Departments of Marine Resources and Labor together with the IMPLAN economic model to estimate the total (direct, indirect, and induced) economic impacts of the commercial seafood sector and core value chain components on the state of Maine and substate regions. The report is intended to serve as a …

New High Resolution Aeromagnetic Anomaly Map Of Türkiye And Its Various Derivative-Based Maps, Alper Kiyak, Eren Pamuk, Serkan Köksal, Mustafa Levent Bakar, Serdar Tosuner

Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences

Since Türkiye's territory is mostly mountainous and forested, earth science studies in these areas have not been completed at an adequate level and with a satisfying resolution. However, due to the long time and cost of collecting measurements from land in large- and medium-scale studies and due to the inability to collect measurements in regular grid intervals in large-scale studies to be carried out on land, an airborne geophysical survey project was conducted in order to collect high-resolution magnetic and radiometric country-scale data. Total magnetic field and radiometry data were collected from the air between 2017 and 2022 within the …