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2023-2024 Book-In-Common Teaching Guide, Collin College

Book in Common

EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION

As always, the 2023-2024 Teaching Guide exemplifies the Collin College Book-in-Common Committee’s commitment to the goal of a year-long, college-wide engagement with an important book and its author. Highlights of this year’s Guide include:

Resources for connecting with local Native American History and Heritage

• Responses to the text including original artwork, explorations of the major themes in Night of the Living Rez, and connections to political science and social science concepts.
• Videos on modern-day reservation life and interviews with the author.
• Classroom, lab and library resources including Videos on modern-day reservation life, interviews with the author and …

Duquesne Undergraduate Philosophy Journal: Vol. 1

Phenomena: Duquesne Undergraduate Philosophy Society

No abstract provided.

Introduction, Matthew Robbins

Phenomena: Duquesne Undergraduate Philosophy Society

No abstract provided.

Embodiment In Early Heidegger: Between Platonic Ascetism And Nietzsche’S Critique Of Metaphysics, Matthew Robbins

Phenomena: Duquesne Undergraduate Philosophy Society

No abstract provided.

Implications Of Différance For The Stability Of The Mind, Alexander Davies

Phenomena: Duquesne Undergraduate Philosophy Society

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Let's Speculate About It: When And Why Consumers Want To Discuss Mystery Products, Aleksandra Kovacheva, Hillary Wiener

Marketing Faculty Scholarship

Research suggests that mystery products can be appealing to consumers and can motivate interest and purchase. In this paper, we examine a different benefit of these offerings – their effect on driving conversation. We propose that such products can prompt a conversation due to their ability to motivate joint speculation, or the process of thinking about possible resolutions of the uncertainty with others. We define this novel driver of conversation, delineate it from related constructs, and situate it in the literature. We then provide initial evidence for the proposed theory in seven studies (n = 2,835), demonstrating that mystery …

Cataloging And Mapping Ovid’S Myths, Georgina Ramadanovic

Inquiry Journal Fall 2023

Georgina's research is part of an international effort to map and catalog ancient myth, headed by her UNH mentor and a colleague in Australia.

Clark Student Voices Literary Magazine, Issue 2: Nostalgia (Fall 2023), Clark Student Voices Literary Magazine Contributors

Clark Student Voices Literary Magazine (2023-present)

Issue 2 of the Clark Student Voices Literary Magazine, published in the Fall 2023 semester. The theme of the issue is 'Nostalgia'. A semesterly publication curated by Clark University students, CSVLM creates space for students to share their creative writing including poetry, prose, and artwork. Organizing and distributing Clark Student Literary Voices builds community by uniting the many creative students on the Clark campus. The magazine's e-board describes the choice of theme:

"It might be a little surprising that we voted on the theme of ‘Nostalgia,’ when the club is made up of young adults and has itself only existed …

English Department Alumni News- Fall 2024, Department Staff

English Department Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Evaluating Food Waste Management In Melbourne Businesses & Effects On Food Insecurity Remediation, Elinor Kops

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

This research paper aims to understand the presence of sustainable food waste management in food retail businesses, as well as the importance of food donation to the success of food insecurity remediation organizations in the city of Melbourne, Victoria. Intensive in-person, online, and over-the-phone interviews were conducted in two categories: food retail businesses (subcategories being supermarkets and restaurants) and food insecurity remediation organizations. Of the 133 businesses contacted, 16 food service businesses were interviewed, and three food insecurity remediation organizations were interviewed. A survey was utilized for food retail businesses that received a single response in the supermarket subcategory; data …

Gallaudet Today Fall/Winter 2023, Robert B. Weinstock

Gallaudet Today

No abstract provided.

Marginalized Students Need To Write About Their Lives: Meaningful Assignments For Analysis And Affirmation, Nancy G. Mack

English Language and Literatures Faculty Publications

Abstract: The bias against personal experience manifests in writing courses as privileging the citation of scholars, fearing emotional writing, and equating argumentation with democratic ideals. To value the lives and knowledges of marginalized students, the curricular goals, assignments, and activities for writing courses needs to be reconsidered. Culturally sustaining pedagogy explores, extends, and examines the experiences of students. Meaningful, experience-based, narrative writing assignments are suggested: memoir essays, ethnographic research reports, and multigenre interview projects. Analysis activities challenge students to examine a chosen experience through several scholarly lenses. By adding complex analysis to their writing, students gain a challenging new experience …

Functional Communication Training In Inclusive School Settings For Students With Intellectual And Developmental Disabilities: A Literature Review, Andy B. Masud, Virginia L. Walker, Megan E. Carpenter, Ashley Anderson

Publications

Functional communication training (FCT) is a well-established, evidence-based practice used to address challenging behavior among individuals across settings, ages, and disability categories. However, the research is limited on the implementation of FCT in inclusive school settings for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The purpose of this review was to summarize FCT intervention studies implemented in inclusive K–12 school settings for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities. We synthesized studies to summarize study characteristics, quality, and intervention effectiveness. Our findings suggest that FCT was most often implemented as part of a multi-component intervention package and delivered by education team members. …

Be You Evaluation 2021-2023: Report Of The National Evaluation For Beyond Blue, Katherine Dix, Tamara Van Der Zant, Toby Carslake

Wellbeing

This evaluation investigated the implementation and outcomes of Be You over the period July 2021 to June 2023, undertaken by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER). The focus of this evaluation was on implementation processes, the Be You workforce, and the experiences of Be You users – the pre-service and current educators who have registered with Be You. The overarching aim was to provide clear recommendations that inform the development and rollout of Be You into the next four years. The evaluation framework was informed by a Theory of Change and 11 research questions structured around four levels of …

Family And School Partnership To Build Homeplace And Protect Black Autistic Joy, Lachan V. Hannon, Michael D. Hannon

Department of Counseling Scholarship and Creative Works

Researchers acknowledge how the experiences of Black autistic students and their families are virtually absent from educational research and research about autistic people. This chapter offers insights and perspectives from the parents of a Black autistic child, using hooks’ construct of homeplace to understand the need for safety in school spaces. Drawing on tenets of self-study and co-autoethnographic methodologies, the authors provide reflections and recommendations on the ways school personnel can help create homeplace to nurture and protect Black autistic joy through their singular and shared narratives.

The Water Question: Coverage, Conflict, And Confusion In Negaunee During The Typhoid Fever Epidemic Of 1889, Sam Brink

Upper Country: A Journal of the Lake Superior Region

Epidemic disease and the strain it places upon communities is the source of crucial insight into the structures and intricacies of community life. This assessment of the course of the 1889 Negaunee typhoid fever epidemic uncovers a variety of perspectives on the treatment and mitigation of the disease between August and November of 1889 in a diverse and densely-populated Iron Range town. These perspectives, presented primarily in the contemporary medical literature and the pages of The Weekly Mining Journal newspaper, illustrate a complex state of contention and conflict between Negaunee area residents and state health authorities. Investigation of community responses …

Learning Opportunities 2023/2024, Illinois Mathematics And Science Academy

Course Catalogs

The graduation requirements of the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy are established by the IMSA Board of Trustees. Each semester students must take a minimum of five academic courses (2.5 credits) for a letter grade (not Pass/Fail) not including Fine Arts, Wellness, SIR, Internship, and Independent Study. Students may enroll in a maximum of eight courses each semester including academic courses, Fine Arts, Wellness, SIR, Internship, and Independent Study. The College and Academic Counselor approves enrollment for students in all courses and experiences. Only courses taken for a letter grade will count toward graduation credit.

Imsa’S Equity And Excellence Plan: 3 Year Outcome Report, Adrienne Coleman

Equity and Excellence Plan

The Academy recognizes and acknowledges the historical underrepresentation and marginalization of culturally, linguistically, and economically diverse groups, both universally, and particularly, in STEM education and professions. These disparities also exist in the representation of the Academy’s workforce. We are committed to advancing equity in STEM education and representation and creating a diverse, inclusive community of global citizens who can realize their full potential, and execute our mission to advance the human condition, through a model of Equity and Excellence.

Going Urban: The Jewish Experience Of The Metropolis In Early 20th Century Literature, Ariel Yehudith Pridan

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations

This study delves into urban Jewish praxis and its impact on the production of urban space in three literary texts composed within the first four decades of the 20th century: the novella “Min HaMeitzar” [“Out of the Depths”] (1908) by Hebrew writer Yosef Haim Brenner, the novel Nokh alemen [“The End of Everything”] (1913) by Yiddish writer Dovid Bergelson, and the novel Hiob: Roman eines einfachen Mannes [“Job: The Story of a Simple Man”] (1930) by German-Jewish writer Joseph Roth. The literary readings presented in this study strive to elucidate the literary production of urban space as a means of …

The Dark Side Of Iconicity: How Controversial Icons Become Lightning Rods For Passionate Audiences, Vanessa Kristin Bittner

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations

This dissertation delves into the dynamic interplay between controversial public figures, audiences, and the creation of icons today. Through three distinct articles, it explores how icons emerge and evolve within contentious political discourse. The first article introduces the concept of "dialectic icons," exemplified by figures like Colin Kaepernick, demonstrating their ability to evoke emotional responses and drive social polarization. The second article examines the role of antagonistic audiences in magnifying negative iconization, using Greta Thunberg as a case study to reveal the conflict potential of these figures. The third article introduces the notion of "iconic extensions" using the MAGA hat …

Learning Latent Representations For Biological Molecules, Tianxiao Li

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations

Recent progresses in machine learning have achieved phenomenal successes in the prediction of properties of biological molecules from large biological data. However, how much the models really “understand” the nature of the data remains an important question. Representation learning aims at extracting information-rich, low dimensional vector representations from complex high dimensional data. Such representations not only facilitate visualization and interpretation of the data, but also flexibly and efficiently generalized to other downstream tasks without having to re-learn universal patterns in every application. Furthermore, in generative modelling, the latent representations can be directly manipulated to direct the generation towards desired properties. …

Somos Familia-Recurso En Inglés, Marcos Kempff

Matrimonio y familia

Somos familia-recurso en inglés

Olac Best Practices For Cataloging Dvd-Video And Blu-Ray Discs, Objects, Streaming Media, And Video Games Using The Original Rda Toolkit And Marc 21, Marcia Barrett, Josh Hutchinson, Yoko Kudo, Julie Renee Moore, Kyla Jemison, Amanda Scott, Teressa Keenan, Ann Kardos, Melissa Burel

OLAC Publications and Training Materials

The OLAC Unified Best Practices Guide brings together the current published best practice guides into a single best practices guide that incorporates Best Practices for Cataloging DVD-Video and Blu-ray Discs Using RDA and MARC21, Best Practices for Cataloging Objects Using RDA and MARC 21, Best Practices for Cataloging Streaming Media Using RDA and MARC21, and Best Practices for Cataloging Video Games Using RDA and MARC21.

Csci 632/Csci 492: Machine Learning, David Harrison

GMAS Course Syllabi

No abstract provided.

The Role Of Intercultural Communication In Recruiting And Retaining Student-Athletes: A Phenomenological Study On Understanding The Sociocultural Aspects Of Building Non-Revenue Teams In Intercollegiate Sport, Eva Rouser

PhD in Organizational Leadership

Recruiting and retaining student-athletes at NCAA Division I and II member institutions is difficult. However, the coaches of non-revenue-producing sport have developed communication measures to assist in successfully fielding teams of culturally unique individuals that build an ingroup culture to compete despite limiting factors. The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to examine the lived experience of non-revenue-producing sporting coaches’ intercultural communication methodical variations in interactions with student-athletes as each coach adapts exchanges to serve as relationship-building elements to balance cultural norms with the acceptance of unfamiliar cultural behaviors. Relevant themes emerged from the data gathered during participant interviews, …

Evaluation Of The Hispanic Paradox: Conceptualized Through The Lens Of Generational Decision-Making Styles Of First-, Second-, And Third-Plus-Generation Hispanic Leaders, Daniel De Leon Jr

PhD in Organizational Leadership

The primary objective of this dissertation was first to ascertain whether there is a statistically significant effect of generation on decision-making styles and secondarily to ascertain whether there would be a statistically significant interaction effect for study participant gender and generation upon decision-making styles. The researcher hypothesized that there are quantifiable differences among Hispanic generations: first-generation Hispanic immigrants to the second and third-plus generations (Kiang et al., 2011; Pan & Pierre Lu, 2015). Decision-making styles create a framework to understand an individual's decision-making process, problem-solving matrix, and interactions with other organizations and team members (Rowe & Boulgarides, 1983). The population …

The Banner - V. 158, No. 9 - (October 2023), Christian Reformed Church In North America

The Banner

No abstract provided.

Law School Announcements 2023-2024, Law School Announcements Editors

Announcements

• Officers and Faculty
• The Law School - History
• Programs of Instruction
• Curriculum
• Student Activities and Organizations
• Funds and Endowments

Copley Connects | Fall 2023, University Of San Diego

Copley Connects Library Newsletter

Message from the Dean | 2

Copley Library Banned Books Read-Out | 3

Transformación in Mexico City: My ARLIS/NA Experience | 4

Heritage Months | 4

Habemus bibliotheca sorora! We have a Sister Library! ¡Tenemos biblioteca hermana! | 5

Copley Reads: Book Recommendations | 6

Staff Updates | 7

Save the Date: DIS 2024 | 8

Wait, Wasn't That Code Here Before? Detecting Outdated Software Documentation, Wen Siang Tan, Markus Wagner, Christoph Treude

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Encountering outdated documentation is not a rare occurrence for developers and users in the software engineering community. To ensure that software documentation is up-to-date, developers often have to manually check whether the documentation needs to be updated whenever changes are made to the source code. In our previous work, we proposed an approach to automatically detect outdated code element references in software repositories and found that more than a quarter of the 1000 most popular projects on GitHub contained at least one outdated reference. In this paper, we present a GitHub Actions tool that builds on our previous work’s approach …