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Preparing Preservice Teachers For Rural Teaching Through Professional Learning During Teaching Practice, Blandina Daniel Mazzuki

The Rural Educator

Resource deficit in rural schools has been reported to affect recruitment and retention of teachers. However, many researchers focus on external factors that can attract teachers to teach in rural schools. This study explores teacher educators’ and preservice teachers’ perspectives on strategies that may equip preservice teachers with professional learning during their teaching practice to attract them to teaching and staying in rural schools. The study was conducted at the University of Dar es Salaam (Dar es Salaam University College of Education-DUCE). Data were collected through face-to-face interviews and focus group discussions conducted with 5 teacher educators and 33 preservice …

Audience Participation Structures In The Concert Hall And D, Me, You, We, A Non-Opera For Actor, Chatbot, Musicians, And Audience, Treya Michelle Nash

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Audience participation in the concert hall space has developed into a rich participatory practice with specific characteristics and challenges. Though composers—especially since the 1960s—have written many pieces involving audience participation, asking the concert hall audience to participate remains uncommon. Attempting to shift the role of the audience in such a traditionally spectator-oriented space can lead to tensions that undermine the efficacy of the experience. This research categorizes participatory pieces into the structural elements of performance and facilitation forces, audience groupings, audience roles, and communication types. These structures are used to discuss the complicated relationship between control and agency within participatory …

The Passive-Active Interaction (Pai) Model: Redefining Audio Interactions In Video Game Music, Morgan A. Weeks

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Scholarship on music in video games has focused on the player in two main ways: the psychological effect music has on the player and the physical, kinesthetic relationship between the player’s inputs and the game’s music. This dissertation builds on this work by exploring gameplay moments in which the music informs the player’s inputs through rhythms, tempo, harmonic relationships, and changes in the musical texture. Using “analytical play” (Summers 2016), rhythmic analysis, looping analysis, and harmonic observations, alongside a variety of different video games, consoles and genres, I have developed an analytical Passive-Active Interaction (PAI) Model that is applicable to …

Eating The Fat Of The Land: The Work Of Coxiella Burnetii To Traverse Intracellular Lipid Landscapes, Charlie Porto

Theses & Dissertations

Coxiella burnetii is an obligate intracellular pathogen and the causative agent of Q fever in humans. With primary hosts in livestock ruminants, C. burnetii is endemic globally, presenting significant health risks to agricultural workers and herd health at large. Numerous wild animal reservoirs exist, increasingly threatened by expanding livestock ranges. Furthermore, with a low infectious dose through aerosol transmission, the CDC considers C. burnetii a potential bioweapon, though in humans a large amount of infections persist subclinically, occasionally progressing to pneumonia and hepatitis with chronic infections leading to endocarditis.

The parasitic life cycle of C. burnetii is biphasic, a small …

Utilizing Drainage Induced Pfas Enrichment In Cascade Generated Foam For Efficient Removal At Wastewater Treatment Plants, Ethan Samuel Coffin

Dissertations

Observed trends in municipal solid waste landfills reveal a distinct disparity between per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS) composition entering in waste, mostly as diPAP and FTOH, and leaching out as FTCA and PFCA. These patterns are elucidated by compiling PFAS compositions in paper, textiles, and carpet, with known precursor transformations that generate FTCA and PFCA in leachate. Landfill leachate is commonly discharged to wastewater treatment plants (WWTP), which are ineffective at degrading PFAS and only serve as key conduits and discharge points for PFAS to the environment. Foam fractionation has been identified as a promising technology for concentrating and …

Techniques For Enabling Advanced Adas Features: Operation In Inclement Weather And Use Of Infrastructure Information, Parth Kadav

Dissertations

Modern vehicles have undergone a transformation with the widespread integration of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) technology becoming the new standard and are set to be mandated by the by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) for all passenger vehicles and light trucks. ADAS features have proven to prevent or mitigate crashes by either alerting or assisting the driver. ADAS typically utilizes a forward-facing camera, which comes standard in modern vehicles to provide limited automation features such as Lane Keeping Assist (LKA), and Lane Centering Assist (LCA) to improve driver safety. These systems rely on the assumption that vehicle …

Turbulence And Energetic Ion Production In The Partially Magnetized Hollow Cathode Plume, Margaret Mary Mooney

Dissertations

Hall effect thrusters (HETs) are the most widely used electric propulsion (EP) device for in-space satellite propulsion. EP devices provide high efficiencies for extended mission lifetimes and low thrust for precision maneuvers. The hollow cathode is a critical HET component and undergoes extensive lifetime testing in addition to the lifetime testing of the full HET. Significant density gradients, non-Maxwellian electron behavior, and magnetic fields sufficiently strong enough to magnetize electrons in hollow cathode plumes create favorable conditions for the formation of plasma instabilities, which have an impact on cathode lifetime. Cathode qualification testing is typically conducted independently and includes a …

Revealing The Truth: The Consequences Of Failed Drug Campaigns And The Dehumanization Of People Suffering From Addiction, Caycie Trotter

MFA Theses Exhibitions Final Papers

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The war on drugs began on June 17, 1971. Many campaigns and projects were launched to help fight this war, including D.A.R.E. and "Just Say No," which were among the first and most popular initiatives. Revealing the Truth: The Consequences of Failed Drug Campaigns and the Dehumanization of People Suffering from Addiction is a thesis exhibition show and paper that explores these failed campaigns and highlights their lasting effects, including the dehumanization of people struggling with addiction, widespread misinformation, and the amplification of abuse. These effects have shaped how our government deals …

Electronic Resources Updates - 2025 Q1, Brigitte Galauner, Gregg Harris

Electronic Resources Quarterly Updates

No abstract provided.

"Vape Master" And Other Apps: An Analysis Of E-Cigarette Entertainment Mobile Apps, Rebecca M. Goyette, George D. H. Pearson, Mona Azadi, Jennifer M. Kreslake

GW Research Showcase 2021-2026

No abstract provided.

A Systems Theory Of Tort Law: Reevaluating The Case Against “Regulation By Litigation”, Timothy D. Lytton

Missouri Law Review

For decades, critics of tort law have argued that lawsuits are a poor substitute for government regulation. These detractors compare the institutional capacities of courts and agencies, and they conclude that litigation is ineffective, inefficient, and illegitimate as an alternative to notice-and-comment rulemaking. In response, this Article asserts that characterizing tort law and administrative regulation as alternatives obscures their interdependence. By using systems theory to model this interdependence, the Article argues that any fair-minded assessment of tort litigation’s contribution to regulatory governance requires understanding it as part of a system. Ignoring the systemic impacts of tort litigation overlooks the subtle …

College Of Natural Sciences Newsletter, Spring 2025, College Of Natural Sciences

College of Natural Sciences Newsletters and Reports

Page 1 Dean's Message from Dr. Sen Subramanian
Page 2 Student Spotlights
Page 3 Kaushik honored, Three-Minute Thesis, & Ice Cores revealed
Page 4 Alumni Spotlight
Page 5 Day of Scholars
Page 6 Cyanide research, Record Research Expenditures, Adhikari awarded Miller Research Award
Page 8 Hanson Receives NSF Grant
Page 9 Snow Lab Research Team
Page 10 Faculty Awards
Page 11 Drone Day
Page 13 Khalaf Awarded Presidential Award

El Penacho De Moctezuma Or Kopilli Ketzalli?: A Study Of Colonialism & Featherwork, Natalie Heiland

Student Publications

This paper focuses on an object with many titles: Moctezuma’s Headdress, El Penacho or Kopilli Ketzalli. These names, in English, Spanish and Nahuatl, perfectly highlight the way colonialism has affected the discourse around it. The piece was initially taken during the Spanish conquest of Mexico in the early 16th century and shipped to Vienna, where it has remained ever since. Through analysis of historical sources and modern discussions, I will address how this object has been treated poorly throughout history, from the initial seizure, to its time in storage where it was improperly researched and labeled, the many conservations it …

Cash Or Credit: A Collection Of Short Essays About Economic Philosophy And The Trajectory Of Political Economy, Jackson C. Dusart

Student Publications

From John Locke to Herbert Marcuse, discussions about economics and societies have dominated the philosophical battleground. While Adam Smith waged a war against mercantilism, men like Karl Marx and John Stuart Mill, two ideological enemies, were both writing to address the same problems they saw in society. Each one of these men has contributed to a different part of the discussion. In understanding their differences, and their common ground, these essays examine a hypothetical four-hundred-dollar jacket, stolen from the author at Gettysburg College. Each one of these philosophers, each writing at different times and in different circumstances, will attempt to …

Tracking Phenological Shifts Of Black Guillemots Cepphus Grylle In The Gulf Of Maine, Jocelyn L. Little

Student Publications

Rapid warming in the Gulf of Maine has coincided with changes in phenology across trophic levels. Phenological change has yet to be studied in black guillemots (Cepphus grylle), a widely distributed benthic forager that is showing population decline in the region. Because black guillemots nest in burrows, their phenology can be challenging to study. I developed methods to track black guillemot phenology on Petit Manan Island, a seabird breeding colony in the Gulf of Maine. Specifically, I asked Q1) Can daily tower count data be used to predict black guillemot breeding phenology? Q2) How is black guillemot breeding phenology shifting …

Common Terns (Sterna Hirundo) As Bioindicators For Atlantic Herring (Clupea Harengus) Distribution In The Gulf Of Maine, Logan R. Becker

Student Publications

Effective fisheries management is increasingly challenged by climate-driven shifts in species distribution and by a lack of data on early life stages of key forage fish species. In the Gulf of Maine, Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus), a once economically dominant fishery species and a key prey species for many dependent predators, has declined due to poor early-stage recruitment and warming waters. Despite this decline, current trawl surveys do not inform early-stage Atlantic herring distribution due to mesh size limitations, leaving critical gaps in our knowledge. To address this knowledge gap, I used common terns (Sterna hirundo) …

La Ciudad Incluiva: La Representación De La Diversidad Urbana En La Película Elemental (2023), Marta De Miguel Zamora, Augusto Almoguera Fernández

Artículos científicos

La ciudad, como espacio físico, es un lugar de interacción y, como espacio social, un territorio que se caracteriza por la heterogeneidad de sus habitantes. De esta condición nace el interés en investigar en los conceptos de diversidad e inclusión tan característicos de la gran ciudad contemporánea. El acercamiento a esta realidad urbana se realiza desde una perspectiva cinematográfica por la importancia del cine como agente socializador. El análisis fílmico sirve como herramienta metodológica para conocer de qué manera la película Elemental (Peter Sohn, 2023), de Disney-Pixar, trata temáticas sociales urbanas. Este estudio indaga en los retos socioculturales a los …

Obstacles And Opportunities In Marine Mammal Care And Welfare : Insights From Trainer, Heather Hill, Megan Davis, Sabrina Brando

Presentations - 2025

No abstract provided.

Climate Change Fairy Tales (Complete Collection And Epub), St. Mary's University

Climate Change

This is the complete collection of fairy tales in one download

Theshrahk Thwath Legend, Mary Arnolds, Sofia Farias, Alexandra Renteria, Nicholas Denmark

Team - Theshrahk Thwath - Documents

This document contains the origin myth of Theshrahk Thwath’s vegetarianism and relationship with nature. It is presented line-by-line in Theshalshe, the orthography, the romanized form, a transliteration, and an English translation.

Muzibogun Morphology, Serena Parra, Maurissio Gonzalez, Renee Alonzo, Cj Spears

Team - Muzibogun - Documents

This shows how we turned our phonemes into morphemes and into words.

Lost In Translation, Jayden Mendez

Posters - 2025

Reader Response Theory (Brizee et al.2014) asserts that “readers' reactions to literature [are] vital to interpreting the meaning of the text” (10). Reader Response (Fish 1981) approaches literary studies as way to explore how readers react to a piece of prose or a poem from a perspective developed within their interpretive communities. Interpretive communities hold a set of assumptions or strategies in common that shape the meaning of a text for a reader synchronically, at the moment of reading. Because the assumptions or strategies of these communities change over time, the meaning of a text for a reader can also …

Playful Paws: Are There Sex Differences In Playfulness With Freshwater Otters?, Julianne Pena

Posters - 2025

Personality is crucial for understanding the lives of species because it affects how they survive, the way they move, reactions to diseases, and much more (Merrick & Koprowski, 2017; Wolf & Weissing, 2012). The importance of this research is to understand how biological sex may interact with otter personalities through social interactions amongst other otters, the physical world, and humans. Female and male otters vary in the way that they play, with males playing more rough than females (Green, 2000). Play, which is associated with rock juggling, decreases as otters mature (Alliston et al., 2020). Females used object play more …

Research Showcase Program, St. Mary's University

Program - 2025

No abstract provided.

Examining The Malign Use Of Ai: A Case Study Report, Emma Theobald, Alexis D'Amato, Joey Welles, Jack Rygg, Joel Elson, Samuel Hunter

Reports, Projects, and Research

This case study report is meant to provide detailed descriptions of events involving the malign use of artificial intelligence (AI), the mechanisms that may be influencing the use of AI for malign use, and practical implications from these examples. For each of the 10 separate cases, connections between the case and recent events that utilize AI in a similar manner will be described. For further information regarding types of artificial intelligence and their malign application, refer to d'Amato and colleagues (2024).

Is Less More, Or More Better? Behavioral Insights From Bottlenose Dolphins During Dolphin Interaction Programs, Megan E. Davis, Alicia Virthe, Heather Manitzas Hill, Kathleen Dudzinski, Michelle Samm, Buck Lyman, Kelly Flaherty Clark, Todd Robeck

Posters - 2025

This poster was created for the 5th annual Research Showcase. From the poster:

Using video recordings collected during randomly selected human-dolphin interaction programs (2022-2023), 19 target dolphins were assessed for their behavioral repertoire, correct and incorrect responses to trainer/guest-given cues, and the total number of unique requested behaviors.

Obstacles And Opportunities In Marine Mammals Care And Welfare: Insights From Trainers, Alicia Virthe, Heather Manitzas Hill, Sabrina Brando

Posters - 2025

This poster was created for the 5th annual Research Showcase. From the poster:

The aims of the study included:

Identifying obstacles faced by caregivers

Exploring beliefs hindering the promotion of animal care and welfare

Highlighting the opportunities that caregivers perceive to maintain and enhance animal welfare and care

Do Otters Remember What They Solved? Manyotters - Collaborative Science, Manyotters, Heather Manitzas Hill, Deirdre Yeater, Caroline M. Delong, Catina Wright, Emily Langdon, Lisa Halstead

Posters - 2025

This poster was created for the 5th annual Research Showcase. From the Poster:

The ManyOtters group seeks to promote studies with larger sample sizes and a variety of species of otters, while developing a collaborative network of scientists. ...

Our initial project focuses on long term memory in otters.

For more information about ManyOtters please visit

https://manyotters.github.io/

Many Otters Project - Coding Analysis Of Otter Behavior With Foraged Puzzles, Isaiah Charles, Andres Vega

Posters - 2025

The study of long-term memory and the cognitive abilities of otters is not extensively documented. This research consisted of the use of foraging puzzles, which are different containers with food inside such as fish, squid, and oysters. This research project, named ManyOtters, takes inspiration from the foraging puzzle techniques exhibited in separate studies (e.g., Saliveros et al., 2022; Ladds et al. 2017). Based on the studies, foraging puzzles have shown to draw engagement for several otter species. The species focused on in this study were Asian small-clawed otters (Aonyx cinereus) and African spotted-necked otters (Hydrictis maculicollis) housed at SeaWorld San …

Cd36 Deletion Hampers T-Bet B Cell-Differentiation In R848 Immunized Mice And Hfd Models, Andrea Paredes, G. Sophia Noriega, Carlo Vanz, Emma Collins, Elizabeth A. Leadbetter, Benjamin T. Enslow

Posters - 2025

In states of chronic inflammation, a subset of B cells exquisitely responsive to nucleic acid antigen and expressing the proinflammatory transcription factor T-bet have been found to accumulate1. Depending on the context, these T-bet+ B cells can play both protective and pathogenic roles, from enhancing antiviral defenses to contributing to autoreactive antibody production and exacerbating metabolic disease1,2.

• Recently, our laboratory and others have found that T-bet+ B cells extracted from human or murine tissues exhibit unusually high expression of the class B scavenger receptor and fatty acid translocase CD36.

• As CD36 expression in B cells is generally limited …