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Revolutionary Comics: Samandal’S Feminist Topography Of Resistance, Alexandra Gueydan-Turek

French & Francophone Studies Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

Increasing Help-Seeking Among People With Depression: An Empirical Assessment Of A Static And Trending Norms Approach, Christopher Falco

CGU Theses & Dissertations

The current research examined whether making static and trending norms salient through persuasive messaging could increase help-seeking inclinations (i.e., attitudes, expectations, and intentions) among people with depression. Study 1 indicated that people with depressive symptomatology significantly underestimated the number of people who seek help for depression. Although approximately 66% of U.S. adults with depression met with professionals for help in 2020, on average, participants believed this rate was 35%. Most associations between norm perceptions and help-seeking inclinations were nonsignificant (e.g., perceived static norms were not significantly associated with help-seeking attitudes or outcome expectations; trending norm perceptions did not significantly relate …

Self-Quenching Of Carbon Monoxide In The Presence Of Noble Gases, Madeline V. Hinkle

Honors Theses

Precise rate coefficients for the vibrational relaxation pathways of CO(v)-CO in the presence of Ar and Kr have been determined through the work of this thesis. This work was motivated by the need to find a more cost-effective alternative to using xenon as a bath gas, which has increased significantly in price in the past few years. Similar experiments within this lab at Bucknell have been conducted in the past using argon, which can be used in the same manner as xenon but comes at a much lower price, but the experiments yielded inferior results compared to those using xenon. …

Law And Literature In Pennsylvania: A Changing Landscape, Juliette Gaggini

Honors Theses

This thesis examines themes of American national identity perpetuated in Pennsylvania surrounding private property through historical, literary and legal analysis. Ideals of private property and land ownership are broken into three transitions throughout Pennsylvania history: the American frontier and initial land claiming by settlers, mass-deforestation and the introduction of widespread agriculture, and finally industrialization and the introduction of mining and fracking. Each of these transitions highlights the physical changes to the region and how they were influenced by American ideals of private property, productivity, and profitability.

Throughout this thesis, I analyze both literary and legal texts to examine societal beliefs …

Computational Study Of Proton Transfer At Transition Metal Hydrides, Megan Ford

Honors Theses

Energy storage in the bonds of common chemical feedstocks is an attractive solution to the unreliability of wind and solar power due to its long term efficiency and easy recoverability. Energy is stored by reducing chemicals like ammonia, formic acid, and hydrogen, the reaction of which is dependent on a catalyst. To catalyze the reaction, the catalyst undergoes a slow proton transfer (PT) step to form what is known as a metal hydride. The sluggish kinetics of this step lower the effectiveness of the catalyst, and therefore must be better understood in order to improve the efficiency of energy storage …

The Ruins Of Solitude: Maternity At The Limits Of Academic Discourse, Lette Bragg

English Literature Faculty Works

What happens when love unravels one’s knowledge structures? In The Ruins of Solitude, after the birth of a child, Bragg embraces the event of love and examines the resulting disintegration of her supposed authorial subjectivity. Against the pressure to produce and organize knowledge—the pressure of writing a dissertation, for example—Bragg contemplates the poetic modes of thinking and ethics that emerge from her experience of reading continental philosophy while caring for her infant child. Dwelling on what she would have once excluded from her intellectual work—her maternity, the mole on her chest, her palm against another body, her exhaustion at the …

Addressing Healthcare Disparities Faced By Aging Down Syndrome Populations, Rhea Mistry

Pitzer Senior Theses

Down syndrome (DS) is a chromosomal genetic condition that impacts the development of the body and brain. The life expectancy of individuals with DS has drastically improved over the decades, increasing from 9 years in 1929 to 25 years in 1983 and further reaching 60 years by 2002. Individuals with DS face a variety of prominent co-occurring health conditions that are subject to change over time, including cognitive, visual, and hearing impairments, sleep apnea, cardiovascular defects, Down syndrome regression disorder, and dementia. Despite this increase in life span, DS is still most familiar to pediatric care providers, resulting in healthcare …

Thai Efl Undergraduate Engineering Students’ Perspectives On Academic Writing: Challenges And Strategies, Chariya Prapobratanakul

PASAA

This study investigated the perceived English-language academic writing challenges encountered by Thai EFL undergraduate engineering students and the strategies they employed to overcome these challenges. The data were collected from third-year Thai EFL undergraduate engineering students through a questionnaire and a semi-structured interview adapted from Hyland (2016) and Lin and Morrison (2021). The results revealed that vocabulary, grammar, and structure were the most challenging aspects at the sentence level for students. At the paragraph level, they considered summarizing and paraphrasing academic sources and producing a coherent argument the most challenging aspects when writing academic texts in English. Feedback from instructors …

Effects Of Data-Driven Learning On Writing Complexity, Accuracy, And Fluency (Caf) Of Thai Efl Learners, Punyapa Boontam, Supakorn Phoocharoensil

PASAA

In recent years, there has been growing interest in the use of data-driven learning (DDL) in L2 writing instruction. This paper examined whether and to what extent DDL activities could enhance the writing complexity, accuracy, and fluency (CAF) of 30 Thai EFL learners. The presentation of DDL in this study was hands-on concordancing with the assistance of the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA). The study was held in the context of an English writing workshop focusing on opinion paragraphs, divided into two phases: four weeks for the patternhunting activities and two weeks for the pattern-refining activities. Applying the CAF …

The Development Of A Full Online Flipped Classroom Instructional Model For Enhancement Of Engineering Students’ English Meeting Skills And Learning Engagement, Piyatida Changpueng, Fasawang Pattanapichet

PASAA

The flipped classroom instructional approach gained popularity after the COVID-19 pandemic, which significantly disrupted language instruction. This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of a full online flipped classroom instructional model to enhance students’ meeting skills and their engagement. The model consisted of two lessons: group meeting skills and writing the minutes of meetings. The participants comprised 48 third-year undergraduate engineering students from a public university in Thailand. The study utilized the KW#4 principle to compare average scores of passing students in formative and summative assessments, and to analyze pre-test and post-test scores, aiming to evaluate the model's impact on …

Effect Of Feedback Types And English Achievement On Efl Oral Presentation Performance Of Thai Undergraduates, Raveewan Wanchid, Valaikorn Charoensuk

PASAA

No abstract provided.

Interlanguage Functional Usage Of The L2 English Present Continuous Tense By Thai Learners, Pajaree Buasomboon, Nattama Pongpairoj

PASAA

No abstract provided.

Jack Daniel's And The Unfulfilled Promise Of Trademark Use, Stacey Dogan, Jessica Silbey

Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal

The article examines the Supreme Court's decision in Jack Daniel's v. VIP Products and its implications for the use of trademarks in artistic and expressive works. The Court's ruling established a "trademark use" doctrine, distinguishing between uses of trademarks as a designation of source for goods and non-trademark, expressive uses. While the decision does not overturn the Rogers v. Grimaldi test, it creates uncertainty in applying Rogers to expressive works, leading to inconsistent lower court decisions and threatening First Amendment protections for creative uses of trademarks.

Paving The Road To Writing Success: Self-Efficacy, Metacognition, A Growth Mindset, And Academic Writing Performance Among Indonesian Efl Students, Lastika Ary Prihandoko, Djatmika Djatmika, Joko Nurkamto, Ruly Morganna, Suci Nugrah Amalia, Priyatno Ardi

PASAA

Current research on the academic writing performance of EFL students has identified a number of robust factors. These factors include self-efficacy, metacognition, and a growth mindset. In the area of academic writing performance, however, there is a paucity of research combining these factors into a single study. In light of this, the purpose of this research was to conduct a structural model evaluation to investigate the relationships between self-efficacy, metacognition, a growth mindset, and academic writing performance. In this research, academic writing performance was situated within the context of EFL undergraduate thesis writing. The respondents of this study were 464 …

Effects Of Instructional Model Based On Coordinated Management Of Meaning And Reader’S Theatre On Japanese Oral Communication Ability, Kavita Fongsataporn, Ruedeerath Chusanachoti, Voravudhi Chirasombutti

PASAA

Language reflects how people think and behave in their culture. To have successful conversations, both language use and cultural awareness should be taken into consideration. Undeniably, Japanese grammar is different from Thai making it even harder for Thai learners to have fluent and appropriate conversations in the Japanese language. In the classroom, typically teachers often focus on grammar, leaving less time for students to practice conversation. Consequently, beginner learners often miss cultural details in conversations and are unable to communicate effectively. Thus, it is important for teachers to immerse students in the Japanese culture to improve their speaking skills and …

Metacognitive Learning Strategies And English Language Proficiency Of Efl Undergraduate Science Students : The Mediating Role Of Self-Efficacy, Montha Polrak, Akadet Kedcham, Charinee Chansri

PASAA

No abstract provided.

An Investigation Of Global Englishes-Informed Assessment Perceptions And Practices Among Secondary School Teachers In Thailand, Pongpol Suansri, Supong Tangkiengsirisin

PASAA

No abstract provided.

Computerized Adaptive Receptive Vocabulary Assessment Tool : An Experimental Study With Vietnamese Efl Learners, Bui Thi Kim Phuong, Nguyen Quy Thanh, Le Thai Hung, Nguyen Thai Ha

PASAA

No abstract provided.

Progressive Facade: How Bail Reforms Expose The Limitations Of The Progressive Prosecutor Movement, Sarah Gottlieb

Washington and Lee Law Review

Progressive prosecutors have been acclaimed as the new hope for change in the criminal legal system. Advocates and scholars touting progressive prosecution believe that progressive prosecutors will use their power and discretion to address systemic racism and end mass incarceration. Just as this hope has arisen, however, so have concerns that meaningful change cannot be enacted within the criminal system by the very actors whose job it is to incarcerate. This Article highlights these concerns by looking at the bail reforms enacted by four different progressive prosecutors and analyzes the initial promises made, the actions taken to reform and eliminate …

Indian Country Lawyers: A South Dakota Survey, Bryce Drapeaux, Hannah Haksgaard

Faculty Publications

South Dakota’s reservations are rural and suffer from a shortage of lawyers. Relatedly, there are very few Native American licensed attorneys in South Dakota. This essay confronts the rural lawyer shortage on South Dakota’s reservations by documenting the lawyers practicing on South Dakota’s reservations. In addition, this essay addresses the access to justice crisis amplified on South Dakota’s reservations by this lawyer shortage. The essay provides some insight into the difficulties of placing more lawyers onto the reservations, while also offering potential pathways to remedy this crisis.

Extracting Social Network Model Parameters From Social Science Literature, Isaac Batts

Theses and Dissertations--Computer Science

When looking at computer modeling of social situations, much of the social science literature does not include ready-to-use statistics or parameters to be included in a social model. I explore studies related to speaking about racism (and other forms of bias), and interventions designed to diminish the occurrence of biased behavior, and use those readings to synthesize plausible parameters for a social computer model.

Detecting And Recovering From Player Preference Shifts In A Player Modeled Experience Management Environment, Anton Vinogradov

Theses and Dissertations--Computer Science

An important challenge in game design is understanding and maintaining player engagement. This is particularly crucial in both entertainment and educational games, where the player's commitment to the game directly impacts their experience and learning outcomes. However, quantifying engagement proves challenging due to the diverse interests of players. This dilemma is addressed through adaptive game design techniques where the game world is personalized to suit player preferences. In computer games, this personalization is facilitated through Experience Management and Player Modeling, where an intelligent agent gathers information on the player, including their preferences and actions, and takes actions to modify the …

Finding Hierarchies To Improve Learning In Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning, Roy Mobley

Theses and Dissertations--Computer Science

Reinforcement Learning (RL) is an approach to allowing computer agents to try and learn how to solve problems by learning what actions are best to take in a given situation. RL is effective for learning what to do in an environment, but as the problem grows larger, the amount of information needed grows exponentially, making RL less effective on complex problems. A big challenge, often called the curse of dimensionality, is that the number of states and possible number of actions in an environment can grow too large to sufficiently test every possible combination of state and action. One method …

Management Of High Spinal, An Objective Structured Clinical Examination, Stephanie Williamson, Darienne Lowery

Doctoral Projects

Certified Registered Nurse Anesthesiologists (CRNAs) are responsible for administering safe anesthesia and prompt intervention throughout the continuum of surgical care. During the surgical experience, many potentially life-threatening complications will require timely treatment to prevent irreversible or even fatal consequences. CRNAs are held accountable for recognizing and addressing a wide range of these complications despite their infrequency in clinical practice. Strategic education and training tools must be employed to ensure student registered nurse anesthesiologists (SRNAs) are equipped with the knowledge and critical thinking skills necessary to mitigate crises in the clinical setting.

This DNP project created an Objective Structured Clinical Examination …

Integrating Art And Ai: Evaluating The Educational Impact Of Ai Tools In Digital Art History Learning, James Hutson

Faculty Scholarship

This study delves into the burgeoning intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and art history education, an area that has been relatively unexplored. The research focuses on how AI art generators impact learning outcomes in art history for both undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in Ancient Art courses, covering eras from ancient Mesopotamia to the fall of Rome. Utilizing a mixed-methods approach, the study analyzes AI-generated artworks, reflective essays, and survey responses to assess how these generative tools influence students’ comprehension, engagement, and creative interpretation of historical artworks. The study reveals that the use of AI tools in art history not …

An Archaeological Investigation Of Communities Of Practice Among Coastal Georgia Potters, Elizabeth Straub

Theses and Dissertations--Anthropology

The Mission period in the southeastern United States (beginning around 1565 AD) was characterized by dramatic social and demographic change. Coastal tribes, which include the Guale, Mocama, Orista, and Yamasee, among others, were simultaneously faced with the challenge of negotiating new relationships with Europeans and the global economy, the spread of new diseases, an influx of refugees displaced by violence, and the threat of increasingly prevalent slave raiding. Since most historical documents about this region were written by Spanish men, the experience of Native American women has been neglected. This project addresses this disparity by focusing specifically on one of …

Hierarchical Multi-Label Text Classification In Earth Science Datasets, Rajashree Dahal

Theses

This thesis addresses the challenging problem of hierarchical multi-label text classification and introduces a novel zero-shot approach that recommends the label up to the depth of hierarchy in which it is confident. In order to validate the efficacy of the proposed method, we experimented using various potential embedding models such as text-embedding-ada-002, mpnet-all, instructor embeddings, and nasa-smd-ibm-st on Earth science datasets. The experimental results reveal that all considered embedding models surpass the baseline model supervised learning classifier, demonstrating the superiority of the proposed zero-shot approach. This proposed solution can minimize the label imbalance problem typically observed in the supervised learning …

Data Fusion Approach To Assessing Hurricane Impacts On Us Gulf Coast Wetlands: Case Studies Of Hurricanes Ida And Ian, Trent W. Cowan

Theses

This thesis employs data fusion techniques to analyze the damage to US Gulf Coast wetlands caused by Hurricanes Ida and Ian. The relationship between ecosystem damage and wave stress is evaluated using salt marsh classifications derived from PlanetScope imagery and atmospheric and ocean modeling (WRF, ADCIRC+SWAN). Short-term vegetation recovery following Hurricane Ian is assessed using HLS-derived NDVI data. A multi-decadal analysis of salt marsh vegetation off the Louisiana coast is conducted with statistical models incorporating MODIS NDVI and MERRA-2 climate variables. The analysis reveals the following key findings: 1) -38.7% and -93.25% of wetland area changed following the passage of …

Improving Competence And Confidence In Outpatient Management Of Major Depressive Disorder, Anish Pal, Pavan Anand, Brett M. Garrett

Gulf Coast Division GME Research Symposium 2024

No abstract provided.

Understanding Hypomagnesemia In Patients With Short Bowel Syndrome, Aashka Patel, Sakina Haider, Thomas Hoang, Rajeev Raghavan

Gulf Coast Division GME Research Symposium 2024

No abstract provided.