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How Do Educationally At-Risk Men And Women Differ In Their Essay-Writing Processes?, Randy E. Bennett, Mo Zhang, Sandip Sinharay

Chinese/English Journal of Educational Measurement and Evaluation | 教育测量与评估双语期刊

This study examined differences in the composition processes used by educationally at-risk males and females who wrote essays as part of a high-school equivalency examination. Over 30,000 individuals were assessed taking 12 forms of the examination’s language arts writing section in 23 US states. Writing processes were inferred using features extracted from keystroke logs and aggregated into seven composite indictors. Results showed females to earn higher essay and total language arts writing scores than males, but only by trivial amounts. More pertinent was that, after controlling for language arts writing score, age, and essay prompt, all seven process indicators showed …

Listen Like Thieves - Using Pop Music To Teach Literary Analysis, Foster Engagement, And Build Positive Relationships, William Visco

Far West Popular Culture Association Annual Conference

It has been said that teachers are some of the greatest thieves in the world, stealing ideas and altering them to fit their classes. A resource that is being "stolen from" and increasingly used in classrooms is that of pop culture. I have found that one of the most easily accessible forms of pop culture to use effectively and efficiently is that of popular music. Popular music spans generations and connects millions. I’ll discuss the benefits of connecting curriculum to pop music in order to enrich classroom lessons, enhance student's ability to do literary analysis, and actively engage students while …

Counter-Movements To Trouble Whiteness In Teacher Education At A Pwi: A Pedagogical Approach, Timberly Baker, Joy Howard

Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education

No abstract provided.

Adventuring Into Complexity By Exploring Data: From Complicity To Sustainability, Tim Lutz

Northeast Journal of Complex Systems (NEJCS)

Problems of sustainability are typically represented by major present-day challenges such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and environmental and social injustice. Framed this way, sustainable lives and societies depend on finding solutions to each problem. From another perspective, there is only one problem behind them all, stated by Gregory Bateson as: “…the difference between how nature works and the way people think,” and complexity provides a way to define and approach this problem. I extend Edgar Morin’s conceptions of restricted and general complexity into pedagogy to address problems of simplicity and reductionist teaching. The proposed pedagogy is based on long …

The Eight Grids: A New Method To Enhance Students’ Sketching Skills In The Schools Of Architecture, Mohamad Tohme

Architecture and Planning Journal (APJ)

Sketching is one of the required courses for architecture and design students in higher education since it is considered a necessary skill for architects and designers. However, the lack of visualization skills and practice, students were met with difficulties in grasping the complex concepts of this course, concurrent with the teachers’ lack of familiarity with the various methods. The aim of this paper is to find a new method that allows students to carry out their sketches by examining the problems faced by first-year undergraduate students at the Faculty of Architecture, Design & Built Environment in BAU, Lebanon. To achieve …

Participatory Mapping With High-Resolution Satellite Imagery: A Mixed Method Assessment Of Land Degradation And Rehabilitation In Northern Burkina Faso, Colin Thor West, Elisabeth Kago Ilboudo Nébié, Aaron J. Moody

Journal of Ecological Anthropology

Sahelian West Africa is a region that has high population densities and that has frequent severe droughts and enormous pressure on natural resources. Because of these challenges, it is the place where the term desertification was originally coined. Recently, however, experts have identified large zones of greening where the amount of vegetation exceeds what one would expect based on rainfall alone. This pattern is well documented, but its mechanisms remain poorly understood. This research employs participatory mapping linked with high-resolution satellite imagery to better understand the human role behind regional vegetation trends. Through a case study of three communities in …

State V. Kirchner Respondent's Brief Dckt. 48142

Not Reported

No abstract provided.

Pedagogical Basis Of Sports Selection Of Football Players, Jamoliddin Komilov, Fazliddin Karimov, Ibrahim Jalolov, Alimardon Zahriddinov

Bulletin of Gulistan State University

This article is devoted to the problem of selection of talented sports reserves for a ‘big’football, based on scientifically based regulatory requirements and tests. The system of selection of young talented football players is characterized based on scientific research of such leading specialists as A. Ayagu (2005), A.Ayashi(2009), R.A.Akramov (2005), M.A.Godik(2007), Sh.T.Iseev (2017), R.I.Nurimov (2005), A.I.Talibjanov(2012)

Questions Of Competence Formation Of Future Personnel In The Direction Of “Technology Of Growing And Processing Of Medicinal Plants”, Khazratkul Kilichievich Karshibaev

Bulletin of Gulistan State University

This article is devoted to the formation of competencies of students studying in the bachelor's degree 5411100 - Technology of growing and processing medicinal plants. Analys of educational programs of some professional diciplines (Introduction of medicinal plants, Technology of growing medicinal plants, Seed farming and seedling production of medicinal plants) showed that they do not pay proper attention to the formation of professional skills and competencies in future personnel. It is proposed to correct these gaps during the industrial practices and when performing independent work of students on these diciplines A recommendation is given for the gradual complication of target …

Problems Of Predicting The Success Of Plant Introduction In Uzbekustan Conditions, Igor Vladimirovich Belolipov, Khazratkul Kilichievich Karshibaev, Nodira Ziyodovna Arabova, Avaz Musaevich Islamov

Bulletin of Gulistan State University

The article deals to bring theoretical and practical aspect of successful result introduction wild plants Uzbekistan flora. The authors, based on the results of long-term introduction studies of more than 700 species of indigenous flora in the conditions of the Botanical Garden and the Tashkent experimental site of the Institute of Botany of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan, established that ecological-introduction analysis is one of the main stages in proqnosis the successful of plant introduction. When studying plants using the ecological-introduction method, the main effort is directed to collecting the maximum amount of materials about the …

Assessment And Determination Of The Dynamics Of Changes In Salinization Of Irrigated Lands Under The Influence Of Climate Change (In The Case Of Syrdarya Province), Sarvar Akramovich Odilov, Sayidjahon Zokir Ogli Hasanov, Rashid Anarovich Kulmatov, Jasur Ashiralievich Mirzaev

Bulletin of Gulistan State University

In irrigated lands of the Aral Sea Basin, salt-affected areas are increasingly rising and this negatively impacts agricultural development and food security in such countries located in the basin. Drivers, increasing salt-affected areas, are assumed to be climate change, unregulated high groundwater levels and its increased mineralization, poor functioning of the collector-drainage system, and insufficient compliance with agro-technical requirements. These drivers, in turn, lead to the withdrawal of arable land from agricultural purposes and a significant drop in crop yields. This is especially the case in the irrigated areas of the lower reaches of the Amu Darya and Syr Darya …

The Role Of Education And Income Inequality On Environmental Quality. A Panel Data Analysis Of The Ekc Hypothesis On Oecd, Paolo Maranzano, Joao Paulo Cerdeira Bento, Matteo Manera

Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei Working Papers

We study the impact of human capital and the level of education on the pollution-income relationship controlling for income inequality in 17 OECD countries. By applying an innovative approach to country grouping, based on the temporal evolution of income inequality and clustering techniques to feature the annual value of the Gini Index on disposable income from 1987 to 2015, we have estimated panel data models by distinguishing between low and high levels of income inequality country clusters. Robustness checks and endogeneity tests are further performed considering as the discriminant factor the income inequality aecting the countries in the sample. The …

New Frontiers 2020-2021, University Of Nebraska At Kearney Office Of Graduate Studies And Research

New Frontiers

New Frontiers 2020-2021 Features

• Closing the Divide - Angela Hollman & Tim Obermier
• Fish Finder - Melissa Wuellner
• Power of Place - Jessica Hollander
• Disaster Medicine - Liaquat Hossain
• Journey to Freedom - Gail Blankenau
• High-Tech Health - Megan Adkins
• Brain Gain - Ladan Ghazi Saidi

Deep Gaussian Processes For Few-Shot Segmentation, Joakim Johnander, Johan Edstedt, Martin Danelljan, Michael Felsberg, Fahad Shahbaz Khan

Computer Vision Faculty Publications

Few-shot segmentation is a challenging task, requiring the extraction of a generalizable representation from only a few annotated samples, in order to segment novel query images. A common approach is to model each class with a single prototype. While conceptually simple, these methods suffer when the target appearance distribution is multi-modal or not linearly separable in feature space. To tackle this issue, we propose a few-shot learner formulation based on Gaussian process (GP) regression. Through the expressivity of the GP, our approach is capable of modeling complex appearance distributions in the deep feature space. The GP provides a principled way …

2021-03-30_Michiganoverview_Covidlongtermcare, Michigan Department Of Health & Human Services

Michigan COVID-19 Long Term Care Data

The COVID Long Term Care Facilities page was obtained from Michigan's COVID-19 data page: https://www.michigan.gov/coronavirus/0,9753,7-406-98163_98173-526911--,00.html.

This report is created by the Michigan Department of Health & Human Services from data self-reported by long-term care facilities into EMResource. Data for all reporting facilities is posted weekly each Monday.

The information below represents COVID-19 data reported directly to MDHHS by licensed and operating Skilled Nursing, Home for the Aged and Adult Foster Care facilities (licensed to serve 13 or more individuals) in Michigan from January 1, 2020. All long-term care facilities additionally have an obligation to report COVID-positive residents and/or staff …

2021-03-30_Michiganoverview_Covidvaccinestats, Michigan Department Of Health & Human Services

Michigan COVID-19 Vaccine Data

The COVID Vaccine Dashboard page was obtained from Michigan's main COVID-19 page: https://www.michigan.gov/coronavirus/0,9753,7-406-98178_103214-547150--,00.html.

Data is updated Monday through Saturday. Previously reported numbers of administered vaccine doses may change as new data are received. A possible lag in reporting vaccine doses will result in increases in numbers previously reported.

This report is created by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Division of Immunization from data reported to the Michigan Care Improvement Registry (MCIR).

The dashboard contained the tabs Vaccines Shipped, Distribution Trend, Doses Administered, Doses by Vaccine, Doses Metrics, Coverage, Coverage Metrics …

Serial Interaction Of Primitive Magmas With Felsic And Mafic Crust Recorded By Gabbroic Dikes From The Antarctic Extension Of The Karoo Large Igneous Province, Jussi S. Heinonen, Arto V. Luttinen, Frank J. Spera, Saku K. Vuori, Wendy A. Bohrson

Geological Sciences Faculty Scholarship

Two subvertical gabbroic dikes with widths of ~ 350 m (East-Muren) and ≥ 500 m (West-Muren) crosscut continental flood basalts in the Antarctic extension of the ~ 180 Ma Karoo large igneous province (LIP) in Vestfjella, western Dronning Maud Land. The dikes exhibit unusual geochemical profiles; most significantly, initial (at 180 Ma) ε_Nd values increase from the dike interiors towards the hornfelsed wallrock basalts (from − 15.3 to − 7.8 in East-Muren and more gradually from − 9.0 to − 5.5 in West-Muren). In this study, we utilize models of partial melting and energy-constrained assimilation‒fractional crystallization in deciphering the …

The Nurse's Role In Neonatal Therapeutic Hypothermia, Kyla P. Kelly

Honors Capstones

The registered nurse (RN) plays a vital role in the induction and maintenance of therapeutic hypothermia in neonatal patients. During a difficult labor and delivery, the nurse needs to recognize the risk factors for neonatal asphyxiation and signs thereof. It may be necessary for the nurse to draw attention to such a situation so that interventions and treatment can begin. Therapeutic hypothermia is the treatment of choice for instances of hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE). This requires the RN to have a clear understanding of the treatment and interventions associated with HIE. The RN in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) …

2021-03-30_Michiganoverview_Covidstats, Michigan Department Of Health & Human Services

Cumulative Michigan COVID-19 Data

The COVID Overview page was obtained from Michigan's main COVID-19 page: https:/www.michigan.gov/coronavirus/0,9753,7-406-98163-520743--,00.html.

The State of Michigan is working around the clock to test and treat COVID-19 patients. Below is the most recent data healthcare experts across the state have compiled. It is updated Monday - Saturday.
This report is provisional and subject to change. City of Detroit and Wayne County are reported separately. MDHHS began tracking probable cases April 5, 2020. FCI indicates federal correctional institute. MDOC indicates Michigan Department of Corrections. Diagnostic tests, including nucleic acid amplification/real-time polymerase chain reaction (NAAT/RT-PCR) and rapid virus antigen detection point of …

(Trans)Form: Spoken Word As Queer And Transgender Testimony, Kaileigh/Wesley Strobel

Undergraduate Distinction Papers

(Trans)form will explore the importance of spoken word poetry in and for the queer and transgender community. Especially underscoring the significance of public voice in a culture that often wants to conceal or minimize the lived lives of LGTBQIAP+ people. (Trans)form will be a collection of self-authored spoken word poems that are influenced by—and in dialogue with—powerful transgender spoken word authors. The project will open with an essay on the importance of spoken word poetry and voice.

Impact Of Mechanical Circulatory Support On Donor Heart Allocation: Past, Present, And Future., Robert T Tatum, H Todd Massey, Vakhtang Tchantchaleishvili

Department of Surgery Faculty Papers

The United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) recently revised its heart allocation policy to address numerous shortcomings of the previous system. Implemented in 2018, the changes sought to reduce waiting list mortality, clearly define urgency status based on objective physiologic variables, decrease exemption requests, and introduce geographic modifications to ensure organ distribution favors the highest urgency candidates. In large part, UNOS policy revisions were driven by the growing use of continuous flow left ventricular assist devices (CF-LVADs) and the relevant device complications that led to an unacceptably high number of status exemptions. The new 6-tiered system assigns a comparatively lower …

Daily Eastern News: March 30, 2021, Eastern Illinois University

March

No abstract provided.

Is Your Child Susceptible To Contracting Covid-19?, Sara Koussa, Jay Getzinger, Alix Bernholtz, Bryan Lundahl, Priyanka Kale, Kinan Sawar

COVID-19 Medical Myth Infographics

No abstract provided.

Evaluating Citizen Science Outreach: A Case-Study With The Peregrine Fund’S American Kestrel Partnership, Sarah E. Schulwitz, Greg C. Hill, Vanessa Fry, Christopher J.W. Mcclure

Public Policy and Administration Faculty Publications and Presentations

Citizen science programs can be powerful drivers of knowledge and scientific understanding and, in recent decades, they have become increasingly popular. Conducting successful research with the aid of citizen scientists often rests on the efficacy of a program’s outreach strategies. Program evaluation is increasingly recognized as a critical practice for citizen science practitioners to ensure that all efforts, including outreach, contribute to the overall goals of the program. The Peregrine Fund’s American Kestrel Partnership (AKP) is one such citizen science program that relies on outreach to engage participants in effective monitoring of a declining falcon species. Here, we examine whether …

Minutes, Curriculum Committee Meeting, Tuesday, March 30, 2021, Curriculum Committee

Curriculum Committee Minutes

No abstract provided.

Efficient Post-Quantum And Compact Cryptographic Constructions For The Internet Of Things, Rouzbeh Behnia

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

IoT systems often rely on low-end devices to send measurements to other parties and depending on the setting, unauthorized alteration and/or privacy violation of these measures can have catastrophic consequences (e.g., embedded medical sensors). Therefore, providing efficient authentication, integrity, and confidentiality in these settings is vital. While conventional cryptographic measures (e.g., ECDSA) can be used to meet these security requirements, despite their elegant design, they are often too computationally expensive for low-end devices. This is further exacerbated when security against quantum computers is taken into the account.

In this dissertation, we propose a series of new efficient conventional and post-quantum …

Leveraging Smart-Phone Cameras And Image Processing Techniques To Classify Mosquito Genus And Species, Sriram Chellappan, Partool Bharti, Mona Minakshi, Willie Mcclinton, Jamshidbek Mirzakhalov

USF Patents

Identifying insect species integrates image processing, feature selection, unsupervised clustering, and a support vector machine (SVM) learning algorithm for classification. Results with a total of 101 mosquito specimens spread across nine different vector carrying species demonstrate high accuracy in species identification. When implemented as a smart-phone application, the latency and energy consumption were minimal. The currently manual process of species identification and recording can be sped up, while also minimizing the ensuing cognitive workload of personnel. Citizens at large can use the system in their own homes for self-awareness and share insect identification data with public health agencies.

Plague And The Fall Of Baghdad (1258), Nahyan Fancy, Monica H. Green

History Faculty publications

The recent suggestion that the late medieval Eurasian plague pandemic, the Black Death, had its origins in the thirteenth century rather than the fourteenth century has brought new scrutiny to texts reporting ‘epidemics’ in the earlier period. Evidence both from Song China and Iran suggests that plague was involved in major sieges laid by the Mongols between the 1210s and the 1250s, including the siege of Baghdad in 1258 which resulted in the fall of the Abbasid caliphate. In fact, re-examination of multiple historical accounts in the two centuries after the siege of Baghdad shows that the role of epidemic …

The Effect Of Physical Exertion Training Using A Vertimax Device In Developing The Characteristic Strength With Speed And The Skill Of Shooting By Jumping In Front - High With The Hand Ball For Youth, Hadeel Talib Mohammed, Suhad Qassim Saeed

Modern Sport

The research problem has crystallized and in light of these capabilities, the level of performance depends on the application of modern training methods based on actual experimentation, and those methods aim to develop the components of achievement in this competition, including the quantities of exerting the distinctive strength with speed for the arms and feet, which reflects on good skillful performance because the skill of shooting by jumping forward and high forms A major role in achieving goals during the competition that qualifies the team to win, and through the follow-up of the researcher in the field and academic field, …

Test Design To Measure The Accuracy And Tolerance Of Wheelchair Basketball Players, Nisreen Bahjat Abdullah

Modern Sport

The aim of the research was to design a test to measure the accuracy of correction and tolerance for wheelchair basketball players, in addition to measuring the correction by its accuracy and tolerance from the playing areas of wheelchair basketball players. The research sample consisted of (40) players randomly selected from the players of seven teams Wheelchair basketball clubs, The researcher conducted personal interdownloads, in addition to conducting an exploratory experiment for the test and then extracted the scientific foundations for it, and after extracting the results and treating them with appropriate statistical means, the researcher reached several conclusions, the …