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Public School Superintendent Turnover In Appalachian Kentucky, Kevin Hub, Gill Hunter

The Rural Educator

This study makes use of a data set detailing instances of public school superintendent turnover in the commonwealth of Kentucky between 2014 and 2023. A quantitative research design was used to analyze descriptive statistics and salary changes based on a set of demographic and descriptive variables in the sample of 205 superintendent turnovers occurring during the identified decade. The research demonstrates that superintendent turnover in Appalachian and non-Appalachian school districts is proportionally consistent. Within the Appalachian region of Kentucky, the analysis reveals that salaries for superintendents hired during the study period were lower than the salaries paid to their predecessors, …

The 2024 Whippoorwill Award: Gathering Stories Of Indigeneity, Connection, And Belonging, Erika L. Bass, Michael J. Young, Alan Hoffman, Jacqueline Yahn, Monica Roe, Devon Brenner, Chea Parton

The Rural Educator

No abstract provided.

The Rural Affinity Advantage: Reimagining Schools As Entrepreneurship Incubators, Gregory R. L. Hadley

The Rural Educator

This article, which combines research with lived experience, discusses how youth entrepreneurship education stands as a promising pedagogy in rural contexts. The author situates the research by sharing experiences teaching in rural schools at a time of declining enrollment and rampant outmigration. The article then explores educational pathways, through entrepreneurship education, that rural educators may follow to contribute to the cause of rural sustainability. Entrepreneurialism is positioned as a useful set of knowledge, skills, and attitudes that rural youth can use to better dictate the terms of their future, and schools are envisioned as entrepreneurship incubators.

Ahst 154.50: Surgical Pharmacology, Mary B. Mchugh

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2021-2025

No abstract provided.

Psyx 100s.51: Introduction To Psychology, Katie Smith

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2021-2025

No abstract provided.

Response To Michael Conway’S Review Of Maurice Blondel On The Supernatural In Human Action: Sacrament And Superstition (Boston & Leiden: Brill, 2017) By Cathal Doherty Sj., Cathal Doherty

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

This is a brief response (1000 words) to Michael A. Conway’s lengthy book review in Irish Theological Quarterly, Vol. 84, No. 2 (May 2019): 212–218.

Trends In Terrorism Recruitment: Examining Recruitment Patterns Among 250 Armed Groups Using Terrorism, Evan Perkoski, Meredith Maloof Loken, Alec Worsnop

Reports, Projects, and Research

Violent non-state actors (VNSAs) that use terrorism recruit a wide range of people and draw upon distinct features to entice them. They recruit men and women, the highly educated and undereducated, military veterans, and police officers. They sometimes reach these people with religious, racial, or ideological rhetoric. What do we know about VNSA’s global recruitment patterns? How widespread are different recruitment choices (e.g. military veterans), and which recruitment characteristics are likely to co-occur? Based on the 2019 National Strategy for Counterterrorism priorities 1.1, 3.2, and 3.3 to understand and establish prevention architecture to thwart terrorist radicalization and recruitment, this report …

Custom’S Pervasive Role In Law And The Boundaries Of Positivism, James Paul George

Faculty Scholarship

Custom is law’s foundation, modulator, and occasional antithesis. This Article explores that relationship, starting with varying insights from some of the few legal philosophers who have examined the custom/law dynamic. The heart of this Article provides examples showing custom’s many influences on the law, set in five functional areas: origin, application, interstitial, rule-source, and oppositional. Although the custom/law interplay spans human behavior, these examples come from law practice where custom is exposed. Many are routine, some are significant, and all show our reliance on behaviors and norms that are not positive law. The conclusion addresses but does not resolve some …

Nrf2/Cyclooxygenase 2 Signaling In Cr(Vi)-Induced Carcinogenesis, Lei Zhao, Yi-Fang Wang, Andrea Adamcakova-Dodd, Peter Thorne, Ranakul Islam, Ke Jian Liu, Fei Chen, Jia Luo, Ling-Zhi Liu

Kimmel Cancer Center Faculty Papers

Long-term exposure to hexavalent chromium [Cr(VI)] has been linked to lung cancer, and cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) is a well-known inflammatory factor. However, the role and mechanism of COX-2 in Cr(VI)-induced carcinogenesis are not clear yet. To address this question, we employed a mouse model exposed to Cr(VI) through intranasal instillation of particulate zinc chromate (ZnCrO4) for 12 weeks. Metabolomics and RNA-seq assays revealed enhanced activity of the arachidonic acid (AA)/eicosanoid metabolism pathway in lung tissues from mice exposed to Cr(VI). COX-2, the key enzyme of the AA/eicosanoid pathway, was significantly upre- gulated in Cr(VI)-exposed lung tissues, as well as in the …

Project Title: Maximizing The Volume Of A Cardboard Box To Save Trees– An Application Of Polynomial Functions To Address Global Issues [Mathematics], Lucie Mingla

Open Educational Resources

MAT 115 College Algebra & Trigonometry/Precalculus

Project Title: Maximizing the Volume of a Cardboard Box to Save Trees– An Application of Polynomial Functions to Address Global Issues

Reflective Narrative:

This project was inspired by my participation in the "Designing and Implementation of STEM Co-Curricular Activities" CTL seminar in Spring 2023. I am grateful to Drs. Bukurie Gjoci, Daniel Gertner, Ingrid Veras, and Midas Tsai, along with fellow participants, for their invaluable feedback that helped shape its development. The project was implemented in two College Algebra and Trigonometry courses. I participated in two seminars to further develop this project. The Community …

Sex-Specific And Regional Analysis Of Heart Disease Prediction Using Machine Learning Algorithms: Insights From The Uc Irvine Public Heart Disease Datasets (Cleveland And Long Beach), Jonathan Asanjarani

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

For this capstone project, I investigated how well machine learning models can predict heart disease, while also studying how the patient’s gender affects these predictions, as well as determining how well the same model performs across different regions. This project utilizes two clinical datasets from the publicly accessible UCI Machine Learning Repository under the collection "Heart Disease." This repository is composed of data from patients across four distinct locations, capturing varying levels of heart disease severity. These datasets are part of a collection of databases, open to the public, and can be used by anyone looking to conduct empirical analysis. …

Embracing Language Diversity: An Exploration Of Elementary Teachers' Perception Of African American English, Manijeh Hart

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Students of African descent often speak in a dialect that differs from the Dominant American English (DAE) dialect, known as African American English (AAE). Since this dialect is not considered mainstream, students who speak and write in this dialect may be at a disadvantage when being assessed on literacy skills and responding to literacy instruction. However, it is possible to address this issue by preparing and supporting teachers in recognizing AAE use in literacy activities and providing them with instructional strategies to support students who use AAE. The goal of this research was to investigate the perceptions that elementary school …

Underlying Mechanisms Of Quantum Emission In Hexagonal Boron Nitride, Enrique Alejandro Mejia Iv

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Quantum emitters in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) have emerged as promising candidates for advancing numerous quantum technologies. Visible-spectrum quantum emitters, in particular, have gained significant attention due to their exceptional properties, including high brightness, observable spin structure, and highly tunable emission wavelengths. However, several challenges hold back the practical implementation of hBN-based quantum emitters in technological applications—namely, the unknown physical structure of the emitters, susceptibility to spectral wandering and blinking, and limited understanding of how to control their broad spectral distribution.

In this dissertation, we investigate the collective properties of highly defective hBN. To address the key challenges, we develop …

Solvation Thermodynamic Mapping Approaches For Computer-Aided Drug Discovery, Vjay Molino

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

The drug discovery process is inherently long and costly, prompting the development and integration of computational tools to mitigate these challenges. One of area explored in computer-aided drug discovery is to understand the role of solvation in protein-drug binding and to develop computational tools and methods that can be integrated in the drug discovery process. Grid Inhomogeneous Solvation Theory (GIST) is a tool that provides a framework for mapping solvation thermodynamiproperties of water molecules on the protein surface.This thesis explores the use of GIST in generating pharmacophore models and elucidates the role of solvation in protein structural fluctuations.

One of …

Freedom Pedagogy: Black Educators In The Urban North During The Nineteenth And Early Twentieth Centuries, Milagros Seraus-Roache

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Black educational history has been told through a predominantly Southern lens. This dissertation highlights the experiences of Black educators in the urban North during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Northern Black educators confronted the challenges of freedom—including the constant need to protect it—using a set of approaches influenced by the various intersecting social movements and intellectual currents of their day. While these educators represented a small minority of African Americans, their contributions were profound, leaving legacies that provide a lens for understanding and improving issues facing urban Black youth and their communities today.

In the absence of a comprehensive …

Violence Against Children And Youth In Refugee Settings In Ethiopia: Factsheet, Baobab Research Programme Consortium

Humanitarian Task Force

This factsheet presents key findings from the second-ever Humanitarian Violence Against Children and Youth Survey conducted in refugee camps across Ethiopia.

Predicting The High Temperature Deformation Behavior Of Haynes282 By A Dislocation-Density Based Crystal Plasticity Model, Tianju Chen, Huadong Fu, Shujing Dong, Yue Zhou, Yijia Gu, Caizhi Zhou, Ridwan Sakidja

Materials Science and Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Mechanical behavior of Haynes282 is heavily dependent upon the microstructure state, calling for mesoscale model to study the relationship between the underlying microstructure and macroscopic performance. In this work, we employ crystal plasticity finite element method (CPFEM) to explore the deformation mechanisms of Hanyes282 subjected to tensile (short-term) and creep (long-term) tests. Haynes282 is a newly developed Ni-based superalloy, containing relatively low volume fraction (≤20%) of spherical γ′ precipitate phase. A dislocation-density based model is developed to describe the tensile and the creep behavior, where a dimension reduction algorithm is proposed to obtain more accurate inter-particle spacing. Furthermore, dislocation-particle interaction …

Learning To Read While Learning A Language: Reading And English Learners, Trish Morita-Mullaney

Science of Reading

The Science of Reading (SOR) is intended to benefit all children as they develop a strong foundation in reading. For a growing number of students who have proficiencies in languages other than English, how they experience SOR classroom activities differs. Students who are learning English as an additional language (English Learners) come from a variety of language backgrounds and enter at different levels of English proficiency, ranging from beginner to advanced. This research brief describes how phonemic awareness, phonics, and fluency are different for English Learners and offers advice on how to interpret their performances, differentiating instruction to address their …

Securing Healthcare Data: Recent Challenges And Innovations In Hipaa Compliance, Young B. Choi

KAUPA Letters

No abstract provided.

Leaving A Legacy, Semoon Chang

KAUPA Letters

No abstract provided.

Will Americans Be Able To Prove Konrad Adenauer Was Wrong?, Yeomin Yoon

KAUPA Letters

No abstract provided.

Flannery O’Connor’S South: A Photo Essay From Milledgeville, Georgia, John J. Han

KAUPA Letters

No abstract provided.

Required Over-Conformity: Emerging Adulthood And Disability In Tight Korean Culture, Eunyoung Jung, Ji-Ryun Kim

KAUPA Letters

This research examines what Korean young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) perceive as important parts of their lives, and the impact Korean culture has on their adulthood. The researcher interviewed nineteen participants with IDD in South Korea, ranging in age from nineteen to thirty-four years. A semi-structured qualitative interview was conducted to collect data. An inductive thematic data analysis identified three key themes: family-oriented lives with “constraints,” conformity to behavioral norms, and living for others. This article discusses how Korean culture impacts the emerging adulthood of young adults with IDD.

A Book Review: Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’Re Wrong About The World— And Why Things Are Better Than You Think, Young B. Choi

KAUPA Letters

No abstract provided.

The Poetics Of Literary Haiku, John J. Han

KAUPA Letters

Haiku, a nature-based Japanese lyric form, encapsulates vivid imagery to evoke emotional resonance in readers. This poetic form avoids direct exposition or philosophizing, focusing instead on momentary “aha” experiences through the juxtaposition of natural and human elements. Traditional haiku often adhere to a seasonal theme, employing kigo (seasonal words) to reflect the connection between nature and human emotions. Contemporary English haiku have evolved beyond the rigid 5-7-5 syllabic structure, favoring brevity and an emphasis on imagery over didacticism or sentimentality. Effective haiku employ simple language, present tense, and a juxtaposition of interconnected images, often ending with a surprising or thought-provoking …

Korea’S Unification: A Foundational Overview, Paul Hong

KAUPA Letters

No abstract provided.

Kaupa Letters: Volume 12, Issue 3, Korean American University Professors Association

KAUPA Letters

No abstract provided.

Comparing Smart City Data Protection Approaches: Digital Consent And The Accountability Framework In Singapore, Wenxi Zhang, Sharanya M Shanmugam, J.G. Allen

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

Traditionally, there has been heavy reliance on formal notice and consent models for data protection regimes. However, consent (in particular digital consent) is rarely extended meaningfully in practice, due to behavioural factors including data subjects’ limited cognitive capacity, rational apathy, and dependency on the digital infrastructure around them. Synthesizing legal perspectives with insights drawn from the behavioural and social sciences, this article analyzes the consent problem in the smart city context, where it is exacerbated due to prevailing issues such as economic disincentives for ensuring meaningful consent, since essential urban infrastructure is often provided by private companies. Recognizing the shortcomings …

Fluorine-Containing Isosteres Enable A Structure-Activity Relationship Study Of Gingerol Derivatives, Shelby Cooper, Diarta Kabashi, Marlin Yacoub, Jessica Molen, Osman Farhan, Christina Farley, Samantha Yencha, Michelle Figueiredo, Nidheesh Phadnis, Wynter Henry, Julian Harris, Frank Wilkinson, John Milligan

College of Life Sciences Faculty Papers

A series of fluorinated and non-fluorinated [6]-gingerol, [6]-paradol, [6]-shogaol and ferulate derivatives were synthesized. Testing these analogs in anti-proliferation assays with MCF-7, A549, HCT-116 and HEK-293 cell lines provided insight into the structural features that contribute to the anti-proliferative activity of naturally occurring ginger constituents. In particular, the use of both vinyl and alkyl trifluoromethyl isosteres allowed us to evaluate the structure-activity impact of the enone motif found in shogaols. Our results indicate that enone-containing derivatives have a higher potency, suggesting the conjugated enone motif characteristic of shogaols may be primarily responsible for the anti-cancer activity of the broader natural …

Reply To: Amplifying Women's Voices In Menopause Research: The Importance Of Inclusive Perspectives [Letter], Camille Cronin, Sara Donevant Phd, Rn, Ccrn, Kerri-Ann Hughes, Marja Kaunonen, Jette Marcussen, Rhonda Wilson

Publications

No abstract provided.