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The Importance Of Being Earnest, Otterbein Theatre And Dance Department

2024-2025 Season Productions

No abstract provided.

Stockfeed Labelling In Western Australia, Department Of Primary Industries And Regional Development, Western Australia

Animal production and livestock factsheets

The Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) is responsible for regulating the labels of stockfeed supplied in Western Australia (WA) to ensure they provide the required information to people feeding it to their livestock. This factsheet contains information to help stockfeed retailers and manufacturers meet WA’s labelling requirements.

In The Face Of God: Analyzing The Influence Of Religion On Social Dynamics And Cultural Preservation In Pniël, Joohee Na

South Africa: Multiculturalism and Human Rights

This research paper examines the role of religion in fostering community cohesion, cultural preservation, and governance in Pniël, a small South African town with deep historical and religious roots. Drawing on interviews with community members, it explores how religious practices and spaces function as mechanisms for maintaining collective identity, transmitting values across generations, and addressing social challenges like modernization and gentrification. The study highlights the interplay between tradition and change, emphasizing the importance of preserving religious heritage and cultural narratives in a secularizing world. It also discusses the implications of these findings for safeguarding the histories and identities of small …

Breast Cancer Screening In Yaoundé, Cameroon: Practices, Awareness, And Perceptions, Tianna Kidd

Cameroon: Development and Social Change

Abstract

Breast cancer is one of the leading causes of death worldwide, yet detection and treatment centers are not always widely available. This research project aims to assess the awareness and perceptions of breast cancer screening practices among women in Cameroon through observing healthcare centers in Yaoundé and conducting interviews with health professionals and a randomized selection of women. The main objective of the study was to identify the resources available for breast cancer screening in Yaoundé and to examine the barriers to breast cancer screening and treatment. Furthermore, the research investigates the available detection devices for breast cancer, particularly …

Trouble Bruen For Assault Weapon Bans: A Feature-Based Analysis Of The Second Amendment, Samuel R. Vasilopulos

Northern Illinois University Law Review

“Assault weapons” and “large-capacity magazines” have been the target of recent legislation, such as the Protect Illinois Communities Act. Weapons bans of this nature have traditionally been upheld by the lower courts; however, the U.S. Supreme Court has refined the test for constitutionality under the Second Amendment in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen (2022). Bruen has laid out a two-step test in which the first step asks whether the conduct, namely the possession of a specifically banned arm, is within the scope of the plain text of the Second Amendment. To determine whether an arm …

Empowering Excellence: A Strategic Plan For Faculty Mentoring And Professional Growth, April Moore

Master's Theses & Capstone Projects

Effective teacher mentoring programs play a critical role in improving teacher retention, professional development, and mental health support. This school improvement plan outlines a structured mentoring program implemented in the Murray Community School District, emphasizing mentor-mentee pairings, regular check-ins, and sustained support beyond the first year of teaching. By integrating emotional and professional guidance, the program addresses challenges such as teacher burnout and job dissatisfaction, which are prevalent in early career educators. Key components include professional goal setting, mental health resources, and fostering a collaborative school culture. Preliminary results indicate that structured mentoring significantly enhances teacher satisfaction, confidence, and long-term …

Implementation Of Capturing Kids’ Hearts And Its Role In Creating A Student Council, Jennifer Pedersen

Master's Theses & Capstone Projects

This school improvement plan focuses on enhancing student leadership, behavior, academic success, and connectedness at Logan-Magnolia Elementary by implementing Capturing Kids’ Hearts in connection with a student council initiative. The plan aims to cultivate a positive school culture that supports students’ social, emotional, and academic development by fostering meaningful teacher-student relationships and providing leadership opportunities. Grounded in research, this initiative establishes relationship-building strategies and leadership development while addressing key challenges such as behavioral trends, student engagement, and a lack of connectedness to the school community. Anticipated outcomes include decreased behavioral issues, improved academic achievement, and stronger student ties to the …

Implementing A Math Intervention Program: A School Improvement Plan, Rylie Conway

Master's Theses & Capstone Projects

This school improvement plan addresses the persistent issue of low math proficiency among elementary students at Cardinal Elementary School, where only 57% of students in grades 2-4 met proficiency on the 2024 fall aMath screener. Research highlights the significance of early math interventions, which can prevent long-term academic struggles and enhance foundational skills. The plan proposes a targeted math intervention program grounded in Multi-Tiered Support System (MTSS) framework, incorporating evidence-based strategies. Key objectives include improving math proficiency, reducing achievement gaps, and fostering confidence in students’ mathematical abilities. This project emphasizes data-driven decision-making, professional development, and collaboration among stakeholders to ensure …

Social Emotional Learning And Positive Impact Of Students Who Have Faced Trauma, Brittany Meyers

Master's Theses & Capstone Projects

Schools across the country have students who have faced some type of trauma in their lives that then affects their behavior in school. Thus, their behavior affects how they interact with their peers and teachers. Therefore, teaching implicit instruction for social-emotional learning to students who have faced trauma, and all students will help the way that students interact with their peers. Research has shown that students who receive social emotional learning instruction will positively impact their behavior including emotional, academic, and how they interact with their peers. This study aims to identify the effectiveness of social emotional learning and if …

The Collateral Consequences Of School Disciplinary Records, Eve Rips

UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Library News October 2024, Research Medical Library

Library News 2024

• New Scholarly Journal: Advances in Cancer Education & Quality Improvement
• Beyond Grammar: 10 Ways a Scientific Editor Can Substantively Improve a Manuscript
• Promising AI Tools for Systematic Reviews
• DynaMed, an Alternative to UpToDate
• Para-: A Paradigm of the Usefulness of Learning Greek Prefixes

Kentucky Geological Survey Landslide Inventory [2024], Matthew M. Crawford, Evelyn M. Bibbins, Hudson J. Koch

Research Data--KGS

The KGS landslide inventory provides the locations of known landslides and areas susceptible to debris flows. Various types of landslides are represented including slides, flows, rockfalls, and creep. The data are available as ArcGIS geodatabase feature classes. Landslide locations and associated attributes are compiled from Kentucky Geological Survey research, published maps, state and local government agencies, the public, and media reports. A confidence ranking system assigns a value to each feature. A description of the feature classes is here: https://kgs.uky.edu/kgsmap/helpfiles/landslide_help.shtm

The inventory viewed in a GIS with geology, soils, slope or other terrain-based data can serve as a basis for …

Client Confidentiality As Data Security, Jonah E. Perlin

Washington Law Review

The duty of confidentiality has been a cornerstone of the attorney-client relationship for more than four centuries. Historically, this duty was not difficult to discharge. All a lawyer had to do to comply was not affirmatively share client information in public without consent. But that has all changed. The same technologies that provide unprecedented benefits of authorized access by lawyers and their clients create unprecedented risks of unauthorized access by others. As a result, although the duty of confidentiality was once synonymous with a duty to keep client confidences secret, today the duty necessitates that lawyers keep client confidences secure …

Impact Of Industrial Park Platforms On Sme Financing: Evidence From The Ld Park, Zhendong Liu

Dissertations and Theses Collection (Open Access)

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are essential to the Chinese economy. However, when seeking financing, SMEs often face stricter financing conditions and higher financing costs due to information asymmetry in the market, commonly referred to as the problem of “difficult and expensive financing.” This issue severely limits the growth potential of SMEs. This study explores the positive role that industrial parks play as a bridge between banks and SMEs in alleviating the “difficult and expensive financing” problem. The study surveyed 54 industrial parks and collected 268 valid questionnaires from banks, industrial parks, and SMEs. The data analysis yielded the following …

Quantum Many-Body Scars From Unstable Periodic Orbits, Bertrand Evrard, Andrea Pizzi, Simeon I. Mistakidis, Ceren B. Dag

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

Unstable periodic orbits (UPOs) play a key role in the theory of chaos, constituting the "skeleton" of classical chaotic systems and "scarring" the eigenstates of the corresponding quantum system. Recently, nonthermal many-body eigenstates embedded in an otherwise thermal spectrum have been identified as a many-body generalization of quantum scars. The latter, however, are not clearly associated to a chaotic phase space, and the connection between the single- and many-body notions of quantum scars remains therefore incomplete. Here, we find the first quantum many-body scars originating from UPOs of a chaotic phase space. Remarkably, these states verify the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis, …

A Marketplace (Failure) Of Ideas: Foreign Disinformation Campaigns In An Age Of Generative A.I. And A Proportionality Approach To Falsehoods, Michael K. Park

North Carolina Journal of Law & Technology

No abstract provided.

2024-2025 Book-In-Common Teaching Guide, Collin College

Book in Common

EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION

As always, the 2024 - 2025 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. This dystopian novel discusses themes of art, culture, survival, relationships, health, and memory. Highlights of this year’s Guide include:

• New for 2024 – 2025
• Fall 2024 Assessment-aligned activities for COAT Core Objective Personal Responsibility
• Review the interactive teaching strategies and access scaffolding activities
• Responses to the text including explorations of the major themes in Station Eleven, reflection prompts, subject assignments, and connections to art, biology, and …

Hilltopics: Volume 20, Issue 1, Hilltopics Staff

Hilltopics

Experiences:

Den Xehno; I Do Not Forget by Alexandra Lahiri

Seoul Life by Esther Lee

Igniting A Season Of Change Through Experiential Learning by Michelle Ried

SMU-In-Oxford: Reviewing The Royal Shakespeare Company’s The School For Scandal by Megan Watson

Analysis:

The Drive Away From Cars: What Gen Z’s Driving Decline Means For Dallas by Mustafa Haque

“The Bat Cave” Became The New Scholars Den by Elle Caldon

Mi’s Recollections by Esther Lee

Assassinating Uncle Sam: Oliver Stone, JFK, And Change by Logan Arebalo

Changing Foreign Policy Priorities In A Gen-Z World by Arianna Villarreal

Change Is The Name …

Ua64/2 The Challenge: Magazine For The Center For Gifted Studies (No. 57 Fall 2024), Elizabeth Joyce Editor

Gifted Studies Publications

Magazine created by and about the WKU Center for Gifted Studies.

The Evolution Of The Translations Of Virgil’S “The Aeneid”: An Analytical Comparison Of Robert Faglesand John Dryden's Translations Using Sentiment Analysis And Topic Modeling, Eric Zhang, Katherine Elkins

IPHS 200: Programming Humanity

This research poster aims to explore two English translations of the ancient Roman epic “The Aeneid” written by the poet Virgil. The two versions that were chosen for analysis are John Dryden’s translation from 1697 compared with Robert Fagles’ translation from 2006. This poster seeks to use sentiment analysis and word frequency analysis tools to analytically compare the two versions of the epic. From the results, the older translation appeared to use more formal wording and “dramatic” storytelling structures compared to a more “accurate” rendition of the epic translated using modern language. The sentiment analysis result also demonstrates greater sentiment …

What Makes An Emotionally Compelling Novel? A Sentiment Analysis Of Science Fiction Novels 1984 And We, Annalia Fiore, Katherine Elkins

IPHS 200: Programming Humanity

The purpose of this project is to compare the Soviet novel We by Yevgeny Zamyatin (1924) to the English novel 1984 by George Orwell (1949). Many have previously drawn comparisons between the two works, but the focus of this research is to find dissimilarities in their respective emotional arcs using sentiment analysis, a computational tool used for processing large bodies of text. The findings of this research were twofold. Firstly, the novel We suffers from an undeveloped emotional arc due to a weak narrative voice and a lack of emotionally varied events. This is especially notable when compared to 1984, …

Trauma-Informed Teaching, Taylor Panoch

Master's Theses & Capstone Projects

Studies have shown that trauma and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) play a significant role in student’s abilities to function both academically and behaviorally at school. Through the use of trauma-informed teaching strategies, teachers are able to better assist students in coping with their past or current traumas and understand that their behavior may be a result of their experiences. Trauma-informed teaching provides an abundance of benefits for both students and educators when implemented with fidelity. With these important research findings in mind, this school improvement plan was created to administer system-wide trauma-informed teaching training and strategies to support students who …

Enhancing Students' Information Literacy And Engagement Through Understanding Epistemic Change In History Teachers, Dr. Janice Klima

Master's Theses & Capstone Projects

with historical texts and fostering information literacy. Grounded in the principles of epistemic cognition—epistemological doubt, volition, and resolution strategies—the plan outlines actionable steps to enhance inquiry-based learning and reflective practices. By addressing barriers such as traditional rote learning methods, teacher resistance, and resource constraints, the plan advocates for professional development, curriculum revision, and differentiated instruction to meet diverse learner needs. Data-driven strategies, including formative assessments and reflective activities, will monitor progress and ensure continuous improvement. This approach aligns with Adelanto High School’s mission to prepare students for academic success and civic engagement, equipping them with essential skills for navigating an …

Premier, Fall 2024, University Of Northern Iowa. College Of Education.

Premier

Contents:

From the Dean --- 3
/="/">The Real Deal: From Para to Educator --- 4
/="/">Extending Education Outdoors --- 8
/="/">Finding the Balance in Well-Being --- 10
/="/">A Unified Path for Early Childhood & Special Education --- 15
/="/">Resilience Redefined --- 18
/="/">Alumni Profiles --- 20
/="/">Foundation Focus --- 24
/="/">Center Spotlight --- 28
/="/">Scholarly Spotlight --- 28
/="/">News & Notes --- 30
/="/">Celebrating Excellence --- 34

Csbs Kudos, Fall 2024, University Of Northern Iowa. College Of Social And Behavioral Sciences.

CSBS Kudos

Contents:

--- Faculty Accolades
--- Retirements: Robert Neymeyer
--- CSBS and School of Health & Human Sciences sponsors talk by renowned biologist and writer Sandra Steingraber
--- System of Support Conference
--- Phi Alpha Theta / History Club Lecture Series
--- Women in Politics
--- Panthers Vote
--- In Memoriam: Nancy Hamilton
--- Greg Bruess featured in Northern Iowan's "Panther’s guide to studying abroad in Greece"
--- Family, Aging & Counseling's Cedar Valley Men's Shed featured in WCF Courier
--- Dementia Simulation House featured in KWWL's " Experiencing Dementia: Local Simulation Building Understanding"
--- Psychology's Carolyn Hildebrandt discusses "the psychology …

Torture And Its Sequelae Among Prostituted Women In The United States, Melissa Farley, M. Alexis Kennedy

Criminal Justice Faculty Research

Background: Extreme violence and psychological abuse have been extensively documented and are pervasive in prostitution. Survivors of prostitution report high levels of posttraumatic stress disorder, dissociation, depression, and self-loathing. These are the same sequelae reported by torture survivors.

Objective: Severe forms of violence have been categorized as torture by experts. The authors note that torture is commonly suffered during prostitution and should be appropriately named.

Method: Using standardized measures and including a new measure of torture, we interviewed 45 women in the United States about their torture experiences in prostitution and their symptoms of PTSD, dissociation, childhood trauma, health status …

Mathematics In Contemporary Society, Patrick J. Wallach

Open Educational Resources

Mathematics in Contemporary Society is the textbook that corresponds to MA-321, the course of the same name. The course is designed to provide students with mathematical ideas and methods found in the social sciences, the arts, and in business. Topics will include fundamentals of statistics, scatterplots, graphics in the media, problem solving strategies, dimensional analysis, mathematics in music and art, and mathematical modeling. EXCEL is used to explore real world applications.

Boise State Magazine, Anna Webb (Editor)

FOCUS on Boise State

No abstract provided.

Juries And Tax: The Effect Of Income Taxation On Tort Damages, Jeffrey H. Kahn, John E. Lopatka

South Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

Increasing Student Achievement Through Departmentalization, Braxton Williams

Master's Theses & Capstone Projects

Classroom configuration and models of instruction have traditionally been self-contained classrooms with whole-group instruction. This traditional method of teaching is being challenged by recent research showing that small group targeted instruction is more beneficial for student outcomes as well as research showing that a departmentalized classroom configuration is more advantageous for teachers and students than self-contained models. This school improvement plan presents data while addressing the challenges of implementing a departmentalized system for Nixon Elementary in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.