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2020 Celebration Of Scholarship, Creativity, And Engagement, Todd Bruns, Beth Heldebrandt

Programs

The 2020-2021 academic year is truly extraordinary and higher education’s new, hopefully temporary, normal began on rather short notice in Spring 2020. While our environment has changed, we, as a shared community, are pleased that the important work of faculty continues and evolves as faculty broaden and redefine the boundaries of scholarship, creativity, and innovation in accelerating hybrid and remote environments. And, as new forms and strategies for scholarship and creativity emerge, the core principles of faculty life and student learning remain central to the mission of Eastern Illinois University.

For that reason, our faculty, department chairs, college deans, the …

Fy2021 Faculty Salaries Over $50,000, Clemson University

Salary Reports

No abstract provided.

White- And Black-Box Computing And Measurements Under Limited Resources: Cloud, High Performance, And Quantum Computing, And Two Case Studies -- Robotic Boat And Hierarchical Covid Testing, Vladik Kreinovich, Martine Ceberio, Olga Kosheleva

Departmental Technical Reports (CS)

In many practical problems, it is important to take into account that our computational and measuring resources are limited. In this paper, we overview main resource limitations for different types of computers, and we provide two case studies explaining how to best take this resource limitation into account.

College Of Natural Sciences Newsletter, October 2020, College Of Natural Sciences

College of Natural Sciences Newsletters and Reports

Volume 1. Issue 9

Content:

Dean’s Update P.1
Awards & Recognition P.2
Student Club Spotlight P.3
Open PRAIRIE | Research Overview P.4
Interest in Science | Updates P.5
Where’s Wil? P.6 Art
Competition Announcement P.7

Schoolgirl Embroideries & Black Girlhood In Antebellum Philadelphia, Kelli Racine Coles

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

Embroideries stitched by girls at schools for Black children in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries are rare finds in the antiques world. The few embroideries likely stitched by Black schoolgirls that do survive often offer historical evidence in the form of the names of their makers’ schools stitched onto their embroideries. Yet there is little scholarship on these embroideries or the education these schoolgirls were pursuing while creating their samplers. In scholarship using material culture as primary evidence, these embroideries provide valuable clues about the lives of Black girls in northern cities during the antebellum period. My work examines the …

President's Diversity And Inclusion Advisory Council: Covid-19 Equity And Inclusion Ad Hoc Committee, Fall 2020, Illinois State University

Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Annual Report

Illinois State University's President's Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Council: COVID-19 Equity and Inclusion Ad Hoc Committee, Fall 2020.

Oct2020, Robert Kelly

Robert Kelly Manuscripts

No abstract provided.

Homeowner's Insurance And Credit Score: A Critical Race Theory Perspective, Robert K. Yass

Connecticut Insurance Law Journal

No abstract provided.

T&C Magazine Issue 22 - Fall 2020, T&C Media

T&C Magazine

Articles Include: Letter From the Editor, Westerville on a Budget, 10 of T&C's Favorite Black-Owned Businesses, Student Voting in 2020, Pandemic Style, Greek Life 1920s-2020s, Finding New Ways to Escape During Lockdown, Next Generation Warriors: Training Otterbein Nursing Students, What is Your Quarantine Personality?, Streaming Service Stats: What Were We Watching, Cardinal Course Catalog Guide: Hidden Gems, Students' Favorite Conspiracy Theories

Super Mario Decompiled, Joseph Godfrey

UC Law Science and Technology Journal

Super Mario 64 was a video game released to critical acclaim in 1996. 24 years later, a group of dedicated fans reverse engineered the game and released reconstructed source code publicly on GitHub. Soon afterwards, an unofficial PC version of the game began circulating the internet. The decompilation project presents an opportunity to examine the legal status of reverse engineering under US Copyright law, and whether publicly releasing reverse engineered code is a fair use.

Climate Cages: Connecting Migration, The Carceral State, Extinction Rebellion, And The Coronavirus Through Cicero And 21 Savage, Nadia B. Ahmad

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Implementation Of The Public Schools’ Disaster Risk Reduction Management Program And Level Of Capabilities To Respond, Roselene Tabilon Tizon, Sheena Mae Trestiza Comighud

UBT International Conference

This study assessed the status of implementation of the public schools’ disaster risk reduction management (DRRM) program as to the four (4) DRRM thematic areas and the level of capability of the respondents to respond during hazards to prevent disaster in all public schools of Bayawan City Division, Negros Oriental for S.Y. 2018-2019. A total of ninety-six (96) public elementary and secondary school heads were selected as research respondents representing the different 10 districts of Bayawan City Division. The study used the adopted survey questionnaires from the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (NDRRM) Plan and the Hyogo Framework of …

Shelter Mobility, And The Voucher Program, Ezra Rosser

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

What is to be done about the poor and about poor neighborhoods? When it comes to housing policy, the current hope is that the Housing Choice Voucher Program (formerly the Section 8 Voucher Program) can provide an or ambitiously the answer to this perennial societal question. By piggybacking on the private rental market, the voucher program supposedly has numerous advantages over traditional, project-based, public housing. Not only is it less costly to house poor people in privately owned units compared to the cost of constructing and maintaining public housing, but the voucher program also offers the possibility of deconcentrating the …

Cutr Connections [October 2020], Cutr

CUTR Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Montanan, Fall 2020, University Of Montana--Missoula

Montanan Magazine, 1969-2024

This is the magazine of the University of Montana with news about the University for UM alumni as well as current faculty, students, staff, and administrators. This is volume 37, number 3.

The Current State Of Assessing Historical Thinking: A Literature Analysis, Taylor S. Hamblin

The Nebraska Educator: A Student-Led Journal

In American schools since the mid 2000’s, social studies departments and state departments of education have created goals and updated standards prioritizing critical thinking engagement. Promotion of critical thinking has created a wealth of scholarship on developing a specific type of critical thinking, or cognition, called historical thinking. Imperative to the promotion of teaching historical thinking is in how teachers can assess the inquiries that make it up. Unfortunately, standardized social studies assessments have failed to measure the acquisition of the new historical thinking standards. In order to improve the assessment practices of history teachers, I wish to do two …

New Records Document Cystiphora Sonchi (Vallot) (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) And Associated Parasitoids (Hymenoptera) In The Continental United States, Louis S. Hesler, Michael W. Gates, Eric A. Beckendorf

Insecta Mundi

A gall midge, Cystiphora sonchi (Vallot, 1827) (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae), is reported for the first time in the continental United States of America from the states of Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota. The gall midge is an obligate parasite of Sonchus L., including perennial sowthistle, Sonchus arvensis L., a weed that was the impetus for earlier releases of C. sonchi as a biological control in Canada. Patches of S. arvensis were commonly infested with C. sonchi, and often leaves were densely galled. Dissections of galled leaves led to the novel finding of multiple C. sonchi larvae in some individual …

Comprehensive Plan To Promote Equity, Inclusion, And Anti-Racism At Illinois State University, October 2020, Illinois State University

Master Plan

This report represents a 12-month overview of benchmark accomplishments and plans currently underway to further promote diversity, equity, inclusion, and anti-racism at Illinois State University. The report is organized by “priority action items” that were developed to address concerns raised by student representatives from #AntiBlackISU and other campus constituencies. Those action items focus on policy and practice changes that increase student access to culturally responsive resources and services, best practice strategies to close the opportunity gap among underrepresented students, and strategies to recruit and retain diverse faculty and staff at Illinois State University.

David Douglas School District Enrollment Forecasts 2021-22 To 2040-41, Portland State University. Population Research Center, Charles Rynerson, Mac Cunningham

School District Enrollment Forecast Reports

This report presents a range of three scenarios of district‐wide enrollment forecasts by grade level for the David Douglas School District (DDSD) for the 21 year period between 2019‐20 and 2040‐41. Each enrollment forecast scenario is related to population forecasts that incorporate different assumptions about growth within the District, with the primary differences being the contribution of net migration to the District’s population and age distribution. Individual school forecasts consistent with the middle series are also presented for the 21 year period.

Variation In Risk Of Covid-19 Infection And Predictors Of Social Determinants Of Health In Miami-Dade County, Florida, Imelda K. Moise

All publications

Miami-Dade County zip code-level (N = 91 zip codes) coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases (N = 89,556 as of July 21, 2020) reported from the Florida Department of Health were used to estimate rates of COVID-19 per 1,000 population at the census block group level (N = 1,594 study block groups). To identify associations between rates of COVID-19 infections and multidimensional indexes of social determinants of health (SDOH) across Miami-Dade County, Florida, I applied a global model (ordinary least squares) and a local regression model (geographically weighted regression). Findings indicated that a social disadvantage index positively affected COVID-19 infection rates, …

Illuminated Magazine, School Of Graduate Studies, East Tennessee State University

Illuminated: Graduate Student Research Magazine

From the School of Graduate Studies; When Helping Hurts: An Examination of Repeated Exposure Trauma in First Responders of East Tennessee [Thalia Sullivan, Psychology, Clinical Psychology concentration, PhD]; Where are they now? [Featuring: Carter Florence, DrPH]; The Changing Face of Early Childhood Education in the Time of COVID-19 [Maria Jose Dias, Early Childhood Education, PhD]; Improving Vehicular Intrusion Detection Systems through Knot Flow Classification [David Schmidt, Computer and Information Systems, Applied Computer Science concentration, MS]; Where are they now? [Featuring Randa Dunlap, PhD]; COVID-19 Coping Strategies [Anthony Peluso, DrPH]; 3.5 Million ETSU Theses and Dissertations Downloaded; Analyzing Pass/Fail Rates …

Ex Libris, Fall 2020, West Virginia University Libraries

Ex Libris: The WVU Libraries Magazine

KEEPING EVERYTHING MOVING FORWARD The Libraries helped the University community continue their academic journey and research pursuits during the pandemic.; ACHIEVING SUFFRAGE One hundred years ago, West Virginia legislators met at the State Capitol in Charleston to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which extended voting rights to women; WVRHC RECEIVES FIFTH NEH GRANT TO DIGITIZE HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS So far, the WVRHC has digitized more than 400,000 pages from more than 60 historical West Virginia newspapers.

This Land Is Not Our Land, K-Sue Park

University of Chicago Law Review

“The story of our relationship to the earth is written more truthfully on the land than on the page. It lasts there. The land remembers what we said and what we did.” –Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass 341 (Milk-weed 2013)

“The land and the wealth that began in it still carry the shape of history. . . . The land remembers. But what do we remember of it? Every political contest over claims on the land is, in part, a contest over what will be remembered and what will be forgotten.” –Jedediah Purdy, This Land Is Our Land: The Struggle …

Law School Record, Vol. 67, No. 1 (Fall 2020), Law School Record Editors

Law School Record

• Message from the Dean
• The Unexpected Experiment
• How Covid-19 Could Change the Law
• Law School Welcomes Five New Scholars
• Law School Revises 1L Curriculum
• Building Bridges
• Graduation 2020
• Faculty News
• Development News
• Alumni In Memoriam
• Alumni in Memoriam - Elle D’Amore, ‘22, 1993-2020
• Meet the Class of 2023

Within‐Stand Boundary Effects On Snow Water Equivalent Distribution In Forested Areas, H.P. Marshall

Geosciences Faculty Publications and Presentations

Forested areas exhibit high spatial variability in the distribution of snow water equivalent (SWE). Previous work has focused on forested areas with respect to snow accumulation in adjacent clearings. There is generally less snow in forested areas with greater variability relative to open areas due to the influence of tree canopies. However, the length scale of the transition from open areas to forested conditions is uncertain. Hence, the goal of this paper is to determine the length scales associated with forest boundary effects on SWE accumulation distribution patterns within forest stands. To accomplish this, we utilize a unique ground‐penetrating radar …

Has Anheuser-Busch Let The Steam Out Of Craft Beer? The Economics Of Acquiring Craft Brewers, Kenneth G. Elzinga, Alexander J. Mcglothlin

Institute for the Study of Free Enterprise Working Papers

The craft beer segment in the U.S. has grown from a meager 20 brewers in the 1980s to over 7,000 today and is approaching a 15% market share. Macrobrewers initially responded by internal product differentiation but then began acquiring craft brewers, provoking concerns about the continuing viability of independent, local brewers. We analyze the economic consequences of the most prominent of these acquisitions: the Anheuser-Busch InBev (ABI) purchase of Goose Island in 2011. Using variation in pre-acquisition ABI market share to account for the effects of the distribution tier in the beer industry and the influence of macrobrewers on the …

Ruffner Roots And Ramblings, Vol. 23, Issue 3, Ruffner Family Association

Ruffner Roots & Ramblings

No abstract provided.

Using Age-Adjusted And Crude Rates For Assessing Covid-19 Cases, Priyadarshini Pattath Phd, Mph, Rexford Anson-Dwamena Mph

Virginia Journal of Public Health

Purpose: To assess the difference in crude rates and age-adjusted rates in COVID-19 cases.

Methods: COVID-19 cases in Virginia were obtained from the publicly available dataset as of June 21, 2020. Crude rates of COVID -19 cases were calculated and estimates for the total population of Virginia were age-adjusted to the U.S. Census 2000 population using the direct method.

Results: There was a wide difference between the crude rate and the age-adjusted rate in the different age-groups. The crude rate was highest for the over 80 age group, 1063.93 per 100,000 population. However, the age-adjusted rate was highest in the …

The Burden Of Unintentional Drowning: Global, Regional And National Estimates Of Mortality From The Global Burden Of Disease 2017 Study, Richard Charles Franklin, Amy E. Peden, Erin B. Hamilton, Catherine Bisignano, Chris D. Castle, Zachary V. Dingels, Simon I. Hay, Zichen Liu, Ali H. Mokdad, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta

Woman and Child Health

Background: Drowning is a leading cause of injury-related mortality globally. Unintentional drowning (International Classification of Diseases (ICD) 10 codes W65-74 and ICD9 E910) is one of the 30 mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive causes of injury-related mortality in the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study. This study's objective is to describe unintentional drowning using GBD estimates from 1990 to 2017.
Methods: Unintentional drowning from GBD 2017 was estimated for cause-specific mortality and years of life lost (YLLs), age, sex, country, region, Socio-demographic Index (SDI) quintile, and trends from 1990 to 2017. GBD 2017 used standard GBD methods for estimating mortality …

Burden Of Injury Along The Development Spectrum: Associations Between The Socio-Demographic Index And Disability-Adjusted Life Year Estimates From The Global Burden Of Disease Study 2017, Juanita A. Haagsma, Spencer L. James, Chris D. Castle, Zachary V. Dingels, Jack T. Fox, Erin B. Hamilton, Zichen Liu, Lydia R. Lucchesi, Nicholas L S. Roberts, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta

Woman and Child Health

Background: The epidemiological transition of non-communicable diseases replacing infectious diseases as the main contributors to disease burden has been well documented in global health literature. Less focus, however, has been given to the relationship between sociodemographic changes and injury. The aim of this study was to examine the association between disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) from injury for 195 countries and territories at different levels along the development spectrum between 1990 and 2017 based on the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2017 estimates.
Methods: Injury mortality was estimated using the GBD mortality database, corrections for garbage coding and CODEm-the cause of …