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Grow Your Own Teacher Programs: A Qualitative Study Of Best Practices To Address The Teacher Shortage, Jack August Harris

Dissertations

Teacher shortages have motivated school districts and state educational agencies to focus on targeted teacher recruitment strategies as a means to mitigate the crisis (Sutcher, Darling-Hammond, & Carver-Thomas, 2016). One specific strategy, Grow Your Own Teacher programs, involves recruiting and developing future teachers from within the local community (MODESE, 2019). While a significant body of research exists about this topic, many districts and state organizations are left to determine what specific program practices best meet their needs. This qualitative study included an analysis of the perceptions of participants and key personnel of Grow Your Own Teacher programs to determine best …

The Eleventh Auer: The Effect Of Kisor V. Wilkie On Rulemaking And Adjudication At The United States Patent And Trademark Office, Andrew Schneider, Jonathan Stroud

Chicago-Kent Journal of Intellectual Property

Courts have long deferred to an agency’s interpretation of an ambiguous rule or statute, in light of the agency’s relevant technical expertise. But some judges prefer that Article III courts review everything; and deferring often involves relying on an agency’s interpretation of a genuinely ambiguous statute—the oft-discussed Chevron deference doctrine. This Article analyzes the more nuanced Auer deference, where a court defers to an agency’s later interpretation of its own ambiguous rule or regulation. Recently, the Supreme Court took and decided Kisor v. Wilkie, which dramatically modified the Auer doctrine. While Kisor appealed a claim for veteran’s benefits that implicated …

Zero Energy Buildings As An Approach For Sustainable Urban Development In The Egyptian Desert., Safa Abolsaad, Mohammed Elmakawy

Mansoura Engineering Journal

The high people concentration of Egypt in area not exceeds by 6% from the area of Egypt has led to many, environmental, economic, and social problems. Therefore, establishment of sustainable urban development in Egyptian desert out of the crowded valley seems obligation or what we can call no choice. Due to the harsh nature of desert, these sustainable urban developments need big amount of energy to operate it. Egypt as one of the developing countries faces many crisis of energy production which eliminate establishment of these sustainable urban development. In the recent years, the concept of zero energy buildings has …

Pemberdayaan Masyarakat Di Kampung Kota Melalui Festival Seni Kontemporer: Studi Kasus Kampung Bustaman, Semarang, Poeti Nazura Gulfira Akbar

Jurnal Sosial Humaniora Terapan

No abstract provided.

Wmu Board Of Trustees Formal Session June 25, 2020, Wmu Board Of Trustees

WMU Board of Trustees Meetings

• Acceptance of the Agenda
• Approval of the Minutes (April 23, 2020 and May 26, 2020 Meetings)
• Remarks by the Chair
• Remarks by the President
• Comments by the Faculty Senate President
• Comments by the Western Student Association President
• Comments by the Graduate Student Association President
• Presentation - WMU’s Investment in the Future – Academic Tenure and Promotion
• Public Comments Regarding Action Items
• Action Items
• Academic Tenure and Promotion
• Board of Trustees Assistant Treasurer Election
• International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees Labor Agreement
• General Fund Budget, Fiscal Year 2020-2021
• Student Room, Board, and Apartment Rates (Dynamic Pricing Strategy)
• Interim Sexual and Gender-Based …

The Impact Of Entrepreneurship On Economic Performance In Indonesia, Yohanes Kadarusman

Economics and Finance in Indonesia

Entrepreneurship is claimed to have a positive and significant effect on economic growth in developed countries, but less so in developing countries. Using the growth model, this study examines the impact of entrepreneurship on economic performance in Indonesia as indicated by economic growth and income per-capita from 1985 to 2017. The estimation result confirms the non-significant effect of the growth of entrepreneurial ventures on the growth of GDP per-capita. However, the accumulation of the ventures has a positive and significant effect on the level of GDP per capita. The different typology of entrepreneurial ventures in Indonesia provides some insight to …

Water Environment Comprehensive Forewarning For Waterlogged Area In Huainan Based On Weber-Fechner Law, Pei Wenming, Zhang Hui, Ju Changhua, Yao Suping, Ren Yongle, Ma Mengxiao, Qiu Kuanbiao

Coal Geology & Exploration

In area with high groundwater level in the east of China, long-time underground coal mining results in a large subsidence water area on the surface. The risk of water environment pollution in subsidence waters is increasing gradually with the influence of human activities. According to Weber-Fisher law, this paper took Panji waterlogged area of Huainan as the research object, selected the water quality evaluation indexes closely related to the water environment of the waterlogged area, analyzed the water environmental conditions of the waterlogged area in different periods, and quantitatively reflected the time and the area of the water environment quality …

Issue 351: June 25-July 9, 2020, The Local Voice

The Local Voice

No abstract provided.

Tyler Keith Earns M.F.A. Degree, Rebecca Lauck Cleary

Blog Posts

Written By Rebecca Lauck Cleary As a musician, Tyler Keith's love of music was bound to be a part of his graduate studies. During his time in the Master of Fine Arts in Documentary Expression program, he looked at the intersection of gospel and blues in the North Mississippi Hill Country and how locality is a part of the music.

The Influence Of The Sensual Environment Of The Urban Space On The Users., Esraa Mashaly, Nanees Elsayad, Lamis El-Gizawy

Mansoura Engineering Journal

The paper explores the relationship between People and the architectural spaces they occupy; understanding the occupants'' impressions while meeting their surrounding environment. In the first place, the relation between human senses and architecture was studied, as the senses are the tools that relate people to the outer environment. The study was then improved through studying the human personality, feelings and people''s impression not to be restricted only on sensations. The study then focuses on the awareness of architectural space using the philosophical field of Phenomenology. Any object, event or experience which a person can see, hear, touch, smell, taste, feel …

Long Lived Second Mode Internal Solitary Waves In The Andaman Sea, J.M. Magalhaes, J.C.B. Da Silva, Maarten C. Buijsman

Faculty Publications

Internal waves are density oscillations propagating along the ocean’s inner stratification, which are now acknowledged as a key constituent of the ocean’s dynamics. They usually result from barotropic tides, which flow over bottom topography, causing density oscillations to propagate along the pycnocline with a tidal frequency (i.e. internal tides). These large-scale waves propagate away from their forcing bathymetry and frequently disintegrate into nonlinear short-scale (higher-frequency) internal wave packets. Typically, short-scale internal wave observations in the ocean are associated with vertical structures (in the water column) of the lowest fundamental mode. Higher vertical modes have recently been documented as well, but …

Development Of A Benthic Foraminifera Based Marine Biotic Index (Foram-Ambi) For The Gulf Of Mexico: A Decision Support Tool, Bryan O'Malley

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The Gulf of Mexico (GoM) is an economically important region (e.g. oil and gas, fisheries) and with the expansion of oil drilling, harmful algal bloom events, oil blowouts, dead zones, anthropogenic eutrophication and contaminant loading, it is important that the ecological quality statuses (EcoQS) of different localities in the Gulf are closely monitored. The EcoQS, as implemented by the European Water Framework Directive, is an effective tool for monitoring ecological health and developing reference conditions. One such index used to define EcoQS is the AZTI Marine Biotic Index (AMBI), which pairs species abundance with environmental stressors. Benthic foraminifera are ideal …

The Beast And The Revival Of Rome: Mussolini And Rome In The Premillennial Imagination, Jon Stamm

Theses and Dissertations

Premillennial dispensationalism became immensely influential among American Protestants who saw themselves as defenders of orthodoxy. As theological conflict heated up in the early 20th century, dispensationalism’s unique eschatology became one of the characteristic features of the various strands of “fundamentalists” who fought against modernism and the perceived compromises of mainline Protestantism. Their embrace of the dispensationalist view of history and Biblical prophecy had a significant effect on how they interpreted world events and how they lived out their faith. These fundamentalists established patterns of interpretation that in the second half of the 20th century would fuel the emergence of a …

Found Poetry: Building Bridges In The Classroom, Samina Hadi-Tabassum

Michigan Reading Journal

No abstract provided.

What's Right With Gavin? Examining Literacy Practices Of A Neurodiverse Youth From An Ethics Of Care Perspective, Kristen L. White

Michigan Reading Journal

No abstract provided.

(أبعاد الوعى المکانی والأمانی اللازمة لمقررات الدراسات الاجتماعیة بالمرحلة الابتدائیة بمدارس النور للمکفوفین (دراسة تقییمی, محمد عید فارس

Sohag Journal of Education المجلة التربوية بسوهاج

تعد التربیة الأمانیة من مجالات التربیة الفعالة التی تسعى إلى إکساب المعاقین العدید من المعارف، والمهارات، والسلوکیات اللازمة التی تساعدهم على القیام بالأنشطة فى أمان دون تعرضهم للأخطار. (وفاء یوسف حمدى، 2013). ونظراً لأن المعاق یوجه کل نشاطه وطاقته عند إکتشافه للبیئة من حوله.مما قد یعرضه للأخطار ، وذلک لما تتسم به أسالیبه من إلحاق الضرر بالذات، وبالأخرین . لذا فإن تحقیق الوعى الأمانی للمعاق یعد أمراً مهماً ، ویتم ذلک من خلال تقدیم المعلومات وتنمیة المهارات اللازمة له التى تساعده على تحقیق الأمان حتى یتعرف کیف یحافظ على سلامته وحیاته . (رانیا العربى ، 2014، ص 550). ویستلزم تنمیة …

How The Law Fails Tenants (And Not Just During A Pandemic), Sarah Schindler, Kellen Zale

Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, all levels of government are considering how to protect public health by keeping people in their homes, even if they can no longer afford their monthly mortgage or rent payments. The protections that have emerged thus far have been far more protective of homeowners than renters. This essay exposes how the disparity in legal protections for these two groups is not unique to this pandemic. Rather, the crisis has merely uncovered longstanding, deep-rooted patterns within legal doctrines, governmental programs, and public policies that bestow favorable treatment upon homeowners at the expense of renters. …

Trace Element Deficiency Is Highly Prevalent And Associated With Infection And Mortality In Patients With Alcoholic Hepatitis, Ashwin Dhanda, Stephen Atkinson, Nikhil Vergis, Doyo Enki, Andrew Fisher, Robert Clough, Matthew Cramp, Mark Thursz

Peninsula Medical School

No abstract provided.

A Heart Of Gold

DePaul Magazine

An interview with alumnus, retired insurance executive and DePaul Life Trustee Bertram ("Bert") Scott, chairman of the American Heart Association (AHA). He hopes to help focus attention on the social determinants of health, increase research, address vaping illnesses and foster diversity communities to get involved with the AHA.

Perceptions Of Stakeholders About The Role Of Health System In Suicide Prevention In Ghizer, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan, Anila Anjum, Tazeen S. Ali, Nousheen Pradhan, Murad M. Khan Dr., Rozina Karmaliani Professor

Community Health Sciences

Background: Suicide is a serious global public health problem, with more than 800,000 people dying by suicide worldwide every year. 79% of suicides happen in Low and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs), where lack of national suicide prevention programs coupled with inadequate MH facilities for early identification and treatment of mental disorders add to seriousness of the problems. Although there is paucity of research, studies suggest that the rate of suicide in district Ghizer, Gilgit-Baltistan (GB), in northern Pakistan may be higher compared to rest of the country.
Methods: This study aimed to explore the perceptions of stakeholders about the role of …

Supporting Disaster Resilience Spatial Thinking With Serious Geogames: Project Lily Pad, Brian Tomaszewski, Amy Walker, Emily Gawlik, Casey Lane, Scott William, Deborah Orieta, Claudia Mcdaniel, Matthew Plummer, Anushka Nair, Nicolas San Jose, Kyle Pecsok, Emma Thomley, Erin Mahoney, Emily Haberlack, David Schwartz

Articles

The need for improvement of societal disaster resilience and response efforts was evident after the destruction caused by the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season. We present a novel conceptual framework for improving disaster resilience through the combination of serious games, geographic information systems (GIS), spatial thinking, and disaster resilience. Our framework is implemented via Project Lily Pad, a serious geogame based on our conceptual framework, serious game case studies, interviews and real-life experiences from 2017 Hurricane Harvey survivors in Dickinson, TX, and an immersive hurricane-induced flooding scenario. The game teaches a four-fold set of skills relevant to spatial thinking and disaster …

Anthropogenically Expedited Transit Reduces Organic Carbon Loss In The Lower Mississippi River: Dataset, Zhixiong Shen, Brad E. Rosenheim, Torbjörn E. Törnqvist, Andreas Lang

College of Science Data Sets

This dataset presents data to investigate the change of organic carbon carried by the Lower Mississippi River (LMR) related to river engineering. The dataset includes (1) OSL data, (2) 14C data; (3) the channel centerline of the LMR in the 1970s, (4) the channel centerline of the LMR in 2019, and (5) the migration rates of the LMR between the 1970s and 2019.

This Moment In America: A Southern Studies Resource List, Rebecca Lauck Cleary

Blog Posts

On Friday, June 5, the Center published a letter to former, current, and incoming students, in the aftermath of the recent injustices resulting in the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd. In the letter we asked our students to "think seriously about ways in which [they] might become agents of change, using [their] training across the disciplines of sociology, cultural anthropology, history, politics, geography, literature, religion, economics, and documentary method to challenge the ideas behind prejudice and systemic social inequality, most immediately, those that make particular sectors of American society targets of racial violence and grossly inadequate …

Patterns Of Blown-Sand Hazard Control For Traffic Arteries In China And Its Application, Li Shengyu, Lei Jiaqiang, Xu Xinwen, Qu Jianjun, Ren Hongjing

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

Highways and railways are important infrastructures of land transportation. The blown-sand hazard control of traffic arteries in sandy areas has always been one important issue in the national economy and society. In view of the characteristics of aeolian environment and the demand for safe operation of traffic arteries, China has carried out a large number of sand hazard control experiment and practices mainly on technology innovation of materials, measures, comprehensive system, maintenance, summed up four configuration patterns of sand control system, and created some patterns of sand hazard control technology for desert traffic arteries in different aeolian environments with Chinese …

Stable Restoration Pattern And Sustainable Management Technology Of Main Dominant Vegetation In Typical Desert Areas Of China, Zeng Fanjiang, Zhang Wenjun, Liu Guojun, Zhang Daoyuan, Li Xiangyi, Zhang Lei, Yuan Limin, Zhang Ximing

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

In this study, we systematically researched and comprehensively analyzed dominant plants in typical deserts in China, including Tarim Basin, Junggar Basin, Horqin Sandy land, and Hunshandak Sandy land, and revealed the characteristics of stress adaptation and stable restoration of dominant vegetation, and proposed the sustainable management technology of vegetation. The results are shown as the followings. (1) Desert plant roots remain connected to underground diving or soil capillary water. It is of great significance to maintain reasonable ecological water use and stable groundwater table for the restoration and conservation of dominant woody plants in these regions. (2) The shallow soil …

Ritthe Contributions Of Traffic Management Centers In Life Enhancement, Mohammed Hamdan Khalifeh

Theses

This study focuses on investigating the contributions of traffic management centers to enhancing people’s driving experiences and impacting their level of satisfaction and happiness. Data was collected in the United Arab Emirates through two distinct surveys; the first aimed at drivers (number of respondents: 155), and the second aimed at traffic management center operators (number of respondents: 15). The drivers survey aimed to collect data about drivers’ pain points experienced while driving in the United Arab Emirates and showed that slow drivers on fast lanes and sudden lane changing are the biggest challenges reported. On the operators’ side, the data …

State Atrophy And The Reconfiguration Of Borderlands In Syria And Iraq: Post-2011 Dynamics, Harout Akdedian, Harith Hasan

International & Global Studies Faculty Publications and Presentations

Circumstances in the MENA region invite us to redirect our attention to geographic areas that emerged as primary sites of power-contest. This paper looks into emerging trends in the unraveling of bounded sovereign territoriality in borderlands by examining the contest over military, economic, and socio-political spaces in the wake of the devolution of the monopoly of violence and the rise of a multitude of new and old actors to local prominence. Since 2011, borderlands in the MENA region transformed into considerable sites of contested power by a plethora of actors. The paper points out emergent patterns of deterritorialization and reterritorialization …

China's Combating Desertification: National Solutions And Global Paradigm, Lu Qi, Lei Jiaqiang, Li Xiaosong, Yang Youlin, Wang Feng

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

Desertification, since initial recognition in 1927 and common definition in 1992, through its vicissitudes, is still one of the serious global environmental issues face the world and exists as the bottleneck of the development. Desertification threats the terrestrial ecological security and limits the sustainability of socio-economic development. In consideration of the impacts of desertification, an "Earth Cancer" and a persistent disease, the authors contribute four prescriptions of "good medicines" for the global initiatives to combat desertification, on the basic framework of Chinese strategies and experiences of "four horizontal beams and eight pillars", in line with the 15.3 goal of Sustainable …

Progress On Sandy Desertification Research And Future Combating Idea In Tibet, China, Yang Ping, Wei Xinghu, Dong Yuxiang, Li Sen

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

The problem of sandy desertification in Tibet is one of important regions of desertification research in China, the important progresses in the research on sandy desertification in Tibet in recent thirty years are concluded in the paper, such as finding out the status and characteristics of spatial and temporal change in recent years of sandy desertification in Tibet as well as its driving factors, establishing the theoretical system of sandy desertification in Tibet including the classification system of sandy desertification land and geological-historical evolutionary process of sandy desertification as well as the features of river valley aeolian landform in Tibet, …

Technology Progress Of Sand Industry Based On Desertification Control Engineering By Revegetation: Case Study On Cistanche Plantation, Fan Jinglong, Li Bingwen, Xu Xinwen, Li Shengyu

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

The connotation of "sand industry" is to utilize the desert resources in the process of prevention and control of desertification effectively, and expand the space of energy-saving green agricultural industry. This paper overviews the technological advances about Cistanche deserticola planting industry, introduces the development trend of Cistanche deserticola industry and advanced planting technology especially, analyzes and estimates economic benefits of Cistanche deserticola planting, finally, views the application and popularization perspective of Cistanche deserticola planting technologically.