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Methods For Earth-Observing Satellite Surface Reflectance Validation, Moe Talal Badawi

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

In this study an initial validation of the Landsat 8 (L8) Operational Land Imager (OLI) Surface Reflectance (SR) product was performed. The OLI SR product is derived from the L8 Top-of-Atmosphere product via the Landsat Surface Reflectance Code (LaSRC) software and generated by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center. The goal of this study is to develop and evaluate proper validation methodology for the OLI L2 SR product. Validation was performed using near-simultaneous ground truth SR measurements during Landsat 8 overpasses at 13 sites located in the U.S., Brazil, Chile and France. The ground …

The Heliand'S Massacre Of The Innocents: Was The Heliand Written By A Woman?, Isaak Loewen

Undergraduate Student Research Awards

No abstract provided.

2019-10-07 Common Academic Program Committee Minutes, University Of Dayton. Common Academic Program Committee

Common Academic Program Committee Minutes

No abstract provided.

Fighting Means Killing: Civil War Soldiers And The Nature Of Combat, Sam D. Elliott

Civil War Book Review

“War means fighting, and fighting means killing.” Famed Confederate cavalryman Nathan Bedford Forrest’s well-known and brutally concise statement of the essence of war serves to set the theme of Jonathan M. Steplyk’s study of the nature of killing in Civil War combat. Utilizing wartime and postwar accounts of participants, a number of which are quite familiar to Civil War readers, Steplyk analyzes this peculiar and ultimate experience of war from the point of view of the men who were necessarily tasked with killing their erstwhile countrymen.

On Writing And Righting History: The Stakes Of Holocaust Interpretation And Remembrance In Poland And The United States, Noa Gutow-Ellis

Honors Theses

This thesis explores the ways in which American Jews - and Americans more generally, by way of the Americanization of the Holocaust - have come to think about and understand Poland and how Poland has subsequently rejected their narratives. Historically, American Jewish cultural works have placed Poland as a geographic space, nation, and people at the center of stories of Jewish suffering in the Holocaust and World War II. In its quest to right and correct historical misunderstandings, this project looks at the ways Poland has worked to completely revise the historical narrative.

Through tracing historiographies of separateness between Jewish …

ผลการจัดการเรียนรู้ตามแนวคิดเชิงประวัติศาสตร์ที่มีต่อความสามารถในการให้เหตุผลเชิงวิทยาศาสตร์และผลสัมฤทธิ์ทางการเรียนเคมีของนักเรียนมัธยมศึกษาตอนปลาย, ปรารถนา เสือกลั่น

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

การวิจัยนี้เป็นการวิจัยเชิงทดลองศึกษาความสามารถในการให้เหตุผลเชิงวิทยาศาสตร์ และผลของการจัดการเรียนรู้ตามแนวคิดเชิงประวัติศาสตร์ที่มีต่อความสามารถในการให้เหตุผลเชิงวิทยาศาสตร์และผลสัมฤทธิ์ทางการเรียนเคมีของนักเรียน ดำเนินการวิจัยออกเป็น 2 ระยะ คือ ระยะที่ 1 มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อศึกษาความสามารถในการให้เหตุผลเชิงวิทยาศาสตร์ของนักเรียนใช้วิธีการเก็บข้อมูลเชิงคุณภาพ โดยเครื่องมือที่ใช้ในการวิจัยได้แก่แบบวัดความสามารถในการให้เหตุผลเชิงวิทยาศาสตร์ที่มีค่าความเที่ยง 0.89 การวิจัยระยะที่ 2 เป็นการทดลองเบื้องต้นมีวัตถุประสงค์ (1) เพื่อเปรียบเทียบความสามารถในการให้เหตุผลเชิงวิทยาศาสตร์ของนักเรียนระหว่างก่อนและหลังได้รับการจัดการเรียนรู้ตามแนวคิดเชิงประวัติศาสตร์ และ (2) เพื่อเปรียบเทียบผลสัมฤทธิ์ทางการเรียนเคมีของนักเรียนหลังได้รับการจัดการเรียนรู้ตามแนวคิดเชิงประวัติศาสตร์กับเกณฑ์ กลุ่มเป้าหมายในการวิจัยคือ นักเรียนมัธยมศึกษาปีที่ 5 สังกัดสำนักงานคณะกรรมการส่งเสริมการศึกษาเอกชน เขตบางรัก กรุงเทพมหานคร กำลังศึกษาในภาคเรียนที่ 1 ปีการศึกษา 2563 จำนวน 30 คน เครื่องมือที่ใช้ในการวิจัยได้แก่ (1) แบบวัดความสามารถในการให้เหตุผลเชิงวิทยาศาสตร์ที่มีค่าความเที่ยง 0.89 และ(2) แบบวัดผลสัมฤทธิ์ทางการเรียนเคมี เรื่อง กฎของแก๊ส ที่มีค่าความเที่ยงเท่ากับ 0.95 วิเคราะห์ข้อมูลด้วยค่าเฉลี่ยเลขคณิต ส่วนเบี่ยงมาตรฐาน สถิติทดสอบที (t-test) และกำหนดเกณฑ์ผลสัมฤทธิ์ทางการเรียนเคมีโดยใช้คะแนนจุดตัด (Cut-off score) ซึ่งพิจารณาจากสัมประสิทธิ์ฟี (Phi coefficient) ผลการวิจัยสรุปได้ดังนี้ 1. นักเรียนมีคะแนนเฉลี่ยความสามารถในการให้เหตุผลเชิงวิทยาศาสตร์ร้อยละ 27.34 นักเรียนที่มีความสามารถในการให้เหตุผลเชิงวิทยาศาสตร์อยู่ในระดับซับซ้อนบางส่วนสามารถระบุตัวแปรอิสระได้ถูกต้องแต่ยังตั้งคำถามเชิงสาเหตุและตั้งสมมติฐานได้แบบไม่สมบูรณ์ ในขณะที่นักเรียนที่มีความสามารถในการให้เหตุผลเชิงวิทยาศาสตร์อยู่ในระดับซับซ้อนน้อยระบุตัวแปรอิสระไม่ได้ ตั้งคำถามเชิงสาเหตุแบบไม่สมบูรณ์ และตั้งสมมติฐานด้วยประโยคคำถาม 2. หลังเรียนด้วยการจัดการเรียนรู้ตามแนวคิดเชิงประวัติศาสตร์ส่งผลให้นักเรียนมีคะแนนความสามารถในการให้เหตุผลเชิงวิทยาศาสตร์สูงกว่าคะแนนก่อนเรียน อย่างมีนัยสำคัญทางสถิติที่ระดับ .05 3. หลังเรียนด้วยการจัดการเรียนรู้ตามแนวคิดเชิงประวัติศาสตร์ส่งผลให้นักเรียนมีคะแนนผลสัมฤทธิ์ทางการเรียนเคมีหลังเรียนสูงกว่าเกณฑ์ อย่างมีนัยสำคัญทางสถิติที่ระดับ .05

La Voz Winter 2019, El Instituto: Institute Of Latina/O, Caribbean, And Latin American Studies

La Voz

In this issue:

• A Note from Your Librarian
• Learning to be Latino
• Illuminating the Path with Maria Hinojosa
• Robert G. Mead Lecture Series
• Tertulia con Scott Wallace
• Tertulia Con Solsiree del Moral
• The U Turn
• Tinker Spotlight
• Puerto Rican Studies Association

Multicase Historic Studies Of Innovative Work Behavior Among Intellectually Gifted Adults, Karen Denise Gaskins

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

ABSTRACT

This qualitative research study was conducted to examine whether investing in innovation and gifted intelligence would improve America's economic well-being. The investment issue became a problem because educational researchers researched innovation as creativity rather than as productive behavior. Moreover, in the literature, adult giftedness was perceived as negative development rather than as alternate normative behavior. The purpose of this research study was to generate new knowledge about innovation and adult giftedness. WICS (wisdom, intelligence, creativity, synthesized) theory of intelligence provided the theoretical framework because intelligence is a measure of human productivity potential. The neuropsychological conceptual framework facilitated a cognitive …

Stress Preparedness For Law Enforcement Officers Via Academic Training, Matthew Ridgeway Burke

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Most law enforcement officers experience a traumatic event within the first 3 years of duty but may not receive proper mental health training in the police academy to prepare them for a career in law enforcement, and little is understood about police academy training regarding mental health. Using secondary traumatic stress (STS) as a conceptual framework, the purpose of this qualitative study was to understand the perspective of law officers on the usefulness of academy training to prevent or manage mental health issues that may arise from law enforcement duty. Data were collected from 35 law enforcement officers in a …

Bordering Work In Contemporary Political Discourse: The Case Of The Us/Mexico Border Wall Proposal, Angela Garcia

Natural & Applied Sciences Faculty Publications

In this article, I use a critical discourse analytic approach to investigate how President Trump’s campaign goal to build a wall along the US/Mexico border has been discussed in United States political discourse. The data analyzed are 30 videotaped speeches and other public events which occurred between October 2016 and March 2018. These data are publicly available from the cable news channel C-SPAN’s online video archive. The analysis focuses on the communicative techniques and strategies used to persuade others and justify one’s position in the interactions and events studied. In this article, I show how the border wall proposal is …

Tools Of The Master Dyer: Dye Materials In 17th And 18th Century South Asian Painted Cotton Textiles At The Metropolitan Museum Of Art, Sylvia W. Houghteling

History of Art Faculty Research and Scholarship

This article reports on an analysis of the dyes used in painted cotton textiles from seventeenth- and eighteenth-century India in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The purpose of our study was to identify which red dyes were used to produce the textiles, and to determine whether dyers used cheaper substitutes for indigo as dyestuffs. Our findings preliminarily suggest that chay root (Oldenlandia umbellata L.) was not only a dye material used along the Coromandel Coast, but also traveled through overland trade networks for textile dyeing in central India. The results of this analysis contribute to understandings …

Scholarship On And From The Margins: Festschrift In Honor Of Resil B. Mojares, Filomeno V. Aguilar Jr, Michael D. Pante, Carolines S. Hau

History Department Faculty Publications

A motif that runs through the articles in this special double issue in honor of Resil B. Mojares is the fecundity of the geographic and social margins. Mojares himself celebrates the margin as a “good place to be in” for a writer, who, he emphasizes, must not lapse into isolationism and parochialism. The articles in this issue exemplify scholarship from and on the margins, which are expansive in orientation, yielding fresh insights that challenge current interpretations and giving rise to new historiographies.

Book Reviews, James L. Baggett, Mary Jo Fairchild, Ian Franklin, Esther-Julia Howell, Pamela Nye, Sarah Quigley, Laura Starratt

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

Creating a Local History Archive at Your Public Library. Faye Phillips.

Paper Cadavers: The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala. Kirsten Weld.

The Silence of the Archives. David Thomas, Simon Fowler, and Valerie Johnson.

The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts. Joshua Hammer.

The International Business Archives Handbook: Understanding and Managing the Historical Records of Business. Edited by Alison Turton.

Putting Descriptive Standards to Work. Edited by Kris Kiesling and Christopher J. Prom.

Moving Image and Sound Collections for Archivists. Anthony Cocciolo.

Fictitious Commodities: A Theory Of Intellectual Property Inspired By Karl Polanyi’S “Great Transformation”, Alexander Peukert

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

The puzzle this Article addresses is this: how can it be explained that intellectual property (IP) laws and IP rights (IPRs) have continuously grown in number and expanded in scope, territorial reach, and duration, while at the same time have been contested, much more so than other branches of property law? This Article offers an explanation for this peculiar dynamic by applying insights and concepts of Karl Polanyi’s book “The Great Transformation” to IP. It reconstructs and then applies core Polanyian concepts of commodification (infra, II), fictitious commodities (infra, III), and countermovements (infra, IV) to the three main areas of …

The Evolution Of Technology In Call Centers, Julieo Stephen Thompson

CCAC Theses and Dissertations

Historical research was conducted through literature. The report traces the evolution of technology in call centers (CCs) from their early inception to 2018. CCs are integrated into many facets of multidisciplinary areas of business, industry, and public and private institutions of higher education. Three research questions were addressed:

1. What technologies enabled the start of CCs? How did the communications between customers and CSRs take place? What was the content of the earlier communications?
2. How did services and communications evolve as technology matured?
3. What are the current state-of-the-art technologies that exist in CCs? Which industries appear to have the best solutions? …

Twin Text In The Secondary Social Studies And English Classroom, Sarah Booth Quong

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This mixed-method study explores the implementation of Twin Text and its effectiveness in the U.S. History and English classrooms with regard to: mastery of the objectives laid out within the course curriculum, perpetuation of deeper learning, and fostering empathy and civic engagement through the use of Twin Text involving tenth and eleventh grade students and United States History and English teachers. The study answers the following questions: (1) What are the experiences of students in a Twin Text setting classroom environment? Three sub questions emerged: (A) In what ways does cross-curriculum teaching with an English Language Arts instructor affect student …

Investigating Nonstandard Southern American English In Written Sources: A Historical Sociolinguistic Approach To The Tennessee Civil War Veterans Questionnaires, Juliana Norton

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to examine and describe vernacular speech in East Tennessee during the nineteenth-century. This study combines strategies and methodologies from both historical and sociolinguistics to examine dialect in written sources. Specifically, this study utilizes phonological and grammatical data from the Tennessee Civil War Veterans Questionnaires supplemented with data from other written sources to describe East Tennessee vernacular speech. Using both quantitative and qualitative methods, the geographic and social distributions of nonstandard past tense verbs to be and do are analyzed. The findings from this study suggest that nineteenth-century East Tennessee vernacular speech of white men …

Lobbying Against The Odds, Kirsten Matoy Carlson

Law Faculty Research Publications

No abstract provided.

Nightmares Born Of Dreams: Eugenics In Illinois, John Burke

Undergraduate Honors Theses

No abstract provided.

Proceedings Of Expert Forum On First Nations Social Assistance Reform, September 3, 2019, Naiomi Metallic, Fred Wien

Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press

Social assistance, whether directed to the mainstream population or to First Nations, is not – according to Forum participants -- a sexy topic. Specifically, with respect to First Nation persons living on reserve in Canada, it has been largely a neglected field except for those directly responsible for administering it. Despite its substantive importance, it has not received a lot of attention from the academic research community, for example, nor is it usually near the top of the list of priorities for political leaders and governments.

Why is this the case? Perhaps it has to do with the history of …

“Country Faggots” Are Everywhere: Gay And Lesbian Life In Rural America, Katie Taylor

Undergraduate Honors Theses

This thesis will challenge many scholarly works that define being “out” and visibility as the ultimate expression of gay resistance. To define outness as the ultimate expression of resistance is to erase a group of people who did not have the privilege of always being able to be out and any contributions they made towards LGBT resistance. When studying LGBT resistance, it is important to acknowledge the necessity of political resistance, but that does not mean that other forms of resistance should be ignored. To analyze the importance of LGBT resistance outside of the public sphere means to re-examine the …

Assessing Adler: The Weight Of Constitutional History And The Future Of Religious Freedom, Benjamin Berger

Articles & Book Chapters

This article approaches Adler v. Ontario as a distinctively useful perch from which to survey the history and future of the constitutional interaction of law and religion. The case is positioned at a provocative place in the arc of the development of this interaction and the article uses the reasons in Adler to expose and explore some themes that shape not only our religion jurisprudence, but Canadian constitutionalism more generally. The article begins by examining what the majority's heavy reliance on religion's place in constitutional history suggests about the competing logics at work in Canadian constitutional life. That discussion leads …

Carrying Little Sticks: Is There A ‘Deterrence Gap’ In Employment Standards Enforcement In Ontario, Canada?, Eric Tucker, Leah F. Vosko, Rebecca Casey, Mark Thomas, John Grundy, Andrea M. Noack

Articles & Book Chapters

This article assesses whether a deterrence gap exists in the enforcement of the Ontario Employment Standards Act (ESA), which sets minimum conditions of employment in areas such as minimum wage, overtime pay and leaves. Drawing on a unique administrative data set, the article measures the use of deterrence in Ontario’s ESA enforcement regime against the role of deterrence within two influential models of enforcement: responsive regulation and strategic enforcement. The article finds that the use of deterrence is below its prescribed role in either model of enforcement. We conclude that there is a deterrence gap in Ontario.

The Nature Of David's Kingship At Hebron: An Exegetical And Theological Study Of 2 Samuel 2:1-5:5, Christian Vogel

Dissertations

The account of David’s reign at Hebron found in 2 Samuel 2:1—5:5 constitutes a somewhat neglected, yet crucial part of the David narrative, chronicling David’s first years as king. This dissertation investigates these chapters by means of a close reading of the Hebrew text in order to gain a better understanding of the nature of David’s kingship as it is presented in this literary unit. The review of scholarly literature on 2 Samuel 2:1—5:5 conducted in Chapter 1 reveals that not much attention has been given to a careful and in-depth exegesis of this literary unit. Instead, most of the …

Investigating The Use Of Passive Acoustics As A Surrogate Method Of Monitoring Coarse Bedload Transport In Rivers And Streams Via Laboratory Experiments And Field Studies, Bradley Goodwiller

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The movement of coarse gravel in rivers in streams is important for many applications including wildlife habitation, river morphology, infrastructure maintenance and marine navigation. Physical sampling remains the most accurate method of determining coarse bedload transport but it can be expensive, dangerous and flow intrusive. Surrogate methods of monitoring bedload transport is an active area of research worldwide. One such method is the use of passive acoustics to record the sound generated when gravel particles in motion impact each other or the particles on the bed. This dissertation presents research and development that has been conducted on three key areas …

Dual Portraits Of The Deceased In Yangqiaopan M1, Jingbian, Shaanxi, Leslie V. Wallace

Visual Arts

Murals decorating an Eastern Han tomb excavated in Jingbian, Shaanxi include two large-scale representations of the deceased who appears in a processional scene on the left front wall of the tomb wearing typical Han elite dress, and then again on the rear wall in a regional version of a spirit seat (lingwei) composition, clean-shaven and donning a hairstyle uncommon in Han mortuary art. This paper considers these depictions in terms of Han pictorial conventions and argues that they are dual portraits of the deceased in which different attributes of his political, social, and cultural identity are stressed.

Mass Incarceration Paradigm Shift?: Convergence In An Age Of Divergence, Mugambi Jouet

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

The peculiar harshness of modern American justice has led to a vigorous scholarly debate about the roots of mass incarceration and its divergence from humanitarian sentencing norms prevalent in other Western democracies. Even though the United States reached virtually world-record imprisonment levels between 1983 and 2010, the Supreme Court never found a prison term to be “cruel and unusual punishment” under the Eighth Amendment. By countenancing extreme punishments with no equivalent elsewhere in the West, such as life sentences for petty recidivists, the Justices’ reasoning came to exemplify the exceptional nature of American justice. Many scholars concluded that punitiveness had …

Public Morality And Ethno-Religious Chauvinism In Nigerian: Why History Matters, Bright Alozie, Ngozika Anthonia Obi-Ani

Black Studies Faculty Publications and Presentations

Indubitably, history is a branch of knowledge which stretches way back to the beginning of time in human civilization and ipso facto, contributes to the shaping of a society’s past and future as well. As Marcus Mosiah Garvey (1887-1940) puts it, a people without the knowledge of the past History, origin and culture is like a tree without roots. Therefore, since development is a product of change, and the subject matter of history focuses on continuity and change, it follows that development can only be understood and appreciated within the context of history. This article examines the relevance of history …

School-Based Social Work And Socioemotional Learning Interventions In Alternative Education Programs, Heather Oosterhoff

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Active school social workers are tasked with teaching social-emotional learning to students, including high need youth placed in alternative education settings. Multitiered systems of support provide a framework utilized by school systems to identify and address all student needs. However, a gap in research exists for evidenced-based social-emotional learning practices for students falling within Tier 3 of the multitiered systems of support framework, particularly those separated from the mainstream population and educated in alternative programs. This study explored how school social workers address the social-emotional learning needs of students in alternative education settings within the state of Illinois. The qualitative …

Identity, Spectacle, And Embodiment In Social Protest, Craig Alan Crowder

Theses and Dissertations--English

This dissertation examines the way rhetorical performances of identity function within a social movement. Examining the University of Kentucky chapter of a campus activist organization, United Students Against Sweatshops, I argue that embodied performances of identity often leverage spectacle in disruptive ways and work not only to solidify activists’ identities as part of a social movement but ultimately help to create solidarity within the movement, thereby working toward movement objectives. Historically under-examined in social movement literature in the rhetoric and composition tradition, identity performance examples are taken from an oral history project and archival materials to show how identity is …