Digital Commons Network^™

Sustainable Shift: Analyzing Drivers For Low-Carbon Transportation Adoption In California’S Heavy-Duty And Off-Road Sectors, Vuban Chowdhury, Farzana Mehzabin Tuli, Suman Kumar Mitra

Civil Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

The transportation sector stands out as a major challenge for California’s transition to a more sustainable transportation system, as it accounts for most of the greenhouse gas emissions. This underscores the urgency for government agencies to take decisive action in promoting the adoption of low-carbon transportation (LCT) within the heavy-duty vehicle (HDV) and off-road equipment (ORE) sectors. This study employs content analysis to investigate the impact of behavioral factors, specifically awareness and impression, on LCT adoption within these sectors. The analysis results are refined using a generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool. The results indicate that awareness about LCT, in conjunction …

Commognitive Conflicts In A Virtual Learning Environment: Exploring The Affordances Of Mobile Learning For Discourse Analysis, Mark N. Cumayas, Maria Alva Q. Aberin

Mathematics Faculty Publications

This paper explores the affordances of mobile learning in developing frameworks for discourse analysis. Specifically, this paper examines the commognitive analysis of classroom discourses in virtual learning environments (VLEs) and how it resolves the challenges of discourse analysis in face-to-face (F2F) settings. With the ongoing social turn of mathematics education research comes the widespread adoption of discourse analysis in educational research. The shift towards virtual learning technologies necessitated by the recent COVID-19 crisis has led to the development of various tools and processes that enable the teaching-learning process to occur in the virtual environment. While the initial drive to adapt …

Phenomenological Inquiry Into Middle School Teachers’ Perception Of Creativity, Katalin Grajzel

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Researchers do agree that creativity is an ability that can be developed and should be fostered (Guilford, 1958; Parnes, 1961). Teachers play an important role in creativity development and often serve as gatekeepers to identify gifted and talented students (Bianco et al., 2011; Novak & Jones, 2021; Schack & Starko, 1990). However, teachers’ judgment of their students’ creativity often only correlates weakly with the results of creativity measures (Kettler et al., 2018; Torrance, 1963). Therefore, in this study I explored teachers’ perception of creativity and creative students as well as factors that support or hinder creativity. The findings revealed that …

Iowa Waste Reduction Center Newsletter, March 2024, University Of Northern Iowa. Iowa Waste Reduction Center.

Iowa Waste Reduction Center Newsletter

Contents:

--- Contractor Training Heat Pump Summit
--- Enhancements to Paint Tracker
--- National SBEAP Conference Blog
--- Library Composting Workshop in Dayton
--- Important Reminders & Events
--- Industry News

Applications Of Information Literacy To Teaching Independent Music Analysis, Katrina Roush

Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy

Undergraduate and graduate music students learn many tools beneficial for music analysis, and they practice applying these tools to music in their music theory classes. However, they often struggle to perform useful analysis on their own without the guidance of an instructor. They can have trouble understanding that analysis should communicate their personal interpretation of a work, and they may not realize that independent analysis usually requires some preparatory work (analytical research),such as discovering if others have analyzed the work and learning new analytical methods. This article shows that there is a strong connection between various steps in the music-analytical …

Report On The 2023 Workshops In Music Theory Pedagogy At The University Of British Columbia, Jason Yin Hei Lee, Kaylee Therieau

Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy

No abstract provided.

Young Scientists And Philosophers On The Border, Deepanwita Dasgupta, Jules Simon

Young Scientists and Philosophers on the Border

No abstract provided.

Assessing Psychometric Predictors Of Academic And Life Success For High School Students In A Stem-Based Program In Rural Alabama, Robin Bartlett, Alan Mckendall, Sherron Mckendall, Paige Johnson, Ann Chester

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

The Health Sciences and Technology Academy of Alabama (HSTA-AL) is an academic program focused on health sciences enrichment offered through the College of Nursing at the University of Alabama to address the state’s nursing and biomedical professionals shortage (i.e., a 10:1,000 nursing to population ratio). This paper examines outcomes addressing social, academic, and life success from the participants’ perspective. The one-sample-pretest-posttest designed study evaluated whether there was a difference between baseline and year 1 levels of community engagement and academic intentions for the 23 students for which paired data were obtained. Analyses show promising outcomes from baseline to year one …

Reviewing School District And Caregiver Engagement: Toward Building Capacity To Serve English Learners, Emily Howell, Rebecca Kaminski, Tobi Pirolla

Publications

The authors conducted a comprehensive literature review of school district partnerships with caregivers of ELs to inform this project design. This literature review addresses the following research question: What are the needs of caregivers of ELs in K-12 schools, and how are school partnerships supporting these caregivers? This literature review will address these gaps and overcoming EL caregiver underrepresentation by discussing seven focused and three theoretical codes drawn from a comprehensive review of 21 articles.

Toi-2266 B: A Keystone Super-Earth At The Edge Of The M Dwarf Radius Valley, H. Parviainen, F. Murgas, E. Esparza-Borges, A. Peláez-Torres, E. Palle, R. Luque, M. R. Zapatero-Osorio, J. Korth, A. Fukui, N. Narita, K. A. Collins, V. J. S. Béjar, G. Morello, M. Monelli, N. Abreu Garcia, G. Chen, N. Crouzet, J. P. De Leon, K. Isogai, T. Kagetani, K. Kawauchi, P. Klagyivik, T. Kodama, N. Kusakabe, J. H. Livingston, P. Meni, M. Mori, G. Nowak, M. Tamura, Y. Terada, N. Watanabe, D. R. Ciardi, M. B. Lund, J. L. Christiansen, C. D. Dressing, S. Giacalone, A. B. Savel, L. Hirsch, S. G. Parsons, P. Brown, K. I. Collins, K. Barkaoui, M. Timmermans, M. Ghachoui, A. Soubkiou, Z. Benkhaldoun, S. Mcdermott, T. Pritchard, P. Rowden, S. Striegel, T. Gan, K. Horne, Eric L.N. Jensen, R. P. Schwarz, A. Shporer, G. Srdoc, S. Seager, J. N. Winn, J. M. Jenkins, G. Ricker, R. Vanderspek, D. Dragomir

Physics & Astronomy Faculty Works

We validate the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) object of interest TOI-2266.01 (TIC 8348911) as a small transiting planet (most likely a super-Earth) orbiting a faint M5 dwarf (V = 16.54) on a 2.33 d orbit. The validation is based on an approach where multicolour transit light curves are used to robustly estimate the upper limit of the transiting object's radius. Our analysis uses SPOC-pipeline TESS light curves from Sectors 24, 25, 51, and 52, simultaneous multicolour transit photometry observed with MuSCAT2, MuSCAT3' and HiPERCAM, and additional transit photometry observed with the LCOGT telescopes. TOI-2266 b is found to …

Toi-1994b: A Low-Mass Eccentric Brown Dwarf Transiting A Subgiant Star, E. Page, J. Pepper, D. Wright, J. E. Rodriguez, R. A. Wittenmyer, S. R. Kane, B. Addison, T. Bedding, B. P. Bowler, T. Barclay, K. A. Collins, P. Evans, J. Horner, Eric L.N. Jensen, M. C. Johnson, J. Kielkopf, I. Mireles, P. Plavchan, S. N. Quinn, S. Seager, A. Shporer, K. G. Stassun, S. Striegal, J. N. Winn, G. Zhou, C. Ziegler

Physics & Astronomy Faculty Works

We present the discovery of TOI-1994b, a low-mass brown dwarf transiting a hot subgiant star on a moderately eccentric orbit. TOI-1994 has an effective temperature of 7700 +720/-410 K, V magnitude of 10.51 mag and log(g) of 3.982 +0.067/-0.065. The brown dwarf has a mass of 22.1 +2.6/-2.5 M_J, a period of 4.034 days, an eccentricity of 0.341 +0.054/-0.059, and a radius of 1.220 +0.082/-0.071 R_J. TOI-1994b is more eccentric than other transiting brown dwarfs with similar masses and periods. The population of low-mass brown dwarfs may have properties similar to planetary systems …

Educational Policies Committee Agenda March 7, 2024, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

• Approval of Minutes – February 1, 2024
• Subcommittee Reports
• Curriculum Subcommittee (Chad Simon)
• Program Proposals
• Academic Standards Subcommittee (Renee Galliher)
• General Education Subcommittee (Matt Sanders)
• Other Business
• Adjourn: 4:00 pm

2024 Diversity Climate Survey Report, Illinois Math And Science Academy

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Resources

No abstract provided.

Acer’S Mathematics Anxiety And Engagement Strategy (Maes): A Framework, Sarah Buckley, Kate Reid, Catherine Pearn, Shani Sniedze

Student learning processes

The Mathematics Anxiety and Engagement Strategy (MAES) was established by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) in 2018 in response to declining mathematics achievement and participation among Australian students. Findings from the 2022 cycle of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) show that 15-year-old students in Australia had significantly lower levels of mathematical literacy than students in 2003 (De Bortoli et al, 2023). The 2022 results also showed that male students outperformed female students and only 30 percent of students from more disadvantaged backgrounds achieved the National Proficient Standard in mathematics compared to 72 percent of students from …

Wofford Today Spring 2024, Wofford College. Office Of Marketing And Communications

Wofford Today

No abstract provided.

In The Midst Of Bankruptcy: How Cryptocurrency's Classification Affects Creditors Who Were Once Customers, Mia Qu

Washington Law Review

In 2022, Congress proposed the Digital Commodities Consumer Protection Act to amend the Commodity Exchange Act and define a new type of commodity: digital commodity. The definition of digital commodity encompasses cryptocurrency and provides the Commodity Futures Trading Commission with jurisdiction over digital asset transactions. This definition of digital commodity has two important implications. First, it signals the lawmakers’ tendency to generalize cryptocurrency as a commodity. Second, it brings complications into how creditors—especially individual crypto account holders—can recover in the recent bankruptcy cases involving prominent crypto companies. This Comment contains four components. First, it provides a brief explanation of cryptocurrency …

A Refined Framework For Qualitative Content Analysis Of Mathematics Textbooks, Fereshteh Zeynivandnezhad, Ipek Saralar-Aras, Anjum Halai

Office of the Provost

Within the realm of mathematics education, the examination of textbooks has emerged as a focal point of scholarly investigation. This endeavor necessitates the development of a comprehensive instrument capable of facilitating both qualitative and quantitative textbook analysis. To address this need, we draw upon a corpus of seminal studies, and supplement our analysis with local research reports that assess the quality of mathematics textbooks through a qualitative content analysis approach. Content analysis was utilized to examine the documents and identify the themes relevant to the analysis of mathematics textbooks. Our data analysis revealed the identification of six overarching themes for …

Prolonged Vase Life By Salicylic Acid Treatment And Prediction Of Vase Life Using Petal Color Senescence Of Cut Lisianthus, Hye Sook Kwon, Cody Leporini, Steven Kim, Seong Heo

Mathematics and Statistics Faculty Publications and Presentations

This study investigated the effects of exogenous salicylic acid (SA) concentrations (0, 0.1, 0.3, or 0.5 mM), treatment timing (vegetative or reproductive period), and cultivation methods (soil or hydroponic cultivation) on the vase life of four lisianthus cultivars after flower cutting. A 0.5 mM concentration of the SA application during the reproductive period resulted in the longest average vase life of 15.3 d for the Blue Picote cultivar after flower cutting. A colorimeter and a chlorophyll meter were used to observe and quantify petal color changes after cutting, and the color changes during the senescence stages are visualized using a …

A Study Of Math Anxiety In Teachers, Laura K. Rademacher

Educational Leadership Theses, Dissertations, and Student Creative Activity

This dissertation presents a mixed-data investigation aiming to comprehensively understand math anxiety in teachers. Math anxiety is defined as “feelings of tension and anxiety that interfere with the manipulation of numbers and solving of mathematics problems in a variety of ordinary life and academic situations” (Richardson & Suinn, 1972, p. 551). The study focuses on rural Nebraska district comparing practicing Elementary and Secondary teachers on the variable of Mathematics Anxiety. Employing both quantitative and qualitative methods, the research seeks to explore the correlations between teacher’s self-efficacy and Math Anxiety.

The quantitative process involved the use of the Mathematics Teaching Efficacy …

Curriculum Subcommittee Agenda March 7, 2024, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

• Approval of Minutes – February 1, 2024
• Program Proposals

• Semester Course Approval Reviews: https://usu.curriculog.com/

• Other Business

• Adjourn: 3:00 pm

The Intricacies Of Nimbyism: Exclusionary Zoning And The Fair Housing Act In Connecticut, Jill Warren

Connecticut Law Review

Connecticut is one of the wealthiest states in the country, yet there is an alarming shortage of affordable housing across the state. The regulatory schemes of Connecticut municipalities only exacerbate the issue. Many towns and cities employ exclusionary zoning policies and regulations that make it difficult for lower- income households to reside in an area. A prominent example is single-family, two- acre zoning, which makes it difficult or even impossible to construct high density housing conducive to the creation of affordable housing. As a result of exclusionary zoning policies, Connecticut has effectively become economically segregated.

This begs the question of …

Exploring The Polarity Of Amino Acids With Thin Layer Chromatography, Angela Ahrendt

Professional Learning Day

No abstract provided.

Ashley Kernicky Named Director Of Gardner-Webb’S Department Of Physician Assistant Studies, Office Of University Communications

Gardner-Webb NewsCenter Archive

Interim Director Ashley Kernicky, a 2009 alumna of Gardner-Webb University, has been named the director of the Department of Physician Assistant Studies (DPAS). While making the announcement, Dean of the College of Health Sciences (COHS), Dr. Nicole Waters noted that the hiring process included a national search to fill this vital position within the COHS.

Co-Creating The Pitch: An Exploration Of The Role Of Traditions On Co-Creation In European Soccer, Eric Hungenberg, Mark Slavich, Ricardo Cayolla

Journal of Applied Sport Management

As the sport of soccer continues to grow throughout the world – and particularly into North America – the current study assessed the causal effect fans’ sensory traditions have on co-creation. Data were collected by intercepting Portugese and Spanish soccer attendees outside of the stadium prior to the match’s start. A total of 282 useable surveys were retrieved from fans during the 2022-23 seasons. Path modeling results indicate that traditions relating to aesthetics, sound, and beverage provided the greatest means to co-create experiences for attendees. The study’s results align with previous research within retail and sport exhibiting the positive impact …

Upper Bounds For Berezin Numbers Of Self-Adjoint Operators And Applications, College Of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Mubariz Garayev, Hocine Guediri, Farouq S.N. Alshormani

Baku Mathematical Journal

We prove upper bounds for Berezin symbols and Berezin numbers of operators, with a special emphasis on the quadratic weighted operator geometric mean. In particular, we prove some upper bounds for Berezin symbols and Berezin numbers of some self-adjoint operators on reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces over some suitable sets. Moreover, we estimate the best possible constant in some generalized Hardy-Hilbert inequality for the series.

Inverse Nodal Problems For Pencils Of Singular Sturm-Liouville Operators, Sivas Cumhuriyet University, Sivas, Turkiye, Rauf Amirov

Baku Mathematical Journal

In this study, some properties of the pencils of singular Sturm-Liouville operators are investigated. Firstly, the behaviors of eigenvalues and eigenfunctions is learned, then for each discontinuity point

On The Spectral Theory Of A Fourth-Order Differential Pencil On The Whole Real Axis, Azerbaijan University, Nigar F. Gafarova, Agil Kh. Khanmamedov, Baku State University

Baku Mathematical Journal

A pencil of fourth-order differential equations on the entire axis with multiple characteristics is considered. Using special solutions of a fourth-order differential equation, the spectrum of a differential pencil is studied. Necessary and sufficient conditions are found for a non-real number to be an eigenvalue of this pencil. It is proved that the operator pencil has no eigenvalues on the real axis.

On An Inverse Scattering Problem For The Quadratic Pencil Of The Sturm-Liouville Operator With A Piece-Wise Constant Coefficient, Azerbaijan State Oil And Industry University (Asoiu), Anar A. Nabiev

Baku Mathematical Journal

In this work, direct and inverse scattering problems on the real axis for the quadratic pencil of the Sturm-Liouville operator with piece-wise constant coefficient are studied. The new integral representations for solutions are given, the scattering data is defined, the main integral equations of the inverse scattering problem are obtained, the spectral characteristics of the scattering data are investigated and uniqueness theorem for the solution of inverse problem is proven, the necessary and sufficient conditions for recovering of the potentials are examined.

Euler-Type System Of Equations In Variational Problems With Delayed Argument, Institute Of Mathematics And Mechanics, Baku, Azerbaijan, Aygun M. Isayeva, Misir J. Mardanov

Baku Mathematical Journal

The article studies a closed-end variational problem with a delayed arguments. As a result, a system of equations with a delayed argument of Euler-type is obtained using the first variation of the functional for the extremum.

Integrated Stem Professional Development: Utilizing Best Practices In An Online Format, Sarah Haines, Sumreen Asim, Jeanna R. Wieselmann, Deepika Menon

Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education: Faculty Publications

Online professional development (PD) can reach teachers from widespread areas. Here, we describe PD activities that are part of a project focused on integrated science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (iSTEM) teaching self-efficacy and effectiveness among early-career elementary teachers. Toward our objective of building a community of elementary teachers focused on improving their iSTEM teaching, we are conducting online PD institutes over four summers. These PD institutes are designed using Desimone’s five critical features of effective PD: content focus, active learning, coherence, duration, and collective participation. Our institutes engage teachers in an initial synchronous online session, which is followed by independent …