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Aggression And Mobility: The Power Of A Cavalry Pursuit During The Civil War, Leland G. Smith

Masters Theses, 2020-current

Decades after the Napoleonic Wars ended, military theorists in western countries began to write books and other manuals on how to successfully use cavalry on the battlefield. One such writer; Barron Jomini, mentions in his book The Art of War that cavalry should be used for reconnaissance, guarding flanks and looting, but its most important use was “opening the door for victory” by exploitation and pursuing the enemy for total victory. Jomini’s book was influential for the generals fighting the Civil War. In the early days of the war the Confederates would greatly use cavalry to conduct reconnaissance, while the …

Consonance, Dissonance, And The Brain: Directions In Modern Concert Music, Julianna F. Stratton

College Honors Program

Modern Western arts pedagogy can easily lead its students to believe in the unimpeded evolution of musical language, progressing from highly consonant music to the dissonant explorations of the 20th century. Although extreme schools of music made their mark on the modern music scene, and some of their techniques do continue today, recent trends in the concert hall have seemingly embraced tonality and consonance again. This work addresses some of the neuroscientific and psychological underpinnings of this change. It explores the processes by which we assign meaning to sound, which might tell us about future trajectories of music in the …

Predicting Psychosis Through Speech: A Case For Nlp In Clinical Practice, Lydia Britton '27

Student Research

Psychosis is difficult to identify in early stages; however, changes in speech and language offer insights and indicators of emerging symptomatology. This paper examines the potential for Natural Language Processing (NLP) and other computational linguistic techniques for improving the predicition of psychosis disorders through automated analysis of speech. Existing research shows that lingustic markers that are aligned with Formal Thought Disorder, including reduced semantic coherence, poverty of content, tangentiality, reduced syntactic complexity, and pragmatic deficits, can help to distinguish between individuals who are experiencing or at risk for psychosis from healthy controls. Traditional clinical assessments may have difficulty identifying and …

School Closure As Education Policy Failure: A Quantcrit Analysis Of Reform-Resistant Schools In Memphis (2010–2025), Stacy Hubbard Patton

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

High-stakes accountability policies have reshaped urban school governance by linking standardized test performance to decisions about intervention, restructuring, and closure. Although these systems are designed to improve low-performing schools, prior research suggests that accountability classifications reflect broader structural conditions, including racial segregation and concentrated poverty, rather than isolated instructional deficits, with schools serving Black and Latino students in historically disinvested communities bearing a disproportionate share of these consequences. This study examines the 2010–2025 achievement trajectories and survival-to-closure patterns of reform-resistant schools in Memphis–Shelby County Schools, guided by Quantitative Criticalism (QuantCrit) as both a theoretical and methodological framework. School-level administrative records …

Illinois Wesleyan To Launch First-Of-Its-Kind Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Quantum Science And Engineering Program, Tori Joseph

Press Releases 2020-2029

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Future-Oriented Science Education: A Delphi Study Of Policymakers’ Views From Four European Countries, Sibel Erduran, Jessica Chan, Olga Ioannidou

School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences

Future-oriented skills have become increasingly important in science education. These skills include critical thinking, problem solving and managing complexity. While policymaking has a direct bearing on the what and the how of a future-oriented perspective in science education, previous research focused on a narrow group of stakeholders such as teachers and students. Little is known about what policymakers perceive as significant future-oriented skills to be included in the science curriculum. By policymakers we mean government officials, legislators, educational administrators, and other influential figures who are key decision-makers in the educational eco-system. The exploratory empirical study reported in the paper employed …

Local And Indigenous Knowledge, Innovation, And Sustainable Development: Creating Sustainable Futures Amidst Crisis Conditions At The Community Level, Carlos Andrés Arias

Dissertations and Theses

In 1987, the Brundtland Commission's Our Common Future (1987) made clear the need to reject longstanding development processes and focus on sustainable development. The Commission stressed that actual sustainable development integrates three elements: social development, economic development, and environmental protection. Though developed nations have achieved economic growth through conventional and extractive development practices, these practices have intensified natural disasters driven by climate change, increased food insecurity, and deepened poverty. This has acutely impacted Indigenous and local communities, many of whom face crisis conditions, such as war, terrorism, civil disorder, and their aftermath. Even so, many of these communities successfully implement …

Effectiveness Of The Guided Discovery Method In Teaching The Surface Area Of A Cylinder, Paul Ahortu

2026 Symposium

This study investigates the impact of the guided discovery instructional method on students’ understanding of the surface area of a cylinder. A quasi-experimental pre-test–post-test design was conducted with 100 senior high school students in Cape Coast, Ghana, divided into experimental and comparison groups..

Results showed a substantial improvement in performance for students exposed to guided discovery, with mean scores increasing from 1.25 (pre-test) to 9.43 (post-test) and a large effect size (Cohen’s d = 2.70). Statistical analysis also revealed significant gender differences in achievement.

These findings indicate strong improvement following the guided discovery intervention and suggest its potential to enhance …

A Size-Structured Approach For Modeling Coral-Algal Dynamics, Anayse Miller, Julie C. Blackwood, Lauren M. Childs

Biology and Medicine Through Mathematics Conference

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The Dynamics Of Synchrony On Replicating Biological Populations, Montse Torres Garcia, Kevin Mcgoff, Francis Motta, Breschine Cummins, Steve Haase

Biology and Medicine Through Mathematics Conference

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Computation Models Of The Primary Auditory Cortex, Jonathan Gonzalez Martinez, Quynh-Anh Nguyen

Biology and Medicine Through Mathematics Conference

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Geometry-Driven Changes In Pressure And Flow Dynamics In Control And Coarcted Aortic Hemodynamics, Md Arifuzzaman, Mette Olufsen, Mansoor Haider

Biology and Medicine Through Mathematics Conference

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Computational Fluid Dynamics Model For Assessing Surgical Strategies For Liver Shunt Closure In Dogs, Schuyler Brennan, Nathan Nelson, Mette Olufsen

Biology and Medicine Through Mathematics Conference

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Modeling The Effects Of Chronic Stress On Type 2 Diabetes, Kris Mae Pasia

Biology and Medicine Through Mathematics Conference

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A Mechanistic Model Of Adhesion, Inflammation, Sleep, And Pain In Sickle Cell Patients, Milan Marsh, Rebecca Segal

Biology and Medicine Through Mathematics Conference

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Positive Affect And Sleep Quality As Predictors Of Pain Onset In Pediatric Sickle Cell Patients, Eunice Clark, Reginald Mcgee, Cecelia Valrie, Rebecca Segal, Angela Reynolds

Biology and Medicine Through Mathematics Conference

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A Logic-Based Differential Equation Model Of Endothelial Cell Function, Ella Froedge, Scarlett Hamilton, Mitchel Colebank

Biology and Medicine Through Mathematics Conference

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Gap Junction Architecture And Synchronization Clusters In The Thalamic Reticular Nuclei, Alex Norwood

Biology and Medicine Through Mathematics Conference

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An Extention Of Mandelbrot Sets For Evolving And Learning Networks, Alexander Preston, Raki Suzuki-Burke, Anca R. Radulescu

Biology and Medicine Through Mathematics Conference

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A Multiscale Computational Framework Coupling Pulmonary Arterial Blood Flow And Lung Tissue Perfusion, Nigar Sultana, Hangjie Ji, Mette Sofie Olufsen

Biology and Medicine Through Mathematics Conference

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Understanding Dengue Spread In Córdoba, Argentina Through Spatial Epidemiological Modeling, Mohammad Mihrab Uddin Chowdhury

Biology and Medicine Through Mathematics Conference

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Modeling Serotonin Metabolism Towards A Diagnostic Skin Test For Depression, Joel Greenfield

Biology and Medicine Through Mathematics Conference

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Comparing Mathematical Models Of Systemic Infection Responses, Laura M. Witzel

Biology and Medicine Through Mathematics Conference

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Dynamical Systems Modeling To Determine The Role Of Crosstalk In Shaping Stat Signaling Profiles, Laura F. Strube, Anamarie Martinez, Neha Cheemalavagu, Karsen Shoger, James Faeder, Rachel Gottschalk

Biology and Medicine Through Mathematics Conference

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A Stochastic And Spatial Model Of Microtubule Dynamics In Neuronal Dendrites, Meghan Kwon

Biology and Medicine Through Mathematics Conference

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A Phylogeny Informed Mathematical Model Of Hpai H5n1 Transmission And Control In Multi Host Systems, Oluwatosin Babasola

Biology and Medicine Through Mathematics Conference

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Mathematical Modeling Of A Coral-Symbiont System To Assess Heat-Induced Bleaching, Anna Zittle, Angela Reynolds, Rebecca Segal, Liza Roger, Nastassja Lewinski

Biology and Medicine Through Mathematics Conference

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Mathematical Modeling Of The Combined Effects Of Thermal Burn And Local Irradiation, Quintessa Hay, Rachel Jennings, Amy Creel, Kyle Gaffney, Christina Wagner, Kidist Maxwell, Ginu Unnikrishnan, Tyler Dant

Biology and Medicine Through Mathematics Conference

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Parameter Sensitivity, Identifiability, And Estimation For A Data-Driven Model Of Malaria, Katharine Gurski, Kathleen Hofman

Biology and Medicine Through Mathematics Conference

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Data-Driven Modeling Approaches For Epidemiological Applications Using County-Level Data, Mansoor A. Haider

Biology and Medicine Through Mathematics Conference

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