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Utilizing The Classical Christian Study Of Latin To Promote Intentionality, Erin Lamont

Master of Arts in Classical Studies

It is well known that the study of Latin increases English vocabulary, helps one understand grammar, raises standardized test scores, and helps one learn other languages. As modern education sees itself as an agent for change and social reform set on reconstructing society, fewer schools are offering Latin to students. Of those that do offer it, many are veering away from the traditional approach which has a goal of being able to read and connect with the writing of the great thinkers of the past while utilizing a methodology that focuses on grammar and syntax. This paper looks at three …

Math And The Moon Activity Plan, Admin Stem For Success

STEM for Success Showcase

No abstract provided.

Basic Math Terms And Properties, Admin Stem For Success

STEM for Success Showcase

Basic Math Terms

In a math equation or sentence, the operator identifies the action taken. The equal sign shows the relationship that the expressions on the two sides are equal in value.

Arithmetic And Geometric Series, Admin Stem For Success

STEM for Success Showcase

Math:

-Introducing the concept of arithmetic and geometric series/discussing the differences

-Multiplying, adding, dividing, subtracting, exponents

Monty Hall, Admin Stem For Success

STEM for Success Showcase

No abstract provided.

Chemistry And Public Policy: Equipping Advocates, Herbert R. Fynewever, I. Bos, C. Demlow, G. Fulkerson

Summer Research

No abstract provided.

Impact Of The Flexibility Of A Hydroxy Group Of Coumarins To Its Quantum Yield, Yejin Chung, Mark Muyskens

Summer Research

Coumarin is an organic, bioactive (anti-tumor, antioxidant) molecule that has a structure of a bicyclic benzene and pyrone ring. The monohydroxy-substituted coumarins only differ in the location of hydroxy group location but carry radically different photophysical properties such as wavelength of absorption, excitation, emission, and quantum yield.

The hydroxy groups in coumarins have different flexibility in rotating based on their locations. Ranked by quantum yield: 7-hydroxycoumarin (7HC) > 6HC> 5HC > 8HC. The flexibility of coumarins were studied in relation to the quantum yield.

Towards Full Authorship With Ai: An Interactive User Interface For Supporting Revision, Kenneth C. Arnold, Edom Maru, Jiho Kim, Noelle Haviland, Ray Flanagan, Saron Melesse, Souad Yakubu, Zeai Sun

Summer Research

Recent breakthroughs in large language models (LLMs) have led to the development of tools like ChatGPT and Bing Chat, which can produce texts comparable to those written by competent writers. The affordances of these tools encourage users to offload large parts of their thinking and writing onto the LLM. But in doing so, users surrender autonomy and authorship over their writing. Could LLMs instead encourage writers to reflect on texts that they wrote themselves? Could these reflections lead them to make meaningful revisions to their texts? Our goal is to provide writers with a tool that promotes reflection and encourages …

Finutyper: Design And Validation Of An Automated Deep Learning-Based Platform For Simultaneous Fiber And Nucleus Type Analysis In Human Skeletal Muscle, August Lundquist, Enikő Lázár, Nan S. Han, Eric B. Emanuelsson, Stefan M. Reitzner, Mark A. Chapman, Vera Shirkova, Kanar Alkass, Henrik Druid, Susanne Petri, Carl J. Sundberg, Olaf Bergmann

School of Engineering: Faculty Scholarship

Aim While manual quantification is still considered the gold standard for skeletal muscle histological analysis, it is time-consuming and prone to investigator bias. To address this challenge, we assembled an automated image analysis pipeline, FiNuTyper (Fiber and Nucleus Typer). Methods We integrated recently developed deep learning-based image segmentation methods, optimized for unbiased evaluation of fresh and postmortem human skeletal muscle, and utilized SERCA1 and SERCA2 as type-specific myonucleus and myofiber markers after validating them against the traditional use of MyHC isoforms. Results Parameters including cross-sectional area, myonuclei per fiber, myonuclear domain, central myonuclei per fiber, and grouped myofiber ratio were …

What’S The Purpose?: A Mixed-Methods Exploration Of Purposes For Reading In Secondary Classrooms, Dianna Townsend, Hannah Carter, Rachel Knecht

Literacy, Language and Culture Faculty Publications and Presentations

Supporting the wide range of readers in secondary disciplinary classrooms can involve a number of helpful scaffolds and instructional routines, and the role of reading purpose may be particularly important. Research suggests that reading purposes impact reading processes and outcomes, and also that disciplinary experts have discipline-specific purposes for reading. In this qualitative-dominant, mixed-methods study, five high school classrooms were studied to explore what kind of purposes teachers establish for reading in the disciplines and how students perceive those reading purposes. Teachers’ (n = 7) reading purposes and related instruction were explored via observations and interviews, and high school …

The Effect Of A Self-Regulated Intervention On Vocabulary Knowledge And Self-Regulated Learning Skills For English Language Learners, Qizhen Deng, Guy Trainin

Literacy, Language and Culture Faculty Publications and Presentations

English language learners (ELLs) lack academic vocabulary knowledge, an essential component that explains much of the persistent achievement gap between students who start schools as ELLs and their monolingual peers. This single-subject experimental design study addressed this issue by focusing on self-regulated vocabulary learning that helps ELLs become effective and independent word learners. Nine upper elementary ELLs participated in an intervention for 16 sessions, with about 35 minutes per session. The intervention included the instruction of task-specific cognitive strategies (i.e., morphological and contextual analyses) and metacognitive strategies (i.e., goal-setting and monitoring) in authentic reading texts in social studies. Results indicated …

Rural Education In Peru: A Study Of Its Performance, Physical And Digital Infrastructure, Gender, Linguistic, And Social And Cultural Development, Mohammed Forero Bucheli

Master of Liberal Studies Theses

Rural and indigenous education in Peru significantly differs from its urban counterparts. The physical and digital infrastructure, gender-based education, linguistic neglect, and sociocultural discrimination that rural and indigenous communities’ education receive profoundly affect performance. This thesis aims to showcase these characteristics through case studies, comparing different government and community projects to understand their development in these areas. These cases explore different aspects of the educational situation of the Huallatiri, San Antonio de Cusicancha, and Quispicanchi communities in the Southern Peruvian Andes. Through these analyses, this study portrays the intersectional characteristics of educational development in rural and indigenous communities and how …

Historical And Future Projections Of Supercell Precipitation Contributions To The Hydroclimate Of The United States, Aaron Zeeb

Graduate Research Theses & Dissertations

Rotating storms, or supercells, are frequent producers of significant tornadoes, hail, and nontornadic winds and an underappreciated genitor of extreme precipitation rates and flash floods. Little research has examined the precipitation contributions from supercells to the overall hydroclimate of the CONUS and, provided that these storms and their precipitation rates may shift in the future due to climate change, it is important to understand their characteristics from both historical and future perspectives. This research seeks to understand supercell precipitation characteristics across the CONUS using high-resolution, convection-permitting, dynamical-downscaled simulations for three, 15-year epochs. Epochs include a historical end-of-20th-century period (1990–2005) and …

Correlation And Balance Functions Of Identified Hadron Pairs In Au+Au Collisions At Rhic, Launa Di Carlo

Wayne State University Dissertations

Heavy-ion collisions are used to study the properties of the Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP), a hot and dense strongly-interacting system of deconfined quarks and gluons. Such systems can be formed in collisions of 197Au nuclei at the RHIC facility. Correlation and balance functions will be used to study these collisions. The correlation functions provide information on reaction mechanisms and the balance functions indicate the conditional probability that a pair of particle species was locally produced together during the collision. The correlation and balance functions of the full 3×3 matrix of (π, K, p)x(π, K, p) species pairs versus the relative …

A Theoretical Framework For 3+1d Dynamics Of Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions, Sahr Alzhrani

Wayne State University Dissertations

The primary goal is to enhance a theoretical tool for studying 3D dynamics in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. We aim to explore the effects of stochastic fluctuations within these systems as part of the Beam Energy Scan program at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider. Our approach involves constructing 3D initial conditions using minimal model parameters based on Glauber collision geometry, energy, and momentum conservation principles. We validate the model by comparing its predictions on particle rapidity distributions and anisotropic flow coefficients in specific collision scenarios. Model parameters are calibrated by comparing predictions to observed data from central Au+Au collisions. Additionally, we extend …

Optimal Spatial Design Of Groundwater Level Monitoring Networks Using Machine Learning Methods, Sadaf Teimoori

Wayne State University Dissertations

Groundwater plays a crucial role in sustaining ecosystems, providing drinking water, and supporting various industrial activities. As water scarcity becomes an increasingly pressing global issue, accurate groundwater level monitoring is essential for effective resource management and environmental protection. The study introduces a comprehensive methodology that integrates groundwater flow modeling, stochastic simulations, and ML algorithms to design efficient Groundwater Level Monitoring Networks (GLMNs) in regions with limited groundwater observation data. Two primary ML algorithms, K-means clustering and Relevance Vector Machine (RVM), are used to select and position observation wells strategically. The research addresses the challenge of minimizing data uncertainties and determining …

Building A Mathematics Intervention Program: One District’S Journey, Karise Mace, Karen Austin, Jodi Kirstein

Education Faculty Research

No abstract provided.

Does Genre Matter When Reading To Your Child?, Charles Baldwin

NERA Conference Proceedings 2023

This review asks if research from 2014 and afterwards indicates that narratives dominate early childhood libraries and shared book reading. It further asks if varied genres positively impact children's (1) content area knowledge and vocabulary, (2) language skills, (3) knowledge about informational text structures and text features, and (4) reading interest and engagement. The review used ERIC and APA PsycINFO in a combined search. The search terms were “Informational Text*” or “Text Structure*” or “Literary Genre*” or “Disciplinary Literac*” or “Genre”. The author identified 135 peer-reviewed studies from 2014 and later which were reduced after the author read titles, abstracts …

Investigating The Extent To Which Chatgpt’S Output Reflects And Reproduces Gender Stereotypes About Math Ability, Miles Baldwin, Nina Braum-Bharti, Peter Baldwin

NERA Conference Proceedings 2023

One concern with AI systems is their potential for perpetuating harmful stereotypes. In this paper, we task ChatGPT with estimating student age based on math test performances. Despite attributing identical test performances to girls and boys, ChatGPT’s age estimates for girls are 5.8 months older than for boys on average.

Advantages And Implications Of Incorporating Qualitative Data In Education Research: Across Contexts, Hannah Smith, Elena Silla, Paul Pacheco, Andrew Mc Reynolds, Itay Kohen, Maddy Berube, Gabriella Morra, Christina Areizaga Barbieri, Paul Reimer

NERA Conference Proceedings 2023

Quantitative and qualitative methods are used in education research and each have their own unique affordances and limitations, partially dependent on contexts, participants and methodologies. This symposium argues for the broader use of qualitative and mixed methods approaches within education research to uncover deeper details of participant perspectives and experiences.

An Exploratory Constructivist Grounded Theory Study: How Secondary School Science Teachers Interpret Students’ Scientific Models That Are Comprised Of Drawing Activities, Alecia M. Redway

Selected Full Text Dissertations, 2011-

Extant literature lacks an explanation of the thought processes used by secondary school science teachers to interpret students’ scientific models that are comprised of drawing activities. In this exploratory study, a constructivist grounded theory (CGT) was developed to generate an interpretive understanding. The CGT was generated from observations, interviews, and document analyses of five research participants consisting of secondary school science teachers from lower New York State. To generate a CGT, concepts, terms, assumptions, and definitions from selected theories—decolonizing methodologies theory (DMT), visual semiotic theory (VST), and cultural studies theory (CST)—collectively provided a fresh onto-epistemological lens for initially examining and …

Graduate Bulletin & Catalog | 2023-2024, Jacksonville State University

Bulletins & Catalogs | Graduate

Jacksonville State was granted University status in 1966 and began adding graduate programs to its curriculum at that time. Graduate bulletins and catalogs contain information on the academic calendar, policies and procedures, faculty, scholarships and tuition, and degree requirements for graduate programs.

Validation Of The Occupational Depression Inventory In Sweden, Markus Jansson-Fröjmark, Farzaneh Badinlou, Tobias Lundgren, Renzo Bianchi, Irvin Sam Schonfeld

Publications and Research

Background The Occupational Depression Inventory (ODI) was recently devised to assess depressive symptoms that individuals specifically attribute to their work. One purpose of the ODI is to overcome limitations in current assessments of job-related distress. This study aimed to validate the Swedish version of the ODI.

Methods The study involved 365 individuals employed in Sweden. In addition to the ODI, the study included the Satisfaction with Life Scale, the Effort-Reward Imbalance Questionnaire, the Demand-Control-Support Questionnaire, the GAD-2, and the PHQ-9. We inquired into the factorial validity, dimensionality, scalability, test-score reliability, criterion validity, convergent validity, discriminant validity, and measurement invariance of …

The Impacts Of Tracking In Middle School Mathematics, With Particular Emphasis On Small Private Schools, Jared Hanson

Teaching and Learning (MA) Theses

Most studies of the efficacy and equity of tracking in middle school mathematics focus on programs implemented in large public schools or entire school districts. They do not consider the impacts of how tracking might affect middle school students at a small private school. This study therefore seeks to determine how the theories, findings, and conclusions in the existing research may be applied in the context of a small private school. It begins with an extensive review of the literature that discusses the history and impacts of tracking, focusing on academic achievement, self-esteem and self-concept, and discrimination along racial and …

Undergraduate Review, Vol. 17, 2022/2023

Undergraduate Review

No abstract provided.

Rabbit Anatomy: A Brief Photographic Atlas And Dissection Guide - Part Ii: Cardiovascular System (Third Edition), Soma Mukhopadhyay, Lisa Ruggiero Wagner

Rabbit Anatomy: A Brief Photographic Atlas and Dissection Guide

No abstract provided.

Progress In 7sk Ribonucleoprotein Structural Biology, Momodou B. Camara, Amr M. Sobeh, Catherine D. Eichhorn

Department of Chemistry: Faculty Publications

The 7SK ribonucleoprotein (RNP) is a dynamic and multifunctional regulator of RNA Polymerase II (RNAPII) transcription in metazoa. Comprised of the noncoding 7SK RNA, core proteins, and numerous accessory proteins, the most wellknown 7SK RNP function is the sequestration and inactivation of the positive transcription elongation factor b (P-TEFb). More recently, 7SK RNP has been shown to regulate RNAPII transcription through P-TEFb-independent pathways. Due to its fundamental role in cellular function, dysregulation has been linked with human diseases including cancers, heart disease, developmental disorders, and viral infection. Significant advances in 7SK RNP structural biology have improved our understanding of 7SK …

A Complex Record Of Last Interglacial Sea-Level History And Paleozoogeography, Santa Rosa Island, Channel Islands National Park, California, Usa, Daniel R. Muhs, Lindsey T. Groves, Kathleen R. Simmons, R. Randall Schumann, Scott A. Minor

United States Geological Survey: Staff Publications

Studies of marine terraces and their fossils can yield important information about sea level history, tectonic uplift rates, and paleozoogeography, but some aspects of terrace history, particularly with regard to their fossil record, are not clearly understood. Marine terraces are well preserved on Santa Rosa Island, California, and the island is situated near a major marine faunal boundary. Two prominent low-elevation terraces record the ~80 ka (marine isotope stage [MIS] 5a) and ~120 ka (MIS 5e) high-sea stands, based on U-series dating of fossil corals and aminostratigraphic correlation to dated localities elsewhere in California and Baja California. Low uplift rates …

Flood-Inundation Maps For An 8-Mile Reach Of Papillion Creek Near Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, 2022, Kellan R. Strauch, Christopher M. Hobza

United States Geological Survey: Water Reports and Publications

Digital flood-inundation maps for an 8-mile reach of Papillion Creek near Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, were created by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in cooperation with the U.S. Air Force, Offutt Air Force Base. The flood-inundation maps, which can be accessed through the USGS Flood Inundation Mapping Program website at https://www.usgs.gov/mission-areas/water-resources/science/flood-inundation-mapping-fim-program, depict estimates of the areal extent and depth of flooding corresponding to selected water levels (stages) at the USGS streamgages Papillion Creek at Fort Crook, Nebr. (station 06610795), and Papillion Creek at Harlan Lewis Road near La Platte, Nebr. (station 06610798). Near-real-time stages at these streamgages may …

Selected Anthropogenic Contaminants In Groundwater, Papio-Missouri River Natural Resources District, Eastern Nebraska, 1992–2020, Brent M. Hall, Cory L. Kavan, Amanda Flynn, Mikaela L. Cherry

United States Geological Survey: Water Reports and Publications

A study in cooperation with the Papio-Missouri River Natural Resources District was completed in 2019 to determine the concentration of contaminants of emerging concern (CEC) in groundwater in the Papio-Missouri River Natural Resources District, eastern Nebraska. Each well was sampled twice (in June and October or November) in 2019, totaling 34 samples. Samples were analyzed for 132 CECs, which include pharmaceutical, steroid hormone, and other organic chemicals. Seven of the 132 CEC analytes were detected in samples collected during this study. The most commonly detected CEC in this study was the antibiotic sulfamethoxazole. Other CECs detected in this study were …