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Tests Without Borders: A Global Approach To Measuring Visualization Literacy, Olivia A. Guess Dec 2025

Tests Without Borders: A Global Approach To Measuring Visualization Literacy, Olivia A. Guess

McKelvey School of Engineering Graduate Student Theses & Dissertations

Visualization literacy assessments shape how we understand people's ability to interpret data, yet most existing instruments embed Western datasets and assumptions that limit their relevance for global audiences. This thesis argues that because data is personal, assessments must also be culturally grounded. We introduce a unified framework for adapting the Mini-VLAT into 22 regionally responsive short-form assessments, each retaining the structure of the original test while incorporating datasets and scenarios tailored to specific regions around the world. To demonstrate how such adaptations can be customized and validated, we present a detailed case study of a Ghana-adapted Mini-VLAT, developed in collaboration …

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Effects Of Exposure Route And Surface Coating On The Bioaccumulation Of Cdte Quantum Dots In Fish. Considerations For Testing Nanomaterials Following Oecd Test Guideline No. 305, Judit Kalman, Rocío Fernández-Saavedra, Carla Díaz-Tielas, Mona Connolly, Ana I. Cardona-García, Nathaniel Clark, Richard D. Handy, Eric A.J. Bleeker, Isabel Rucandio, José María Navas, María Luisa Fernández-Cruz Dec 2025

Effects Of Exposure Route And Surface Coating On The Bioaccumulation Of Cdte Quantum Dots In Fish. Considerations For Testing Nanomaterials Following Oecd Test Guideline No. 305, Judit Kalman, Rocío Fernández-Saavedra, Carla Díaz-Tielas, Mona Connolly, Ana I. Cardona-García, Nathaniel Clark, Richard D. Handy, Eric A.J. Bleeker, Isabel Rucandio, José María Navas, María Luisa Fernández-Cruz

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

To identify nanomaterials of potential environmental concern and to support risk assessment for regulatory purposes bioaccumulation testing is required. However, further guidance is needed when applying the fish bioaccumulation OECD test guideline (TG) No. 305 to nanomaterials. Also questions remain surrounding the most appropriate exposure route and if subtle modifications to these materials (e.g. different coatings) will influence bioaccumulation potential. Therefore in this study OECD TG 305 was applied to assess the bioaccumulation potential of CdTe quantum dots (QDs) with additional considerations for testing nanomaterials. CdTe QDs were selected for our studies because of their increasing use, possible release to …

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40 Priority Questions To Advance Understanding Of The Risks And Opportunities Of Uk Marine Heatwaves, Zoe Jacobs, Kathryn E. Smith, Jules B. Kajtar, Dan A. Smale, Pippa J. Moore, Fabrice Stephenson, Michael T. Burrows, Caroline Rowland, Richard Renshaw, Sophy Oliver, Martyn Jakins-Pollard, Freya Ivy Palmer, Alice Kloker, Craig Baker-Austin, Bryony Townhill, Sian Rees, Sarah Coulthard, Ekaterina Popova Dec 2025

40 Priority Questions To Advance Understanding Of The Risks And Opportunities Of Uk Marine Heatwaves, Zoe Jacobs, Kathryn E. Smith, Jules B. Kajtar, Dan A. Smale, Pippa J. Moore, Fabrice Stephenson, Michael T. Burrows, Caroline Rowland, Richard Renshaw, Sophy Oliver, Martyn Jakins-Pollard, Freya Ivy Palmer, Alice Kloker, Craig Baker-Austin, Bryony Townhill, Sian Rees, Sarah Coulthard, Ekaterina Popova

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

Marine heatwaves (MHWs) are periods of anomalously warm sea temperatures that are becoming increasingly recognised as ocean stressors. Globally, MHWs have impacted marine ecosystems, with significant socioeconomic implications for coastal communities and industries. The unprecedented MHW that occurred in the waters surrounding the UK and Ireland in summer 2023 highlighted a crucial gap in our understanding of the region-specific characteristics of MHWs and their impacts on marine ecosystems, the services they underpin, the blue economy and society. Using diverse expert opinion, we propose 40 priority questions for interdisciplinary research in the UK that must urgently be addressed to prepare for …

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2025-12-17 University Graduate Committee Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate., University Graduate Committee. Dec 2025

2025-12-17 University Graduate Committee Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate., University Graduate Committee.

Faculty Senate Records

Meeting minutes from the University Graduate Committee from December 17, 2025.

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Incidence Of Bacterial Chondronecrosis With Osteomyelitis Lameness In Commercial Duck Flocks In Mojokerto, Indonesia, Andi Asnayanti, Siti Azizah, Anif Mukaromah Wati, Ahmad Ridwan, Ahmad Arman Dahlan, Dinda Rosalita, Anh Dang Trieu Do, Adnan Alrubaye Dec 2025

Incidence Of Bacterial Chondronecrosis With Osteomyelitis Lameness In Commercial Duck Flocks In Mojokerto, Indonesia, Andi Asnayanti, Siti Azizah, Anif Mukaromah Wati, Ahmad Ridwan, Ahmad Arman Dahlan, Dinda Rosalita, Anh Dang Trieu Do, Adnan Alrubaye

Poultry Science Faculty Publications and Presentations

Bacterial Chondronecrosis with Osteomyelitis (BCO) lameness is an infection of opportunistic bacteria in the structural skeletal bones impacting multiple animal species, particularly poultry species. BCO lameness results in significant financial losses to industrial poultry production and increases the risk of foodborne illnesses, posing a major threat to consumers' food safety. As BCO lameness is an inherent risk of fast body weight gain in poultry species, especially broiler chickens, abundant studies have been conducted in broilers and turkeys. Nevertheless, BCO lameness incidence in ducks remains elusive. Thus, this is the first survey investigating the prevalence of BCO lameness cases in ducks. …

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Plan Your Way To Tenure And/Or Promotion, Wendy Doucette, Jill Cirasella Dec 2025

Plan Your Way To Tenure And/Or Promotion, Wendy Doucette, Jill Cirasella

Journal of Graduate Librarianship

In this editorial, we share our best advice for preparing the dossier necessary for professional advancement. While our advice is unavoidably shaped by the specifics of our experiences and universities, we believe most of it is broadly applicable to academic librarians in general. We cluster our advice into three categories: framework and planning, building your portfolio, and ongoing recordkeeping. We hope this “from the ground up” presentation will help those new to academic librarianship, though it’s never too late for more experienced librarians to (re)consider their own approaches.

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Pedagogies Of Peace And Justice In Integrated Israeli-Palestinian Youth Programs, Tchelet L. Tutman, Aviv Cohen Dec 2025

Pedagogies Of Peace And Justice In Integrated Israeli-Palestinian Youth Programs, Tchelet L. Tutman, Aviv Cohen

Peace and Conflict Studies

This qualitative study investigates how pedagogical choices in Israeli-Palestinian peace education programs shape the enactment of educational aims related to citizenship, justice, and democratic engagement. Drawing on interviews, observations, and document analysis from four educational organizations working with Jewish and Palestinian citizens of Israel, the study explores how educators navigate core dilemmas including whether and how to address the conflict directly, contend with language asymmetries, respond to participant resistance, and facilitate dialogue during periods of political violence. The analysis develops four pedagogical models: Neither-Nor, Both-And, Encounter, and Conflict Without Meeting, which capture distinct strategies for balancing intergroup interaction with engagement …

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Beyond Gun Control: How March For Our Lives Frames Gun Violence Prevention As Positive Peace, Ashley E. Nickels, Amanda D. Clark Dec 2025

Beyond Gun Control: How March For Our Lives Frames Gun Violence Prevention As Positive Peace, Ashley E. Nickels, Amanda D. Clark

Peace and Conflict Studies

March for Our Lives (MFOL) is a youth-led social movement that has redefined the framing of gun violence prevention, expanding it beyond policy-focused gun control efforts to a broader vision of positive peace. Rather than positioning gun violence solely as a matter of firearm regulation, MFOL constructs it as a structural justice issue, linking it to systemic inequities such as racial oppression, economic inequality, and political disenfranchisement. This study examines how MFOL’s movement framing reshapes understandings of gun violence prevention by emphasizing community transformation, intersectional justice, and collective safety. Drawing on framing theory, we analyze how MFOL presents gun violence …

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Beyond Precedent: Sexual Violence As An Act Of Genocide In The International Criminal Tribunal For Rwanda, Ciara Kilroy Dec 2025

Beyond Precedent: Sexual Violence As An Act Of Genocide In The International Criminal Tribunal For Rwanda, Ciara Kilroy

Peace and Conflict Studies

Wartime sexual violence (WSV) has been a characteristic of violent conflict throughout recorded history, yet has failed to illicit the same international attention and condemnation as other war crimes. WSV has also been a particularly pervasive method of destruction during genocide, in which women make up the majority of victims and are targeted for both their gender and group membership. However, sexual violence is not enumerated as a crime of genocide in the 1948 Genocide Convention. Despite its absence from the formal genocide convention, legal institutions have still attempted to hold perpetrators responsible for sexual violence during genocide. This paper …

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Healing Through History, Nancy Baker Jones Dec 2025

Healing Through History, Nancy Baker Jones

Journal of Texas History

This is the written transcription of the author’s closing plenary address to the inaugural conference of the Alliance for Texas History, May 17, 2025. Its purpose is to put into both broad and personal historical contexts the events of 2023 and 2024 that led to the founding of the Alliance for Texas History. It concludes that, despite the difficulties of those events for her and for many other historians of Texas, history offers a potentially healing context for moving forward.

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Plurality Of Unfallen Worlds: Ellen White And Extraterrestrials, Jud Lake Dec 2025

Plurality Of Unfallen Worlds: Ellen White And Extraterrestrials, Jud Lake

Ellen White Issues Symposium

No abstract provided.

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Critical Assessments Of The Bible And The Writings Of Ellen G. White, Alberto R. Timm Dec 2025

Critical Assessments Of The Bible And The Writings Of Ellen G. White, Alberto R. Timm

Ellen White Issues Symposium

No abstract provided.

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Trustworthy Ai: Prohibited Practices, Ethical Principles, And The Identification Of Problems, Anna Karmańska Dec 2025

Trustworthy Ai: Prohibited Practices, Ethical Principles, And The Identification Of Problems, Anna Karmańska

Journal of Global Awareness

The following considerations arise from the study of texts of documents of a legal nature and from the author’s judgments. They do not present the results of the author’s own empirical research; however, they constitute a factual study that is important for their undertaking in the next step. Having given concern but also hopes for AI, the author focuses her attention on issues that, not only in her opinion, have a strong bearing on the preservation of humanity in a digital environment and at the same time with technocratic features. These issues (prohibited practices, high-risk systems, and ethics) related to …

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Music And Sustainable Development Goals: Telling The Story, Mark Reimer Dec 2025

Music And Sustainable Development Goals: Telling The Story, Mark Reimer

Journal of Global Awareness

Now, 10 years after the United Nations adopted its 17 Sustainable Development Goals, the music profession continues to work toward being a responsible partner in the health and preservation of the planet and its inhabitants. By transcending social barriers, music promotes cultural awareness and mutual understanding, encourages creativity, and enhances emotional well-being, outcomes vital to the global goals of health, freedom, peace, education, equality, prosperity, and environmental sustainability. The article includes various examples of how music performers, educators, composers, and scholars are creating or adopting new practices that are mindful of reducing the carbon footprint, yet financially feasible in their …

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Letter From The Editor, Jay Nathan Dec 2025

Letter From The Editor, Jay Nathan

Journal of Global Awareness

No abstract provided.

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Tripping The Light Fantastic: Using Light-Based Technics To Digitally Document Megalithic Architecture, Eimear Meegan, Maurice Murphy Dr, A. Corns Dec 2025

Tripping The Light Fantastic: Using Light-Based Technics To Digitally Document Megalithic Architecture, Eimear Meegan, Maurice Murphy Dr, A. Corns

Journal of Academic Research and Innovation

This paper presents and discusses the preliminary results of a small scale visualisation project as part of which the low-cost LiDAR scanner that now comes as standard with the iPad Pro was used in conjunction with both the Arctec Leo structured light scanner and photogrammetric survey methods to record, analyse and present the recently excavated remains of a Neolithic passage tomb at Dowth Hall, Co, Meath, Ireland. It considers the ease and speed with which the small to medium scale structural components found here can be scanned or photographed, meshed, and textured using each approach and further explores whether the …

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Armagh Observatory –Historic Building Information Modelling For Virtual Learning In Building Conservation, Maurice Murphy Dr., Alain Chenaux, Garrett Keenaghan Dec 2025

Armagh Observatory –Historic Building Information Modelling For Virtual Learning In Building Conservation, Maurice Murphy Dr., Alain Chenaux, Garrett Keenaghan

Journal of Academic Research and Innovation

In this paper the recording and design for a Virtual Reality Immersive Model of Armagh Observatory is presented, which will replicate the historic buildings and landscape with distant meridian markers and position of its principal historic instruments within a model of the night sky showing the position of bright stars. The virtual reality model can be used for educational purposes allowing the instruments within the historic building model to be manipulated within 3D space to demonstrate how the position measurements of stars were made in the 18th century. A description is given of current student and researchers activities concerning on-site …

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Current State Of Art Historic Building Information Modelling, Conor Dore Dr, Maurice Murphy Dr Dec 2025

Current State Of Art Historic Building Information Modelling, Conor Dore Dr, Maurice Murphy Dr

Journal of Academic Research and Innovation

In an extensive review of existing literature a number of observations were made in relation to the current approaches for recording and modelling existing buildings and environments: Data collection and pre-processing techniques are becoming increasingly automated to allow for near real-time data capture and fast processing of this data for later modelling applications. Current BIM software is almost completely focused on new buildings and has very limited tools and pre-defined libraries for modelling existing and historic buildings. The development of reusable parametric library objects for existing and historic buildings supports modelling with high levels of detail while decreasing the modelling …

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Letter To Bob From Rosemary, Rosemary Romero Dec 2025

Letter To Bob From Rosemary, Rosemary Romero

Bob Schieffer Vietnam War Collection

Letter to Bob Schieffer from Rosemary Romero, Chief of the Accreditation Branch for the Department of Defense, with information on how he will be allowed to be in Vietnam, November 18, 1965.

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Travel Information Dec 2025

Travel Information

Bob Schieffer Vietnam War Collection

Packet by the Department of Defense with information in planning a visit to South Vietnam, November 18, 1965.

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Review Of The Love Israel Family: Urban Commune, Rural Commune, Holly Folk Dec 2025

Review Of The Love Israel Family: Urban Commune, Rural Commune, Holly Folk

Communal Societies

No abstract provided.

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City Communes In Israel: Prolegomena To A Morphology Of Urban Communalism, James Horrox Dec 2025

City Communes In Israel: Prolegomena To A Morphology Of Urban Communalism, James Horrox

Communal Societies

No abstract provided.

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Zion City: A Theocratic Municipality, With A Coda On Ave Maria, Holly Folk Dec 2025

Zion City: A Theocratic Municipality, With A Coda On Ave Maria, Holly Folk

Communal Societies

No abstract provided.

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Lacunas In Spirit-Empowered Leadership, Eric N. Newberg Dec 2025

Lacunas In Spirit-Empowered Leadership, Eric N. Newberg

Spiritus: ORU Journal of Theology

This article addresses three issues that are lacunas not adequately addressed in the domain of Spirit-empowered leadership. These three lacunas of pressing concern in Spirit-empowered leadership are (1) spiritual formation, (2) moral integrity, and (3) power distance. These lacunas impinge directly on the viability and sustainability of Spirit-empowered leadership. If we conceive leadership as a gift given and sustained by the Holy Spirit, it follows that it is endowed and empowered by the Spirit, rather than acquired by human effort and skill. However, those who are entrusted with stewarding the process of developing leaders must at times hold accountable those …

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Full Issue Spiritus 10, Nos. 1-2 (2025), Spiritus Oru Journal Of Theology Dec 2025

Full Issue Spiritus 10, Nos. 1-2 (2025), Spiritus Oru Journal Of Theology

Spiritus: ORU Journal of Theology

Full issue of Spiritus 10, nos. 1-2 (2025) guest edited by Wonsuk Ma and Daniel D. Isgrigg.

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Exploring Perceptions Of Generative Ai On Study Abroad Programming, Justin T. Sleppy Dec 2025

Exploring Perceptions Of Generative Ai On Study Abroad Programming, Justin T. Sleppy

Capstone Collection

This study examines the perceptions and experiences of international education professionals regarding the integration of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in higher education. While AI offers new opportunities for enhancing learning, existing research highlights both potential benefits and ethical, environmental, and pedagogical concerns. Using a qualitative approach, this study explores how study abroad staff in the Claremont Consortium engage with and assess the implications of AI within international contexts. Guided by critical frameworks from Paulo Freire, the research situates AI within broader discussions of power, labor, and knowledge production. Findings indicate that sampled staff predominantly use AI for low-stakes tasks or …

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Annihilation: Ecological Crisis And The Collapse Of Human Exceptionalism, Matt Williams Dec 2025

Annihilation: Ecological Crisis And The Collapse Of Human Exceptionalism, Matt Williams

Best Integrated Writing

Through its portrayal of an ecosystem that actively resists human comprehension and control, Annihilation dismantles the long-standing notion of human exceptionalism, presenting nature not as a passive backdrop but as a dynamic and autonomous force.

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Forming Identity In Third Spaces: An Exploration Through Literature, J. Lynn Millar Dec 2025

Forming Identity In Third Spaces: An Exploration Through Literature, J. Lynn Millar

Best Integrated Writing

To address the difficulty adolescents have navigating conflicting guidance to find their own path, and provide actionable resources, I will present the concept of Third Spaces, explore the works of Firekeeper's Daughter and “My Standard Response” through the lens of Third Spaces, and present lessons utilizing these texts to focus on Third Spaces in the classroom.

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The Pedagogy Of Financial Leverage: Using A "Hook" To Improve Learning Dec 2025

The Pedagogy Of Financial Leverage: Using A "Hook" To Improve Learning

Journal of Economics and Finance Education

The past few years have seen the emergence of a distinct literature concerned with the pedagogy of finance. One area of particular interest is the effective teaching of the concept of financial leverage. This paper presents an overview of some considerations pertaining to the initial presentation of financial leverage to the undergraduate business student. The paper begins by providing a review of the most common teaching approaches as evidenced by prominent introductory finance textbooks. Next, an alternative streamlined initial presentation is discussed which can serve as an effective “hook” when the concept of financial leverage is presented.

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Cv: Valerie Hill (Developmental Psychology), Valerie Hill Dec 2025

Cv: Valerie Hill (Developmental Psychology), Valerie Hill

Psychology Department Faculty Curricula Vitae

No abstract provided.

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