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Saffy Collection - All Textual Materials

Calendar with holidays, spring break, beginning of class, examination week for UNF and grades due for UNF listed. No date given.

Tentative Course Outline, Edna Louise Saffy

Saffy Collection - All Textual Materials

Tentative weekly subject schedule for course MMC 5935. No date given.

Practical Poststructuralism For Confronting Wicked Problems, Vanessa Schweizer, Ricarda Scheele, Hannah Kosow

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

This paper discusses an innovative qualitative-quantitative modelling method relevant to two characteristics of wicked problems: they have no definitive formulation, and the choice of how they are defined or explained determines the nature of their resolution. Through projects conceptualizing the human dimensions of climate change, the socio-technical dynamics of the Energiewende (Germany’s low-carbon energy transition), and of water futures of a megacity (Lima), it has been found that the system-theoretic method of cross-impact balances (CIB) reveals fundamental assumptions in interdisciplinary modelling projects and opens them up for investigation. This can democratize modelling exercises while preserving scientific credibility. It can also …

Culture Influences On Human Decision-Making Processes Toward Environmental Policy: An Integrative Model Of Human-Environment Interaction, Gabriel Granco, Jessica Heier Stamm, Jason Bergtold, Melinda Daniels, Matthew Sanderson, Aleksey Sheshukov, Martha Mather, David Haukos, Marcellus Caldas

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

The Anthropogenic era marks the role of humans as agents of planetary modification. In this era, the search for sustainability in human-environment interactions has pushed the development of modeling techniques able to incorporate dynamic natural and human feedbacks across temporal and spatial scales. While researchers have refined models for both natural and human systems separately, the coupling of these systems via model integration continues to be a challenge. In response, researchers have concentrated their attention on how human decision-making processes respond to and affect the environment. New pathways to sustainability may be developed by examining how human culture informs the …

The Transnational Judicial Dialogue Of The Supreme Court Of Canada And Its Impact, Klodian Rado

PhD Dissertations

Through personal interviews with ten current and former judges of the SCC, case analyses, a review of archival documents, and a quantitative examination of all judgments between 20002016, this study offers a comprehensive exploration of the mechanisms, extent, purpose, and effects of transnational judicial dialogue of the SCC and its justices. Contrary to expectations, SCC participation in this dialogue does not occur only through the citation of foreign judgments. Instead, the SCC incorporates almost all forms of non-domestic legal sources of both an international and a comparative nature (legal mechanisms). However, the judicial dialogue resulting from genuine engagement, interactions, and …

Online Master's In Sociology Program Receives Top Ranking By Bestcolleges.Com, Staff

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An Evaluation Of Dating Violence Risk Factors For Division Iii Student-Athletes, Nicole Cantor

Theses and Dissertations

College students are at particular risk for dating violence (DV) perpetration and victimization. One group of college students who may be at increased risk is college student-athletes. Currently, no information exists on the dating and relationship behaviors of both male and female Division III student-athletes. The current study looks to identify both the frequency of DV perpetration and victimization among men and women along with specific risk factors for DV perpetration and victimization. We hypothesize that hazardous drinking and hostile sexism may be risk factors for DV perpetration and victimization among men and women. Among men, both hostile sexism and …

A Conversation With Emily Breakell

LGBTQ Alumni Oral History Project

This conversation represents an oral history interview with a Holy Cross alum who graduated in 2017.

A Probable Case Of Incipient Speciation In Schizocosa Wolf Spiders Driven By Allochrony, Habitat Use, And Female Mate Choice, R. Tucker Gilman, Kasey Fowler-Finn, Eileen A. Hebets

School of Biological Sciences: Faculty Publications

There is growing evidence that speciation can occur between populations that are not geographically isolated. The emergence of assortative mating is believed to be critical to this process, but how assortative mating arises in diverging populations is poorly understood. The wolf spider genus Schizocosa has become a model system for studying mechanisms of assortative mating. We conducted a series of experiments to identify the factors that control mate-pair formation in a Schizocosa population that includes both ornamented and nonornamented males. We show that the population also includes two previously unrecognized female phenotypes. One female phenotype mates mostly or exclusively with …

Hybridizers And The Hybridized: Orchid Growing As Hybrid "Nature?", Kellie Petersen

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Orchid growing is a hobby that includes not only acquiring and caring for orchids, but also learning about the diverse care requirements of various orchids, attending meetings of orchid groups, having one’s orchids evaluated by American Orchid Society judges or being a judge, or even creating hybrids. In this way, orchid hobbyists compose a distinctive subculture (Hansen 2000). Yet the activity of orchid growing also forms a nexus between the non-human and the human, two categories that are often constructed as an opposing binary. This thesis focuses on how orchid growing represents both the embedded, institutionalized characteristic of the binary …

Urban Demand Forecast Modeling: A Systematic Approach To Modern Modeling And Forecasting In El Paso, Tallen Capt, Shane Walker, Ali Mirchi

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

Modern day water management operators make decisions based on understanding future demands in the short, medium, and long-term time frames. The application of the many sociological, environmental, and policy driven components to how water is used in a city can be disaggregated into individual components using a multi-method modeling approach. Using a mechanistic modeling method and four data sets, regional temperature, regional precipitation, historic water production values, and historic population, combined with unique constants that describe city behavior can form a universal method for characterizing and modeling city water usage. For the city of El Paso using this methodology water …

Against Shaming: Preserving Dignity, Decency, And A Moral-Educative Mission In American Schools, Amanda Harmon Cooley

St. John's Law Review

(Excerpt)

While there has been an extensive amount of scholarly discourse regarding the propriety of shaming as a criminal sanction, there has been almost no critical discussion about the validity of shaming punishments as disciplinary measures in schools. This Article is designed to initiate this needed dialogue by arguing for the cessation of school shaming through a legal theory lenses. To accomplish this objective, Part I of this Article provides a definitional foundation of shaming punishments. Part II of the Article presents the normative rejection of school shaming, which is grounded in both legal punishment theory and educational theory. It …

Methods Matter: The Relationship Between Strength And Hypertrophy Depends On Methods Of Measurement And Analysis, Andrew D. Vigotsky, Brad J. Schoenfeld, Christian Than, J. Mark Brown

Publications and Research

Purpose: The relationship between changes in muscle size and strength may be affected by both measurement and statistical approaches, but their effects have not been fully considered or quantified. Therefore, the purpose of this investigation was to explore how different methods of measurement and analysis can affect inferences surrounding the relationship between hypertrophy and strength gain.

Methods: Data from a previous study—in which participants performed eight weeks of elbow flexor training, followed by an eight-week period of detraining—were reanalyzed using different statistical models, including standard between-subject correlations, analysis of covariance, and hierarchical linear modeling.

Results: The associative relationship between strength …

Wmu Board Of Trustees Formal Session June 27, 2018, Wmu Board Of Trustees

WMU Board of Trustees Meetings

• Acceptance of the Agenda
• Approval of the Minutes (April 18, 2018 Meeting)
• Remarks by the Chair
• Remarks by the President
• Comments by the Faculty Senate President
• Comments by the Western Student Association President
• Comments by the Graduate Student Association President
• Showcasing New Student Orientation
• Public Comments Regarding Action Items
• Tuition and Fees for Main Campus
• Tuition and Fees for Extended University Programs
• University Budget for 2018-2019
• Creation of the Richmond Institute for Design and Innovation
• Academic Tenure and Promotion
• Redemption of Debt and Transfer of Building and Related Property to WMU Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine
• Action as Class …

Raptors And Humans: Exploring Alternative Therapies In Non-Clinical Environments Using Birds Of Prey, Kaleigh Hoyt

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This study aims to deconstruct current conceptions about animal-assisted interventions by investigating relationships between human beings and birds of prey. Interactions between birds of prey, or “raptors,” provide novel cases from which to reexamine failed attempts to provide empirical data in support of alternative therapies. Previous research addressing the efficacy of animal-assisted interventions is simply not robust enough to be considered a feasible treatment option by medical professionals. By extension, models of self-regulation in psychology are often presented using reductionist models and oversimplified therapeutic outcomes. Taken together, raptor-human relationships help to highlight the shortcomings of each, as well as potential …

Leading And Learning: Principal And Instructional Leadership Team Implementation Of A District Multi-Tiered System Of Support Initiative, Jennifer Rinck

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

There are gaps in the literature between implementation research and organizational learning describing how local school systems successfully implement initiatives that change practices within school sites. Until recently, there has been a pattern for federal and state policies to overlook the role of the local school district in impacting school reform efforts (Honig & Copland, 2008; Knapp, 2008). With the importance of the school district gaining attention from researchers and policy makers, research on various aspects of district based reform efforts is expanding (Knapp, 2008). However, there is limited research on the influence of district reform strategies and the transfer …

Relations Between Experience With Mental Illness And The Not Guilty By Reason Of Insanity Plea, Madelyn Gero

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

The Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity (NGRI) plea is one of the most controversial defense strategies used in the modern legal system. The aim of this study was to determine whether previous experience with mental illness was a factor in participants' likelihood of assigning a NGRI verdict. Participants (N = 268) read a vignette and assigned a verdict. Items dealing with previous experience with mental illness and other related variables were included. Reliability and validity analyses and an exploratory factor analysis were performed on the previous experience with mental illness measure. Futher, logistic regression analyses were performed using measures …

Stakeholder Driven Watershed Modeling To Inform Drought-Adaptive Water Management In The Rio Grande Project Area, Maryam Samimi, Ali Mirchi, William L. Hargrove, Josiah Heyman, Nolan Thomas Townsend, David Gutzler, So Ra Ahn, Zhuping Sheng

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

The semi-arid Rio Grande-Rio Bravo (RGRB) Basin in southwestern U.S. has growing water conflict potential due to increasing demand for already-stressed water resources to support irrigated agriculture, growing urban areas, and riparian ecosystems while facing increasing aridity. The multitude of stakeholders from disparate water demand sectors complicates reaching consensus about “water futures” in this borderland region. In this research, we apply watershed modeling to support stakeholder engagement in the dialogue about water sustainability. An initial, comprehensive stakeholder survey revealed broad interest in better understanding plausible impacts of climate change on surface water and groundwater availability and associated implications for irrigated …

Examples Of Optimal Integration In The Iwrm Field:A Review, R.W. Vervoort, Suzanne A. Pierce

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

Research and application of Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) aims at combining the strengths of both social and biophysical sciences to merge stakeholder preferences and negotiation with natural resource modelling. In theory, each of these fields (biophysical modelling and social science) should, on average, equally contribute to the resulting management or policy outcome. This we would see as ‘optimal’. This then raises the question, whether this can be identified from reported individual case studies. In this study, we used a data mining approach on the literature, seeking to identify clear examples of integration of biophysical modelling and social science, the …

Developing A Coastal Gis Model Of Sri Lanka To Pinpoint Areas At Risk Of Tsunamis, John E. Dellysse, Buddhika D. Madurapperuma

IdeaFest: Interdisciplinary Journal of Creative Works and Research from Cal Poly Humboldt

No abstract provided.

Assignment For Next Meeting Of Graduate Class, Edna Louise Saffy

Saffy Collection - All Textual Materials

Notes regarding assignment for the next meeting of the graduate class. Speech 2600 id referenced. No date given.

Pathos, Edna Louise Saffy

Saffy Collection - All Textual Materials

Notes on Pathos. No date given.

Chapters 1, 6, 7, 9 Tests And Answers, Edna Louise Saffy

Saffy Collection - All Textual Materials

Class tests with answer keys. No date given.

Dialectic Continued, Edna Louise Saffy

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Notes on Dialectic. No date given.

Assignment For Week Four, Edna Louise Saffy

Saffy Collection - All Textual Materials

Assignment for week four. The Rhetoric and Principles of Speech Communication referenced, No date given.

Definition Of Dialectic, Edna Louise Saffy

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Notes (lecture) on the definition of Dialectic. No date given.

Definition Of Artistic And Non Artistic Appeals, Edna Louise Saffy

Saffy Collection - All Textual Materials

Notes (lecture) on the definition of Artistic and Nonartistic appeals. No date given.

Notes: Job Loss And Economic Recovery, Edna Louise Saffy

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Printed notes regarding a student having to withdraw, job loss, economic recovery and the importance of communication skills in the job market. Undated.

Class Description Of Mmc 5935, Edna Louise Saffy

Saffy Collection - All Textual Materials

Class description for MMC 5935 University of North Florida Spring Term Jan. 6 – April 26, 1988 and Florida Community College at Jacksonville FCCJ-T-201 Monday and Wednesday 4:25-5: 40.

Tentative Schedule Of Presentations In Speech 2600, Edna Louise Saffy

Saffy Collection - All Textual Materials

A list of the tentative schedule of presentation for class, Speech 2600. Includes general guidelines and grading information.