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Best Practices For Evaluation And Treatment Of Agitated Children And Adolescents (Beta) In The Emergency Department: Consensus Statement Of The American Association For Emergency Psychiatry, R. Gerson, N. Malas, V. Feuer, G. H. Silver, R. Prasad, M. M. Mroczkowski

Journal Articles

No abstract provided.

2019 Spring And Winter - Schedule Of Classes, Office Of The Registrar, East Tennessee State University

Registration Resources

No abstract provided.

Elizabeth Hein, Senior Art Exhibition Portfolio, Elizabeth Hein

Senior Art Portfolios

Elizabeth Hein's Senior Art Exhibition Portfolio, showcased in the Baer Gallery from April 8th to May 3rd, 2019. Works include graphic design, package design, and a zine.

Denoising Renoir Image Dataset With Dbsr, Fatma Albluwi, Vladimir A. Krylov, Rozenn Dahyot

Session 2: Deep Learning for Computer Vision

Noise reduction algorithms have often been evaluated using images degraded by artificially synthesised noise. The RENOIR image dataset [3] provides an alternative way for testing noise reduction algorithms on real noisy images and we propose in this paper to assess our CNN called De-Blurring Super-Resolution (DBSR) [2] to reduce the natural noise due to low light conditions in a RENOIR dataset.

Comparison Of Activity Recognition Using 2d And 3d Skeletal Joint Data, Fiona Marshall, Shuai Zhang, Bryan Scotney

Session 1: Active Vision, Tracking, Motion Analysis

No abstract provided.

The Visual Presidency Of Donald Trump's First Hundred Days: Political Image Making And Digital Media, Ryan T. Strand

Senior Honors Projects, 2010-2019

From frequent scrum photos of the president holding up signed executive orders in the Oval Office to images of the president energetically sitting behind the wheel of a Mack truck parked outside his back door, like previous administrations, visuals have been central to Donald Trump's presidency. This chapter analyzes the visuals on White House social media accounts (i.e., Twitter and Facebook) in Trump's first 100 days office and explores how his administration used visuals as an essential vehicle for storytelling, image building, and persuading. Building on previous research on the communicative functions of visual symbols in politics, the chapter finds …

Suffolk Journal, Vol.82, No.16, 4/3/2019, Suffolk Journal

Suffolk Journal

No abstract provided.

Examining The Use Of Accounting Information In Planned Careers: A Group Project To More Fully Engage Students In Introductory Accounting Courses, Alissa Choi, Karen Schuele, Mark D. Sheldon, Mariah Webinger

2019 Faculty Bibliography

Most undergraduate business students are required to complete one or two introductory accounting courses, but many fail to see the value that such coursework offers their career (Chen, Jones, and McIntyre 2004). However, engaging students in exercises that explicitly demonstrate the link between course content and planned areas of study enhances the student experience in introductory accounting courses (Turner, Lesseig, and Fulmer 2006). This article presents a group project for introductory accounting courses that links course content to planned areas of study across business disciplines. We discuss all elements of the semester-long project and offer several tools to help with …

Examining The Use Of Accounting Information In Planned Careers: A Group Project To More Fully Engage Students In Introductory Accounting Courses, Alissa Choi, Karen Schuele, Mark D. Sheldon, Mariah Webinger

2019 Faculty Bibliography

Most undergraduate business students are required to complete one or two introductory accounting courses, but many fail to see the value that such coursework offers their career (Chen, Jones, and McIntyre 2004). However, engaging students in exercises that explicitly demonstrate the link between course content and planned areas of study enhances the student experience in introductory accounting courses (Turner, Lesseig, and Fulmer 2006). This article presents a group project for introductory accounting courses that links course content to planned areas of study across business disciplines. We discuss all elements of the semester-long project and offer several tools to help with …

Social Media And Communication Centers: An Introduction, Janine Morris, Whitney S. Lehmann, Kevin Dvorak

Communication, Media, and Arts Faculty Articles

While many communication centers actively use social media to engage with different publics, there is a need for scholarship addressing how centers can best use social media to enhance student professional development, cross-campus connections, branding, and center visibility. This introduction to the CCJ special section on social media and communication centers offers a rationale for centers’ strategic incorporation of social media platforms. In particular, we discuss the importance of strategic branding, engaging different publics, and using social media to enhance consultant professional development as key features of social media use by communication center professionals.

Shattering The Crystal Goblet: Seeking A Pedagogy Of Visuality In Post - Typographic Expository Texts, David Reinking

Publications

This article synthesizes diverse theoretical perspectives toward developing a pedagogy that addresses the visuality of digital texts. To frame those perspectives and their implications, I use a well - known analogy that Beatrice Warde introduced to typographers in the 1930s: drinking wine from a golden cup or a crystal goblet. I briefly review the theory and research related to visual aspects of texts, generating pedagogical perspectives from several prominent theories and perspectives. I then discuss, illustrated with a few examples, how these pedagogical perspectives might be instantiated in curriculum and instruction and the issues and challenges of doing so. I …

Usu Teaching Documentation: Dossiers From The Mentoring Program, Francis Galey, Sylvia Read, María Luisa Spicer-Escalante, Cathy Ferrand Bullock, Alan Blackstock, Sergio Bernal, Katherine Chudoba, Mike A. Christiansen, Travis Dorsch, Lianna K. Etchberger, Paul R. Grossl, Kelsey Hall, Wayne Hatch, Scott L. Hunsaker, Kimberly H. Lott

Faculty

The nation's land grant institutions were founded on the principle of access for the general public to the knowledge gained through research and creative activity fostered in higher education. Central to our access mission is our dedication to teaching and learning that is informed by research and discovery, both of which must result, at least in part, from our engagement with our external constituents. That teaching and learning informs our research and vice versa; our research informs and aids in our teaching mission.

This work, compiled by Professors Maria Luisa Spicer-Escalante and Cathy Ferrand Bullock, is focused on how the …

Graduate Bulletin & Catalog | 2019-2020, 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.

Inventive Remembrance, Jack Micoli

Theses & ETDs

The temporality of our experience prompts anxiety and unrest. We fear the inevitable absence that follows presence, but ultimately this fear is what gets us out of bed in the morning – life continues in spite of death. In this study of pastoral painting, a mode which expresses longing for an origin, or nostalgia, I demonstrate that harmony is often constituted by a combination of familiarity and distance. My display of pastoral as a conflicted pursuit of an origin is supplemented by the theoretical work of Susan Stewart and Gaston Bachelard, who explore the relationship between description and its referent, …

Rough And Tumble Play In The Domestic Dog (Canis Familiaris), Aren Hendrickson

Theses & ETDs

Rough-and-tumble play is a type of social play characterized by both competition and cooperation. The experience of rough-and-tumble play may allow juveniles to calibrate their emotional response and improve motor, neural, and social development. Playing as adults has been shown to reduce current stress levels. In the animal kingdom, rough-and-tumble play typically happens between familiar individuals. At off-leash dog parks, familiar and unfamiliar individuals play, which requires intricate social coordination. How do they do it? Here we observed naturally occurring playful behaviors of domestic dogs in 14 dyadic play bouts at an off-leash dog park in Bradenton, Florida. We video-recorded …

Analysis Of Factors Influencing Return On Investment (Roi) For Building Information Modeling (Bim) Implementation, Tugce Kulaksiz

Wayne State University Dissertations

A research study was conducted to investigate and understand factors influencing Return on Investment of Building Information Modeling (BIM).

Research data was collected from 182 industry professionals (design firms, contractors and owners) using a survey instrument. The research data were evaluated by examining frequency distributions and running statistical analyses including an analysis of variance with post hoc tests and a multiple linear regression analysis. Furthermore, a simulation study was conducted to infer conclusions about the larger population from which the repeated samples were taken. The research findings revealed that the factors contributing to Return on Investment of BIM implementation were: …

Deaf Children, Humor And Education Policy, Donna Jo Napoli, R. L. Sutton-Spence

Linguistics Faculty Works

Deaf children need true inclusion to learn, entailing consistent, pervasive use of visual-learning techniques. This is achieved via bilingual education policies that enforce deaf children’s rights to use sign language, permitting teachers to engage in deaf pedagogy using sign language. Educational policies advocating inclusion via an interpreter in the mainstreamed classroom create the “illusion of inclusion” (Glickman 2003). We argue that, in either case, humor can aid inclusion. Understanding humor is a developmental ability, related to cognitive, social, linguistic, and metalinguistic competence. Additionally, learning how humor is understood and expressed contributes to language mastery. However, we find little discussion of …

The Development Of The Infews-Er: A Virtual Resource Center For Transdisciplinary Graduate Student Training At The Nexus Of Food, Energy, And Water, Luis F. Rodriguez, Anna-Maria Marshall, Dan Cotton, Richard K. Koelsch, Jacek Koziel, Deanne Meyer, Dan Steward, Jill Heemstra, Anand Padmanabahn, John Classen, Nathan J. Meyer, Benjamin L. Ruddell, Sean M. Ryan, Ximing Cai, Emad Habib, Peter D. Saundry

Department of Agricultural and Biological Systems Engineering: Faculty Publications

Problems at the nexus of Food, Energy and Water Systems (FEWS) are among the most complex challenges we face. Spanning simple to complex temporal, geographic, social, and political framings, the questions raised at this nexus require multidisciplinary if not transdisciplinary approaches. Answers to these questions must draw from engineering, the physical and biological sciences, and the social sciences. Practical solutions depend upon a wide community of stakeholders, including industry, policymakers, and the general public. Yet there are many obstacles to working in a transdisciplinary environment: unfamiliar concepts, specialized terminology, and countless “blind” spots. Graduate education occurs in disciplinary ‘silos’, often …

Deaffa: An Exploration Of Agricultural Education In Schools For The Deaf And Hard Of Hearing, Sarah Danielle Warren

Theses and Dissertations--Community & Leadership Development

The Kentucky School for the Deaf agriculture program and FFA chapter is the second Deaf FFA chapter in the nation and has proven itself to be unique, successful, and worthy of investigation. This exploratory, collective/intrinsic Case Study examines the historical evidence of agriculture on the school’s campus, collects observations and interviews regarding agricultural education at the school, and provides insight to advise other educational institutions and organizations on the nature of agricultural education in a school for deaf and hard of hearing students.

A Field-Based Survey Of Fluorescence In Tropical Tree Frogs Using An Led Uv-B Flashlight, Michelle E. Thompson, Ralph Saporito, Diego H. Ruiz-Valderrama4, Guido F. Medina-Rangel, Maureen A. Donnelly

2019 Faculty Bibliography

No abstract provided.

Bachelor Of Arts-Communication 2019-2020, Nova Southeastern University

Undergraduate Programs Course Catalogs

No abstract provided.

Human Geography, Andrew Milson

Mavs Open Press Open Educational Resources - Archive

Dr. Andrew Milson received a UTA CARES Adoption Stipend in 2018 to implement open pedagogy in GEOG 2302 (Human Geography). The syllabus and Wiki Edu timeline from the pilot semester are archived here.

Quantifying Signpost Usage By Captive Male White-Tailed Deer, Cassie L. Auxt, Eric S. Michel, Jonathan A. Jenks

The Prairie Naturalist

White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) use rubbing of signpost structures to communicate during the breeding season. Rubbing of signpost structures allows deer to communicate via visual and chemical cues, which allows them to establish dominance hierarchies and maintain hierarchal status throughout the breeding season (Moore and Marchinton 1974, Miller et al. 1981, Hewitt 2011). Once a living tree is rubbed, the exposed light-colored sapwood creates a stark contrast in wooded areas, increasing visibility and further enticing deer to investigate the structure (Oehler et al. 1995). Anatomically, the tubular apocrine sudoriferous glands of white-tailed deer are located at the antler …

Matlab Gui Based Educational Simulation Tool Box For Power Analysis, Tharuka Senevirathne

All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects

One of the most important and complex tasks in power engineering is the analysis of power systems under fault conditions. The detection and analysis of these faults are important to guarantee that the dependability and stability of the power system does not decline as a result of a critical event such as a fault. This thesis will conduct research on how a power system under fault conditions behaves and will examine the various scenarios of faults such as three-phase, single line-to-ground, line-to-line, and double line-to-ground faults. A simplified method based on symmetrical components is used to construct the mathematical models …

Curriculum Change 2019-2020, Portland State University

Bulletin & Curriculum Change Documents

No abstract provided.

Presenting A Product Design From Computer-Generated Imagery (Cgi), Mirjeta Mustafa

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this thesis is to determine a solution to overcome photography problems to present product design by using Computer Generated Imagery. CGI and virtual design now play a key role in the development of many materials, processes and products. Through this study has been explored, the impact of 3D render to exhibit the product design, as well as a brief history of photography and how it is used to present the product, the problems that have emerged during the use of photographs to present the product design have been discussed, and how new technologies have enabled us to …

Undergraduate Symposium, 2019, College Of Arts & Sciences

Undergraduate Symposium Programs

No abstract provided.

Use Of Virtual Reality Technology In Medical Training And Patient Rehabilitation, Sankalp Mishra

Browse all Theses and Dissertations

Coaching patients to follow the rehabilitation routines correctly and timely after surgery is often a challenge due to the limited medical knowledge of patients and limited availability of clinicians. Similarly, it is also a challenge to train medical professionals with both the technical and communication skills required in their practices. The recent emergence of VR technologies shines the light on improving the current training practices. In this thesis research, I will look at the development and application of VR-based immersive training games for two particular cases: 1. Post hand surgery rehab; and, 2. Training for Social determinants of health (SDOH) …

Retail Facility Layout Considering Shopper Path And Door Placement, Sagarkumar D. Hirpara

Browse all Theses and Dissertations

The physical design of a retail store is known to influence the attitude and behavior of shoppers, in turn affecting the store’s performance. While literature in retail design has alluded to the impact of changes in department placements on impulse revenue, it has not accounted for the changes in the path of a shopper due to such modifications. Shopper path changes can alter a department’s visibility to the shoppers as they pass by, and such visibility eventually impacts that department’s impulse revenue. To address this gap, we study the retail facility layout problem by accounting for changes in the shopper …

Journalism & Digital Communications, 2019-2020, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg

Academic Learning Compacts

The Academic Learning Compact for the Bachelor's of Arts in Journalism and Digital Communications, 2019-2020.