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A Phenomenological Inquiry Into Kindergarten Teacher Perceptions Of Literacy Skills, Angela Shelton

Student Theses and Dissertations

This qualitative phenomenological study explored kindergarten teachers’ perceptions of the literacy skills of students from households with limited financial resources, compared to students who attended the universal preschool program located in District A with those who did not. The study addressed three research questions: 1. How do teachers perceive the literacy skills of these students? 2. How do teachers describe their experiences teaching literacy to these students? and 3. What resources or professional development do teachers identify as helpful in supporting literacy instruction? Semi-structured interviews with kindergarten teachers were conducted and analyzed to identify common themes. Participants reported that children …

Ai-Driven Automatic Fault Detection Systems: Revolutionizing Modern Smart Grids, Aravind Sanikommu

Student Theses and Dissertations

The increasing complexity of current power systems, resulting from the integration of distributed generators and renewable energy sources, necessitates intelligent and adaptive fault detection schemes. Traditional protection using impedance and phasor analysis is usually weak when operating in nonlinear and transient operating conditions. Consequently, the tools of Data-driven fault classification and decision-making have gained strength under artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to improve grid reliability. This thesis is a proposal of an automatic fault detection and classification system based on AI applied to a smart mini-grid setting built in MATLAB/Simulink. A complete set of voltage and current data …

Advanced Control Strategy For Photovoltaic Dc Microgrids Using Model Predictive Control With Rl Filter Enhancement, Yagub Suleymanov

Student Theses and Dissertations

This thesis presents the modeling and control of a photovoltaic (PV)-based DC microgrid using MATLAB/Simulink. A DC–DC converter with a buck stage is employed to perform a better maximum power point tracking (MPPT) and voltage regulation from PV panel. Predictive control method (MPC) algorithm will be employed, which offers faster transient response and reduced oscillations compared to traditional techniques. Considering the existing works, this study introduces an additional RL filter branch to further improve the stability of the regulated DC bus voltage combining MPC method and Incremental Conductance Maximum Power Point Tracking (IC-MPPT) algorithm. To ensure stable operation of the …

Investigating The Challenges That Black Female Superintendents Face While Navigating Local School Boards, Eric Dailey

Student Theses and Dissertations

For the past twenty years, Black women have increasingly ascended to the role of school district superintendent. Black female superintendents navigate education systems that were not built with them in mind creating unique challenges. The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to investigate the challenges that Black female superintendents face while navigating local school boards. This study was informed by glass ceiling theory, gendered organizations theory, and a black feminist framework establishing a research base for this study’s focus. Eight Black female superintendents were interviewed using an interview protocol. This study reveals that Black female superintendents experience similar challenges …

Historical Revisionism And Public Institutions: The Smithsonian’S Dilemma, Natalia Palacino Camargo

Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights and Social Justice (ERSJ) Blog

On August 10, 1846, President James K. Polk signed legislation establishing the Smithsonian Institution, created from the bequest of British scientist James Smithson, as “an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge.” Structurally, the Smithsonian occupies a unique legal status as a trust instrumentality of the United States: it is governed by a Board of Regents and a Secretary, is separate and distinct from governmental branches of the national government, and holds no regulatory authority beyond its own premises.  While courts have held that it is not a governmental agency, it shares immunity from state and local regulation and …

Segmenting Religious Tourists Based On Google Maps Reviews Using Latent Semantic Analysis And Hierarchical Clustering, Senthilkumaran Piramanayagam, Jyothi Mallya, Kartikeya Bolar

International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage

Researchers in the tourism industry and academics are interested in analysing and extracting conclusions from user-generated data because they offer valuable insights into visitors’ motives, experiences, and consumption behaviour. However, religious tourists’ data have rarely been explored specifically in segmentation studies. Therefore, this study aims to segment religious tourists based on their Google Map reviews using Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) and hierarchical clustering. These analyses have resulted in three distinct segments: heritage explorers, aesthetes, and self-transcendence seekers. While heritage explorers are interested in learning about the cultural and historical significance of a site, aesthetes appreciate its beauty and art, while …

Sga 57 Senate 2026-01-23 Minutes, Niu Student Government Association Senate

Student Government Association Archives

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Challenges To The Internationalisation Of Small And Medium-Sized Food Crops-Based Enterprises (Smes) In Tanzania, Omari Khalifa Mbura, Sumaya M. Kagoya

Business Management Review

This paper examines the salient attributes of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) internationalisation of food crops. Using the explanatory research design the study applied the International Entrepreneurship theory and the Uppsala internationalisation process model, to specifically link the influence of internal, psychic distance and external factors to SMEs internationalisation of food crops in Tanzania. It reports the findings of a study that used a structured questionnaire to collect data from 80 randomly selected food crop exporting firms in Tanzania. The results subjected to multiple regression analysis indicate that out of the three constructs, internal and psychic distance factors had a …

1750 Associates, Llc V. Elbaz

All Decisions

In this nonpayment proceeding, the landlord sought to recover rent for a rent-stabilized apartment after the lease expired and Emergency Rental Assistance Program (ERAP) funds were accepted. The Civil Court dismissed the petition, finding the landlord failed to establish a prima facie case as no lease was in effect, and acceptance of ERAP funds does not create an agreement under RPAPL 711(2) to pay rent. The Appellate Term affirmed the denial of the landlord's motion to set aside the dismissal, holding that while ERAP acceptance restricts landlords from certain holdover actions for 12 months, it does not constitute an agreement …

Stahl Associates Llc V. Cataldo

All Decisions

In this non-primary residence holdover proceeding, the court granted the landlord's motion for discovery concerning the tenant's residency, but limited the scope of document production to the most recent lease term. Concurrently, the court partially granted the tenant's cross-motion for discovery related to her defense of excusable absence due to uninhabitable apartment conditions, citing ample need based on mold reports and HPD violations. However, the tenant's request for discovery regarding illegal subletting was denied. The case was marked off-calendar pending completion of the ordered, albeit limited, discovery from both parties.

Caribbean Early Childhood Educators, Primary Educators, And Student Teachers' Perceptions Of Visual Literacy And Visual Images Across The Curriculum, Monica Yvonne Hines-Graham

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

The problem that was addressed through this study is the gap in knowledge about the integration and evaluation of visual literacy and visual images across the curriculum of early childhood educators, primary educators, and student teachers, despite it being a requirement for teachers in the Caribbean education system. Grounded in Hall and Hord’s concerns-based adoption model, the purpose of this study was to explore the perceptions of early childhood educators, primary educators, and student teachers with the integration and evaluation of visual literacy and visual images across the curriculum. For this basic qualitative design, semistructured interviews with 12 participants from …

Anthony Garvin V. Warden Lewisburg Usp

2026 Decisions

USDC for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Estate Of Frances D Derosa V. Philip Murphy

2026 Decisions

USDC for the District of New Jersey

A Town Of Their Own Making: Garrett Grove And Other Arkansas Freedom Settlements, Donna Shelton

Student Theses and Dissertations

This study is an examination of Black power movements through townbuilding in post-emancipation Arkansas delving into the perspectives of African American farmer-owners, business operators, educators, and community leaders who survived on the other side of slavery. Despite failed promises from so-called allies, or perhaps because of them and other societal betrayals, freedpeople carved out a place in the American landscape to establish All-Black communities and towns popularly known as “Black Towns” or “Freedmen Towns.” In contrast to most studies of Black towns, this study is situated in the South, specifically in Arkansas, to examine the more than three dozen freedom …

Introducing "Visual Bibliographies" As A Novel Tool For Communicating Complexity: A Knowledge Translation Case Study From Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Primary Health Care Research, Kathleen P. Conte, Alison Laycock, Jodie Bailie, Veronica Matthews, Ross Bailie

Homelessness Research & Action Collaborative Publications and Presentations

Background

Effective knowledge translation ensures health care research has desired impacts – this is particularly important for Indigenous communities who have historically not benefited from research about and on them. Yet much knowledge translation in Indigenous contexts continues without community partnerships and disregards Indigenous values, languages and knowledge-sharing practices. Visual approaches can be engaging knowledge translation strategies that align with Indigenous knowledge translation traditions and amplify Indigenous perspectives. In this paper, we introduce a new tool we have coined a “Visual Bibliography” for knowledge generation and translation, developed within a large-scale, participatory research collaboration in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander …

Jill Durkin V. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co

2026 Decisions

USDC for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Assessing Abuse And Neglect In U.S. Nursing Homes: A Comparative Analysis Across Pre-, During, And Post-Pandemic Periods, Katherine Gane

Theses and Dissertations

Nursing homes are among the most closely regulated providers in the U.S. healthcare system, with both federal and state agencies working together to monitor care and help protect residents. The COVID-19 pandemic, however, introduced unprecedented challenges for facilities and survey agencies alike, disrupting normal operations, limiting in-person visits, and temporarily shifting regulatory priorities. The purpose of this study was to examine how these pandemic-related disruptions were reflected in the severity and reporting patterns of substantiated abuse and neglect deficiencies in U.S. nursing homes. Using publicly available data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), this study analyzed 39,607 …

De Novo Variants In The Splicing Factor Gene Sf3b1 Are Associated With Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Kevin Uguen, Tiffany Bergot, Marie-Pier Scott-Boyer, Solène Chapalain, Camille Desdouets, Séverine Commet, Changlian Zhu, Yiran Xu, Yangong Wang, Tony Roscioli, Frederic Tran-Mau-Them, Laurence Faivre, Julien Maraval, Julian Delanne, Anne-Sophie Denommé-Pichon, Antonio Vitobello, Céline Jost, Marc Planes, Susan Hiatt, Patricia Wheeler, Claudia Gonzaga-Jauregui, Heng Wang, Baozhong Xin, Valerie Sency, Michael C Kruer, Somayeh Bakhtiari, Patrick Sulem, Cynthia Curry, Trine Prescott, Gertrud Strobl-Wildemann, Theresa Brunet, Martine Doco Fenzy, Thomas Courtin, Céline Poirsier, Trine Bjørg Hammer, Christina D Fenger, Melissa Macpherson, Kosuke Izumi, Jacqueline Leonard, Dong Li, Elaine H Zackai, Ian A Glass, Scott Ward, Philippe M Campeau, Maria Carla Hermida Borroto, Laurence Le Moigno, Hilde Van Esch, Liesbeth De Waele, Daniel G Calame, James R Lupski, Giulia Barcia, Cristina Peduto, Pauline Planté-Bordeneuve, Lucie Dupuis, Roberto Mendoza-Londono, Dimitri J Stavropoulos, Jennifer Gillibert-Duplantier, Thomas Besnard, Laura Do Souto Ferreira, Benjamin Cogné, Stéphane Bézieau, Arnaud Droit, Laurent Corcos, Eric Lippert, Claude Férec, Sebastien Küry, Delphine G Bernard

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

SF3B1 is an essential and ubiquitous splicing factor that plays a pivotal role in the early steps of pre-mRNA splicing. Recurrent somatic missense mutations in SF3B1 are frequent in cancers, but no constitutional variant has been reported so far. We describe here a cohort of 26 individuals with neurodevelopmental disorders, harbouring SF3B1 constitutional heterozygous variants that appeared mostly de novo. Patients present with a global developmental delay, associated with variable neurological and facial dysmorphic traits. A dichotomy may emerge between patients harbouring predicted loss of function (n = 9) and missense variants (n = 17), the latter being associated with …

Saga/Atac Complexes Sustain Aberrant Chromatin Regulation And Promote Tumorigenesis In Diffuse Midline Glioma, Rosemary U Richard, Caitlin Bagnetto, Rebecca L Murdaugh, Brittany R Eberl, Alan L Jiao, Adam F Kebede, Barry M Zee, Margaret M Harrington, Mariella G Filbin, Akdes Serin-Harmanci, Yang Shi, Jamie N Anastas

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Diffuse midline gliomas (DMG) are aggressive pediatric brain tumors characterized by chromatin and transcriptional dysregulation induced by H3K27M mutations. Strategies for overcoming epigenetic dysfunction to reduce DMG tumorigenesis remain limited. We identified multiple components of the SAGA and ATAC chromatin regulatory complexes as DMG genetic dependencies and found that genetic or pharmacological inhibition of the SAGA/ATAC-associated chromatin reader SGF29 reduces DMG proliferation. Small molecules targeting SAGA/ATAC-associated histone acetylation, ubiquitination, and methylation similarly suppressed DMG growth. Further chromatin profiling and RNAseq analyses reveal that SGF29 controls H3K9ac and H3K4me3 dynamics at both H3K27M-bound and H3K27M-independent target genes linked to proliferation, differentiation, …

In Re: Eva Anderson

2026 Decisions

USDC for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Intestinal Epithelial Tlr5 Signaling Promotes Barrier-Supportive Macrophages, Ming-Ting Tsai, Ryann Callaghan, Charles Ng, Lisette Peres-Tintin, Dean B Matthews, Nikketa Stanford, Karuna Ganesh, Mary K Estes, Gretchen E Diehl

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Intestinal macrophages are essential for epithelial barrier repair. In homeostasis, macrophages are continuously replenished by recruitment of circulating CCR2+ monocytes into the intestinal lamina propria. This requires the commensal microbiota, however, the specific microbial factors and downstream host pathways that coordinate macrophage replenishment are inadequately understood. Here, we show that colonization with an E. coli isolate increased CCR2+ macrophages in the intestine and ameliorated pathology in a colitis model. Using human colonic organoids, we showed E. coli colonization induced CCL2 secretion by intestinal epithelial stem cells which promoted monocyte migration. In vivo, protection was abolished in the absence of epithelial …

Analisis Klaim Odc Dan Kesiapan Sistem Informasi Rumah Sakit Dalam Mendukung Pengelolaan Klaim Bpjs: Studi Kasus Di Rs. Fatmawati, Grahyta Dhamayanti, Arifin Arifin

Jurnal Biostatistik, Kependudukan, dan Informatika Kesehatan

Masalah klaim tertunda BPJS Kesehatan pada layanan rawat inap kategori one day care (ODC) masih menjadi isu strategis di Rumah Sakit (RS) Fatmawati. Hal ini menyebabkan layanan tidak efisien dan potensi kerugian finansial. Hingga saat ini, mekanisme deteksi dini yang sistematis untuk mengidentifikasi masalah potensi klaim ODC belum tersedia secara optimal. Penelitian ini bertujuan menganalisis pola klaim ODC serta menyusun model konseptual deteksi dini potensi klaim ODC berbasis data Sistem Informasi Manajemen Rumah Sakit (SIMRS). Penelitian menggunakan desain deskriptif analitik dengan pendekatan metode campuran. Analisis kuantitatif dilakukan terhadap 2.401 data klaim rawat inap periode Januari–April 2025 di RS. Fatmawati, meliputi …

From Detection To Protection: Online Risks, Privacy And Security In The Lives Of Disabilities, Cansu Bolat Dinc, Elizabeth J. Done

School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences

This paper emphasises the need to address onlinerisks, privacy and security in the everyday digital livesof individuals with intellectual disabilities. It proposesa study that will explore their online experiencesalongside parental concerns, expectations andpractices, as well as the forms of support teachersprovide to both parents and students. The project willadopt a mixed-methods design, bringing togetherfocus groups with young people with intellectualdisabilities, online surveys with parents and semistructured interviews with teachers. By integratingthese perspectives, the paper aims to build an evidencebase that can inform future research and guide thedevelopment of more context-sensitive policies,educational practices and curricula. Ultimately, thestudy seeks to contribute to …

Restoration Enhances Carbon Storage In Mangroves After Hurricane Impacts, Robert Puschendorf

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

Mangroves are globally important blue-carbon ecosystems, yet their resilience isthreatened by extreme weather events and hydrological alterations. Insoutheastern Mexico, a large mangrove die-off occurred in 1995 followingHurricane Roxanne and Tropical Storm Opal, linked to storm-surge–drivenhypersalinity, sedimentation, and prolonged flooding. In 2005, an ecologicalrestoration program was launched in the Términos Lagoon region, focusing onhydrological rehabilitation and reforestation with Avicennia germinans. Fourteenyears later, we assessed ecosystem recovery by quantifying total ecosystemcarbon stocks (TECS), defined as the sum of 0–50-cm soil organic carbon andtree biomass carbon, across conserved, degraded, and restored sites, and byreconstructing vegetation cover dynamics from multi-decadal satellite imagery(1984–2023). TECS differed …

Transforming Dental Education Through Lived Experiences, Casper Jonker, Alex Cresswell-Boyes, Wendy Smith

Peninsula Dental School

No abstract provided.

Better Safe Than Sorry: Preventing Systemic Risks From Fintech Firm Insolvency In India, Manas Rohilla, Vaibhav Nishad

Indian Journal of Law and Technology

The Financial Technology (“FinTech”) sector in India has stood at the forefront of global financial innovation. However, this rapid expansion has also exposed systemic vulnerabilities that threaten the stability of the financial ecosystem. The Synapse bankruptcy in the United States serves as a cautionary tale, revealing the cascading risks posed by FinTech failures, including concentration risks, spillovers, and cyber vulnerabilities. India’s regulatory framework remains ill-equipped to address these challenges, leaving critical gaps in insolvency management for FinTech entities. This article undertakes a comprehensive analysis of systemic risks arising due to financial distress and insolvency situations in FinTech and proposes a …

2019u_Lac107_Approved_Bc_Museum-Studies-Cert-Curriculum-Change-Revision1, Undergraduate Curriculum Council

All Approved Curriculum

No abstract provided.

2019g_Ebs47_Approved_Bc_Ed.D.-Educational-Leadership-Curriculum-Changes-Revision1, Graduate Council

All Approved Curriculum

No abstract provided.

2020u_Nhp42_Approved_Pm_Ota-Program-Description-Updates, Undergraduate Curriculum Council

All Approved Curriculum

No abstract provided.

2021u_Lac59_Approved_Cm_Posc-4533-Environmental-Law-And-Administration-Rev1, Undergraduate Curriculum Council

All Approved Curriculum

No abstract provided.