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Better Together: The Effect Of Learning Communities On Business Student Retention And Performance, Lynn Murray, Alexander Binder, Gail Yarick, Mary K. Wachter

Mountain Plains Journal of Business and Technology

College student performance and retention have been areas of concern for higher education for decades, and increasingly so over the last quarter century. This study explores how creating a learning community comprised of a first-year seminar and two disciplinary gateway courses across two semesters affected student performance in the gateway classes and in student retention. The study found three things of interest: 1) participation in a learning community and in a residential learning community each slightly improve the likelihood that a student will enroll in the second semester; 2) performance in Introduction to Business, a disciplinary gateway course, is highly …

Lying, Cheating, & Stealing: Strategies For Mitigating Technology-Driven Academic Dishonesty In Collegiate Schools Of Business, Travis Hollman, Noel F. Palmer, Daniel Chaffin, Kyle Luthans

Mountain Plains Journal of Business and Technology

We summarize contemporary issues related to academic dishonesty and draw from relevant organizational ethics program research to present a dual framework that business educators can use to mitigate technology-driven cheating among their students. Based on a review of the relevant literature, we develop a rationale which identifies three key observations: 1) technology-driven academic dishonesty is pervasive among college business students, 2) there are proactive steps that can be taken to address this problem, and 3) faculty, staff, and administrators in collegiate schools of business can and should do more to mitigate cheating among their students. We first provide an overview …

The Effect Of Peer And Lab Reviews On Business Student Writing, Xanthe Farnworth, Eugene Seeley, Laura Ricaldi, Xiaoli Ortega, Ron Miller

Mountain Plains Journal of Business and Technology

This study was conducted to statistically assess the impact peer reviews and writing lab reviews have on student writing. The subjects of this research were business students taking an international business class that requires a writing assignment from all students. Four different sections of this class were used in the study. With one section as a control group, another section required students to participate in a student peer review of papers before submitting the final draft for grading. A third class was required to have its papers reviewed at a writing lab before submission. The fourth class did both. The …

The Growth And Development Of Curriculum Leaders Or How To Harvest Your Own Crop, Mary Mcnair

Michigan Reading Journal

No abstract provided.

Developing Higher Literacy--Reading In The Content Fields, Leo C. Fay

Michigan Reading Journal

No abstract provided.

A Study Of Causes Behind Low International Scientific Publishing Rates In Social Sciences Majors, Saffanah Zedan

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

International publishing of researchers’ intellectual production has become one of the most eminent indicators for ranking universities. This is because the number of research studies published in international journals reflects the extent of a university’s progress in world university rankings and its interest in the scientific research as an indispensable element. This study aims to uncover the causes of the low international scientific publishing ratios in scientific journals indexed in international databases among faculty members in social sciences majors at Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, and to identify faculty members’ preferred methods in acquiring the international publishing culture through a …

Views And Reviews: Children's Literature, Jane Bingham

Michigan Reading Journal

No abstract provided.

Context-Based Contact Suggestions For Content Sharing, Eusebius Lai

Defensive Publications Series

When a user selects content to share, some operating systems present a user interface in which the user is shown a shortcut to share the content with particular contacts and/or via particular applications. However, such suggestions often do not match the user’s intent and are therefore inaccurate and accordingly, have low click-through rates. This disclosure describes techniques, implemented with user permission, to assign an affinity signal to a given piece of content, such that the suggestion interface offers the most relevant contacts to share the content with. The affinity signal is based on the content as well as the context, …

Cloud-Native Ipv4 Over A Native Ipv6 Cloud, Pascal Thubert, Patrick Wetterwald, Jerome Tollet, Ahmed Abdelsalam, Ali Sajassi

Defensive Publications Series

Techniques presented herein provide a variation of Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Request For Comments (RFC) 8505 to register stub prefixes to a fabric, and also of RFC 6877 to combine Network Address Translation (NATing) and Internet Protocol (IP) version 4 (v4) to v6 and also v6 to v4 translation. The new operation provides for the ability to transport IPv4 cloud-native application flows between applications and services over an IPv6-only fabric without a change in the containers running the applications and services. The techniques further provide for the ability to load-balance services over the Internet, using a variation of RFC …

The French Connection: Borda, Condorcet And The Mathematics Of Voting Theory, Janet Heine Barnett

General Education and Liberal Studies

No abstract provided.

Design-Based Research: Students Seeking Co-Op In Refined Educational Model, Dennis Rogalsky, Ron Ulseth

Integrated Engineering Department Publications

This research paper continues a longitudinal implementation of a design-based research (DBR) study/implementation for a new co-op centric educational model. This is a benchmarking study by the university program.

The new model is an adaptation of two recently recognized (by a 2018 MIT report) emerging world-leading engineering educational models, Charles Sturt University (Australia) and Iron Range Engineering (Minnesota). Adapted from Charles Sturt is the co-op model whereby students spend an initial on-campus period and then combine co-op work placements and on-line learning all the way to degree completion. Adapted from Iron Range are the curricular strategies that empower a graduate …

Humanities Center Annual Report 2020-2021, Humanities Center, University Of San Diego

Humanities Center Annual Reports

No abstract provided.

Teacher Residency Website Guidance, Prepared To Teach, Bank Street College

Prepared to Teach

This document provides guidance on how to design an effective teacher residency webpage that can support partnerships in garnering support, interest, awareness, and enrollment. Guidance is rooted in four key principles: Highlighting partnership values, telling stories, centering navigability, and focusing on keywords.

Umsl Bulletin 2021-2022, University Of Missouri-St. Louis

Bulletins

The 2021-2022 Bulletin and Course Catalog for the University of Missouri St. Louis.

This is the July 1, 2021 pdf snapshot version of the University Bulletin and Course Catalog.

Stream Sediment Monitoring In Morehead Kentucky, Kristopher Krolikowski, Jen O'Keefe

2021 Celebration of Student Scholarship - Oral Presentations

Sediment loads in stream systems play a big role in how overall runoff behaves. Streams naturally transport sediment at various ratios depending on precipitation. When vegetation is removed in upstream environments, sediment loads on streams increase. Sudden increases of sediments in streams can cause many issues, such as flooding or stream re-direction. In Morehead, KY, large-scale logging operations on the ridge above Knapp Avenue and on the ridge above the north end of Allen Avenue have caused increased sediment load in a small stream called Oxley Branch. This stream flows south parallel to Knapp Avenue and along the eastern property …

A Meta-Level Approach For Multilingual Taint Analysis, Damian Lyons, Dino Becaj

Faculty Publications

It is increasingly common for software developers to leverage the features and ease-of-use of different languages in building software systems. Nonetheless, interaction between different languages has proven to be a source of software engineering concerns. Existing static analysis tools handle the software engineering concerns of monolingual software but there is little general work for multilingual systems despite the increasing visibility of these systems. While recent work in this area has greatly extended the scope of multilingual static analysis systems, the focus has still been on a primary, host language interacting with subsidiary, guest language functions. In this paper we propose …

A Half Yearly Newsletter Of Dept . Of Mechatronics V4 S1 [July 2021], Chandrashekhar Bhat Dr

Faculty work

No abstract provided.

Department Of Chemical Engineering, Newsletters Volume 1 July 2021, Balakrishna K. Prabhu Dr

Faculty work

No abstract provided.

A Half- Yearly E-Newsletter Of The Department Of Computer Science And Engineering, Manipal Institute Of Technology - Jul 2021, Ashalatha Nayak Dr.

Faculty work

No abstract provided.

Regarding The Regeneration Of Superficial Skin Defects, Natalia V. Khramova, Yulduz B. Xusanova, Alisher А. Makhmudov

Central Asian Journal of Medicine

One of the promising methods is the use of dermal fibroblasts for the treatment of skin defects. These cells are easily cultured in the laboratory without losing their functions. Due to their key role in maintaining tissue homeostasis, fibroblasts, like no other cells, are able to effectively create conditions for the proliferation and migration of other cell types. In the world, there are a number of manufacturers that produce wound coatings based on fibroblasts in an industrial way, these are TransCyte-allogeneic fibroblasts of the human neonatal foreskin associated with a silicon membrane and grown on pig collagen covering a nylon …

En At A Glance, Academic Year 2020-2021, Graduate School Of Engineering And Management, Air Force Institute Of Technology

AFIT Documents

No abstract provided.

The Cade Report, Vol.2, Issue 1, July, 2021, Maya Banks

The Cade Report

This issue of the Cade Report features librarians Maletta Payne and Daremy Butler to serve in the Inaugural LOUIS Cohort. Highlights of Black History Month. Employee Spotlight, Linda Forsyth 40 years of service. Celebration of National Library Week. Archives feature the Book of Kells Collection. New e-Book Collections. Professional Development.

Stonehill College Alumni Magazine Summer/Fall 2021, Stonehill College

Stonehill Alumni Magazine

This issue of the magazine includes the following features:

• Journeying through Love and Loss After losing her husband, James ’76, on 9/11, Elizabeth (Fox) Hayden ’76 lost her faith and then found it in surprising ways. She shares how the experience shaped her desire to give back in honor of Jim s memory. BY MARTIN MCGOVERN
• Learning by Doing From synthesizing tetrahydroxylated pyrrolizidines to exploring ancestry testing, students and faculty from across the disciplines spent the summer conducting research. BY KIM LAWRENCE
• Seventy Years of Women at Stonehill In 1951, Stonehill admitted 19 women and became a coeducational college. SAM …

Performance Prediction Of Computer Science Students In Capstone Software Engineering Course Through Educational Data Mining, Muhammad Safeer Khan, Mohamed Ibrahim, Syed Ali Haider

Faculty Publications - Curriculum & Instruction

Educational data mining has been extensively used to predict students’ performance in university courses to plan improvements in teaching and learning processes, achieve academic goals, and timely support interventions. Computer Science (CS) courses focus on promoting problem solving skills through writing of software code and developing solutions using computing technologies. Within a four-year CS curriculum, the sequencing of courses is deliberately designed so that knowledge gained in a prerequisite lower level course is critical for success in upper-level courses. Overall, the CS curriculum prepares the students for a capstone experience in a final year Software Engineering (SE) course. The student …

Entrepreneurship Education And Experiential Learning In Higher Education, Sophia N. Koustas, Elham Shahidi Salehi

Experiential Learning & Teaching in Higher Education

Entrepreneurship education (EE) and experiential learning can be delivered in several ways depending on the program design, the course's purpose, and the learning outcomes. With the distinct stages of doing, observing, thinking, and planning, Kolb's experiential learning theory is favored in EE. Additionally, EE programs and courses can be categorized in the three instructional themes of teaching about, for, or through entrepreneurship. Each theme offers a particular purpose, unique learning objectives, specific teaching methodology, and different student engagement levels. Due to the various references to EE, this exploratory qualitative study presents five selected entrepreneurship project course examples at Southern New …

What Is The Uncertainty Of The Result Of Data Processing: Fuzzy Analogue Of The Central Limit Theorem, Julio C. Urenda, Olga Kosheleva, Shahnaz Shahbazova, Vladik Kreinovich

Departmental Technical Reports (CS)

It is known that, due to the Central Limit Theorem, the probability distribution of the uncertainty of the result of data processing is, in general, close to Gaussian -- or to a distribution from a somewhat more general class known as infinitely divisible. We show that a similar result holds in the fuzzy case: namely, the membership function describing the uncertainty of the result of data processing is, in general, close to Gaussian -- or to a membership function from an explicitly described more general class.

The Sustainability-Peace Nexus In Crisis Contexts: How The Rohingya Escaped The Ethnic Violence In Myanmar, But Are Trapped Into Environmental Challenges In Bangladesh, Saleh Ahmed, William Paul Simmons, Rashed Chowdhury, Saleemul Huq

Global Studies Faculty Publications and Presentations

Because of ethnic and cultural violence in Myanmar, approximately a million Rohingya fled to neighboring Bangladesh starting from August 2017, in what the UN has called a “textbook example of ethnic cleansing”. Those arriving in Bangladesh were able to escape decade-long ethnic violence in Myanmar, but the Rohingya’s immediate destination, Cox’s Bazar district is one of the most climate-vulnerable and disaster-prone areas in Bangladesh. Currently, they have been subjected to extreme rainfalls, landslides, and flashfloods. With the COVID-19 pandemic, they continue to face fear and further marginalization in resource-constrained Bangladesh, as well as increased vulnerability due to tropical cyclones, flashfloods, …

Cyber Security For Microreactors In Advanced Energy Systems, Piyush Sabharwall, James Gibb, Christopher Ritter, Kathleen Araújo, Abhinav Gupta, Ian Ferguson, Bri Rolston, Ron Fisher, Jess Gehin, Youssef Ballout

CAES Energy Policy Institute Faculty Publications and Presentations

Demand for clean and resilient energy has led to new and advancing frontiers of energy development in nuclear technology, specifically in the development of microreactors. These miniaturised modular reactors are generally < 20 megawatts thermal (MWt) or 10 megawatts electric (MWe) and offer new opportunities to meet energy needs in remote locations and mobile operations. As with the slightly larger small modular reactors (< 300 MWe), microreactor development must demonstrate security and safety, as well as economic competitiveness, to be seen as potential opportunities for new applications. Current research focuses on passive safety features, capital costs, reliability, semi-autonomous or autonomous control, cyber informed design, digital twins and non-proliferation. This paper focuses specifically on microreactor cyber informed design and cyber risk. An overview of microreactor technology provides a basis for examining the cyber nuclear playing field, with an emphasis on the USA. Frameworks for evaluating cyber security threats, and thereby designing for them, are reviewed. Recommendations follow with ideas for future research.

Transformative Agreements: Six Myths, Busted, Ashley Farley, Allison Langham-Putrow, Elisabeth Shook, Leila Belle Sterman, Megan Wacha

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

Transformative agreement (TA) is an umbrella term used to describe contracts between institutions and publishers intended to transform the current, primarily subscription-based, journal publishing model to a fully open access (OA) model. The idea originated in a 2015 white paper from the Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL), which posited that the current level of investment ($10 billion worldwide) is sufficient to fund the transformation to OA within existing publishing structures: a system in which 60% of the market is controlled by five publishers who maintain excessive profit margins.

Certis: Digital Transformation Of A Physical Security Company, Singapore Management University

Perspectives@SMU

How a company synonymous with auxiliary police injected sensors and artificial intelligence into its 21st century operations