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Cogniwrite : Ai-Enhanced Smart Handouts For Cefr-Based Language Instruction And Retention In Higher Education, Diannike Putri, Barlian Kristanto

PASAA

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Heteronormativity And Gender Inequality In Three Esp Textbooks In Thailand : Multimodal Discourse Analysis, Akkasit Kathapant, Kriangkrai Vathanalaoha

PASAA

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The Role Of Translation In Second Language Acquisition : Relevance And Practical Applications In The 21st Century, Benjawan Tipprachaban

PASAA

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A Contextual And Work-Based Language Practice Instructional Model Development To Enhance English-Speaking Skills For Effective Customer Service Among Thai Vocational Students, Henry Yuh Anchunda, Suparada Anchunda, Wareerat Kaewurai, Pakorn Prachanban, Taweesak Sawangmek

PASAA

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Comparative Rhetorical Analysis Of Discussion Sections In Chinese And English Research Articles Across Disciplines, Jingfen Jin, Angkana Tongpoon Patanasorn

PASAA

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Pragmatic Competence And Transfer In Requests And Refusals : A Study Of Efl University Students In Southern Thailand, Uraiwan Rattanapan Noonkong, Usa Intharaksa

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แนวทางเพื่อการจัดการปัญหาขยะทะเลในประเทศไทย, ทรายทอง บุญบางยาง, จารุมาศ เจริญพานิช

Thai Environment

การสังเคราะห์แนวทางเพื่อการจัดการปัญหาขยะทะเลดำเนินการโดยการวิเคราะห์งานวิจัยและบทความทางวิชาการ ตลอดจนการระดมความคิดเห็นในกลุ่มผู้รู้ผู้เชี่ยวชาญเพื่อการสังเคราะห์แนวทางที่เหมาะสม ผลการศึกษาพบประเด็นจุดอ่อนที่สำคัญคือการมีที่มาของขยะในปริมาณมาก การขาดสมรรถนะของการจัดการโดยชุมชน และการขาดการสนับสนุนด้านการจัดการจากภาครัฐอย่างเพียงพอ ส่วนจุดแข็งที่พบในหลายพื้นที่คือการเริ่มใช้นโยบายหรือมาตรการในการควบคุมปริมาณขยะ การมีกิจกรรมชุมชนในเชิงอนุรักษ์สภาพแวดล้อม และการพัฒนาระบบการจัดการขยะอย่างครบวงจรในชุมชน สำหรับผลการสังเคราะห์แนวทางการแก้ไขปัญหาขยะทะเลพบว่าประเด็นด้านการตั้งจุดรับแยกขยะในพื้นที่ การสร้างความตระหนักรู้ในองค์กรระดับท้องถิ่น และการจัดสร้างระบบการจัดการขยะที่เหมาะสม เป็นเรื่องสำคัญในระดับท้องถิ่น ส่วนในระดับประเทศเราควรให้ความสำคัญกับการกำหนดเป้าหมายให้เกิดอย่างเป็นรูปธรรม และจัดทำฐานข้อมูลตามแหล่งที่มาของขยะให้ชัดเจน นอกจากนี้ควรเร่งจัดการปัญหาขยะจากเรือประมง ผลการศึกษาในภาพรวมยังพบความจำเป็นในการบริหารจัดการที่ต้องครอบคลุมทั้งมิติด้านความร่วมมือในชุมชน ด้านระเบียบนโยบายและมาตรการที่เหมาะสม และด้านระบบการจัดการที่ควรขับเคลื่อนโดยองค์การบริหารส่วนท้องถิ่นในแต่ละพื้นที่ ทั้งนี้ เพื่อให้เกิดการแก้ปัญหาขยะทะเลได้อย่างเป็นรูปธรรม

การจัดการขยะหลังภัยพิบัติน้ำท่วม : บทเรียนจากประเทศญี่ปุ่นต่อการพัฒนานโยบายในประเทศไทย, วิไลลักษณ์ นิยมมณีรัตน์, มงคลชัย อัศวดิษฐเลิศ, กนกพร คุ้มภัย

Thai Environment

การศึกษาการจัดการขยะหลังภัยพิบัติน้ำท่วม โดยวิเคราะห์บทเรียนจากประเทศญี่ปุ่นเพื่อพัฒนานโยบายสำหรับประเทศไทย เนื่องจากประเทศไทยประสบปัญหาน้ำท่วมบ่อยครั้ง ทำให้เกิดขยะจำนวนมหาศาลซึ่งเกินขีดความสามารถของระบบจัดการขยะปกติ การศึกษาได้เปรียบเทียบกรณีศึกษาในประเทศญี่ปุ่นและประเทศไทย พร้อมทั้งเสนอแนวทางการจัดการขยะในแต่ละระยะของภัยพิบัติ รวมถึงข้อเสนอแนะเชิงนโยบายต่อประเทศไทยถึงความจำเป็นของการเตรียมความพร้อมด้านการจัดการขยะหลังภัยพิบัติ เพื่อเสริมสร้างความพร้อมและความยั่งยืนในการจัดการขยะหลังภัยพิบัติในประเทศไทย

Flood-Season Surface Water-Groundwater Interactions Across Distinct Geomorphic Units In A Yellow River Great Bend Tributary Basin, Yinlong Wang, Ruizhong Gao, Debin Jia, Xixi Wang, Tingxi Liu, Xiaomin Liu, Shiming Bai

Civil & Environmental Engineering Faculty Publications

Surface water-groundwater interactions are complex in the Great Bend region of the Yellow River. Clarifying water exchange and source differences among geomorphic units is important for understanding regional hydrological processes and improving water resources management. In this study, the Wulanmulun River Basin, a typical tributary of the Yellow River, was selected as the study area. A total of 90 water samples were collected, including 25 river water samples, 43 groundwater samples, and 22 precipitation samples. Gibbs diagrams, multivariate statistical analysis, PMF, and MixSIAR models were used to investigate the hydrochemical and isotopic characteristics, source contributions, and transformation relationships of surface …

January 2026 News Releases, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of University Relations

University of Montana News Releases, 1928, 1956-present

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Wherefore Art Thou Competitors? How Situational Affordances Help Differentiate Among Prosocials, Individualists, And Competitors, Y. Liu, A.W. Stivers, R.O. Murphy, N.J. Van Doesum, J. Joireman, M. Gallucci, E. Aharonov-Majar, U. Athenstaedt, L. Bai, R. Böhm, N.R. Buchan, X.-P. Chen, K.B. Dumont, J.B. Engelmann, Li, Norman P., H. Euh, S. Fiedler, J. Friesen, S. Gächter, C. Garcia

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

The Triple Dominance Measure (choosing between prosocial, individualistic, and competitive options) and the Slider Measure (“sliding” between various orientations, for example, from individualistic to prosocial) are two widely used techniques to measure social value orientation, that is, the weight individuals assign to own and others’ outcomes in interdependent situations. Surprisingly, there is only moderate correspondence between these measures, but it is unclear why and what the implications are for identifying individual differences in social value orientation. Using a dataset of 8021 participants from 31 countries and regions, this study revealed that the Slider Measure identified fewer competitors than the Triple …

Challenges And Best Practices For The Development Of Coastal Hazard Decision Support Tools, Noah Hallisey

Open Access Dissertations

There is growing interest in developing Decision Support Tools (DSTs) supporting emergency managers and other decision-makers during coastal storm events. Yet many tools fail to inform decision-making due to challenges associated with their development and transition into operational tools for real-time decision-making. This dissertation investigates these challenges and offers best practices for their development and implementation for real-world decision-making through a literature review, interviews with subject matter experts in the United States, and a real-world case study.

Manuscript 1 reviews existing published literature to understand whether and how tool developers are incorporating emergency managers in the development of DSTs and …

Assessing Fisheries Dependence Of Coastal Communities In Managed Mangrove Forests In Latin America, Ariel Alexander Quintanilla Magana

Open Access Dissertations

Fisheries dependency refers to the action of a person, community, or society linking their social, cultural, and economic actions to different ecosystem services (ES) for covering their food system with essential marine species, developing a governance system to conserve these fishing areas, their local ecological knowledge, and guaranteeing food security in the coastal areas. In Latin America, most fishing activities are practiced within three nautical miles of the shoreline, estuaries, lagoons, and mangrove forest channels, using small vessels and traditional gear such as hooks, trammel nets, and gill nets. Some coastal communities have developed their subsistence and livelihood activities in …

Dammed Water Markets: How Western Water Transfer Markets May Be Inhibiting An Efficient Allocation Of Water, Robert Putka

Water Law Review

Water transfer markets, in theory, provide a pareto-optimal solution to increasing water scarcity. The experience of municipal water purchasers, however, does not appear to square with theory. Indeed, municipal purchasers facing water supply shortfalls often pay comparatively exorbitant premiums for marginal units of water; this evidenced prices-paid differential is likely imputable to allocative inefficiency in water transfer markets—i.e., prices paid by municipal water purchasers are distorted above the marginal cost of supplying the water. Broadly, the hypothesized allocative inefficiency is a market failure in-and-of-itself, calling into question normative arguments that water transfer markets provide for an ideal mode of resource …

Colorado, Eli Miller, Elizabeth Witting, Lexi Lecroy

Water Law Review

Franktown Citizens Coal. II, Inc. v. Indep. Water and Sanitation Dist., 567 P.3d 121 (Colo. 2025)Town of Firestone v. BCL Colorado LP (In re Water Rts. Of Town of Firestone), 569 P.3d 89 (Colo. 2025)Baker v. Safadi-Chamberlain, 575 P.3d 458 (Colo. App. 2025)

Audit Guides And The Administrative State, Joshua D. Blank, Leigh Osofsky

Faculty Publications

Scholars are engaged in deep debate about the transformative power of recent Supreme Court cases that appear to limit the role of agencies in making rules of law. In Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo and West Virginia v. EPA, the Supreme Court overruled a longstanding doctrine of judicial deference to agency rules and prescribed more boundaries around the scope of such rules. Scholars have debated to what extent these changes will usher in new forms of judicial review that will transfer power from agencies to the courts.

This Article argues that this debate misses important elements of where agency …

Light And Fire: Kerosene And The Rise And Fall Of Standard Oil, 1859-1911, Minseok Jang

Electronic Theses & Dissertations (2024 - present)

This dissertation revisits the rise and fall of Standard Oil between 1859 and 1911 through the lens of petroleum’s materiality and the fire hazards it posed. Moving beyond traditional narratives that focus on the company’s corporate strategy, this study argues that the volatility of petroleum and the global consumer experience of its environmental risks were central to shaping the company’s trajectory. The research highlights how Standard Oil struggled to control the flammable nature of kerosene—the primary petroleum product used for illumination at the time—before aligning with Great Britain’s advanced inspection technologies and regulatory frameworks. This transimperial cooperation enabled Standard Oil …

The Instruments Of Chinese Economic Statecraft, Wilson Han

Electronic Theses & Dissertations (2024 - present)

The global economic order is undergoing a profound transformation as China increasingly leverages its vast commercial resources not merely for market expansion, but as strategic instruments to reshape global governance and secure its national interests. Moving beyond traditional analyses that rely on aggregate macroeconomic indicators, this dissertation investigates the targeted, highly asymmetrical mechanisms of Beijing’s economic statecraft. It systematically examines three specific instruments – institutional, financial, and trade – through which China projects structural power and constructs an alternative economic order.

The first empirical study explores China’s institutional statecraft by analyzing its bid to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement …

New Game Start: Playing With Power, Community And Change In Video Gaming Culture, Jonathan D. Muller

Electronic Theses & Dissertations (2024 - present)

Video gaming culture has long been a site associated with norms and values of whiteness, masculinity, and neoliberalism, with games, players, and developers all reinforcing these. Recently though, gaming culture has been directly involved with social movements and forms of resistance that are contrary to these norms and values. The typical gamer is no longer a white man, and gaming culture is now acknowledged to include race and gender dynamics that are close to that of the broader population. These communal shifts have both challenged and reinforced existing power structures. This research addresses these shifts and struggles by analyzing how …

Investigation Of Fine-Grain Cu And Cu Alloys For Low-Temperature Hybrid Bonding Applications, Sarabjot Singh

Electronic Theses & Dissertations (2024 - present)

Hybrid bonding has emerged as a key enabler for next-generation three-dimensional (3D) integration, offering fine-pitch interconnects and improved electrical performance. However, conventional Cu–Cu hybrid bonding typically requires elevated temperatures to achieve sufficient diffusion and interface quality, posing challenges for temperature-sensitive device integration and process compatibility. This work investigates materials engineering approaches to enable low-temperature Cu–Cu bonding through both microstructure design and alloying strategies.

This work begins by examining grain refinement in Cu as a pathway to enhance diffusion through increased grain boundary density, providing efficient atomic transport without introducing additional elements. Three Cu-based systems Cu–Co, Cu–Ag, and Cu–Al were systematically …

Spectral Analysis Of Traffic Accidents In New York's Capital Region, Michael Barr

Electronic Theses & Dissertations (2024 - present)

In this paper we estimate the spectral density of traffic accident events in the Capital Distict, NY area using a band-pass filter known as the Kolmogorov-Zurbenko Fourier Transform (KZFT). The source data is provided by Moosavi, et al. (2019) and originally captured from various public entities and sensors in the road network. Spectral density estimation with KZFT suppresses noise to reveal the constituent frequencies embedded in the noisy signal. Signal reconstruction based on KZFT produces an approximate weekly accident arrivals for this noisy signal, or in other words a pattern which is proportionate to the event expectation viewed over a …

Scalable Single-Erbium Telecom Qudits With Record Room-Temperature Quantum Coherence In Silicon-Based Nanostructures, Alexander Kaloyeros

Electronic Theses & Dissertations (2024 - present)

Advancing quantum information science demands solid-state quantum systems that maintain long quantum coherence at elevated temperatures while supporting scalable, CMOS-compatible fabrication and telecom C-band operation. No existing platform has simultaneously achieved these requirements, as state-of-the-art demonstrations of coherent control of erbium ions, with an intrinsic telecom-band optical transition, have been confined to cryogenic temperatures below < 10 K under controlled vacuum conditions. This thesis introduces a new paradigm in which materials science and engineering provides the enabling pathway to quantum coherence.

A foundry-compatible nanofabrication approach, paired with targeted materials engineering, is developed to realize a new class of CMOS-scalable quantum system: arrays of spatially isolated single-erbium-ion qudits (five-level systems) embedded in silicon-based (e.g., silicon carbide (SiC) and SiC_xO_y) hollow nanopillars (HNPs). Non-lithographically …

Development And Analysis Of An Embedded Hardware Platform For Low-Power Rram–Based In-Memory Computing And Neural Network Applications, Jeelka Solanki

Electronic Theses & Dissertations (2024 - present)

Conventional computing architectures are based on repeated data transfer between memory and the compute unit; however, artificial neural network applications rely on data-intensive vector-matrix multiplication as a mathematical operation, where data movement from memory to compute processor results in increased power consumption and reduced performance. Possible solutions to this problem include in-memory computing, which addresses the data transfer bottleneck by computing directly within the memory. To demonstrate the potential of this approach, our research group fabricated hafnium oxide-based resistive random-access memory (RRAM) arrays using a 65nm CMOS technology for in-memory compute operations. This work demonstrates the design and development of …

Initial Development Of Contextualized Social-Emotional Learning Assessment Tool For The Indonesian School, Nisrina Nurika Agustin

Electronic Theses & Dissertations (2024 - present)

As social-emotional learning (SEL) becomes increasingly integrated into the Indonesian national curriculum, a significant gap remains regarding culturally grounded tools to measure student progress. Current assessments often rely on Western-centric frameworks that prioritize individualistic traits over the collectivist values—such as communal harmony and the 5S tradition—prevalent in Indonesian schools. This study aimed to develop and provide initial item generation for a localized SEL assessment tool for primary school students (Grades 1–3). Utilizing a Deductive Qualitative Analysis (DQA) design, the research drew upon the CASEL framework for structural alignment while employing inductive methods to ensure cultural relevance. Data were collected through …

School Leaders’ And Teachers’ Sensemaking Of Performance-Based Learning And Assessment Reform Initiatives, Kate Jarrard

Electronic Theses & Dissertations (2024 - present)

Educational leaders occupy a difficult position in the landscape of reform, as they are at times charged with initiatives that conflict with existing guidance and core instructional work. Effective change requires more than program redesign; it demands shifts in people’s behavior. For school leaders, the challenge is not simply understanding a new initiative, but making personal sense of it and then communicating it coherently to staff in ways that generate genuine commitment, all while navigating the gap between standard and innovative practice, bridging from policy intent to classroom-level implementation.

In the case of school performance, standardized testing has long anchored …

Developments And Applications Of Transport Of Intensity Equation Imaging And Optical Diffraction Tomography In Bioimaging, Shane D. Carney

Electronic Theses & Dissertations (2024 - present)

Non-invasive imaging schemes are highly sought after methodologies in biology and metrology, where maintaining the physical state of a sample is important. Quantitative phase imaging (QPI) techniques non-invasively reconstruct the relative phase delay imparted onto an optical field due to transmission through a sample. Phase delay is proportional to the thickness and refractive index of the sample, but is lost in the intensity measurement process. Digital holographic microscopy (DHM) and transport of intensity equation (TIE) phase imaging are two high-resolution QPI techniques. DHM is a well-researched, accurate, and widely implemented technique, but can be difficult to implement in labs without …

German Science, American Manufacturing: Ethnic Capital, Transnational Technology, And Corporate Development At Bausch & Lomb, 1853–1953, George L. Grobe Iv

Electronic Theses & Dissertations (2024 - present)

This dissertation examines the first century of the Bausch & Lomb Optical Company, founded in Rochester, NY in 1853 by German immigrants John Jacob Bausch and Henry Lomb. It argues the firm’s success was driven by leveraging of management’s German ethnic identity as “ethnic capital” to access resources like financial liquidity, immigrant labor, and technical expertise. These resources allowed for the transformation of the firm from a small optical retail shop into a major manufacturer of advanced optical instruments. However, as later generations of the family Americanized, the ability of the firm to leverage ethnic capital eroded until breaking completely …

Development Of Photolabile Coumarin Linker For Rna Synthesis And Crisprcas9 Applications, Ian Mcclain

Electronic Theses & Dissertations (2024 - present)

The scope of RNA-based therapeutics continues to expand as more siRNA, mRNA, and CRISPR-based treatments are approved for various medical applications. Purification of synthetic RNA drugs is inherently challenging and requires considerable time and resources. New cost-effective and efficient purification strategies will expedite drug development process and will lower the drug costs. In this thesis I describe two generations of photolabile linkers for the non-chromatographic purification of therapeutic RNAs. In addition, the photolabile linker was utilized for regulation CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing. In the first part of the thesis, I describe the first generation of the photolabile coumarin-based linker for non-chromatographic …

When Helpfulness Becomes Harmful: Jailbreaking Llms For Malicious Code Generation, Noelle Capodieci

Electronic Theses & Dissertations (2024 - present)

Generative AI (GenAI) and Large Language Models (LLMs) have made large strides in coding task capabilities, with many software developers integrating agentic engineering into their workflow. While GenAI has largely benefited professional software engineers who can automate their work, it has also created room for those with little coding expertise to also create fully fledged programs and applications. It is commonly noted that GenAI is trained with two major goals in mind: to be as helpful as possible, and be as harmless as possible. There exist moments where helpfulness may be prioritized over harmlessness when these goals conflict. LLMs may …

The Impact Of Downdraft Ventilation On Tropical Cyclone Intensity And Structure Using Aerial Reconnaissance Observations, Nicholas E. Johnson

Electronic Theses & Dissertations (2024 - present)

Tropical cyclone (TC) intensity can be challenging to predict since it is modulated by many physical processes. One of these processes is ventilation: the injection of relatively cool, dry environmental air into the warm core of a TC that acts as “anti-fuel”, inhibiting intensification and increasing uncertainty with intensity forecasts. While ventilation has been examined in numerical modeling studies, there have been a limited number of observational studies investigating ventilation. The two primary objectives of this dissertation are to develop methods for measuring downdraft ventilation from aerial reconnaissance observations and to use those observations to better understand how ventilation affects …