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Parks And Education, Carson Law

School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Projects

Parks and education have a substantial correlation. People of all ages, from young to old, learn from their surroundings by spending time in parks. Public parks can play a significant role in a child's education, simultaneously offering a place for learning and free play. Outdoor education is crucial to a child's development, from mental and physical health to social skills and developmental benefits. Outdoor education has two branches: adventure and environmental education. Understanding these branches will help us explore how these experiences must be accessible. The experiences of outdoor, adventure, and environmental education should be accessible to the masses. Race, …

Using Diverse Literature To Increase Empathy And Cultural Understanding In The Classroom, Joanna Sevre

School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Projects

Research demonstrates a direct connection between reading literature and building empathy, aiming to foster a more inclusive classroom. This capstone explores the pivotal role of diverse literature in nurturing empathy and cultural understanding within a classroom. The first part of this project will focus on personal and professional insights to understand the significance of this topic. Then, the research delves into the origins of empathy as well as the connection between curating empathy during key points of adolescent development as a way to positively impact relationships and social understanding. Research also emphasizes the critical need for educators to create inclusive …

Supporting Learning Experiences For English Learners At Environmental Learning Centers Through The Creation Of Pre-Teaching Materials, Nicole Bolduc

School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Projects

Environmental education should not be limited to those who speak a specific language. All students benefit from the integration of environmental education into their curriculums and spending time outdoors. Environmental learning centers are just one of the many places that students can visit to increase their environmental literacy, yet the lessons are not always easy for language learners to access. My capstone project seeks to answer the question: How can Environmental Learning Centers improve learning experiences for English Learners through pre-teaching resources and strategies? For this project, I partnered with an environmental learning center to create supplemental vocabulary curriculum based …

Service Learning In The Secondary Classroom, Kristine Putz

School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Projects

This capstone project is entitled “Service Learning in the Secondary Classroom” and explores the question: How can service learning be integrated into high school units to strengthen the connection between the classroom and the community and to make instruction more relevant? This question is answered through the creation of a six to seven week length unit that integrates service learning into a research and writing unit within an upper-level writing course. Specifically, this project is intended for students taking a concurrent enrollment course at their high school through a local community college partnership. Key influences in the creation of this …

The History Of The Philosophy Of Science And Its Impacts On Modern Science Education, Rebecca Steele

School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Projects

This capstone project explores the question of the philosophical ideas that have given rise to modern conventions of teaching and learning science, and what alternatives exist to these methods. By exploring the philosophies that underpin our modern methods of science teaching and learning, and how have they come to dominate the space of scientific thought, the author has created a website resource for teachers to use for professional development, to learn about the philosophical history of science, in order to fully understand the reasons why science operates within specifically empirical and mechanistic paradigms. The project includes an interactive historical timeline …

The Impact Of Teacher-Led Read Alouds On Middle School Students’ Reading Comprehension And Literacy Skills, Lauren Moberg

School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Projects

This capstone curriculum project seeks to answer the question: How will middle school students' literacy and reading comprehension be impacted when using the intervention of read alouds? Current research shows that the instructional practice of read alouds encourages students’ reading comprehension, literacy skills, and fosters a love of reading. Based on the resources found in the current literature, this unit was designed as a novel study of Gris Grimly’s Frankenstein that regularly applies read alouds into the curriculum. These lessons provide students with opportunities to apply their learning and includes assessments for teachers to measure comprehension. This unit could be …

Second Language Acquisition For General Educators: An Accessible Professional Development Course, Angela Cabreana

School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Projects

This capstone project was built in response to the research question “How can general education educators learn the process of language acquisition in an accessible way?” With the population of multilingual learners (MLs) in public schools steadily increasing and teacher preparation programs often not preparing teachers for these students, many general education teachers are looking for professional development (PD) on best practices for teaching MLs. Thus the idea for developing a free, asynchronous website professional development course that instructs general educators on the process of second language acquisition (SLA) was born. The literature review explores the theories and processes that …

How Can Educators Develop Relationships With Students That Positively Impact A Student’S Academic And Social Well Being?, Adam Arnst

School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Projects

This capstone project explores how a well-structured and supportive school environment can impact students socially, emotionally and academically. I want to shed light on the importance of inclusion, connection, and community within a school, and the positive ripple effects it has on students as individuals. The literature review provides more information about student relationships, benefits of positive relationships, students' sense of belonging, and positive reinforcement systems. Chapter three provides a description of the project and how I plan to share and implement my project with my colleagues. The focus of my project is to provide teachers with ways to develop …

Trauma And Executive Function: Discovering And Developing Academic Motivation Interventions For Adolescents In Residential Mental Health Treatment, Jamie Jensen

School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Projects

This capstone project is a curriculum for adolescents in mental health treatment to address the impact of trauma on academic performance and determine interventions for the development of executive function (EF) skills, including metacognition, perseverance, planning, and organization. The project's central question explored how teaching these skills alongside academic standards can impact self-efficacy and academic performance. The project examined trauma's impact on EF and academics, emphasizing EF's role in academic success. Trauma can hinder EF development, affecting working memory, inhibitory control, and cognitive flexibility critical for goal-oriented tasks. The project explored how academic motivation, influenced by mindset and resilience, drives …

Characterizing The Ecological Impacts Of Utility-Scale Solar Energy (Usse) On Fallowed Farmland, Amanda Gersoff

Master's Theses

Large-scale carbon-free energy generation projects such as utility-scale solar energy (USSE) arrays help mitigate the energy sector’s contribution to climate change and are rapidly expanding throughout the U.S. However, the expansion of USSE sites is associated with immediate and longer-term ecological impacts, many of which have yet to be assessed. Quantifying the ecological impacts of USSE arrays will help to identify synergies and trade-offs between energy generation and terrestrial conservation goals. The overall goal of this research is to characterize the ecological impacts of USSE sites located on fallowed farmlands in San Luis Obispo County, California in a seasonally explicit …

Network Level Detection Of Iot Attacks Via Time Series Shape Mining, Srijani Basu

Masters Theses

This research proposes a method, for detecting intrusions in the Internet of Things (IoT) realm. This approach was specifically tested using datasets containing both benign, and attacks on smart home devices like the Belkin Wemo Power Switch, Lifx Smart Bulb, Amazon Echo, and Netatmo Welcome Camera. These attacks consist of specification-compliant volumetric DDoS attacks, which can be both direct and reflective, with very low traffic volumes implemented in an ON-OFF pattern. Here, the ON-OFF pattern can be referred to as a pulse attack strategy.

We combined non-linear statistical moving averages, and Dynamic Time Warping into a single framework that can …

Spirit Marches West: An Application Of Hegel’S Historical Methodology To The American Frontier, Magnus Imber

Masters Theses

The philosophy of history developed by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel incorporates the systematicity and speculative rationalizations that characterize his other major philosophical endeavors. Despite this, far less investigative work has been directed toward the contemporary applicability of Hegel’s philosophy of history than has been for his other major projects. Considering scholars’ much-diminished interest in speculative, overarching accounts of world history, this is not particularly surprising. Given, however, that the concept of rational historical progress is central to Hegel’s system, the contemporary applicability of the Hegelian conception of history seems to be a matter of significant importance. Can the methodology that …

Caring For Adults That Faced An Ace, Gracyn Brunette, Grace Palamountain, Elizabeth Higgins, Michele Shaw

NURS 404/406 Research & Info Management

PICOT Question: How do previous ACEs affect the physical and psychosocial health of adults?

The Benefits Of Physical Activity On Recovery Times, Emma Steinhart, Sarah Sarlatte, Elise Cziesla, Michele Shaw

NURS 404/406 Research & Info Management

Research Question: Does physical activity and exercise help with recovering from illness and/or surgery in the adult population?

Electric Vehicle Adoption Behavior And Vehicle Transaction Decision: Estimating An Integrated Choice Model With Latent Variables On A Retrospective Vehicle Survey, Fatemeh Nazari, Mohamadhossein Noruzoliaee, Abolfazl (Kouros) Mohammadian

Civil Engineering Faculty Publications

Electric vehicles (EVs) promise a sustainable solution to mitigating negative emission externalities of transportation systems caused by fossil-fueled conventional vehicles (CVs). While recent developments in battery technology and charging infrastructure can help evolve the niche market of EVs into the mass market, EVs are yet to be widely adopted by the public. This calls for an in-depth understanding of public adoption behavior of EVs as one dimension of vehicle decision making, which itself may be intertwined with other vehicle decision-making dimensions, especially vehicle transaction. This study presents an integrated choice model with latent variables (ICLV) to investigate households’—as a decision-making …

The Effects Of Ict On Higher Education In Mexico, Wietse De Vries, Germán Álvarez-Mendiola

Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education

Special Issue

The Case Of Estonia: Educational Internationalization Strategy And Student Mobilit, Dmitriy Fedotov

Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education

No abstract provided.

International Student Crisis Management To Covid-19: A Comparative Analysis Between The United States And South Korea, Jeong Youn Lee, Bawool Hong, Jenny J. Lee

Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education

No abstract provided.

Book Review Of O’Dowd, R. (2023). Internationalising Higher Education And The Role Of Virtual Exchange, Adam Freed, Grace Cleary

Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education

No abstract provided.

Acculturative Stress, Chinese Proactive Coping, Future Time Perspective, And Subjective Well-Being Among Chinese International Students In The U.S.: A Moderation Model, Siming Xie, Charles R. Ridley

Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education

No abstract provided.

Peristaltic Transport Of Non-Newtonian Fluid Under Effects Of Magnetic Force And Heat Transfer In A Symmetric Channel Through A Porous Medium, Amaal Mohi Nassief, Ahmed M. Abdulhadi

Baghdad Science Journal

In this paper, the effect of magnetic force and nonlinear thermal radiation for peristaltic transport of hybrid bio-nanofluid with the porous medium in a symmetric channel is discussed. The Adomain decomposition technique is utilized for explaining expressions for axial velocity, stream function, temperature, Nusselt number, pressure gradient, magnetic pressure, and magnetic force. The finding shows that gold nanoparticles have an elevation velocity compared with copper nanoparticles, based fluids, and hybrid nanofluids. The magnetic force contours increase when the wave amplitude increases. The temperature and heat transfer rate have been examined clearly. It has been observed that rising thermal radiation increases …

Synthesis, Characterization And Bioactivity Evaluation For Some Metal Ions Complexes With New Ligand Derived From 2-Hydroxy-1- Napthaldehyed, Andy Mohammed Abd-Alaziz, Abbas Ali Salih Al-Hamdani, Waleed Ali Mahmmoud, Zinah Hazim Abdulraheem

Baghdad Science Journal

The newly synthesized Schiff base ligand (E)-2-((2-phenylhydrazono)methyl)naphthalen-1-ol (phenyl hydrazine derivative), is allowed to react with each of the next mineral ion: Ni2+, Cu2+, Zn2+andCd2+successfully resulting to obtain new metal complexes with different geometric shape. The formation of Schiff base complexes and also the origin Schiff base is indicated using LC-Mass that manifest the obtained molar mass, FT-IR proved the occurrence of coordination through N of azobenzene and O of OH by observing the shifting in azomethines band and appearing of M-N and N-O bands. Moreover, we can also detect by such apparatus, the presence of aquatic water molecule inside the …

A Selective Nh3 Gas Sensor Based On (Ag2o)1-X(Sno2)X Nanocomposites Thin Films At Various Operating Temperatures, Nada Mohammed Abas, Anwar Ali Baqer

Baghdad Science Journal

The pulsed laser deposition (PLD) technique was used to prepare the (Ag2O)1-x(SnO2)x nanocomposite thin films with different ratios of x=0, 0.2 and 0.4wt and deposited on glass substrates. The films were subsequently annealed in the air for two hours at 300 °C. The (Ag2O)1-x(SnO2)x nanocomposite was confirmed to have formed by the x-ray diffraction (XRD) investigation. According to field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM), the created (Ag2O)1-x(SnO2)x particles were spherical in shape. Energy Dispersive X-Ray Analysis (EDX) is used to confirm the elements in composite films. Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) analysis shows that the produced films had grains size between …

Sustainable Tertiary Accelerator Of Sulfur Vulcanization Of Nr And Sbr Rubbers From Natural Tree Extract, Nardeen A. Berto, Auda J. Braihi, Mohammed H. Al-Maamori

Baghdad Science Journal

A novel natural, low cost and available accelerator for Styrene Butadiene Rubber (SBR) and Natural Rubber (NR) curing systems was prepared from waste agriculture. Dried powder of Conocarpus lancifolius leaf extract (CLLE) was added by (0.5, 1.0 ,1.5 and 2.0) wt% for SBR and NR master batches individually containing benzothiazole accelerators (MBT, MBTS). (CLLE) was selected due to the presence of Flavonoids, Saponins and phenols within its structure, which promotes hydrogen bonding (H-bonds) as a secondary bonding, which in turn enhances the curing rate. Results showed that CLLE has an ability to accelerate curing systems and its optimum concentration is …

Association Between Fluoride Toxicity, Oxidative Stress, And Pregnancy Complications In Women Living In Fluorosis Areas, Lalla Asmaa Katir Masnaoui, Habiba Bouchab, Abdellatif Rahim, Riad El Kebbaj, Abdelkhalid Essamadi

Baghdad Science Journal

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between high plasma fluoride levels, oxidative stress, and pregnancy complications (abortion, intrauterine fetal death, preterm birth, and preeclampsia) in women living in Settat province, Morocco. Blood samples were collected from pregnant women with normal gestation (n=60), abortion (n=20), intrauterine fetal death (n=10), premature delivery (n=20), and preeclampsia (n=20). Afterwards, plasma fluoride levels and erythrocyte enzymatic activities of superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT), and glutathione peroxidase (GPx) were determined. The results revealed that plasma fluoride levels were significantly lower in women who had normal pregnancies, with a concentration of 0.030±0.003 mg/l, …

Modification And Characterization Of Some New Levofloxacin Heterocyclic Derivatives As Cox-2 Enzyme Inhibitors And Evaluate Their Efficacy Pharmacokinetics By Molecular Docking And The Swiss Adme Studies, Mustafa Moaied Rabeaa, Muna Ismael Khalaf

Baghdad Science Journal

In order to predict anti-inflammatory activity against (COX-2) and expect their anticancer potential, new 1,2,4-triazole-5-thiol, Oxadiazole, and Imide derivatives were modified. Physical characteristics, 1H-NMR, 13C-NMR, FT-IR spectroscopy, and other methods were used to characterize and identify the produced compounds. The newly created compounds (1-10) were based in part on the well-known anti-inflammatory medication levofloxacin. The Swiss ADME server was used to perform computational techniques, such as ADME studies, in order to forecast the pharmacokinetics of the novel drugs. To assess the selectivity of created compounds towards the COX-2 enzyme, the results showed that all compounds met the Lipinski rule of …

The Possibility Of Using Barley Grains Extract As An Acidic Corrosion Inhibitor For Carbon Steel, Bashar Alhaidar, Fidaa Reeshah, Yousef Jammoal

Baghdad Science Journal

The effect of barley seed extracts on the corrosion of carbon steel in 1M hydrochloric acid at different temperatures was investigated from the perspective of their potential use as green inhibitors in the cleaning and descaling processes in heat exchangers. A 50% ethanol/water (vol) solution was used for extraction. Two extraction methods were used: soaking and ultrasound. The inhibition mechanism of the inhibitor that gave the best efficiency was investigated by studying the adsorption and corrosion processes by electrochemical methods (potentiodynamic polarisation (Tafel curves) and electrochemical resistance spectroscopy) and thermodynamic calculations. The results of the study showed no effect of …

Without Due Process Of Law: The Dobbs Decision And Its Cataclysmic Impact On The Substantive Due Process And Privacy Rights Of Ohio Women, Jacob Wenner

Journal of Law and Health

Since the overturning of prior abortion precedents in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, there has been a question on the minds of many women in this country: how will this decision affect me and my rights? As we have seen in the aftermath of Dobbs, many states have pushed for stringent anti-abortion measures seeking to undermine the foundation on which women’s reproductive freedom had been grounded on for decades. This includes right here in Ohio, where Republican lawmakers have advocated on numerous occasions for implementing laws seeking to limit abortion rights, including a 6-week abortion ban advocated …

Unconscionability & Involuntary Arbitration Agreements: The Systemic Exploitation Of Immigrant Labor In The United States, Isabel Ortega-Romero

Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights & Social Justice

The note examines the inadequacy of the doctrine of unconscionability in protecting immigrant workers from exploitation through unfair contracts and arbitration agreements. It advocates for legal reforms, including the regulation of arbitration agreements and the recognition of unconscionability as a tort, to address these issues.

What Factors Within The Context Of A Romantic Relationship And The Couple’S Finances Are Related To The Level Of Religiosity Among Contemporary Emerging Adults?, Brandan E. Wheeler, Joe D. Wilmoth, Tommy M. Phillips, Cecilia Brooks

Journal of Human Sciences and Extension

Research has identified the beneficial nature of spirituality/religiosity towards people’s general, psychological, and relational well-being despite a decline in religiosity among Americans, particularly among the younger generations. Research also suggests religiosity influences important relational factors, such as entering cohabiting relationships, but that these relational factors may also influence participants’ level of religiosity in a reciprocal effect. Therefore, the purpose of the current study was to explore how demographic, relational, and financial factors influence young adults’ level of religiosity within the context of a romantic relationship and the couples’ finances. Results from the current study suggest the length of the relationship …