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Review Of "Empire Of Guns: The Violent Making Of The Industrial Revolution" By Priya Satia, Gordon Bannerman

Canadian Military History

Review of Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution by Priya Satia.

Stepping In New Directions: The Canadian Army’S Observer Program In The Asia-Pacific Region, 1944-45, Andrew L. Brown

Canadian Military History

In early 1944, and in anticipation of a government decision to commit ground forces to the war against Japan, the Canadian army launched a program that sent officers to the Asia-Pacific region to observe Allied operations. The observer program was well underway when, in November 1944, the Canadian government ordered the army to prepare a division to serve under American command in the Pacific theatre. The observer program helped the army deal with two significant challenges: learning how to fight a largely unfamiliar enemy in a tropical environment, and learning how to operate as part of an American force.

Don’T Talk About Your Fallout Shelter: Civilian Perceptions Of Threat And Structural Responses During The Cold War In Regina, Saskatchewan Between 1958 And 1963, Julie Mushynsky

Canadian Military History

During the Cold War, the Canadian government initiated a civil defence campaign urging private citizens to construct shelters to protect themselves from the effects of nuclear fallout. Historians have argued that Canadians did not prepare for a nuclear attack and that the fallout shelter campaign failed. Historical estimates on shelter construction are problematic. Like many Cold War facilities and structures, fallout shelters were constructed in secret and concealed. Using archival research, oral histories and data from a survey of private fallout shelters in Regina, Saskatchewan, this article argues that Regina’s citizens did not ignore the campaign and built a range …

Creating A Results-Driving Oer Initiative: Writing A Strategic Plan To Market And Encourage Oer And See Results, Nicole Finkbeiner

Digital Initiatives Symposium

In this hands-on workshop, Nicole Finkbeiner will utilize her experience working with colleges and universities across the country to outline the key components of a successful OER initiative. She’ll cover key metrics, real-world examples of successful strategies, and suggestions on how to adapt an OER initiative to your specific budget and campus culture. Participants will be provided with a worksheet that they will use throughout the workshop to develop a highly-customized plan to increase use of OER at their institutions.

Text Mining With Hathitrust: Empowering Librarians To Support Digital Scholarship Research, Eleanor Dickson Koehl

Digital Initiatives Symposium

This workshop will introduce attendees to text analysis research and the common methods and tools used in this emerging area of scholarship, with particular attention to the HathiTrust Research Center. The workshop's "train the trainer" curriculum will provide a framework for how librarians can support text data mining, as well as teach transferable skills useful for many other areas of digital scholarly inquiry. Topics include: introduction to gathering, managing, analyzing, and visualizing textual data; hands-on experience with text analysis tools, including the HTRC's off-the-shelf algorithms and datasets, such as the HTRC Extracted Features; and using the command line to run …

Metadata For Digital Projects: An Overview Of Practical Issues And Challenges, Murtha Baca Phd

Digital Initiatives Symposium

This three-hour workshop will provide an overview of practical issues relating to metadata and controlled vocabularies for digital resources. There will be a review of metadata standards and vocabulary tools; project management and project planning considerations; and issues relating to publication formats, usability, and sustainability. Issues of metadata for the “Visible Web” and the “Deep Web” will also be addressed.

Workshop participants will do an in-classroom exercise in which they will create a “storyboard” for a proposed digital project, including a high-level metadata model and proposed vocabularies to be used, as well as their strategies for how users will find …

Strategies And Tools For Digital Repository Selection And Migration, Todd Crocken, Anne Washington

Digital Initiatives Symposium

As digital repositories evolve, so to do the needs of institutions who employ them. Increasingly institutions are faced with the daunting task of migrating content from one repository to another. But what strategies exist to help institutions identify suitable repositories and effectively and efficiently plan and execute a migration? This workshop aims to explore the issues and strategies of repository (re)selection and migration.

Participants will learn about the different phases of a migration process including: system evaluation and selection, migration planning, and implementation strategies and tools. Throughout the workshop, participants will actively explore these phases as they relate to their …

Full Issue, Journal Of Counseling Sexology & Sexual Wellness Jcssw

Journal of Counseling Sexology & Sexual Wellness: Research, Practice, and Education

No abstract provided.

Too Taboo?: Preliminary Explorations Of Counselor Experiences Of Client Sexuality, Molly R. Wilson

Journal of Counseling Sexology & Sexual Wellness: Research, Practice, and Education

For many years, researchers and clinicians have discussed the weakness in the counseling profession surrounding education and training specific to sexuality. Previous research has largely focused on quantitative approaches to explore why client sexuality is a source of discomfort for counselors. This study sought to explore the qualitative experience of two counselors to begin filling in the gaps left by similar quantitative research. Through narrative interviews, themes related to avoidance of and motivators for discussing sexuality with clients were identified. Results from this research can help influence counselors in practice, counselor educators and future areas of sexuality counseling research.

Lgbtq* Responsive Sand Tray: Creative Arts And Counseling, Melissa Luke, Harvey C. Peters

Journal of Counseling Sexology & Sexual Wellness: Research, Practice, and Education

This article builds upon a heuristic framework for sand tray in supervision, multicultural focus areas, and the supervisory roles of teacher, consultant, and counselor to propose a framework for LGBTQ* responsive sand tray. This proposed framework provides supervisors with a creative arts-based structure to assist both counselors-in-training and practitioner supervisees in working with LGBTQ* persons, in a way that is culturally responsive and affirmative of their LGBTQ* identity. This article provides a group supervision case example and discussion to highlight to enactment and process of utilizing the proposed creative-arts framework.

A Population At Risk: Counseling Sexual Minorities With A Serious Mental Illness, Anthony Zazzarino, Corinne W. Bridges

Journal of Counseling Sexology & Sexual Wellness: Research, Practice, and Education

Sexual minorities are at a greater risk for experiencing a serious mental illness (SMI) compared to heterosexuals, and sexual minorities suffering from a SMI experience stigma and discrimination that leads to a greater need for counseling services. Current research does not address the needs of sexual minorities with a SMI and how to prepare counselors to work with this population, as most sexual minorities with a SMI find that counseling services do not meet their unique needs. The purpose of this transcendental phenomenological study, grounded in a Husserlian philosophical and minority stress model conceptual framework, was to explore the experiences …

Consensual Qualitative Research Of Lgb Persons’ Counseling Experiences Addressing Religious/Spiritual Foci, Kristopher M. Goodrich, Melissa Luke

Journal of Counseling Sexology & Sexual Wellness: Research, Practice, and Education

This article reports a Consensual Qualitative Research (CQR) analysis of the experiences of 12 participants who identified as LGB and received counseling that addressed religious/spiritual foci. Participants identified two primary and intersecting themes including an increased sense of agency and locus of control, as well as increased cognitive flexibility. Additional subthemes included manifestation of agency and locus of control intrapersonally, interpersonally, and globally. Subthemes of cognitive flexibility were also identified intrapersonally, interpersonally, and globally. Implications are discussed for counseling, counselor education, and future research.

Counseling The Kink Community: What Clinicians Need To Know, Stephanie M. Yates, Anita A. Neuer-Colburn

Journal of Counseling Sexology & Sexual Wellness: Research, Practice, and Education

Recent media portrayals of Kink are prevalent, but not always culturally accurate and can perpetuate a stigma that impacts the therapeutic environment when working with Kink-oriented individuals. Misunderstanding the culture can increase prejudice, misdiagnosis, and maltreatment of Kink-oriented clients. The authors provide readers with an introductory primer on language used within the Kink culture, avoiding the pathology of cultural and personal preferences, and myths associated with Kink community practices. Implications for best practices are offered.

“It’S Happiness And Relief And Release”: Exploring Masturbation Among Bisexual And Queer Women, Carolyn Meiller, Candice N. Hargons

Journal of Counseling Sexology & Sexual Wellness: Research, Practice, and Education

Researchers have argued that masturbation contributes to sexual health, yet historically, masturbation has been stigmatized (Coleman, 2003). Only a handful of qualitative studies have investigated masturbation (e.g., Fahs & Frank, 2014), and none of these studies have specifically examined queer women’s masturbation. In the current study, ten bisexual and queer women (age 19-48; 4 Black, 6 White) were interviewed about their masturbation. Using thematic analysis (Braun & Clarke, 2006), six themes were identified: reasons for masturbating, politics of pornography, use of sex toys, feelings after masturbation, promoting masturbation, and silence around masturbation. Implications for sexual health and counseling are discussed.

Letter From The Editors, Robert J. Zeglin, Jason Patton

Journal of Counseling Sexology & Sexual Wellness: Research, Practice, and Education

This issue is the inaugural issue of the Journal of Counseling Sexology & Sexual Wellness: Research, Practice, and Education (JCSSW), the official journal of the Association of Counseling Sexology & Sexual Wellness. We are very excited about this new resource in the counseling field that is dedicated to advancing the research related to human sexuality and sexual wellness, especially as it concerns the work of counselors and other helping professionals. This letter from the editors is designed to welcome readers to the journal, share a bit of the history of the journal, and to thank the many people and …

Spring 2019 Table Of Contents, Journal Of Counseling Sexology & Sexual Wellness Jcssw

Journal of Counseling Sexology & Sexual Wellness: Research, Practice, and Education

No abstract provided.

Winded: Creating A Set Of Parameters To Assess The Effectiveness Of Popular Breathing Exercises In Asthmatic Wind Instrumentalists, Steven Joseph Eckert

Open Access Dissertations

The aim of this study is to develop an understanding of the effects on the respiratory system caused by breathing exercises popular among musicians and to definitively classify which exercises are helpful or hurtful to the asthmatic wind instrumentalist in order that s/he may cope with the difficulties of performing with the breathing disorder. First the identification of breathing exercises most frequently used by wind instrumentalists was necessary to broaden the definition of breathing pedagogy for musicians from all families of woodwind and brass instruments. This was assessed by way of a voluntary pilot survey in which participants indicated the …

Developing Water Quality Policies: Assessing Natural Environmental Characteristics And Anthropogenic Impact On Microbiological Water Quality At Recreational Beaches, Elizabeth Anne Kelly

Open Access Dissertations

Factors that control water quality at recreational beaches are complex and generally poorly understood. This has led to a gap in policies written to address water quality. The objectives of the current study were to evaluate beach management and beach geomorphology, the influence of infrastructure improvements, and the role of unregulated nutrient inputs on recreational beach water quality, in an effort to inform decisions made by policy-makers. To evaluate these objectives three studies were conducted. These included 1) a study of beach management policies and fecal indicator bacteria (FIB)s to evaluate whether beaches characterized by a set of management policies …

Setting Your Clarinet Students Up For Success: A Clarinet Fundamentals Guide For Band Directors, Lee Thomas Seidner

Open Access Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to identify the specific fundamental skills of clarinet playing that need the most support in middle and high school clarinet students as well as which fundamental skills middle and high school band directors do not feel comfortable teaching their students. To identify these skills, middle and high school band directors were surveyed to assess the skills of their clarinet students, self-assess their own personal knowledge of clarinet fundamentals, their comfort level in teaching various clarinet fundamentals, as well as the band directors’ previous instruction in addition to instruction they have sought out concerning clarinet …

National Science Foundation Grants Joey Jennings Full Tuition For Ph.D., Winthrop University

Winthrop News 2019

HIGHLIGHTS

• Only three sociology undergraduates nationwide received the fellowship.
• Jennings holds Winthrop's indoor and outdoor pole vault record.

Variability Of Midtropospheric Humidity And Its Modulation Of Convective Precipitation, Steven Simon

Open Access Theses

The spatiotemporal distribution of tropospheric moisture plays a significant role in modulating the global climate system and its associated variability on a multitude of scales. Along with its role in regulating tropospheric temperatures via various direct and indirect radiative effects, tropospheric water vapor and its phase changes in the Global Tropics provide large sources of latent heating and cooling, which in turn drive vertical and horizontal transport processes that drive convection and the underlying global hydrological cycle. Past hydrological studies, using both observational retrievals and model simulations, have investigated the contemporaneous link between sustained tropical deep convective rainfall and variations …

An Omni-Directional Kick Engine For Nao Humanoid Robot, Pedro Pena

Open Access Theses

Incorporating a dynamic kick engine that is both fast and effective is pivotal to be competitive in one of the world’s biggest AI and robotics initiative: RoboCup. Using the NAO robot as a testbed, we developed a dynamic kick engine that can generate a kick trajectory with an arbitrary direction without prior input or knowledge of the parameters of the kick. The trajectories are generated using cubic splines, sextic polynomials, and cubic Hermite splines, and the trajectories are executed while the robot is dynamically balancing on one foot. When the robot swings the leg for the kick motion, unprecedented forces …

Volume 54, Issue 23 - Monday, April 29, 2019, Rose Thorn Staff

The Rose Thorn Archive

The Rose Thorn, Rose-Hulman's independent student newspaper.

Unraveling Ethos: The Commodification Of Ethical Clothing, Oliva Hanson

Cultural Studies Capstone Papers

In the last decade there has been a noticeable attempt to subvert traditional modes of clothing production. The recent emergence of “ethical consumption” in the fashion industry is a case in point. This project argues that these new formations and practices around ethical consumption are mere appropriations of anti-corporate politics and sentiments for consumers in the West. Signification of ethical consumption through language and cultural capital give more value to individual articles of clothing and branded entities. This reformation of the clothing industry towards an ethical attitude is a rebranding tactic that avoids the source-issue altogether. Through advertising and normalization …

Collective Political Action And Activism On Twitter: The Merits And Limitations Of The Framing Tactics And Strategies Of The 2018 National Prison Strike, Philip Wasserburg

Cultural Studies Capstone Papers

The success of any collective political action relies heavily on public opinion. The leaders of these actions use framing techniques to optimize the reach of their message and convince broader portions of the population to sympathize with their cause. Today, most political conversations and debates about pressing social issues takes on social media platforms such as Twitter, which could be conceptualized as a virtual public sphere, where different individuals meet and discuss political events and issues as equally empowered citizens and active members of society. However, in practice, some individuals remain unable to participate in these discourses and conversations. Philip …

“This Is The True Story:” The Representation Of The Lgtbq Community In Mtv’S The Real World, Morgan Rae Ohman

Cultural Studies Capstone Papers

In this project, Morgan Ohman seeks to explore the MTV reality show The Real World by analyzing several cast members of the show who identify as part of the LGBTQ community. MTV’s The Real World, a reality TV show that first aired in 1992, captures the lives of seven young people between the ages of 18-24 that are selected to live in a house together for several months. The show’s dramatic the opening title sequence, “what happens when people stop being polite and start getting real?” raises fundamental questions about the relationship of reality TV and the politics of …

Automatic Look-Up Table Based Real-Time Phase Unwrapping For Phase Measuring Profilometry And Optimal Reference Frequency Selection, Jianwen Song, Daniel L. Lau, Yo-Sung Ho, Kai Liu

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

For temporal phase unwrapping in phase measuring profilometry, it has recently been reported that two phases with co-prime frequencies can be absolutely unwrapped using a look-up table; however, frequency selection and table construction has been performed manually without optimization. In this paper, a universal phase unwrapping method is proposed to unwrap phase flexibly and automatically by using geometric analysis, and thus we can programmatically build a one-dimensional or two-dimensional look-up table for arbitrary two co-prime frequencies to correctly unwrap phases in real time. Moreover, a phase error model related to the defocus effect is derived to figure out an optimal …

Sliding-Mode-Observer-Based Position Estimation For Sensorless Control Of The Planar Switched Reluctance Motor, Jundi Sun, Guang-Zhong Cao, Su-Dan Huang, Yeping Peng, Jiangbiao He, Qing-Quan Qian

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

This paper proposes a position estimation method for a planar switched reluctance motor (PSRM). In the method, a second-order sliding mode observer (SMO) is used to achieve sensorless control of a PSRM for the first time. A sensorless closed-loop control strategy based on the SMO without a position sensor for the PSRM is constructed. The SMO mainly consists of a flux linkage estimation, an adaptive current estimation, an observing error calculation, and a position estimation section. An adaptive current observer is applied in the current estimation section to minimize the error between the measured and estimated currents and to increase …

Cseas Weekly Bulletin (April 29, 2019), Center For Southeast Asian Studies

CSEAS Bulletin

No abstract provided.

The Day, The Pain, The Plough, Faith Thompson

Poetry MFA Theses

A collection of poetry focusing on such issues as womanhood and religion.