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Kindergarten Students' Interactions With Texts During Independent Reading, Tracy L. Schaper

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to examine how emergent readers interact with texts during independent reading. Audio recordings of student talk, video taped observations, notes in a teacher research journal, a book selection chart, and concepts about print assessments were all analyzed to determine how emergent readers interact with texts. Findings were that students interact with familiar, unfamiliar, and leveled texts differently including varying levels of conventionality and prosody of language, the comprehension strategies and skills they use to make meaning, and the concepts about print they apply. Findings also included trends for the types of teacher support students …

2019-April-26-Carter Railroad Heritage Day, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

No abstract provided.

2019-April-26-Fiddlers Convention, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

No abstract provided.

2019-April-26-National Science Foundation’S Robert Noyce Grant, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

No abstract provided.

2019-April-26-Spring '19 Commencement, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

No abstract provided.

Edifying The Spirit Of Love And Liberation In The Education Of Young Children: Lessons From Critical Pedagogy And Reggio Emilia Inspired Educators, Seyedeh Zahra Agha Seyed Yousef

LMU Theses and Dissertations

In an age of adultism in which children have been perceived as mere drains on society, schooling often has been viewed as a means to an end. Due to the fact that a capitalistic society requires future workers, children have been socialized in the necessary skills and knowledge required to fulfill their future job requirements. Consequently, schooling often has taken place in the form of the banking model in which students are treated as empty vessels to be filled up by the knowledgeable teachers, and then to regurgitate said knowledge on assessments to prove their understanding. I challenge this antiquated …

Ashbelt: Volume Six, Ash Belt

AshBelt

No abstract provided.

Editorial: Invertebrate Models Of Natural And Drug-Sensitive Reward, Moira J. Van Staaden, Robert Huber

Biological Sciences Faculty Publications

The relationship between insects and humans is a complex one, characterized biotically as commensalism, mutualism, or parasitism. This collection of papers reveals yet another dimension, in which shared history invests invertebrate models with the power to interrogate critical challenges to the human reward system. As humans we take pride in approaching a given scenario rationally, in considering the possible options, assigning them values, and then choosing that which maximizes one's individual outcomes. So, why do drug addicts make choices that inevitably lead to ruinous consequences? Fundamentally, addiction appears to impair the very ability to form considered judgments, as it strips …

Missing The 'B' In Lgbtq+, Jenna C. Haddock

Undergraduate Research Symposium

With the emergence of the awareness of the LGBTQ+ community, there has been more research done with individuals who identify as such. However, an analysis of articles claiming to utilize and/or involve LGBTQ+ individuals has shown that a vast majority of this research lacks the objective inclusion of individuals deriving from populations specific to each orientation, especially bisexuality. This review focuses on the exclusion of bisexual individuals within scientific articles claiming to involve LGBTQ+ populations. Specifically, although some statistical results are shown for gay and lesbian populations, experimental data derived from individuals who identify as bisexual are either not specified …

Disabled Gods: A Critical Disability Studies Analysis Of Ancient Greek Myths, Haley R. Graham

Undergraduate Research Symposium

There has been a popularization in society of the Right hemisphere of the brain being responsible for creativity, and the Left hemisphere being responsible for logical and analytical thinking. However, it is not fully understood whether there is an underlying, neuroscientific basis to these claims or if such claims can be rendered factual. Recent studies have been conducted, revealing that right brained leaders emphasize in innovation and managing whereas left brained leaders focus on continuous improvement and planning (Kumar & Sharma 2016). The right and left hemispheres do possess interconnectedness, however as this study has shown, individuals tend to possess …

Comparison Of Hop Derived Humulone Constituents In Beer Using Uv-Vis, Hplc, And Lc-Ms, Aaron Boland, Nicholas Viriyasiri, Hunter Campbell

Undergraduate Research Symposium

Lupulones and humulones are two families of compounds derived from the hop flower (Humulus lupulus), utilized in brewing beer. Isohumulones are produced during the boiling process by isomerization reactions of humulones and are the primary bittering compounds in beer. The concentration in parts per million (ppm) of isohumulone is reported as IBU (International Bittering Units). Measurement of these compounds is valuable to brewers, but is confounded by other constituents in beer which may also absorb at the 275nm wavelength in UV-Vis spectrometry, the industry standard method. 25 samples were measured using UV-Vis, then analyzed by High Precision Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) …

Controlling An Invasive Forest Pest, The Asiatic Oak Weevil (Cyrtepistomus Castaneus), Using Prescribed Fire, Nicole J. Hayes-Wolff, Laura Bhatti-Catano

Undergraduate Research Symposium

Invasive species are non-native species whose presence is already or is likely to cause harm to the local ecosystem or economy, or human, animal, and plant health (Beck et al, 2006, p.415). The invasive Asiatic oak weevil is the primary leaf-feeding insect on oak trees in the Missouri Ozarks with larvae feeding on the roots of trees and the adults on the leaves (Marquis and Bhatti-Catano, 2017). The goal of this study was to determine if prescribed burns lower the abundance of adult and larval weevils. Eight pairs of 200 m x 200 m plots in the oak-hickory forest at …

2019 April 26 - Board Of Trustees Meeting, Board Of Trustees, East Tennessee State University

Board of Trustees Agendas and Minutes

No abstract provided.

2019 April 26 - Board Of Trustees Finance And Administration Committee Agenda And Minutes, Board Of Trustees, East Tennessee State University

Board of Trustees Agendas and Minutes

No abstract provided.

Sharp Trudinger-Moser Inequalities On Riemannian Manifolds And Heisenberg Groups, Jungang Li

Doctoral Dissertations

Archival abstract submitted

April 26th, 2019 Minutes, Swosu Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Minutes

SWOSU Faculty Senate April 26th, 2019 Approved Minutes.

Medieval And Renaissance Music, Department Of Music

Concerts and Event Programs 2018-2019

Students of the Department of Music, taking Music Literature and Style: Antiquity through Renaissance, featuring works by Byrd, Cara, and Susato.

Regulation Of Cilia Abundance In Multiciliated Cells, Rashmi Nanjundappa, Dong Kong, Kyuhwan Shim, Tim Stearns, Steven L. Brody, Jadranka Loncarek, Moe R. Mahjoub

Open Access Publications

Multiciliated cells (MCC) contain hundreds of motile cilia used to propel fluid over their surface. To template these cilia, each MCC produces between 100-600 centrioles by a process termed centriole amplification. Yet, how MCC regulate the precise number of centrioles and cilia remains unknown. Airway progenitor cells contain two parental centrioles (PC) and form structures called deuterosomes that nucleate centrioles during amplification. Using an ex vivo airway culture model, we show that ablation of PC does not perturb deuterosome formation and centriole amplification. In contrast, loss of PC caused an increase in deuterosome and centriole abundance, highlighting the presence of …

Identifying Clogging Factors And Thresholds Of Greenhouse Irrigation Pipes, Juan Cabrera Garcia

Doctoral Dissertations

Clogging of irrigation systems affects irrigation uniformity, water use, crop yields, and production costs. The objectives of this research were to: 1) Evaluate if published classification guidelines could predict and identify the causes of clogging in greenhouses; 2) Determine if pipe materials and flow frequency affect biofilm accumulation; 4) Determine if biofilms inside pipes affect plant health; and 5) Determine total suspended solids (TSS) thresholds that affect the performance of pressure–compensated drippers with anti–drain mechanism. The first study revealed that the current classification guidelines serve as an indicator of relative risk of clogging, but not as predictors. The assumptions of …

Anion Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell Performance In The Presence Of Carbon Dioxide, Jacob Wrubel

Doctoral Dissertations

Anion Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells (AEMFCs) offer some possible advantages over their Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) counterparts due to more facile oxygen reduction reaction kinetics (enabling cheaper catalysts), easier water management & balance of plant, cheaper membrane materials, and improved stability of fuel cell stack materials. However, AEMFCs perform significantly worse when exposed to carbon dioxide (CO₂), which is present in most applications. Furthermore, because CO₂ is so pervasive inside the AEMFC system, its effects are difficult to isolate experimentally. Therefore, a modeling approach was developed which can offer independent control of membrane properties and operating conditions, …

Beam-Spin Asymmetry Of Exclusive Coherent Electroproduction Of The Π0 Off 4he, Frank Thanh Cao

Doctoral Dissertations

To understand the partonic structure of nucleons in nuclei, measuring the beam spin asymmetry (BSA) from exclusive processes is important to get at the so-called Generalized Parton Distributions (GPDs) that describe the partons’ behavior inside the nucleon. In particular, BSA in Deeply Virtual Meson Production (DVMP) can offer valuable constraints on the transverse GPDs which are not accessible with other exclusive processes. Furthermore, DVMP measurements on bound nucleons can offer insights into structure modification due to the nuclear environment.

The interpretation of this bounded nucleon DVMP on nuclear targets rests on the assumption of factorization and that higher-order effects are …

Improved Pion Correlation Functions Under Lattice Action, Daniel Hoying

Doctoral Dissertations

We present the first calculation of pion-pion ($\pi\pi$) scattering at physical quark mass from lattice QCD. We simulate QCD in a periodic $\sim 5$ fm box at inverse lattice spacing $a^{-1}=1.015,1.3784$ GeV using zM\"obius/M\"obius Domain Wall Fermions and Iwasaki Gauge Action. We form operators composed of localized hydrogen-like wave functions for scalar ($\overline{\psi}\psi$), pseudoscalar ($\overline{\psi}\gamma_5\psi$), and vector bilinears ($\overline{\psi}\gamma_\mu\psi$) We then calculate all-to-all (A2A) meson field propagators for up to three units of individual particle momenta as well as isospin $I=0,1,2$, with up to (in the $I=0,2$) three units of center of mass momentum. This allows us to project the …

Youth Mediators: Hip-Hop, Ngos, And The Politics Of Identity In Colombia And Bolivia, Zareen Thomas

Doctoral Dissertations

This dissertation examines how empowering institutions instrumentalize aesthetic interventions to shape the social and political participation of young people. Based on twenty months of ethnographic research in Bogotá, Colombia and El Alto-La Paz, Bolivia, I explore how artists and grassroots youth organizations use hip-hop to engage with discourses about human rights and citizenship.

Although hip-hop is frequently conceptualized as a subversive genre, intimately tied to youth resistance, it has also become institutionalized by governmental and non-governmental institutions seeking to empower marginalized young people. By working with grassroots hip-hop organizations, I shed light on institutional governance strategies and the agency of …

Effective Techniques In Reverse Mathematics, David Nichols

Doctoral Dissertations

We develop the theory of strong reductions in the reverse mathematics zoo and show by means of novel tree labeling constructions that strong computable reduction is sufficient to separate four stable relatives of Ramsey's theorem for 2-colorings of pairs.

Economic Aspects Of Selling, Acquiring And Managing Ecosystem Services, Anwesha Chakrabarti

Doctoral Dissertations

This dissertation aims to identify and propose a few valuation strategies to provide insights to conservation agents and policymakers to achieve ecosystem conservation goals. The first two essays of the dissertation focus on how buyers and sellers value Ecosystem Services (ES) through the creation of an experimental market. Specifically, owners of grassland bird habitat participated in an auction to adopt “bird-friendly” haying practices in exchange for compensation. Consequently, private citizens (donors) were asked to engage in a novel pledging process, inspired by Lindahl pricing, to raise funds to compensate the participating landowners. The first essay employs a triple hurdle model …

Silk Fibroin And Hydroxyapatite Composites For Bioresorbable Bone Fixation Devices, Bryant Heimbach

Doctoral Dissertations

Every year there are approximately 9 million bone fractures in the United States, and 30% of these require an internal fixation device to help heal. Currently, the gold standard for fixation devices relies on the use of metals because of their high mechanical properties and bioinertness. However, metal implants often require a second surgery to remove them because they cause stress shielding and metal ion leaching. Current bioresorbable fixation devices on the market have poor mechanical properties and are limited to use in non-load-bearing applications (i.e. maxillofacial fractures). As such, there remains a gap in the fracture fixation devices on …

Poster: A Lunchtime Event With Western New England University Musicians, D'Amour Library

Athenaeum Series

Our own seniors Jake Williamson and Trevor Coulter will be presenting, “The Making of a Jam Session,” a performance and talk about music improvisation.

Section 1332 State Innovation Waivers: Waiving Goodbye To Cooperative Federalism And Hello To Collaborative Federalism, Brittany Hynes

University of Miami Business Law Review

No abstract provided.

A Means Test At Odds With Itself: The Secured Debt Expense In Chapter 7 Consumer Bankruptcy Cases After The Supreme Court’S Decision In Lanning And Ransom, Roma Perez

University of Miami Business Law Review

No abstract provided.

Masthead

University of Miami Business Law Review

No abstract provided.