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M.S. Applied Data Science - Capstone Chronicles 2025, Lorena Dorado, Parisa Kamizi, Mauricio Espinoza Acevedo, Maria Mora Mora, Gabriel Mancillas Gallardo, Tarane Javaherpour, Davood Aein, Sophia Jensen, Duy Nguyen, Jose Guarneros, Tysir Shehadey, Edgar Rosales, Marinela Inguito, Bobby Marriott, Patricio Martinez, Madeline Chang, Matt Ammirati, Gabriel Duffy, Jun Clemente, Tanya Ortega, Amayrani Balbuena, Christian Lee, Nolan Peters, Graham Ward, Anahit Shekikyan, Gerard Corrales Fernandez

Capstone Chronicles

No abstract provided.

College Council Newsletter (January 2025), Dmacc

College Council

No abstract provided.

Exploring Television Portrayal Of Gender-Based Violence In Uganda: A Case Of Ntv And Bukedde Tv, Nakagolo Racheal

Master of Arts in Digital Journalism

The study used NTV and Bukedde TV as a case of how television in Uganda portray gender-based violence to address the critical issue of how television framing impacts societal understanding and response to gender-based violence. The research adopted the framing theory as its conceptual lens and employed a mixed-methods approach combining content analysis of television news programs with in-depth interviews with newsroom staff. The findings reveal that Ugandan television predominantly employs victim-centered narratives, focusing on physical and sexual violence while often neglecting psychological violence and systemic contributors such as entrenched patriarchal norms. The human-interest frame emerged as the most utilized, …

Social Media Usage And The Future Of Museum Outreach: A Case Of The Uganda Museum, Patrick Massa Birabi

Master of Arts in Digital Journalism

Despite its cultural significance, the Uganda Museum, the oldest museum in East Africa, faced challenges of declining visitor numbers and limited social media engagement. the Uganda Museum's digital presence on platforms such as X.com and Instagram remains underutilized due to a lack of strategic alignment with its mission. This study evaluated the extent of social media use for outreach, identified associated challenges and opportunities and developed actionable recommendations for enhancing the Uganda Museum’s digital engagement. The study adopted a mixed-methods approach, which combined 381 visitor surveys with in-depth interviews with 15 museum staff members, and evaluated the Uganda Museum's social …

Artificial Intelligence Adoption And Journalistic Practices: A Case Study Of Nation Media Group-Uganda (Daily Monitor), Kyomugisha Eva

Master of Arts in Digital Journalism

Like many other technologies before it, Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the media has presented both opportunities and challenges for the industry. One of the opportunities it presents is that it could make the journalists more efficient and productive in their practices such as gathering stories, editing them and distributing them to the public. However, bias, finances, ignorance have kept the media from completely embracing it and only use it for particular purposes. Nation Media Group-Uganda (NMG-U) is one of the companies that has adopted the use of AI, although not officially. The company has been using AI since 2016 but …

Redefining The Relevant Market: Abandonment Or Return To Brown Shoe, Daniel A. Hanley

Dickinson Law Review (2017-Present)

Defining a relevant market is arguably the most important requirement in antitrust litigation. Between the 1890s and the 1940s, defining a relevant market was a simple and generalized process, typically undertaken by courts as a cursory matter. However, in the 1960s, defining relevant markets became a centerpiece of antitrust litigation. The modern method originates from the Supreme Court’s landmark 1962 decision in Brown Shoe v. United States. The method commonly known as the Brown Shoe test requires judges to construct relevant markets by carefully analyzing accessible and understandable qualitative data, such as internal corporate documents and consumer surveys. Since the …

Plasma And Magnetic Coil Optimization, William Lee Austin, Lachlan Dean

Undergraduate Theses, Professional Papers, and Capstone Artifacts

Lachlan Dean Coil Optimization for a High-Beta Stellarator-Tokamak Hybrid Magnetic coil configurations are developed for a tokamak-stellarator hybrid that is stable to both pressure- and current-driven modes for high values of beta. Previous work on this configuration [A. S. Ware, et al., Phys. Rev. Lett, 89, 125003 (2002)] was carried out using a fixed-boundary equilibrium (i.e., with no set of external coils) and prior attempts to develop an initial coil set using the COILOPT code were not successful. In this work, the recently developed SIMSOPT code [M. Landreman, et. al., J. Open Source Software 6, 3525 (2021)] is used to …

Asbury Theological Seminary Academic Catalog : 2025-2026, Asbury Theological Seminary

Academic Catalogs

No abstract provided.

Usf Tampa Library Special Collections- Archives Business And Implementation Plan, Stephanie Mackin

Special Collections Reports & Documents

No abstract provided.

Shaping The Future Of Information Literacy Instruction Through Connections To Students' Everyday Lives, Darren Ilett

University Libraries Publications

Want to keep your instruction relevant for the future by increasing student interest? One way to engage and motivate students is to connect information literacy to their everyday lives. This session features activities that identify and expand upon students’ information literacy skills outside of college, including process maps, discussions about experts in their own lives, and real-life research assignments where students write to their legislators, prepare remarks for a school board meeting, create a lesson plan, and much more! Participants will leave with ideas for transforming one of their own lessons to connect it to students’ everyday lives.

Crystal Structures And Low-Affinity Complex Formation Of Halogenase Ctcp And Fad Reductase Ctcq From The Chlortetracycline Biosynthetic Pathway, Caixia Hou, Sylvie Garneau-Tsodikova, Oleg V. Tsodikov

Pharmaceutical Sciences Faculty Publications

Enzymatic halogenation in natural products has been intensely investigated due to its potential utility as a tool to improve pharmacological and pharmaceutical properties of drug leads. Chlortetracycline (CTC), the first tetracycline (TC) antibiotic discovered nearly eight decades ago, contains a chlorine group. This chlorine is installed enzymatically by the flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD)-dependent halogenase CtcP. CtcP and the FAD reductase CtcQ, which is also encoded in the CTC biosynthetic gene cluster, function as a two-component system. Structural information on CtcP and CtcQ has been lacking. In this study, we determined crystal structures of CtcP from Kitasatospora aureofaciens in a complex …

National Renewal Through Fertility:, Austin Siler

BYU Asian Studies Student Journal

Japan has been facing fertility decline over the past several decades. Indeed, this decline constitutes a severe demographic crisis due to its birth rates falling to record lows year after year. Low birth rates have been correlated with economic and societal instability. As Akram (163) posits: “The combination of unfavorable demographics and poor economic growth has resulted in a secular decline” which has no current sign of shifting based on current policy. The government has implemented numerous policies to try and tackle this issue, but with little success. Japan’s population as of 2024 is estimated to be 125 million and …

Full Issue

BYU Asian Studies Student Journal

No abstract provided.

21st Sunday In Ordinary Time - 24 August 2025, Gerard Moore

Pastoral Liturgy

No abstract provided.

The Exaltation Of The Holy Cross - 14 September 2025, Pina Ford

Pastoral Liturgy

No abstract provided.

27th Sunday In Ordinary Time - 5 October 2025, Andrew Doohan

Pastoral Liturgy

No abstract provided.

Immaculate Conception Of The Blessed Virgin Mary - 8 December 2025, Ann-Maree O'Beirne

Pastoral Liturgy

No abstract provided.

National Training Manual For Para Social Workers, Ministry Of Gender Labour And Social Development, Republic Of Uganda

Humanitarian Task Force

Para social workers have become an integral part of Uganda’s social support system. Operating at the grassroots level, often in remote and underserved communities, these individuals provide critical services to vulnerable children, youth, families, and communities in need of support. In the face of limited professional human resources in the social welfare sector, Para Social Workers fill a vital gap, extending the reach of formal systems and ensuring that no one is left behind. This revised edition of the manual reflects the evolving nature of community and social work practice in Uganda. It incorporates new practical tools, and evidence-based approaches …

Florida Statewide Coastal Restoration Guide, Melinda J. Donnelly, Matthew Martin, Christen Fleming, Kelly Kibler, Linda Walters, Patrick Shearer, Lauren Jennison, Erika Lin, George Zaragoza

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

The Statewide Coastal Restoration Guide (SCRG) is a comprehensive planning resource developed through a collaboration between Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP), University of Central Florida (UCF), and Resource Environmental Solutions (RES) to strengthen and unify shoreline restoration efforts across Florida. With over 4,500 miles of estuarine shoreline, Florida’s coasts are vital to the state’s ecological health, economic prosperity, and community resilience. However, they face increasing threats from sea level rise, stronger storms, erosion, habitat degradation, and development. The SCRG responds to these challenges by providing science-based, non-regulatory guidance for implementing resilient, nature-based restoration strategies that protect both ecosystems and …

Killer Antenna, Jon Frederick Merrill

Mighty Pen Project Anthology & Archive

Story is about life on an aircraft carrier, and how dangerous it is. Especially when you add in equipment that wants you dead.

Articles, stories, and other compositions in this archive were written by participants in the Mighty Pen Project. The program, developed by author David L. Robbins, and in partnership with Virginia Commonwealth University and the Virginia War Memorial in Richmond, Virginia, offers veterans and their family members a customized twelve-week writing class, free of charge. The program encourages, supports, and assists participants in sharing their stories and experiences of military experience so both writer and audience may benefit.

Tim's Legacy, John H. Price Iii

Mighty Pen Project Anthology & Archive

My son Tim attended VA Tech as a member of the Corps of Cadets. He graduated and was commissioned as second lieutenant in 2002. Attended Military Police Officers Basic course at FT Leonard Wood, MO. Reported to permanent duty station in Giessen, GA. Served as a platoon leader with 527th MP Company in Baghdad, Iraq during OIF 1. Three months after redeploying to Germany, volunteered to return to Baghdad to replace poor leader with 127th MP Company during OIF 2. KIA, Baghdad, Iraq 7SEP04, shot by a sniper.

Articles, stories, and other compositions in this archive were written by participants …

Ink And Internment: The Wartime Artistry Of Japanese Americans And Spaniards During World War Ii, Avery Calvert

Theses

World War II displaced millions of people around the world. “Ink and Internment: The Wartime Artistry of Japanese Americans and Spaniards During World War II” evaluates the internment experiences of Japanese Americans and Spaniards through the lens of art with a special focus on two artists: Miné Okubo and Josep Bartolí. Okubo, a Japanese American artist born in 1927, experienced internment in the United States as a young adult. Her artwork reveals her personal experience as well as that of her fellow internees. Okubo created her art memoir, Citizen 13600, to share the internment experience of Japanese Americans with others. …

Applied Research Division Research At A Glance: 2025, Shellie R. Hubbard Ma

Institute of Child Nutrition, Applied Research Division

The Institute of Child Nutrition Applied Research Division (ICN ARD) conducts applied research to address operational issues affecting child nutrition programs and support continuous program improvement. During the 2024–2025 reporting year, the division completed research focused on workforce development, training needs, culinary competencies, school food trends, and operational challenges in child nutrition settings.

Major projects included studies examining training needs and delivery preferences of child nutrition professionals, challenges affecting Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) operations, and the development of a Competencies, Knowledge, and Skills (CKS) resource for chefs working in school nutrition programs. Findings informed the creation of …

Overconfidence Bias Amongst Student Investors, William Winship

Economics Honors Papers

No abstract provided.

The Economics Of Sex Work As Modern Day Slavery, Clifton Carragher

Economics Honors Papers

No abstract provided.

Is This It: Doubts About Transcendence In The Twenty-First Century Novel, Owen S. Avery

English Honors Papers

This thesis explores how twenty-first-century novels grapple with the possibility of transcendence, communication, meaning, feeling, and emotional authenticity in our increasingly digital world. In my grouping of Dennis Cooper’s The Sluts, Ben Lerner’s Leaving the Atocha Station, Tao Lin’s Taipei, and Megan Boyle’s LIVEBLOG, I identify a shared urge towards accessing feelings and sincerity in an age of irony and skepticism through a variety of different formal strategies. I propose the concept of “internet realism” to describe Lin’s and Boyle’s attempts to capture how digital mediation affects communication, meaning, and sincerity. In these works, I highlight …

Gy2022 Rapid Response Survey #3: Determining The Training Needs Of Child Nutrition Professionals, Keith Rushing Phd, Rd

Institute of Child Nutrition, Applied Research Division

Child nutrition professionals must maintain current knowledge and skills to effectively implement program regulations and nutrition standards. This study examined the training needs and preferred training delivery methods of school nutrition and Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) professionals across the United States to support future professional development efforts.

Using a two-phase research design, researchers conducted a literature review, expert panel review, survey development, pilot testing, and national survey administration. The final survey was distributed through the Institute of Child Nutrition’s national contact database, resulting in 777 completed responses from school nutrition directors, managers, staff, and CACFP professionals representing …

Rapid Response Survey #3: Determining The Training Needs Of Child Nutrition Professionals, Keith Rushing Phd, Rd, Ruaa Al-Juboori Phd, Mackinsey Shahan Phd

Institute of Child Nutrition, Applied Research Division

Child nutrition professionals must continually develop knowledge and skills to meet evolving program regulations, nutrition standards, and operational demands. This study examined the training needs and preferred training delivery methods of school nutrition and Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) professionals across the United States.

Using a two-phase research design, researchers conducted a literature review, expert panel review, survey development, and national survey administration. A total of 777 child nutrition professionals, including school nutrition directors, managers, staff, and CACFP personnel, participated in the study. Respondents identified high-priority training topics and preferred methods for receiving training, including in-person, live virtual, …

Iucn Wcpa Technical Note No.21: Utilizing Protected And Conserved Areas For Human Health And Well-Being: A Technical And Methodological Framework, Simon King, Christopher J. Lemieux, Catherine E. Reining, Marco Garrido Cumbrera, Peter Rawcliff, Eliseth Ribeiro Leão, Denise Hewlett, Jo Hopkins, Robyn Molsher

Geography and Environmental Studies Faculty Publications

In recent years, social prescribing—particularly green prescribing and nature prescriptions—has rapidly gained popularity as a holistic approach to improving health and well-being by connecting individuals with nature-based activities and community support. Due to the unique qualities of protected and conserved areas, they provide irreplaceable benefits to humans. This has prompted many to quickly identify, define, and measure their positive impacts on human health and well-being. As exciting as this potential may be, it is imperative to consider that health is the terrain of another sector. Just as ecosystem management may be unfamiliar to health professionals, health is a field that …

Issue Paper No. 7: Strengthening Sustainable Tourism’S Role In Biodiversity Conservation And Community Resilience, Ante Mandić, Thiago Beraldo Souza, Anna Spenceley, Kelly Bricker, Paul F. J. Eagles, Megan Epler Wood, Ronda Green, Karim Haggar, Glen Hvenegaard, Christopher J. Lemieux, Yu-Fai Leung, Stephen F. Mccool, Joseph K. Muriithi, Carol Ritchie, Paul Rogers, Brooklyn Rushton, Jim Sano, Daniel Turner

Geography and Environmental Studies Faculty Publications

Tourism, defined widely to include all types and forms of permitted outdoor recreation and visitation to Protected and Conserved Areas (PCAs) including by local, national and international visitors, plays a complex and often contested role in PCAs. While a significant share of global tourism depends on the ecological richness of these areas, their conservation value does not automatically translate into sustainable financial returns. Nonetheless, when effectively managed, tourism in PCAs can generate conservation funding, support local livelihoods, and provide infrastructure investment, particularly in under-resourced landscapes (Leung et al., 2018). Beyond economics, public use of PCAs contributes to building social license …