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Illegal Small-Scale Gold Mining In Ghana: A Public Health Perspective., Raymond Yovelanyine Suonyir Apr 2024

Illegal Small-Scale Gold Mining In Ghana: A Public Health Perspective., Raymond Yovelanyine Suonyir

Liberty University Research Week

Illegal small-scale mining popularly called “galamsey” in Ghana involves the practice of illicit mining and extracting gold from the surface or below the soil usually through unregulated methods such as the use of dangerous chemicals. Though this practice has been a major source of livelihood for many rural families in Ghana, it is associated with adverse outcomes such as water pollution, environmental degradation, ecological disturbance, and general environmental pollution. There is a paucity of literature that specifically targets the effects of illegal small-scale mining on public health. This study seeks to explore the consequences of small-scale mining as a public …

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Appalachian Mountain Religion, Andrea Stamper Apr 2024

Appalachian Mountain Religion, Andrea Stamper

Liberty University Research Week

The Southern Appalachian Mountains are steeped with deeply held, and individually personal, religious beliefs. The diverse influences upon the region during their settlement have blurred the lines between folklore, Christianity, and other belief systems. This research uses primary and secondary sources to identify how those cultural beliefs have become infused into mountain religion and what makes the various denominational churches of the region reflect each other and their cultural identity more than their broader national conventions. Settlers brought forms of Christianity with them into the mountains, but it did not look like the Christianity that had developed in the colonies. …

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Gender Bias And Children’S Literature: Understanding Natural Gender Language And Grammatical Gender Language Within Gender Development, Kaleigh Smolinski Apr 2024

Gender Bias And Children’S Literature: Understanding Natural Gender Language And Grammatical Gender Language Within Gender Development, Kaleigh Smolinski

Liberty University Research Week

The purpose of this research is to understand how gender bias is developed through language. Gender is represented within the human language in different forms such as in nouns, verbs, and/or pronouns that represent female and/or male versions of certain words (DeFranza et al., 2020). Each language consists of a degree of gendered language which is grammatical gender language, natural gender language, a combination of grammatical gender and natural gender, and genderless language (Prewitt-Freilino et al., 2012). This quantitative content analysis approach aims to understand how gender biases are represented in children’s literature in both grammatical gender language and natural …

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Knocking Down Walls: Uncovering The Story Of School Integration In Warren County, Virginia, Cherith Bradshaw Apr 2024

Knocking Down Walls: Uncovering The Story Of School Integration In Warren County, Virginia, Cherith Bradshaw

Liberty University Research Week

Brown v. Board of Education is a Supreme Court case that marked the beginning of the end of systematic segregation in the United States. The landmark decision of 1954 sparked feelings of hopeful anticipation for some Virginians, and outrage in others. Consequently, the Massive Resistance movement gained traction as an attempt to halt school integration. Public schools across Virginia began closing their doors to avoid desegregation. In response, brave African American students filed lawsuits against their school districts. The legal process was lengthy and messy in areas of Virginia like Warren County. The literature on Brown v. Board and the …

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Tackling Networked Misogyny Through Graduate Curriculum Design, Carolyn M. Cunningham Apr 2024

Tackling Networked Misogyny Through Graduate Curriculum Design, Carolyn M. Cunningham

Feminist Pedagogy

This paper explores the importance of sharing feminist research through digital projects. One of the barriers of digital projects is the networked misogyny that graduate students face. This paper offers several strategies for addressing networked misogyny, including teaching about digital privacy, strategies for documenting harassment, collective engagement, and integrating trauma-informed pedagogy.

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Gamified Ungrading: Playing With Andragogy And Feminist Instructional Design, Stefani Boutelier Apr 2024

Gamified Ungrading: Playing With Andragogy And Feminist Instructional Design, Stefani Boutelier

Feminist Pedagogy

This article explored an original graduate-level teaching activity of gamification and ungrading through a feminist instructional design lens. We can understand outcomes of gamified equitable grading experiences by de-centering adult interpretations and habits of colonial educational structures–not only for the learners but as current and future leaders. These strategies were evaluated with student self-evaluations, feedback loops, and reflexivity through modeling and co-reflection. The outcomes and potential for replication of a gamified ungrading experience bring forward a humanized curriculum for all levels of learners and designers.

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Teaching Citation Politics Through Literature Review Topographies: Towards Cultivating Relational Writing Practices, Mairi Mcdermott Apr 2024

Teaching Citation Politics Through Literature Review Topographies: Towards Cultivating Relational Writing Practices, Mairi Mcdermott

Feminist Pedagogy

Feminism teaches how power works and circulates through our often-unquestioned everyday practices. Since becoming a professor, I have committed myself to this feminist teaching by demystifying--and reimagining--habituated practices, relations, and expectations in higher education that produce and are produced through cis-hetero-patriarchal capitalist White supremacy. Since literature reviews and citation practices are core materials scholars work with, I invite doctoral students to consider different ways these materials can be engaged in efforts to craft transgressive knowledges and worlds through our research. In this article, I describe an assignment designed to disrupt hegemonic patriarchal inheritances in the conventions of writing literature reviews …

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Turning Theory Into Practice: An Application Of Queer Family Theory For Graduate Students, Shawn N. Mendez, Samuel H. Allen Apr 2024

Turning Theory Into Practice: An Application Of Queer Family Theory For Graduate Students, Shawn N. Mendez, Samuel H. Allen

Feminist Pedagogy

This paper describes an original teaching activity for instructors of graduate students. Leveraging a critical, transformative, and intersectional pedagogical perspective applied to graduate education, this paper prepares instructors to effectively teach queer theory through an application of the Hegemonic Heteronormativity (HH) model, introduced by Allen and Mendez in 2018. The HH model identifies heteronormativity as a pervasive, three-pronged hegemony, each of which shifts and changes intersectionally and over time. The three-part assignment described in this paper asks students to read the Hegemonic Heteronormativity manuscript independently before reviewing the model with instructor facilitation. Then, students apply the model to real-life examples …

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It’S Not On The Syllabus: The Case For Policy Writing In Modern Graduate Education, Andrea N. Hunt Apr 2024

It’S Not On The Syllabus: The Case For Policy Writing In Modern Graduate Education, Andrea N. Hunt

Feminist Pedagogy

Graduate students gain experience in a variety with different forms of writing while completing their studies; however, policy writing is less common although it is applicable to a variety of disciplines. Policy writing is an extension of theory and needs to be approached from a feminist perspective. Policy writing can be conceptualized as a critical feminist praxis where graduate students use their disciplinary skills in more applied work to engage in important conversations related to their field of study. This article provides some strategies for policy writing for graduate students that use existing skills such as forming arguments and applying …

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Breaking The Fourth Wall: Co-Constructing Evaluative Practices In The Graduate Methods Classroom, Kelly W. Guyotte, Carlson H. Coogler Apr 2024

Breaking The Fourth Wall: Co-Constructing Evaluative Practices In The Graduate Methods Classroom, Kelly W. Guyotte, Carlson H. Coogler

Feminist Pedagogy

This article centers on the authors' experiences co-teaching a semester-long qualitative ABR course by exploring a pedagogical practice implemented by Kelly—the co-construction of an evaluation rubric between teacher and student. We focus on this practice in particular because we believe it is uniquely situated for graduate student teaching. Typically, instructors develop course assessments on their own, establishing their own criteria for what should be included within an assignment. Students, then, refer to rubrics as they compose their assignments ensuring they ‘meet’ or ‘exceed’ the articulated criteria, with little opportunity to provide feedback on how their work is evaluated. Breaking the …

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Introduction To The Special Issue: Feminist Approaches To Graduate Level Instruction And Mentorship, Penny Harvey Dr, Atticus Wolfe Apr 2024

Introduction To The Special Issue: Feminist Approaches To Graduate Level Instruction And Mentorship, Penny Harvey Dr, Atticus Wolfe

Feminist Pedagogy

This abstract highlights the need for research and information on teaching approaches specifically tailored to the instruction of graduate students. While extensive research exists for undergraduate pedagogy, the nuances and differences in a graduate classroom require specialized attention. This special issue aims to provide a platform for exploring effective teaching methods and best practices that incorporate feminist epistemologies, including intersectionality, critical pedagogies, decolonial methods, and liberatory practices. By addressing the unique challenges and opportunities in graduate education, this issue aims to improve the quality of instruction and pedagogical practices for graduate students. The goal is to create an inclusive, equitable, …

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Botanical Education In The Us In The Post-Dshea Era (1994-2024), Loren Israelsen Apr 2024

Botanical Education In The Us In The Post-Dshea Era (1994-2024), Loren Israelsen

Oxford ICSB

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Dylan Andrews - The Vigilante, Heather Roberson Apr 2024

Dylan Andrews - The Vigilante, Heather Roberson

Liberty University Research Week

The proposal for this artwork was to take the fundamental principles taught in Sculpting I in terms of character sculpting, experiment, and taking it a step further. As the characters in class were based on ourselves as models, I wanted to take the information that I learned to bring a different character to life, as well as experiment with firing the sculpture and painting it. My initial vision remained very consistent with the sketches and ideas I had as this character was one I had been creating for a long time. This sculpture was extremely fun to work on as …

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Synthesis And Structure-Property Relationships Of Sustainable Nanostructured Materials Towards Energy And Environment Applications, Nizamudeen Alungal Cherupurakal Apr 2024

Synthesis And Structure-Property Relationships Of Sustainable Nanostructured Materials Towards Energy And Environment Applications, Nizamudeen Alungal Cherupurakal

Thesis/ Dissertation Defenses

This doctoral research aims to advance clean energy technologies by developing specialized nanostructured materials. The study covers significant research themes, each forming separate sections in the thesis, explaining the important role of nanostructures in enhancing the efficiency and sustainability of energy devices and photocatalytic technologies. The enduring effort toward stabilizing and improving the efficiency of dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) has stirred the solar research community to follow innovative approaches. The primary objective of the research is centered on electrode materials design, which improves photoanodes' light-harvesting efficiency (LHE). To improve the Photoanode of DSSCs, a Metal-Organic Framework (MOF) derived porous photoanodes …

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Enhancing Health Analytics: Secure And Private Federated Learning Solutions, Nisha Thorakkattu Madathil Apr 2024

Enhancing Health Analytics: Secure And Private Federated Learning Solutions, Nisha Thorakkattu Madathil

Thesis/ Dissertation Defenses

Federated Learning (FL) is a collaborative approach permitting individuals to jointly train a model without sharing their local datasets with others. FL utilizes decentralized data sources to train machine learning models while protecting privacy, has emerged as a promising method. This holds especially true in medical contexts, where the confidentiality of data is critical. FL permits the utilization of heterogeneous datasets from a variety of healthcare organizations while maintaining patient confidentiality. It also plays a crucial role in advancing medical research and healthcare services while adhering to data distribution and compliance requirements. The primary challenges within federated healthcare encompass privacy …

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Cypress Falls, Jamie Paisant Apr 2024

Cypress Falls, Jamie Paisant

Liberty University Research Week

This sculpture demonstrates a conceptual display of world development and the ability of physical assets to support overall story development. The overall research question involves how one can support a story development and create tools to develop and communicate the concepts of the story. In creating this diorama, it demonstrates how building a structure such as this, a person can take two-dimensional ideas into three dimensions, and how it can advance the development of the story world. The creation of this display involved researching locations, cultures, building methods, and many more aspects. The methodology of the research was a combination …

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Distracted, Amanda Solomon Apr 2024

Distracted, Amanda Solomon

Liberty University Research Week

• Research Problem Statement Waste has become second nature for most nowadays, leading to a growing environmental crisis. As a result, this project's research problem was to explore various ways of recycling using trash people often throw away as a means of creation. One such method is creating a sculpture using this medium. • Communication Objective My communication objective was to create a character that looked like it was made out of trash to inspire others to imagine the possibilities of unwanted materials. And encourage more recycling amongst my peers. • Visual Solution To solve my problems, I started to …

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Wax In A Bottle, Aunna Leach Apr 2024

Wax In A Bottle, Aunna Leach

Liberty University Research Week

Research Problem Statement The research problem of my project was to create a sculpture that could communicate to the viewer the feeling of falling apart. This came with other problems like finding the right material and position that can make someone feel an emotion, give the illusion of melting away, as well as staying sturdy. Communication Objective Everybody goes through a period in their life where they feel like everything is falling apart, and they feel like life is slowly eating them alive. We often don’t even recognise when people around us are going through a hard time, because people …

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The Flight Of The Marauder, Jennifer Trahant Apr 2024

The Flight Of The Marauder, Jennifer Trahant

Liberty University Research Week

This sculpture's foundation consists of a wire framework embedded in the figure and anchored to a substantial wooden base. The sculptural form itself was crafted using Sculpey clay, cured in multiple layers, and adorned with acrylic paint. A luminescent wire base, featuring over 10 different settings controllable via a remote, was affixed to the base using hot glue and connected to an electrical port for viewing. The primary challenge faced during the creation process revolved around managing the sculpture's weight and ensuring structural integrity for ease of transport without introducing excessive wiring. To address this, I devised a solution involving …

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Consumer's Right To Withdraw From The Electronic Contract, Budour Saleh Alkatheeri Apr 2024

Consumer's Right To Withdraw From The Electronic Contract, Budour Saleh Alkatheeri

Thesis/ Dissertation Defenses

Among the effects of technological development is that it has brought about important changes in the processes of communication between people, especially in the field of concluding contracts, as sales contracts are among the most contracts concluded through modern means of communication and Internet networks, due to their speed, which made the consumer accept to conclude the contract with The supplier (or seller) without thinking in order to acquire the good or service sold, and the consumer may rely - only - on photographs and the description of the good by the supplier, because such contracts are carried out remotely …

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Increasing The Phytoremediation Efficiency Of Heavy Metal-Contaminated Soils In The Uae Using Endophytic Actinobacteria For Sustainable Agriculture, Archana Mathew Mathai Apr 2024

Increasing The Phytoremediation Efficiency Of Heavy Metal-Contaminated Soils In The Uae Using Endophytic Actinobacteria For Sustainable Agriculture, Archana Mathew Mathai

Thesis/ Dissertation Defenses

Pollution caused by heavy metals (HMs) is a major environmental concern worldwide. Human actions, agriculture practices and industrial activities can cause the release of HMs into the environment. Soil contamination with HMs may have negative effects on crops, thus disrupting the food chain and posing risks to human health. Lead (Pb) is a common pollutant found in soils when at high concentrations. Conventional land remediation techniques depending on chemical and mechanical methods are quite expensive and would lead to long-term deterioration of the ecosystems. Phytoremediation can serve as an alternative, eco-friendly approach to restore the lands for agricultural purposes. Hyperaccumulator …

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Memories, Aunna Leach Apr 2024

Memories, Aunna Leach

Liberty University Research Week

Research Problem Statement The research problem of my project was to create a 3d digital sculpture of an ice cream sundae. I had a few smaller problems I needed to fix, as I worked on my bigger research project objective. I had a big learning curve on the software I was using to carve and shape my project, and I also had to find a way to illustrate the safe at home feeling that I wanted to share with the viewer. Communication Objective My communication objective was to share and create a sculpture that people could connect with their own …

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Gotta Have That Combo, Aunna Leach Apr 2024

Gotta Have That Combo, Aunna Leach

Liberty University Research Week

Research Problem Statement The research problem of my project was to create a painting that illustrated to the viewer how addictive fast food items have become. In this day and age, almost everyone eats fast food, and almost everyone knows that it’s not the healthiest thing for them to have. I wanted to create something that makes people view fast food in a different light, while still looking like a “safe” fast food meal. Communication Objective My communication objective was to share with the viewer that fast food is not always what they think it is. I want to show …

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Atlantis At War, Aunna Leach Apr 2024

Atlantis At War, Aunna Leach

Liberty University Research Week

Research Problem Statement The research problem of my project was to create an engaging and entertaining story that was modeled and created using 3ds max. This goal comes with multiple problems to overcome. First I had to brainstorm and come up with an engaging plot, characters and background. When first creating a 3 dimensional character it is always helpful to have a blueprint to start with, then you can create using 2 dimensional planes, and after you have finished building the 3d character, then you need to rig, skin and build the world around them to make the characters world …

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Good Things Take Time, Aunna Leach Apr 2024

Good Things Take Time, Aunna Leach

Liberty University Research Week

Research Problem Statement The research problem of my project was to create an animated video using real images and mix realistic with 2d cartoon animation to make it relatable. The problems that I ran into were learning the Photoshop animation software, and creating an engaging and clear story plot that had a Christ-centered message. Communication Objective My communication objective was to show the viewer that even though everyone goes through difficult and painful things in life, God always has a plan and will use those painful things for our good. I also wanted to communicate a clear and flawless story …

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Animals In Occupations, Cassandra Poorman Apr 2024

Animals In Occupations, Cassandra Poorman

Liberty University Research Week

For this printmaking series I wanted to depict various animals in everyday jobs that humans may have. Rather than illustrating the piece, I wanted to utilize the printmaking techniques I learned to create a unique and whimsical work of art. My question became, what printmaking techniques could I combine to give me the most interesting and effective design possible? I knew I wanted to utilize pops of color in my piece, but to do that, I would need to use two printmaking blocks for each animal. I began by researching how other artists utilize two blocks to create multiblock pieces. …

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Box Packaging Waste Reduction By Largest Area First Fit Algorithm And Minimum Cuboid Estimation Of Irregular Shape Products, Jimmy Kwon, Sungmin Kwon Apr 2024

Box Packaging Waste Reduction By Largest Area First Fit Algorithm And Minimum Cuboid Estimation Of Irregular Shape Products, Jimmy Kwon, Sungmin Kwon

Journal of Applied Packaging Research

Nowadays, packaging waste is a prevalent issue due to the increase in deliveries from online shopping. In this research paper, a new approach to the issue of cardboard box packaging waste is proposed by selecting an optimal box that will contain both regular and irregular products while minimizing wasted volume. The method can be utilized so that packaging workers can select an appropriate, yet sustainable box. For computing a minimal cuboid of irregular objects, the system setup with two cameras is prepared to capture the overhead and sideview images, estimating the box's width, depth, and height in pixels. The proposed …

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Schedule & Program Booklet, English Department, Kutztown University Apr 2024

Schedule & Program Booklet, English Department, Kutztown University

KUCC -- Kutztown University Composition Conference

The program for the 2024 Kutztown University Composition Conference.

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Influence Of Low-Level Condensed Tannins Concentrations In Temperate Forages On Sheep Performace, F Montossi, F Liu, J Hodgson, S T. Morris, T N. Barry, D F. Risso Apr 2024

Influence Of Low-Level Condensed Tannins Concentrations In Temperate Forages On Sheep Performace, F Montossi, F Liu, J Hodgson, S T. Morris, T N. Barry, D F. Risso

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

Results from a series of six comparative lamb grazing trials with temperate forages are summarised, and compared with results from the literature. Condensed tannin (CT) concentrations in the diet ranged from 0.12% to 0.47% on a dry matter (DM) basis. Values were generally similar for Yorkshire fog (Holcus lanatus), perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne) and annual ryegrass (L. multiflorum), each grown with white clover (Trifolium repens), in similar circumstances. Concentrations for tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea)/white clover pastures were relatively low, but may have been artefacts. Drenching with polyethylene glycol (PEG) to bind …

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Tannin Contents Of Some Indigenous Browse Plants Of Botswana, A A. Aganga, C M. Tsopito, K M. Morake Apr 2024

Tannin Contents Of Some Indigenous Browse Plants Of Botswana, A A. Aganga, C M. Tsopito, K M. Morake

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

A study was carried out to evaluate the tannin content and crude protein degradation of leaves and twigs from indigenous browsable trees which provide feed for grazing livestock on natural rangelands of Botswana. These browses include the families Leguminosae (Acacias), Capparidaceae (Boscias), Combretaceae (Combretum) and Tiliaceae (Grewias). These were found to be of good nutritive value, with the leaves having a high content of crude protein (9 - 16%) and a wide range of dry matter digestibility (37 - 69.82%). The correlation between crude protein disappearance and tannin content was found to be negative (-0.582) and significant (P<0.05).

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