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Qual-Online The Essential Guide: What Every Researcher Needs To Know About Conducting And Moderating Interviews Via The Web: A Book Review, Allie Marques

The Qualitative Report

Technology has become an increasingly valuable tool to the field of research. However, researchers must be provided with training to conduct ethically sound qualitative research in online settings. Jennifer Dale and Susan Abbott provide such preparation in their book, Qual-Online the Essential Guide: What Every Researcher Needs to Know about Conducting and Moderating Interviews via the Web. This guidebook explains the purpose, process, and resources associated with conducting and moderating online interviews, and provides novice to experienced qualitative researchers with practical examples and tips for implementation.

The Shift In The Authority Of Islamic Religious Education: A Qualitative Content Analysis On Online Religious Teaching, Maemonah Maemonah, Sigit Purnama, Rohinah Rohinah, Hafidh 'Aziz, Abda Billah Faza Muhammadkan Bastian, Ahmad Syafii

The Qualitative Report

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed people’s social behavior in various fields, especially education and religion. Religious learning activities through social media have increased along with the shift from offline to online learning. Restrictions on physical activity encourage increased online activity. Religious education and teaching began to shift from traditional face-to-face to online teaching. Educational institutions no longer monopolize Islamic religious education. This study examines the shift in religious education authority due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This study has analyzed videos of popular religious studies broadcast on social media, YouTube, and Facebook using a qualitative content analysis method. This study finds …

Using Memes As An Elicitation Tool: The Interview Prompt You Didn’T Know You Needed, Karen Julien

The Qualitative Report

Building rapport with participants at the outset of an interview is a common goal for researchers. Creating rapport is critical for trustworthiness of interview data and for building a supportive environment for participants. This paper brings the research on memes together with elicitation techniques to present a novel approach to rapport-building in interviews through meme elicitation. Memes provide a focal point for shared attention and their humorous nature offers opportunities for light-hearted segue into deeper emotional discussions. Participants report finding the meme elicitation process an effective icebreaker and a meaningful entry point for discussions. Personal reflections and suggestions for ethically …

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Storytelling And Leadership In The Deaf Community, Luane Davis Haggerty

JADARA

This article addresses a gap in scholarship on leadership styles in the Deaf community. There is an invisible style of leadership differing from the mainstream culture that has not been previously addressed in the literature at any depth. This article was intended to begin a discussion addressing this gap. My analysis of literature in the leadership fields, Deaf Studies and Performance Studies indicates a unique style of leadership by Deaf people within a Deaf community that is collaborative in nature yet values the individual. Further studies into Deaf leadership are warranted and may help to uncover this "collective individualist" approach …

A History Of The Rehabilitation Services Administration (Rsa) Support Of Interpreter Education, Linda K. Stauffer

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In 1978, Congress passed the Rehabilitation, Comprehensive Services, and Developmental Disabilities Amendments (RL. 95-602). These amendments to the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 authorized federal grants to states to fund interpreter training programs. Based on that legislation, in1980, the Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA) began funding regional and national interpreter training projects and has done so continuously to the present. The history of the inclusion of interpreter training language in the 1978 Amendments can be traced to influential leaders in the field of rehabilitation of persons who are deaf or hard of hearing. Their collaboration, relationship with supportive Congressional legislators and staff, …

The Substance Abuse In Vocational Rehabilitation-Screener In American Sign Language (Savr-S-Asl) For Persons Who Are Deaf, Debra Guthmann, Dennis Moore

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The purpose of this article is to describe the development and planned validation of an ASL version of the Substance Abusein Vocational Rehabilitation- Screener (SAVR-S). The SAVR-S is a 43-item, self-report instrument used to identify people with alcohol and/or drug problems was especially developed for persons with disabilities. Difficulties related to the use of the English language instrument with Deaf individuals—such as reading level, English terms/idioms, instrument length, and regional terms- prompted a project to develop an ASL version of the SAVR-S with funding from the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR). A multi-site team composed of professionals …

Editorial: Hawaii: A Metaphor For Deafness?, Gabriel I. Lomas

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Free Market: The History Of An Idea. By Jacob Soll. Basic Books, 2022. 326 Pp, Index. $32., James K. Galbraith

Emancipations: A Journal of Critical Social Analysis

Review of Free Market: The History of an Idea. Jacob Soll. New York, Basic Books, 2022. 326 pp.

Best Neural Network Approximation By Using Bernstein Polynomials With Grnn Learning Application, Hawraa Abbas Almurieb, Anwar Anwer Hamody

Al-Bahir

Bernstein polynomials are one of the first and main tools for function approximation. On the other hand, neural networks have many useful applications in approximation and other fields as well. In this paper, we study how we benefit from properties of Bernstein polynomials to define a new version of neural networks, that can be fit approximating functions in terms of modulus of continuity. Numerically, we use neural networks to approximate some types of continuous functions. For that purpose, we use GRNN algorithm to approximate functions uniformly by using Matlab, giving some examples that confirm good rate approximation.

Using Sentinel-2 Imagery And Machine Learning Algorithms To Assess The Inundation Status Of Nebraska Conservation Easements During 2018–2021, Ligang Zhang, University Of Nebraska-Lincoln, Zhenghong Tang

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

Conservation easements (CEs) play an important role in the provision of ecological services. This paper aims to use the open-access Sentinel-2 satellites to advance existing conservation management capacity to a new level of near-real-time monitoring and assessment for the conservation easements in Nebraska. This research uses machine learning and Google Earth Engine to classify inundation status using Sentinel-2 imagery during 2018–2021 for all CE sites in Nebraska, USA. The proposed machine learning approach helps monitor the CE sites at the landscape scale in an efficient and low-cost manner. The results confirmed effective inundation performance in these floodplain or wetland-related CE …

San José’S Eastside: Forever My Home, Josie Méndez Negrete

Library Events and Exhibits

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Staff Senate, September 3, Coastal Carolina University

Staff Senate

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Kizuna For Apple, Digital Humanities Fellowship 2022

Kizuna: Bonds Beyond Incarceration (Summer 2022)

On December 7, 1941 Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, escalating pre-existing racist views towards Japanese immigrants and Japanese American citizens. The “yellow peril” concept, accusing Japanese Americans of threatening the “white race”, led to restrictive immigration, naturalization, and property ownership laws. On February 19, 1942, Executive Order 9066 tore 122,000 Japanese Americans, including 55 University of the Pacific students, from the lives they knew. Their stories enlighten us about this tragedy and the strength needed to endure it.

Cardiorespiratory Fitness And The Risk Of All-Cause, Cardiovascular And Cancer Mortality In Men With Hypercholesterolemia, Xuemei Sui M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D., Mark A. Sarzynski Facsm, Nicole Gribben, Jiajia Zhang Ph.D., Carl J. Lavie

Faculty Publications

Background: Whether higher cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) confers protection against cardiovascular disease (CVD) in individuals with manifest hypercholesterolemia is poorly understood. Methods: Participants were 8920 men aged 20–82 years with hypercholesterolemia but no history of CVD and/or cancer and who received a preventive examination at the Cooper Clinic in Dallas, TX, USA, during 1974–2001. CRF was quantified as maximal treadmill test duration and was grouped for analysis as low, moderate, or high based on the traditional Aerobics Center Longitudinal Study cutpoints. Using Cox regression analyses, we computed hazard ratios and 95% confidence intervals for risk of mortality based on CRF. Results: …

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Thin Sections

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Design Of Thermal Defect Detection System For Food Storage Room Based On Robotic Arm, Ma Zhi-Yan, Li Ao-Xiang, Duan Yu-Fei, Li Jiang-Hua

Food and Machinery

Objective:To improve the defect detection efficiency of the enclosure structure of food storage devices.Methods:A robotic arm inspection trolley based on host computer control was proposed. The acquisition path was planned according to the area of the enclosure structure. The improved Ostu image segmentation method was used to analyze the acquired thermal infrared images and output the "defect" parts. Size and position coordinates, and finally verify the effectiveness of the detection through the defect detection rate and false detection rate.Results: The detection mechanism can completely scan and collect thermal infrared images of the enclosure structure of food …

Laugh. Learn. Be Inspired., Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop

Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog

Come for the laughter. Stay for the inspiration. The University of Dayton has a limited number of registrations available for the Oct. 20-22 Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop.

Fleshers Support New Accountancy Home, Tina H. Hahn

University of Mississippi News

Longtime UM professors give back to construction project

Unh Volleyball: Wildcats Jump Out To 4-0 In Home Tournament, Nick Menounos

Digital Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire.

Unh Men’S Soccer: Team Opens Season 0-2 For The First Time Since 2014, Evan Mullings

Digital Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire.

Parasol: Efficient Parallel Synthesis Of Large Model Spaces, Clay Stevens, Hamid Bagheri

School of Computing: Conference and Workshop Papers

Formal analysis is an invaluable tool for software engineers, yet state-of-the-art formal analysis techniques suffer from well-known limitations in terms of scalability. In particular, some software design domains—such as tradeoff analysis and security analysis—require systematic exploration of potentially huge model spaces, which further exacerbates the problem. Despite this present and urgent challenge, few techniques exist to support the systematic exploration of large model spaces. This paper introduces Parasol, an approach and accompanying tool suite, to improve the scalability of large-scale formal model space exploration. Parasol presents a novel parallel model space synthesis approach, backed with unsupervised learning to automatically derive …

Climate And Genetic Data Enhancement Using Deep Learning Analytics To Improve Maize Yield Predictability, Parisa Sarzaeim, Francisco Muñoz-Arriola, Diego Jarquin

Department of Agricultural and Biological Systems Engineering: Faculty Publications

Despite efforts to collect genomics and phenomics (“omics”) and environmental data, spatiotemporal availability and access to digital resources still limit our ability to predict plants’ response to changes in climate. Our goal is to quantify the improvement in the predictability of maize yields by enhancing climate data. Large-scale experiments such as the Genomes to Fields (G2F) are an opportunity to provide access to “omics” and climate data. Here, the objectives are to: (i) improve the G2F “omics” and environmental database by reducing the gaps of climate data using deep neural networks; (ii) estimate the contribution of climate and genetic database …

Isc10, An Inhibitor Of The Smk1 Mapk, Prevents Activation Loop Autophosphorylation And Substrate Phosphorylation Through Separate Mechanisms, Abhimannyu Rimal, Thomas M Swayne, Zeal P Kamdar, Madison A Tewey, Edward Winter

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Faculty Papers

Many eukaryotic protein kinases are activated by the intramolecular autophosphorylation of activation loop residues. Smk1 is a meiosis-specific mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) in yeast that autophosphorylates its activation loop tyrosine and thereby upregulates catalytic output. This reaction is controlled by an inhibitor, Isc10, that binds the MAPK during meiosis I and an activator, Ssp2, that binds Smk1/Isc10 during meiosis II. Upon completion of the meiotic divisions, Isc10 is degraded, and Smk1 undergoes autophosphorylation to generate the high activity form of the MAPK that controls spore formation. How Isc10 inhibits Smk1 is not clear. Here, we use a bacterial coexpression/reconstitution system …

Micro-Triboelectric Generator For Zero-Power Shock Detection, Mohammad Alzgool, Mohammad Mousavi, Benyamin Davaji, Shahrzad Towfighian

Mechanical Engineering Faculty Scholarship

This work shows zero-power shock sensing for the combination of a micro-triboelectric generator and MEMS electrostatic actuator system where the mechanical shock to the generator causes it to produce volt- age, this voltage is used to actuate a Micro-Electro-Mechanical-system (MEMS) switch. For the first time, we present the fabrication process of a Triboelectric-Nano-Generator (TENG) with MEMS technology. The MEMS-TENG has a suspended 1.5mm × 1.5mm plate separated by 2 μm from the substrate. The generator is a triboelectric transducer made of a suspended Al micro-plate above a polyimide (PI) thin layer that is covered by another Al layer in the …

Prolactin Expression In The Baboon (Papio Hamadryas) Eye, María Lourdes Garza-Rodríguez, Iram Pablo Rodriguez-Sanchez, Rafael Gonzalez-Alvarez, Maricela Luna, Carlos H. Burciaga-Flores, Fernando Alcorta-Nuñez, Orlando Solis-Coronado, Victor Manuel Bautista De Lucio, Genaro A. Ramírez-Correa, Oscar Vidal-Gutierrez, Diana Cristina Perez-Ibave

School of Medicine Publications

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A New Statistical Model For Longitudinal Ecological Momentary Assessment Data On Dual Use Of Electronic And Combustible Cigarettes, James Yang, Jacky Kuo, Wei-Chung Su, Douglas E Jorenby, Megan E Piper, Anne Buu

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

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The Tfeb-Tgif1 Axis Regulates Emt In Mouse Epicardial Cells, Elena Astanina, Gabriella Doronzo, Davide Corà, Francesco Neri, Salvatore Oliviero, Tullio Genova, Federico Mussano, Emanuele Middonti, Edoardo Vallariello, Chiara Cencioni, Donatella Valdembri, Guido Serini, Federica Limana, Eleonora Foglio, Andrea Ballabio, Federico Bussolino

Duncan NRI Faculty and Staff Publications

Epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a complex and pivotal process involved in organogenesis and is related to several pathological processes, including cancer and fibrosis. During heart development, EMT mediates the conversion of epicardial cells into vascular smooth muscle cells and cardiac interstitial fibroblasts. Here, we show that the oncogenic transcription factor EB (TFEB) is a key regulator of EMT in epicardial cells and that its genetic overexpression in mouse epicardium is lethal due to heart defects linked to impaired EMT. TFEB specifically orchestrates the EMT-promoting function of transforming growth factor (TGF) β, and this effect results from activated transcription of thymine-guanine-interacting …

Sub-Saharan African Women’S Views And Experiences Of Risk Factors For Obstetric Fistula: A Qualitative Systematic Review, Lydia Babatunde Bulndi, Deborah Ireson, Esther Adama, Sara Bayes

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

Background: Obstetric fistula used as synonymous with VVF in this study, is an abnormal communication/hole between the urinary tract and the genital tract or the gastrointestinal tract and the genital tract, resulting from prolonged obstructed labour. VVF may cause sufferers to experience chronic urinary/faecal incontinence, and the stigma of continuing foul odour. VVF is primarily caused by prolonged obstructed labour, which is brought about by a range of causes. Recently, it has been proposed that women’s groups and fistula survivors should suggest interventions to reduce or prevent the incidence of obstetric fistula. Objective: The objective of this review was to …