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- "Foolish men that prayse gin eke t'envy": armes, armor, and eroticism in Spenser's The Faerie Queene.
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- Desimone, Noah Ryan
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In Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene, scenes of armament and disarmament allegorize the way that idealized and degenerate forms of masculinity are forged. Armor, in Spenser, is less a physical than a psychological shield. Donned at the wrong time, the knights become cruel, untrustworthy, and apathetic. Removed at inappropriate junctures, they descend into lust, avarice, and gluttony. Spenser's epic models the self-fashioning by which gentleman could come to embody the harmony of Venus and...
Show moreIn Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene, scenes of armament and disarmament allegorize the way that idealized and degenerate forms of masculinity are forged. Armor, in Spenser, is less a physical than a psychological shield. Donned at the wrong time, the knights become cruel, untrustworthy, and apathetic. Removed at inappropriate junctures, they descend into lust, avarice, and gluttony. Spenser's epic models the self-fashioning by which gentleman could come to embody the harmony of Venus and Mars. Empedocles' principle of love and war--the idea that eros and strife must come together for the generation of life to occur--is central to Spenser's idea of exemplary masculinity as well as to his political and artistic vision of harmony. The epic models a paradigm of courtly masculinity that places a premium on intense emotional relationships between men, even as it divorces eros from the realms of martial honor and patriarchalism. Since Spenser's vision of self-fashioned masculinity depends upon his understanding of court culture and the woman presiding over it, I conclude my thesis by looking at the epic's critique of Elizabeth I's use of romantic tropes and erotic pageantry
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- 1296388542, WFE0000781
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- Document (PDF)
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- Abandon all ships!: Economic changes and their relation to intentional vessel abandonment at the Shields Point Cove.
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- Roy, Michael Dillon
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The site of an intentionally abandoned vessel will differ greatly from the site of a shipwreck lost unintentionally. Relatedly, the processes of site development will also differ greatly between these two types of sites. This research illustrates these differences by studying historical contexts of four abandoned vessels located in a cove known as Shields Point found on the Blackwater River in Santa Rosa, Florida. Previous models of shipwreck site development are adapted to include sites of...
Show moreThe site of an intentionally abandoned vessel will differ greatly from the site of a shipwreck lost unintentionally. Relatedly, the processes of site development will also differ greatly between these two types of sites. This research illustrates these differences by studying historical contexts of four abandoned vessels located in a cove known as Shields Point found on the Blackwater River in Santa Rosa, Florida. Previous models of shipwreck site development are adapted to include sites of intentionally abandoned vessels.
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- 2020, 2020
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- 1220930685, WFE0000731
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- Document (PDF)
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- Academic achievement of black males in a rural middle school.
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- Bozeman, Tonya Dukes
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Educational statistics have consistently recorded low academic performance for Black male students, particularly those in high-poverty settings. Research studies have documented that very few Black male students can perform at the level of their counterparts from other racial categories. Circumstances such as poverty, deprivation, and lack of mentorship affect Black males' academic achievement and underachievement. The purpose of this qualitative interpretive study was to explore the lived...
Show moreEducational statistics have consistently recorded low academic performance for Black male students, particularly those in high-poverty settings. Research studies have documented that very few Black male students can perform at the level of their counterparts from other racial categories. Circumstances such as poverty, deprivation, and lack of mentorship affect Black males' academic achievement and underachievement. The purpose of this qualitative interpretive study was to explore the lived experiences of select Black male students who have been academically successful at a high-poverty rural middle school in the Southern United States. I used, per Bandura's (1977) social cognitive theory (SCT), the framework of the study, human learning and development occur through personal experiences and examination of the actions of others. I explored how behavioral, personal, and environmental factors interact to affect the selfefficacy of 12 Black male students in the school setting. Findings revealed participants perceived positive family support, positive friend or peer network, positive teacher influence, and positive self-image as supportive factors that contributed to their academic success. This study shifts the focus from Black male deficiencies to emphasizing their achievements and how internal factors such as self-perception, attitude, and self-confidence outweigh external factors such as low socioeconomic factors and lack of mentors that could reduce opportunities for success. Study participants' desires for academic achievement created a transformative bridge between their self-efficacious beliefs and their drive for education. Future research should continue to focus on understanding the contributing factors to young Black males' school success and giving them positive voices.
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- 1298604350, WFE0000790
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- Document (PDF)
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- Ad valorem taxation at Navarre Beach: a report to the West Florida Legislative Delegation.
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- University of West Florida, PALMM (Project)
- Date Issued
- [1981], 1981, 1981
- Identifier
- AAB0743QF00005/18/200401/13/200516447BfamIa D0QF, ONIWF192- 1, FHP S WF 2004-05-18, FCLA url 20040602, FIPS12113, WF00000156, 2611205, uwf:15407
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- E-book
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- Air traffic control specialists' perceptions of simulation for developing job-related competencies.
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- Harris, Colin Alwin
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Inexperienced and poorly trained Air Traffic Control Specialists (ATCSs) contribute to aircraft accidents and other serious aviation mishaps, which negatively impact human safety, the environment, government and personal property, and the efficient and smooth operation of the National Airspace System (NAS). The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) can help remedy this problem by ensuring that ATCSs receive academic and simulator competency-based training. The purpose of this qualitative...
Show moreInexperienced and poorly trained Air Traffic Control Specialists (ATCSs) contribute to aircraft accidents and other serious aviation mishaps, which negatively impact human safety, the environment, government and personal property, and the efficient and smooth operation of the National Airspace System (NAS). The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) can help remedy this problem by ensuring that ATCSs receive academic and simulator competency-based training. The purpose of this qualitative exploratory case study was to understand how ATCSs at an air traffic facility in the southeastern region of the United States (U.S.) described their experiences with the ATCoach simulation training (ATCoach) in developing job-related competencies. I employed Bloom et al.'s (1956) taxonomy of the cognitive domain and its six classifications (knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation) to frame and align the study's research questions and interview questions to determine if five ATCSs perceived simulation as a valuable instructional method. Participants revealed that the ATCoach experiences is a valuable instructional method for enhancing ATC professionals' knowledge and skill levels by preparing them to transfer previous knowledge to practice in dayto-day ATC operations and improve their judgment, critical thinking, and decision-making skills--not their self-confidence. However, the simulator's physical fidelity limitations had an adverse influence on participants' learning experience. The findings, therefore, indicate ATC knowledge does not necessarily occur during the ATCoach but instead during previous classroom learning or experience. Future research should evaluate the entire ATC training program taking a learner from Certified Professional Controllers in Training (CPC-IT) status to Certified Professional Controllers (CPC).
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- 1298604671, WFE0000793
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- Document (PDF)
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- An analysis of pivot strategies to maintain sparsity in the LU decomposition of IPDG method applied to the Helmholtz Equation.
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- Severance, Ryan Samuel
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In recent years, the interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin (IPDG) method has appeared in literature as an efficient and stable method for approximating the Helmholtz equation. LU decomposition has then been used to solve the linear system formed by the IPDG method. However, research has shown that the LU decomposition causes fill-in of the sparse structure of the global matrix. This talk addresses the application of several pivot strategies to the global matrix before the LU decomposition,...
Show moreIn recent years, the interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin (IPDG) method has appeared in literature as an efficient and stable method for approximating the Helmholtz equation. LU decomposition has then been used to solve the linear system formed by the IPDG method. However, research has shown that the LU decomposition causes fill-in of the sparse structure of the global matrix. This talk addresses the application of several pivot strategies to the global matrix before the LU decomposition, in order to assess if this fill-in can be reduced. Numerical experiments are presented to demonstrate that pivot strategies did reduce fill-in when applying the LU decomposition.
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- 1130059112, WFE0000674
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- Document (PDF)
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- Andragogy of workplace essential skills in a community college in south Florida.
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- Smith, Nayrie Lashawn
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Adult learners are returning to school to acquire and enhance workplace essential skills needed to meet changing job market expectations. Adequately preparing adult learners for the workforce necessitates understanding their views and experiences. The problem explored in this study was the lack of research regarding business school stakeholders' perceptions of the andragogy of workplace essential skills in a community college setting. The purpose of this qualitative instrumental case study...
Show moreAdult learners are returning to school to acquire and enhance workplace essential skills needed to meet changing job market expectations. Adequately preparing adult learners for the workforce necessitates understanding their views and experiences. The problem explored in this study was the lack of research regarding business school stakeholders' perceptions of the andragogy of workplace essential skills in a community college setting. The purpose of this qualitative instrumental case study was to explore the perceptions of business school stakeholders of the andragogy of workplace essential skills in a community college in South Florida. Participants were six adult students enrolled in business courses, three professors, and a business department chair. The five key assumptions (self-directedness, valuable past experiences, readiness and willingness to learn, problem-centered and practical interests to learning, and intrinsic motivation) and four principles (adult students' involvement in the learning process, integration of past experiences and new knowledge, relevance and impact of the adult learning experience, and incorporating problem-centered instruction) of Knowles's theory of andragogy guided the formulation of the research question. Although adult learners acquired and enhanced workplace essential skills within a positive learning environment incorporating andragogical strategies, adult learners desired enhanced workplace essential skills, such as technological, written, and oral communication, to adequately prepare for the workforce. Participants described andragogy strategies as an effective model of how they learn, supporting the key principles of Knowles's theory of andragogy. Suggestions for future research include exploring workplace essential skills related to other majors and disciplines and including a larger, diverse sample.
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- 2021
- Identifier
- 1293883939, WFE0000766
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- Document (PDF)
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- Another brick in the wall: a pedagogical approach to excavations at a 19th-century brickyard.
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- Dietrich, Emily Elizabeth
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Incorporating archaeology within the high school curricula fosters an interest in archaeology and site preservation. The Milton High School Archaeology Project provides students the opportunity to experience and participate in archaeological research. At a 19th-century brickyard, students learn anthropology and their local history through hands-on excavations. Through the use of Project-Based Learning (PBL), students conducted archaeological and historical research and presented their work in...
Show moreIncorporating archaeology within the high school curricula fosters an interest in archaeology and site preservation. The Milton High School Archaeology Project provides students the opportunity to experience and participate in archaeological research. At a 19th-century brickyard, students learn anthropology and their local history through hands-on excavations. Through the use of Project-Based Learning (PBL), students conducted archaeological and historical research and presented their work in the form of a museum exhibit at the Florida Public Archaeological Network's Destination Archaeology Resources Center museum for the public and their parents. The Milton High School Archaeology Project provides an example of how archaeology can easily and effectively be integrated into high school educational standards. Quantitative and qualitative data collected throughout the 2016-2017 school year shows how archaeology education leads to increased awareness of and appreciation for heritage sites.
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- 2020, 2020
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- 1233055172, WFE0000744
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- Document (PDF)
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- Antioxidant mechanisms and bioactivity of phenolic compunds found in Dioscorea Bulbifera.
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- Rees, Patricia Elizabeth
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Accumulation of oxidative damage has been implicated in numerous diseases bringing antioxidant investigations and plant phenolics to the forefront of medicinal research. The species Dioscorea bulbifera has been used in both traditional and modern medicinal systems and has good overall antioxidant capacity. Yet little work has been done to assess which chemical components may contribute to this action. The goals of this study were to investigate the antioxidant activity of individual phenolic...
Show moreAccumulation of oxidative damage has been implicated in numerous diseases bringing antioxidant investigations and plant phenolics to the forefront of medicinal research. The species Dioscorea bulbifera has been used in both traditional and modern medicinal systems and has good overall antioxidant capacity. Yet little work has been done to assess which chemical components may contribute to this action. The goals of this study were to investigate the antioxidant activity of individual phenolic compounds in the plant D. bulbifera; to compare the in vitro antioxidant assays with human cell studies; for this information to contribute to future investigations in treating human disease. Methanolic extracts of the D. bulbifera bulbils were analyzed using HPLC-MS/MS and NMR. Positively identified compounds were used for in vitro antioxidant assays (Ferric Reducing Antioxidant Power (FRAP), iron chelation, and Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity (ORAC), followed by human cell assays. Several phenolic species were tentatively identified. (+)-catechin was positively identified and used for further testing. In vitro assays showed potential for electron transfer antioxidant activity but not iron chelation. The hydrogen transfer mechanisms could not be assessed due to assay complications. Cell assays also suffered complications rendering them inconclusive.
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- 1129599262, WFE0000671
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- Document (PDF)
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- Assessing multiple placement methods for college mathematics at a two-year college.
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- Weirick, Chad William
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Students who attend two-year institutions are not always academically prepared for the level of work that is required to be successful. Two-year institutions determine students' readiness for college-level mathematics courses using one of three placement methods. However, few empirical studies have investigated which placement methods are most effective in predicting academic success. The purpose of this quantitative study was to identify the placement methods that best predict student...
Show moreStudents who attend two-year institutions are not always academically prepared for the level of work that is required to be successful. Two-year institutions determine students' readiness for college-level mathematics courses using one of three placement methods. However, few empirical studies have investigated which placement methods are most effective in predicting academic success. The purpose of this quantitative study was to identify the placement methods that best predict student success in college-level mathematics courses at a two-year college located in the midwestern United States. Through binary logistic regression, data obtained from the academic records of 1,330 students from a Midwestern U. S. two-year institution revealed a positive statistically significant relationship between placement methods and students' academic success. Students placed using ACT/SAT mathematics score or ACCUPLACER methods, respectively, were 1.85 (p < .05) and 3.91 (p < .001) times less likely to pass their college mathematics course compared to those students who were placed using high school grade point average (GPA). Students who took pre-calculus were 1.66 times more likely to pass than students who took statistics (p < .05) after controlling for the sociodemographic and placement type variables in the model. Age had a positive relationship with passing (OR = 1.05, p < .01). Full-time students were 1.50 times less likely than part-time students to pass (p < .05). Pell Grant eligible students were 1.57 times less likely than non-Pell Grant eligible participants to pass (p < .05). Placing students using high school GPA may improve success in college-level mathematics courses. Higher education policymakers should consider the use of high school GPA as the central method to place students into these courses.
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- 1130062385, WFE0000680
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- Document (PDF)
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- Assessment of bancs and streambank erosion rates in the northwest Florida Panhandle.
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- Finch, Bryce Douglas
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A previous study performed in the Northwest Florida Panhandle found the bank assessment of non-point source consequences of sediment (BANCS) model to be a relatively poor predictor of streambank erosion rates. Concern for whether these errors were related to how the project was constructed prompted the need for additional research. Some of the presumed errors were associated with the size of the study area and sites' exposure to extreme weather events during the study period. This study aims...
Show moreA previous study performed in the Northwest Florida Panhandle found the bank assessment of non-point source consequences of sediment (BANCS) model to be a relatively poor predictor of streambank erosion rates. Concern for whether these errors were related to how the project was constructed prompted the need for additional research. Some of the presumed errors were associated with the size of the study area and sites' exposure to extreme weather events during the study period. This study aims to utilize the BANCS model across a smaller study area than previously practiced with a focus on identifying specific flow events and drainage watersheds that are primarily undeveloped. Flow events were identified through the use of constructed gages and watersheds were verified with aerial imagery. Erosion incurred at the 18 study sites selected was measured over a given year following identified flood and bankfull events. These practices resulted in an improvement of BANCS' ability to predict streambank erosion rates. In particular, the bank erosion hazard index (BEHI) demonstrates strong relationships with erosion rates when plotted independently. The findings of the study indicate that a better understanding of return intervals of specific flow events, such as bankfull and floods, would enhance the capability to predict streambank erosion.
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- 2020, 2020
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- 1232475100, WFE0000738
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- Document (PDF)
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- Barriers and benefits of implementing athletic training programs on Native American reservations.
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- Little, Marisha Ruth
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Social determinants of health refer to the environment surrounding an individual and how it affects quality of life and plays a role in the presence of health disparities. A key factor to eliminate disparities is to increase the number of health care professionals who belong to a minority population (Institute of Medicine, 2003). The National Athletic Trainers' Association reported there were only 221 members who were Native American in 2017. There is also no data showing athletic training...
Show moreSocial determinants of health refer to the environment surrounding an individual and how it affects quality of life and plays a role in the presence of health disparities. A key factor to eliminate disparities is to increase the number of health care professionals who belong to a minority population (Institute of Medicine, 2003). The National Athletic Trainers' Association reported there were only 221 members who were Native American in 2017. There is also no data showing athletic training programs established on American Indian reservations. This study investigated the barriers and benefits of implementing athletic training programs on Native American reservations from the perspectives of Native American athletic trainers. Results showed implementing athletic training programs would show improvements to the healthcare system, students' lives, and to the community. Barriers of implementing athletic training programs would result from barriers shared with the athletic training profession, barriers from the healthcare system, socioecological, geographic, and socioeconomic barriers related to the reservation. The participants believe athletic training will impact the reservation in a positive manner through improvements made to the reservation health care system, to individual students, and the community. More data needs to be completed to support healthcare innovations for the Native American population.
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- 2021
- Identifier
- 1293876442, WFE0000759
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- Document (PDF)
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- The barriers to obesity prevention or elimination in Libya: A phenomenological analysis.
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- Elrashid, Abubaker Moh
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Obesity prevalence in Libya has dramatically increased in the last three decades from 12.6% in 1984 to 30.5% in 2009 and from 36.10% in 2010 to 47.4% in 2019. High rates of obesity put Libyans at risk for contracting diseases, including cardiovascular disease, liver disease, diabetes, and cancer. These obesity-related health conditions ultimately affect national development as the Libyan government allocates much of the healthcare budget to the treatment of obesity comorbidities. The purpose...
Show moreObesity prevalence in Libya has dramatically increased in the last three decades from 12.6% in 1984 to 30.5% in 2009 and from 36.10% in 2010 to 47.4% in 2019. High rates of obesity put Libyans at risk for contracting diseases, including cardiovascular disease, liver disease, diabetes, and cancer. These obesity-related health conditions ultimately affect national development as the Libyan government allocates much of the healthcare budget to the treatment of obesity comorbidities. The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study is to explore the perceptions of select U.S. Libyan immigrants about the barriers to preventing or eliminating obesity in Libya. The researcher framed the study using the health belief model (HBM; Hochbaum, 1958; Rosenstock, 1974a). The HBM has six main concepts. Perceived barriers, a concept of the model, guided the development of the research questions. The researcher collected interview data from 10 Libyan immigrants in the United States. The study's findings include a perceived inability of current health education to create awareness about addressing the barriers to obesity prevention or elimination among Libyans. Per the findings, health education regarding obesity is not a priority for Libyans because they do not consider obesity to be a disease. The findings of this study have implications for raising awareness about obesity through primary healthcare. The study may also influence policies relative to the adoption of health education programs that will enforce prevention or elimination rather than treatment of health conditions such as obesity in Libya.
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- 2020, 2020
- Identifier
- 1202001229, WFE0000713
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- Document (PDF)
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- Basic psychological needs of emergent educational leaders relative to effective leadership practices.
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- Guy, Theresa Marie
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The high turnover and retirement rates of K-12 educational leaders posed a need for providing quality pipelines for preparing emergent educational leaders. Quality educational pipelines should develop effective and stable educational leaders to meet the projected needs for supplying the K-12 educational workforce. The purpose of this nonexperimental quantitative correlational study was to identify the relationships among perceived autonomy, competence, and relatedness as described in self...
Show moreThe high turnover and retirement rates of K-12 educational leaders posed a need for providing quality pipelines for preparing emergent educational leaders. Quality educational pipelines should develop effective and stable educational leaders to meet the projected needs for supplying the K-12 educational workforce. The purpose of this nonexperimental quantitative correlational study was to identify the relationships among perceived autonomy, competence, and relatedness as described in self-determination theory (SDT; Deci & Ryan, 1985) and the five effective leadership practices of Modeling the Way, Inspiring a Shared Vision, Challenging the Process, Enabling Others to Act, and Encouraging the Heart (Kouzes & Posner, 2017a) perceived by emergent educational leaders within the United States' southeastern region. The Basic Psychological Need Satisfaction in General Scale (Deci & Ryan, 2000; Gagné, 2003) and the Leadership Practices Inventory®-Self (LPI®-Self; Kouzes & Posner, 2017a) were used to collect participant data from students enrolled in graduate educational leadership degree programs (N = 64) at four universities. The nonexperimental quantitative correlational research design allowed for analyzing the data using a Pearson product-moment correlation procedure. Five significant results were revealed. All three basic psychological needs significantly influenced Enabling Others to Act, and the basic psychological needs of autonomy and competence significantly influenced Challenging the Process. All three basic psychological needs were present in the sample of emergent educational leaders. The emergent educational leaders appeared to require skill development and training in the leadership practices of Modeling the Way, Inspiring a Shared Vision, and Encouraging the Heart to ensure educational leadership effectiveness.
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- 2020, 2020
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- 1233323356, WFE0000751
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- Document (PDF)
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- Beyond the guacamole: a history of how drug organizations became involved in the avocado industry.
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- Rudo, Jessica Lynne
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The avocado has picked up several nicknames, but its most recent is "Green Gold." The avocado has blossomed into a multi-billion-dollar-a-year industry, with 77 percent of the world's avocados imported into the United States. From avocado toast to Superbowl guacamole, Americans hunger for the fruit labeled a superfood. After President Bill Clinton signed NAFTA, the border was open to avocados from Mexico. The Mexican state of Michoacán was the only state permitted to ship to the United States...
Show moreThe avocado has picked up several nicknames, but its most recent is "Green Gold." The avocado has blossomed into a multi-billion-dollar-a-year industry, with 77 percent of the world's avocados imported into the United States. From avocado toast to Superbowl guacamole, Americans hunger for the fruit labeled a superfood. After President Bill Clinton signed NAFTA, the border was open to avocados from Mexico. The Mexican state of Michoacán was the only state permitted to ship to the United States because they met all the required sanitary conditions. The booming avocado business increased the Michoacán farmer's profit from two and a half pesos per kilo to eighty pesos. Not surprisingly, the increased revenue attracted a growing workforce. It also drew the attention of local drug cartels. But why would a successful drug cartel need to encroach into other markets? The short answer is that cartel involvement in the avocado industry is an unintended consequence of the fight against drugs. The avocado has become a cash crop for both legal and illegal markets.
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- 2021
- Identifier
- 1293881200, WFE0000762
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- Document (PDF)
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- Bringing books back: A pedagogical inquiry into the bookclub classroom.
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- Pugh, Kylie Ann
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This project proposes book club pedagogy as a framework for altering traditional curricular design and attending to a more egalitarian style classroom. In these settings, students engage with writing that pushes beyond their comfort zone and allows them to see different perspectives, giving them skills to engage in culturally diverse environments. Participation in Book club classrooms enable "critical literacy," which creates student access points to participate and engage with texts and...
Show moreThis project proposes book club pedagogy as a framework for altering traditional curricular design and attending to a more egalitarian style classroom. In these settings, students engage with writing that pushes beyond their comfort zone and allows them to see different perspectives, giving them skills to engage in culturally diverse environments. Participation in Book club classrooms enable "critical literacy," which creates student access points to participate and engage with texts and societal issues that are "interpreted through personal and cultural realities" (Freire & Macedo, 1987; Wood & Jocius, 2013). When utilizing personal experiences and interpretations of texts through various lenses, students participate in conversations regarding disabilities, stereotypes, and social action, and they evaluate their own experiences through reflective writing processes. In addition to affording students with opportunities to utilize their critical thinking skills, book club pedagogy is often conducted in a classroom setting crafted to provide flexible, open spaces rather than orderly rows of desks. To maintain an egalitarian environment, students take turns moderating the class discussion, enabling leadership experience to transfer from student to student. Book club pedagogies encourage students to engage in multimodal ventures when responding to complex texts, either through drawings, videos, blog posts, posters, or interactive games.
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- 2019
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- 1152896114, WFE0000696
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- Document (PDF)
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- Can delivery modality influence test performance?: comparing traditional and digital formats.
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- Moyer, Gage H.
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This paper presents a mixed group experimental design to examine whether how students take a test within the classroom affects exam performance and test delivery preferences. In this study, I randomly assigned 35 students in a social psychology course to take their first exam in either a paper-based format or an online mode in the same context. Students switched to the alternative format for their second exam. I measured average exam scores, speed of completion, attitudes towards computer...
Show moreThis paper presents a mixed group experimental design to examine whether how students take a test within the classroom affects exam performance and test delivery preferences. In this study, I randomly assigned 35 students in a social psychology course to take their first exam in either a paper-based format or an online mode in the same context. Students switched to the alternative format for their second exam. I measured average exam scores, speed of completion, attitudes towards computer testing, testing anxiety, and modality preference. As predicted, the testing format made no difference in mean test performance on each exam. There also was no majority preference for one modality over the other when given a choice of how students wanted to take the final exam in the class. Format preference was unrelated to testing anxiety or exam performance. However, attitudes towards computer-based testing appear to correlate with modality preference. Therefore, online-based testing modalities do not appear to have any significant disadvantages when compared to paper-based formats and can possibly serve as a convenient, resource saving alternative.
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- 2020, 2020
- Identifier
- 1202267393, WFE0000723
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- Document (PDF)
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- Cemeteries as classrooms: Making archaeology education relevant, accessible, and sustainable.
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- Hines, Rachel Louise
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Despite promoting K-12 education initiatives for decades, public archaeologists struggle to reach precollegiate audiences due to archaeology's absence in curriculum standards, a lack of qualified archaeology educators, and barriers within the school system. To investigate replicable and accessible methods of archaeology education and to better understand teacher needs and motivations, I created lesson plans which engage high school students in recording and researching historic cemeteries....
Show moreDespite promoting K-12 education initiatives for decades, public archaeologists struggle to reach precollegiate audiences due to archaeology's absence in curriculum standards, a lack of qualified archaeology educators, and barriers within the school system. To investigate replicable and accessible methods of archaeology education and to better understand teacher needs and motivations, I created lesson plans which engage high school students in recording and researching historic cemeteries. Hands-on efforts are often excavation-based and limited by access to professional archaeologists; however, cemetery recording is nondestructive and offers students a chance to participate in project-based learning. Four educators from Santa Rosa County taught the materials to nine classes in Fall 2019 while I evaluated the lessons through surveys, guided observations, and summative interviews. The materials were revised based on results to ensure they are useful and useable. Every participant indicated the lessons are user-friendly, relevant, and meaningful. Administrative support, passionate teachers, and carefully crafted lessons contributed to programmatic success, indicating collaborative efforts from archaeological and educational professionals can produce hands-on archaeology programming that is mutually rewarding.
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- 2020, 2020
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- 1201528775, WFE0000707
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- Document (PDF)
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- Challenge-hindrance stressor framework and work-family outcomes: the moderating effects of individual learning goal orientation.
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- Cremeans, Danielle Nicole
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The challenge-hindrance stressor framework focuses on individuals' appraisal of stressors as challenging or hindering. Most literature focuses on applying the challengehindrance stressor framework to performance outcomes. In contrast, the current study applies the framework to work-family outcomes while also examining the potential moderating effects of individual learning goal orientation (LGO). Ninety-seven participants completed online surveys through Amazon's MTurk. Analyses revealed a...
Show moreThe challenge-hindrance stressor framework focuses on individuals' appraisal of stressors as challenging or hindering. Most literature focuses on applying the challengehindrance stressor framework to performance outcomes. In contrast, the current study applies the framework to work-family outcomes while also examining the potential moderating effects of individual learning goal orientation (LGO). Ninety-seven participants completed online surveys through Amazon's MTurk. Analyses revealed a positive relationship between challenge-related stressors and work-family conflict (WFC) as well as a positive relationship between hindrancerelated stressors and WFC. Furthermore, hindrance-related stressors and LGO interacted to predict WFC. The interaction indicated that the positive relationship between hindrance-related stressors and WFC was stronger at higher levels of LGO. Additionally, a positive relationship was found between LGO and labeling a higher number of ambiguous stressors as challengerelated. This study builds on prior literature by examining individual characteristics that may influence the effects of the challenge-hindrance stressor framework as well as identifying the importance of applying the framework to work-family outcomes. Future research calls for examining the influence of time in the challenge-hindrance stressor framework as well as examining the way individuals with low and high LGO cope differently with stressors and how coping strategies could influence work-family outcomes.
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- 2019, 2019
- Identifier
- 1152892851, WFE0000690
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- Document (PDF)
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- Characterization of calpain activity in response to microplastic exposure in Donax variabilis.
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- Schroeder, Hans Erik
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Coquina clams (Donax variabilis) are small multicolored bivalve mollusks that inhabit the intertidal zones of various southeastern beaches along the eastern coast of the United States where they are in great abundance and an essential part of the beach ecosystem. Because they are filter-feeders that are exposed to environmental hazards, Donax variabilis populations are a sign of the beach's ecological health. Potentially, this mollusk may be effective as a "canary in a coal mine" if...
Show moreCoquina clams (Donax variabilis) are small multicolored bivalve mollusks that inhabit the intertidal zones of various southeastern beaches along the eastern coast of the United States where they are in great abundance and an essential part of the beach ecosystem. Because they are filter-feeders that are exposed to environmental hazards, Donax variabilis populations are a sign of the beach's ecological health. Potentially, this mollusk may be effective as a "canary in a coal mine" if biological changes are easily measurable that may be sensitive to important environmental changes. One such mechanism are the calpains. Calpains are Ca2+-dependent cysteine proteases that are expressed in nearly all eukaryotes, but have rarely been studied in invertebrates like the Coquina clam. It is well established that calpains are essential to cellular homeostasis and have been implicated in a multitude of cellular functions, such as apoptosis and cellular stress. In recent years, microplastics, plastic particles that range in size but are less than 5mm, have become a serious hazard to the environment. Accumulation of microplastics have only recently been recognized to be harmful to marine organisms that ingest them and cause tissue damage on a cellular and subcellular level that may alter calpain activity. Although Coquina clams are in great abundance on the beaches and their ecological patterns have been studied thoroughly, the cellular and subcellular processes of the Coquina clam have not been studied extensively. Specifically, it is not understood how calpains function under normal conditions or how these molecules would be affected due to large ecological impacts in the form of contaminants like microplastics. It is our contention that Coquina clams can be used as a bioindicator of healthy beaches and aid in assessing the presence or absence of pollutants such as microplastics that can occur in the ecosystem, using cellular and subcellular processing by calpains as a measure.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2019, 2019
- Identifier
- 1153167661, WFE0000699
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- Document (PDF)