Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Cross-Cultural Research

The initiatives outlined in this article are intended to advance our understanding of cultural processes as they occur in diverse community contexts, as well as contribute to the further conceptualization, critique and development of indigenous knowledge systems in their own right, drawing on the experiences of indigenous peoples from around the world. The organizations and personnel associated with this article have played a lead role in developing the emerging theoretical and evidentiary underpinnings on which the associated research is based. The expansion of the knowledge base associated with the interaction between western science and indigenous knowledge systems will contribute to an emerging body of scholarly work regarding the critical role that local observations and indigenous knowledge can play in deepening our understanding of human and ecological processes, particularly in reference to the experiences of indigenous peoples

Methods and standards development for three-dimensional mapping of the Antioch Quadrangle, Lake County, Illinois a pilot study

The Pilot Study for the Central Great Lakes Geologic Mapping Coalition (CGLGMC) focused on the Antioch Quadrangle, Lake County, Illinois developing a series of maps and digital products, several protocols for database development and maintenance and field procedures to acquire and integrate drilling and geophysical data from a quadangle area featuring complex glacial geology over a 25,000 year period.U.S. Geological Survey, Central Great Lakes Geologic Mapping CoalitionOpe

A CASE STUDY ANALYSIS OF TWO HEAVY SNOWFALL EVENTS AND ROAD WEATHER IMPLICATIONS IN 2018 FOR NEBRASKA

Weather-related car accidents make up approximately a quarter of all crashes even though the amount of time during the year in which they can occur is minimal in comparison to fair weather day crashes. Maintenance Decision Support Systems (MDSS) were developed to help mitigate the number of crashes that occur during winter weather through improved operations along with reducing chemical usage. An MDSS uses weather information to recommend road treatments based on current and future weather conditions. To evaluate the limitations and capabilities of the Nebraska Department of Transportation Maintenance Decision Support System (NDOT-MDSS), case study analysis was performed on two 2018 winter storms, 20-22 January and 13-15 April which occurred over the state of Nebraska. These storms were chosen because they produced heavy snowfall totals across the state and travel delays and road closures were recorded for both events. A comparison of the NDOT-MDSS analysis and the observations from archived meteorological sources for each storm was done to investigate the timing and the total snowfall accumulations, pavement temperatures, air temperatures, and the winds, highlighting both the differences and similarities between the two observation data sets. A synoptic analysis of both winter storms was done to understand the atmospheric conditions and to illustrate how the NDOT-MDSS handled each situation. Understanding how well the NDOT-MDSS handled each storm is a key component in helping maintenance crews be more efficient utilizing the maintenance recommendations. This research will provide the Nebraska Department of Transportation (NDOT) information on the NDOT-MDSS that will lead to a reduction of chemicals used to treat the roads. Advisor: Mark R. Anderso

1959 The Analysis

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"My madness singing" : the specter of syphilis in Prufrock's Love Song

English senior honors thesisConcluding paragraph: "This unpleasant conclusion results from Prufrock's night in the "Pervigilium," since his encounters with ambiguous women and his fears of venereal disease disturb him so much that they distance him from both his beloved and the mermaids. Eliot's missed sexual opportunities bothered him, and in a 1962 interview, he acknowledged that he based Prufrock on himself, stating "[i]t was partly a dramatic creation of a man of about 40, ... and partly an expression of feeling of my own through this dim imaginary figure" (Sigg 242). Thus, the progression of Prufrock's anxieties over the course of the "The Love Song" and the "Pervigilium" serves as "an expression" of Eliot's inner conflict during his time in Paris. Perhaps, then, Eliot deleted the section because he felt that it invaded his sense of privacy and modesty. Going along with this idea, Eliot may have worried that the explicitly sexual aspects of the "Pervigilium" would offend his parents; his female readers; and even the editor of Poetry, Harriet Monroe. Alternatively, perhaps Eliot simply felt that his additions were not at the same artistic level as the rest of the poem. Whatever the case, in 1960 Eliot wrote to the TLS that "[he had] enough recollection of the suppressed verses to remain grateful to Mr. Aiken for advising [him] at once to suppress them" (March Hare 176). Still, writing the "Pervigilium" allowed Eliot to examine the consequences of his own carnal desires. With Prufrock's defeat in "The Love Song," Eliot could see the potential outcome of lifelong hesitation. Terrified by his character's status as an eternal bachelor, Eliot quickly altered his own course: in 1915 he married Vivienne Haigh-Wood.

Developing Creativity in Reading

Have you ever heard a teacher make the remark, I just can\u27t teach my children to be creative? It makes one wonder just what that teacher means by being creative. Is creativity taught in a certain pattern step by step? Applegate in her book, Helping Children Write, says, Creativity cannot be taught. It can only be released and guided by a competent teacher. (1) It is often difficult for children to reveal what is on the inside, for they have been disappointed by adults too often when they have exposed their feelings to them. One of the important facts that teachers and children should realize is that every one of us has some sort of a gift within us and it is up to us to bring that gift forth. We must stand our ground and refuse to be suppressed by anyone

Contemporary Student Activism: The Educational Contexts of Socially- Responsible Civic Engagement.

Contemporary higher education leaders tend to view campus based activism as an outgrowth of an educational experience that inspires and leads students to engage in civic action for the purpose of alleviating systemic social, economic, or political injustices. Accordingly, this study explores the relationships between the structural characteristics and the educational contexts of campuses relative to the occurrence of student mobilization. Using a concurrent embedded mixed-method design, this study focuses primarily on a random sample of 149 U.S. campuses that had the potential for becoming involved in the student anti-sweatshop movement between the years 1998-2002. A supplemental data set involving 1,245 U.S. public and private four-year institutions is used to perform a multinomial logistic model that identifies those campus characteristics that predict whether a campus would have some degree of involvement with an external social movement organization in the institutional field. Additionally, a qualitative newspaper content and frame analysis (conducted on the N=149 sample) characterizes the manner in which contemporary student activism is enacted and understood on those campuses that experienced mobilization. The results indicate that diversity requirements in the undergraduate curriculum, along with having robust area studies programs contribute to the likelihood that campuses will mobilize. Further, the forces in the external institutional environment were found to have the equivalent effect to the influence of the campus context in predicting whether student mobilization ensued. Findings also demonstrate that student activists frame their movement involvement as an extension of their local internal organizational identities, and tend to enact movement strategies which are educationally oriented and symbolically important. Overall, this research contributes to theories of socially-responsible stakeholder collective action, and further elucidates movement dynamics within particular types of social institutions. The study concludes with recommendations for practice for college educators who seek to foster an educational experience that promotes civic engagement.Ph.D.Higher EducationUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/91540/1/cassbarn_1.pd

A social contract model of ‘disintegrity’ within the dual-process paradigm of moral psychology: Reducing the scope of the ‘belief-behavior incongruity’

Explaining why students cheat when it violates their moral beliefs, also called the ‘belief-behavior incongruity’ (BBI), is a difficult challenge most often overcome by referring to neutralization techniques, first described by Sykes and Matza (1957), whereby individuals deceive themselves with specious justifications for ignoring the moral imperative to follow rules. An underlying assumption of the neutralization view, that individuals’ abstract moral beliefs apply automatically to all contexts, is critiqued in the present work. The account of academic dishonesty developed herein is centered on the hypothesis that adolescent students’ felt moral obligation is informed by an intuitive sense of reciprocity between themselves and their learning contexts, which resembles a social contract, or ‘psychological teaching- learning contract’ (PTLC). Students who regard a class context or teacher more negatively are thus expected to feel less moral obligation to follow rules, and to cheat more as a result. The hypothesized PTLC model, which included key variables related to (A) self-concept, (B) achievement goal structure, (C) learning strategies, (D) moral obligation, and (E) social comparison theory, was tested with data from a diverse sample of secondary students in fifteen international schools across Asia, Europe, and Africa. A pilot study (N = 96) of the construct validity of psychometric measures was conducted prior to the Main Study, which included a Time 1 sample of N = 493, a Time 2 sample of N = 297 (spaced by approximately one year), and a longitudinal matched sample of N = 225. Structural equation modeling techniques were used to test the validity and invariance of the measurement model, as well as the structural relations hypothesized between variables. A small degree of gender non-invariance prompted separate analyses of gender-specific models. Results supported the PTLC hypothesis. Moral obligation overwhelmingly mediated the effects of perceived class quality on academic integrity, indicating that students felt morally obliged to be honest in a given class, as a function of their regard for its quality

Detached Eddy Simulations of Hypersonic Transition

This slide presentation reviews the use of Detached Eddy Simulation (DES) of hypersonic transistion. The objective of the study was to investigate the feasibility of using CFD in general, DES in particular, for prediction of roughness-induced boundary layer transition to turbulence and the resulting increase in heat transfer