John Dewey, Historiography, and the Practice of History.

John Dewey was America\u27s foremost authority on many of the critical issues in the twentieth century. Dewey dedicated his professional career as an expert on the major branches of philosophy. A neglected aspect of Dewey\u27s philosophy is his writings on historiography, the philosophy of history, and his influence on American historians. Dewey affected several generations of historians from the Progressive historians to the practical realists of today. This study evaluates Dewey\u27s pragmatism as a legitimate strain in American historiography. James Harvey Robinson and Charles Beard claimed Dewey as an influence. Later historians such as Richard Hofstadter and Joyce Appleby insist his methods make for more responsible-minded historians. There is enough material from American historians to assert that Dewey and Deweyan pragmatism influenced and still impacts historians into the twenty-first century

Increasing Access and Sustainability for Camping along the Bay Area Ridge Trail

The Bay Area Ridge Trail (Ridge Trail) is a long-distance, multi-use trail that connects parks and open space on the ridge lines encircling the San Francisco Bay (Bay). Like the Pacific Crest Trail and Appalachian Trail, the Ridge Trail offers continuous travel through protected natural areas, but this trail is unique as it is located in a densely populated metropolitan area. The trail is currently incomplete, with gaps where the trail does not connect. The Ridge Trail also lacks the number and distribution of overnight accommodations needed to support a full circumnavigation of the Bay. Addressing gaps in the current network of publicly operated campsites along the Ridge Trail increases regional connectivity of conservation lands and expands opportunities within local communities for individuals to engage with nature. To understand the barriers to public access to campsites and the potential environmental impacts of camping, an analysis of recreation ecology literature and a campsite inventory were completed. The result of this evaluation was a set of recommendations for siting and managing new campsites intended for use by the Bay Area Ridge Trail Council. This study found that confining camping to designated, durable campsites in high-use areas, like the parks in the San Francisco Bay Area, is the most effective strategy to reduce the extent of environmental impacts. Based on the locations of campsite network gaps identified, the development of new campsites should be prioritized on the eastern side of the Bay. The Council can support the implementation of these recommendations in partnership with public land managers through a wide variety of advocacy and technical assistance activities

Reality and Nature in Robinson Jeffers

Synonyms are the key to understanding Robinson Jeffers’s poetry and his philosophy of inhumanism. Reality, nature, and God are words Jeffers uses to communicate monistic feelings. These words are difficult to define on their own. When used interchangeably by the poet, a sense of oneness with the universe is generated in the reader. This is how Jeffers gives value to the natural world, and his environmental ethic is inextricably tangled up with the numinous as much as the real. A belief in immanence, or that God is present in the material world, guides Jeffers’s philosophy of inhumanism. Reality becomes the ultimate, obvious, and undeniable proof not only of God, but the sanctity of nature. His poetry, when read alongside the Meditations of Roman Stoic philosopher and emperor Marcus Aurelius, takes on an even richer Classical tone in thought and ethos. His first three narrative poems—Tamar, Roan Stallion and The Tower Beyond Tragedy—reveal a poet who is considering that most of the big words in English—nature, reality, God, beauty, truth—might mean the same thing. It is this reductionism of language, both mythopoetic and naturalistic, that makes his work the strange chimera of religio-scientific poetics that it is. The poetry is ecological, but it is also cosmological, and with this equation Jeffers created some of the most profoundly wild and spiritual language of the Modernist era

Factors that influence Omaha public schools African -American and Caucasian males\u27 decisions to become educators

The purpose of this study was to compare the perceptions of African-American male educators to Caucasian male educators who are currently in the Omaha Public School District, and to determine if there were differences in demographic characteristics and perceptions that influenced their decision to become educators

Studying Planarian Regeneration Aboard The International Space Station Within The Student Space Flight Experimental Program

The growing possibilities of space travel are quickly moving from science fiction to reality. However, to realize the dream of long-term space travel, we must understand how these conditions affect biological and physiological processes. Planarians are master regenerators, famous for their ability to regenerate from very small parts of the original animal. Understanding how this self-repair works may inspire regenerative therapies in humans. Two studies conducted aboard the International Space Station (ISS) showed that planarian regeneration is possible in microgravity. One study reported no regenerative defects, whereas the other study reported behavioral and microbiome alterations post-space travel and found that 1 of 15 planarians regenerated a Janus head, suggesting that microgravity exposure may not be without consequences. Given the limited number of studies and specimens, further microgravity experiments are necessary to evaluate the effects of microgravity on planarian regeneration. Such studies, however, are generally difficult and expensive to conduct. We were fortunate to be sponsored by the Student Spaceflight Experiment Program (SSEP) to investigate how microgravity affects regeneration of the planarian species Dugesia japonica on the ISS. While we were unable to successfully study planarian regeneration within the experimental constraints of our SSEP Mission, we systematically analyzed the cause for the failed experiment, leading us to propose a modified protocol. This work thus opens the door for future experiments on the effects of microgravity on planarian regeneration on SSEP Missions as well as for more advanced experiments by professional researchers

Computation with finite fields

A technique for systematically generating representations of finite fields is presented. Relations which must be physically realized in order to implement a parallel arithmetic unit to add, multiply, and divide elements of finite fields of 2n elements are obtained. Finally, techniques for using a maximal length linear recurring sequence to modulate a radar transmitter and the means of extracting range information from the returned sequence are derived.*Operated with support from the U.S. Army, Navy and Air Force

An Investigation of Simple Reaction Time and Movement Time of the Dominant and Non-dominant Hand of Elementary School Children

The purpose of this study was to investigate the reaction time and speed of movement of the dominant and non-dominant arms of elementary-school boys and girls

Understanding First-Generation Student Perspectives On Sense Of Belonging And A Student Success Program: A Program Evaluation

The purpose of this mixed-methods program evaluation was to assess how first-generation students related their participation in the Success Program at LU with their sense of belonging. I used the CIPP model to conduct the mixed-methods program evaluation. The evaluation questions were: (1) To what degree do first-generation students who participate in the Success Program report a sense of belonging? and (2) What components of the Success Program do first-generation students find meaningful, based on student perspectives? The General Belongingness Scale (GBS) was used to collect quantitative data by measuring the levels of sense of belonging reported by program participants. Qualitative data were collected through in-depth interviews with nine participants who possessed varying levels of belongingness, based on their GBS scores. The quantitative component of the evaluation found that student respondents possessed positive levels of sense of belonging to the program. The qualitative identified which components of the program were meaningful to students. The two emerging themes included: (a) The meaningful components of the program were activities that enabled students to interact with others, and (b) students found activities were meaningful because they were provided in an encouraging environment