John Joseph McDonough

John Joseph McDonough was born in 1849 and died in 1926, but in between those years he was very busy and productive. He started working at his father\u27s lumber mill, continued by being involved in six major businesses of his own, plus director to a few more, and ended up with a single lumber and machine business. He also seems to have ended up with only one son to carry on his name, but not any of his businesses. At the same time he was actively involved in Savannah government (1887·l895) he was also very active in real estate, John J. made a very good mayor of Savannah. He was known for enforcement of the Sunday Laws, improving the police force, facilitating the switch to an artesian well water supply, promoting railroad development, deepening the Savannah harbor to 26 feet, and trying to prove the city\u27s sanitation problems. He was also known for promoting the development of Tybee Beach, seeing as how he had bought a lot of property there for the railroad to use. ..https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/sav-bios-lane/1202/thumbnail.jp

How Can the Relationship Between Climate Change and the Coast Redwood Forest Be Incorporated into Fifth and Sixth Grade Environmental Education Programs?

The question for this research is: how can the relationship between climate change and the coast redwood forest be incorporated into fifth and sixth grade environmental education programs? Climate change is a real, global problem, and this capstone is intended as a resource for environmental educators to incorporate climate change into their programs. It includes a literature review of scientific research on climate change impacts on coast redwood forests and presents a lesson plan for teaching climate change in the redwood setting. The lesson plan covers basic climate science, dendrochronology, and carbon footprints, and was conducted at Westminster Woods, a residential environmental education program in Northern California. Ninety-nine fifth and sixth grade students participated, and learning was measured using pre- and post-questionnaires. Data analysis, including a mean thirty-one percentage point increase in scores, showed that the lesson plan was successful in increasing student knowledge of climate change in the redwood forest

Finding Extreme Values and Extreme Points of a Multivariate Funetion

nuloLet f be a k-variate function d efined on Ω Ϲ Rd and consider the problem of estimat.ing the extreme values of f and the corresponding extreme pooints in Ω. Conditions that will assure cornmon extreme points for the coordinate functions {fj L=l,... ,k will be discussed. Also t est for the asymptotic independence under weak convergence of the coordinate functions will be presented

The relationship between personality, life events and healthy longevity: A comparison of U.S. and Japanese centenarians

This dissertation comprises of three manuscripts and compares a population-based sample of 239 U.S. centenarians from the Georgia Centenarians Study to 304 Japanese centenarians from the Tokyo Centenarian Study. The first study compared the most important life events reported by U.S. and Japanese centenarians. Two open-ended life events questions were categorized and grouped into different life event domains. Several cross-tabulations were computed to investigate culture and gender differences in most important life event domains. The main results suggest that events related to marriage were the most frequent event domains mentioned by U.S. centenarians. The Japanese sample was more likely to report historical events. Men from the U.S. were more likely to report events related to work and retirement compared to U.S. women, and U.S. women reported events related to family as the most important life events when compared to U.S. men. Japanese women considered events related to marriage, death and grief as the most important life events when compared to Japanese men. In addition, Japanese men reported events related to work and retirement as the most important life events. A cross-cultural difference was found in life events. U.S. centenarians were more likely to mention positive experiences related to marriage and children, whereas Japanese centenarians reported mostly negative and traumatic experiences such as historical events, death/grief, and work/retirement events. The second study investigated demographic and cultural mean differences among five NEO personality traits. In addition, it identified and compared across culture centenarians\u27 personality trait profiles in U.S. and Japanese centenarians. Several one-way analyses of variance were performed and latent profile analyses were conducted to identify personality trait profiles in centenarians from the United States and Japan. Two personality profiles were identified in both samples: the resilient group (higher scores on Agreeableness and Extraversion, and lower mean scores on Neuroticism, Conscientiousness, and Openness compared to the population means) and the non-resilient group (higher scores on Neuroticism and lower scores on Extraversion, Openness, Agreeableness and Conscientiousness compared to the population means). No cultural differences in personality profiles were found. The third study investigated the effect of personality and life events on mental and cognitive health and the mediating and moderating effects of personality and life events on mental and cognitive health. Several structural equation models were computed for each culture to test the relationship of personality, life events (i.e., marriage and historical events), and mental and cognitive health. Results from structural equation modeling indicated that centenarians with a resilient personality had better mental health in both samples. No significant mediating and moderating effects of personality were found in either sample. Japanese centenarians who reported marriage as the most important event had better mental health compared to Japanese centenarians who did not report marriage as the most important event. Japanese centenarians reporting historical events had poor mental health compared to Japanese centenarians not mentioning an historical event. In conclusion, the results indicate that Japanese centenarians mentioning historical events were more at risk for mental health problems than U.S. centenarians

Using dual language picturebooks with children in an after school club

Dual language picturebooks use more than one language in the text of the book. There is increasing literature showing the potential of such books to support language learning, and recent studies explore their use in classrooms to raise awareness of multilingualism. This article describes the ways in which dual language picturebooks were used in an after school club of 8-11 year olds in a Latinx neighbourhood in Arizona. Over a six week period an inquiry cycle was used as a curricular framework for exploring dual language picturebooks featuring both familiar and unfamiliar languages for the children. Findings showed the importance of providing time for connection with the books, followed by demonstrations or readings  of the picturebooks, and the importance of invitations for the children to explore ideas from the picturebooks. The article provides guidelines for using dual language picturebooks in classrooms, and ends with a provocation suggesting that bilingual picturebooks are not necessarily only for bilingual children

Loss-resilient Coding of Texture and Depth for Free-viewpoint Video Conferencing

Free-viewpoint video conferencing allows a participant to observe the remote 3D scene from any freely chosen viewpoint. An intermediate virtual viewpoint image is commonly synthesized using two pairs of transmitted texture and depth maps from two neighboring captured viewpoints via depth-image-based rendering (DIBR). To maintain high quality of synthesized images, it is imperative to contain the adverse effects of network packet losses that may arise during texture and depth video transmission. Towards this end, we develop an integrated approach that exploits the representation redundancy inherent in the multiple streamed videos a voxel in the 3D scene visible to two captured views is sampled and coded twice in the two views. In particular, at the receiver we first develop an error concealment strategy that adaptively blends corresponding pixels in the two captured views during DIBR, so that pixels from the more reliable transmitted view are weighted more heavily. We then couple it with a sender-side optimization of reference picture selection (RPS) during real-time video coding, so that blocks containing samples of voxels that are visible in both views are more error-resiliently coded in one view only, given adaptive blending will erase errors in the other view. Further, synthesized view distortion sensitivities to texture versus depth errors are analyzed, so that relative importance of texture and depth code blocks can be computed for system-wide RPS optimization. Experimental results show that the proposed scheme can outperform the use of a traditional feedback channel by up to 0.82 dB on average at 8% packet loss rate, and by as much as 3 dB for particular frames

Using dual language picturebooks with children in an after school club

Dual language picturebooks use more than one language in the text of the book. There is increasing literature showing the potential of such books to support language learning, and recent studies explore their use in classrooms to raise awareness of multilingualism. This article describes the ways in which dual language picturebooks were used in an after school club of 8-11 year olds in a Latinx neighbourhood in Arizona. Over a six week period an inquiry cycle was used as a curricular framework for exploring dual language picturebooks featuring both familiar and unfamiliar languages for the children. Findings showed the importance of providing time for connection with the books, followed by demonstrations or readings  of the picturebooks, and the importance of invitations for the children to explore ideas from the picturebooks. The article provides guidelines for using dual language picturebooks in classrooms, and ends with a provocation suggesting that bilingual picturebooks are not necessarily only for bilingual children