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Alien Registration- Giberson, Howard (Caribou, Aroostook County)

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Army Medics With College Degrees Who Transitioned to Civilian Life

Few colleges and universities have adopted the practice to provide credits for the majority of undergraduate coursework for military career training. Easing the transition from military to civilian life has become a priority for the Department of Defense, yet there is a significant gap in empirical knowledge regarding the potential benefits of a college degree on soldiers exiting the military. The purpose of this study was to understand the lived experiences of Army Medics who have transitioned back into civilian life after graduating from a college degree program that grants significant credit for military training. This phenomenological study used a conceptual framework derived from Schlossberg\u27s adult transition theory. Data were collected from a focus group, semi-structured interviews, and interviewer notes. Seven participants were identified through purposive sampling. Interview transcripts and interviewer notes were analyzed using the Van Kaam method and yielded 4 pre-transition and 6 transitional themes. Findings indicated that the participants\u27 initial fears of the transition were replaced with higher perceptions of self-worth and confidence, which benefitted them as they assimilated back into civilian society. The implications for positive social change include informing the Department of Defense and policymakers who are supporting soldiers transitioning to civilian life about study participants\u27 increased feelings of self-worth and confidence upon degree completion

Alien Registration- Giberson, Carrie (Fort Fairfield, Aroostook County)

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The Mayfly Newsletter

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Alien Registration- Giberson, Elbridge (Presque Isle, Aroostook County)

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The Mayfly Newsletter

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Alien Registration- Giberson, Rufus (Presque Isle, Aroostook County)

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Average Frobenius Distributions for Elliptic Curves: Extremal Primes and Koblitz\u27s Conjecture

Let E be a rational elliptic curve, and let p be a rational prime of good reduction. Let a_p denote the trace of the Frobenius endomorphism of $E$ at the prime $p$, and let N_p be the number of rational points on the reduced curve E modulo p. In this dissertation we investigate two different questions regarding the statistical distribution of these two quantities. We say p is a champion prime of E if when N_p is as large as possible in accordance with the Hasse bound. In a similar vein, we say p is a trailing prime of E when N_p is as small as possible in accordance with the Hasse bound. Together, we say that these primes constitute the extremal primes of E. The first result of this dissertation establishes an asymptotic on the number of elliptic curve champion primes that are less than a real number X in an average sense. As an immediate corollary, we also gain asymptotics on the average number of trailing primes less than and the average number of extremal primes less than X. In 1988, Koblitz made a conjecture on how often N_p is prime for any fixed rational elliptic curve. Balog, Cojocaru, and David have proved that Koblitz\u27s conjecture is true on average for rational elliptic curves. The second result of this dissertation generalizes their average result to elliptic curves over certain higher number fields