The Effectiveness of Using Digital Movies as a Form of Reflection

Digital videos can be effective authentic assessment tools to help students reflect on their learning acquisition. Using digital video reflections to synthesize learning of abstract concepts and theories such as instructional design can be a method to evaluate how students perceive, understand, and arrive to certain conclusions. This paper describes the process of creating digital videos as part of a reflection assignment that graduate students in an instructional design course had to complete. Benefits and limitations of using this form of assessment are addressed, including some recommendations. The purpose is to help readers understand how digital videos can aid students in learning theoretical content through selfreflection. Instead of writing a paper, graduate students in this particular case created videos to demonstrate how instructional system design (ISD) models affect people’s lives using various mediums. In the end, video reflections were effective in helping graduate students understand the relationship between ISD, learning theories, and their applications

All Set... To Go Where?

This is a true story. It wasn\u27t meant to be, but it is. The girl\u27s name is Dottie Hansen. She\u27s a senior at Iowa State. She could be any senior at any college or university. Her major happens to be Home Economics journalism, but it could be anything

A Normal Form for Words in the Temperley-Lieb Algebra and the Artin Braid Group on Three Strands

The motivation for this thesis is the computer-assisted calculation of the Jones poly- nomial from braid words in the Artin braid group on three strands, denoted B3. The method used for calculation of the Jones polynomial is the original method that was created when the Jones polynomial was first discovered by Vaughan Jones in 1984. This method utilizes the Temperley-Lieb algebra, and in our case the Temperley-Lieb Algebra on three strands, denoted A3, thus generalizations about A3 that assist with the process of calculation are pursued

The Me Curriculum: High-Stakes Testing and the American COVID-19 Response

American culture’s emphasis on individualism has been identified bythose directly engaged with fighting the COVID-19 pandemic and bypopular cultural commentators as problematic in mustering the collective social consciousness and self-sacrifice necessary to mount asuccessful pandemic response. This concern is supported by emergingacademic research which postulates a relationship between a culture’s relative balance between individualism and collectivism and the success of its pandemic response. Big data analysis suggests an inverse relationship between individualistic cultural traits and success in pandemic mitigation. Although the relative advantages and disadvantages of American individualism have been debated since Tocqueville, a recent rise in the dominance of individualism within the American psyche has been noted by both sides of the political spectrum with conservative commentary expressing concern over radical individualism and more left-leaning commentary finding increasing acceptance of libertarian principles perilous to the common good. Paralleling this rise in individualism are neo-liberal efforts at education reform that culminated in No Child Left Behind and its successor Every Student  Succeeds. Such comprehensive neo-liberal reform efforts engender increased cultural individualism in three ways: by narrowing curriculum definitions and content to a core that excludes issues of citizenship; by increasing direct instruction that limits students’ opportunities to engage with others in meaningful educational tasks; and most importantly, by creating an accountability superstructure based solely on decontextualized evaluations of isolated students, educators, and schools. The decades-long dominance of neo-liberal reform efforts create an educational environment which reinforces the cultural individualism hampering a successful American response to COVID-19

Projecting Culture Through Literary Exportation: How Imitation in Scandinavian Crime Fiction Reveals Regional Mores

This thesis reexamines the beginnings of Swedish hardboiled crime literature, in part tracking its lineage to American culture and unpacking Swedish identity. Following the introduction, the second chapter asserts how this genre began as a form of escapism, specifically in Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö’s Roseanna. The third chapter compares predecessor Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep with Roseanna, and how Sweden’s greater gender tolerance significantly outshining America’s is reflected in literature. The fourth chapter examines how Henning Mankell’s novels fail to fully accept Sweden’s complicity in neo-Nazism as an active component of Swedish identity. The final chapter reveals Helene Tursten’s Detective Inspector Huss engaging with gender and racial relations in unique ways, while also releasing the suppressive qualities found in the Swedish identity post-war. Therefore, this thesis will better contextualize the onset of the genre, and how its lineage reflects the fruits and the damages alike in the Swedish identity

Characterizing Truck Parking Shortages in Arkansas: A Data Analytical Approach

The Truck Parking Problem occurs when drivers have met the daily driving limit and encounter a decision between driving over time or parking in unauthorized locations. This research applies data analytics to gain further knowledge to characterize the truck parking shortage in Arkansas. Truck parking shortages are a serious problem that truck drivers face daily and is complex due to Hours of Service (HOS) regulations restrictions on legal parking areas and design. Existing research includes a one-day annual survey which compiles where public rest stops, businesses, and private rest stops are utilized by truck drivers. This research expands on the survey to capture broader time-of-day and daily patterns. This was done by calculating the following metrics for truck parking: how many drivers occupy a specific rest area at arrival, by time of day, and how long each driver stays at a rest location. To accomplish this research task, we combined multiple real data sources representing truck parking locations and truck travel characteristics represented by GPS “pings” over a one-year period. We used data analytics to describe and characterize the truck parking problem over time and geographic location. We then used the defined metrics to compare and contrast many locations across Arkansas. This research presents the findings using a user-friendly heat map which demonstrates the knowledge gained from this research. As a result, this heat map can serve as the visual foundation for new policies on truck parking expansion and show how HOS regulatory requirements are impacting truck drivers throughout the state

An introduction to the study of Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde

Call number: LD2668 .R4 1968 H378

The development of a dynamic scissor lift model

Tip-over/rollovers are the most frequent cause of fatalities associated with the use of scissor lifts. The objective of this study is to develop a dynamic model of a scissor lift to investigate tip-overs. A multibody dynamic model of a typical scissor lift was created using an advanced modeling platform---ADAMS RTM. This model was statically validated and dynamically calibrated based on experimental results from center of gravity, curb impact, and pothole depression tests. The dynamic responses of the scissor lift model were consistent with the experimental data. Once calibrated/validated, the model was used to simulate hazardous scenarios while varying the scissor lift\u27s flexibility. Results of the simulations indicate that increased flexibility reduces the scissor lift\u27s stability. This developed scissor lift model could be used to perform additional simulated conditions and for design optimization