Daley leads the Black Student Union\u27s quest to march in DC

The rain on Friday afternoon drove many people into the Memorial Union to socialize and do homework, but fourth-year Kirsten Daley didn’t mind the influx of people as she tabled and tried to raise funds for the Black Student Union’s (BSU) trip to Washington D.C. for the Unity March for Puerto Rico. “We are trying to go to DC to go to the Unity March for Puerto Rico to stand in solidarity with Puerto Rican hurricane survivors as well as protesting the Jones Act, which is keeping aid from getting into Puerto Rico where it needs to go,” Daley, who is president of BSU, said. Although they were able to receive funding from student government for transportation and hotel costs, they recently found out that student government will not provide funding for gas or tolls

Daley leads the Black Student Union\u27s quest to march in DC

The rain on Friday afternoon drove many people into the Memorial Union to socialize and do homework, but fourth-year Kirsten Daley didn’t mind the influx of people as she tabled and tried to raise funds for the Black Student Union’s (BSU) trip to Washington D.C. for the Unity March for Puerto Rico. “We are trying to go to DC to go to the Unity March for Puerto Rico to stand in solidarity with Puerto Rican hurricane survivors as well as protesting the Jones Act,which is keeping aid from getting into Puerto Rico where it needs to go,” Daley, who is president of BSU, said. Although they were able to receive funding from student government for transportation and hotel costs, they recently found out that student government will not provide funding for gas or tolls.https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/racial_justice/1154/thumbnail.jp

A Content Analysis of Addition and Subtraction from the Math Teacher\u27s Manuals for Orono, Maine and Santiago, Chile

The purpose of this study is to do a comparative content analysis of two second grade math teachers’ manuals; one from Santiago, Chile and the other from Orono, Maine. I will be looking at and comparing one unit of study in both math teacher’s manuals: a unit on addition and subtraction. This thesis will explore how the words and language used in the math teacher’s manuals may affect the way teachers teach addition and subtraction content and what is expected from the second-grade learners. For the comparative content analysis I will focus on, sort, and count the verbs that appear in the math teacher’s manual in one addition and subtraction unit of study. I will sort the verbs collected using the revised version of Bloom’s Taxonomy. After organizing this data, I will compare the two math teacher’s manuals based on the percentages and number of different verbs for each level of Bloom’s Taxonomy

Severe Maternal Morbidity in Michigan: An Investigation of Health Disparities

Severe maternal morbidity (SMM) rates in Michigan have increased over the past 20 years and continue to affect racial and ethnic women disproportionately. Women experiencing health conditions that complicate pregnancy outcomes have a greater risk of having poor obstetric outcomes that result in a SMM event. To evaluate the distribution of women experiencing health conditions that complicate pregnancy and a SMM event, geographic information systems were utilized in this study. The purpose of this study was to depict trends in the prevalence of 4 health conditions and SMM among women hospitalized for obstetric delivery in Michigan from 2016–2017. The 4 health conditions associated with pregnancy complications were obesity, hypertension, mental health diagnosis, and diabetes. This study was supported by the socio-ecological model and the critical race framework that advance the idea that an individual’s health is a consequence of the environment, structural and intrapersonal factors, and the community where they live and seek healthcare services. A retrospective cohort analysis was conducted using the 2016–2017 State Inpatient Database, which is the largest database for delivery hospitalizations with race and ethnicity included. Logistical regression analysis indicated an association with geographic location and race and ethnicity, which were the sociodemographic predictors related to SMM risk. The analysis provided detailed information on the locations with the greatest need for more comprehensive maternal health interventions. This study contributes to social change by focusing on improving the health of women, who are of childbearing age, through equitable interventions that address disparities in SMM

Relationships Between the Media’s Rhetoric and the Sentencing of White-Collar Criminals

The legal landscape surrounding the prosecution of white-collar criminals has changed drastically over time, as has the media’s rhetoric, but the resulting sentence lengths have been inconsistent. This study utilizes historical newspaper articles to review the changes in media rhetoric over time and how this relates to the sentencing of white-collar criminals. The results of this study show that reporting on white-collar crime has increased significantly since the term was first coined in 1939. There has been a sharp increase in the use of aggressive rhetoric and a decrease in sympathy for white-collar criminals. Total loss amounts affect how criminals are perceived by the public, as increasing loss amounts are related to articles with a more aggressive tone

Field Investigation of a Prestressed Concrete Highway Bridge Located in Douglas County, Illinois

Camber, strain, creep, and shrinkage measurements were made over a period of two years on a three-span prestressed concrete highway bridge and concrete specimens. The precast I-section girders 72 ft. 9 in. long were made continuous for live-load force by reinforcement cast in the deck. The construction of the bridge is described, as is the instrumentation used. Although the most important changes in camber of the beams occurred within the first 200 days after release of prestress, measurable movements were still occurring after m ore than two years. The strain measurements exhibited annual cyclical expansions and contractions, probably due to changes in average relative humidity at different times of the year. Measurable shortening of the bottom fiber of the girders occurred for more than two years after release of the prestressing force, but was obscured by the large cyclical variations. The major portion of the loss of prestress occurred during the first few weeks after release, but the losses continued at a slow rate throughout the test period. The creep and shrinkage measurements show that the shrinkage in the field was much less than in the laboratory, but that the creep values were comparable in the two environments. Further work is required to define the magnitude of creep of concrete subjected to variable environmental conditions as most accepted present concepts are not adequate.project IHR-93; illinois Cooperative Highway Research Program Phase

Construction And Long-term Behavior Of 1/8-th Scale Prestressed Concrete Bridge Components

Illinois Department of Transportation. Project IHR-93 , Illinois Cooperative Highway Research Program, Phase

Results From the NSF-ATE Distributed-Hybrid Instructional Delivery Project

The National Center for Manufacturing Education (NCME) in partnership with the Quality Engineering Technology (QET) Department received a NSF-ATE project grant in August 2003 to develop and test a hybrid instructional delivery methodology. The design uses small group activity-based instructional materials developed under previous grants in conjunction with supportive web-based content and learning objects for the individual online component. This allows face-to-face interaction to occur despite the groups working at different locations and times. Web-based supplemental instructional materials and learning objects created and under test include the following content modules encompassing approximately twenty quarter hours of materials: Basic Statistical Variation, Probability, Sampling and Hypothesis Testing, Statistical Experiments, Teamwork, Quality Foundations, Process Control, Financial Management, Performance Measures, Supply Chain Management, and Introduction to Just-in Time. A second deliverable is the creation and testing of a community of practice that supports all the students enrolled in the courses. Current on-line instructional components are accessible at the NCME resource center web site: http://www.ncmeresource.org/onsite/. Access to an extensive faculty facilitation-training guide for synchronous and asynchronous communications is also available at this site.Results From the NSF-ATE Distributed-Hybrid Instructional Delivery Project defines the current status related to meeting the project objectives, in particular research into student perceptions and the use of a hybrid delivery mode. Instructional examples will be presented at the poster session along with additional pilot results

Bandwidth optimization of underwater acoustic communications systems

Current underwater acoustic communication systems operate in the frequency band of 1 - 10 kHz and utilize various forms of signal processing to improve data rates. In this work, the influence of the environment on long-range propagation of acoustic signals will be examined over the band of 1-5 kHz. The transmission loss (Th) as a function of range over the bandwidth will be one measure to determine the optimal operating character of the communications channel. Additionally, estimates of signal variance over the bandwidth as a function of range will be computed. The variance will be generated from source platform motion and interface roughness. Particular attention will be paid to the 2 - 4 kHz band of certain operating systems for long-range transmissionhttp://archive.org/details/bandwidthoptimiz109452584Lieutenant, United States NavyApproved for public release; distribution is unlimited