Revising the U.S.’s Trade Policy Approach to Turkey in a new administration

The current economic policy of the United States needs to be reassessed and subsequently amended to focus on developinga stronger trade relationship with Turkey. The effect of United States’ implementation of trade tariffs on Turkeyduring the Trump administration has been detrimental to the success of foreign policy goals in the region and makes theneed for revising the current economic policy in place more pressing. A reassessment will reveal that tariffs are a threatto an overall stable relationship, and as the U.S transitions from the Trump administration to the Biden administration,policymakers should deepen the economic relationship with Turkey and abandon the harsh tariffs imposed by the previousadministration. This brief will then detail an amended economic policy plan for the US and Turkey based on the assessmentof current policy and analysis of Turkey’s economic climate in the context of U.S. foreign policy goals

Building evaluative criteria for speech and oral language in the elementary school.

Thesis (M.A.)--Boston Universit

Eportfolios: Supporting Reflection and Deep Learning in High-Impact Practices

[First paragraph] Eportfolios are a powerful pedagogical tool that can support deep learning and reflection across various learning contexts. This digital assignment can facilitate integrative learning and make learning visible to students, instructors, and external stakeholders (Chen and Light 2010). Eportfolios provide a space for students to showcase curricular and cocurricular experiences, to reflect on and integrate this work, and to directly assess their learning (Yancey 2004). Like high‐impact educational practices, eportfolios require significant and purposeful “time on task” outside the classroom, provide opportunities for meaningful student–faculty interaction, allow for frequent feedback on student work, and show students how their learning progresses over time (Kuh 2009)

Alien Registration- Harrington, Kathleen M. (Pittsfield, Somerset County)

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Variable-delay Polarization Modulators for the CLASS Telescopes

The search for inflationary primordial gravitational waves and the measurement of the optical depth to reionization, both through their imprint on the large angular scale correlations in the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), has motivated the creation of the Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS). CLASS is a four telescope array sited in the Chilean Atacama desert, specifically designed to achieve the sensitivity and stability necessary to observe the CMB large angular scale polarization from the ground. One of the most unique aspects of the CLASS design is a front-end variable-delay polarization modulator (VPM) that uses a wire grid in front of a movable mirror to rapidly modulate the incoming polarization and enable a ``lock-in'' style measurement of polarization from the sky. This thesis covers the design, fabrication, and performance of the VPMs for the CLASS telescopes as well as theoretical modeling of the polarization modulation by the VPM and analysis techniques for the resulting detector timestreams

Simulated liquid argon interactions with neutrons

Thesis (S.B.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Physics, 2012.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (p. 77-78).The GEANT4 physics simulation program is known to have errors in how hadronic interactions are implemented. This has the potential to cause errors in the Monte Carlos used to determine the expected neutron backgrounds in the MiniCLEAN single phase liquid argon WIMP detector. Elastic and inelastic collisions between neutrons and argon nuclei as well as neutron captures were simulated independently in order to characterize the accuracy of the implementation by GEANT4.9.3.pOl and GEANT4.9.5. The effective cross sections, angular distributions, photons, decay schemes, energy conservation, and momentum conservation were determined through analysis of the neutron tracks created by GEANT4. A large proportion of the interactions behave as expected, however energy and momentum are not conserved by varying degrees of severity with some GEANT4.9.3.pOl inelastic collisions resulting in over twice the correct amount of energy.by Kathleen M. Harrington.S.B