766 research outputs found
Creating Identity Through Dialect In Fantasy Media: The Absence, Presence And Use Of Stereotypes In Characters
As everyone speaks in a dialect, and its meaning is limited to biographical details. However, dialects have stereotypes associated with them that impart information that may or may not be true for a person. This is not true in media. A character\u27s dialect has broader meaning couched in those stereotypes, especially when it is a non-standard dialect. This thesis explores how a dialect and its stereotypes are used in media as a tool for characterization. As a part that is the examination of the convergence and divergence of a dialect\u27s stereotypes and characterization. The media examined is limited to fantasy media produced in the United States. In the thesis, multiple characters from two films, one videogame, and two podcasts are examined
Teaching homophones in grades one, two and three
Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston Universit
Extension Programming for Food Entrepreneurs: An Indiana Needs Assessment
The objective of the research reported here was to identify the needs of food entrepreneurs in the state of Indiana. To attain this objective, Purdue Extension educators from 86 counties in Indiana were surveyed. Topics of interest from the survey results included marketing, new business start-up, food regulations, and food safety. This assessment tool has directed Purdue Extension in developing a Food Entrepreneur Engagement Program. The survey results were used to develop a statewide workshop for food entrepreneurs. Resources provided by this program ultimately helped several food entrepreneurs create value-added food businesses in Indiana
A new capacitance medium for presumptive detection of Listeria spp. from cheese samples
The paper presents a new medium and a method for the rapid presumptive detection of Listeria spp. in cheese samples by electrical capacitance changes. The Bactometer based capacitance broth (LED medium) required a 30% change in signal within 30 h to identify presumptive positive results. Of 32 cheese samples tested, 10 were found to contain Listeria spp. using a Fraser broth screening method and 12 using the LED medium and method. The LED method also gave 16 fewer (total = 1) false presumptive positive results. Results show the LED method to be superior to Fraser broth in regard to both the number of false presumptive positive and confirmed false negative results detected. The method appears to be suitable as a reliable rapid screen for the presence of Listeria spp. in cheese
Catalog of Chromium, Cobalt, and Nickel Abundances in Globular Clusters and Dwarf Galaxies
We present measurements of the abundances of chromium, cobalt, and nickel in 4113 red giants, including 2277 stars in globular clusters (GCs), 1820 stars in the Milky Way's dwarf satellite galaxies, and 16 field stars. We measured the abundances from mostly archival Keck/DEIMOS medium-resolution spectroscopy with a resolving power of R ~ 6500 and a wavelength range of approximately 6500–9000 Å. The abundances were determined by fitting spectral regions that contain absorption lines of the elements under consideration. We used estimates of temperature, surface gravity, and metallicity that we previously determined from the same spectra. We estimated systematic error by examining the dispersion of abundances within mono-metallic GCs. The median uncertainties for [Cr/Fe], [Co/Fe], and [Ni/Fe] are 0.20, 0.20, and 0.13, respectively. Finally, we validated our estimations of uncertainty through duplicate measurements, and we evaluated the accuracy and precision of our measurements through comparison to high-resolution spectroscopic measurements of the same stars
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Pragmatics of inter-professional collaborative partnerships
The focus throughout this thesis is on the pragmatics of interprofessional collaborative partnerships in the area of work with children and families. It comprises three sections, the first of which reviews government mandates and research outcomes, outlines essentials for inter-professional collaborative partnerships and suggests possible ways of effectively implementing these.
The research section combines an example of collaborative working between clinical psychology and health visiting in the form of a jointly planned and delivered Self-esteem Focus Programme, with an evaluation of the effects of the programme on participant's self concept and self-esteem. This programme was delivered over eight weeks, the contents of which are detailed, as is the theoretical underpinning for the programme. 80th quantitative and qualitative methods of analysis were used to evaluate the effect of the programme on the participants. A total of 45 mothers took part in the quantitative analysis, carried out by using repeated measures multivariate analysis of variance on scores obtained from the completion of the Rosenberg Self-esteem and the Pearlin and Schooler Psychological Coping Resources Questionnaires at four times during the data collection period. Eleven of this group of mothers took part in depth interviews which were analysed qualitatively to assess changes in self concept. Participants showed significant increase in self-esteem and mastery accompanied by significant decrease in self-denigration, at the 0.01 level of significance, following participation in the programme. These changes were maintained six months after completion of the programme. Qualitative analysis of the depth interviews showed an increase in feelings of self worth, self confidence and feelings of normality. Responses also reflected change in the way participants related to their children, spouses or partners, others and towards themselves.
The final section contains details of a case study requiring multiprofessional participation. This outlines how the health visiting – clinical psychology partnership was effectively conducted and the difficulties encountered on occasions when the various professionals did not share similar philosophies of collaborative partnership
Creating an Explainable Intrusion Detection System Using Self Organizing Maps
Modern Artificial Intelligence (AI) enabled Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS)
are complex black boxes. This means that a security analyst will have little to
no explanation or clarification on why an IDS model made a particular
prediction. A potential solution to this problem is to research and develop
Explainable Intrusion Detection Systems (X-IDS) based on current capabilities
in Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI). In this paper, we create a Self
Organizing Maps (SOMs) based X-IDS system that is capable of producing
explanatory visualizations. We leverage SOM's explainability to create both
global and local explanations. An analyst can use global explanations to get a
general idea of how a particular IDS model computes predictions. Local
explanations are generated for individual datapoints to explain why a certain
prediction value was computed. Furthermore, our SOM based X-IDS was evaluated
on both explanation generation and traditional accuracy tests using the NSL-KDD
and the CIC-IDS-2017 datasets
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Influenza Virus Aerosols in Human Exhaled Breath: Particle Size, Culturability, and Effect of Surgical Masks
The CDC recommends that healthcare settings provide influenza patients with facemasks as a means of reducing transmission to staff and other patients, and a recent report suggested that surgical masks can capture influenza virus in large droplet spray. However, there is minimal data on influenza virus aerosol shedding, the infectiousness of exhaled aerosols, and none on the impact of facemasks on viral aerosol shedding from patients with seasonal influenza. We collected samples of exhaled particles (one with and one without a facemask) in two size fractions (“coarse”>5 µm, “fine”≤5 µm) from 37 volunteers within 5 days of seasonal influenza onset, measured viral copy number using quantitative RT-PCR, and tested the fine-particle fraction for culturable virus. Fine particles contained 8.8 (95% CI 4.1 to 19) fold more viral copies than did coarse particles. Surgical masks reduced viral copy numbers in the fine fraction by 2.8 fold (95% CI 1.5 to 5.2) and in the coarse fraction by 25 fold (95% CI 3.5 to 180). Overall, masks produced a 3.4 fold (95% CI 1.8 to 6.3) reduction in viral aerosol shedding. Correlations between nasopharyngeal swab and the aerosol fraction copy numbers were weak (r = 0.17, coarse; r = 0.29, fine fraction). Copy numbers in exhaled breath declined rapidly with day after onset of illness. Two subjects with the highest copy numbers gave culture positive fine particle samples. Surgical masks worn by patients reduce aerosols shedding of virus. The abundance of viral copies in fine particle aerosols and evidence for their infectiousness suggests an important role in seasonal influenza transmission. Monitoring exhaled virus aerosols will be important for validation of experimental transmission studies in humans
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