Changing and Adapting

Sustainable architecture is growing in popularity and necessity all around the world. More and more people and governments are recognizing the need for sustainability to improve the health of the planet and the people that call it home. The problem is usually these projects are disconnected and just focus on one element, being green. This thesis focuses on how net-zero architecture, connections to nature and all-around interconnectivity can improve the health, wellbeing, and happiness of an entire community. Through a major mixed-use development on the bank of the St. Croix River, and exploration of how different architectural elements can have differing impacts on people, we can improve everybody?s wellbeing and thus build our communities for the long term in an ever growing and changing world

English Learners And Academic Speaking

This project sought to answer the guiding question; what educational strategies develop elementary EL students’ academic English speaking skills? The project documents the creation of a curricular unit designed to provide EL students with ample opportunity to speak academically. The guiding question originated from the author’s observation that her EL students were speaking infrequently within their mainstream classrooms, and also further musings regarding the prevalence of this infrequency along with the importance of and best practices for academic speaking. From the project, the author concluded that 1) EL students in both mainstream and EL classrooms often are not given opportunities to speak academically or do not participate when given the opportunity; 2) academic speaking is important to the development of literacy skills as it provides students the opportunity to practice skills such as paraphrasing, clarifying, and creating unique sentences to express ideas; and 3) some best practices for developing academic speaking include providing enriching activities, fostering productive usage and developing deeper understanding of vocabulary, and providing scaffolds such as sentence stems and sentence frames. Created using the UbD framework, this enriching curricular unit focuses student speaking on an academic topic and develops productive vocabulary while also providing scaffolding for learning new academic vocabulary, complex sentence structures, and discourse level organization. The author describes the challenges of creating visuals and supports that are appropriate and cultivate the desired speaking skills. She hopes to follow this unit with another speaking unit designed to build on the first and nurture academic discussion skills

Interlocking Directorates among the S&P 500: Social Networks, Gender Diversity, and Corporate Governance

This multi-article investigation examines corporate board composition and the implications for regulatory penalties. Director diversity on key board committees and board interlocks influence board behaviors as they relate to regulatory risk. Directors bring experience and inter-industry ties to a board position and subsequently transfer and receive specific knowledge, practices, and contacts with other directors (Hillman & Haynes, 2010). Despite this exchange, firms may suffer regulatory oversight penalties because different directors perceive and respond to risk differently (Douglas & Wildavsky, 1983; Flynn et al., 1994). Leveraging the tenets of the cultural theory of risk perception (Douglas & Wildavsky, 1983) and of resource dependence theory (Pfeffer & Salancik, 1978), I formulate hypotheses and test those hypotheses, empirically. This dissertation research combines existing theory along with board compositional data to explore the relationship between board characteristics and firm performance vis-à-vis a regulatory penalties database (Good Jobs First, n.d.). Examining financial penalties between 2016 – 2020 among firms in the S&P 500 and the firms’ respective boards, I advance a model that describes and predicts the type of firms at greatest risk for agency-imposed financial penalties. Combining board gender diversity data, board and director attributes, and social network-derived variables, this research explores whether gender diversity and highly influential directors bring greater monitoring effectiveness to the board

Production and Marketing of Truck Crops in the Territory of Hawaii

This bulletin reports on studies of truck crop production and marketing of locally grown vegetables

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The Action of Aluminum Ferrous and ferric Iron, and Manganese in Base Exchange Reactions

This item was digitized as part of the Million Books Project led by Carnegie Mellon University and supported by grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Cornell University coordinated the participation of land-grant and agricultural libraries in providing historical agricultural information for the digitization project; the University of Arizona Libraries, the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, and the Office of Arid Lands Studies collaborated in the selection and provision of material for the digitization project

Monitoreringsrammeverk for QuA-arkitekturen

In distributed systems applications must compete for access to resources. Existing algorithms for competing use of resources often only offer the best effort-guarantee. Best effort has no guarantees for the time data uses to its goal. It can only guarantee that data reaches its goal. This guarantee isn't enough for some applications. It's for instance very important for multimedia applications that data reaches its goal in time. A solution to this problem is to negotiate about Quality of Service. This means that the application, the underlying system and the resources agree on QoS-values that the underlying system and the resources can offer and that satisfies the application. Middleware is a platform for distributed systems. A type of middleware is componentbased. Component architectures shall simplify programming on distributed systems by dividing the functional aspects and the non-functional aspects in the system. Component Architectures consists of independent components that can be plugged together to a composition. QuA (Quality of Service aware component Architecture) is a QoS-aware component architecture. QuA should be able to monitor the environment and adapt to changes. The goal of this thesis is to develop a monitoring framework for this architecture. The thesis focuses on what kind of information from the environment that is needed to collect, how this information should be collected, what the framework needs to do with the values before they are sent out and how they should be sent out. It also defines what kind of components and roles this framework should have. To represent the environment the best way the monitoring framework has to find the present state of the environment and also predict future values. The framework should also do calculation on values allready collected to produce more complicated values