Remote sensing of land use and water quality relationships - Wisconsin shore, Lake Michigan

This investigation assessed the utility of remote sensing techniques in the study of land use-water quality relationships in an east central Wisconsin test area. The following types of aerial imagery were evaluated: high altitude (60,000 ft) color, color infrared, multispectral black and white, and thermal; low altitude (less than 5000 ft) color infrared, multispectral black and white, thermal, and passive microwave. A non-imaging hand-held four-band radiometer was evaluated for utility in providing data on suspended sediment concentrations. Land use analysis includes the development of mapping and quantification methods to obtain baseline data for comparison to water quality variables. Suspended sediment loads in streams, determined from water samples, were related to land use differences and soil types in three major watersheds. A multiple correlation coefficient R of 0.85 was obtained for the relationship between the 0.6-0.7 micrometer incident and reflected radiation data from the hand-held radiometer and concurrent ground measurements of suspended solids in streams. Applications of the methods and baseline data developed in this investigation include: mapping and quantification of land use; input to watershed runoff models; estimation of effects of land use changes on stream sedimentation; and remote sensing of suspended sediment content of streams. High altitude color infrared imagery was found to be the most acceptable remote sensing technique for the mapping and measurement of land use types

PROMOTING LANGUAGE LEARNERS’ CROSS-CULTURAL AWARENESS THROUGH COMPARATIVE ANALYSES OF ASIAN FOLKTALES

With the global spread, the English language has become a lingua franca and a component of basic education in many Asian countries, making Asia one of the regions in the world with the largest number of English speakers. However, due to the rich cultural diversities of Asian societies, using English as a lingua franca in Asia implies that speakers need to develop not only communicative competence but intercultural communicative competence, so as to ensure successful communication among people from different Asian societies. Given that successful intercultural communication requires the speakers’ appreciation of their cultural diversities, while celebrating certain similarities, promoting learners’ cross-cultural awareness has become one of the important objectives of English language teaching in Asia. In this paper, I will draw on some sample analyses of Asian folktales which have been translated into English to (i) identify and explore the features of narrative structures and contents which can be seen as transcultural and others which can be highlighted as culture-specific, and (ii) discuss how such comparative analyses of narrative structures and contents in Asian folktales can be used to promote the cross-cultural awareness of English language learners in Asia. Implications for the socio-cultural-based English language teaching are offered.Â

Knowledge Of Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors And Perception Of Risk In Women

More women than men are dying of cardiovascular disease. The misconception persists that heart disease is a man\u27s disease and not an urgent health care issue for women. In the United States, heart disease kills more women than all cancers combined. In 1997, 228,679 women died due to cardiovascular disease, and 41,443 women died from breast cancer. Yet, women are still not assessed effectively for their risk factors for cardiovascular disease; therefore, women are under-diagnosed and under-treated for this disease. The purpose of this study was to evaluate women\u27s knowledge of cardiovascular disease risk factors, assess their perception of risk, and evaluate the knowledge of women regarding signs and symptoms of a heart attack. The theoretical framework utilized for this study was Pender\u27s Health Promotion Model. This model includes concepts that directly or indirectly influence decision making and actions of individuals in preventing disease. The research questions that guided this study were as follows: What is the perception of risk for women regarding cardiovascular disease? What is the knowledge level of women regarding 111 cardiovascular disease risk factors? And are women knowledgeable of heart attack signs and symptoms? The sample consisted of 59 adult females over 21 years of age in northeast Mississippi employed at local industrial sites who consented to participate in the study. Data were collected using the Women\u27s Health Survey, which addressed knowledge of risk factors, perceptions of risk for cardiovascular disease, and knowledge of heart attack signs and symptoms. Descriptive statistics using measures of central tendency, including frequencies and percentages, were utilized to interpret the data. The study revealed that women did regard heart disease as their biggest health care risk {n = 20, 33%). Risk factor awareness addressed criteria including: family medical history, tobacco use, history of diabetes, hypercholesterolemia, depression or anxiety, and hypertension, height and weight, activity level, menopausal status, and stress level. The risk factors that were most prevalent for this sample were 23% (n = 14) aware of their cholesterol level, being overweight (BMI of 28), and identified themselves frequently irritable and stressed (n = 36, 61%). It was predetermined that 80% of the sample had to score 80% on the knowledge portion of the survey to be considered knowledgeable of signs and iv symptoms of heart attack. Only 22 participants (38%) scored above 80% on the knowledge portion of the survey. The current research indicates that nurse practitioners need to focus on cardiovascular disease risk factors and instructions on sign and symptoms of heart attacks in women. Nurse practitioners should be aware that women and atypical symptomatology for cardiovascular disease presence and adapt their care and teaching to address the educational needs of this population. Recommendations for further research include larger scale studies to obtain a more demographically diverse group and conduction of research to assess the screening practices of nurse practitioners and cardiovascular disease awareness practices

Land use and pollution patterns on the Great Lakes

The author has identified the following significant results. The final mapping of the large watersheds of the Manitowoc and the Oconto was done using the 25% sampling approach. Comparisons were made with earlier strip mapping efforts of the Oconto and Manitowoc watersheds. Regional differences were noted. Strip mapping of the Oconto resulted in overestimation of the amount of agricultural land compared to the random sampling method. For the Manitowoc, the strip mapping approach produced a slight underestimate of agricultural land, and an overestimate of the forest category

A Study of Teachers’ Leadership Styles at Two Bilingual Schools in Bangkok, Thailand

This study identified the most frequently used leadership style, to compare each leadership style with teachers’ age groups, and to determine the relationship between the leadership styles and their work experience. The study had 3 objectives, which were 1) to identify the most frequently used leadership styles by teachers at two bilingual schools in Bangkok, Thailand, 2) to compare each leadership style with different age groups of teachers at both schools, and lastly 3) to determine the relationship between teachers’ leadership styles and their work experience. This study was conducted at Amnuay Silpa School (ANS) and Interkids Bilingual School (IBS). Both schools are located in Bangkok, Thailand. In this research, there were 100 respondents out of the entire targeted population (N = 111) in kindergarten and primary levels at both schools. A survey was sent to individual schools. The survey checked the transformational leadership, transactional leadership style, and demographic factors of the teachers. There were three hypotheses in total. Two of them were rejected but one of them existed. There is a significant difference in the use of transactional leadership style among different age groups of teachers in both schools. The findings in this researcher were 1) transformational leadership style was the most frequently used by teachers at two bilingual schools in Bangkok, Thailand, 2) there was no significant difference in the use of transformational leadership style among different age groups of teachers in both schools, 3) there was a significant difference in the use of transactional leadership style among different age groups of teachers in both schools, and 4) there was no significant relationship between teachers’ leadership styles and their work experience. The researcher recommends teachers in kindergarten and primary teachers use more transformational leadership style in their classroom because according to the theory, the outcome or the achievement of the students will be beyond the expectation. Further research should be conducted using other demographic factors of teachers at international schools or government schools

Emotion detection on Myanmar texts

At this age, World Wide Web is growing faster. Many companies have built and launch social media networks. People so widely use social media to get the latest news, to express their emotions or moods, to communicate with their friends and so on. Emotions of social media users are needed to analyze in order to apply in many areas. Many researchers do research on emotion detection using different techniques with their languages. Currently, there are no emotion detection systems for Myanmar (Burmese) language. So, this paper describes the emotion detection system for Myanmar language. This system uses our pre-constructed M-Lexicon, a Myanmar word-emotion lexicon, in the detection process. This system detects six basic emotions such as happiness, sadness, anger, fear, surprise, and disgust. In order to determine certain emotion from the text, we also apply rule-based decision making on sentence nature. We use Facebook users’ status, which has been written in Myanmar words. Emotions of user groups are also summarized in this system. Our approach achieves 86% accuracy for emotion detection in Myanmar texts

Emotion detection on social media status in Myanmar language

Many social media emerged and provided services during these years. Most people, especially in Myanmar, use them to express their emotions or moods, learn subjects, sell products, read up-to-date news, and communicate with each other. Emotion detection on social users makes critical tasks in the opinion mining and sentiment analysis. This paper presents the emotion detection system on social media (Facebook) user status or post written in Myanmar (Burmese) language. Before the emotion detection process, the user posts are pre-processed under segmentation, stemming, part-of-speech (POS) tagging, and stop word removal. The system then uses our preconstructed Myanmar word-emotion Lexicon, M-Lexicon, to extract the emotion words from the segmented POS post. The system provides six types of emotion such as surprise, disgust, fear, anger, sadness, and happiness. The system applies naïve Bayes (NB) emotion classifier to examine the emotion in the case of more than two words with different emotion values are extracted. The classifiers also classify the emotion of the users on their posts. The experiment shows that the system can detect 85% accuracy in NB based emotion detection while 86% in recurrent neural network (RNN)

Land use/vegetation mapping in reservoir management. Merrimack River basin

This report consists of an analysis of: ERTS-1 Multispectral Scanner imagery obtained 10 August 1973; Skylab 3 S190A and S190B photography, track 29, taken 21 September 1973; and RB-57 high-altitude aircraft photography acquired 26 September 1973. These data products were acquired on three cloud-free days within a 47-day period. The objectives of this study were: (1) to make quantitative comparisons between high-altitude aircraft photography and satellite imagery, and (2) to demonstrate the extent to which high resolution (S190A and B) space-acquired data can be used for land use/vegetation mapping and management of drainage basins

Mind the Gap: Regional Economic Disparities and Political Discontent

Over the past forty years, regional economic disparities have widened considerably in advanced economies around the world. The combination of globalization and technological change has led to the concentration of economic activity in a few large metropolitan regions at the expense of once prosperous rural and manufacturing regions. Uneven recoveries to the 2008 Global Financial Crisis have only exacerbated existing regional economic disparities over the past decade. In this three-article dissertation, I explore the political consequences of rising regional inequality in many wealthy democracies. First, I examine whether the rise of regional inequality in recent decades has made the issue more politically salient to the public. Analyzing newspaper coverage of regional inequality in The Guardian from 2000-2021, I find that coverage of regional inequality nearly doubled during this twenty-two-year period, suggesting that the issue of regional inequality has become more politically salient as the country&rsquo;s economic disparities have widened. Second, I use survey data from the 2018 European Social Survey and regional- and country-level economic data to examine the effect of regional inequality on individual satisfaction with democracy. This cross-national analysis reveals that individuals residing in relatively poor regions are less satisfied with democracy than individuals residing in relatively prosperous regions. On average, satisfaction with democracy is also lower in countries with higher levels of regional inequality. Third, using data from an original survey experimented administered to residents of England in July of 2021, I explore why residents of economically-declining regions are more dissatisfied with the political status quo than others. I argue that regional economic disparities fuel feelings of relative deprivation among the residents of these declining communities, contributing to their subsequent political discontent. However, I ultimately fail to find evidence of this theory. The dissertation reveals the challenges posed to democracy by rising regional inequality &ndash; a type of inequality that has been largely neglected by political scientists. This dissertation also contributes to the ongoing debate between &lsquo;people-based&rsquo; and &lsquo;place-based&rsquo; economic developmental approaches.</p