Millimeter wave propagation modeling of inhomogeneous rain media for satellite communications systems

A theoretical propagation model that represents the scattering properties of an inhomogeneous rain often found on a satellite communications link is presented. The model includes the scattering effects of an arbitrary distribution of particle type (rain or ice), particle shape, particle size, and particle orientation within a given rain cell. An associated rain propagation prediction program predicts attenuation, isolation and phase shift as a function of ground rain rate. A frequency independent synthetic storm algorithm is presented that models nonuniform rain rates present on a satellite link. Antenna effects are included along with a discussion of rain reciprocity. The model is verified using the latest available multiple frequency data from the CTS and COMSTAR satellites. The data covers a wide range of frequencies, elevation angles, and ground site locations

Navigating 18th Century Haiku: Translating the Poetry of Yosa Buson

One of the difficulties in translating the poetry of Yosa Buson, an 18th century Japanese poet and painter is negotiating the cultural differences between time and place, and still writing a translation that moves the audience within the limits of a haiku without doing any violence to the original text. My presentation is on the difficulties in translating a literary master from the Edo Era, Yosa Buson, especially when the poems contain embedded cultural references that the average American reader would not be familiar with as it is important to convey all of the information in a meaningful way and yet at the same time preserve the poetic experience

The Knights Templar and the Freemasons: An American Myth

This project is an in-depth look at the influence and impact of the Knights Templar and the Freemasons on early American history. This thesis provides an overview of the conspiracy theories surrounding both groups and their involvement in United States history as well as the history behind these theories and how they formed, with the ultimate goal of comparing these popular culture myths with the verifiable influence of the groups

Oral History Interview: Eliza Persinger

This interview is one of a series conducted concerning rural life in West Virginia. Mrs. Eliza Persinger was born in Elmwood, West Virignia, and was residing in Poca, West Virginia, at the time of the interview. She discusses food, school, church, and music. She also talks about social gatherings, clothing, and how her maternal grandfather tanned leather.https://mds.marshall.edu/oral_history/1064/thumbnail.jp

Utilization of SPs as Preceptors for Clinical Skills Stations

• Highlight the value of utilizing SPs as preceptors for clerkship specific clinical skills stations in 3rd year OSCEs. Using a checklist, SPs observe students ability to perform specific tasks, procedures, and manual techniques on passive models. Methods • Simulation stations used are created from established Clerkship Performance Learning Objectives. • SPs are selected based on the specific task or procedure students are required to demonstrate. For example, a man who is a GTA is assigned to be the preceptor for the prostate model. • Faculty train SPs to the model they\u27ll be assigned, the checklist they\u27ll complete. • SPs are provided with written instructions and checklists to complete. • Students are given a setting and a brief scenario and instructed to perform a specific task or procedure, such as insertion of a Foley catheter. • SPs interact with the student minimally during the station. • SPs, using the checklist as a guide, provide immediate feedback to the student about the task or procedure. Results Advantages to curriculum: • Feedback loop to curriculum. • Saves time and money by using passive models instead of GTAs and allows for standardized assessment of clinical procedures and skills. • Utilize a low-tech method to meet the established goals of the OSCE. • Successful assessment of clinical skills stations for 3rd year medical student OSCEs can easily be modified and enhanced for use in other health science arenas, including nursing. Advantages to students: • Allow students to demonstrate mastery of core body of knowledge essential for competent clinical practice. • Guide faculty teaching efforts. • Guide and enhance student learning. • Allow students to practice some examinations and maneuvers that can be extremely sensitive in an untraditional, non-clinical environment. • Allow GTAs to share their knowledge with students in a less formal, personal environment. Advantages to SPs: • Allow richer experience for SPs that compliments their future use in clinical assessments. • Allow GTAs to share their knowledge with students in a less formal, personal environment. • SPs enjoy using the models.\u2

Henri Temianka Correspondence; (persinger)

https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/temianka_correspondence/2559/thumbnail.jp

Foxfire: the Selected Poems of Yosa Buson, a Translation

My dissertation is a creative translation from Japanese into English of the poetry of Yosa Buson, an 18th century (1716 - 1783) poet. Buson is considered to be one of the most important of the Edo Era poets and is still influential in modern Japanese literature. By taking account of Japanese culture, identity and aesthetics the dissertation project bridges the gap between American and Japanese poetics, while at the same time revealing the complexity of thought in Buson\u27s poetry and bringing the target audience closer to the text of a powerful and moving writer. Currently, the only two books offering translations of Buson\u27s haiku are mainly biography, with few poems offered in translation. The first, Yuki Sawa\u27s and Edith M. Shiffert\u27s book, Haiku Master Buson, contains 50 pages of biography but only has around 300 haiku. The second book, Makoto Ueda\u27s The Path of the Flowering Thorn, only contains around 150 haiku. My translation project includes translations of 868 haiku along with a critical introduction. This edition of Buson work is an important addition to Buson studies since over fifty percent of the poems I include have not been translated before nor brought together in one volume. The critical introduction included in my project supplements and expands the dialogue started in the previous two books on Buson. In the introduction, I also discuss translation theory noting how the translations themselves reflect the theory and represent the continuing debate of such scholars as Eugene Nida, Roman Jakobson, Jacques Derrida, and Paul de Man. Finally, I explain my choice to present the translations in free verse. In my translations, I concentrate on the content, the images, and the individual words since I hold it important that not only are the translations accurate, but that they fulfill esthetic expectations. Furthermore, while it is impossible to separate form and content, my translations privilege content over form since I believe it would be nearly impossible to keep the syllable count of 5/7/5 and not do drastic damage to the meaning. For example, a short one syllable word in Japanese ka is a three syllable word in English, mosquito. Therefore to keep to the syllable count one would have to do drastic editing to the original. Yet, as a form, haiku is more than just syllable count; a haiku also has to have a seasonal reference and convey a sense of a twist or a surprise within the closing line. Seasonal reference is part of content and is the easiest part of the translation. The twist or surprise, that moment of enlightenment for both the reader and the poet, is very important for the genre and the translations in my dissertation especially convey that Zen moment haikus reveal along with the Japanese esthetic that is so important within Buson\u27s oeuvre

Practicing Self-Advocacy for Displaced People in the English Language Learner Classroom

This study is comprised of a literature review of best practices for working with displaced people and interviews with teachers of refugees. The author found that self-advocacy is multifaceted and that promoting self-advocacy is a key way to support learners in advocating for themselves and their communities. As borders become less porous, there will be more refugee crises, and more language teachers will be needed. Best practices for teaching languages include seeing students as cultural experts, teaching and encouraging resistance, being a trauma-informed practitioner, teaching legal rights, and making room for students to choose what they learn