Final Master\u27s Portfolio

\u27Basic English Writing\u27 Reimagined: A Theoretical Approach to Syllabus Design in an EFL Writing Class in South Korea, and Exact Equilibrium: Elizabeth Cady Stanton\u27s Quest to Liberate Woman from Religion were two pieces that I developed as part of my time in the Bowling Green State University Master\u27s of English program. In the first piece, I redesigned a writing class syllabus based on scholarly research in the field. In the second piece, I explored how Elizabeth Cady Stanton\u27s religious views influenced her work in the women\u27s rights movement

Everybody's got a story: examining the building of empathy and understanding for the bully, the bullied, and the bystander through digital storytelling

Digital storytelling as a pedagogical practice has been extensively explored as a means of increasing engagement, developing 21st century skills such as creativity, critical thinking, collaboration and communication, and refining digital literacies in students. However, there is a lack of data on how the use of multimodal digital tools can be used to explore pervasive social issues such as bullying in adolescents. In this study, a group of grade seven students provided their views and self-assessed their levels of empathy and understanding for victims of bullying, bullies and bystanders prior to and after the completion of a digital storytelling project. Using Likert scale data, along with an in-depth content analysis of the stories and presentations the students produced, the study explored whether participation in this digital storytelling project led to a noticeable and measurable impact on their understanding of and empathy for victims of bullying, bullies and bystanders

Everybody's got a story: examining the building of empathy and understanding for the bully, the bullied, and the bystander through digital storytelling

Digital storytelling as a pedagogical practice has been extensively explored as a means of increasing engagement, developing 21st century skills such as creativity, critical thinking, collaboration and communication, and refining digital literacies in students. However, there is a lack of data on how the use of multimodal digital tools can be used to explore pervasive social issues such as bullying in adolescents. In this study, a group of grade seven students provided their views and self-assessed their levels of empathy and understanding for victims of bullying, bullies and bystanders prior to and after the completion of a digital storytelling project. Using Likert scale data, along with an in-depth content analysis of the stories and presentations the students produced, the study explored whether participation in this digital storytelling project led to a noticeable and measurable impact on their understanding of and empathy for victims of bullying, bullies and bystanders

Biophysical Heme Binding Studies of Corynebacterium diphtheriae and Streptococcus pyogenes

Gram-positive pathogenic bacteria utilize cell-surface anchored proteins to bind and transport heme into the cell. These bacteria acquire iron from host proteins containing heme e.g., hemoglobin. Proteins like HmuT from Corynebacterium diphtheriae bind and help transport heme into the cell. Residues His136 and Tyr235 are utilized as the axial ligands, with a conserved Arg237 residue acting as the hydrogen bonding partner to the axial Tyr235. Similarly, Streptococcus pyogenes utilizes the cell anchored protein Shr to transfer heme into the cell. Shr-NEAT2 is hexacoordinated by two axial methionines and is prone to autoreduction where lysines are the most likely source of electrons. Lastly, PefR of Group A Streptococcus is a DNA transcription factor which regulates protein expression. Preliminary studies indicate a cysteine may coordinate the heme. A combination of UV-visible, resonance Raman, and magnetic circular dichroism spectroscopies shows these proteins play a crucial role heme transport and regulation

Studies of HmuT protein in the heme uptake pathway of Corynebacterium diphtheriae

gsurc 201

Gentlemen prefer modernism : \u27middlebrow\u27 culture and the transmutation of realism in the works of Louisa May Alcott, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and Fannie Hurst

This dissertation examines the emergence of a modernist aesthetic in early twentieth-century America and its effect on women writers, particularly those with allegiance to the nineteenth-century realist tradition fostered by William Dean Howellsand Henry James. A number of the anxieties about authorship and aesthetics expressed by early twentieth-century women writers have their roots in the nineteenth century, a period when more women began careers as writers; therefore, I analyze Louisa May Alcott as a nineteenth-century exemplar of the limitations imposed by Victorian gender constructions, particularly as they are informed by the ideology of women’s “influence.” Ialso consider the aesthetic limitations of the domestic and sentimental fiction genres on a woman\u27s desire for personal fulfillment as an artist. I argue that the onset of the modernist era does not erase the tensions between the notions of woman’s “appropriate cultural influence and artistic ambition, but it instead shifts the emphasis of women writers\u27 anxiety to aesthetic representation, especially as it concerns a move away from realism and into the mode of “transmutation,” an aesthetic propounded by Edith Whartonand continued in the work of Willa Gather and Fannie Hurst. Writers like Wharton,Gather, and Hurst are seldom classified as “modem”; they did write in a manner quite different from the most experimental narratives of their modernist contemporaries, andWharton and Gather in particular criticized modernist aesthetics. However, there are important parallels between the work of these women and the goals of the modernist movement that can offer insights into the complicated relationship between the emerging middlebrow” culture that consumed ever-growing numbers of popular and “literary texts and the literary critics who articulated “taste” for this culture in literary magazines,newspapers, and new formations like the “Book of the Month Club

Rational design theory: a decision-based foundation for studying design methods

While design theories provide a foundation for representing and reasoning about design methods, existing design theories do not explicitly include uncertainty considerations or recognize tradeoffs between the design artifact and the design process. These limitations prevent the existing theories from adequately describing and explaining observed or proposed design methods. In this thesis, Rational Design Theory is introduced as a normative theoretical framework for evaluating prescriptive design methods. This new theory is based on a two-level perspective of design decisions in which the interactions between the artifact and the design process decisions are considered. Rational Design Theory consists of normative decision theory applied to design process decisions, and is complemented by a decision-theory-inspired conceptual model of design. The application of decision analysis to design process decisions provides a structured framework for the qualitative and quantitative evaluation of design methods. The qualitative evaluation capabilities are demonstrated in a review of the systematic design method of Pahl and Beitz. The quantitative evaluation capabilities are demonstrated in two example problems. In these two quantitative examples, Value of Information analysis is investigated as a strategy for deciding when to perform an analysis to gather additional information in support of a choice between two design concepts. Both quantitative examples demonstrate that Value of Information achieves very good results when compared to a more comprehensive decision analysis that allows for a sequence of analyses to be performed.Ph.D.Committee Chair: Paredis, Chris; Committee Member: Ashuri, Baabak; Committee Member: Bras, Bert; Committee Member: McGinnis, Leon; Committee Member: Rosen, Davi

Gender-specific motivators and barriers to adopting healthful diets and losing weight among middle-aged West Virginians

Gender-specific motivators and barriers to adopting healthful diets and losing weight among middle-aged West Virginians Stephanie K. Thompson Background: About 70% of West Virginia adults are overweight and obese. Diet is a modifiable determinant of weight-related conditions. Innovative interventions are needed to help overcome the barriers to prevent and delay chronic conditions. In order to implement an intervention that is needed, learning the motivators and barriers to healthful eating and weight loss is the first step.;Objective: To learn what helps or hinders healthful eating and weight loss among middle-aged adults in West Virginia.;Methods: Gender-specific focus groups were conducted among 45 to 64 years old overweight or obese adults. Participants lived in either Harrison or Marion counties, were married or living with a companion, and had one of the following cardiovascular risk factors: high blood pressure, diabetes, pre-diabetes, high cholesterol, or high triglycerides. The data were analyzed by using a classical analysis approach with comparing the differences between genders by frequency of themes.;Results: Among 30 participants, the primary motivators were health, appearance and physical fitness, and family. The male primary motivators were health, appearance and physical fitness, and internal motivation while the female primary motivators were health, special events, and family and appearance and physical fitness were tied. The primary barriers were time, convenience of unhealthy foods, and temptation. The male primary barriers were time, convenience of unhealthy foods, and lack of self-control. For the females, the primary barriers were time, temptation, and lack of self-control.;Conclusion: Helping individuals learn how to better plan and prepare their meals can help them overcome time barriers. Interventions for males should include education and counseling on making healthful food choices when eating out, while interventions for females could include ways to help them overcome temptation barriers

International bank for reconstruction and development

Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University, 1947. This item was digitized by the Internet Archive