A Jury of Peers

A LOUD burst of static from the police radio on the counter behind him broke the silence as Sheriff Paul Thompson pushed aside the last of the reports he had been working on. He turned in the swivel chair and adjusted the squelch knob. The radio clock registered 2:04 a.m..

Energy Policy: A Norwegian Perspective

Few countries in the industrialized West are more energy directed than Norway. Whereas most nations have paid particular attention to the relationship between their economic growth and the consumption of energy, Norway has to a high degree based her industrialization and economic growth on the exploitation of indigenous energy resources. Therefore, establishing principles of developing and using energy resources has been an important political topic in Norway since industrialization gathered headway near the turn of the century

Minimizing Toxicity and Maximizing Social Connection in Collegiate Esports Teams

ABSTRACT Tonne, Julia, M.A., Spring 2024 Communication Studies Minimizing Toxicity and Maximizing Social Connection in Collegiate Esports Teams Chairperson: Dr. Joel Iverson Given possible benefits of social connection, the researcher analyzes how participation in the University of Montana’s Esports team influences students’ feelings of connection and their well-being. Participating in online gaming is associated with the risk of interacting with toxic behavior, especially for women and other minorities. The researcher further explores how toxic situations relate to feelings of social connection and well-being. Positive themes discovered include increased feelings of social connection for students in the program, experiences of social support and stress relief, and professional and personal development of social/communication skills. Negative themes discovered included identity-based harm and responses of the program to harm, favoritism, and inconsistent responses to toxicity from leadership, and the lingering effects of inequity within the online gaming environment. Research establishes how the University of Montana esports community succeeds at creating social opportunities for students, which can act as a blueprint for other esports or student affairs organizations

Gender Differences in the Relationship Between Self-Worth and Romantic Relationship Attachment Styles

It is frequently anticipated that men and women will differ with regards to relationship anxiety and avoidance as well as in self-ratings of physical attractiveness, emotional and intellectual intelligence, and communication abilities. In this study we measured self-reported relationship anxiety and avoidance and self-reported variables assessing various aspects of self-worth. There were a total of 232 participants, comprised of 116 heterosexual couples (116 men and 116 women). The average age of participants was 21.6; 80% were college students. Preliminary analyses showed that there were not many significant differences between the genders regarding relationship experiences or self-worth variables. Women reported marginally more relationship anxiety than men. Women also reported marginally higher self-reported emotional intelligence than men. there were not any gender differences on the other variables. Regarding associations between the self-worth and relationship variables, men’s self-reported physical attractiveness was negatively correlated with relationship avoidance, but not correlated with relationship anxiety. Women’s self-reported physical attractiveness was negatively correlated with relationship anxiety but not correlated with relationship avoidance, opposite to the men’s results. Regarding self-reported intellectual intelligence there were no significant correlations with relationship anxiety or avoidance for both men and women. Self-reported emotional intelligence was negatively correlated with relationship avoidance but not correlated with relationship anxiety for men. A similar pattern emerged for women: self-reported emotional intelligence was not correlated with anxiety, and was marginally negatively correlated with avoidance. In terms of communication ability, both men’s and women’s self-reported abilities were negatively correlated with both anxiety and avoidance. Lastly, relationship anxiety and avoidance are positively correlated with each other. These findings illustrate that there are not many gender differences in self-reported self-worth variables or relationship avoidance, though women did report marginally more relationship anxiety. Additionally, gender difference emerged in the relationships between self-worth variables and relationship anxiety and avoidance, though overall, higher emotional intelligence, physical attractiveness, and communication abilities were associated with less relationship anxiety and avoidance

Andrespråkseleven, leseprøver og litteraturbasert leseopplæring

Hva måler den nasjonale leseprøven når den gjennomføres av elever med norsk som andrespråk? I denne artikkelen analyserer vi data som viser at totalskåren på nasjonal leseprøve korrelerer med høy morfologisk bevissthet og forståelse av «opake» uttrykk som polysemer, idiomer og metaforiske uttrykk. I lys av internasjonal forskning tolker vi sammenhengene som kausale: Forståelse av morfologi og opake uttrykk på lesespråket er en forutsetning for høy leseskåre. Den nasjonale leseprøven er utformet med førstespråkselever som målgruppe. Den er ment å måle leseforståelse definert som evne til å finne, tolke og reflektere over informasjon i tekster. Når andrespråkselevene – ofte med lav morfologisk bevissthet og forståelse av opake uttrykk på norsk – gjennomfører prøven, oppstår et validitetsproblem. Dermed blir det avgjørende hvordan andrespråkselevenes prøveresultater tolkes og følges opp. Vi argumenterer for en lit - teraturbasert leseopplæring, der elevene leser skjønnlitteratur og faglitteratur som de mestrer å lese og er interessert i. Litteraturbasert leseopplæring bidrar til å utvikle andrespråkelevens morfologiske bevissthet og kjennskap til opake uttrykk, samtidig som lesingen motiverer til videre lesin

Modellierung und Quantifizierung der Zuverlässigkeit in Architekturen zur Bit Preservation

Die langfristige Erhaltung von Informationen ist eine essentielle Voraussetzung für wissenschaftlichen Fortschritt. Gegenstand der Dissertation ist die Erforschung und Entwicklung eines neuen Modells zur Quantifizierung der Zuverlässigkeit in Architekturen zur Bit Preservation. Basierend auf Erkenntnissen der Analyse von Replikations- und Prüfsummenszenarien an Hand der Wahrscheinlichkeit unentdeckter Fehler können Empfehlungen für Maßnahmen zur Bit Preservation abgeleitet werden

A call for epidemiology where the air pollution is

The global burden of disease from ambient air pollution is substantial (nearly 8% of all deaths), and increasing with time—largely due to increases in fine particulate matter (PM2·5) and the number of deaths from non-communicable diseases, especially in large low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) experiencing population growth and ageing.1 Increased awareness of air pollution as a major global public health issue is reflected in the inclusion of air pollution-related mortality and morbidity in targets to meet the health-focused Sustainable Development Goal

From a Dynamic Image Annotation Process within the Humanities to a Canonical Workflow

One idea of the Canonical Workflow Framework for Research (CWFR) is to improve the reusability and automation in research. In this paper, we aim to deliver a concrete view on the application of CWFRs to a use case of the arts and humanities to enrich further discussions on the practical realization of canonical workflows and the benefits that come with it. This use case involves context dependent data transformation and feature extraction, ingests into multiple repositories as well as a “human-in-the-loop” workflow step, which introduces a certain complexity into the mapping to a canonical workflow