Determination of transfer function of COPE correlation interferometer instrument

The comparison of theoretical and instrument response functions and its use as a procedure for determining the transfer function of the COPE correlation interferometer are summarized. Data show qualitative agreement can be obtained when discrepancies between theory and instrument are investigated and instrument components are analyzed in detail. Data were obtained using a set of calibration data and computer algorithms

“Acts of Pure Evil”: The Portrayal of Mass Shooting Events on Online Media Platforms

As media continues to integrate into everyday life, it is essential to critically examine the media and the messages that are forwarded to the public, who often lack personal knowledge of crime and justice issues, and thus rely on news media to glean information. This effort, also called media criminology, seeks to understand the media and the effect it has on understanding societal issues. This project forwards media criminology by examining online news articles, as media criminology has historically focused on traditional media formats, such as newspaper and television. Online news has surpassed these traditional formats and has become a main source of information, however, information in online news articles can often include opinions alongside facts. As such, this project utilizes a conflict criminology framework to analyze the messages used in the media to achieve hegemony. In order to fully grasp how the media forwards messages about crime and justice issues, eight mass shooting cases were chosen to discover what differences, if any, are present in the representation of mass shooting events across liberal and conservative mainstream news sites and news commentary sites. News sites were chosen based on their comparable consumer traffic and their political orientation as conservative or liberal. Mainstream news sites are those national news sites that are popular and considered reliable sources of information. The two mainstream news sites chosen for this project are NBC News and Fox News. Commentary sites are sites that feature information alongside opinion, and often engage in partisan reporting. The two news commentary sites chosen for analysis are Slate and Breitbart. Once cases and news sites were chosen, a word frequency query was performed on all articles, followed by thematic analysis for the portrayal of offenders and victims, as well as how cases were explained and what policies were forwarded. Results reveal that media bias does exist along political party lines of the news media when representing mass shooting cases. Offenders and victims alike were subjected to sympathetic and unsympathetic themes. Additionally, the explanations and subsequent policy discussions that were forwarded often aligned with the shooters’ motives, but also with the narratives that fit the news site’s political orientation

The determination of atmospheric trace gases using the correlation interferometer technique

The theoretical feasibility inherent in the correlation interferometry technique is demonstrated. High signal to noise and increased information content in a given partial interferogram are attractive features of the technique. The separation of interfering gas species is overcome by a precise measurement program for spectral line parameters of methane and other species. There are optical, mechanical, and electronic difficulties with the interferometry hardware design. Flight data from Cessna 402 over southeastern Virginia during April 1978 yielded amplitude fluctuations that are explainable only as internal nonlinearities. Misalignment of the AGC/interferometer optical axis also contributed to a large error source in the flight data. It is concluded that no useful data on gas burdens was obtained from these flights

A Causal-Comparative Study of the Flipped Classroom: A Blended Learning Approach to Improving Phonemic Awareness for Kindergarten English Language Learners

The purpose of this study was to explore the effectiveness of using the flipped classroom model of instruction to increase English language learners’ phonemic awareness compared to English language learners who received instruction using the business-as-usual approach. This quantitative perspective used a causal-comparative approach to measure achievement in developing phonemic awareness for students at risk due to lack of exposure to English language phonemes. The study involved 167 participants who underwent a pre-test to address any initial group differences. One group received flipped model instruction with curriculum-based video lessons, while the other received traditional in-class expository instruction without access to video lessons. Pre-test and post-test assessments from the Measure of Academic Progress (MAP) were utilized to gauge students\u27 phonemic awareness progress. After four weeks, the researcher collected data, which was then analyzed using a two-way analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) to determine the impact of flipped instruction on phonemic awareness development. The results of the ANCOVA indicated a statistically significant difference in post-test scores, with students in the traditional instruction group outperforming those in the treatment group. No significant gender-based differences were observed, but a significant interaction emerged when considering setting and gender together. This research contributes to the body of knowledge concerning the effectiveness of flipped classroom instruction and its impact on academic achievement, particularly for English language learners. Future research recommendations include extended learner training, a year-long study, and the development of a modified flipped model tailored to younger learners

Migrant or Menace: Media Representations of the Migrant Caravan

In March 2018, the Pueblo Sin Fronteras migrant caravan began making their way to the U.S. border, drawing political and media attention from the United States. News coverage of immigrants and migration events have historically been linked to negative topics and framed as threats to the American way of life. These negative themes emerged against the backdrop of the Trump administration’s response to the caravan, describing migrants as threats to U.S. border security. To examine how the news media portrayed this event, we conducted a summative content analysis of online news articles from CNN and Fox News covering the 2018 Pueblo Sin Fronteras migrant caravan to determine whether variation exists in the representation of the migrant caravan between liberal and conservative mainstream media outlets. Our study reveals that both CNN and Fox participated in agenda setting by framing migrants and the migrant caravan in ways they saw fit.https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/gradposters2021_artsletters/1003/thumbnail.jp

INTELLECTUAL FUNCTIONS OF PATIENTS WITH CHILDHOOD-ONSET EPILEPSY

The intellectual functions of 64 epileptic patients who had had an initial evaluation between five and 16 years of age, including the WISC, were re-evaluated after a period of at least five years. In general the seizure states had improved, and 50 per cent were in remission for between two and eight years. All but four were still taking at least one anticonvulsant drug. WISC IQ estimates showed a slight decrease. Verbal and performance areas could be differentially affected, and a gain in one could be offset by a loss in the other, so the Full-scale IQ might not be a reliable measure of day-to-day performance. Those whose seizures remained uncontrolled had a statistically significant decrease in performance IQ, whereas in general it was stable or increased for patients in remission. There was evidence that decreased IQ indicated slower mental growth rather than loss of previously acquired function. Phenobarbital but not phenytoin levels were inversely correlated with IQ, suggesting that the upper limit of the ‘therapeutic range’ of phenobarbital may already be toxic with regard to learning abilities. To optimize an epileptic child's functioning in school and to prevent long-term intellectual problems, it is advisable that IQ testing should be part of the routine initial evaluation, and that drug levels should be checked at regular intervals. RÉSUMÉ Les fonctions intellectuelles de 64 Épileptiques dont I'intelligence avait ÉtÉÉvaluÉe entre cinq et 16 ans, notamment par le WISC, ont ÉtÉ remesurÉes aprÈs une pÉriode d'au moins cinq ans. En gÉnÉral I‘État des crises s’Était amÉliorÉ et 50 pour cent des sujets Étaient en rÉmission pour des pÉriodes allant de deux À huit ans. Tous les sujets sauf quatre prenaient encore une mÉdication anticomitiale. Les QI au WISC montraient une lÉgÈre perte. Les Échelles verbale et performance pouvaient Être modifiÉes de faÇon diffÉrente et un gain dans l'une des Échelles pouvait Être compensÉ par une perte dans I'autre, si bien que la pleine Échelle de QI pourrait ne pas Être une mesure fiable des performances journaliÈres. Les sujets dont les crises demeuraient non contrÔlÉes prÉsentaient une baisse statistiquement significative À l‘Échelle de performance, alors que cette Échelle Était en gÉnÉral stable ou en gain pour les sujets en rÉmission. Des signes indiquaient que la baisse de QI Était davantage liÉe À un ralentissement de la croissance mentale qu’À une perte des fonctions antÉrieurement acquises. Les taux de phÉnobarbital mais non de phÉnytoine Étaient inversement corrÉlÉs au QI, suggÉrant que la limite supÉrieure de “l‘Étendue thÉrapeutique” du phÉnobarbital peut dÉjÀÊtre toxique en ce qui concerne les aptitudes d'apprentissage. Pour optimiser I'activitÉ scolaire d'un enfant Épileptique et pour prÉvenir des problÈmes intellectuels À long terme, il est souhaitable que des mesures de QI fassent partie des Évaluations initiales de routine et que les taux de mÉdication soient contrÔlÉs À intervalles rÉguliers. ZUSAMMENFASSUNG 64 Patienten mit Epilepsie, die zwischen fÜnf und 16 Jahren erstmals untersucht und beurteilt— einschließlich WISC—worden waren, wurden nach mindestens fÜnf Jahren nachuntersucht. Im allgemeinen hatte sich das Anfallsleiden gebessert und 50 Prozent waren seit zwei bis acht Jahren in der Remission. Alle, außer vier Patienten, nahmen noch mindestens ein Antikonvulsivum. WISC IQ-SchÄtzungen zeigten eine leichte Verschlechterung. Verbale-und Leistungs- Bereiche konnten unterschiedlich betroffen sein und eine Verbesserung in einem Bereich konnte durch eine Verschlechterung in dem anderen relativiert werden, so ist der Gesamt-IQ nicht unbedingt ein verlÄßliches Maß fÜr die tÄgliche Leistung. Die Patienten mit unkontrolliertem Anfallsleiden zeigten eine statistisch signifikante Verschlechterung des Leistungs-IQ, wÄhrend er bei Patienten in der Remission im allgemeinen stabil war oder besser wurde. Es fanden sich Hinweise dafÜr, daß ein abfallender IQ eine verlangsamte geistige Entwicklung anzeigte und nicht einen Verlust von zuvor erworbenen Funktionen. Phenobarbital, jedoch nicht Phenytoinspiegel korrelierten umgekehrt mit dem IQ, was vermuten lÄßt, daß der obere therapeutische Bereich von Phenobarbital schon im Hinblick auf die LernfÄhigkeit toxisch sein kann. Um die Schulleistungen eines Kindes mit Epilepsie zu verbessern und um spÄtere intellektuelle Probleme zu vermeiden, ist es ratsam, IQ-Testungen als Teil der routinemÄßigen Erstbeurteilung durchzufÜhren und in regelmÄßigen AbstÄnden Medikamentenspiegel zu kontrollieren. RESUMEN Las funciones intelectuales de 64 pacientes epilÉpticos que habian pasado una primera evaluaciÓn entre los cinco y los 16 aÑos de edad, incluyendo el WISC, fueron reevaluados despuÉs de un periodo de al menos cinco aÑos. En general la incidencia de ataques habÍa mejorado y el 50 por ciento se hallaban en remisiÓn de dos a ocho aÑos. Todos excepto cuatro tomaban todavia un fÁrmaco anticomicial El CI en el WISC mostraba un ligero descenso. Las Áreas verbales y de manipulaciÓn podÍan afectase diferentemente, de forma que la mejorÍa en un campo podÍa ser desvirtuada por un descenso en el otro, por lo que la escala global de CI podÍa no ser una mediciÓn fidedigna de la realizaciÓn dia a dia. Aquellos cuyas convulsiones permanecÍan sin control tenÍan una disminuciÓn estadisticamente significativa en el CI manipulativo, mientras que en general permanecÍa estable o aumentaba en los pacientes en remisiÓn. Esto evidencia que el descenso en el CI indicaba un crecimiento mental mÁs lento, mÁs bien que una pÉrdida de una funciÓn previamente conseguida. Los niveles de fenobarbital, pero no los de fenitoina, estaban en correlaciÓn inversa con el CI, lo que sugiere que el lÍmite superior del margen terapÉutico del fenobarbital puede ya ser tÓxico con respecto a las capacidades de aprendizaje. Para optimizar el que un niÑo epilÉptico vaya bien en la escuela y para prevenir problemas intelectuales a largo plazo, se aconseja que la mediciÓn del CI forme parte de la rutina de exploraciÓn inicial y que la determinaciÓn de los nivele < refs en sangre de los fÁrmacos se haga a intervalos regulares.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/65523/1/j.1469-8749.1986.tb03826.x.pd

Panel. Current Research on Slavery at the University of Mississippi

The March Toward Militancy: Student Aggression and the Slave Community at the University of Mississippi / Chet Bush, University of MississippiThe first thirteen years of the University of Mississippi offer a window through which to observe the activities that characterized the all-male student culture. While community storytellers have imagined a single meeting where students hatched a plan to form a military company in support of the Confederacy, the archives of the university suggest a much longer gestation of violence and militancy. From the founding of the university in 1848 to the start of the war in 1861 students demonstrated an increasingly obsessive preoccupation with asserting authority. Student concern for displaying power grew particularly hostile toward the slave community in the years leading up to the Civil War. This paper charts the march toward militancy that students expressed, chiefly toward enslaved workers, during the first thirteen years of the University of Mississippi.Proslavery and States’ Rights Incubators: Fraternal Debate Societies at the University of Mississippi, 1848-1861 / Andrew Marion, University of MississippiThis presentation will examine how two fraternal debate societies at the University of Mississippi worked as incubators for proslavery and states\u27 rights ideology for the students from 1848 to 1861. Mandatory participation in these societies put students in academic environments that promoted unwavering loyalty to the state of Mississippi and its most sacred institution, slavery. An examination of proslavery rhetoric delivered at the university and debate society meeting minutes and publications will help explain the incredible commitment that the University of Mississippi\u27s students made to defend slavery and the Confederacy.The World the Slaves Made: Slaveholding, Student Wealth, and the Foundations of the University of Mississippi / Anne TwittyWhen fifteen-year-old John Sanders McRaven of Marshall County matriculated at the University of Mississippi in 1849, his father, planter Robert McRaven, was no doubt the animating force. If Robert was the architect of John’s education, however, the sixty-one men, women, and children Robert claimed in the 1850 census were its underwriters. Although scholars have identified many enslaved people who lived on college campuses and examined the centrality of their work at such facilities, little attention has been paid to the enslaved people laboring tens or hundreds of miles from these institutions who nevertheless helped create, facilitate, and maintain them. To address this omission, this paper traces the slaveholdings of the University of Mississippi’s first students through the 1850 census to explore how enslaved black people far removed from the University of Mississippi made possible the scholarly endeavors of free white men at its campus in Oxford

ATMOS Spacelab 1 science investigation

Existing infrared spectra from high speed interferometer balloon flights were analyzed and experimental analysis techniques applicable to similar data from the ATMOS experiment (Spacelab 3) were investigated. Specific techniques under investigation included line-by-line simulation of the spectra to aid in the identification of absorbing gases, simultaneous retrieval of pressure and temperature profiles using carefully chosen pairs of CO2 absorption lines, and the use of these pressures and temperatures in the retrieval of gas concentration profiles for many absorbing species. A search for a new absorption features was also carried out, and special attention was given to identification of absorbing gases in spectral bandpass regions to be measured by the halogen occultation experiment

Annual Narrative Report of Virginia E. Twitty, County Home Demonstration Agent, Greenlee County, Arizona, from February 16, 1953 to November 30, 1953

Bound typescripts of agents reports, including photographs, charts, clippings, and examples of publications, 1952 to 1953. Also includes statistical summaries for 1952-53.This material from the University of Arizona Agricultural Extension Service is made available by University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections. Contact us at [email protected], or (520) 621-6423

Isotope Effect of Tritium in the Synthesis of P-nitrobiphenyl by the Gomberg Coupling

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