Knowledge is power: student-driven strategies for success in Alaska's challenging postsecondary context

Master's Project (M.A.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 201

To Txt, or Not to Txt: SHKSPR.mobi and Academia

This essay combats elitist academic attitudes assuming that all online content is not reputable and that online com­munication, specifically txtspk, defiles English. By exploring the tenants of open source and open access, particularly the benefits of free redistribution, online editions of Shakespeare’s plays prove to promote intellectual excellence and trans­parency, benefitting academics most. Similarly, the belief that txtspk is destroying the English language is a myth because modernizing and shortening words exist in all languages, including the first printed editions of Shakespeare’s canon. Finally, this essay addresses future concerns for online editions such as the copyright barriers over intellectual and artistic material, the necessity of universal design, and the need to recognize privilege and value identity. Terence Eden’s open source proj­ect, SHKSPR.mobi, is this essay’s example for discussing academic attitudes toward these concerns. Ultimately this online txtspk edition of Shakespeare’s canon advances rather than redacts academic scholarship

Voodoo Priests, Noble Savages, and Ozark Gypsies: The Life of Mary Alicia Owen

Review of: Voodoo Priests, Noble Savages, and Ozark Gypsies: The Life of Mary Alicia Owen, by Greg Olson

PARENTAL COMPLIANCE WITH CHILD SALIVARY CORTISOL SAMPLING: IMPACT ON CHILDREN'S CORTISOL DATA

Studies assessing hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis functioning in young children commonly involve parental collection of salivary cortisol in ambulatory settings. However, no data are available on the compliance of parents in collecting ambulatory measures of children's salivary cortisol. This study examined the effects of parental compliance on the cortisol awakening response (CAR) and diurnal cortisol slopes in a sample of preschoolers. Eighty-one parents were instructed to collect their child's salivary cortisol samples upon their child's waking, 30 and 45 minutes post-waking and before bedtime on two weekdays. Subjective parental compliance was assessed using parent-report, and objective parental compliance was assessed using an electronic monitoring device. Rates of compliance were higher based on parent-report than electronic monitoring. Parental noncompliance as indicated by electronic monitoring was associated with higher waking cortisol and lower CAR. Findings suggest the need to incorporate electronic monitoring of parental compliance into developmental neuroendocrine research, especially when assessing the CAR

Analysis of the current state of water-­resource management in the UK using Social Network Analysis and Agent-­Based Modelling: a case study in the Wear Catchment, County Durham

Since the introduction of the Water Framework Directive in 2000, there has been a drive towards managing water resources at the catchment-­scale in the UK. The rationale for this approach is driven by intentions of localising environmental improvement, involving a wide range of stakeholders working in collaboration to identify water issues and potential actions to address them. However, despite this recognition, and drive towards collaborative working, there has been little focus on how the stakeholders actually come together in water-­resource management, for example: the role stakeholders play; what skills, expertise, and resources they contribute; and, how decisions are made in the collaboration. More specifically, there is an opportunity to conduct analysis and build understanding of the rules of collaboration behaviour, attitudes, activities and evolution directions. The overall aim of this research was to analyse the current state of water-resource management in the UK, focusing on cross-­boundary interactions between governmental and non-­governmental actors, specifically in the Wear Catchment, County Durham. To achieve this aim, a multi-­method approach was utilised, including social network analysis and agent-­based modelling, exploring the position and role of individual actors in the network, and how changes made to the network structure of stakeholders, could affect inter‑ and intra-­group collaborations. Ultimately, by analysing the current state of collaboration in water‑resource management, this research contributes to the wider understanding of progress made in terms of the management of water resources in the UK, including the strengths and potential flaws of the approach

Dominic Vigliotti, Oral History Interview, 2022

In October and November of 2022, You Li\u27s Journalism 313 students conducted oral history interviews with one another to document the student experience of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this interview, EMU undergraduate Dominic Vigliotti talks about unemployment during the pandemic.https://commons.emich.edu/covidoralhist/1022/thumbnail.jp

Investigating territoriality and movement in Meles meles, in the context of wildlife disease management

1. Badger movement may be of major significance to the spread and control of bovine tuberculosis in cattle. Fragmentation of social groups’ structure in response to culling may exacerbate disease spread. Understanding the reasons why social group cohesion and territoriality may break down naturally and what the consequences are for rates of badger movements, may provide useful information in the context of natural social perturbation. 2. Bait-marking and live trapping data were used to investigate demographic factors that may influence movement or territorial changes at both population level and territory level. 3. There were more territories and more cross-boundary movements with increasing density. Males move across boundaries more than females, but female movement was more closely correlated with population density. Badgers moved more between setts when there was no territory boundary present compared to when there was. 4. Understanding what changes occur in the demographic constitution of social groups before territorial boundaries break down would be highly relevant to badger TB management in the context of when perturbation is triggered. The difference between the types of movement expressed within badger populations need to be taken account of and partitioned accordingly within investigations