The STEPS to Atlanta Streets Alive Activity Guide

ABSTRACT DANA L. GREEAR The STEPS to Atlanta Streets Alive Activity Guide (Under the direction of Professor JOHN A. STEWARD, M.P.H.) Atlanta Streets Alive (ASA) is a continually developing ciclovía recreativa based program occurring in urban Atlanta. Creating multi-sectoral partnerships and providing complementary activities to participants are key to ciclovía program sustainability. The objective of this capstone project was to create the STEPS to Atlanta Streets Alive Activity Guide (STEPS guide) by using a process method of evaluation framework for planning, conducting, and evaluating activities performed within ASA events. A pilot activity was conducted during the Atlanta Streets Alive event on October 17, 2010. The STEPS guide was assembled by using information collected during the pilot activity, with secondary analysis of the STEPS guide, including expert and focus group critique, to ensure accuracy and feasibility of use. The STEPS guide is a structured method of collecting static information about the individual activities conducted within ASA events. This information can be used by future activity partners to develop dynamic complementary activities within ASA events

Examining the effect of emergency assistance programs on student retention in rural community colleges

Community colleges are public educational institutions that are designed to meet students\u27 educational and career goals in an affordable and accessible manner. While community colleges have expanded access to higher education opportunities, serving more than 5.1 million students in 2019, the number of students who complete their educational goal is remarkably low. Numerous studies have been undertaken to determine factors that contribute to student attrition in community colleges. These studies indicate that rural community colleges serve primarily low-income students who demonstrate lower academic high school achievement levels and have lower parental expectations to complete a college degree than their urban and suburban peers. In addition, community colleges often serve rural populations that are challenged by transportation, family, and financial needs. This dissertation examined emergency financial assistance as a strategy to increase student retention rates in the rural community college setting. The goal of this study was to provide evidence to assist community colleges in their efforts to raise retention rates and subsequently increase the number of students graduating with a two-year associate\u27s degree

American Immigration Policies and Public Opinion on European Jews from 1933 to 1945.

This paper examines the role and scope of the American public’s opinion on European Jews in the 1930’s and 1940’s. Significant attention is placed on several aspects of American politics and public perceptions at this time. The ideas that developed from the Great Depression through World War II on refugees and immigrants are closely scrutinized. The approach to this study focuses on sources from renowned Holocaust scholars including Raul Hilberg, David S. Wyman, Martin Gilbert, Henry Feingold, Hadley Cantril, Robert Divine, and Deborah E. Lipstadt to name a select few of the authors referenced. Several newspapers and journals such as the New York Times, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The Washington Post, The Christian Century, The Nation, and the New Republic are referenced. The areas of focus are on public attitude, governmental involvement, Jewish leadership in the United States, and military capabilities. Conclusions of this study include apathy from participating parties, the inability to organize strong rescue support, and the refusal to lower the immigration restrictions of the time

\u3ci\u3eTowne\u27s Washington Practice\u3c/i\u3e, by Vernon W. Towne (1956)

This book is the general practitioner\u27s best available index to the Revised Code of Washington on many matters. For the general practitioner it also serves as a valuable and practical checklist on his daily activities, and its occasional comments about the history of a statute or the comparison with other jurisdictions give a sense of scope and background many of us lack. For the beginning lawyer this book is a valuable manual, designed to instill the same sense of confidence that advice from a more experienced lawyer would bestow. Indeed, the easy, almost conversational style of the book and its clarity and simplicity make one feel, after studying the treatment of a subject, almost as if one had enjoyed consultation with a more experienced and wiser confrere. The book is as rich with tidbits of practical information and helpful suggestions as a fruitcake

Creating Accessible Video for the Online Classroom

Videos are being integrated more and more into the online classroom. However, they can create barriers for learners with hearing problems. If a student asks for an ADA accommodation for a video, you will be scrambling at the last minute to create a text supplement. That\u27s why it\u27s good practice to create a text supplement at the same time that you create a video

Walking, Working, and Tinkering: Perception and Practice in Environmentalism

This dissertation examines the venerated status of certain practices in the history of American environmentalism, particularly wilderness walking, traditional farming, and the scientific field work of naturalists. These practices, which, following Foucault, I call “environmental techniques of the self,” are held up as ways of enacting, restoring, or cultivating a rightful relationship to the natural world. Specifically, I examine Henry David Thoreau on walking, Wendell Berry on work, Martin Heidegger on “dwelling,” and Aldo Leopold on ecological field work. Through critical engagements with these authors I show how environmental techniques of the self enact ecological subjectivities with reference to various figurations of perceptual truth, and how in this way they perform “nature” as a normative and critical concept. However, I suggest that these traditional ecological practices are ill suited to a world that no longer seems holistically natural. Seeking an alternative modality of ecological practice I explore an under-acknowledged affinity between environmental philosophy and the practice of tinkering

Beyond socket options: making the Linux TCP stack truly extensible

The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) is one of the most important protocols in today's Internet. Its specification and implementations have been refined for almost forty years. The Linux TCP stack is one of the most widely used TCP stacks given its utilisation on servers and Android smartphones and tablets. However, TCP and its implementations evolve very slowly. In this paper, we demonstrate how to leverage the eBPF virtual machine that is part of the recent versions of the Linux kernel to make the TCP stack easier to extend. We demonstrate a variety of use cases where the eBPF code is injected inside a running kernel to update or tune the TCP implementation. We first implement the TCP User Timeout Option. Then we propose a new option that enables a client to request a server to use a specific congestion control scheme. Our third extension is a TCP option that sets the initial congestion window. We then demonstrate how eBPF code can be used to tune the acknowledgment strategy.Comment: 9 pages, 8 figure