Sir Thomas Roe at the Mughal Court: Seventeenth Century English Cultural Assumptions

This paper seeks to explore how, although in reality the inferior partner in trade, the English in India thought of themselves as superior. To do this, I will analyze the journal of Sir Thomas Roe, the first official English ambassador to the Mughal Court, in light of English and Mughal history, English cultural constructions, and the works of contemporaries such as Edward Terry and the Emperor Jahangir. This paper will show that Roe judges the people of the Mughal court by English cultural standards, and uses these assump- tions to claim English superiority. Furthermore, the paper will show that, while not intentionally written with imperialist aims, Roe\u27s journal does demonstrate that the basic attitudes of the later imperialist

An examination of the Senior Woman Administrator designation at NCAA institutions in the State of Missouri

There is significant disagreement about the Senior Woman Administrator (SWA) designation and how it should function within the overall structure of the athletic department (Smith et al., 2020). The purpose of this policy analysis case study is to fill the gap in research and better understand what people in Missouri who hold the SWA designation do day-in and day-out. Much of the current research related to this topic is quantitative in nature because the NCAA collects and reports mainly descriptive or directory data (Taylor and Hardin, 2016). This policy analysis case study was qualitative in nature, to gather information and personal stories that cannot be quantified so those women's voices may be amplified. Women's experiences, however they are described, are crucial to the advancement of the feminist cause (Chamallas, 2003). Between the fall of 2021 and the spring of 2022, this study was done on the Senior Woman Administrator designation at NCAA institutions in the state of Missouri. From the practitioner's perspective, this is a study that policy makers and educational leaders can look to when asking themselves if they are truly, fully utilizing their SWAs. Contributing to literature and institutions around the state, this study creates an opportunity to have a long-term impact on the future of the SWA designation and its sustainability in the future of athletic departments. The study found two potential ideas for changes to be made to the SWA designation: first, further role definition, and second, the elimination of the role in its entirety. The study also found reason to believe further research could be done on the Russell Rule and its implications on the SWA designation.Includes bibliographical references

The Impact of Chinese Wheat Imports on World Prices and Trade

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Jet Charge and Machine Learning

Modern machine learning techniques, such as convolutional, recurrent and recursive neural networks, have shown promise for jet substructure at the Large Hadron Collider. For example, they have demonstrated effectiveness at boosted top or W boson identification or for quark/gluon discrimination. We explore these methods for the purpose of classifying jets according to their electric charge. We find that both neural networks that incorporate distance within the jet as an input and boosted decision trees including radial distance information can provide significant improvement in jet charge extraction over current methods. Specifically, convolutional, recurrent, and recursive networks can provide the largest improvement over traditional methods, in part by effectively utilizing distance within the jet or clustering history. The advantages of using a fixed-size input representation (as with the CNN) or a small input representation (as with the RNN) suggest that both convolutional and recurrent networks will be essential to the future of modern machine learning at colliders.Comment: 17 pages, 8 figures, 1 table; Updated to JHEP versio

Texts, Bodies, and the Memory of Bloody Sunday

We examine here recent arguments that embodied experience is an important site of collective memory, and related challenges to the standard emphasis on discourse and symbols in collective memory research. We argue that although theories of embodied memory offer new insights, they are limited by (1) an overdrawn distinction between embodied memory and textual memory that neglects the complex relations between the two, (2) an overemphasis on ritual performance at the expense of collective conversation, (3) an oversimplified view of performativity, and (4) an underestimation of the ambiguity in embodied performance. Theories of embodied collective memory should be narrowed and specified with focused comparisons examining the influence of embodied experience in the formation of collective identities, in conflicts over collective memories, and in the persistence and malleability of memories across generations. We illustrate our argument throughout with examples drawn from the collective memory of Bloody Sunday in Northern Ireland in 1972

Improving police officer and justice personnel attitudes and de-escalation skills: A pilot study of Policing the Teen Brain

This pilot study assessed whether police officers and juvenile justice personnel reported improved attitudes toward youth and knowledge about de-escalation skills after attending Policing the Teen Brain, a training created to prevent arrests by improving officer-youth interactions. Pre- and post-intervention surveys asked about participant attitudes toward adolescents, adolescence as a stressful stage, and punishing youth in the justice system. Among the 232 participants, paired sample t-tests indicated significant differences between mean pre- and post-survey responses on nearly all survey subscales. A hierarchical regression model significantly predicted improvement in knowledge, with educated, female participants most likely to improve knowledge of de-escalation skills

Guidelines and recommendations for record keeping and data use for feline trap-neuter-return programs

Feral and free roaming domestic cat (Felis catus) populations are a growing concern for animal welfare, wildlife mortality, and human and domestic animal health. This means that the issue is also a growing topic for discussion for animal welfare proponents as well as wildlife and environmental scientists and managers, as it should be. Trap-neuter-return (TNR) programs are increasingly being used and pushed as an effective way to limit and even reduce population growth of feral cat colonies. However, there is criticism from much of the scientific community on whether this method is actually effective in controlling or reducing feral cat populations, as well as the effect they have on wildlife. A program called Operation Catnip Stillwater is a TNR program that has been ongoing since 2012 in Stillwater, Oklahoma. This program holds seven clinics a year to sterilize and vaccinate feral cats caught in traps by volunteers. The main objective of my project was to examine the effects of the TNR (trap-neuter-release) program, Operation Catnip, on the feral cat population in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Specifically, I wanted to know whether there has been a noticeable decline or growth of cat colonies, using intake data from several source. Unfortunately, the data I available to me was inconsistent and limited. Therefore, I could not complete my original objective. Instead, I realized the need for a standardized set of data recommendations for TNR operations and those organizations that work closely with them. I formed a list of record-keeping recommendations and why I chose them

Motivating compliance: Juvenile probation officer strategies and skills

Juvenile probation officers aim to improve youth compliance with probation conditions, but questions remain about how officers motivate youth. The study’s purpose was to determine which officer-reported probation strategies (client-centered vs. confrontational) were associated with their use of evidence-based motivational interviewing skills. Officers (N = 221) from 18 Indiana counties demonstrated motivational interviewing skills by responding to scenarios depicting issues common to youth probationers. Results of a hierarchical multiple regression analysis indicated that, while officer endorsement of client-centered strategies was not associated with differential use of motivational interviewing skills, officers endorsing confrontational strategies were less likely to demonstrate motivational interviewing skills

Machine Learning Technologies and Their Applications for Science and Engineering Domains Workshop -- Summary Report

The fields of machine learning and big data analytics have made significant advances in recent years, which has created an environment where cross-fertilization of methods and collaborations can achieve previously unattainable outcomes. The Comprehensive Digital Transformation (CDT) Machine Learning and Big Data Analytics team planned a workshop at NASA Langley in August 2016 to unite leading experts the field of machine learning and NASA scientists and engineers. The primary goal for this workshop was to assess the state-of-the-art in this field, introduce these leading experts to the aerospace and science subject matter experts, and develop opportunities for collaboration. The workshop was held over a three day-period with lectures from 15 leading experts followed by significant interactive discussions. This report provides an overview of the 15 invited lectures and a summary of the key discussion topics that arose during both formal and informal discussion sections. Four key workshop themes were identified after the closure of the workshop and are also highlighted in the report. Furthermore, several workshop attendees provided their feedback on how they are already utilizing machine learning algorithms to advance their research, new methods they learned about during the workshop, and collaboration opportunities they identified during the workshop