Integrity and Integration: An Exploration of the Personal, Professional, and Pedagogical in the Professoriate

This paper seeks to explore the connections between the concepts of integrity and integration within the professoriate in Christian higher education. Specifically, it examines commonalities and intersections in the definitions of terms, the gaps between rhetoric and reality, and the reasons for those gaps. Implications for a professor’s inner life, scholarship, and teaching are also discussed, and suggestions for closing the gaps are offered

Speaker and Gavel Call for Submissions: Forensics Administration and Practice in the Age of Covid-19

Speaker and Gavel invites authors to submit manuscripts for an upcoming special edition focused on scholarship, pedagogy, research, competition, and administration in competitive and non-competitive speech and debate practices within and post the global Covid-19 pandemic. We welcome submissions from forensic coaches, communication scholars, and students (undergraduate and graduate)

The Writers\u27 Forum: John Wideman

A brief statement by John Wideman for the Writers\u27 Forum

Two-dimensional spectrum estimation using the radon transform

An alternative approach to two-dimensional power spectrum estimation incorporating the Radon transform in conjunction with each of the one-dimensional periodogram, Blackman-Tukey, and Autoregressive parameter estimation algorithms is examined. The Radon transform is used to express a two-dimensional data set in terms of its projections onto a set of one-dimensional radial lines, effectively reducing the two-dimensional estimation problem to a series of one-dimensional problems. The resulting two-dimensional power spectrum estimates are compared to the known power spectra for a variety of data types. The Radon transform approach combined with autoregressive parameter estimation can provide a high-resolution power spectrum estimate, effectively surpassing the resolution limitations of the Fourier methods without the cumbersome implementations of the more direct high resolution estimation methods in two dimensions

An investigation of the reaction of benzhydryl chloride with potassium t-butoxide in DMSO

The ultimate aim of this study was to elucidate the mechanism of formation of tetraphenylethylene from benzhydryl chloride and potassium t-butoxide in dimethyl sulfoxide. The development of a suitable technique for following the reaction rate and of an analytical method to determine the extent of the reaction became an important object in this project --Introduction, page 2

The Academic Journeys of Students with Chronic Gastrointestinal Illness: Narratives from Daughters and Their Mothers

Today, more and more children and adolescents are surviving illnesses. There are also increases in outpatient care and continuous technological advancements, as compared to past decades. These changes give students with chronic illness greater opportunities to attend mainstream schools. The rising integration of students with chronic illness into the school setting requires educators to aptly accommodate students while the students pursue their academic journeys. This qualitative research study involves three case studies portraying students with a rare gastrointestinal chronic illness. In each of the three cases, the students and their parents were interviewed separately. The interviews focused on both the student’s and mother’s perceptions of the educational community’s response to the student’s needs. Implications rising from this study highlight how educators can work to adapt the school environment so that students with a chronic illness can better achieve their academic goals

Pathetic Politics: An Analysis Of Emotion And Embodiment In First Lady Rhetoric

This dissertation explores the theoretical and practical relationship between our understandings of emotion’s role in political decision-making. In this pursuit I seek a resurrection for pathos’s legitimacy in persuasive studies through the pursuit of the pathetic political realm. This work has three primary concerns: how may pathetic power be accessed, from where does this power originate, and how might political actors enact this power for their own political goals. I draw primarily from theories related to visual rhetoric and the body in order to provide perspective on how the body is politicized through the pathetic realm. Theoretical perspectives are drawn from scholars like Aristotle, Robert Hariman, and Susan Bordo to extricate the positioning of the body within American politics

The postcranial skeleton of the family Limnoscelidae and its taxonomic implications for understanding basal amniotes

The Diadectomorpha is a central taxon in understanding the origin and early evolution of amniotes. It is considered a sister taxon to Amniota and is so similar to amniotes that some researchers have placed it within the Amniota itself. This group is composed of three families: the Limnoscelidae, the Tseajaiidae, and the Diadectidae. Being the most basal member of this group, the family Limnoscelidae is especially important in these studies