cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Level of Physical Activity and it’s Effect on Academic Performance in Middle School Students
Creators: name: Gulden, Brian
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Education -- Research papers (Graduate)

description: To see paper in its entirety contact archives@goucher.edu or call (410)337-6075.
description: The study examined the correlation between physical activity and its effect on academic performance in reading and math for eighth-grade middle school students. Literature on this topic supports the idea that being more physically active will lead to better academic performance throughout an entire child’s education. The study included twenty randomly-selected students divided up into two equal groups; one group was comprised of students who only took the required physical education class, and the other group consisted of students who took at least one elective physical education class along with the required fitness class. The study was completed by running an independent T-test comparing the semester grade point averages in reading and math for all the students in each of the two groups. The results of the study showed that there was no significant correlation or relationship between the two groups in regards to academic performance and physical activity level, thus the hypothesis could not be supported in this particular study and further research must be done.
Exploring the Factory: Analyzing the Film Adaptations of Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Creators: name: Davis, Richard
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2009

description: Film adaptations are becoming more popular and past critics and scholars have discussed films based on dramas and novels. However, few have explored the children?s literature genre. In discussing such a topic, it takes more than just debating whether the novel or book is better. A discussion on what elements have been maintained, removed, or added in such an adaptation has to be made along with its success or failure. With this in mind, Roald Dahl?s 1964 novel, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and its two film adaptations will be explored along with an analysis of film adaptation theory to show that the first version of the novel succeeds and the second one fails.
Measuring Vocabulary Acquisition among Second Grade Students with the Elements of Reading: Vocabulary Program
Creators: name: Huckestein, Heather
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Education -- Research papers (Graduate)

description: To see paper in its entirety contact archives@goucher.edu or call (410)337-6075.
description: The purpose of this study was to determine whether the use of the Elements of Reading: Vocabulary program would positively affect the vocabulary acquisition of students in a selected second grade classroom. A quasi-experimental design was used, with a pre-test given before the implementation of the four week program and a post-test administered at the end of the study to determine the effectiveness of the program. There was significant improvement observed in vocabulary acquisition based on the pre- and post-test results for both on grade level students and above grade level students; therefore, confirming the hypothesis. Future research is recommended to increase the sample size and extend the instructional time for the treatment.
Static, Yet Fluctuating: The Evolution of Batman and His Audiences
Creators: name: Dantzler, Perry
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2009

description: The Batman media franchise (comics, movies, novels, television, and cartoons) is unique because no other form of written or visual texts has as many artists, audiences, and forms of expression. Understanding the various artists and audiences and what Batman means to them is to understand changing trends and thinking in American culture. The character of Batman has developed into a symbol with relevant characteristics that develop and evolve with each new story and new author. The Batman canon has become so large and contains so many different audiences that it has become a franchise that can morph to fit any group of viewers/readers. Our understanding of Batman and the many readings of him gives us insight into ourselves as a culture in our particular place in history.
Habronyx citrinus Porter 2007
Creators: name: Araujo, Rodrigo O.
name: Fernandes, Daniell R. R.
name: Pos, Davide Dal
name: Giovanni, Filippo Di
name: Moreira-Muñoz, Andrés
name: Pádua, Diego G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Habronyx
Habronyx citrinus

description: 1.1.2 Habronyx citrinus Porter, 2007 *
Distribution. Chile: Región Metropolitana (Porter 2007); Región del Libertador General Bernardo O’Higgins (Porter 2007).
description: Published as part of Araujo, Rodrigo O., Fernandes, Daniell R. R., Pos, Davide Dal, Giovanni, Filippo Di, Moreira-Muñoz, Andrés & Pádua, Diego G., 2025, Unveiling the secrets of South American Darwin wasps, part I: a comprehensive checklist of the Chilean Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea), pp. 1-51 in Zootaxa 5631 (1) on page 4, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5631.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15326657
Community-based Data Validation in Citizen Science
Creators: name: Wiggins, Andrea
name: He, Yurong
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2016
Subjects: citizen science
information assessability
data quality
data validation
open collaboration

description: Technology-supported citizen science has created huge volumes of data with increasing potential to facilitate scientific progress, however, verifying data quality is still a substantial hurdle due to the limitations of existing data quality mechanisms. In this study, we adopted a mixed methods approach to investigate community-based data validation practices and the characteristics of records of wildlife species observations that affected the outcomes of collaborative data quality management in an online community where people record what they see in the nature. The findings describe the processes that both relied upon and added to information provenance through information stewardship behaviors, which led to improved reliability and informativity. The likelihood of community-based validation interactions were predicted by several factors, including the types of organisms observed and whether the data were submitted from a mobile device. We conclude with implications for technology design, citizen science practices, and research.
description: NSF CCF 1442668
Increasing Temperature Facilitates Polyp Spreading and Medusa Appearance of the Invasive Hydrozoan Craspedacusta sowerbii
Creators: name: Marchessaux, Guillaume
name: Lüskow, Florian
name: Bejean, Mickaël
name: Pakhomov, Evgeny A.
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2023

description: The freshwater jellyfish Craspedacusta sowerbii is among the most widespread invasive species, observed across a wide temperature range. The aim of this study is to analyze the polyp and medusa stages response to different temperatures by using (i) an experimental study on the polyp colony growth at 19 and 29 °C, and (ii) prediction of the Thermal Habitat Suitability (THS) based on the thermal tolerance of the medusa stage. The total number of polyps and colonies was greater at high temperature. At 19 °C, colonies with 1 to 5 polyps were present, with colonies of 1 to 3 polyps numerically dominating. At 29 °C, colonies were 80% composed of 1- to 2-polyps. Based on the published medusa pulsation rhythm data, a Thermal Performance Curve (TPC) regression was performed and used to monthly predict the THS for current and future (2050 and 2100) scenarios. The southern hemisphere offered optimal conditions (THS > 0.6) year-round. In the northern hemisphere, the optimum period was predicted to be between June and September. The future THS were considerably larger than at present with an increase in optimal THS at higher latitudes (up to 60° N). The combination of experimental and modeling approaches allows to identify the optimal thermal conditions of the polyp and medusa stages and to predict their invasive capacities.
A Woman's Touch in F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night: Pulling the Women Out of the Background
Creators: name: Luong, Merry
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2010

description: This is a critical study of F. Scott Fitzgerald?s Tender Is the Night focusing primarily on the lack of examination and criticism surrounding the women characters. Included are reviews of Fitzgerald?s personal and professional life from the publication of his critically acclaimed The Great Gatsby until the publication of his last complete novel, Tender Is the Night, discussion of the contemporary and current criticism of the novel, and a feminist reading of the novel in order to focus more significant critical attention upon the women characters in order to create a fuller understanding of Fitzgerald?s novel.
The Presence of Jacques Lacan's Mirror Stage and Gaze in Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and in Rouben Mamoulian's 1931 Film
Creators: name: Smith, Enoch
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2010

description: For many years, theorists have turned to popular movies and books to help interpret the difficult principles of Jacques Lacan. However, one story that has gotten very little attention is Robert Louis Stevenson?s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and its derivative body of film adaptations. Both the novella and Rouben Mamoulian?s 1931 film are a small part of an intertextual body of work which contains scenes that play out the Lacanian principles of the mirror stage and the gaze very well. Since art imitates life, an in depth exploration of the way that these scenes play out can illuminate how Lacan?s abstract theories might look in the real life formation of identity and in male/female relations.
"Perhaps the Bear Heard Fleur Calling, and Answered": The Significance of Magical Realism in Louise Erdrich's Tracks as a Postcolonial Novel
Creators: name: Myrick, Emily
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2010

description: In her novel Tracks, Louise Erdrich tells the story of a band of Anishinaabe early in the twentieth century. Through the two narrators, one a tribal elder and the other a mixedblood who eventually abandons the traditions of the tribe, the novel offers two divergent perspectives of the events that take place as the government divests the tribe of its land. The conflicting perceptions of these occurrences, which are magical realist in nature, underscore the conflict within the tribe to maintain tradition in the face of the ever-increasing influence of European settlers. The purpose of this thesis is to explore the perceptions at odds with one another in order to shed new light on the significance of Erdrich?s use of magical realism in the text. Highlighting Erdrich?s engagement with magical realism, a largely postcolonial literary device, will hopefully expand notions of identity and authenticity within the Native American literary tradition.
The Pleiadic Age of Stuart Poesie: Restoration Uranography, Dryden's Judicial Astrology, and the Fate of Anne Killigrew
Creators: name: Brown, Morgan
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2010

description: The following Thesis is a survey of seventeenth-century uranography, with specific focus on the use of the Pleiades and Charles's Wain by English poets and pageant writers as astrological ciphers for the Stuart dynasty (1603-1649; 1660-1688). I then use that survey to address the problem of irony in John Dryden's 1685 Pindaric elegy, "To the Pious Memory of Mrs. Anne Killigrew," since the longstanding notion of what the Pleiades signify in Dryden's ode is problematic from an astronomical and astrological perspective. In his elegiac ode, Dryden translates a young female artist to the Pleiades to actuate her apotheosis, not for the sake of mere fulsome hypberbole, but in such a way that Anne (b. 1660-d. 1685) signifies for the reign of Charles II (1660-1685) in her Pleiadic catasterism. The political underpinnings of Killigrew's apotheosis reduce the probability that Dryden's hyperbole reserves pejorative ironic potential.
From Rivers to Gardens: The Ambivalent Role of Nature in My ?ntonia, O Pioneers!, and Death Comes to the Archbishop
Creators: name: Kirkland, Graham
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2010

description: Though her early writing owes much to nineteenth-century American Realism, Willa Cather experiments with male and female literary traditions while finding her own modern literary voice. In the process Cather gives nature an ambivalent role in My ?ntonia, O Pioneers!, and Death Comes to the Archbishop. She produces a tension between rivers and gardens, places where nature and culture converge. Like Mary Austin and Sarah Orne Jewett, Willa Cather confronts the boundaries between humans and nature.
The Effects of Sight Word Vocabulary on Oral Reading Fluency in First Grade Students
Creators: name: Ellenberger, Amy
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Education -- Research papers (Graduate)

description: To see paper in its entirety contact archives@goucher.edu or call (410)337-6075.
description: The purpose of this quasi-experimental study was to determine what effect direct instruction that is focused on sight vocabulary will have on the sight vocabulary knowledge and oral reading fluency rate of first grade students. There were 41 participants in this study from two first grade classes in a Title 1 school in Glen Burnie, Maryland. The two measurement tools used were the Dolch Sight Word Vocabulary assessment and the Dynamic Indicators of Early Learning Skills (DIBELS) assessment. This study involved the use of a pretest/posttest design to compare data from February 2010, before the treatment was administered, to data from March 2010, after the treatment was completed. Achievement gains in sight word knowledge and oral reading fluency rates of these first grade students were statistically significant. These results have instructional implications for the use of direct sight word instruction for developing readers.
The Effects of Using Positive Reinforcements to Increase On-Task Behaviors Such as Hands to Self and Staying in Location
Creators: name: Brown, Genevia D.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Education -- Research papers (Graduate)

description: To see paper in its entirety contact archives@goucher.edu or call (410)337-6075.
description: The purpose of this research was to determine if using positive reinforcement would
affect on task behaviors such as keeping hands to self and staying in location with
students with autism. A quasi-experimental design was conducted over a six-week time
period utilizing a pre and post measurement. The sample consisted of six male students,
three African American and three Caucasian from a self contained seventh grade prevocational
skills classroom. An analysis of the data revealed an increase in behaviors
for keeping hands to self and staying in location during the post measures. It was
concluded that more research needs to be done using a larger sample size for a longer
duration along with other behavior reduction techniques across multiple environments.
Characterization of Respirable Dust Generated from Full Scale Cutting Tests in Limestone with Conical Picks at Three Stages of Wear
Creators: name: Slouka, Syd
name: Brune, Jürgen
name: Rostami, Jamal
name: Tsai, Candace
name: Sidrow, Evan
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2023

description: Respirable rock dust poses serious long-term health complications to workers in environments where mechanical rock excavation is utilized. The purpose of this study is to characterize respirable dust generated by cutting limestone with new, partially worn, and fully worn conical pick wears. Characterizing limestone respirable dust can aid in decision making for respirable dust suppression levels and exposures throughout the lifetime of a pick in underground mining and engineering activities. The methods include full scale cutting of a limestone sample in the laboratory with three conical picks at different stages of wear. Dust samples were collected during cutting with various instruments connected to pumps and subsequently analyzed to determine the concentrations, mineralogy, particle shapes, and particle size distributions. The results show that the worn pick generated the highest concentration of dust, all picks generated dust containing quartz, all three picks generated dust particles of similar shapes, and all three picks generated various particle size distributions. In conclusion, a preliminary suite of respirable dust characteristics is available and with further future additional studies, results could be used for the evaluation of possible strategies and methods of dust suppression and exposures during mining, tunneling, or drilling activities.
The Black of the Star (Le Noir de L'Etoile) composed by Gerard Grisey. Live sound spatialisation and new spatial recording for publication
Creators: name: Grisey, Gerard
name: Harvey, Lawrence
name: Hannam, Jeffrey
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 360304
subject: Music performance

description: BACKGROUND The Black of the Star, an epic percussion masterwork by French avant garde composer Gerard Grisey, was presented by Speak Percussion and SIAL Sound Studios with the CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science Division. The work bases its rhythms on 'the cosmic pulses of neutron stars' (pulsars). Six percussionists were positioned around Deakin Edge theatre, Federation Square and their sound joined the CSIRO recordings of pulsar sounds, 'an electric crackle that whizzes around our ears'. Harvey provided the sound diffusion; Hannam was the audio production manager. CONTRIBUTION Spatial sound concerts using large-scale sound diffusion systems are a cutting-edge form of public performance with uniquely complex technical, perceptual and artistic requirements. The researchers enriched the performance of Grisey's masterpiece by spatialising pulsar sounds over 12 speakers (rather than the customary two). Each percussionist's work was also amplified by two close microphones and two loudspeakers. A 17-track recording produced from the performance will be used for future research into spatial composition. SIGNIFICANCE Funded by the Australia Council, Arts Victoria and City of Melbourne, and performed at a prestigious venue as part of the renowned Melbourne Festival. In her 'four star' review of the event in The Age, Jessica Nicholas described the decision to spatialise Grisey's work as 'ingenious'. The result was a work of 'emotional heftiness' (19 October 2013). And in the SMH on the same date she wrote: "the precision and focus required for [the performance of] this piece are extraordinary" Prior to the performance it was described in Concrete Playground as "an unmissable event" (14 October 2013). Through enhancements to Grisey's original performance instructions and by capturing the spatial recording the researchers have introduced the possibility of innovative contemporary compositional and performance practices for both existing and new works.
The Ministry of Passion and Meditation: Robert Southwell's Marie Magdalens Funeral Teares and the Adaptation of Continental Influences
Creators: name: Benedict, Mark
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2010

description: In his most popular prose work, Mary Magdalens Funeral Teares (1591), English Jesuit Robert Southwell adapts the Mary Magdalene tradition by incorporating the meditative practices of St. Ignatius Loyola coupled with the Petrarchan language of poetry. Thus, he creates a prose work that ministered to Catholic souls, appealed to Protestant audiences, and initiated the literature of tears in England. Southwell readapts the traditional image of Mary Magdalene for a Catholic Early Modern audience by utilizing the techniques of Jesuit meditation, which later flourished in the weeper texts of Richard Crashaw and George Herbert. His vividly imagined scenes also employ the Petrarchan and Ovidian language of longing and absence and coincide with both traditional and mystic early church writers such as Bernard and Augustine. Through this combination, Southwell?s Marie Magdalens Funeral Teares resonated with Catholics deprived of both ministry and the presence of Christ in the Eucharist. These contributions solidify Southwell?s place as a pivotal figure in the religious and literary contexts of Early Modern England.
Ford Madox Ford's Good Soldier in a Modern World
Creators: name: Hinds, Constance
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2010

description: Ford often wrote about virtuous gentlemen ruined by the modern society he saw developing around him. While Ford Madox Ford was writing The Good Soldier, ther was a sense of displacement in England and the class system was starting to crumble. Edward Ashburnham, one of the two male protagonists in The Good Soldier, is described as a Chevalier Bayard and there are definitely some similarities between Ashburnham and Bayard. For instance, both men lived during periods of great societal change and both faithfully served their countries. However, the feudal lifestyle that was appropriate for Bayard in the fifteenth-century is unavailable to Ashburnham in the twentieth-century. In The Good Soldier, Ford used the old ideals of chivalry and courtly love codes to produce a character, Edward Ashburnham, who represents the loss of traditional values in a modern society.
The Forgiveness Project
Creators: name: Gentry, Karen
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2010

description: The Forgiveness Project includes a critical introduction that defines the author?s approach to the short-short form as well as an explanation of how historiographical metafiction can work to memorialize. The first section contains primarily short-short stories that address the themes of motherhood, small tyrannies, happy liars, caregiving and the clich?s of grief. A collection of linked short stories follows, revolving around elusive forgiveness. On the night of July 17, 1977, Juanita Lee, a bridge tender in South Florida, was abducted by two men and executed in the Everglades to silence her opposition to the demolition of an Intracoastal Waterway bridge. Twenty-two years later her daughter, Jill, now a Washington D.C. lobbyist who views the world through the cynical lens of her life?s work, is confronted with a plea for forgiveness via an organization called ?The Forgiveness Project,? representing one of her mother?s killers.
The Same-Spelling Hapax of the Commedia of Dante
Creators: name: Soules, Terrill
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2010

description: In the Commedia of Dante, a poem 14,233 lines in length, some 7,500 words occur only once. These are the hapax. Fewer than 2% of these constitute a minute but distinct subset?the hapax for which there are one or more words in the poem whose spelling is identical but whose meaning is different. These are what I call same-spelling hapax. I identify four categories: part-of-speech, homograph, locus, and name. Analysis of the same-spelling hapax illuminates a poetic strategy continuously in use throughout the poem. This is to use the one-word overlap of Rhyme and line number. Not only is it highly probable that a same-spelling hapax will be a rhyme-word, but it is also probable that it will occupy a rhyme-word?s most significant position?the one place?the single word?where the two intertwined formal entities that shape each canto coincide. Every three lines, their tension-resolving this-word-only union intensifies the reader?s attention and understanding alike.
Parania Morley 1913
Creators: name: Araujo, Rodrigo O.
name: Fernandes, Daniell R. R.
name: Pos, Davide Dal
name: Giovanni, Filippo Di
name: Moreira-Muñoz, Andrés
name: Pádua, Diego G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Parania

description: 1.2 Genus Parania Morley, 1913
Parania Morley, 1913a: 96–97.
Type species Parania nototrachoides Morley, 1913, by original monotypy.
Comments. Porter (1998) mentions one unidentified species occurring from the Región de Antofagasta to Región Metropolitana.
description: Published as part of Araujo, Rodrigo O., Fernandes, Daniell R. R., Pos, Davide Dal, Giovanni, Filippo Di, Moreira-Muñoz, Andrés & Pádua, Diego G., 2025, Unveiling the secrets of South American Darwin wasps, part I: a comprehensive checklist of the Chilean Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea), pp. 1-51 in Zootaxa 5631 (1) on page 4, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5631.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15326657
The Impact of Just-Right Book Selection Instruction on the Reading Motivation of Fourth Grade Students
Creators: name: Corsones, Deanna R.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Education -- Research papers (Graduate)

description: To see paper in its entirety contact archives@goucher.edu or call (410)337-6075.
description: The purpose of this study was to explore the factors affecting reading motivation and to
implement a teaching tool that would improve reading motivation in fourth grade students at a
targeted Title I school. This study used a quasi-experimental design to compare the effects on
reading motivation of targeted Title I fourth grade students who participated in the
implementation of BOOKMATCH with the reading motivation of students in the control group
receiving general reading instruction. The Motivation to Read Profile was used to gather pre and
post-test data for both groups. The study began in February 2010 and concluded in March
2010. The results of the pre-test taken in February were compared to the results of the post-test
taken in March. The results of this study supported that instruction of BOOKMATCH would not
significantly increase reading motivation in fourth grade students. The difference between the
two groups at the time of the post test was not significant enough to reject the null hypothesis;
therefore, the null is true. There were several indications that the intervention group did show a
positive change in reading motivation. Intervention student responses on both subscales
increased from pre- to post-test and the examiner observed more positive attitudes towards
reading independently and sharing what they read. Timing and strength of the reading
motivation survey need to be considered in future research. It is crucial for future research to
determine which types of instruction would be most beneficial to improve reading motivation in
students so that they become proficient, life-long readers.
Fish from Deep Water
Creators: name: Burchfield, Monica
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2010

description: These poems are lyrical narratives dealing primarily with the joys and sufferings of familial relationships in present and past generations, and how one is influenced and haunted by these interactions. There is a particular emphasis placed on the relationship between parent and child. Other poems deal with passion, both in the tangible and spiritual realms. The poems aim to use vivid figurative language to explore
complex and sometimes distressing situations and emotions.
The Effects of Schema-Based Instruction on Mathematics Problem Solving Ability of Second Grade Students
Creators: name: Daugherty, Kim
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Education -- Research papers (Graduate)

description: To see paper in its entirety contact archives@goucher.edu or call (410)337-6075.
description: The purpose of this study was to determine whether schema-based instruction would positively
affect the mathematics word problem solving ability of second-grade students. The
measurement tool was a collection of addition and subtraction word problems from the
Baltimore County Public Schools Mathematics Unit Tests. The study involved a pretest/post test
design to compare students’ ability to accurately solve the word problems before and after the
intervention. Results showed significant differences among the pretest and post-test scores,
where students’ accuracy declined after intervention. A follow-up assessment, given a few
weeks after conclusion of the intervention, showed that the average score was slightly more
accurate after completing the post-test with the aid of cue posters. Research in the area of
mathematics problem solving instruction should continue given that elementary students
continue to struggle in this area.
Mistress of Restraint
Creators: name: Sadre-Orafai, Jenny
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2010

description: These poems deal with a marriage between a man and a woman and the disintegration of that marriage.  Most of the poems are told from the perspective of the wife as she makes sense of her changing roles and titles. There is a shift toward the end of the thesis when she grows tired of speaking for the two of them. It is here where the poems shift from first person to third person.
The Effects of the 6+1 Traits of Writing on Ninth Graders’ Writing Achievement
Creators: name: DesMarais, Paul
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Education -- Research papers (Graduate)

description: To see paper in its entirety contact archives@goucher.edu or call (410)337-6075.
description: The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of the 6+1 Traits of Writing
method of instruction on repeating 9th grade and honors 9th grade students’ writing
achievement. To determine the effectiveness of the 6+1 Traits of Writing on writing
achievement, this study utilized a pre-test/post-test quasi-experimental design. The
intervention, a set of lessons and assignments that focused on the 6+1 Traits of Writing,
took place over an eight-week time period. The hypothesis was retained because there
was no significant difference in writing achievement between the two groups; however,
there was an overall improvement in scores. It is recommended that future research
studies utilize more structured lessons, a longer period of time, technology based writing,
and more one-on-one instruction.
title: Expectation-Driven Term Structure of Equity and Bond Yields
Creators: name: Zeng, Ming
name: Zhao, Guihai
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2022

description: Recent findings on the term structure of equity and bond yields pose serious challenges to existing models of equilibrium asset pricing. This paper presents a new equilibrium model of subjective expectations to explain the joint historical dynamics of equity and bond yields (and their yield spreads). The movements of equity and bond yields are driven mainly by subjective expectations of dividend and gross domestic product (GDP) growth. Yields on short-term dividend claims are more volatile because the expected short-term dividend growth mean-reverts to its less volatile long-run counterpart. The procyclical slope of equity yields is due to the countercyclical slope of dividend growth expectations. The correlation between equity returns/yields and nominal bond returns/yields switched from positive to negative after the late 1990s, owing mainly to a stronger correlation between expectations of real GDP growth and real dividend growth and only partially to procyclical inflation. Dividend strip returns are predictable, and the predictive power decreases with maturity as a result of predictable forecast errors and revisions. The model is also consistent with the data in generating persistent and volatile price-dividend ratios and excess return volatility.
description: Les résultats de travaux récents sur la structure des taux de rendement des actions et des obligations posent des défis de taille aux modèles existants de détermination des prix d’équilibre des actifs. Cette étude propose un nouveau modèle d’équilibre basé sur les anticipations subjectives pour expliquer les dynamiques historiques conjointes des rendements boursiers et obligataires (et leurs écarts de rendement). Les mouvements de ces rendements sont principalement causés par des anticipations subjectives à l’égard de la croissance des dividendes et du produit intérieur brut (PIB). Dans le cas des droits aux dividendes à court terme, les rendements sont plus volatils parce que l’anticipation de croissance du dividende à court terme retourne à sa moyenne de long terme, moins volatile. La pente procyclique du rendement des actions est due à la pente contracyclique des anticipations de croissance des dividendes. La corrélation entre les rendements des actions et les rendements nominaux des obligations est passée du positif au négatif après la fin des années 1990, en raison essentiellement d’une corrélation plus forte entre la croissance du PIB réel et le taux de croissance réel des dividendes attendu, et en partie seulement à cause de l’inflation procyclique. Les rendements des strips de dividendes sont prévisibles, mais la capacité prédictive diminue avec l’échéance en raison des erreurs de prévision et révisions prévisibles. Le modèle concorde également avec les données car il produit des ratios cours-dividende persistants et volatils, et une volatilité excessive des rendements.
title: Magnetic properties of the spiral spin liquid and surrounding phases in the square lattice XY model
Creators: name: Gonzalez, M. Gonzalez
name: Fancelli, Anna
name: Yan, Han
name: Reuther, Johannes
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: BKT transition
subject: Gauge theories
subject: Nematic order
subject: Spin liquid
subject: Stripes
subject: Monte Carlo methods
subject: XY model
classificationCode: 539
subject: Moderne Physik

description: Spiral spin liquids possess a subextensively degenerate ground-state manifold, represented by a continuum of energy minima in reciprocal space. Since a small change of the spiral state wave vector requires a global change of the spin configuration in real space, it is a priori unclear how such systems can fluctuate within the degenerate ground-state manifold. Only recently it was proposed that momentum vortices are responsible for the liquidity of the spiral phase and that these systems are closely related to an emergent rank-2 U(1) gauge theory H. Yan et al. [Phys. Rev. Res. 4, 023175 (2022)]. As a consequence of this gauge structure, fourfold pinch-point singularities were found in a generalized spin correlator. In this paper, we use classical Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics calculations to embed the previously studied spiral spin liquid into a broader phase diagram of the square lattice XY model. We find a multitude of unusual phases and phase transitions surrounding the spiral spin liquid such as an effective four-state Potts transition into a collinear double-striped phase resulting from the spontaneous breaking of two coupled ℤ2 symmetries. Since this phase is stabilized by entropic effects selecting the momenta away from the spiral manifold, it undergoes a second phase transition at low temperatures into a nematic spiral phase which only breaks one ℤ2 symmetry. We also observe a region of parameters where the phase transition into the spiral spin liquid does not break any symmetries and where the critical exponents do not match those of standard universality classes. We study the importance of momentum vortices in driving this phase transition and discuss the possibility of a Kosterlitz-Thouless transition of momentum vortices. Finally, we explore the regime where the rank-2 U(1) gauge theory is valid by investigating the fourfold pinch-point singularities across the phase diagram.
Building Fluency Using Poetry in Second Grade Readers
Creators: name: Earley, Stephanie
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Education -- Research papers (Graduate)

description: To see paper in its entirety contact archives@goucher.edu or call (410)337-6075.
description: The purpose of this study was to determine whether the implementation of fluency lessons using poetry would positively affect the reading fluency of the students in the researcher’s second grade classroom. The measurement tool was the Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills, or DIBELS. The study involved the use of a pretest and a posttest to compare the fluency rate of students over six weeks. The hypothesis of this study was supported and there was a significant difference between pre and posttest scores. Although this difference could be attributed to various factors, the research suggests that lessons using poetry may be used to help increase the fluency rate of students.
Thomas De Quincey's Retreat into the "Nilotic Mud": Orientalism as a Response to Social Strain
Creators: name: Osborne, Patrick
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2010

description: The thesis examines Thomas De Quincey?s opium use as a product of social strain. De Quincey?s collection of work provides evidence that he felt alienated from society prior to his addiction and that his feelings of inadequacy contributed to his dependence on drugs. Utilizing Robert K. Merton?s strain theory, this thesis delineates De Quincey?s aspirational references and perceived failures through an examination of his imagery and interprets his perceptions of human life as a catalyst for his compulsions to cope with opium. De Quincey, strained by the aspirations of an industrial and imperialistic society, looked for several avenues of escape. The Romanticism of William Wordsworth presented De Quincey with a method for alleviating social strain; however, when De Quincey failed to discover the transcendence evident in Lyrical Ballads he turned to the intoxicating effects of opium and retreated from English society.
William Apess and Sherman Alexie: Imagining Indianness in (Non)Fiction
Creators: name: Andrews, Gabriel
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2010

description: This paper proposes the notion that early Native American autobiographical writings from such authors as William Apess provide rich sources for understanding syncretic authors and their engagement with dominant Anglo-Christian culture.  Authors like William Apess construct an understanding of what constitutes Indianness in similar and different ways to the master narratives produced for Native peoples.  By studying this nonfiction, critics can gain a broader understanding of contemporary Indian fiction like that of Sherman Alexie.  The similarities and differences between the strategies of these two authors reveal entrenched stereotypes lasting centuries as well as instances of bold re-signification, a re-definition of Indianness.  In analyzing these instances of re-signification, this paper focuses on the performance of re-membering, the controversy of assimilation/authenticity, accessing audience, the discourse of Indians as orphans, and journeys to the metropolis.
Therion Curtis 1829
Creators: name: Araujo, Rodrigo O.
name: Fernandes, Daniell R. R.
name: Pos, Davide Dal
name: Giovanni, Filippo Di
name: Moreira-Muñoz, Andrés
name: Pádua, Diego G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Therion

description: 1.3 Genus Therion Curtis, 1829
Therion Curtis, 1829: 101.
Type species Ichneumon circumflexus Linnaeus, 1758, by subsequent designation by Curtis (1839: plate 736).
Comments. Porter (1998) mentions one undescribed species occurring in Región de Valparaíso.
description: Published as part of Araujo, Rodrigo O., Fernandes, Daniell R. R., Pos, Davide Dal, Giovanni, Filippo Di, Moreira-Muñoz, Andrés & Pádua, Diego G., 2025, Unveiling the secrets of South American Darwin wasps, part I: a comprehensive checklist of the Chilean Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea), pp. 1-51 in Zootaxa 5631 (1) on page 4, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5631.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15326657
The Effects of Computer-Based Basic Fact Program on Mathematics Achievement
Creators: name: Ednie, Rebecca
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Education -- Research papers (Graduate)

description: To see paper in its entirety contact archives@goucher.edu or call (410)337-6075.
description: The purpose of this study was to investigate the implementation of a computer-based
math intervention program and its impact on mathematics achievement. The subjects who
participated in this study were a group of low-to-average performing students from an
elementary school in Baltimore County who participated in the computer-based program to
improve basic fact retention as well as overall mathematics performance. It was hypothesized
that struggling math students participating in a computer-based intervention in addition to regular
instruction would outperform similar students who receive regular instruction only. This
hypothesis was not supported.
title: Orientational anisotropy due to molecular field splitting in sulfur 2p photoemission from CS2 and SF6 – theoretical treatment and application to photoelectron recoil
Creators: name: Kukk, Edwin
name: Niskanen, Johannes
name: Travnikova, Oksana
name: Berholts, Marta
name: Kooser, Kuno
name: Peng, Dawei
name: Ismail, Iyas
name: Piancastelli, Maria Novella
name: Püttner, Ralph
name: Hergerhahn, Uwe
name: Simon, Marc
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: photoelectron recoil
subject: high kinetic energy photoemission spectra
classificationCode: 539
subject: Moderne Physik

description: Photoelectron recoil strongly modifies the high kinetic energy photoemission spectra from atoms and molecules as well as from surface structures. In most cases studied so far, photoemission from atomic-like inner-shell or core orbitals has been assumed to be isotropic in the molecular frame of reference. However, in the presence of molecular field splitting of p or d orbitals, this assumption is not justified per se. We present a general theoretical treatment, linking the orientational distribution of gas-phase molecules to the electron emission and detection in a certain direction in the laboratory frame. The approach is then applied to the S 2p photoemission from a linear molecule such as CS2 and we investigate, how the predicted orientational anisotropies due to molecular field splitting affect the photoelectron recoil excitations. Lastly, experimental S 2p high-kinetic-energy photoelectron spectra of SF6 and CS2 are analyzed using the modeled recoil lineshapes representing the anisotropy-affected recoil effects.
title: Ultrafast nuclear dynamics in double-core-ionized water molecules
Creators: name: Ismail, Iyas
name: Inhester, Ludger
name: Marchenko, Tatiana
name: Trinter, Florian
name: Verma, Abhishek
name: De Fanis, Alberto
name: Ferté, Anthony
name: Rivas, Daniel E.
name: Peng, Dawei
name: Koulentianos, Dimitris
name: Kukk, Edwin
name: Penent, Francis
name: Doumy, Gilles
name: Sansone, Giuseppe
name: Bozek, John D.
name: Li, Kai
name: Young, Linda
name: Ilchen, Markus
name: Piancastelli, Maria Novella
name: Meyer, Michael
name: Velasquez, Nicolas
name: Travnikova, Oksana
name: Boll, Rebecca
name: Guillemin, Renaud
name: Dörner, Reinhard
name: Taïeb, Richard
name: Dold, Simon
name: Carniato, Stéphane
name: Baumann, Thomas M.
name: Mazza, Tommaso
name: Ovcharenko, Yevheniy
name: Püttner, Ralph
name: Simon, Marc
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Autoionization & Auger processes
subject: Single- and few-photon ionization & excitation
subject: Molecules
subject: Auger electron spectroscopy
subject: Hard x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy
subject: Semiclassical methods
classificationCode: 539
subject: Moderne Physik

description: Double-core-hole (DCH) states in isolated-water and heavy-water molecules, resulting from the sequential absorption of two x-ray photons, have been investigated. A comparison of the subsequent Auger emission spectra from the two isotopes provides direct evidence of ultrafast nuclear motion during the 1.5-fs lifetime of these DCH states. Our numerical results align well with the experimental data, providing for various DCH states an in-depth study of the dynamics responsible of the observed isotope effect.
Bettwanzen
Creators: name: Krüger, Anne
name: Vander Pan, Arlette
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Gesundheit
subject: Bettwanzen
subject: Gesundheit
subject: Nachhaltigkeit | Strategien | Internationales

description: Bettwanzen werden vor allem durch Tourismus und Handel verschleppt. Man findet sie in Privathaushalten und besonders in touristisch genutzten Unterkünften wie Hotels, Hostels, Ferienwohnungen und Schutzhütten. Zwischen diesen Orten werden Bettwanzen durch Gäste verbreitet. Besonders in Schutzhütten in den Bergen ist die Bekämpfung herausfordernd, da viele Hütten für Schädlingsbekämpfungsfirmen nur schwer erreichbar sind und häufig auch die Bauweise Bekämpfungsmaßnahmen erschwert. Daher ist Vorbeugung besonders wichtig. Dieser Ratgeber soll Hüttenwirtsleuten, aber auch Betreibern anderer Unterkünfte Hilfestellung geben, wie man Bettwanzenbefällen vorbeugt und was bei einem Befall zu tun ist.
title: Mehr Professuren für Gender-MINT!
title: Bestandsaufnahme, Perspektiven und Forderungen von Professor*innen in MINT-Gender Studies in Deutschland
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Kubes, Tanja
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Gender Studies
subject: MINT
subject: Fachkulturforschung
subject: Hochschulpolitik
subject: Wissenschaftsforschung
classificationCode: 530
subject: Physik

description: Um den technologischen und gesellschaftlichen Herausforderungen der Gegenwart gerecht zu werden, bedürfen die MINT-Disziplinen dringend eines kritisch-reflexiven, diversitätssensiblen Korrektivs. Die vorliegende qualitative Studie liefert eine umfassende Bestandsaufnahme des Ist-Zustandes im Bereich Gender Studies in MINT und schlägt Maßnahmen für eine nachhaltige Integration von gender- und diversitätsrelevanten Inhalten in den MINT-Disziplinen vor. Sie identifiziert drei Desiderata: eine bessere Verankerung und Akzeptanz der Geschlechterforschung in MINT auf institutioneller Ebene, einen Stellenausbau für Professuren mit der Denomination Gender Studies in MINT und die Eröffnung langfristiger Perspektiven für Stelleninhaber*innen in diesem Bereich.
"How Silence Best Can Speak": The Distrust of Speech in George Meredith's Modern Love
Creators: name: Murray, Ellen
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2010

description: The scarcity of speech in George Meredith?s Modern Love creates a deeply psychological narrative, reflecting a distrust of speech and the effectiveness of language in general.  The narrator of the poem exists in a space of ambiguity, both blaming and yearning for speech; in his confusion, he remains largely silent.  His silence does not only emphasize the distance between husband and wife but also between language and meaning.  Furthermore, the narrator?s distrust of language ultimately exposes a breakdown in his certainty of self and truth.
The Visual Rhetoric of Craftsmanship
Creators: name: Gonzales, Amalia
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2010

description: Within the existing research about communicative devices within visual rhetoric, most published research exists regarding two-dimensional design such as documents and media graphics. In this paper, I discuss the rhetorical value of handmade items and specifically speak to the ethos that three-dimensional, tangible handmade products inherently possess based upon their visual aesthetic.