cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A Comparison of Student Engagement in the Online vs. Face-To-Face Environment
Creators: name: Brielmaier, Jennifer
name: Kuo, Ying-Ying
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2016
Subjects: teaching online; student engagement; digital pedagogy

description: Enhancing student engagement has been a goal of increasing importance in higher education.Â  This may be especially valuable in online courses, where face-to-face interactions and synchronous activities are often minimal or nonexistent. Students are thought to be engaged when they view course activities as meaningful, persist in the face of difficulties or obstacles, and wish to learn to achieve mastery of the material (Bomia et al., 1997; Schlecty, 1994). Given the importance of student engagement for effective teaching, it is important for instructors and course designers to understand the factors that foster engagement within the learning environment.

The present study sought to measure and compare student satisfaction and engagement in online vs. face-to-face sections of Physiological Psychology taught in Spring and Fall 2015. An end of semester survey, adapted from the literature (Dixson, 2010; Ouimet & Smallwood, 2005), included 18 questions relevant to learner satisfaction, motivation and engagement. Â The preliminary data analysis was based on Spring 2015 data collected from 56 students total (22 online, 34 face-to-face).Â  The findings indicated that there was no statistically significant difference between the online and face-to-face sections for student learning satisfaction and overall engagement levels. Results suggest that online teaching and learning can be comparable to the face-to-face environment on these parameters. More complete analysis of the data from the Spring, Summer, and Fall 2015 semesters, as well as a discussion of implications for course design, will be presented. Â

Faculty and course designers will learn about strategies for measuring and promoting student engagement within their own courses.
description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol 8 (2016): Cultivating Creative and Reflective Learners
The fuzzy 4-hyperboloid $H^4_n$ and higher-spin in Yang-Mills matrix models
Creators: name: Sperling, Marcus
name: Steinacker, Harold C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the $SO(4,1)$-covariant fuzzy hyperboloid $H^4_n$ as a solution of Yang-Mills matrix models, and study the resulting higher-spin gauge theory. The degrees of freedom can be identified with functions on classical $H^4$ taking values in a higher-spin algebra associated to $\mathfrak{so}(4,1)$. We develop a suitable calculus to classify the higher-spin modes, and show that the tangential modes are stable. The metric fluctuations encode one of the spin 2 modes, however they do not propagate in the classical matrix model. Gravity is argued to arise upon taking into account induced gravity terms. This formalism can be applied to the cosmological FLRW space-time solutions of [1], which arise as projections of $H^4_n$. We establish a one-to-one correspondence between the tangential fluctuations of these spaces.
description: V2: 51+ 17 pages, 1 figure, minor corrections, accepted in Nucl.Phys.B. V3: The truncation of the higher-spin spectrum applies only to the image of the coherent state quantization map
Building Creative Thinking into the STEM Undergraduate Classroom Experience Using Large Databases: The Paleobiology Database Example
Creators: name: Uhen, Mark D.
name: Lukes, Laura
name: George, Christian
name: Lockwood, Rowan
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2016
Subjects: active learning; critical thinking; research experience

description: Undergraduate research experiences have been linked to increased student recruitment and retention in STEM, particularly within traditionally underrepresented populations. However, research experiences can be cost prohibitive due to the infrastructure necessary to conduct experiments or collect field data. Existing, large scientific databases can be leveraged to provide students (including students in online courses) with authentic research experiences without the logistical costs. The Paleobiology Database (paleobiodb.org) is one of many publicly available (and free) scientific databases. This project describes authentic research activities which engage students at several 4 and 2-year institutions in the southeastern United States use the data available in the Paleobiology Database to engage in the creative process of developing their own research questions, hypotheses, and investigations. Once produced an evaluated, these research activities will be made available to instructors across the world on the Paleobiology Database website, which will also encourage educators to create and post their own activities as well.
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Enumerating models of DNF faster: breaking the dependency on the formula size
Creators: name: Capelli, Florent
name: Strozecki, Yann
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Computational Complexity (cs.CC)
subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this article, we study the problem of enumerating the models of DNF formulas. The aim is to provide enumeration algorithms with a delay that depends polynomially on the size of each model and not on the size of the formula, which can be exponentially larger. We succeed for two subclasses of DNF formulas: we provide a constant delay algorithm for $k$-DNF with fixed $k$ by an appropriate amortization method and we give a quadratic delay algorithm for monotone formulas. We then focus on the \emph{average delay} of enumeration algorithms and show how to obtain a sublinear delay in the formula size.
description: This updated version of our paper make some improvement in the proof of Theorem 14. We remove Theorem 15, stating that our method could also be used for the case of generating the unions of subsets, since the proof sketch we gave was false
Understanding the MLA International Bibliography in First-Year Courses
Creators: name: Ecklund, Angela
name: Lehman Den, Farrah
Publisher: name: unknown
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Libraries
subject: Literature--Study and teaching
subject: Research
subject: Bibliography
subject: Language and languages--Study and teaching

description: Objective: To review and reinforce search skills learned in the MLA International Bibliography's free Online Course and to engage students in discussion of academic discourse, particularly with regard to what constitutes evidence in different academic fields. Students will demonstrate competency in limiting searches by date, period, publication type, and national literature and will identify differences in evidentiary standards in different fields of study.
An infinite-rank summand of the homology cobordism group
Creators: name: Dai, Irving
name: Hom, Jennifer
name: Stoffregen, Matthew
name: Truong, Linh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57M27, 57R58

description: We show that the three-dimensional homology cobordism group admits an infinite-rank summand. It was previously known that the homology cobordism group contains a $\mathbb{Z}^\infty$-subgroup and a $\mathbb{Z}$-summand. Our proof proceeds by introducing an algebraic variant of the involutive Heegaard Floer package of Hendricks-Manolescu and Hendricks-Manolescu-Zemke. This is inspired by an analogous argument in the setting of knot concordance due to the second author.
description: 50 pages, 14 figures; added some minor lemmas
Mason Students’ Ideal Personal Learning Environment (PLE): What We Know and Don’t Know About How Students Learn in the Digital Age
Creators: name: Dabbagh, Nada
name: Fake, Helen
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2016
Subjects: personal learning environments; PLE; eportfolios; digital spaces; digital learning; digital pedagogy; self-regulated learning

description: A Personal Learning Environment or PLE is described as a process that helps students organize the influx of information and resources that they are faced with on a daily basis into a personalized digital learning space or experience. A PLE is primarily facilitated by cloud-based Web 2.0 technologies and services designed to help students create, organize, and share content, participate in collective knowledge generation, and manage their own meaning making. Hence, a PLE is student-designed around each student’s goals or learning approach. In a PLE, the student develops an individualized digital identity through the perceptual cues and cognitive affordances that the personalized learning environment provides such as what information to share and when, who to share it with, and how to effectively merge formal and informal learning experiences. To gather data on PLEs, Mason students were asked what do they like to learn about; what hardware (devices) and software do they use to learn; what digital tools they wish they had access to for learning; and what their ideal PLE might look like. In this presentation, we will share student responses to these questions and provide recommendations for supporting the development PLEs in teaching and learning contexts.
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Implementing mental health passports to enhance communication: A quality-improvement initiative in psychiatric care.
Creators: name: Hajaj, Nadeen Nazem
Publisher: name: Oregon Health and Science University
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Quality Improvement
subject: Communication
subject: Psychiatric Nursing
subject: Psychiatric Aides
subject: Patient Acceptance of Health Care
subject: Hospital-Patient Relations
subject: Patient Care
subject: Health Communication
subject: Implementation Science
subject: Patient-Centered Care
subject: Nursing Staff, Hospital
subject: Hospitals, Psychiatric
subject: Patient Satisfaction
subject: Personal Satisfaction
subject: Patient Handoff
subject: Health Information Management
subject: Health Records, Personal
subject: Interprofessional Relations
subject: Interdisciplinary Communication
subject: Nonverbal Communication
subject: Patient Participation
subject: Continuity of Patient Care
subject: Process Assessment, Health Care
subject: Oregon
subject: Quality Improvement

description: The clinical problem addressed by this project is the need for enhanced communication between healthcare providers and patients within an inpatient psychiatric setting. Miscommunication and insufficient information sharing can impact the quality of care and the overall efficiency of healthcare delivery, leading to errors in patient care, decreased patient satisfaction, and potentially longer hospital stays. The proposed intervention, the implementation of a Mental Health Passport (MHP), is expected to improve communication by providing a standardized document that captures critical patient information accessible throughout the patient's stay.
Understanding the MLA International Bibliography in First-Year Courses
Creators: HC User
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Bibliography
subject: Literature--Study and teaching
subject: Libraries
subject: Language and languages--Study and teaching
subject: Research

description: Objective: To review and reinforce search skills learned in the MLA International Bibliography’s free Online Course and to engage students in discussion of academic discourse, particularly with regard to what constitutes evidence in different academic fields. Students will demonstrate competency in limiting searches by date, period, publication type, and national literature and will identify differences in evidentiary standards in different fields of study.
title: Russia's Greater Middle East Policy: Security Economic Interests, Courting Islam
Creators: name: Katz, Mark N.
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: International affairs
subject: Russia

description: Russia‘s foreign policy toward the Greater Middle East is not an aggressive, anti-Western one, but a defensive policy aimed more at protecting Russian economic interests, working with virtually any government that opposes Sunni radicalism, and preventing Moscow from becoming a target of Muslim anger as occurred during the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan (1979-1989) and Chechnya (since 1994).
Hydrodynamics of Interacting Rods
Creators: name: Phillies, George D. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This note considers how hydrodynamic interactions between a pair of rods slow the motion of each rod. Rods are approximated as being nearly straight lines of pointlike beads. Hydrodynamic interactions between the beads are treated with generalizations, developed by Kynch (J. Fluid Mech. 5, 193-208 (1959)) and by Mazur and van Saarloos (Physica A 115, 21-57 (1982)) of the Oseen and Rotne-Prager hydrodynamic interaction tensors. We find that the hydrodynamic interactions between two rods, as they affect the mobility of a given rod, are with a minor exception not very different from the interactions between two beads, especially when the two rods are even modestly separated. At the level of approximation of bead-spring models of polymer coils, it therefore does not appear to be advantageous to replace sphere-sphere hydrodynamic interaction tensors with more elaborate rod-rod hydrodynamic interaction tensors.
description: 22 pages, 9 figures
Learning to Realize a More Sustainable World
Creators: name: Sklarew, Dann
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2016
Subjects: action research; active learning; critical doing; sustainable development goals; sustaianability education

description: The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (2015) Â established 17 targets â€” such as â€œno hunger,â€ â€œclean waterâ€ and â€œclimate actionâ€ â€” to unite humanity in pursuit of a shared, prosperous future. These diverse global goals provide a universal agenda to enlist todayâ€™s learners in creatively ensuring our collective well-bring throughout their careers. How can higher education foster effective, intentional learning across courses and curricula to prepare our students to realize these global goals? George Mason University has established a diverse set of over 130 â€œgreen leafâ€ courses, along with regular co-curricular activities, to help our students develop their sustainability skills and practical expertise. These span a new 18-credit â€œsustainability pathwayâ€ through our Mason Core general education requirements and a score of undergraduate and graduate academic programs. Together, these curricula â€“ and others Mason faculty might opt to deliver â€” permit students to move from first year through accelerated graduate programs while continuously building their sustainability understanding, reflection and intentionality. Meanwhile, co-curricular activities like Mason Earth Month, organic food gardening and Patriot Green Fund projects provide students opportunities to develop and apply â€œcritical doingâ€ skills far beyond the classroom as well.

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Characterizing Christy Desmet
Creators: name: Iyengar, Sujata
Publisher: name: unknown
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Academic writing
subject: Scholarly publishing
subject: Writing
subject: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
subject: Friendship

description: This essay, the Afterword to the edited collection _Performing Shakespeare Appropriations_, eds. Matt Kozusko, Darlena Ciraulo, and Robert Sawyer, summarizes the ways in which the essays in the collection extend the work of the late Christy Desmet (to whose memory the volume is dedicated), historicizes the effects of generational change in the academic job market, and describes the work of ethical scholarly editing. It concludes with a call-to-action.
SENCER “Do-Now” KQED Social Media in the Classroom
Creators: name: Wood, Thomas C
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2016
Subjects: social media, case study, student engagement, STEAM education, STEM education, interdisciplinary learning

description: By developing opportunities for students to learn through compelling current events, learning environments are improved. Inspired students discover relevance to their lives, create dialogue and gain confidence in their ability to expand civic capacity. Social media has been used to provide an experimental venue for this enhanced learning in selected courses nationally through project SENCER (Science Education for New Civic Engagement and Reform), an NSF sponsored national education reform initiative. In the fall of 2015, the New Century College course Mysteries of Migration was one of six courses selected nationally for the inaugural SENCER collaboration with KQED in San Francisco, where social media blogs called “Do Now” are flourishing. In this session, I will discuss the implementation of “Do Now” blogs into Mystery of Migration’s semester–long case study assignment. This course is interdisciplinary in scope, integrating the biology and ecology of migratory organisms with public policy. In this session I will discuss the student reactions and evidence of learning through the use of “Do Now” and the merits of implementing social media into existing courses.
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Qun xian yao yu zuan ji [volume 03]
群仙要語纂集 [第三冊]
Creators: name: Dong, Hanchun
name: 董漢醇
Publisher: name: [China] : Heng'an
Year: 2017

description: Wood-block printing, on double leaves, East Asian binding.
Edition: [Ke ben]
Integrating Multimedia and LMS Tools to Cultivate Creative and Reflective Learners.
Creators: name: Miller, David J
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2016
Subjects: digital tools; teaching online; active learning; experiential learning; critical thinking; creativity; active learning; collaborative learning

description: The challenge for an instructor, no matter the delivery system, is to inspire students towards creative thinking.Â  Online asynchronous and hybrid courses provide a unique opportunity for instructors to harness mobile multimedia tools such as tablets, and smart phones coupled with Learning Management System (LMS) tools to enhance instructor presence as well as student engagement in the creative process through real-time collaboration and feedback.

In this 40-minute â€œhow toâ€ presentation, attendees will be reintroduced to multimedia tools readily available to them like smart phone and tablets along with inexpensive presentation tools such as Camtasia to make engaging presentations.Â  Using Distance Education courses in media criticism and online journalism, the presenter will demonstrate a few tips and tricks to improve image and sound quality.Â  In addition to utilizing lecture presentations, attendees will learn how to integrate multimedia into announcements as well as in â€œinstructionalâ€ videos on how to think and write creatively and make presentations using video blogs.

Finally, the presentation will explore student-teacher collaboration tools such as Blackboard Collaborate Ultra and Video Blogging via Kaltura CaptureSpace.Â  Furthermore, Blue Pulse â€“ a unique social feedback platform will be discussed as it relates to designing engaging content.

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Link to PREZI: https://prezi.com/kko4duvtkl9k/
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How Do Audiences Act?
Creators: name: Spolsky, Ellen
Publisher: name: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Figures of speech
subject: French literature
subject: Renaissance
subject: Cognition

description: This is an afterword to Movement in Literature: Exploring Kinesis Intelligence, ed. by Kathryn Banks and Timothy Chesters. (Palgrave 2018). It is intended to advance further work on kinesic intelligence by connection some of what has already been written about how the forms of fiction appeal to what human bodies know about action with what can be said about how words pull readers into their imagined worlds by engaging audiences' kinesic intelligence.
Machine learning and the Continuum Hypothesis
Creators: name: Hart, Klaas Pieter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: General Topology (math.GN)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 03E05 (primary) 03E15, 54B20, 54C05, 54H05 (secondary)

description: We comment on a recent paper that connects certain forms of machine learning to Set Theory.
 We point out that part of the set-theoretic machinery is related to a result of Kuratowski about decompositions of finite powers of sets and we show that there is no Borel measurable monotone compression function on the unit interval.
description: version 2: some simplifications version 3: expanded presentation with more comments
"These Things Are a Parable": Natural History Metaphors and Audience in Felix Holt (1866)
Creators: name: Harper, Lila Marz
Publisher: name: Springer International Publishing
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Eliot, George, 1819-1880
subject: Natural history
subject: Metaphor

description: It is apparent that George Eliot's novels were heavily engaged with development in natural history; her metaphors made use of and reflected on mid-1800s discussions of evolution and taxonomy. In this essay, research in science history and Eliot studies leads to evidence of how, in Felix Holt (1866), Eliot was influenced by evolutionary scientists, particularly Darwin and Huxley, in her fictional examination of how individuals struggle within a small isolated society. At the same time, Eliot's discussion of the strengths and weakness of metaphors was also a direct engagement with Darwin and Huxley on the topic of how metaphors should be used in scientific writings.
Improved indicators for the integrated assessment of coastal sustainable development based on Earth Observation Data
Creators: name: Zhang, Li
name: Zuo, Jian
name: Chen, Bowei
name: Liao, Jingjuan
name: Yan, Min
name: Bai, Linyan
name: Sutrisno, Dewayany
name: Hashim, Mazlan
name: Al Mamun, M. M. Abdullah
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Target 14 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG 14) depicts a better future regarding the capacity of coastal environments to cope with several developmental challenges. However, gaps in the data and indicators restrict the effective implementation of this global plan. In this context, under the umbrella of the Digital Belt and Road (DBAR) Program, the DBAR_COAST working group (WG) aims to solve the problems of coastal sustainable development along the Maritime Silk Road (MSR). This paper demonstrates the recent efforts of the DBAR_COAST WG to develop indicators based on Earth observation (EO) data (i.e. the natural coastal protection index (NCPI), the local proportion of habitats protected index (LPHPI), and the coastal eco-erosion index (CEEI)), which complement the existing indicators related to SDGs 14.2, 14.5 and 14.7. These indicators all satisfy indicative, robust, scientifically sound and accessible data principles. Based on them, both the coastal protection (NCPI = 0.97) and protected area coverage (LPHPI = 0.38) in the MSR still had much room for improvement in 2020, and pressure from aquaculture expansion (CEEI = 0.11) showed significant regionally spatial heterogeneity. These indicators serve to provide a guideline for indicator-based assessment in monitoring the progress toward achieving SDG 14.
Predicting managers' mental health across countries: using country-level COVID-19 statistics
Creators: name: Li, Lun
name: Zhang, Stephen X.
name: Graf-Vlachy, Lorenz
Publisher: name: TU Dortmund
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Managers
subject: Mental disorders
subject: Cumulative deaths
subject: COVID-19
subject: Cross-country
subject: 330
subject: Führungskraft
subject: Psychische Störung
subject: COVID-19

description: Background: There is limited research focusing on publicly available statistics on the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic as predictors of mental health across countries. Managers are at risk of suffering from mental disorders during the pandemic because they face particular hardship. Objective: We aim to predict mental disorder (anxiety and depression) symptoms of managers across countries using country-level COVID-19 statistics. Methods: A two-wave online survey of 406 managers from 26 countries was performed in May and July 2020. We used logistic panel regression models for our main analyses and performed robustness checks using ordinary least squares regressions. In the sample, 26.5% of managers reached the cut-off levels for anxiety (General Anxiety Disorder-7; GAD-7) and 43.5% did so for depression (Patient Health Questionnaire-9; PHQ-9) symptoms. Findings: We found that cumulative COVID-19 statistics (e.g., cumulative cases, cumulative cases per million, cumulative deaths, and cumulative deaths per million) predicted managers' anxiety and depression symptoms positively, whereas daily COVID-19 statistics (daily new cases, smoothed daily new cases, daily new deaths, smoothed daily new deaths, daily new cases per million, and smoothed daily new cases per million) predicted anxiety and depression symptoms negatively. In addition, the reproduction rate was a positive predictor, while stringency of governmental lockdown measures was a negative predictor. Individually, we found that the cumulative count of deaths is the most suitable single predictor of both anxiety and depression symptoms. Conclusions: Cumulative COVID-19 statistics predicted managers' anxiety and depression symptoms positively, while non-cumulative daily COVID-19 statistics predicted anxiety and depression symptoms negatively. Cumulative count of deaths is the most suitable single predictor of both anxiety and depression symptoms. Reproduction rate was a positive predictor, while stringency of governmental lockdown measures was a negative predictor.
description: Front. Public Health;10
Iconotropism as Representational Hunger: Raphael and Titian
Creators: name: Spolsky, Ellen
Publisher: name: Bucknell University Press
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: European literature--Renaissance
subject: Visual communication

description: Iconotropism is a gargantuan overgeneralization hypothesizing that people are hungry for pictures and feed on them, metabolize them, turn them into nourishment. The study examples are Raphael's Transfiguration and Titian's Diana and Actaeon. It is a contribution to embodiment theory and cognitive cultural history.
Shi xu jian : [si shi wu juan] [volume 09]
詩緖箋 : [四十五卷] [第九冊]
Creators: name: (:Null)
Publisher: name: Jinghu : [publisher not identified]
Year: 2017

description: Chu Tang feng xu jian : jiu juan
Chu Tang ya xu jian : wu juan
Chu Tang song xu jian
Sheng Tang feng xu jian : shi er juan
Sheng Tang ya xu jian : er juan.
Dynamic Written Corrective Feedback: A Tool to Improve Multilingual Student Writing
Creators: name: Miller, Laurie
name: Habib, Anna Sophia
name: Michiels, Paul
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2016
Subjects: multilingual writing; feedback strategies; revision strategies;

description: With Masonâ€™s increasing population of multilingual students, faculty in writing intensive courses at the undergraduate and graduate level are often looking for innovative, efficient approaches to providing feedback on student writing.

This session will provide an overview of dynamic written corrective feedback (Hartshorn et. al, 2010; Ferris,1999), a strategy that allows faculty to look past errors in accuracy by prioritizing attention to student efforts towards complexity. We use this model in English composition classes to help multilingual students become more reflective, self-reliant writers in terms of their idea development, critical analysis and language accuracy. During the session composition and language faculty from INTO-Masonâ€™s undergraduate and graduate program will explain the research behind the technique, provide examples of this feedback approach and engage participants in a discussion of its potential use in their classes. Â This method can be used to support all students across a variety of disciplines that require writing assignments.

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References:

Ferris, D. (1999). The case of grammar correction in L2 writing classes: A response to Truscott (1996). Journal of Second Language Writing, 8(1), 1-11.

Hartshorn, K. J., Evans, N. W., Merrill, P. F., Sudweeks, R. R., Strong-Krause, D., & Anderson, N. J. (2010). Effects of dynamic corrective feedback on ESL writing accuracy. TESOL Quarterly, 44(1), 84â€“109.

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China’s urbanisation evolution and metropolitan area expansion, based on the Prolonged Artificial Nighttime-light Dataset (PANDA, 1984–2020)
Creators: name: Li, Tingting
name: Chen, Haipeng
name: Ma, Chao
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology

description: China’s massive urbanisation development will undoubtedly serve as a global reference. Due to the uncertainty of statistical data, nighttime light (NTL) data have emerged as alternative data for urbanisation evaluation. Here, the application of the Prolonged Artificial NTL Dataset of China (1984–2020) has been newly expanded. Total-value statistical, complex NTL index (CNLI), NTL concentration degree, rank-size rule, and Markov transfer matrix were used to systematically mine information about urban change from multiple perspectives. China’s urbanisation exhibited rapid growth and outwards expansion. The total percentage increase in NTL brightness and NTL area was 409.38% and 302.58%, respectively. The Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration of East China had the fastest urbanisation (CNLI Trend = 0.0057/a, p < 0.01). Low NTL areas transitioned to medium NTL areas, and high and extremely-high NTL areas diffused to medium NTL areas. The cities in Eastern China and Southern China typically exhibited extremely-high type NTL areas, whereas other cities primarily exhibited medium NTL areas. The gaps between city sizes decreased over time (q Trend =  – 0.0200/a, p < 0.01). Lowest-ranked cities exhibited the highest stability (>95%) in city size type transition. The spatiotemporal changes in NTL obtained were of great significance for monitoring urban expansion patterns, making government decisions, and quantifying China’s sustainable development.
Reading and Writing for Complexity: Using Key Concepts and Key Terms to Engage Multilingual and Other Learners in Scholarly Conversations
Creators: name: Habib, Anna Sophia
name: Mallett, Karyn
name: Doetsch-Kidder, Sharon
name: Savage, James
name: Namubiru, Esther
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2016
Subjects: multilingual support; teaching reading; student writing; reading strategies; rhetorical awareness;

description: Mason faculty across the curriculum have expressed concern about their multilingual studentsâ€™ ability to understand and engage with complex course content (Zawacki and Habib, 2014). This interactive session by composition and language faculty in the INTO Mason undergraduate and graduate pathway programs is designed to respond to this faculty concern. The session will provide strategies for how to teach students to engage with complex course content through conscious attention to the key concepts in their course readings and the terms used to define, describe, expand, and limit those concepts. This approach serves as a foundation for reading comprehension, drawing connections between sources, building an object of study, limiting or shaping the scope of a research question, finding search terms, evaluating sources, and writing coherent academic paragraphs.

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Participants will learn tools for teaching deep reading that will allow students to confidently recognize the writing strategies of successful academic scholars. By drawing attention to the conventions and language patterns of academic writing, students can improve their comprehension of complex course content while developing skills for critical thinking, writing, and research.

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“Swimming among the Jellyfish”: travel guides, Elizabeth von Arnim, and Rügen
Creators: name: Harper, Lila Marz
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Travel writing
subject: Wit and humor
subject: Education

description: In the opening of Elizabeth von Arnim’s The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen (1904), the protagonist, Elizabeth, comes across Marianne North’s autobiography, Recollections of a Happy Life (1894) and her description of the bathing near Putbus, “a sandy cove where the water was always calm, and of how you floated about on its crystal surface, and beautiful jellyfish, stars of purest colours, floated with you”. This essay examines Arthur Schuster’s Fuhrer durch die Insel Rugen (1902) and Marianne North’s travel autobiography as background to Elizabeth’s Adventures in Rügen (1904) and how the Rügen novel began as a travel account before merging into fiction as the protagonist attempts and fails to write her own travel guide and, in opposition to social conventions for her gender and class, become a female solitary traveller.
Getting students to think critically through undergrad research
Creators: name: Luther, David A
Publisher: name: Mason Publishing Group, George Mason University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: As academics we use research to advance our respective fields but there is a place in the classroom for the same research approaches and inquiry based learning that can help undergraduate students use critical thinking and inspire their curiosity. Here I will present several examples of using research in and out of the classroom to inspire critical thinking and curiosity in undergraduates from 100 to 500 level biology courses.
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Students as Scholars Courses and Student Learning Outcomes: A Realignment
Creators: name: Usher, Bethany
name: Hazel, Stephanie
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2016
Subjects: inquiry-based learning; research experiences for undergraduates; multidisciplinary learning; assessment

description: During the summer, a group of faculty will be looking at the Students as Scholars student learning outcomes and course definitions. After five years, we have seen that some of the elements are too broad or too narrow, and that the course descriptions are difficult understand. My expectation is that, at the least, there will be a simplification in the elements of the student learning outcomes. This poster will be a visual representation of those changes, presented as a part of a campus-wide discussion of any changes. I will provide a full abstract of the poster at the end of the summer.
description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol 8 (2016): Cultivating Creative and Reflective Learners
Lauricella hypergeometric functions, unipotent fundamental groups of the punctured Riemann sphere, and their motivic coactions
Creators: name: Brown, Francis
name: Dupont, Clément
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 33C05, 14C15, 11S80, 81T40, 81Q30, 11G55

description: The goal of this paper is to raise the possibility that there exists a meaningful theory of `motives' associated to certain hypergeometric integrals, viewed as functions of their parameters. It goes beyond the classical theory of motives, but should be compatible with it. Such a theory would explain a recent and surprising conjecture arising in the context of scattering amplitudes for a motivic Galois group action on Gauss' ${}_2F_1$ hypergeometric function, which we prove in this paper by direct means. More generally, we consider Lauricella hypergeometric functions and show on the one hand how the coefficients in their Taylor expansions can be promoted, via the theory of motivic fundamental groups, to motivic multiple polylogarithms. The latter are periods of ordinary motives and admit an action of the usual motivic Galois group, which we call the `local' action. On the other hand, we define lifts of the full Lauricella functions as matrix coefficients in a Tannakian category of twisted cohomology, which inherit an action of the corresponding Tannaka group. We call this the `global' action. We prove that these two actions, local and global, are compatible with each other, even though they are defined in completely different ways. The main technical tool is to prove that metabelian quotients of generalised Drinfeld associators on the punctured Riemann sphere are hypergeometric functions. We also study single-valued versions of these hypergeometric functions, which may be of independent interest.
description: Accepted version. Minor changes
title: Twaweza Independent Evaluation Overview of Baseline and Other Surveys
Creators: name: Rossman, Gretchen
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research
subject: International and Comparative Education

description: As stipulated in the independent evaluation contract, CIE will implement baseline surveys at households, facilities (schools, health clinics), and communities using national randomly-selected samples in all three countries. These will be followed up in 2012 with a targeted micro-survey and then with full national-level random administrations in late 2013 or early 2014. The rationale for the baseline surveys and the subsequent full follow-up survey administrations is to measure change along key variables over time. The rationale for the mid-term micro-survey is to measure targeted change, using the full baseline study (including case studies) as a guide. Given the key evaluation questions to be addressed, the baseline surveys need to establish 1) citizens’ knowledge about government provision of the basic services of education, health, water; 2) baseline conditions in schools, health facilities, and communities (quality of service); 2) citizens’ access to and use of information channels and media; 4) self-perceptions and indicators of agency and action; and 5) test emerging and intriguing hypotheses. For each broad purpose, establishing what is known at this point enables assessments of change over time. Thus, the overall design of the evaluation calls for follow-up randomized national-level surveys in Year 5 to assess changes and to test the same and new hypotheses. Obviously, baseline surveys are designed to establish initial conditions against which effects or changes can be compared.
The best extending cover-preserving geometric lattices of semimodular lattices
Creators: name: He, Peng
name: Wang, Xue-ping
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 06C10, 06B15

description: In 2010, Gábor Czédli and E. Tamás Schmidt mentioned that the best cover-preserving embedding of a given semimodular lattice is not known yet [A cover-preserving embedding of semimodular lattices into geometric lattices, Advances in Mathematics 225 (2010) 2455-2463]. That is to say: What are the geometric lattices $G$ such that a given finite semimodular lattice $L$ has a cover-preserving embedding into $G$ with the smallest $|G|$? In this paper, we propose an algorithm to calculate all the best extending cover-preserving geometric lattices $G$ of a given semimodular lattice $L$ and prove that the length and the number of atoms of every best extending cover-preserving geometric lattice $G$ equal the length of $L$ and the number of non-zero join-irreducible elements of $L$, respectively. Therefore, we comprehend the best cover-preserving embedding of a given semimodular lattice.
description: 26
An Embodied View of Misunderstanding in Macbeth
Creators: name: Spolsky, Ellen
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
subject: Cavell, Stanley, 1926-2018

description: The article discusses the relationship among philosophical and cognitive theories of understanding intentionality, pointing to particular strengths and weaknesses which bear on their usefulness to literary studies. My claim is that their gaps and their complementarity can be seen with particular clarity when they are used to describe interpretive failures in a complex literary text such as Shakespeares's Macbeth.
Undergraduate Scholarship: Local Is Global, and Global Is Local
Creators: name: Usher, Bethany
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2016
Subjects: inquiry-based learning; place-based learning; research experiences for undergraduates; global learning; multidisciplinary learning

description: Research and Travel Abroad are considered two important high impact practices for undergraduate students, but are seen as separate learning opportunities. However, we know that these experiences are connected: faculty often study and collaborate internationally, and employers are seeking students who can apply knowledge to real-world problems and have cultural competency (Hart Research Associates, 2015). Â In this conversation with faculty, I build on five years of Students as Scholars experience to promote a more nuanced and integrated view of â€œglobalâ€ research. Students work on projects that usually fall into one of three categories: locally/regionally-focused, internationally-focused, and site-independent (with implicit global value). The location of the research can be at Mason, or in an international location. By framing the scholarly projects using this intersection of topic and location, we can create projects in and beyond the classroom in ways that intentionally teach about global issues through inquiry and research.Â  During this session, after presenting the model, participants will brainstorm ways to integrate global perspectives in research courses, study abroad experiences, and scholarly projects that involve students.

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Hart Research Associates (2015) Falling Short? College Learning and Career Success. Washington, DC: Association of American Colleges and Universities. Retrieved from https://www.aacu.org/leap/public-opinion-research/2015-survey-falling-short
description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol 8 (2016): Cultivating Creative and Reflective Learners
Shi xu jian : [si shi wu juan] [volume 04]
詩緖箋 : [四十五卷] [第四冊]
Creators: name: (:Null)
Publisher: name: Jinghu : [publisher not identified]
Year: 2017

description: Chu Tang feng xu jian : jiu juan
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GGW-BDF: an online tool for using earth observation and Chinese ecosystem restoration experiences in support of the Great Green Wall initiative
Creators: name: Li, Xiaosong
name: Shen, Tong
name: Kabo-Bah, Amos Tiereyangn
name: Liu, Jie
name: Li, Jianhui
name: Dou, Changyong
name: Piao, Yingchao
name: Jia, Xiaoxia
name: Lu, Qi
name: Wu, Huailin
name: Yang, Ziyu
name: Zhi, Yubo
name: Zhao, Licheng
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) establish a fresh global framework for evaluating the development agenda, emphasizing prosperity, growth, inclusivity, and transparency while safeguarding our planet Earth. Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) represents a clear target for assessing the achievement of SDG 15.3. In response to the shortcomings of the African Great Green Wall initiative with respect to LDN monitoring, reporting, and intervention, we developed an online tool, the Great Green Wall Big Data Facilitator (GGW-BDF), based on earth observation data (e.g. SDGSAT-1), cutting-edge big data analysis technologies, and Chinese experience in combating desertification, to support the implementation of the African Great Green Wall initiative. The GGW-BDF comprises an LDN data portal, desertification control knowledge, and e-learning resources. This study highlights the functionality of this tool to support stakeholders across countries in monitoring LDN while providing the successful technoloiges to restore degraded or barren land. The contributions of the GGW-BDF are very useful in supporting the Pan-African Agency of the Great Green Wall (PAGGW), and will hopefully be continuously upgraded for being a part of the federated toolbox of the Group on Earth Observation (GEO) LDN Flagship.