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A Seasonal to Subseasonal Examination of Synoptic and Local Drivers of Flash Drought
(2024-05-10)
Flash drought is the rapid intensification of drought like conditions. Initiated by meteorological processes that quickly desiccate soil they can be devastating to agriculture and local ecosystems. Flash droughts are driven ...
Deception in Wireless Communications: Benefits and Perils
(2024-05-10)
Wireless signals, ubiquitous and capable of penetrating obstacles, are increasingly exploited to infer personal information such as vital signs, human activities, and crowd counts. This surge in wireless sensing techniques ...
Explainable Frontal Boundary Predictions for Applications in Operational Environments
(2024-05-10)
Frontal boundaries drive many high-impact weather events around the globe. Identifying fronts through various thermodynamic fields increases predictability of hazardous weather phenomena. Frontal analysis is still primarily ...
Self As Praxis: Centering Teacher Identity in Instructional Practices in the Secondary Science Classroom
(2024-05-10)
The adoption of Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and NGSS-like standards necessitates significantly different ways of thinking about K-12 science instruction as well as corresponding instructional approaches to ...
LATIN AMERICAN MUSIC IN THE WIND BAND REPERTOIRE: HISTORICAL CONTEXT, LATIN AMERICAN RHYTHMS, AND INTERPRETATIVE STRATEGIES
(2024-05-11)
The rich and diverse musical heritage of Latin America offers an attractive repertoire for wind bands that deserves greater recognition in the United States. Despite proximity and cultural exchange, many exemplary works ...
Visual and Musical Disability Narratives in How to Train Your Dragon
(2024-05-11)
In recent decades, the field of disabilities studies has shifted from solely a medical outlook to a more rounded approach of how disability is constructed culturally and socially. With this change, disability scholars aim ...
Views From the Saddle: Empathy and Romanticization in Oral Narrative and Multispecies Communication
(2024-05-10)
In the summer of 2023, I traveled to Wyoming to conduct fieldwork while working on a dude ranch as a wrangler. The research I conducted had two particular focuses: the learned narratives that wranglers shared with guests ...
Constricting the body politic: Three studies of political communication apprehension and why they matter
(2024-05-10)
Much work has been done to capture people’s discomfort with talking about politics. Previous research suggests people are uncomfortable with political conversations for a variety of reasons, though little has been done to ...
Zr-MOFs for Hydrolysis Reactions: Computational Evaluation of Interactions, Kinetics, and Molecular Accessibility
(2024-05-11)
Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are a class of porous crystalline solids that present as promising instruments for the removal of chemical warfare agents (CWAs). Owing to their remarkable porosities and large surface areas, ...
MULTISCALE RESPONSES TO PERTURBATION IN THE CONTEXT OF A HIGHLY CONTAMINATED FIELD SITE
(2024-05-10)
Microbes and microbial communities are ubiquitous in the environment and responsible for the cycling of carbon, sulfur, nitrogen, phosphorous, and more, while also being subject to variable conditions ranging from seasonal ...