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Strategies For Overcoming the Grand Challenges of Implementing Environmental Flows: A Coupled Human and Natural Systems Perspective
(2022-05-17)
Global declines in freshwater biodiversity and the ecosystem services freshwater ecosystems provide have prompted a call for accelerated and expanded implementation of conservation interventions to bend the curve on these ...
A conductor's guide and analysis to Korean traditional choral music techniques in Creo by Hyowon Woo
(2022-05-13)
The music of Korean choral composer Hyowon Woo (b.1974) is known throughout the world. Woo’s oratorio, Creo was commissioned for Dr. Hakwon Yoon and the Incheon City Chorale, and was premiered in 2012 in Incheon, South ...
Understanding the impact of a STEM explanatory model on STEM-education stakeholders’ conceptions of STEM and STEM integration
(2022-12-17)
While STEM education is recognized as a critical priority for national security, health, and economic prosperity, its various and often conflicting meanings, coupled with excessive use of the acronym as a super discipline, ...
Subjective Evaluation of the In-Line Phase-Sensitive Imaging Systems in Breast Cancer Screening and Diagnosis
(2022-08-04)
Breast x-ray imaging remains the gold standard screening tool despite the various imaging modalities. The phase-sensitive breast imaging is an evolving technology that may provide higher diagnostic accuracy and potentially ...
Virgulae and Distinctiones: A History of Western Notational Systems from Grammar Handbook to Liturgical Leaf
(2022-05-13)
I present the history of the virgule or slash (/) as a measure of how students read and interpreted texts first by methods taught in grammar handbooks but then according to scribal-driven innovations to the page. The mark ...
Effects of water and aluminum distribution on catalytic performance of zeolites
(2022-05-13)
Zeolites are used in numerous industrially relevant reactions such as cracking, isomerization, and alkylation. The activity of Brønsted acid sites contained within the microporous zeolite channels might be influenced by ...
“No prior experience necessary” a multi-method analysis of emergency teacher certification
(2022-05-13)
The use of emergency certification for classroom teachers is meant to be a temporary measure that allows school districts to address pressing teaching vacancies in the short term. However, descriptive evidence indicates ...
Living well with worries, humility, and other people: learning to reflect on life with the Analects
(2022-05-13)
In this dissertation, I present three distinct papers connected through the theme of control.
The Analects suggests a view of control or human efficacy that we have a great deal of control over events related to us. But ...
Engaging with Stakeholders to Produce Actionable Science: Moving from Theory to Practice
(2022-05)
Over time, the idea of the public value of federally funded science has slowly transitioned from basic science that helps fight disease and maintain national security (Bush 1945) to use-inspired science that directly informs ...
Non-LTI Antenna Design and Modeling Techniques
(2022-05-13)
Nearly all contemporary antenna systems are Linear Time-Invariant (LTI) devices, and allow for assumptions of frequency independence and reciprocity, but are governed by strict bounds on their performance. Recently, nonlinear ...