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Dental Enamel Hypoplasias Being Used as Markers to Identify Undocumented Migrants
Get PDFThis paper discusses the implications of using certain skeletal markers when identifying individuals at the United States\u27 southern border. It looks at a broader picture of where migrants are coming from and how these markers form. 
Exploring the Effect of Chicano Studies Courses on Student Success at CSU Channel Islands
Get PDFCalifornia State University, Channel Islands (CSUCI) has long embraced the ideal of access to education while seeking to provide high quality degrees for its students. The success of obtaining Hispanic-Serving Institutions grants has been helpful in providing resources for programs offering educational interventions for both Hispanic students and for those from other backgrounds. We have seen anecdotal evidence that Hispanic students who enroll in Chicano Studies courses tend to find community and consequently success. In this project, we use the enormous storehouse of CSUCI data to explore the effectiveness of specific Chicano Studies courses on student success. We apply regression analysis, hypothesis tests for proportions, t-tests, and tests of independence to investigate the quantitative evidence for what we have seen anecdotally
Apostles of Disunion
Get PDFThis paper analyzes the rhetoric of appointed state-commissioners from the Southern States advocating for secession prior to the American Civil War. The rhetoric used is very similar across all state-appointed commissioners as much of it was based on racial claims in which their biases, racism, and fear energized their claims for the need for secession. This paper explores the topic of succession exclusively through a Southern lens as the justification of succession is based on the Southern belief that all state\u27s rights had been violated without giving slavery being the cause any validation
“A Prosperous Life and the Assurance of a Happy Departure.” Indentured Servitude in Colonial Chesapeake and Pennsylvania
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Utilizing a Kendama for Transfer of Motor Learning in High School and College Physical Education
Get PDFClassroom activities designed to teach novel upper limb skills can introduce students to the concept of transfer of motor learning through practice. Bilateral transfer of motor learning is the recognized effect of improvement in a physical skill from practicing the skill on the opposite side limb. The aim of this paper is to provide physical educators with guidelines for creating a motor learning activity to promote discussion of and a practice opportunity for students to transfer a movement skill from one hand to the other unpracticed hand. The framework for physical educators to implement a motor learning activity is presented with the example of using a handheldwooden kendama. A kendama has a handle with cup surfaces and a wooden ball on a string such that the ball can be caught in a cup surface. The examples and suggested activity are for high school and college students to practice kendama catches only using the nondominant limb. Students are given an opportunity through this activity to explore if practice on the nondominant hand improved the skill on their other hand
Tight Frame Graphs Arising as Line Graphs
Get PDFDual multiplicity graphs are those simple, undirected graphs that have a weighted Hermitian adjacency matrix with only two distinct eigenvalues. From the point of view of frame theory, their characterization can be restated as which graphs have a representation by a tight frame. In this paper, we classify certain line graphs that are tight frame graphs and improve a previous result on the embedding of frame graphs in tight frame graphs
Review: A New Analysis of the Gender Attribution of the "Great Goddess" of Teotihuacan
Get PDFThis article takes a second look at the famous Goddess of Teotihucan and analyzes the gender norms of the time and how our instilled societal norms effect Archaeological data and how biased these opinions can make us
How Society is Being Shaped by Technology
Get PDFDue to the advancement in technology, human society have began to rely on the need of technology. For instance, tablets and iPads have come to play a big role in education. Anthropology can help understand these instances, based on the theoretical ideas anthropologists have developeloped. Anthropologists such as: Marvin Harris, Franz Boas, and Eric Wolf. All three of these anthropologists have a different position of what they believe anthropology should be. Marvin Harris argues that anthropology should be a science as he explains a model that shows how cultural materialism affects the sociocultural system. This same model can be used to show how technology has shaped society. Franz Boas believed when studying anthropology, a holistic approach should be taken into consideration. He viewed anthropology to be part of the humanities, and his theoretical position is important as we view how all apects of human society is being affected by technological advancements. Thirdly, Eric Wolf relies inbetween the two as he believes that when studying anthropology, new intellectual ideas should be involved. Although they have differences and similarities in their work, these three anthropologists can view how our society has been shaped by technology
Permanents of 2 x 2 Matrices Modulo n
Get PDFIn this article we compute the number of invertible two by two matrices with integer entries modulo n whose permanents are congruent modulo n to a given integer x