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Roots Project Identity System
Get PDFThese PDF documents contain the identity system and campaign that was designed for PCL\u27s Roots Project- a local not for profit organization that works with young adults with intellectual and development disabilities. The campaign consists of a logo family, a brochure, stationary, and two t shirt designs that perfectly encompass the core concepts of the program: trustworthiness, professionalism, hopefulness, inclusivity, and uniqueness
Emmanuel Ringelblum\u27s Warsaw Ghetto Archive and the Uprising of 1943
Get PDFEmmanuel Ringelblum was a Jewish historian who lived in the Warsaw Ghetto during the Holocaust. At the start of 1939, Ringelblum came to a realization that the history of the Jewish nation must be recorded. Within the Ghetto, he assigned himself the task of recording as much information about the Holocaust as he could. Along with a group of archivists, Ringelblum created the Oneg Shabbat (O.S.) Archive with the intention of educating future generations about what the Nazis had done. Shortly after the completion of the archive in 1943, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising occurred. This revolt..
Bacterial Abundance and Resistance in Ground Beef Varieties
Get PDFRaw ground beef purchased at supermarkets across America have one thing in common: they harbor bacteria, some of which are drug resistant and can be detrimental to public health. To understand the impact of farming and processing practices on the quantity of bacteria and drug resistance, organic and regular beef were assessed using MacConkey media. Bacterial colonies were sorted according to lactose utilization, with positive colonies representing fecal E. coli. Lactose negative colonies were further characterized into one of two groups (fecal Hafnia-like or soil Pseudomonas) using a variety of metabolic tests (oxidase, sulfur, indole). Advanced metabolic testing showed that regular beef contained significantly more fecal E. coli-like bacteria, Hafnia-like bacteria and fecal Providencia-like bacteria than organic beef. Soil Pseudomonas was only isolated from regular beef. This procedure was repeated using MacConkey plates containing commonly used agricultural antibacterial drugs to assess the prevalence and types of drug-resistant bacteria. Bacteria resistant to penicillin, sulfamethazine, cefazolin, or ampicillin were found at significantly higher levels on regular beef than organic. Bacteria resistant to more than one of these drugs were only found on regular beef
Called to service and finding a purpose: A mixed-method study of signed language interpreters volunteering in church and religious settings
Get PDFMany non-professional interpreters volunteer their services in church and religious settings to give Deaf congregants access to the message. Church interpreting has been a unique way many interpreters have gained interest into the profession and entered the interpreting field. Although they continue to volunteer in religious settings on a regular basis out of a sense of calling and act of service (Berg, Grant, & Johnson, 2010; Hokkanen, 2014), according to the literature, interpreters in their first 10 years of work choose benevolence as their number one value for entering the interpreting field (Ramirez-Loudenback, 2015). Often that desire to help and provide a service precedes the knowledge and skills to provide the services of interpreting, which leads to a problem of “church interpreters” having a negative stigma within professional certified interpreting circles (James, 1998). There is interpreting work to be done in religious environments; this need creates a setting in which novice interpreters can gain practice. In this study, I collected quantitative and qualitative data to provide an accurate depiction of the professional interpreters who are working in these settings, their church environments, their stories of pursuing professionalism, the reasons for their pursuit, their experiences with professional interpreters, and their motivation for continuing to work in religious settings. These data could help the interpreting profession develop a greater awareness of the connection and mentorship gap between certified interpreters and volunteer interpreters working in religious settings and discover ways to partner in creating a cohesive environment to facilitate professional development
2018-10-31 (The Western Howl)
Get PDFStudent newspaper includes campus, local and national news stories and photographs. For additional information about this collection see: http://digitalcommons.wou.edu/studentnewspapers
2018-11-07 (The Western Howl)
Get PDFStudent newspaper includes campus, local and national news stories and photographs. For additional information about this collection see: http://digitalcommons.wou.edu/studentnewspapers
Cloud Storage Applications and Cloud Platforms: Analysis, Trends, and Uses
Get PDFI have been an international student studying five years at Western Oregon University, which is nestled among the hills and rivers. Not only does the campus provides a safe haven and an extremely beautiful study atmosphere, but it also provides an advanced knowledge of science and technology. This assignment is my graduate final project. Before choosing the topic that I would like to research, I asked myself, what habit has made the biggest difference for me in this five years of overseas life and study. The most obvious changes were I gave up flash drive USB and have used to cloud storage, like Google Drive, Apple cloud, and so on. Nowadays, the USB flash drive has been abandoned, but us still needed sometimes for computer-to-computer file transfer at home. Cloud storage especially appeals to those have ever lost important data on a failed or lost the flash drive. Cloud storage is a new substitute for the older storage way. The explosion of cloud storage is all the rage from the small tech companies to the large, wealthy tech giants Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft, and which is one of the most significant trends of this decade. With the rapid development the amount of data, all industry has also become critically dependent on data availability. Nearly everyone is looking forward to accessing their data continuously and quickly from any device system, at any time, from any location. In order to obtain the accurate trend data of the Cloud platform, this professional project analyzes the cloud storage industry market value and development especially Amazon’s AWS (Amazon Web Services)- S3(Amazon Simple Storage Service). The research will explain what is physical implementation back to the cloud. With the cloud storage becoming more and more popular, is cloud storage suitable for all customers? Therefore, this paper will compare their respective performance and prices. It will also create a AWS account and access the AWS S3 cloud storage from a programmer’s standpoint and make a low-level demonstration on my Mac OS operating system
Mobile Payments in United States: Challenges, Opportunities and Solutions
Get PDFInnovation in technology has changed the way individuals fulfill an easier payments method in people’s lives, which is called Mobile Payments. It can be defined as any payment transaction, whether in close or remote proximity, executed on mobile devices or internet payments made through mobile phones. The M-Payments market is potential, as the different trends in business models and technologies shape the M-Payments evolution. Business decision makers may use these insights to develop action plans to seize the M-Payments opportunity. However, some problems remain, especially the adoption of mobile payment in the U.S moved slowly, but is increasing and expanding widely throughout Europe and Asia countries.
This project provides an integrated view of improvements to mobile payments in both the U.S. and China, and analyzes the factors that influence the adoption of mobile payment apps in U.S. The author compares different third-party payments to explore the valuable functions, demonstrate new technologies of mobile payments and the integration of mobile payments with e-commerce website and mobile applications that improve transaction efficiency and make it easier to pay