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Digital Photography Fall Term 2019
No full textCOM/ART 145: Digital Photographyhttps://jayscholar.etown.edu/com145/1018/thumbnail.jp
Digital Photography May Term 2019
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Digital Photography Fall Term 2019
No full textCOM/ART 145: Digital Photographyhttps://jayscholar.etown.edu/com145/1016/thumbnail.jp
Building Empathy through Social-Emotional Learning in Advisory
Get PDFThis research evaluates the importance of building empathy among middle school learners through social-emotional education. This paper includes a six-week curriculum that focuses on 30 minute advisory lessons, which work on building empathy skills in a diverse school community. Students are encouraged to write reflections about the process and competencies they learn in connection to how they affect the hallways of their school in hopes of seeing growth in empathetic relationships within their community
Generalizations of Markov Chain Discretizations
Get PDFMarkov chains have famously been a crucial tool in understanding stochastic processes and queuing systems, among many other applications. Both discrete-time chains and continuoustime chains have been important centers in both research and application. These two cases are described by transition matrices. Continuous-time chains are difficult to model because this matrix is rather hard to compute in general. One attack to this problem is approximating a continuous-time chain with one that evolves in discrete time. The transition matrix is still difficult to compute exactly but can also be approximated to any order. The first-order approximation of this quantity is well-known. In 2008, Rachel Irby studied the second-order approximation and compared its performance to that of the first-order counterpart. In this paper, we will generalize the results outlined in Rachel\u27s paper by using an approximation of any order. Specifically, we will study direct comparisons using norms. In addition, we will compare the continuous-time chain to its approximate model through the study of stationary and limiting distributions
Development of a One-Pot Allylation and Claisen Rearrangement of Acetaminophen by Applying Microwave Radiation
Get PDFThe Claisen rearrangement is a widely applicable organic reaction that involves the shift of a sigma bond across the pi-system of an allyl vinyl ether to produce allylated phenols. In this project, we aim to develop a microwave assisted allylation of a phenol, followed by a subsequent Claisen rearrangement in one pot. The goals of this project are three-fold. First, we aim to accelerate these reactions using microwave assisted organic synthesis because to date, microwave technology has been sparsely used in Claisen chemistry. Second, we aim to perform these reactions in a single pot, enhancing the simplicity and elegance of the reaction. Finally, our research group has an interest in allylated phenols given the allyl group can be used to attach the ring to other molecules. Acetaminophen was chosen as a model phenol to test the chemistry. As a result, this also affords derivatives which like acetaminophen, could have analgesic properties. Initial studies reveal that the Claisen rearrangement of allylated acetaminophen requires a reaction time of under ten minutes in the microwave compared to hours when performed under reflux. Further optimization of other components of the reaction are ongoing
Domestic sex trafficking of children
No full textA great deal of attention has been paid to trafficking across international borders; however, comparatively little attention has been given to those who are trafficked within the borders of their own country, including children. While growing attention has been given to this population, there is still confusion and misinformation about this crime. This chapter reviews relevant laws in several nations, as well as risk factors and forms of this crime. Lastly, effective interventions to assist these youth in leaving the life are discussed
Natural Communions: Religion and Public Life
No full textThe academic treatment of the environment and nature, since the 1980s, has been formalized in sub-disciplines like environmental history, environmental philosophy, ecocriticism, and eco-spirituality. Within these disciplines the concept of nature has been variously employed to reorient humanity to a holistic moral standard. In each case there is general consensus that inquiry ought to turn on moral considerations of the interaction of humans and the environment; with implied admonitions to live sustainably. Lending credence to the Earth as a superorganism in its own right, these modern ecological expressions can be traced to Rachel Carson\u27s revelations in Silent Spring. However, they have a long pre-history which appears in monistic philosophy, the spirit of Deism, in both Romanticism and the Enlightenment, and in political expressions of the idea of Nature\u27s God, designed to promote a secular vision of the state and to overturn predatory religious rivalries. With this literary momentum, Natural Communions, volume 40 of Religion and Public Life, gathers interdisciplinary essays which reconfigure humanity within an ecotheological anthropology and which treat the idea of the sacred from the perspective of an Earth-centered spirituality, thus redefining humanity\u27s response to ecological challenges and initiating a new status within a more expansive cosmology complete with a naturalized conception of Divine Reality