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DACA students shift to higher education in South Texas: A qualitative case study approach
Get PDFA dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership.This qualitative case study explored the experiences of five undocumented DACA students of Mexican descent seeking a post-secondary education at a four-year University in the South Texas region -- an area with a high concentration of predominantly Mexican born immigrants due to its proximity to the U.S.-Mexican border. Using Resiliency Theory as the framework for conceptualizing the study and a semi-structured interview approach, the research participants identified Ganas (a strong desire to succeed) and support from their family, classmates and University as key internal and external protective factors in their college experience; and a myriad of obstacles and challenges – mental anguish, financial hardships, and missed opportunities directly related to their undocumented status.Educational Leadership, Curriculum & InstructionCollege of Education and Human Developmen
I can't see you; can you hear me? Gender norms and context during in-person and teleconference U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments
No full textFemale attorneys at the U.S. Supreme Court are less successful than male attorneys under some conditions because of gender norms, implicit expectations about how men and women should act. While previous work has found that women are more successful when they use more emotional language at oral arguments, gender norms are context sensitive. The COVID-19 pandemic prompted perhaps the most radical contextual shift in Supreme Court history: freewheeling in-person arguments were replaced with turn-based teleconference arguments. This change altered judicial decision-making and, I argue, justices’ assessments of attorneys’ gender performance. Using quantitative textual analysis of oral arguments, I demonstrate that justices implicitly evaluate gender performance with different metrics in each modality. Gender-normative levels of emotional language predict success in both formats. Function words, however, only predict success in teleconference arguments. Given gender’s salience at the Supreme Court and in broader society, my findings prompt questions about the extent to which women can substantively impact case law
OER for introduction to IoT course
No full textInternet of Things devices and communication (IoT) refers to: sensors/devices, connectivity, data processing, user interface
Rafael Galvan,Lazaro Cardenas and Group
No full textRafael Galvan,Mexican President Lazaro Cardenas and Group smiling for a pictur
Man playing on the saxophone
No full textMan playing on the saxophone as another plays piano at a Hous
Diurnal precipitation features over complex terrains along the Yangtze River in China based on long-term TRMM and GPM radar products
Get PDFBased on the 20-year high-resolution precipitation data from TRMM and GPM radar products, diurnal features over complex terrains along the Yangtze River (YR) are investigated. Using the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) method, the first (diurnal) and second (semi-diurnal) harmonic amplitude and phase of precipitation amount (PA), precipitation frequency (PF), and intensity (PI) are analyzed. The diurnal amplitudes of PA and PF have a decreasing trend from the west to the east with the decreasing altitude of large-scale terrain, while the semi-diurnal amplitudes of PA and PI depict the bimodal precipitation cycle over highlands. For the eastward propagation of PA, PF is capable of depicting the propagation from the upper to the middle reaches of YR, while PI shows the eastward propagation from the middle to the lower reaches of YR during nighttime and presents sensitivity to highlands and lowlands. According to the contribution of different-sized precipitation systems to PI over the highlands and lowlands, the small (6000 km2 ) contribute the most, but the medium ones (200–6000 km2 ) show a slightly larger contribution over the highlands than over the lowlands. The propagation of each scaled precipitation system along the YR is further analyzed. We found that small precipitation systems mainly happen in the afternoon without obvious propagation. Medium ones peak 2–4 h later than the small ones, with two eastward propagation directions at night from the middle reaches of YR to the east. The large ones are mainly located in lowlands at night, with two propagation routes in the morning over the middle and lower reaches of YR. Such a relay of the propagation of the medium and large precipitation systems explains the eastward movement of PI along the YR, which merits future dynamic studies.The first author is grateful of financial support from the China Scholarship Council for visiting the Texas A&M-Corpus Christi. This work was also supported by NSFC-41105032
Rafael Galvan, Sr. in Galvan house
No full textRafael Galvan, Sr.standing near a chair by a fireplace in the Galvan hous