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Behavioral Response of Commercial Cattle to Common Handling Methods in Pasture Settings
No full textFlight zones can be described as the personal space bubble of cattle. Cattle will make attempts to retain this personal space bubble when being approached in a pasture setting. Flight zone distance can be used by producers to understand cattle temperament. A larger flight zone may indicate a more excitable temperament. In this study female cattle aged 1-12 were approached on foot, by utility vehicle and by feed truck in a pasture setting to record their flight zone. This study evaluated how differing methods of approach affect the flight zone. Low stress handling was the method of approach taken to limit variability during data collection. Observers practiced low stress handling methods by approaching cattle slowly from the shoulder after making eye contact with cattle. Flight zone was deemed measurable when cattle made significant (3-5) quick steps away from the handler. Results concluded that cattle approached on a utility vehicle (3.4 ± 4.1), or feed truck (1.2 ± 6.7), had a smaller flight zone than cattle approached on foot (19 ± 12.5) respectively p= 0.368. Future work in animal flight zones and its implication of animal temperament, can help develop specific and targeted measures to increase overall animal welfare for producers
A Qualitative Study of Third-Generation Vietnamese American Students’ Career Aspirations and Choices to Inform School Leaders
No full textThis study used descriptive qualitative inquiry to examine the career aspirations and choices of a sample of third-generation Vietnamese American college students. Substantial evidence indicates parents have played a significant role in the career choices of Asian American youth. Examining family impacts on Asian Americans\u27 career choices requires that researchers use a culturally specific lens to capture words that are more culturally relevant. In the past couple of decades, a high percentage of second or third-generation Vietnamese American immigrants did not choose STEM as their major compared to previous generations. Also, in the past, STEM majors generally had a higher ratio of Asian American students compared to students of other ethnicities and nationalities enrolled in higher education. Personal interviews were conducted with 12 Vietnamese American young adult students who are third-generation immigrants, older than 18 years, and enrolled in trade schools and/or college credit-bearing courses to examine the influences on their career aspirations
From Page to Panel: Navigating Intertextuality and Multimodality in a Neil Gaiman Graphic Adaptation
No full textCore States of Neutron Stars from Anatomizing Their Scaled Structure Equations
No full textGiven an Equation of State (EOS) for neutron star (NS) matter, there is a unique mass–radius sequence characterized by a maximum mass MNS max at radius Rmax. We first show analytically that the MNS max and Rmax scale linearly with two different combinations of the NS central pressure Pc and energy densityεc, by dissecting perturbatively the dimension less Tolman–Oppenheimer–Volkoff (TOV) equations governing NS internal variables. The scaling relations are then verified via 87 widely used and rather diverse phenomenological as well as 17 microscopic NS EOSs with/without considering hadron–quark phase transitions and hyperons, by solving numerically the original TOV equations. The EOS of the densest NS matter allowed before it collapses into a black hole is then obtained. Using the universal MNS max and Rmax scalings and Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer and XMM-Newton mass–radius observational data for PSR J0740+6620, a very narrow constraining band on the NS central EOS is extracted directly from the data for the first time, without using any specific input EOS model
From Mode Adoption to Saluting a Dead Kitten: Reactions to a Humorous Tweet by Ricky Gervais
No full textBeyond Reading and Writing: Information Literacy in Higher Education for Lifelong Success
No full textInformation Literacy is critical to finding, evaluating, using, and creating information. It also influences how we navigate daily life, workplace environments, and civic participation. Several Information Literacy standards state that it is a human right. Everyone should have access to the necessary tools to develop their information literacy skills. We argue that students transitioning from high school to college are not college prepared for practicing information literacy. Faculty and Librarians both undertake the work to teach information literacy. Still, it would be more effective for Faculty-Librarian partnerships to utilize strengths in their discipline areas to teach information literacy skills
Job Satisfaction Levels of Special Education Assessment Personnel: A Quantitative Cross-Sectional Survey Study
No full textThe state of Texas is currently under a federal mandate of corrective action from the United States Department of Education (USED). Many students who were denied referral to special education services in the past are being referred in record numbers across the state. Given the historical shortage of special education assessment personnel, the purpose of this quantitative study was to describe the motivator and maintenance factors influencing the job satisfaction levels of currently employed special education assessment personnel, educational diagnosticians and licensed specialists in school psychology (LSSPs) in the state of Texas, viewed through the lens of Herzberg’s Dual-Factor Theory (Herzberg, 1968). A simple random stratified sample of currently employed educational diagnosticians and LSSPs in school districts in the state of Texas was administered an electronic version of the JDI and JIG with two additional open-ended questions on job satisfaction and the likelihood of employee retention was asked at survey completion. The quantitative data was analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics, while the qualitative data was examined through axial coding and identification of emergent themes. This study will enhance the greater body of knowledge on job satisfaction levels of special education assessment personnel and how districts can work to support and sustain these critical and hard to fill positions and sustain these employees in the future
Promoting Active Learning and Protecting Student Privacy for Smart Education
No full textThe research on Smart Education is rapidly developing in transforming from traditional face-to-face learning to online teaching and remote learning. Smart Education provides e-learning classes to improve the personalized educational system that creates to recognize and assesses each student\u27s unique learning styles, educational needs, and academic objectives. So, to increase the active learning experience of a student in a video tutoring class, interaction session is quite helpful for the teacher to assess the student’s performance which will improve their teaching standards to deliver the content efficiently. For the above reasons, most of the smart classes suggest learners turn on their webcams during a class which helps easily to detect whether the students are engaged or not by their facial expressions, head pose, and eye gazing to promote active learning. However, it exposes the student’s face to raise security concerns such as privacy invasion, misidentification, data breaches, and lack of regulation by the respective authorities either school or corporate. So, this study thus proposes a novel framework benefiting two systems, such as facial identity protection utilizing face de-identification (i.e., generating a fake face) and detecting students’ engagement through facial behavior. This proposed method consists of a Face de-identifier having attributes along with a cloaking technique to protect and preserve the facial privacy of a student, Facial properties generator to create a new dataset for student engagement having face expressions, face orientation, eye gaze, face landmarks, and face action units and a (Multilayer Perceptron) MLP based engagement detection model to calculate the percentage of the level of student engagement in a smart education
A Qualitative Analysis of How One Texas School District Views the Psychological Safety Provided by School Counselors and the Benefits of Providing Virtual Access to Licensed Professional Counselors
No full textA problem facing current school counselors is the lack of a licensed professional counselor (LPC) to be readily available for students who need intervention. In order to justify the LPC, counselors must agree to the need of a LPC. Adolescent psychological issues are a concern for school counselors because they are not adequately trained to deal with such issues. Because public school counselors have a number of responsibilities in a school setting it is difficult for counselors to attend to students needing the proper mental health care. Therefore, the purpose of this interpretive qualitative study is to determine whether K–12 school counselors believe a LPC is beneficial in a virtual counseling setting as a part of the school’s guidance counseling program
The Effectiveness of Faith-Based Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy for African Americans with PTSD
No full textThis study examines the effectiveness of an adaptive version of Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy (REBT) with faith-based concepts for African Americans with PTSD. The severity level was determined by a pre-test PCL-5 score of 35 and above. Effectiveness was measured by a post-PCL-5 score that changed by 5 degrees. The score is the criterion variable that will be measured using the PCL-5 scores. Additionally, the predictive variable was religiosity which was determined by three levels of participation in religious activities. Participants who indicated they did not participate in religious activities were identified with an interval of 0. Participants who indicated they participated in religious activities weekly were identified with an interval of 1. Finally, participants who indicated they participated in religious activities monthly were identified with an interval of 2. The researcher also explored if the early termination rate would be statistically significantly different between levels of religiosity. Using a repeated measure ANOVA, the research found a statistically significant difference between pre-PCL-5 and post-PCL-5 scores. A one-way ANOVA was used to determine if religiosity influenced the termination rate and found no statistically significant difference in termination rate