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Interview with Tracy Wilkes
No full textThe wife of journalist and author Paul Wilkes, Tracy is the founder and director of DREAMS, INC, a Wilmington-based program that affords inner-city children and adolescents the opportunity to express themselves through dance, drama, music and art. Tracy, who earned her Masters in Social Work from Boston College, has seen DREAMS grow into a foundation with a Board of Directors, two full-time and many volunteer workers, and with close to seventy children between the ages of eight and seventeen participating in the program
Alumni Authors: Kristen Tracy \u2794
No full textAlumni Authors Series - Spring 2012. The William H. Hannon Library was happy to celebrate some of our acclaimed literary alumnus. Each author discussed their newest works and share a few stories from their days at LMU.
Kristen Tracy (\u2794) - Kristen Tracy has written four young adult novels, Lost It, Crimes of the Sarahs, A Field Guide for Heartbreakers, and Sharks & Boys. Her first middle-grade novel, Camille McPhee Fell Under the Bus, was released in Summer 2009. This year, Kristen\u27s newest second middle-grade novel, The Reinvention of Bessica Lefter, has won a Parents\u27 Choice Award. Kristen has a Ph.D. in English, an MFA in writing and an MA in American Literature. Kristen has taught writing and literature courses at Brigham Young University, Johnson State College (in Vermont), and Western Michigan University
Tracy Metz Lecture: Sweet & Salt: Water and the Dutch
No full textTracy Metz is a journalist and author of art, architecture, urban planning and the landscape. In Sweet & Salt: Water and the Dutch (NAi Publishers) Metz describes the metamorphosis the landscape of the Netherlands is currently undergoing and how the Dutch are searching for new ways of living with the water. Co-sponsored by School of Visual and Performing Arts Transmedia Department
Operators associated with soft and hard spectral edges from unitary ensembles.
No full textUsing Hankel operators and shift-invariant subspaces on Hilbert space, this paper develops the theory of integrable operators associated with soft and hard edges of eigenvalues distributions of random matrices. Such Tracy--Widom operators are realized as controllability operators for linear systems, and are reporducing kernels for weighted Hardy spaces, known as Sonine spaces. Periodic solutions of Hill's equation give a new family of Tracy--Widom type operators. This paper identifies a pair of unitary groups that satisfy the von Neumann--Weyl anti-commutation relations and leave invariant the subspaces of L^2 that are the ranges of projections given by Tracy--Widom operators for the soft edge of the unitary ensemble and hard edge of the Jacobi ensemble
Effectiveness of the Schools to Watch Process in Identifying High Functioning Middle Schools
No full textThe purposes of this quantitative nonexperimental causal-comparative study were to explore the relationship between Pennsylvania middle schools designated as a Pennsylvania Schools to Watch and non-designated schools in academic achievement and the perception of teachers on the fidelity of implementing middle level education characteristics stated in This We Believe: Keys to Educating Young Adolescents (AMLE, 2010). The study focused on the results of seventh-grade math and ELA PSSA scores because most middle schools include a seventh-grade. Through the comparison of seventh-grade 2017 math and ELA PSSA data and 2017 SPP scores between designated schools and non-designated schools as of January 2017, this study investigated if there was a relationship between designation status and academic success. The results of this study indicated that designated schools did have a statistically significant higher percentage of students earning proficient scores and a statistically significant lower number of students earning below basic scores on the seventh-grade 2017 math PSSA compared to non-designated schools. Similarly, the results of this study indicated that designated schools did have a statistically significant higher percentage of students earning advanced scores and a statistically significant lower number of students earning basic scores and below basic scores on the seventh-grade 2017 ELA PSSA compared to non-designated schools. In addition, the results from this study indicated that several of the sections on the Middle Level Concept Implementation Survey, including Middle School Concept and Professional Preparation, School Environment and Expectations, and Curriculum and Instruction, showed a statistically significant positive correlation to the 2017 SPP scores of both designated schools and non-designated schools. In contrast, the results from the study failed to show if there was a relationship between designation status and 2017 SPP scores. Lastly, the results of the study indicated that there was a statistically significant difference between the responses of teachers from designated schools and teachers from non-designated schools on the Middle Level Concept Implementation Survey, with teachers from designated schools responding more favorably to the survey questions compared to teachers from non-designated schools
Humor Writer of the Month: Tracy Dawson
No full textTracy Dawson, an actress, comedian, author and script consultant, is our Humor Writer of the Month for December
Letter from R.E. Tracy, Supervisor, Sacramento-San Joaquin Area, to George H. Nakamura, May 15, 1944
No full textCorrespondence from R.E. Tracy to George Hideo Nakamura regarding a Government Bill of Lading.The Japanese American Archival Collection documents the people, places, and daily life of Japanese Americans, primarily those who lived in the once thriving community of pre-war Florin in the Sacramento region, as well as the conditions in American incarceration camps during World War II. The approximately 7,000 original items include personal and official letters, photographs, diaries, arts and crafts, newsletters, textiles, camps artifacts, yearbooks and other publications
Remaking the Rust Belt: The Postindustrial Transformation of North America
No full textBook review by Maxwell Hartt of Remaking the Rust Belt: The Postindustrial Transformation of North America, Tracy Neumann author
Interview with Laurent de Sutter
No full textInterview with Laurent de Sutter, author of "Narcocapitalism", by Tracy Brannstorm
Designing Tracy: a conversational holiday recommender for Generation Z
No full textVirtual assistants are rapidly growing in popularity, triggering businesses around the world to explore their applicability. From a user perspective,, having a conversational interaction with technology has certain advantages, as it is easy to use, hands-free and eye-free. Despite the fact that Transavia already released its first steps with the assistant, there is still minor knowledge about how it can be used effectively to engage with the customer. A techy, social and young customer group - often referred to as Generation Z - is interacting with technology and brands in a very different way than Millenials. As a starting point, a preliminary design goal is formulated which links the technology and the user to an early touch point in Transavia’s customer journey: “Design a virtual assistant for Transavia that offers added value in helping Generation Z with finding and/or booking flights”. The contexts of four aspects are analysed: business, process, user and technology, which together lay the foundation for the subsequent user studies. The studies show the flight finding and -booking behaviour of Generation Z, as well as their current and preferred interactions with virtual assistants. Based on the outcomes the witty assistant ‘Tracy’ is conceptualised and piloted using the Google Assistant and Lenovo Smart Display. Tracy focuses on the moment right before booking called pre-booking, and recommends Generation Z affordable trips based on their availability. Alongside user tests the prototype goes through three iterations to optimise various aspects of the design: tone-of-voice, product personality, content and conversational flow. The final design is intended to be feasible for a short term release, and proved there lies true potential in using a conversational interface to engage with Generation Z in the pre-booking phase. Finally, recommendations are proposed for Transavia to support them when continuing with either Tracy or with virtual assistance in general.Design for Interactio
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