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Fall 2022
In an increasingly competitive global marketplace, the need for destinations to create compelling and memorable experiences to differentiate themselves and power economic growth has become an important destination development strategy following significant tourism industry disruption resulting...
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Toward a Badiou-Inspired Eventful English Language Arts Curriculum: A Refractive Autoethnography
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The purpose of my autoethnographic study is to understand more fully how my experience of educational events and their emerging truths impact my identity and my curricular and pedagogical approaches as a seasoned English Language Arts teacher. My dissertation addresses the following research...
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Toward a biofidelic and repeatable physical head-brain model for application in blunt impact
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Headforms as a type of physical human head models are widely used in head injury research and for the design and assessment of safety gear. The mechanisms of head injury caused by blunt impact (a common loading scenario) are associated with global head kinematics and intracranial mechanics such...
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Spring 2024
This work aims to address the lack of clear theoretical foundations in computational lexical semantics, the sub-field of natural language processing pertaining to computing with the meaning of words. Semantic tasks are of interest for end-user applications (e.g. contextual translation),...
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Fall 2017
The purpose of this study was to produce a conceptualization of good parenting in female youth sport. A two-phase approach was used. In phase one, individual semi-structured interviews were conducted with eight coaches (3 females, 5 males, M age= 40.1 years, SD = 15.1 years) with at least five...
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Spring 2015
Tools to think about and interact with the emergence of new levels of interconnectivity and complexity in the post-secondary ethics classroom are necessary. The question explored in this study concerns what relevance cosmopolitanism has as an educational response to this need. Contemporary...