This article revisits the three foundational principles of Participatory Mapping practice identified in Good practices in participatory mapping. These include processes that strive for transparency, are unencumbered by time, and...
For my Summer Fellows project I worked with Dr. Jon Volkmer in the Creative Writing department on the second installment of my young adult fantasy book in the series titled: "Sisters and the Battle of the Magic-Born." The first...
On Friday, Winthrop workers will install a 12-foot eagle sculpture near the main entrance of campus. Artist Jon Hair of Cornelius, N.C., created the bronze sculpture over an 18-month period.
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International schools typically promise to provide some form of global citizenship education or internationally minded perspective on the world. There is value added to global citizenship education by including neurodivergent...
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Winthrop President Dan Mahony said the university conducted a national search to find a good fit for a vice president who can leverage the university's advancement opportunities. The finalists are: Evan Bohnen, associate vice...
This paper uses data envelopment analysis to explore how to evaluate physician and hospital clinical efficiency for coronary artery bypass surgery. First, the DEA models (measuring overall technical and scale efficiency...
Huntsman will speak at 8 a.m. in the Tuttle Dining Room to area residents, faculty, staff and students. As governor of Utah from 2004 to 2009, Huntsman simplified the tax structure, reduced taxes and spearheaded health care...
The stages of digital technology readiness are viewed through the lens of three contemporary and widely discussed examples, namely distributed ledger technology, machine learning, and the internet of things. I use these examples...
Communities in the Okanagan Valley, Canada are increasingly under threat from forest fires due to climate change and expanding urban development into fire interface zones. The effects of forest fires are not always quantifiable...
As participatory mapping evolves encompassing new technologies and incorporating new terminology to describe varying approaches, it is important to examine whether all practitioners of participatory mapping belong to the same...
CRISPR-Cas systems endow bacteria and archaea with adaptive immunity against foreign genetic threats, like phages and plasmids. These immune systems are comprised of CRISPR-associated (Cas) protein effectors and DNA-based...
Abstract: The spread of online misinformation poses serious challenges to societies worldwide. In a novel attempt to address this issue, we designed a psychological intervention in the form of an online browser game. In the...
The lumen of the zebrafish neural tube develops precisely at the midline of the solid neural rod primordium. This process depends on cell polarisation and cell rearrangements, both of which are manifest at the midline of the...
The provision of safe water and adequate sanitation to developing countries is a must. A range of chemical and biological methods are currently used to ensure the safety of water for consumption. These methods however suffer...
Building large supertrees involves the collection, storage, and processing of thousands of individual phylogenies to create large phylogenies with thousands to tens of thousands of taxa. Such large phylogenies are useful for...
Objectives: Binge-eating disorder (BED) has been associated with cognitive impairment, including on measures of impulsivity, but it is not clear in prior literature whether these deficits may have been associated with obesity...
BACKGROUND: Disorders of impulsivity are common, functionally impairing, and highly relevant across different clinical and research settings. Few structured clinical interviews for the identification and diagnosis of impulse...
This examination of the social processes that inform cultural production asks how tastes are formed, transmitted, embedded, and reproduced across generations. These questions are explored through a study of William Morris, his...