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Creator:: Bell, Joshua D.
Abstract:: While human tool-use proficiency helped define our history, the cognitive and perceptual mechanics of how humans use tools are not fully understood. This question is of great value to the design of hand-held tools and prosthetics. A prominent theory, tool embodiment, suggests that tool use is facilitated by a flexible...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: psychology (Lanier et al., 2019). In addition to these potential visual shortcomings, virtual environments

Creator:: Liverman, Spencer
Abstract:: This dissertation focuses on indoor free-space optical communications systems for use in short range wireless networks. We propose that current radio frequency wireless links be augmented or replaced with optical frequency links due to overcrowding in the radio frequency spectrum. Optical frequencies contain hundreds of terahertz of unregulated bandwidth and...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: and Computer Engineering presented on February 13, 2019. Title: Design and Analysis of Free

Creator:: Melchor, Carolina R.
Abstract:: This Thesis examines Brazil’s political and historical context to explore and understand the logics behind the high rates of violence in our society. It focuses in education as one of our main vehicles of disseminating knowledge and therefore culture, language and values that might be contributing and perpetuating sexism, racism,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: 30, 2019 Title: The Feminist Itinerant School: A Feminist Pedagogical Approach to Curriculum

Creator:: Soicher, Raechel N.
Abstract:: Despite the dissemination of comprehensive reviews and teacher-friendly resources describing evidence-based practices to improve student outcomes, the adoption of these practices is slow and inconsistent across instructors at colleges and universities. To help reduce this research-practice gap, I argue for the application of implementation science to teaching and learning research...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: intervention that is known to positively impact student outcomes (Lane-Fall et al., 2019). Ideally, the

Creator:: Lenhart, Cindy A.
Abstract:: Research has confirmed a lack of diversity and persistence of underrepresented populations in the STEM fields. Recruiting and retaining more women and people of color into STEM fields has long been a goal of higher education, per a notable lack of women and people of color who enter and complete...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: , 2019). In fact, research around interdisciplinary faculty development of transdisciplinary curricula

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