Following the Proclamation Act of 1763 growing numbers of colonists arrived in upper East Tennessee to settle and build wherever they could make arrangements with local groups of Cherokee. While these first families were occupied with survival, the British colonies continued to thrive. Concurrent with growing prosperity was the increasing determination of colonists to exercise control over their property and economic interests. Frontier exigencies affected family strategies for dividing labor and creating economic endeavors. A commonly held view asserts that where women were scarce and needed, rigid sex-role distinctions could not prevail. This thesis will present research of the earliest Washington County Court records and other primary evidence from the late eighteenth-century through the early Republic period to examine the place of women in the upper East Tennessee frontier and argue that despite frontier conditions the underlying attitudes about women did not change.

This paper will analyse code-switching, borrowing, slang, and covert or overt prestige in online and television media. The days of OOH (Out Of Home) advertising are becoming obsolete and moving toward a digital age. South African press aims to create advertising inclusive of all creeds, genders, cultures, and classes, in which all walks of life interact in an ideal society and with humour specific to the locality. Thus, the paper will analyse the advertisers using these linguistic terms, such as code-switching, etc., to create these realities in these advertisements and how they are presented tactically.  The source material is twenty video advertisements ranging from the last fifteen years, 2007-2022. All videos are deconstructed and then examined when and where code-switching, borrowing, slang, and other more seldomly used tactics are found. The advertisements range from banks to fast food companies, which should allow the formality of the ad to have differences in how they approach specific target audiences and the general message they attempt to convey. The results show that all the videos contained two or more code switches, borrowings and slang words or phrases. This proved that their inclusion in the advertisement was not by chance but rather calculated and intentional. They were strategically placed to either add comedy or South Africanise the advertisement to create inclusion. Many adverts used stereotypical language that proved that the adverts were explicitly South Africans as they would only have the exclusivity of understanding it.  This supports that this strategy could be the best way for advertisers to create better engagements for future advertising.

Using a two-wave APIM Structural Equation Model, this study investigated how husband and wife attachment styles predict husband and wife covert relational aggression one year later with husband and wife shame as potential moderating variables. Data was taken from 308 married couples in waves three and four of the Flourishing Families project using self-report and partner report of spouse questionnaires. Findings showed that an individual's attachment insecurity predicts their use of relational aggression. Wives' relational aggression is predicted by an increase in husbands' relational aggression. An increase in wives' insecure attachment had less of an impact on husbands' relationally aggressive behavior. Shame predicts the use of relational aggression. Shame moderates some of the actor and partner relationships, showing that in certain cases, as shame increases the relationship between attachment strategy and relational aggression also increases. Clinicians are advised to assess and treat partners as a couple as one partner's attachment and shame may affect the other's behavior, and those high in shame and insecure attachment are more likely to use covert relational aggression.

Many professionals have successfully implemented discrete trial teaching in the past. However, there have not been extensive studies examining the accuracy of discrete trial teaching implementation. This study investigated the use of Bug in Ear feedback on the accuracy of discrete trial teaching implementation among two pre-service teachers majoring in elementary education and one pre-service teacher majoring in exceptional education. An adult confederate was used to receive discrete trial teaching. Implementing a multiple baseline across participants design, this study examined whether there was a functional relationship between receiving Bug in Ear feedback and the accuracy of discrete trial teaching implementation. The discrete trial teaching evaluation form was utilized to measure the accuracy of discrete trial teaching implementation. The findings demonstrated an increase in the discrete trial teaching implementation accuracy after Bug in Ear feedback was introduced. Participants agreed that using a self-instruction manual combined with receiving Bug in Ear feedback was beneficial in learning to implement discrete trial teaching

With the rise of remote working, business communication platforms such as Microsoft Teams have become indispensable tools deeply ingrained in the workflow of every employee. However, their increasing importance have made the identification and analysis of covert channels a critical concern for both individuals and organizations. In fact, covert channels can be utilized to facilitate unauthorized data transfers or enable malicious activities, thereby compromising confidentiality and system integrity. Unfortunately, traditional detection methods for covert channels may face challenges in detecting covert channels in such cloud-based platforms, as the complexities introduced may not be adequately addressed. Despite the importance of the issue, a comprehensive analysis of covert channels in business communication platforms has been lacking. In fact, to the best of the our knowledge, this Master’s thesis represents the first endeavor in identifying and analysing covert channels within Microsoft Teams. To address this problem, an in-depth literature review was conducted to identify existing research and techniques related to covert channels, their detection and their countermeasures. A thorough analysis of Microsoft Teams was then carried out and a threat scenario was selected. Through extensive experimentation and analysis, three covert channels were then identified, exploited and compared based on bandwidth, robustness and efficiency. This thesis sheds light on the diversity of covert channels in Microsoft Teams, providing valuable insights on their functioning and characteristics. The insights gained from this work pave the way for future research on effective detection systems for covert channels in cloud-based environments, fostering a proactive approach towards securing digital business communication. / Med ökningen av distansarbete har företagskommunikationsplattformar som Microsoft Teams blivit oumbärliga verktyg som är djupt rotade i arbetsflödet för varje anställd. Deras ökande betydelse har dock gjort identifiering och analys av dolda kanaler till ett kritiskt problem för både individer och organisationer. I själva verket kan dolda kanaler användas för att underlätta obehöriga dataöverföringar eller möjliggöra skadliga aktiviteter, vilket äventyrar sekretess och systemintegritet. Tyvärr kan traditionella detekteringsmetoder för dolda kanaler möta utmaningar när det gäller att upptäcka dolda kanaler i sådana molnbaserade plattformar, eftersom komplexiteten som introduceras kanske inte hanteras på ett adekvat sätt. Trots frågans betydelse har det saknats en omfattande analys av dolda kanaler i plattformar för affärskommunikation. Såvitt vi vet är denna masteruppsats det första försöket att identifiera och analysera dolda kanaler inom Microsoft Teams. För att ta itu med detta problem genomfördes en djupgående litteraturgenomgång för att identifiera befintlig forskning och tekniker relaterade till dolda kanaler, deras upptäckt och deras motåtgärder. Därefter gjordes en grundlig analys av Microsoft Teams och ett hotscenario valdes ut. Genom omfattande experiment och analys identifierades, utnyttjades och jämfördes sedan tre dolda kanaler baserat på bandbredd, robusthet och effektivitet. Denna avhandling belyser mångfalden av dolda kanaler i Microsoft Teams och ger värdefulla insikter om deras funktion och egenskaper. Insikterna från detta arbete banar väg för framtida forskning om effektiva detekteringssystem för hemliga kanaler i molnbaserade miljöer, vilket främjar en proaktiv strategi för att säkra digital affärskommunikation.

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Many would agree that learning occurs when new information is stored in memory. Therefore, most learning efforts typically focus on encoding processes, such as additional study or other forms of repetition. However, as I will outline in this thesis, there are other means by which to improve memory, such as retrieval practice in the form of tests. Testing memory has a reinforcing effect on memory, and it improves retention more than an equal amount of repeated study – referred to as the testing effect – and it has been assumed that retrieval processes drive this effect. Recently, however, this assumption has been called into question because of findings that suggest that articulation, that is, the act of providing an explicit response on a memory test, may play a role in determining the magnitude of the testing effect. Therefore, in three studies, I have examined the effects of retrieval and articulation on later retention, in an attempt to ascertain whether the testing effect is entirely driven by retrieval, or if there are additive effects of articulation. I have also explored possible boundary conditions that may determine when, and if, the effects of retrieval and articulation become selective with respect to memory performance. In all three studies, participants studied paired associates and were tested in a cued recall paradigm after a short (~5 min) and a long (1 week) retention interval, and retrieval was either covert (i.e., responses were retrieved but not articulated) or overt (i.e., responses were retrieved and articulated).  In Study I, I demonstrated that uninstructed covert retrieval practice (by means of delayed judgments of learning) produced a testing effect (i.e., improved memory relative to a study-only condition) similar to that of explicit testing, which supports the idea that the testing effect is mainly the result of retrieval processes. In study II, I compared memory performance for covert and overt testing, and found partial support for a relative efficacy in favor of overt retrieval, compared to covert retrieval, although the effect size was small. In Study III, I further explored the distinction between different response formats (i.e., covert retrieval vs. various forms of overt testing), specifically handwriting and keyboard typing. I also examined the relative efficacy of covert versus overt retrieval as a function of list order (i.e., whether covert and overt retrieval is practiced in blocks or random order) and its manipulation within or between subjects. The results of Study III were inconclusive insofar as a relative efficacy of covert versus overt retrieval, with respect to later retention, could not be demonstrated reliably. The list order manipulations did not appear to affect covert and overt retrieval selectively. More importantly, in cases where a relative efficacy was found, the effect size was again small. Taken together, the three studies that of thesis indicate that the benefit of testing memory appears to be almost entirely the result of retrieval processes, and that articulation alone adds very little – if anything – to the magnitude of the testing effect, at least in cued-recall paradigms. These findings are discussed in terms of their theoretical implications, as well as their importance for the development of optimal teaching and learning practices in educational settings. / <p>At the time of the doctoral defense, the following paper was unpublished and had a status as follows: Paper 3: Accepted.</p>

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-29T13:17:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Luiz Antonio Bernardes.pdf: 1976580 bytes, checksum: 6ad8d0432468ef57ee98d69a20f6acf7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-05-25 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The purpose of this work was to identify the variables that could or couldn&#8223;t contribute to the emission of children responses that would produce larger and delayed reinforcers. This was made in order to answer the following question: which responses children emit while they were waiting for larger and delayed reinforcers? Does it occur chaining or stereotyped behaviors during the waiting period? Are there any relations between what is done and the waiting time so that it would facilitate the waiting period? Can a hand puppet work as an audience to the participants so that it could extend the chain of public events and diminish the chain of covert events? Those children that were waiting in pairs or using a puppet waited for longer periods in order to receive larger and delayed reinforcers? The experimental design was based on the Mischel&#8223;s, Ebbesen e Zeiss (1972) study. Fifteen children participated in the study divided in three experimental conditions: alone , hand puppet and peers . They should wait for 15 minutes so that they would obtain two chocolates. If they didn&#8223;t wait, they should ring a bell and the experimenter would return and the children/child would gain the chocolate that was close to her. The results showed that four of the 15 children didn&#8223;t wait for the whole time. The children emitted 14 categories of responses and the more frequent categories were similar for all of them. In the condition alone it was observed a smaller variation on the distribution of the responses between the categories and a smaller number of responses per minute. The condition hand puppet was the only one in which all the participants waited. However, only one participant emitted public oral verbal responses, which doesn&#8223;t allow the experimenter to say that the hand puppet enhancing the emission of these verbal responses. Otherwise, the report of one of the participants does not allow us to discard it entirely as an audience. The standard of the observed responses on the hand puppet condition was similar to the alone condition, but with a higher average of responses per minute. For the peers condition was possible to observe that an interlocutor facilitated the waiting and enhanced the number of responses in new categories. This condition presented the higher average of responses per minute. The results indicated that oral verbal responses were emitted almost exclusively in this condition. The categorized verbal operants most common were tacts and mands about the experimental condition and unrelated subjects . Stereotypy was observed in only one participant (P5). The low variability in the 'alone' condition and greater variability in the other conditions have revealed that more complex environments allowed the participants to respond into new categories. The children who had longer waiting times were the ones with the most responses per minute and/or responded in as many categories as possible / O objetivo do presente trabalho foi identificar variáveis que poderiam contribuir ou não para que crianças emitissem respostas que produziriam reforçadores maiores e atrasados. A partir de então, responder as seguintes perguntas: quais as respostas que crianças emitem enquanto esperam por reforçadores maiores e atrasados? Dentre as respostas observadas, existem encadeamentos ou estereotipias comportamentais? Existe algum tipo de relação ente o que se faz e o tempo de espera de maneira a facilitar a espera? Um fantoche poderia funcionar como audiência para o participante ampliando assim a cadeia de eventos públicos e diminuindo por sua vez a cadeia de eventos encobertos? Crianças esperando em duplas ou usando um fantoche teriam maiores tempos de espera por reforçadores maiores e atrasados? O arranjo experimental foi baseado nos estudos de Mischel, Ebbesen e Zeiss (1972). Participaram 15 crianças divididas em três condições experimentais: sozinha&#8223;, fantoche&#8223; e duplas&#8223;. Elas deveriam esperar 15 minutos para obter dois chocolates e caso não esperassem, tocariam um sino, o experimentador retornaria e a criança ganharia o chocolate que estava junto dela. Os resultados mostraram que quatro das 15 crianças, não esperaram o tempo total. As crianças emitiram 14 categorias de respostas e as mais frequentes foram semelhantes para todas. Na condição sozinho&#8223; houve menor variação na distribuição das respostas entre as categorias e menor número de respostas por minuto. A condição fantoche&#8223; foi a única em que todos os participantes esperaram. Entretanto apenas um participante emitiu respostas verbais orais públicas, e isto não permite afirmar que o fantoche foi capaz de aumentar a emissão destas respostas verbais. Todavia o relato de um dos participantes não nos permite descartá-lo completamente como audiência. O padrão de respostas observáveis da condição fantoche&#8223; foi semelhante ao da condição sozinho&#8223;, mas com uma média maior de respostas por minuto. Para a condição duplas&#8223; foi possível observar que ter um interlocutor facilitou a espera e aumentou o número de respostas em novas categorias. Esta condição apresentou as maiores médias de respostas por minuto. Os resultados indicaram que as respostas verbais orais foram quase que exclusivamente nesta condição e os operantes verbais classificados mais comuns foram tatos e mandos sobre a condição experimental&#8223; e assuntos não relacionados&#8223;. Foi observada estereotipia em apenas um participante (P5). A pouca variabilidade na condição sozinho&#8223; e a maior variabilidade nas outras condições permitem afirmar que ambientes mais complexos permitiram a emissão de respostas em novas categorias. As crianças que tiveram tempos de espera mais longos foram as que apresentaram mais respostas por minuto e/ou responderam em tantas categorias quantas possíveis

This thesis aims to present and explore a mathematical model of attitude change within society. Building on the foundations set up by Lave and March [2] and Eriksson and Strimling [1] we propose a model which includes the possibility of having an overt as well as covert opinion by any individual on a given issue. We lay out the verbal and mathematical specifications for our model, interpret them in the framework of discrete-time dynamical systems and simulate the behavior using Matlab programming. Finally, we propose three conjectures based on the results of our simulations and proceed to subject two of them to further analytical treatment.

<p>A close reading of a series of books by Eoin Colfer that enjoyed universal success showed a change in the language between the books especially with respect to minor linguistic features such as choice of location and abstract vs. concrete language. The books are about the boy Artemis Fowl, and were presumably conceived as children’s books.</p><p>My original thesis was that the writer could not be sure of the success of the first book, but would definitely be aware of a worldwide audience for at least his third book, due to, for example, questions raised by the translators. If the original audience was expected to be Irish, or British, with very much the same cultural background as the author’s, the imagined subsequent audiences would change with success. My hope was to be able to show this by comparing linguistic features. And indeed, even though some changes could be due to coincidence there was a specific pattern evolving in the series, in that the originally Irish cultural background became less exclusive and more universal. The writer also used more details concerning locations, with added words to specify a place. What could thus be expected in the translated versions would be omissions and additions in especially the first book, but less need for that in later books. This, however, could not be proven in the Swedish translations. I thus conclude that the books became easier to follow for a wider, in this case Swedish, audience mostly because of efforts by the author and less because of the translator.</p>