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Tho term “30-S” (30 September) has become somewhat of a shorthand symbol or Twitter hash tag that abbreviates a momentous day in Ecuador’s history. Unrest broke out on that day, leaving several people dead. Such difficulties are not new to the South American country, but aspects of 30-S made it different. For one thing, the day began with members of the National Police refusing to go on patrol. Instead they staged protests against a new law adjusting their pay schedules. The law was an unpopular step in a series of changes brought about as President Rafael Correa has sought to mobilize what he has termed a Citizen’s Revolution in Ecuador. Correa began as president in 2007 and his administration has seen more stability than the country has seen in two decades. Shortly after taking office he established public media, which played a role in distributing his messages during the 30-S crisis. An event of magnitude in Ecuador, 30-S seemed a simple term, but behind it lay questions still being asked. Was democracy rescued from a coup attempt? Others ask, “What coup?” Media framing of 30-S is the subject of this thesis. Several days of content from two Ecuadorian dailies, El Comercio (commercial) and El Telégrafo (public) were compared. Opinion columns and news stories made up the data, with determinations later on how they fit into the frames. The frames were specific to 30-S. in a content comparison that used quantitative analysis. The analysis indicated two distinct story lines, with commercial and public media accounts diverging on key story elements. The contested story elements included assertions by public media about a coup attempt, Correa as a hostage of insubordinate police, and finally, that of an assassination plot against the president. The commercial media rebutted these, proposing instead that what began with police insubordination was exacerbated by the involvement of elected and appointed officials. Adviser: John Bender

This study examines adolescent students at an American international school and observes student use of social networking programs as well as physical actions in the search process. The study specifically observed multitasking behavior and organizational skills among students, as well as linkages made through social networking sites. Student observations, student interviews, analysis of Facebook entries, and a survey on multitasking yielded rich data. Students appear to be far more organized than previously suggested in the literature, and in this study, the organization proved to be largely self-taught. Students used their social networks to build a kind of group expertise that compensated for their youthful naivety. Students exhibited self-control within the search to the degree that they could focus on what they wanted to find, and they used heuristics—mental shortcuts—to achieve what they needed. Searches also suggest creativity in that students were flexible in their search methods and used a number of tools to gather information. Students could balance the needs of the academic or imposed search with their own online lives, meaning that they made compensations for social media and media multitasking when it was deemed necessary.

Scientific advances have resulted in a computer technology revolution which has offered more functionality in smaller packages for less money. The latest advance is a computer small enough to fit in the palm of your hand. Currently, 'handheld' computers or 'Personal Digital Assistants (PDA's)' with up to 8 Mbytes of RAM and CPU speeds from 16 to 33 MHz can be purchased for $100 to $500 each [1] [2]. They are being used for many applications and can be used to control devices in real-time. During the last ten years, real-time controllers using standard hardware and standard operating systems have been developed using desktop development environments, to support cost reductions. These critical items are available for Palm OS handheld computers running Palm OS. However, to be useful as real-time controllers, Palm OS handhelds must issue commands on a regular timing interval and at the same time process user requests within the one task allowed for an application. The model proposed in this thesis provides soft real-time control via the RS232 standard serial port for intervals down to 0.1 sec. Applications can choose one of several available timers and an additional auxiliary timer. Event-Loop handling of timing notifications and user-initiated events allows events to be processed during the interval time, within specified limits. User interfaces can be developed with readily available point and click desktop development environments. Real-time control via the RS232 serial port can be enabled or disabled.

The purpose of this study was to utilize Hall's method of anthropometric measurements on a select sample of South Dakota wrestlers, and to compare the results of Hall's method with the current procedure of establishing minimum weights. The subjects included wrestlers competing in four of eight district tournaments during the 1969 State tournament series. Five body measurements were taken from each competitor. The measurements included were: (1) height; (2) chest width; (3) chest depth; (4) width at the illiac crests; (4) thigh circumference. These raw data were converted to predicted minimum weight by using a regression equation developed by Hall. With the use of tables the investigator compared the predicted weight with the wrestler's current certified and his wrestling weight. The analysis revealed that Hall's method, with some adjustment, could be used as a guide to establishing certified weight for wrestlers in South Dakota.