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The Socialization Of Willie B. - Part 2, Terry Maple

Tales of WellBeing

This tale is the second in a three-part series about Willie B., Atlanta’s iconic ape and one of the most famous gorillas in the world.

Darwin Core Archive File, Stover-Ebinger Herbarium, Eastern Illinois University

Darwin Core Archive Download

ZIP file contains occurrences.csv, identivications.csv, and images.csv. The meta.xml document describes the content. Fields within the occurrences.csv file are defined by the Darwin Core exchange standard.

This file is updated as new occurrence records are added.

For The Dissertation: A Classification Of Tensors In Ecsk Theory, Joshua James Leiter, Charles G. Torre

Physics Student Research

This dissertation presents a Petrov/Plebanski/Segre/Algebraic (PPSA) classification scheme for both the curvature and torsion tensors in Einstein-Cartan-Sciama-Kibble theory (ECSK); additionally the work includes a software package in Maple with computational and PPSA classification tools. Six different solutions are classified using the new software tools developed. We also present a new boundary term for ECSK-NMC scalar theory to ensure Dirichlet boundary conditions. New work completed includes the decomposition of an arbitrary 4th rank tensor under SO (p, q), equivalent SL (2, C) irreducible spinor decompositions of arbitrary 3rd and 4th rank tensors. We provide new proofs that the corresponding spinors are …

Murine Hearing Abr/Dpoae Assessments In Cmv-Infected Mouse Pups Receiving Peritoneal Antivirals Of Gcv, Quercetin+P188, Or A Combination. Controls Include Infected And Untreated And Non-Infected And Treated. Second Dataset Of Antiviral Assay In A Murine Stria Vascularis (Sv) Monolayer Cell Culture, David Britt, Albert Park

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Ganciclovir (GCV) has been shown to be an effective antiviral for the treatment of congenital cytomegalovirus (cCMV) induced sensorineural hearing loss. However, dose-dependent adverse effects (e.g. neutropenia) require strict, burdensome monitoring, limiting GCV use in some patients. Quercetin is a flavonoid with antioxidant properties that has demonstrated antiviral therapy against CMV. Although more benign than GCV, quercetin has limited therapeutic value due to its poor solubility. We previously reported that GCV improves hearing thresholds in a murine model of cCMV. We also noted that solubilizing quercetin with poloxamer 188 (P188) and combining with GCV therapy amplified CMV inhibition in murine …

Interactive Sculpture/Audio Installation - World Tree Melody - World Science Festival (Queensland Museum), Guy A. Cooper

Staff Scholarship - Australia & Dubai

World Tree Melody is an interactive sculptural and sonic installation by Guy Cooper, exhibited at the World Science Festival Brisbane (Queensland Museum) in 2023. This work explores the fusion of creative technologies and public art through motion-activated sound, custom Arduino programming, multi-channel audio sampling, and evolving music composition. Visitors become active participants in the work, triggering a generative soundscape through physical interaction with the sculpture.

Constructed from copper pipe, hand-crafted leaves, and an organic tree core, the piece is powered by two Arduino microcontrollers, four motion sensors, and seven-channel 24-bit/48kHz audio samplers. Over 400 lines of custom code manage a …

Lesson Plan: What Are The Different Forms Of Energy?, Nevaeh Castillo, Alissa Darby, Reagan Huskin, Fredy Moreno, Omar Sanchez, Robin Jocius

STEAM Project Student Publications - Archive

This lesson focuses on forms of energy. Students identify forms of energy and give examples of how each type of energy works. Students summarize their learning by completing a series of centers focused on different forms of energy.

Library Steam Project Timeline, Robin Jocius

STEAM Project Student Publications - Archive

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Lesson Plan: Create A Terrarium And Marshmallow Tower To Observe, Plan, And Execute A Design, Claudia Soto, Nancy Farhoud, Jasmin Barajas, John Pham, Yifeng Liu, Robin Jocius

STEAM Project Student Publications - Archive

This lesson focuses on forces and motion. Students apply creativity and experimentation to describe the movement of matter among animals, plants, decomposers, and the environment. To summarize their learning, students craft a marshmallow tower and create a terrarium.

By creating a terrarium and marshmallow tower, students will understand how to observe, plan, and execute a design while exploring concepts related to biology, engineering, and creative problem solving. How can we use our observations and creativity to design and build a terrarium and a stable marshmallow tower using toothpicks and marshmallows? This essential question encourages students to use critical thinking and …

Lesson Plan: What Is Renewable Energy And How Can We Use It For Our Future Energy Use?, Rachel Edwards, Anna Nguyen, Tim Prince Capone, Jacqueline Aguero, Robin Jocius

STEAM Project Student Publications - Archive

This lesson focuses on renewable energy and potential future energy sources. Through an interactive read-aloud, demonstration, and discussion, students examine how structures such as a wind-powered gravity battery can store renewable energy for later use. As a culminating activity, students design their own 3D-printed gravity batteries.

Lesson Plan: Create A Visual Representation Of An Object's Position, Direction, And Speed, Vanessa Carachure-Aguirre, Daisy Jara, Jennifer Lopez-Sanchez, Ronnie Wills, Robin Jocius

STEAM Project Student Publications - Archive

This lesson focuses on the engineering design process and creative problem-solving. Students identify and describe the changes in position, direction, and speed of an object when acted upon by unbalanced forces in order to create a visual representation. As a culminating activity, students design, build, and test Lego cars powered by wind energy.

Students will gain an understanding of an object's position, direction, and speed when acted by unbalanced forces, as well as create a visual representation of the data collected.

Metabolism And Decomposition Rates From 5 Lake Superior Tributaries, 2018-2019, Renn Schipper, Michelle Kelly, Amy Marcarelli

Michigan Tech Research Data

Ecosystem respiration (ER), and decomposition are fundamental processes driving carbon cycling in streams. Most studies examine rates of autotrophic respiration (AR) and heterotrophic respiration (HR) together as ecosystem respiration (ER), even though these two processes are carried out by different groups of organisms, and these processes, alongside decomposition, may respond differently to ongoing changes in environmental factors. We measured metabolism (gross primary production and ER) and decomposition at eight sites in four streams in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan across gradients of canopy cover and DOC concentrations. We estimated AR and HR using quantile regression and used predictive modeling to …

Study Data: Wetland Plant Community Response To Chinese Privet Removal, Lissa M. Leege, Michaella Ivey

Faculty Datasets

These data were collected as part of a study which examined multilayer forest characteristics following the removal of Ligstrum sinense (Chinese privet) from a forested wetland in Bulloch County, Georgia, USA. Field data collected include litter composition, Photosynthetically Active Radiation (PAR), soil moisture, herb layer species composition, density of herbs, and cover percentage of each species, percent cover Microstegium vimineum, woody species density, shrub layer species composition, density of shrubs, shrub height, shrub basal area calculated from diameter at ground height (DGH), and tree layer species composition, tree density and diameter at breast height (DBH).

Mesopause Region Temperature And Na Number Density Between 1990 And 2017, Tao Yuan, Chiao-Yao She

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The Colorado State University (CSU) Na lidar performed nocturnal mesopause region Na density and temperature observations between March 1990 and March 2010 at Fort Collins, CO (41.6N, 105W). The lidar was relocated to Utah State University (USU) campus and has continued its regular observation at Logan, Utah (42N, 112W) since September 2010.

Creative Pathways To Next Generation Nclex® Item Writing, Tina Rayfield

Next Generation NCLEX Webinars (Sigma and OADN)

In preparation for the Next Generation NCLEX (NGN), this workshop will explore strategic pathways of clinical nursing judgment measurement model (CNJMM) item writing, test construction, and blueprinting for student evaluation. It will begin with creating case studies that align with the course of study and then introduce items using NGN technology.

Effects Of Pregnancy And Progesterone On Atrial Fibrillation, Heloisa M. Rutigliano

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Atrial Fibrillation (AF) is the most common cardiac arrythmia in adults with likely sex-specific risk factors. Female sex hormones may be important in modulating risk for atrial fibrillation. We hypothesize that pregnancy and progesterone (P4), a hormone found in high levels during pregnancy with abrupt withdrawal immediately after parturition, modulates AF susceptibility in female goats. Cardiac specific TGF-?1 transgenic female goats and age-matched wild-type (WT) female goats were utilized. Pacemakers were implanted in all animals for continuous arrhythmia monitoring and AF inducibility. AF inducibility was evaluated using 5 separate 10 s bursts of atrial pacing (160 - 200 ms). In …

Contribution To Environmental Perchlorate By Stratospheric Volcanic Eruptions Datasets, Jihong Cole-Dai

Ice Core and Environmental Chemistry Lab Datasets and Publications

These datasets are for the publication:

"Contribution to Environmental Perchlorate by Stratospheric Volcanic Eruptions”, Kennedy, et al., (2024), Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.

Downloadable zip file (33KB) contains the following data sets:

Dataset 1: Perchlorate annual flux in the SM07 (2007 Summit, Greenland) ice core.

Dataset 2: First-order polynomial curve fit to perchlorate annual flux in the SM07 (2007 Summit, Greenland) ice core for the period of 1950-2006.

The Influence Of Mass Media On The Covid-19 Vaccination Decision-Making Process: A Prospective Survey-Based Study, Cameron Quon

Biomedical Sciences Publications

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Data From: Warming Of The Columbia River, 1853 To 2018, Malia Hanae Scott, Stefan Talke, David Jay, Heida Diefenderfer

Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty Datasets

Water temperature is a critical ecological indicator; however, few studies have statistically modeled century-scale trends in riverine or estuarine water temperature, or their cause. Here, we recover, digitize, and analyze archival temperature measurements from the 1850s onward to investigate how and why water temperatures in the lower Columbia River are changing. To infill data gaps and explore changes, we develop regression models of daily historical Columbia River water temperature using time-lagged river flow and air temperature as the independent variables. Models were developed for 3 time periods (mid-19 th , mid-20 th , and early 21 st century), using archival …

Controlling Epidemic Extinction Using Early Warning Signals, Walter Ullon, Eric Forgoston

School of Computing Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

As the recent COVID-19 pandemic has shown us, there is a critical need to develop new approaches to monitoring the outbreak and spread of infectious disease. Improvements in monitoring will enable a timely implementation of control measures, including vaccine and quarantine, to stem the spread of disease. One such approach involves the use of early warning signals to detect when critical transitions are about to occur. Although the early detection of a stochastic transition is difficult to predict using the generic indicators of early warning signals theory, the changes detected by the indicators do tell us that some type of …

Modulatory Roles Of Human Adenovirus Type 3 In Extracellular Vesicle Development, Trafficking, And Inhibition, Ayodeji Oludare Ipinmoroti

Dissertations

Respiratory human adenovirus (HAdV) has been closely linked with acute respiratory infections such as pharyngitis and coryza (common cold). While some HAdV serotypes antagonize the immune system leading to meningitis, gastroenteritis, and acute hemorrhagic cystitis among other conditions, HAdV type 3 (HAdV3) predominantly infects the upper respiratory tract. Studies have shown that the release of small, membrane-derived extracellular vesicles (EVs), termed exosomes, may offer a mechanism by which certain viruses, enter cells via receptor-independent entry. EVs play a major role in both cellular homeostasis and intercellular communication under both healthy and pathological conditions. Firstly, in this study, we demonstrated that …

Seasonal Resource Selection Of A Grassland Bird In A Dynamic Landscape: Importance Of A Heterogeneous Landscape, Sprih Harsh

NRM Departmental Data Sets

Downloadable zip file (2.5 MB) contains the following nine.csv files:

• Description: files with covariates used for modeling resource selection for pheasants during different seasons (winter, pre-nest, and nest) at 2^nd order of selection process
  

  File names: wint2rd, pre2rd, nest2rd

• Description: files with covariates used for modeling resource selection for pheasants during different seasons (winter, pre-nest, and nest) at 3^rd order of selection process
  
  File names: winter3rd, pre3rd, nest3rd

• Description: files with covariates used for modeling home range size for pheasants during different seasons (winter, pre-nest, and nest)
  
  

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Mechanics And Experience In Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare: Opportunities For Civic Empathy, Taylor Milan Kessner, Luis Perez Cortes

SAGE Open Access Agreement Publications-Archive

Background: Videogames are widely considered effective learning environments, with powerful lessons relevant to those who design teaching and learning experiences. Violent videogames, however, are often left out of such conversations. Intervention: In this context, we examine Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (MW) as a violent videogame that might suggest design principles useful for effecting emotional experiences, a key element to the formation of memories and therefore learning. Methods: Through narrative description of two missions from MW and interleaved discussion of its mechanics, we contend even violent videogames might inform the design of interactive learning experiences.

Data For Caveat Emptor-Scan Quality Of Elsevier’S Digital Backfile Pdf Collection, Gregory M. Nelson, Paul Kj Robbins

ScholarsArchive Data

The data set contains two Supplementary Files that contain (1) metadata for 31 of Elsevier's journal backfile packages and (2) metadata and results of a PDF scan quality study.

Need For An Ethical Framework On Usage Of Generative Ai In The Legal Realm, Arul George Scaria, Vidya Subramanian

Popular Media

Excerpt: "Generative AI chatbots, such as ChatGPT and Bing Chat, is one of the most remarkable advancements in the line of language processing applications. With an estimated user base of 100 million just two months after it was first launched, ChatGPT is also one of the most quickly adopted innovations in history. The alluring feature of generating detailed text outputs with nothing but a prompt or a gentle nudge in the form of a short text input has invited appreciation and provoked fear in equal measure."

Draft Final Quarterly Operations And Maintenance Report Butte Treatment Lagoon System – Fourth Quarter 2022, Pioneer Technical Services, Inc.

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

No abstract provided.

Genetic Stock Assessment Of Gray Snapper (Lutjanus Griseus), Eric A. Saillant

Research Data

No abstract provided.

Dataset For Exciton Delocalization And Scaffold Stability In Bridged Nucleotide-Substituted, Dna Duplex-Templated Cyanine Aggregates, Simon K. Roy, William B. Knowlton

Quantum DNA Research Group Data

Molecular excitons play a foundational role in chromophore aggregates found in light-harvesting systems and offer potential applications in engineered excitonic systems. Controlled aggregation of chromophores to promote exciton delocalization has been achieved by covalently tethering chromophores to deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) scaffolds. Although many studies have documented changes in the optical properties of chromophores upon aggregation using DNA scaffolds, more limited work has investigated how structural modifications of DNA via bridged nucleotides and chromophore covalent attachment impact scaffold stability as well as the configuration and optical behavior of attached aggregates. Here we investigated the impact of two types of bridged nucleotides, …

Final 2021 Unreclaimed Sites Sampling Ur-40 Site Evaluation Summary Report, Pioneer Technical Services, Inc.

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

No abstract provided.

Cuba: Past, Present & Future, Omar Babun Codorniu

Lynn University Digital Press Books

Cuba: Past, Present & Future offers an overview of Cuban geography, history, demographics, commerce and economics, politics, global relations, and culture. The compilation of open access materials presents numerous facts about the island-nation and its relationship with its close neighbor, the U.S., as well as the greater world. From cuisine to sports, and biodiversity to music, readers will be engaged in learning about the various facets of Cuban life. Course: DJLC 200

Disability And Caste Bias: A Shared Struggle, Sanjay Jain

Popular Media

This article makes a case for the commingling of caste and disability issues to make social justice movements more inclusive. According to the author, “Anchoring the identities of caste and gender with disability helps to comprehend different shades of vulnerability…. The need of the hour is to have an inclusive and progressive coalition of the Dalits and Disabled activists to raise a clamour for de-essentialisation of medicalisation of disability and have compassion and unflinching empathy for the needs of one another.”