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Transnational Civic Education And Emergent Bilinguals In A Dual Language Setting, Marialuisa Di Stefano, Steve P. Camicia

Teacher Education and Leadership Faculty Publications

Inclusion is a fundamental aspect of social studies education in general and democratic education in particular. Inclusion is especially important when we consider the possibilities for transnational civic culture and education. The theoretical framework of this study is based upon concepts of positionality, identity, and belonging as they are related to student understanding of communities. A dual-language, third-grade classroom provided the site for this ethnographic study. Data included participant observations, interviews with the teacher and students, and artifacts of student work. Findings illustrate how the students in the study understood the complexity of their identities at a young age and …

Student Wins The “Earth Champions Contest” Video Contest | Sustainable Waste-To-Bioproducts Engineering Center, Usu College Of Engineering

College of Engineering News

Biological Engineering student video of capstone design project won the “Earth Champions Contest” sponsored by the Resources for Future Generations (RFG).

Latina/O Students In K-12 Schools: A Synthesis Of Empirical Research On Factors Influencing Academic Achievement, Amanda Taggart

Teacher Education and Leadership Faculty Publications

The purpose of this systematic review is to provide a comprehensive synthesis and analysis of the empirical evidence to date on the factors related to Latina/o student academic achievement in the country’s increasingly Latina/o K-12 schools. Factors found to be related to academic achievement outcomes (e.g., grades, test scores, high school completion, college enrollment) for Latina/o students include a combination of (1) demographic variables, (2) sociocultural variables, (3) academic experiences, (4) psychological variables, and (5) school/institutional variables. In addition, this research synthesis identified several methodological trends in the research on Latina/o student success.

Effects Of Eutrophication On Birds In Three Bays Of Great Salt Lake: A Comparative Analysis With Utah Dwr Waterbird Survey Data, Wayne A. Wurtsbaugh

Watershed Sciences Faculty Publications

Farmington Bay and Bear River support massive numbers of migratory birds. Because of Farmington Bay’s high nutrient loading and hypereutrophic condition, the Utah DWQ has proposed to list it as impaired under EPA’s and Utah’s 303d criteria. There is concern, however, that changing nutrient loading might influence invertebrate prey of birds, but it is not known if this would be a positive or negative effect. Bear River Bay is far less eutrophic, but has a similar shallow morphometry, and thus presents an ideal comparative opportunity to assess the influence of eutrophication on birds.

From 2007‐2011 the Utah Division of Wildlife …

Continuous Nicotine Exposure Does Not Affect Resurgence Of Alcohol Seeking In Rats, Charles C. J. Frye, Jillian M. Rung, Rusty W. Nall, Ann Galizio, Jeremy M. Haynes, Amy L. Odum

Psychology Faculty Publications

Alcohol is the most commonly used drug in the United States and alcohol abuse can lead to alcohol use disorder. Alcohol use disorder is a persistent condition and relapse rates following successful remission are high. Many factors have been associated with relapse for alcohol use disorder, but identification of these factors has not been well translated into preventative utility. One potentially important factor, concurrent nicotine use, has not been well investigated as a causal factor in relapse for alcohol use disorder. Nicotine increases the value of other stimuli in the environment and may increase the value of alcohol. If nicotine …

Comparison Of Motor Skill Learning, Grip Strength And Memory Recall On Land And In Chest-Deep Water, Eadric Bressel, Michiel N. Vakula, Youngwook Kim, David A.E. Bolton, Chris J. Dakin

Kinesiology and Health Science Faculty Publications

Immersion in chest-deep water may augment explicit memory in healthy adults however, there is limited information on how this environment might affect implicit memory or motor learning. The purpose of this study was to compare the speed and accuracy for learning a motor skill on land and in chest-deep water. Verbal word recall and grip strength were included to gain a more complete understanding of the intervention. Sixty-two younger adults (age = 23.3 ± 3.59 yrs.) were randomly assigned to either a water group immersed to the xiphoid or a land group. Participants in both groups completed the same eight …

Early Events In Japanese Encephalitis Virus Infection: Viral Entry, Sang-Im Yun, Young-Min Lee

Animal, Dairy, and Veterinary Science Faculty Publications

Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV), a mosquito-borne zoonotic flavivirus, is an enveloped positive-strand RNA virus that can cause a spectrum of clinical manifestations, ranging from mild febrile illness to severe neuroinvasive disease. Today, several killed and live vaccines are available in different parts of the globe for use in humans to prevent JEV-induced diseases, yet no antivirals are available to treat JEV-associated diseases. Despite the progress made in vaccine research and development, JEV is still a major public health problem in southern, eastern, and southeastern Asia, as well as northern Oceania, with the potential to become an emerging global pathogen. In …

Functional Genomics And Immunologic Tools: The Impact Of Viral And Host Genetic Variations On The Outcome Of Zika Virus Infection, Sang-Im Yun, Byung-Hak Song, Jordan C. Frank, Justin G. Julander, Aaron L. Olsen, Irina A. Polejaeva, Christopher J. Davies, Kenneth L. White, Young-Min Lee

Animal, Dairy, and Veterinary Science Faculty Publications

Zika virus (ZIKV) causes no-to-mild symptoms or severe neurological disorders. To investigate the importance of viral and host genetic variations in determining ZIKV infection outcomes, we created three full-length infectious cDNA clones as bacterial artificial chromosomes for each of three spatiotemporally distinct and genetically divergent ZIKVs: MR-766 (Uganda, 1947), P6-740 (Malaysia, 1966), and PRVABC-59 (Puerto Rico, 2015). Using the three molecularly cloned ZIKVs, together with 13 ZIKV region-specific polyclonal antibodies covering nearly the entire viral protein-coding region, we made three conceptual advances: (i) We created a comprehensive genome-wide portrait of ZIKV gene products and their related species, with several previously …

Comparison Of Deep Convolutional Neural Networks And Edge Detectors For Image-Based Crack Detection In Concrete, Sattar Dorafshan, Robert J. Thomas, Marc Maguire

Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty Publications

This paper compares the performance of common edge detectors and deep convolutional neural networks (DCNN) for image-based crack detection in concrete structures. A dataset of 19 high definition images (3420 sub-images, 319 with cracks and 3101 without) of concrete is analyzed using six common edge detection schemes (Roberts, Prewitt, Sobel, Laplacian of Gaussian, Butterworth, and Gaussian) and using the AlexNet DCNN architecture in fully trained, transfer learning, and classifier modes. The relative performance of each crack detection method is compared here for the first time on a single dataset. Edge detection methods accurately detected 53–79% of cracked pixels, but they …

Planning For End-Of-Life Satellite Disposal; The Story Of A High Strain Composite Tip-Rolled De-Orbit Sail, Bruce Davis, Andrew Tomchek, Dana Turse, Ryan Vanhalle, Kamron Medina, Will Francis, Chris Pearson

Small Satellite Conference

In Q4 of 2017, Roccor of Longmont, Colorado was approached by an ESPA class spacecraft provider with the request to deliver a de-orbit sail within a six-month period. The 140kg spacecraft was to be placed in a circular ~750km, high inclination orbit and needed to deploy a drag device at the end-of-life with a surface area greater than 4m2. After a series of concept iterations with the customer, dual rectangular tip-roll sails were selected, each supported by a deployable High Strain Composite (HSC) boom and offset 45º from the spacecraft’s structure maximizing the cross-sectional area and aerodynamic stability. The rectangular …

F Prime: An Open-Source Framework For Small-Scale Flight Software Systems, Robert Bocchino, Timothy Canham, Garth Watney, Leonard Reder, Jeffrey Levison

Small Satellite Conference

Developing flight software for small-scale missions such as CubeSats and SmallSats is challenging. These missions typically have ambitious goals, modest budgets, and tight schedules. To meet these challenges, a good flight software framework is essential. Frameworks can provide an architecture, infrastructure, tools, and reusable software components, all of which can help developers deliver their code on time and on budget. In this paper we present F Prime, a free, open-source flight software framework developed at JPL and tailored to small-scale systems such as CubeSats, SmallSats, and instruments. F Prime comprises several elements: (1) an architecture that decomposes flight software into …

Utilizing Commercial Dslr For High Resolution Earth Observation Satellite, Nobutada Sako

Small Satellite Conference

CE-SAT-I, the first technology demonstration satellite from Canon Electronics Inc. has been launched on June 23, 2017 from India by PSLV-C38. Canon is to enter small satellite industry to exercise its precision manufacturing, image processing and mass production capabilities as a new business sector. In this study, commercial DSLR camera, Canon EOS 5D Mark III has been proposed as a detector of the satellite with 40cm aperture, 3720mm focal length telescope aiming to capture 0.9m GSD from LEO. The satellite size is 50 x 50 x 80cm and 65kg in weight. Advantage of area sensor by applying commercial DSLR camera …

Flight Results Of The Inflatesail Spacecraft And Future Applications Of Dragsails, Ben Taylor, Craig Underwood, Andrew Viquerat, Mark Schenk, Simon Fellowes, Chiara Massimiani, Richard Duke, Brian Stewart

Small Satellite Conference

The InflateSail CubeSat, designed and built at the Surrey Space Centre (SSC) at the University of Surrey, UK, for the Von Karman Institute (VKI), Belgium, is one of the technology demonstrators for the QB50 programme. The 3.2 kilogram InflateSail is “3U” in size and is equipped with a 1 metre long inflatable boom and a 10 square metre deployable drag sail. InflateSail's primary goal is to demonstrate the effectiveness of using a drag sail in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) to dramatically increase the rate at which satellites lose altitude and re-enter the Earth's atmosphere. InflateSail was launched on Friday 23rd …

Elroi: A License Plate For Satellites That Anyone Can Read, Rebecca Holmes, David Palmer

Small Satellite Conference

The Extremely Low-Resource Optical Identifier (ELROI) beacon is a concept for a milliwatt optical “license plate'” that can provide unique ID numbers for everything that goes into space. Using photon counting to enable extreme background rejection in real time, the ID number can be read from the ground in a few minutes by anyone with a small tracking telescope and a photon-counting sensor. ELROI is powered by its own small solar cell, and it is sufficiently compact, lightweight, and inexpensive for use on CubeSats and other small satellites. The ELROI concept has been validated in long-range ground tests, and orbital …

Ss-520 Nano Satellite Launcher And Its Flight Result, Yoshifumi Inatani, Hiroto Habu

Small Satellite Conference

The SS-520 is a two-stage solid fueled sounding rocket, designed to carry research payloads on sub-orbital missions to altitudes of 1000km (100kg). ISAS/JAXA has modified with the addition of a small third stage and a minimum of attitude control system to insert a 3U-class of small satellite into a low Earth orbit .This 3-staged launch vehicle's specification is 9.54m length, 0.52m diameter and 2.6t of Gross mass at launch. In January 2018, SS-520-5 was launched with CubeSat (TRICOM-1R) after the launch failure one year before. The launch this time was in good shape, and the satellite was inserted into planned …

Payload Configuration, Integration And Testing Of The Deformable Mirror Demonstration Mission (Demi) Cubesat, Jennifer Gubner

Small Satellite Conference

Adaptive optics is an imaging technique that has been used on many ground based telescopes to improve image resolution and reduce the effects of atmospheric turbulence. While adaptive optics has known uses on the ground, applying this technique to space telescopes has major advantages for exoplanet imaging, inter-satellite laser communication, high energy systems, and other military applications. The Deformable Mirror Demonstration Mission (DeMi) is a 6U CubeSat, that will demonstrate the use of adaptive optics, specifically a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) deformable mirror, in space. Not only will the DeMi mission characterize the deformable mirror on-orbit, the mission will also demonstrate …

Starling1: Swarm Technology Demonstration, Hugo Sanchez, Dawn Mcintosh, Howard Cannon, Craig Pires, Josh Sullivan, Simone D’Amico, Brendan O’Connor

Small Satellite Conference

The Starling series of demonstration missions will test technologies required to achieve affordable, distributed spacecraft (“swarm”) missions that: are scalable to at least 100 spacecraft for applications that include synchronized multipoint measurements; involve closely coordinated ensembles of two or more spacecraft operating as a single unit for interferometric, synthetic aperture, or similar sensor architectures; or use autonomous or semi-autonomous operation of multiple spacecraft functioning as a unit to achieve science or other mission objectives with low-cost small spacecraft. Starling1 will focus on developing technologies that enable scalability and deep space application. The mission goals include the demonstration of a Mobile …

Laser Crosslink Atmospheric Sounder To Investigate The Effects Of Deep Convection On Ozone, Cadence Payne, Angela Crews, Kerri Cahoy, Daniel Cziczo, John Conklin, Michael Hart, Gottfried Kirchengaast, Nicolas Fraunhofer

Small Satellite Conference

Deep convection at mid-latitudes can directly inject water vapor into the upper troposphere/lower stratosphere (UTLS). Increased water vapor creates a photochemical environment that can activate inorganic chlorine (HCl) which then catalytically destroys ozone, increasing health and environment risk [1]. The Laser Crosslink Atmospheric Sounder (LCAS) is a prototype toward a low-Earth-orbiting (LEO) constellation to concurrently measure both UTLS water vapor and temperature at high vertical resolution, improving temporal and spatial coverage. The two-part approach uses both beam pointing and intensity. First, precision pointing measures atmospheric refraction and can be used to obtain temperature profiles [2]. Second, intensity on the continuum …

Gomx-4 - The Twin European Mission For Iod Purposes, Laura Léon, Per Koch, Roger Walker

Small Satellite Conference

The next generation of nanosatellites in GomSpace has been developed after the success of GOMX-3 in aircraft traffic monitoring and L-band communications. GOMX-4 is the demonstration mission of this new 6U platform including two satellites; GOMX-4A and GOMX-4B, which are mainly intended to test constellation capabilities for orbital control and inter-satellite communications together with additional innovative technologies. GOMX-4B is funded by ESA for In-Orbit Demonstration (IOD) purposes demonstrating the 5 payloads on-board: the 6U propulsion module from NanoSpace; the innovative Inter-Satellite Link (ISL) from GomSpace; the Chimera board developed by ESA; the HyperScout Hyperspectral Camera from Cosine and the Star …

Aces Red Experiment #1 Environmental Test Results For Industrial Grade, Non-Traditional, And Other Components Lacking Flight Heritage, Mason Nixon, Christopher Duron, Jameson Hilliard, Eric Becnel, Gauge Day, John Gould, Jessica Shrontz, Evan Swinney

Small Satellite Conference

Results of the thermal vacuum chamber (TVAC) testing and vibrational testing of the ACES RED Experiment #1 are presented. Performance of commercial-off-the-shelf components such as the Avnet PicoZed, the Xiphos Q7, the MAI-400, and a NovaTel GNSS during TVAC testing are provided and analyzed. To our knowledge, this is the first orbital flight of this version of the GNSS, this version of the MAI-400, and the PicoZed. The experiment utilizes a novel structural concept for ease of electronics assembly and disassembly. The health monitoring system measures temperatures, vibration, voltages, and currents for situational awareness of each of these component's relative …

Microsats And Moby Dick: Microsatellite Support To Whale Science And Conservation, Matt Bille, Rachel Dendiu, Kirk Borne, Laurie Baker, Steve Brune, Ian Byrnes, Chris Round

Small Satellite Conference

Scientists who study the 92 species of whales and dolphins (aka cetaceans) know that many populations are endangered. There may be only 12 vaquita porpoises left, and the ~450 North Atlantic Right whales are being decimated by ship collisions and fishing gear. Conservation efforts rely on implanted radio tags and satellite transponders to track cetaceans in 1.3 billion cubic kilometers of ocean. These efforts, however, are handicapped by technology and the limits of available satellite support. Leading cetologists surveyed in Booz Allen Hamilton’s Project WHALES (Whale/Habitat and Location/Environment Smallsats) agreed there are simply not enough tracking assets in space. The …

Cubesats In Cislunar Space, Pamela Clark

Small Satellite Conference

Within the next three years, at least 15 deep space cubesat 'prototypes' will have been launched, testing the viability of cubesat paradigm in deep space. Three of the EM1-deployed cubesat missions, the first de facto deep space cubesat 'cluster', will be science requirements driven lunar orbiters with remote sensing instruments for lunar surface/subsurface volatile characterization. These include: Lunar Ice Cube (1-4 micron broadband IR spectrometer and microcryocooler, volatile distribution as a function of time of day), Lunar Flashlight, (active source laser and NIR detector, polar surface ice), and LunaH-Map (neutron spectrometer, polar ice to 1 meter).

Small Satellite Platform Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (Ixpe) Mission Concept And Implementation, William Deininger, William Kalinowski, Kyle Bygott, Brian Smith, Colin Peterson, Spencer Antoniak, Jennifer Erickson, Sandra Johnson

Small Satellite Conference

Scientists and astronomers world—wide have a great interest in exploring the hidden details of some of the most extreme and exotic astronomical objects, such as stellar and supermassive black holes, neutron stars and pulsars. However, one cannot directly image what’s going on near objects like black holes and neutron stars, but studying the polarization of X-rays emitted from their surrounding environments reveals the physics of these enigmatic objects. The goal of the Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) Mission is to expand understanding of high-energy astrophysical processes and sources, in support of NASA’s first science objective in Astrophysics: “Discover how the …

Bolstering Mission Success: Lessons Learned For Small Satellite Developers Adhering To Manned Spaceflight Requirements, Henry Martin, Conor Brown, Tristan Prejean, Nathan Daniels

Small Satellite Conference

This paper is meant to impart critical knowledge to new and upcoming spacecraft developers (universities, high schools, research centers, young commercial companies, etc.) regarding lessons learned that they can implement to create successful spacecraft missions. This perspective comes from NanoRacks, a “space access provider”, where we’ve gained enormous expertise on how to design and build to requirements driven by human-rated spaceflight. As we all know, operating in space is only half of the battle.

The Small Satellite Reliability Initiative: A Public-Private Effort Addressing Smallsat Mission Confidence, Michael Johnson, Patricia Beauchamp, Harald Schone, Catherine Venturini, Lee Jasper, Robbie Robertson, Miquel Moe, Jesse Leitner

Small Satellite Conference

Presently, most CubeSat components and buses are generally not appropriate for missions where significant or indeterminate risk of failure is unacceptable. This has precluded their use in many cases where their attributes could otherwise enable or enhance mission objectives. However, in the future, CubeSats and SmallSats, which deviate from CubeSat form factors but often incorporate CubeSat components and subsystems, will address challenges that many presently consider to be beyond the platform’s capabilities. This growing potential utility, combined with the limited volume of successful CubeSat flight heritage, is driving an interagency effort to improve small satellite mission confidence. The Small Satellite …

Social Dimensions Of Urban Flood Experience, Exposure, And Concern, Rebecca L. Hale, Courtney Flint, Douglas B. Jackson-Smith, Joanna Endter-Wada

Environment and Society Faculty Publications

With growing urban populations and climate change, urban flooding is an important global issue, even in dryland regions. Flood risk assessments are usually used to identify vulnerable locations and populations, flooding experience patterns, or levels of concern about flooding, but rarely are all of these approaches combined. Furthermore, the social dynamics of flood concerns, exposure, and experience are underexplored. We combined geographic and survey data on household‐level measures of flood experience, concern, and exposure in Utah's urbanizing Wasatch Front. We asked: (1) Are socially vulnerable groups more likely to be exposed to flood risk? (2) How common are flooding experiences …

A Population-Based Model Of The Temporal Memory In The Hippocampus, Sorinel A. Oprisan, Mona Buhusi, Catalin V. Buhusi

Psychology Faculty Publications

Spatial and temporal dimensions are fundamental for orientation, adaptation, and survival of organisms. Hippocampus has been identified as the main neuroanatomical structure involved both in space and time perception and their internal representation. Dorsal hippocampus lesions showed a leftward shift (toward shorter durations) in peak-interval procedures, whereas ventral lesions shifted the peak time toward longer durations. We previously explained hippocampus lesion experimental findings by assuming a topological map model of the hippocampus with shorter durations memorized ventrally and longer durations more dorsal. Here we suggested a possible connection between the abstract topological maps model of the hippocampus that stored reinforcement …

On-Orbit Results And Lessons Learned From The Asteria Space Telescope Mission, Matthew Smith, Amanda Donner, Mary Knapp, Christopher Pong, Colin Smith, Jason Luu, Peter Di Pasquale, Brian Campuzano

Small Satellite Conference

The Arcsecond Space Telescope Enabling Research in Astrophysics (ASTERIA) was deployed from the International Space Station (ISS) on 20 November 2017, beginning a technology demonstration and opportunistic science mission to advance the state of the art in nanosatellite performance for astrophysical observations. The goal of ASTERIA is to achieve arcsecond-level line-of-sight pointing error and highly stable focal plane temperature control. These capabilities enable precision photometry—i.e. the careful measurement of stellar brightness over time—which in turn allows investigation of astrophysical phenomena such as transiting exoplanets. By the end of the 90-day prime mission, ASTERIA had achieved line-of-sight pointing stability of approximately …

Ceres: The Compact Radiation Belt Explorer, Shrikanth Kanekal, John Lucas

Small Satellite Conference

The Compact Radiation belt Explorer, CeREs, a 3U CubeSat, is expected to be launched July 2018. The primary science goal of CeREs will be to study the physics of the acceleration and loss of radiation belt electrons, in particular electron microbursts, an important process that contributes to loss of electrons. A secondary science objective of CeREs is to characterize solar energetic particles (SEP), specifically electrons and protons, accessing the near Earth environment via the open field lines over the poles. Solar electron observations will advance our understanding of electron acceleration mechanisms in solar flares and their transport in interplanetary and …

Nasa Icecube: Cubesat Demonstration Of A Commercial 883-Ghz Cloud Radiometer, Jaime Esper, Dong Wu, Brian Abresch, Brooks Flaherty, Chris Purdy, John Hudeck, Juan Rodriguez, Ted Daisey

Small Satellite Conference

On April 18 2017, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s IceCube 3U CubeSat was launched by an ATLAS V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on board a Cygnus resupply spacecraft, as part of NASA’s CubeSat Launch Initiative. Onboard IceCube was an 883 GHz radiometer tuned to detecting ice content in clouds, marking the first time such frequency was used from low-Earth orbit. IceCube successfully demonstrated retrieval of ice water path, generating the first ever global cloud ice map at 883 GHz. Its success provides valuable lessons on how to approach a severely resource-limited space mission and provides great insight …