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Steam Education Initiatives In Nepal, Shashidhar Belbase

The Transdisciplinary STEAM+ Journal

The purpose of this paper is to highlight the status of STEAM education in Nepal. I conducted a literature review focusing on document analysis for generating themes/categories of STEAM initiatives in Nepal from various sources such as websites, brochures, reports, and government publications. The major themes emerged from the analysis of documents were-- focus on integrated education, STEAM projects, STEAM-challenge, awareness to STEAM education, and academic program in STEAM education. I discussed the challenges of STEAM education followed by the conclusion.

Krill Watching, Michael J. Leach

The Transdisciplinary STEAM+ Journal

This is a concrete, or visual, found poem about the scientific activity of observing krill in the deep sea. I discovered this concrete found poem in prose that Nicol (2019, p. 200) quoted from Ommanney (1938).

• Nicol, S 2019 ‘Oceans of krill’, in B Nogrady (ed) The best Australian science writing 2019, Sydney: NewSouth Publishing.
• Ommanney, FD 1938 South latitude, London: Longmans, Green & Co.

Can Precision Farming Technologies Be Applied To Grazing Management?, S. Mark Rutter

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

In arable farming, precision is used to monitor and manage crop variability. The same precision approach can be used to manage grassland, by using crop sensing, targeted fertilizer/herbicide/pesticide application and forage yield measurement when it is harvested mechanically. An additional challenge in grassland agriculture is developing precision approaches to manage the grazing process. This requires technologies to determine where an animal is, when, what and how much it is grazing which the system then needs to use in conjunction with other sources of information to control where the animal grazes next. This paper reviews the existing technologies in these …

Early Detection Of Fake News On Social Media, Yang Liu

Dissertations

The ever-increasing popularity and convenience of social media enable the rapid widespread of fake news, which can cause a series of negative impacts both on individuals and society. Early detection of fake news is essential to minimize its social harm. Existing machine learning approaches are incapable of detecting a fake news story soon after it starts to spread, because they require certain amounts of data to reach decent effectiveness which take time to accumulate. To solve this problem, this research first analyzes and finds that, on social media, the user characteristics of fake news spreaders distribute significantly differently from those …

Perivascular Waste Metabolites Clearance In Central Nervous System (Cns), Yiming Cheng

Dissertations

Efficient clearance of interstitial waste metabolites is essential for normal brain homeostasis. Such effective clearance is hampered by the lack of a lymphatic system in the brain, and the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is unable to clear large size waste metabolites in the brain. Here, a novel idea that brain arterial endothelium and smooth muscle cells reactivity regulates the clearance of these water-insoluble large size waste metabolites through the perivascular dynamic exchange, and that low dose ethanol promotes this perivascular clearance is proposed.

In Aim 1, the biodistribution of a large size waste metabolite (Amyloid-β protein mimic) in rat perivascular space …

Amyloid Proteins And Fibrils Stability, Farbod Mahmoudinobar

Dissertations

Compared to globular proteins that have a stable native structure, intrinsically disordered peptides (IDP) sample an ensemble of structures without folding into a native conformation.One example of IDP is the amyloid-beta(Abeta) protein which is the main constituent of senile plaques in the brain of Alzheimer's patients.Understanding the process by which IDPs undergo structural changes to form oligomers that eventually aggregate into senile plaques/amyloid fibrils may significantly advance the development of novel therapeutic methods to treat neurodegenerative diseases, for which there is no cure to date. This dissertation has two main objectives. The first one is to investigate and identify structural …

Mitochondria Imaging And Targeted Cancer Treatment, Tinghan Zhao

Dissertations

Mitochondria are essential organelles as the site of respiration in eukaryotic cells and are involved in many crucial functions in cell life. Dysfunction of mitochondrial metabolism and irregular morphology have been frequently found in human cancers. The capability of imaging mitochondria as well as regulating their microenvironment is important both scientifically and clinically. Mitochondria penetrating peptides (MPPs), certain peptides that are composed of cationic and hydrophobic amino acids, are good candidates for mitochondria targeting. Herein, a novel MPP, D-argine-phenylalanine-D-argine-phenylalanine-D-argine-phenylalanine-NH₂ (rFrFrF), is conjugated with a rhodamine-based fluorescent chromophore (TAMRA). The TAMRA-rFrFrF probe exhibits advantageous properties for long-term mitochondria tracking of …

Cerebro-Vascular Disruption Mediated Initiation And Propagation Of Traumatic Brain Injury In A Fluid Percussion Injury Model, Xiaotang Ma

Dissertations

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a major health problem for over 3.17 million people in the US. There is no FDA-approved drug for the treatment because the injury mechanisms have not been clearly identified. The knowledge gap is addressed here by the lateral fluid percussion injury (FPI) rat model, through the understanding of layer-structured mechanisms from physical vascular rupture to acute necrosis, as well as biochemical changes in perivascular space as secondary events.

Firstly, the cerebrovascular hemorrhage and related infarct volume are investigated as the primary events in moderate FPI, which is found to be increased with injury severity in …

Cancer Risk Prediction With Whole Exome Sequencing And Machine Learning, Abdulrhman Fahad M Aljouie

Dissertations

Accurate cancer risk and survival time prediction are important problems in personalized medicine, where disease diagnosis and prognosis are tuned to individuals based on their genetic material. Cancer risk prediction provides an informed decision about making regular screening that helps to detect disease at the early stage and therefore increases the probability of successful treatments. Cancer risk prediction is a challenging problem. Lifestyle, environment, family history, and genetic predisposition are some factors that influence the disease onset. Cancer risk prediction based on predisposing genetic variants has been studied extensively. Most studies have examined the predictive ability of variants in known …

2019 Adult Peacebuilding Bibliography, Rosemary Doyle

Citizens for Peace

No abstract provided.

Urban Horticulture, From Local Initiatives To Global Success Stories, Roland Ebel, Esmaeil Fallahi, John L. Griffis Jr., Dilip Nandwani, Donielle Nolan, Ross H. Penhallegon, Mary Rogers

Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Faculty Research

Urban horticulture describes economically viable horticultural production activities conducted in a city or suburb. It is a growing segment of horticulture in the United States as well as in developing countries, where the enormous growth of megalopolis is not backed by a simultaneous increase of farmland or agricultural productivity. Today, urban horticulture includes food sovereignty in underprivileged neighborhoods, increased availability of vegetables and fruits in big cities, healthy and diverse diets, improved food safety, low transportation costs, efficient resource use, and the mitigation of environmental impacts of horticultural production such as the emission of greenhouse gases. The workshop “Urban horticulture: …

Employability Skills Of Vocational School Students In Palu City For Entering The Work World, Pusriawan Pusriawan, Sunaryo Soenarto

Jurnal Pendidikan Vokasi

This study aims to determine how much the level of employability skills of students of State Vocational Schools in Palu City. This type of research is a type of survey that is to describe the attitudes, behaviors, and opinions of students' research employability skills using a quantitative deskriptive approach, then the results of data analysis are described qualitatively, then presented in graphs, diagrams, tables, mean, modes, medians, standard deviation and variant. The population in this study was 1,275 students with a study sample of 295 students. The data collection technique used is using a questionnaire. The results of the study …

The Need Of Practical Teaching In Vocational High School Of Automation And Office Management Program, Febrika Yogie Hermanto, Sutirman Sutirman, Berlina Hidayati, Mar'atus Sholikah

Jurnal Pendidikan Vokasi

The success of vocational education cannot be separated from the proper management of learning by its objectives. This study aims to explore the pitfalls and the needs of practical teaching in the Vocational High School of Automation and Office Management Program (AOMP) in Yogyakarta city. This research uses a descriptive method with a qualitative approach. The data obtained were analyzed by using the qualitative analysis model of Miles and Huberman with stages: data reduction, presenting data, verifying data, and concluding data. The results of this study show that the complex equations that are occurred in practical learning of the Vocational …

Improving The Milling Machine Competency Learning Outcomes Through Industrial Project-Based Learning For Vocational School Students, Heri Yudiono, Wirawan Sumbodo, Salim Salim, Rizki Setiadi

Jurnal Pendidikan Vokasi

This research is motivated by the implementation of conventional learning. Besides, student learning motivation is still low due to student activities that are less centered on making workpieces that are suitable for work in the industry. Learning outcomes show that only 55.88% of students reach Minimum Completeness Criteria (Kriteria Ketuntasan minimum or KKM). The design and learning of productive machining competencies that are in accordance with the needs of the industry influence students' experience and learning outcomes. This study aims to analyze the results of industrial project-based learning (InPro-BL) milling machine competency learning outcomes in SMK Negeri 1 Semarang. The …

Soft Skills Profile Of Vocational School Students In Yogyakarta City For Entering The Industrial World, Tri Wulaningrum, Samsul Hadi

Jurnal Pendidikan Vokasi

This study aims to determine the profile and how much the level of soft skills of Vocational High School students in Yogyakarta City. This study is survey research. The population of this study was all students grade XI of State Vocational Schools in Yogyakarta City. The sample of this study was 990 students. The data were collected using a questionnaire. The data were then analyzed and presented in a percentage form. The results of the study present that the percentage gain shows the soft skill profile of Vocational High School students in Yogyakarta City in each aspect, namely communication/persuasion skills …

Cooperation Between Vocational High Schools And World Of Work: A Case Study At Smk Taman Karya Madya Tamansiswa, Muh. Juandi Arif Baitullah, Wagiran Wagiran

Jurnal Pendidikan Vokasi

The purpose of this study was to find out: the school strategy, procedure, forms, and evaluation to cooperate with the world of work. The type of research is qualitative with a case study approach. The subjects in this study were the head of the department, the chairman of the special job fairs, the vice-principal of public relations, the vice-principal of curriculum, the head of competence skills, and industry that were in cooperation with the school. The methods of collecting the data were in-depth interviews and documentation. The results show that: (1) the school strategy in cooperation with industry began with …

Aqua Ads As An Instrument Of Indonesia National Identity Development, Asnurul Novia Narendra, Sri Kusuma Habsari, Deny Tri Ardianto

Informasi

Advertising is not only present as a media that is able to introduce products of goods and service to encourage people to consume based on their needs, but rather to simulate life models and create fake needs made by producers. The research focused on analyzing the signs found on 600ml Aqua mineral water bottle labels with themed Temukan Indonesiamu. The study aims to find implicit purpose of using themed labels Temukan Indonesiamu in a 600 ml size Aqua mineral water bottle through the signs that appear on the ads. The study uses Rolland Barthes's semiotics method to five motions …

Women's Journalists In The Practice Of Mass Media In Semarang City, Lusi Setyo Wulandari, Nova Permata Sari

Informasi

This study aims to determine the balance between female and male journalists in the mass media, and the subjective experience of women journalists in carrying out their duties. Data collection was carried out by in-depth interviews and interviewees in this study as many as five people from print and electronic media, to determine the sources of researchers using purposive sampling. This research uses the descriptive qualitative method with gender structuration theory which is a combination of structuration theory and feminist analysis. The results of this study indicate that male dominance is still very strong in the mass media, this can …

The Pathway Of Strengthening The Working Readiness: A Study On Graduate Students Of Islamic Economics And Business Faculty Of Uin Walisongo Semarang, Zuhdan Ady Fataron, Rauly Sijabat

Jurnal Pendidikan Vokasi

Research on working readiness is not a new thing. Nevertheless, studies related to working readiness still become interesting topic considering the empirical phenomena that indicate low working readiness. In addition, the results of previous studies have not provided conclusive conclusions about the factors that explain working readiness. This study was conducted to test the working readiness model developed in this study empirically by using the variable approach of training, apprenticeship, self-efficacy, and locus of control. Data on training, apprenticeship, self-efficacy, locus of control, and working readiness were obtained through interviews using a questionnaire conducted to the final semester students of …

Ohio's Avoidance Of Total Maximum Daily Load And The Continued Relevance Of The Constructive Submission Doctrine, Ashley Kirk

Global Business Law Review

This Note examines several provisions of the Clean Water Act (CWA)—in particular, Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs)—in the context of recent litigation over the State of Ohio’s plan to address Lake Erie water quality. It looks at the role of TMDLs in CWA implementation and explains Ohio’s response to Lake Erie water quality, asserting that Ohio’s ranking of Lake Erie as a "low priority," in conjunction with its plan to follow a non-binding international agreement, the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, is simply an attempt to create another CWA loophole and avoid TMDL obligations. This Note also considers federal courts' …

Telehealth For The Internal Medicine Resident: A 3-Year Longitudinal Curriculum, Elizabeth Barnhardt Kirkland, Ragan Dubose-Morris, Ashley Duckett

MUSC Faculty Journal Articles

Aims: Across the United States of America, patients are increasingly receiving healthcare using innovative telehealth technologies. As healthcare continues to shift away from traditional office-based visits, providers face new challenges. Telehealth champions are needed to adapt technologies to meet the needs of patients, providers and communities, especially within the realm of primary care specialties. Given these challenges, this intervention aimed to incorporate telemedicine into internal medicine resident training across multiple training years to prepare them for practice in the current and changing healthcare system. Methods: Education and telehealth leaders at the Medical University of South Carolina identified key topics relevant …

The Impact Of Independent Learning On Students' Accounting Learning Outcomes At Vocational High School, Ery Novita Sari, Zamroni Zamroni

Jurnal Pendidikan Vokasi

The independence of student learning in recent years was discussed in several articles. Through the development of an independent attitude in learning, students can diagnose learning difficulties and find the right solution to solve them. This study was aimed at finding out how the influence of learning independence on students' accounting learning outcomes. The type of research used is ex-post facto quantitative research. The population of the research is all students of class XI of Public Middle School in the city of Yogyakarta, with a total of 156 students. The instruments used were questionnaires and multiple-choice questions (MCQs). Validity and …

Students' Learning Experiences With Lms Tes Teach In Flipped-Class Instruction, Zamzami Zainuddin, Hardika Dwi Hermawan, Febritesna Nuraini, Santo Mugi Prayitno

Elinvo (Electronics, Informatics, and Vocational Education)

The purpose of this study was to identify the impact of implementing a Learning Management System (LMS) 'TES Teach' on students' learning experiences in a computer-assisted language learning (CALL) course with flipped-class instruction. For the data collection procedure, an individual interview with ten undergraduate students from an Indonesian college was conducted to demonstrate the potential impacts of the LMS in students' meaningful learning activities. The observation of students' learning activities on the LMS was also recorded to support the interview data. The LMS was adopted to distribute and receive information, thus, the students were able to monitor learning activities, learn …

Full Issue, Vol. 11

Monographs of the Western North American Naturalist

No abstract provided.

Problematika Guru Dalam Penerapan Pendekatan Saintifik Pada Pembelajaran Ppkn, Manik Nur Haq, Mukhamad Murdiono

Jurnal Civics: Media Kajian Kewarganegaraan

Tujuan penelitian adalah untuk mengetahui problematika yang dialami guru dan upaya yang dapat dilakukan untuk mengatasi hambatan dalam penerapan pendekatan saintifik pada pembelajaran PPKn. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian deskriptif kualitatif. Data dikumpulkan melalui wawancara, observasi, dan dokumentasi. Keabsahan data dalam penelitian ini ditetapkan melalui teknik triangulasi. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa problematika guru dalam penerapan pendekatan saintifik, antara lain: (1) keterbatasan kompetensi guru; (2) ketimpangan sarana dan prasarana; (3) keterbatasan waktu dan biaya; (4) minimnya kreativitas dan inovasi; (5) kurangnya antusiasme, motivasi, dan rasa ingin tahu peserta didik; (6) rendahnya kemampuan berpikir kritis, menyelesaikan masalah, dan mengambil keputusan; (7) kurangnya kemampuan …

Pemberdayaan Penyandang Disabilitas Pada Objek Wisata Kuta Bali, Dermawan Waruwu, Ni Ketut Jeni Adhi

Jurnal Civics: Media Kajian Kewarganegaraan

Penelitian ini mengkaji tentang jenis penyandang disabilitas dan bentuk pemberdayaan penyandang disabilitas pada objek wisata Kuta, Kabupaten Badung, Provinsi Bali. Masalah ini dianalisis secara kualitatif dengan pendekatan kajian budaya serta dikaji menggunakan teori hegemoni dan praktik sosial. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan: (1) jenis penyandang disabilitas yang diberdayakan pada objek wisata Kuta yaitu tunanetra dan dan tunadaksa; (2) bentuk pemberdayaan penyandang disabilitas yaitu cleaning service, tukang masak, operator CCTV, dan penjual pulsa keliling; (3) penyandang disabilitas kurang diberdayakan pada objek wisata Kuta, sehingga mereka menjadi kelompok yang termarginalkan dan terhegemoni ditengah geliat industri pariwisata. Pemerintah, pengusaha, dan masyarakat diharapkan agar memberdayakan …

Pembinaan Karakter Anak Pada Masyarakat Perumahan Di Pinggiran Kota, Muhamad Abdul Roziq Asrori

Jurnal Civics: Media Kajian Kewarganegaraan

Penelitian ini bertujuan menjelaskan pembinaan karakter dan hambatan penyertaannya dilihat dari teori role taking pada masyarakat "Griya Kota"Tulungagung. Metode penelitian menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif dengan jenis studi kasus. Proses pembinaan karakter dan moral anak pada tahap persiapan awal dilakukan dengan mengenalkan nilai-nilai agama sejak dini. Media yang digunakan bisa audio maupun visual dengan konten religious. Detail tahap perkembangan dan kebutuhan kesehatan anak untuk kesiapan membangun karakter sangat diperhatikan. Pada tahap play stage lebih selektif dalam memilih tayangan media dan juga teman bermain bagi anak. Sementara di tahap gama stage, berupaya memberikan contoh baik terhadap anak dengan ucapan dan perilaku keseharian mereka …

Information Theoretic Measures For Quantifying Sequence-Ensemble Relationships Of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins, Megan C Cohan, Kiersten M Ruff, Rohit V Pappu

2010-2019 OA Pubs

Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) contribute to a multitude of functions. De novo design of IDPs should open the door to modulating functions and phenotypes controlled by these systems. Recent design efforts have focused on compositional biases and specific sequence patterns as the design features. Analysis of the impact of these designs on sequence-function relationships indicates that individual sequence/compositional parameters are insufficient for describing sequence-function relationships in IDPs. To remedy this problem, we have developed information theoretic measures for sequence-ensemble relationships (SERs) of IDPs. These measures rely on prior availability of statistically robust conformational ensembles derived from all atom simulations. We …

The Feeling Heart In Medieval And Early Modern Europe: Meaning, Embodiment, And Making, Katie Barclay, Bronwyn Reddan

Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture

The heart is an iconic symbol in the medieval and early modern European world. In addition to being a physical organ, it is a key conceptual device related to emotions, cognition, the self and identity, and the body. The heart is read as a metaphor for human desire and will, and situated in opposition to or alongside reason and cognition. In medieval and early modern Europe, the “feeling heart”—the heart as the site of emotion and emotional practices—informed a broad range of art, literature, music, heraldry, medical texts, and devotional and ritual practices. This multidisciplinary collection brings together art historians, …

The Respondent Factors On The Digital Questionnaire Responses, Muhardis Muhardis, Burhanuddin Tola, Herwindo Haribowo

REID (Research and Evaluation in Education)

Progress in the field of technology often facilitates human work. One of them is progress in the development of questionnaire modes. Currently, existing questionnaires have been based on a digital platform, which makes evaluators easy to design, disseminate, and conduct scoring. All are computer-based, making them reachable by the respondents no matter how far the location of the respondent is, as long as they are connected to the internet. However, any progress is accompanied by several obstacles. For example, the respondents experienced an error in responding to having the intent to respond 'Yes' option but pressing the 'No' button instead. …