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Evolution Of Distress Calls In Birds: Still An Enigma, William E. Davis Jr.

Bird Observer

No abstract provided.

The Amateur: Finding A Niche In Ornithology, Harold F. Mayfield

Bird Observer

No abstract provided.

Two Aberrant Goldfinches, William E. Davis Jr.

Bird Observer

No abstract provided.

Evolution Of Distraction Display Behavior In Birds, William E. Davis Jr.

Bird Observer

No abstract provided.

Do Vagrant Birds In Massachusetts Reflect Population Growth And Dispersal Rather Than Weather Patterns?, Richard R. Veit

Bird Observer

No abstract provided.

Field Records: March 1984, George W. Gove, Robert H. Stymeist, Lee E. Taylor

Bird Observer

No abstract provided.

Sociality, Agonistic Interaction, And The Pulse Phenomenon In The Flight Behavior Of Falconiformes Along The Maine Coast, G. N. Appell

Bird Observer

No abstract provided.

Some Thoughts About Counting Birds, Leif J. Robinson

Bird Observer

No abstract provided.

House Finch-Tuffed Titmouse Population Growth, Leif J. Robinson

Bird Observer

No abstract provided.

Suet-Eating American Kestrel, Gerald Flaherty

Bird Observer

No abstract provided.

Theyer's Gull (Larus Thayeri), J. T. Leverich

Bird Observer

No abstract provided.

Single Night Surveys Of Moth Communities Can Serve As Ultra-Rapid Biodiversity Assessments, Daniel P. Duran, Matthew Timar, Blaine Rothauser

School of Earth & Environment Departmental Research

Biodiversity conservation decisions are typically based on limited data and resources. For this reason, there is great interest in surveying taxa that may allow for a rapid assessment of the biodiversity at a site. Numerous taxa have been proposed and utilized for rapid assessments that allow for such a survey in a matter of weeks or less. Herein, we test the idea that nocturnal moths have many of the characteristics that make them ideal for such surveys, such as relative ease of identification, strong ecological association with specific plant species and habitats, high alpha diversity, extended seasonal activity, and ease …

Cta’S ‘L’ System Visualization And Animation, Julia Finegan

Honors Capstones

The Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) is a vital public transportation system for the city of Chicago and the surrounding suburbs, and all of its ‘L’ train data was recorded from March 2022 to February 2023 for this research. The main goal of this project was to create interactive/animated charts, graphs, and/or transit maps to present this raw data in a meaningful form that could help future researchers learn more about the CTA system, its patterns, and/or its unexplained inconsistencies/irregularities. A simple animation of the ‘L’ trains running within a specified time frame was created with the Python libraries Pandas, Shapely, …

Cm-Ii Meditation As An Intervention To Reduce Stress And Improve Attention: A Study Of Ml Detection, Spectral Analysis, And Hrv Metrics, Sreekanth Gopi

Master of Science in Computer Science Theses

Students frequently face heightened stress due to academic and social pressures, particularly in de- manding fields like computer science and engineering. These challenges are often associated with serious mental health issues, including ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder), depression, and an increased risk of suicide. The average student attention span has notably decreased from 21⁄2 minutes to just 47 seconds, and now it typically takes about 25 minutes to switch attention to a new task (Mark, 2023). Research findings suggest that over 95% of individuals who die by suicide have been diagnosed with depression (Shahtahmasebi, 2013), and almost 20% of students …

Clean Energy & Sustainable Environment By Carbon Dioxide Mitigation Strategies, Md Fahim Shahriar

Mechanical Engineering Theses

Dissolution trapping is one of the most dominant mechanisms for secure storage of CO₂ injected in porous subsurface formations saturated with brine. This study uses a 2D visual Hele-Shaw cell to investigate and visualize the impact of CO₂ injection locations, reservoir dipping angle, permeability heterogeneity, and brine with different initial ionic concentrations on the density-driven convection during CO₂ dissolution (Chapter 2). Also, the role of complex heterogeneity, i.e., irregular permeability distribution in CO₂ dissolution, is investigated using a novel experimental approach to create medium permeability heterogeneity in Hele-Shaw cells (Chapter 3). We observed that the presence …

The Effect Of Material Nonlinearity On Stress Concentrations At A Bi-Material Interface, Jin Qian

McKelvey School of Engineering Graduate Student Theses & Dissertations

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Predictive Looking And Predictive Looking Errors In Everyday Activities, Sophie Su

Arts & Sciences Graduate Student Theses and Dissertations

People spontaneously segment continuous streams of experiences into distinct episodes. Prediction errors are theorized to drive segmentation. However, existing studies exploring the relationship between prediction error and event segmentation lack a continuous measure of prediction error during naturalistic perception and often fail to distinguish between prediction error and prediction uncertainty. Do moment-by-moment fluctuation of prediction errors, not prediction uncertainty during naturalistic event perception correlate positively with segmentation probabilities? To tackle this question, we harnessed the predictive nature of eye movements and introduced a predictive looking model. In this model, individuals’ prior gaze patterns act as predictors for critical features in …

An Efficient Non-Parametric Item Selection Method For Polytomous Scoring Cd-Cat, Junjie Li, Huijing Zheng, Chunhua Kang, Pingfei Zeng

Chinese/English Journal of Educational Measurement and Evaluation | 教育测量与评估双语期刊

In educational evaluations at home and abroad, polytomous scoring items are becoming increasingly important. They can provide richer and more valuable information, with unmatched advantages compared to binary (0-1 scoring) items. If used as a tool for teachers to diagnose and assess students in the classroom, CD-CAT (Cognitive Diagnostic Computerized Adaptive Testing) has significant implications for improving teaching effectiveness. However, in classroom teaching situations, it is not feasible to estimate item parameters accurately with a large sample, as in large-scale assessments. In such cases, non-parametric CD-CAT becomes the only viable option. Compared to parametric CD-CAT, non-parametric CD-CAT started later and …

The Transformative Integration Of Artificial Intelligence With Cmmc And Nist 800-171 For Advanced Risk Management And Compliance, Mia Lunati

Cybersecurity Undergraduate Research Showcase

This paper explores the transformative potential of integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) with established cybersecurity frameworks such as the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Special Publication 800-171. The thesis argues that the relationship between AI and these frameworks has the capacity to transform risk management in cybersecurity, where it could serve as a critical element in threat mitigation. In addition to addressing AI’s capabilities, this paper acknowledges the risks and limitations of these systems, highlighting the need for extensive research and monitoring when relying on AI. One must understand boundaries when integrating …

Infographic: Pisa 2022 – Australian Performance Trends Over Time, Dominique Russell

Teacher infographics

Results from PISA 2022 have been released and the data show Australian student performance in maths and reading has been holding steady since 2015, and in science since 2018. However, when looking at the past 20 years, performance has dropped significantly across the board.

The Fierce Green Fire: Vol. 14 Issue 11, Wofford College Environmental Studies Program

The Fierce Green Fire

No abstract provided.

Promoting Student Engagement Through The Cct Student Mentoring Academy, Marie O Neill

Faculty Presentations

No abstract provided.

The Unheard Voices Of The Arkansas Delta: Living Through School Desegregation, Tameka D. Williams

ATU Theses and Dissertations 2021 - Present

This study was guided by the central research question: What are the lived experiences and perceptions of former African American teachers and students that endured segregation, desegregation, and integration in Arkansas' Delta? The phenomenological study used eight former African American teachers and student participants. Of the participants, there were four former teachers and four former students. In this study, the participants' voices are captured as they share their experiences and perception of each phase of education that influenced their lives and left an everlasting imprint. Through counternarratives, the participants provided insight into education in the Arkansas Delta during school segregation, …

Board Of Trustees Meeting Minutes 2023-12-08, Bowling Green State University

Board of Trustees Meeting Minutes

The official meeting minutes of Bowling Green State University's Board of Trustees.

The Student Movement Volume 108 Issue 11: A Merry Christmas: From The Sm Staff To You, Grace No, Reagan Westerman, Lauren Kim, Nate Miller, Aiko J. Ayala Rios, Corinna Bevier, Lexie Dunham, Madison Vath, Andrew Francis, Katie Davis, Jonathan Clough, Melissa Moore, Bella Hamann, Abby Shim, Robert Zhang, Rodney Bell Ii, Wambui Karanja, Anna Rybachek, Desmond Hartwell Murray, Shandelle Henson, Amelia Stefanescu

The Student Movement v. 108 (2023-2024)

HUMANS

Meet the Professors: New Humans Series, Grace No

Psychology Research, Interviewed by Grace No

What's The Deal With Santa Claus?, Reagan Westerman

Student Worker Interview: Sam Namkung, Interviewed by Lauren Kim

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

A Flat World for Our Round One, Nate Miller

Art & Music in Andrews' History - Introduction, Aiko J. Ayala Rios

Why Do I Fell Bad for President Snow?: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes Review, Corinna Bevier

Have Yourself a Merry Little Hallmark Christmas, Lexie Dunham

It's Beginning to Sound a Lot Like Christmas: A Christmas Playlist, Madison Vath

NEWS

Questions Answered, Questions Avoided: …

Superhyperfunction, Superhyperstructure, Neutrosophic Superhyperfunction And Neutrosophic Superhyperstructure: Current Understanding And Future Directions, Florentin Smarandache

Neutrosophic Systems with Applications

The n-th PowerSet of a Set {or Pn(S)} better describes our real world, because a system S (which may be a company, institution, association, country, society, set of objects/plants/animals/beings, set of concepts/ideas/propositions, etc.) is formed by sub-systems, which in their turn by sub-sub-systems, and so on. We prove that the SuperHyperFunction is a generalization of classical Function, SuperFunction, and HyperFunction. And the SuperHyperAlgebra, SuperHyperGraph are part of the SuperHyperStructure. Almost all structures in our real world are Neutrosophic SuperHyperStructures since they have indeterminate/incomplete/uncertain/conflicting data.

On B-Anti-Open Sets: A Formal Definition, Proofs, And Examples, Sudeep Dey, Priyanka Paul, Gautam Chandra Ray

Neutrosophic Systems with Applications

The concepts of open sets, closed sets, the interior of a set, and the exterior of a set are the most basic concepts in the study of topological spaces in any setting. When we turn our attention to the concept of anti-topological spaces, we encounter analogous fundamental concepts, such as the definition of anti-open sets, anti-closed sets, anti-interior, anti-exterior, etc. These concepts have already been introduced and studied by mathematicians worldwide. In this article, we introduce and study the concepts of b-anti-open set, b-anti-closed set, anti-b-interior, and anti-b-closure in the context of anti-topological spaces and investigate some of their basic …

Ncmpy: A Modelling Software For Neutrosophic Cognitive Maps Based On Python Package, Ilanthenral Kandasamy, Divakar Arumugam, Aryan Rathore, Ateeth Arun, Manan Jain, Vasantha .W.B, Florentin Smarandache

Neutrosophic Systems with Applications

Cognitive maps are a vital tool that can be used for knowledge representation and reasoning. Fuzzy Cognitive Maps (FCMs) are popular soft computing techniques used to model large and complex systems, and they can aid in explainable artificial intelligence (AI). FCMs, however, cannot model the indeterminacy that arises in a system due to various uncertainties. Neutrosophic Cognitive Maps (NCMs), upgraded FCMs that could model indeterminacy, were introduced to address this issue. NCMs are a generalization of FCMs, a field of cognitive science firmly based on neural networks. NCMs have been used to solve a wide range of problems. NCMs were …

Some Special Refined Neutrosophic Ideals In Refined Neutrosophic Rings: A Proof-Of-Concept Study, Murhaf Riad Alabdullah

Neutrosophic Systems with Applications

In this research, we created notions of a refined neutrosophic prime (completely prime, semiprime, and completely semiprime) ideal in a refined neutrosophic ring. If R(I1, I2) is a refined neutrosophic ring, then each ideal of R(I1, I2) has the form J+KI1+LI2 are ideals of the classical ring R. The objective of this work is to find the necessary and sufficient condition on classical ideals J, L and K that makes J+KI1+LI2 a prime (completely prime, semiprime, and completely semiprime) ideal in R(I1, I2). We studied some of the elementary properties of these concepts and the most important properties that link …

Creating A Three Dimensional Ngss Aligned Unit On Motion And Energy For Middle Grades Students, Spencer M. Rudie

Honors Capstones

A study was conducted to see how the attitudes of middle school aged students would change with respect to science and engineering before and after participating in a ten-lesson unit. Students from the Barb City STEAM team (n=5) participated in the unit and attitudes assessment The unit was based on the principles of motion and energy, concluding with an engineering challenge where the students analyzed the motion and energy of a mousetrap powered car that they built from common craft materials. Their attitudes were assessed before and after the unit with seven questions using a five-point Likert scale, and the …