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Quantification Of Nuclear Dynamics During Epithelial Remodeling, Noah De Leeuw

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The morphogenesis of developing tissues is contingent on an extensive array of rearrangements in cellular shape, position and identity at large and small scales. One commonly used process to reshape tissues is the cell intercalation-driven elongation of a tissue in a common axis, in which rows of epithelial cells undergo oriented intercalation in a directional fashion. In most models of intercalation, cells are treated as homogeneous objects directed in their shape changes by cortical forces localized along cell-cell interfaces or tricellular junctions. However, less attention has been paid to how inhomogeneities in mechanical resistance of their own internal structures affects …

A Phenomenological Study Of Science Teachers’ Lived Experience: Pedagogical Judgment During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Amy Vo

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, in March of 2020, education in the United States changed dramatically. Science teachers began to look at the implementation of ambitious and equitable science teaching practices differently. Employing the hermeneutic phenomenological framework, the purpose of this study was to investigate the lived experience of science teachers, specifically looking at their pedagogical judgment related to ambitious and equitable science teaching. Semi-structured interviews, artifacts and surveys were used to develop a rich description of the phenomenon. Data analysis of the science teachers’ narratives, Qualtrics surveys, and lesson plans illuminated six essential themes common to all …

Mechanistic Insights Into Mftr-Dependent Regulation Of The Redox Cofactor Mycofactocin, Aigera Mendauletova

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Organic redox cofactors are essential for life. While classic flavins and nicotinamides are widely distributed across all domains of life, nature has also evolved niche cofactors in subsets of life domains. For example, in Actinobacteria, coenzyme F420 is commonly used in place of flavin mononucleotide in enzymes associated with carbon fixation and oxidation of secondary alcohols. The importance of niche cofactors has long been recognized however, detailed understanding about their biosynthesis and physiological uses has been lagging. One class of niche cofactors is derived from ribosomally synthesized and posttranslationally modified peptides (RiPPs). To achieve their mature form, the genetically …

Artificial Emotional Intelligence In Socially Assistive Robots, Hojjat Abdollahi

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Artificial Emotional Intelligence (AEI) bridges the gap between humans and machines by demonstrating empathy and affection towards each other. This is achieved by evaluating the emotional state of human users, adapting the machine’s behavior to them, and hence giving an appropriate response to those emotions. AEI is part of a larger field of studies called Affective Computing. Affective computing is the integration of artificial intelligence, psychology, robotics, biometrics, and many more fields of study. The main component in AEI and affective computing is emotion, and how we can utilize emotion to create a more natural and productive relationship between humans …

A Study Of The Cultural And Geological Environment Of The Magic Mountain Site In Golden, Colorado, Brianna K. Dalessandro

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The Magic Mountain site, located in Golden, Colorado, has been the subject of intensive academic studies since the 1950s because of its extensive artifact assemblage and long habitation periods. The aim of this thesis was to use ground-penetrating radar, magnetometry, GIS models, and lithic analysis to further study when and how the Magic Mountain site was used during prehistoric times and contextualize a variety of hypotheses about site habitation and migratory patterns of prehistoric people in Colorado.

The results of these analyses indicate the habitation and migratory pattern of the Magic Mountain site was a periodic, but consistent, proximal visitation …

Elementary Preservice Math Teachers’ Evolving Dispositions Throughout A Math Methods Course: A Mixed Methods Study, Christine E. Hood

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study aimed to understand graduate-level Elementary Preservice Teachers’ (EPST) mathematical dispositions before, during, and after a graduate elementary math methods course taught through a rehumanizing (Gutiérrez, 2018), ambitious and equitable math (Horn & Garner, 2022) teaching framework. In this study, EPSTs’ dispositions included four constructs: math anxiety, math teaching anxiety, math self-efficacy, and math teacher self-efficacy. To fully understand the nuance and complexity of teacher education and EPSTs’ mathematical dispositions, I looked at both the EPSTs' and the instructors' perspectives. I investigated EPSTs’ dispositions through a modified multi-methods, sequential, and phenomenological lens. For the instructors’ perspectives, I conducted a …

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International Journal of Transpersonal Studies

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Mathematical Calculations For The Finality Of Death? The Drake-S Equation, Glenn Hartelius

International Journal of Transpersonal Studies

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The Varieties Of Afterlife Experience: Epistemological And Cultural Implications, Everton De Oliveira Maraldi

International Journal of Transpersonal Studies

When parapsychologists talk about survival, they are usually implying personal survival, that is, a process in which memories, motivations, and personality characteristics of a given person somehow persist after bodily death. Are there other conceptions of survival (and of personal identity) that deserve further scientific examination? My purpose with this brief commentary is to expand on Rock et al’s approach by urging survivalists to discuss and investigate further the many different conceptions of (and explanations for) survival. I propose we critically reflect on our theoretical assumptions and their epistemological and cultural consequences.

Psi-Entific Approach To Post-Mortem Survival: Employing The Multiple Sources Of Psi (Msop) And Discarnate Psi Hypotheses In The Calculation Of A Drake-S Equation, Serge Merlin

International Journal of Transpersonal Studies

The continued investigations of the paranormal facilitated the development of novel theories and methodologies. Psi functioning of the living and the deceased in survival phenomena suggested the living agent psi (LAP) and discarnate psi hypotheses, but neither has demonstrated sufficient explanatory power to claim superiority in explaining survival data. Mediumship studies cannot determine whether paranormal information is sourced by means of discarnate psi or LAP, presenting the source-of-psi problem. Anomalous information can be obtained from joint sources (LAP, survival, or some other source), which supports the multiple sources of psi (MSoP) hypothesis. The maximized explanatory potential of the MSoP hypothesis …

The Impacts Of Active Learning, Kayla Badgie

All Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This literature review identifies the impacts that using active learning has on elementary school students and student achievement. Research to seek this information began by identifying different studies using an active learning approach and then verifying that they were elementary students and had a focus on the impacts of using that style of learning. Results indicated different forms of active learning implementation, impacts on students academically, and impacts on students non-academically. In the end, students who are taught and engage with an active learning approach benefit positively in a variety of ways from the use of this approach. Some of …

Network Science: Core Concepts

Worlds of Connections Resources

Visualization, interdependence, position, and scope are core themes for using network models to analyze systems. A network 1) is a set of relationships, 2) shows how things are connected, and 3) reveals hidden information.

Network Science: Hoop Network. Activity Guide For Facilitators, Worlds Of Connections Sepa

Worlds of Connections Resources

Crosscutting Concept 4. Systems and system models. A system is an organized group of related objects or components; models can be used for understanding and predicting the behavior of systems.

Objective: Youth will demonstrate how parts of a network are interdependent.

This guide is designed to give activity leaders the core themes for using network models to analyze systems. The basic network ideas and skills in this activity can be used in numerous career paths to study patterns of behavior and reveal hidden connections. Sociologists, computer scientists, biologists, anthropologists, engineers, neuroscientists, and many others can use network science in their …

Network Science: String Network. Activity Guide For Facilitators, Worlds Of Connections Sepa

Worlds of Connections Resources

Crosscutting Concept 4. Systems and system models. A system is an organized group of related objects or components; models can be used for understanding and predicting the behavior of systems.

Youth will understand and demonstrate the importance of building and recognizing connections in a community. They will make a network model that reveals connections that may seem invisible until youth trace them. Youth will learn about the concept of ‘six degrees of separation/small worlds’ (i.e., how we may be connected to people far away through our friends’ friends).

35 Years Of Optics: From Optical Sciences To Optical Engineering – 3 Cycles Of Abet Accreditation, Sergio Granieri, Charles Joenathan, Azad Siahmakoun, Hossein Alisafaee, Syed Reza

Faculty Publications - Physics and Optical Engineering

No abstract provided.

Bridgewater College Catalog, Session 2023-24, Bridgewater College

Bridgewater College Catalogs

No abstract provided.

Quantum Chemical Logic, Atomic Ionization Energy, And Atomic Size, Ryan J. Bouman, Roger L. Dekock

Summer Research

There has been a distinct lack of understanding of the relationship between experimental ionization energy of atoms and the theoretical measures of atomic size. This is true not only in the education community, but also in the research community.

Passive Chlorination: Providing Clean Drinking Water To Rural Ecuadorian Communities, C.D. Tatko, Kyle Borror

Summer Research

In 2002, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported that nearly 1.7 million deaths worldwide were caused by unclean water. The risk of death is elevated for young children, for which the second cause of death worldwide is diarrheal disease, which is largely caused by microbes; these microbes, when unaddressed, can proliferate in drinking water. Health risks are further elevated in rural communities, which often lack access to the technology necessary to treat water for microbial contamination. This can be seen in Ecuador, in which only 52.8% of rural households have access to safe drinking water.

Temperature Dependency Of Ion Channel Opennings, Loren Haarsma, Sebastian Grabill, Dylan Mount

Summer Research

Alamethicin is a 20 amino-acid peptide produced by fungus. When added to a lipid bilayer they self-assemble into voltage-dependent ion channels which open for brief periods called dwell times, usually on order of a few milliseconds. See poster by Dylan Mount regarding electrical properties of lipid bilayers without Ion channels. Our goal is to measure the electrical current through a single Alamethicin ion channel as it opens and closes and see how its gating behavior is affected by lipid temperature and lipid composition. Since lipid bilayers and ion channels are critical for almost all living cells, studying them can prove …

What About Tornadoes Makes Cars Fly?, Fred Haan, Minji Lee

Summer Research

Tornadoes move and evolve throughout their lifetime, causing several types of forces against objects. Although vehicles are observed to fly in real tornadoes, simulating this experimentally and numerically has been very difficult – the vehicles do not seem to want to fly. We studied the effect of pressure gradient forces. These have typically been ignored in past simulations, so we estimated them to see if they add the missing force to get things to fly. Some researchers have made mathematical models of tornado wind fields, so we used those models to estimate pressure gradient forces. We also used some full-scale …

Exploring Entrepreneurial Mindset Of Engineering Students At A Rural Midwestern University., Oai Ha

ASEE North Midwest Section Annual Conference 2023 Publications

Background: Regional communities and economic development rely on businesses and entrepreneurs to provide goods, services, jobs, and overall economic growth. Engineering students at a rural Midwestern US university are equipped with engineering backgrounds and problem-solving competencies that make them familiar with new product development and prepare them for entrepreneurship.
Purpose/Hypothesis: This study explores the senior engineering students' perceptions of entrepreneurship, creativity, risk-taking, and the extent to which entrepreneurship plays a role in their career plans.
Design/Method: The study utilizes an assessment tool that measures three mindset domains: entrepreneurship self-efficacy, creativity, and risk-taking behaviors.
Results: The study’s findings showed that the …

Work In Progress: Using Sustainable Engineering As A Springboard For Senior Design, Katrina Christiansen, Cherish Bauer-Reich

ASEE North Midwest Section Annual Conference 2023 Publications

Background: After four years of teaching capstone for mechanical engineering students, the faculty observed the students struggled to synthesize all their undergraduate learnings into the successful completion of a two-semester, project-based capstone course. The environmental science program, which is in the same department, needed a capstone similar to the engineering students’ experience.
Design/Method: To address both these issues, we redesigned Sustainable Engineering, which all students in the department are required to take, to have a project-based trajectory that would introduce several components of the senior design experience as well as address non-technical ABET outcomes for EAC and ANSAC Commissions. This …

Calling & The Legal Profession, Indiana Continuing Legal Education Forum (Iclef)

Indiana Continuing Legal Education Forum 2023

Meeting proceedings of a seminar by the same name, held November 9, 2023.

Rollins Magazine, Winter 2023, Rollins College Office Of Marketing And Communications

Rollins Magazine

No abstract provided.

Will The Ftx Collapse Finally Force U.S. Policymakers To Wake Up?: Regulatory Solutions For Cryptocurrency Tokens Not Classified As Securities Under The Supreme Court’S Howey Analysis, Paul Andersen

Journal of Business & Technology Law

No abstract provided.

Evaluating The Design And Development Of The “Making Molecules” Simulation: Students’ Perceptions And Recommendations, Pauline Salim Muljana, Jodye I. Selco

Educational Leadership & Technology Faculty Publications

Students perceive molecular bonding as an abstract concept; therefore, learning this concept seems uninteresting and difficult. A strategically designed learning object (LO), such as in the form of a simulation, can be used to help students acquire accurate mental images and build appropriate schema in addition to providing a concrete learning experience and encouraging knowledge construction. This paper presents an evaluation of the design and development of the Making Molecules simulation through students’ perceptions of the previous version and recommendations for improving a future version. Data were collected from two online chemistry courses (N = 159) through an anonymous online …

Data Trends 2022-2023, Office Of Institutional Research, Seton Hall University

Fact Books

No abstract provided.

Security Analysis: A Critical Thinking Approach, Michael W. Collier

EKUOPEN: Open Textbooks

Security Analysis: A Critical-Thinking Approach is for anyone desiring to learn techniques for generating the best answers to complex questions and best solutions to complex problems. It furnishes current and future analysts in national security, homeland security, law enforcement, and corporate security an alternative, comprehensive process for conducting both intelligence analysis and policy analysis. The target audience is upper-division undergraduate students and new graduate students, along with entry-level practitioner trainees. The book centers on a Security Analysis Critical-Thinking Framework that synthesizes critical-thinking and existing analytic techniques. Ample examples are provided to assist readers in comprehending the material. Newly created material …

Away From Home: William Gifford Palgrave's Letters From India, 1847-1848, David E. Latane

English Publications

William Gifford Palgrave (1826-1888) became one of the great Victorian travelers, immortalized in a poem by Alfred Tennyson, “To Ulysses,” in 1888. The letters transcribed here are the record of his first voyage outward in 1847 as an Ensign in the 8th Bombay regiment of native infantry, just after his graduating with a First from Oxford. The letters are found in volume 5 of the Palgrave papers (British Library Add. MS 45738). The first letter is to his mother, dated 28 January 1847 from “Off Cape Mondego” in Portugal, and it describes life on board an outbound steamer. The last …

Student Experiences With Active Learning Across Course Delivery Modalities, Devin Berg

ASEE North Midwest Section Annual Conference 2023 Publications

Background: Methods for the delivery of instruction in the engineering classroom have been shifting at an increased rate over the past few years due to several factors. Pedagogical approaches which have seen increased growth in adoption include the use of online delivery, for full courses or for portions of a course, pre-recorded preparatory material, and active-learning activities. According to the literature, students generally appreciate the use of active in-class experiences where there is ample time for asking questions and solving problems.
Method: In this paper, I examine student perceptions of the use of a flipped-classroom approach with high levels of …