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Introduction: Selected Papers From The 4th, World Conference On Women’S Studies, Colombo, Sri Lanka, May 2018, Madhavi Venkatesan

Journal of International Women's Studies

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Time-Lapse And Cure-On-Demand Polymerizations For Adhesives, Wood Repair And Art, John A. Pojman

Science Seminars

The goal of cure-on-demand polymerization is to create one-pot systems that have a long shelf live but will react rapidly when curing is desired. We use two approaches: coupling polymerizations with clock reactions and an approach called frontal polymerization in which a localized reaction zone propagates from the coupling of thermal transport and the Arrhenius dependence of the reaction rate of an exothermic polymerization. We demonstrate that frontal polymerization can be used to create a cure-on-demand putty for filling holes in wood, marble, and sheet rock. The putty has a months-to-years shelf life, is a one-pot formulation, can be applied …

Pressbooks And Associated Technologies: Innovative Projects, Creating And Publishing Books By Libraries, Matt Lee, Shane Nackerud, Kendall Larson, Ruth Dukelow

Library Technology Conference

This panel presentation shares innovative ways to engage patrons from a variety of library types and patrons including students, faculty, and teachers. In one case study, Winona State University has collaboratively published three books written by graduate students in Leadership Education. WSU used a variety of technologies, one of which is Pressbooks. Fortunately WSU has supported and has access to the subscription level Pressbooks through the statewide subscription available by Minnesota Libraries Publishing Project (MLPP) initiative. In addition to Pressbooks, Canva, Ingramspark, Adobe Creative Cloud, and bepress Digital Commons are all used in our process to create and publish print …

Beyond The One Shot: Planning Multi-Day Tech Workshops, Megan Hartline

Library Technology Conference

Anyone who has delivered a one-shot instruction session knows the learning outcomes in a single workshop are best kept bite-sized. Designing a longer tech training will leave your library learners with a deeper understanding of the tech topic - but multi-day sessions require more planning. This session will cover the nuts and bolts of how to plan engaging and effective tech training series for any age. Whether teaching coding or social media, multi-day sessions will encourage your attendees to build relationships with one another and explore how the tech topic can be applied in their own lives.

Full Issue 48(1)

International Journal of Speleology

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International Journal of Speleology

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Better Questions For Better Usability, Amy Luedtke, Stephanie Rosso, Tony Hirt

Library Technology Conference

Usability testing is invaluable for helping us understand what our users want and need, and asking good questions can help us gain the most insight. Usability testing questions that are relevant, clear, and inclusive are key to discovering what good usability really means for our users. The Hennepin County Library usability team will share what we’ve learned from our ongoing usability testing about creating the best and most helpful usability tasks. We’ll also share tips on helpful follow-up questions and how to use questions to redirect usability participants that go down unexpected paths. Whether you're new to or experienced with …

Chat Reference At The State Library: #Everythingnc To Everyone (In) Nc, Erin Holmes, Jen Hanft

Library Technology Conference

At the North Carolina Government & Heritage Library, part of the State Library of North Carolina, we have seen our in-person library traffic decrease as the online traffic to our resources has increased. In an effort to meet our patrons where they are, we now offer chat reference during our Monday-Friday business hours. As a library that serves a variety of patron types from all over the state, our patrons range from kindergarten through college students and teachers to family history researchers, from state government employees to library employees, and all types of public researchers in between. The lessons we’ve …

The Escape Room: Supporting Student Success Through A Game-Based Immersive Experience, Justin Haynes, David Tully

Library Technology Conference

Our library prides itself on embracing new and innovative ways to encourage students to connect to and utilize the Libraries’ resources and services. In August 2018 we created a library Escape Room, highlighting key resources and technologies to promote library literacy through a game-based, active learning exercise. Escape Rooms are a recent and popular phenomenon. They are a physical adventure game that require participants to complete a series of puzzles or tasks to advance to the next stage and, eventually, to “escape from the room.” The challenges our participants face compel them to engage with various elements of our Makerspace, …

Student Podcasting Assignments: Merging Information Literacy And Technology Training In The College Classroom, Diana Symons, Adam Konczewski

Library Technology Conference

The CSB/SJU Libraries and CSB/SJU Instructional Technology (formerly Media Services) staff have recently started partnering with faculty from several departments on student podcasting assignments. This session will go over assignment details, the free and relatively simple-to-use technologies we employ, and the supporting documents and resources we’ve developed to support student success. We’ll examine how common information literacy learning objectives for more traditional, paper-based assignments map to podcasting assignments. Session presenters will also address the strengths we each bring to this project (i.e., expertise in information literacy instruction versus technology training and support) and how our shared contributions have led to …

The Dynamic And Diverse Scholarly Information Landscape: What's Next?, Theresa Borchert, Virginia Connell

Library Technology Conference

We believe that there have been recent fundamental changes in how faculty gather scholarly information, collaborate with others, and teach students. We created a faculty survey to discover how these trends are changing, how they affect access delivery, and how they might impact our teaching at a small liberal arts college. Considering these changes, are the tools we pay for and use in libraries still cost effective? If we believe scaffolding information literacy instruction is important, how should we bring students through our education systems and beyond? These are the kinds of questions we had about faculty research trends. We …

Virtually Expanding Your Bookshelves, Colleen Hallfrisch

Library Technology Conference

Library buildings are expensive and cannot be continually expanded to fit the always increasing amount of items available for library communities. The Beaver Dam Community Library is running out of shelving space, yet the librarians are able to add thousands of new materials to their shelves each year. Over the last three years, the Beaver Dam Community Library has expanded the digital resources available to its community. Applications such as RBDigital, Overdrive, Hoopla, and several more offer patrons an expanded amount of items ready for checkout. Movies, e-books, e-audiobooks, and music are all available at the click of a button, …

Esther Reed's Political Sentiments And Rhetoric During The Revolutionary War, Kennedy Harkins

The Pegasus Review: UCF Undergraduate Research Journal

In 1780, during the final stretch of the American Revolutionary War, Esther Reed penned the broadside "Sentiments of an American Woman." It circulated in Philadelphia, persuading citizens to turn over their last dollars to the cause. Reed's broadside called to action the women of Philadelphia; they knocked on doors, campaigned with words, and stepped firmly into the "man's world" of politics and revolution. Reed's words were so effective that women in cities across the colonies took to raising money as well. Using New Historicist and feminist reading strategies, this study compares and contrasts Reed's rhetoric to Thomas Paine's Common Sense …

The Effect Of Social Hierarchy On Behavior In Cercopithecus Petaurista, Mason Reinhart

The Pegasus Review: UCF Undergraduate Research Journal

The social group hierarchy of three captive C. petaurista specimens was monitored and determined by observing agnostic fights, aggression, and allogrooming incidents. This social group was monitored from May to August in 2017 for 60.5 observation hours total as a continuation of a previous study conducted in spring of 2017. The study took place at the Central Florida Zoo and Botanical Gardens. All observations were recorded on template sheets with the location of each individual noted on a 6x6 grid representing the enclosure. A new sheet was used for each 15-minute increment during observation periods. It was concluded that agnostic …

Grooming Solicitation & Hierarchy In Cercopithecus Petaurista, Ryan Domitz

The Pegasus Review: UCF Undergraduate Research Journal

Allogrooming is a behavioral adaptation present in many primate systems that serves to organize social hierarchies and promote social cohesion by placating future agonistic conspecifics. Lesser Spot-Nosed Guenons (Cercopithecus petaurista) are one species that exhibits allogrooming both in the wild and in captive populations. In a population of C. petaurista, dominant males perform proportionately less allogrooming than do females, possibly indicating dominant individuals are the recipients of higher rates of allogrooming than are subordinate ones. My case study catalogs the activity budgets of three captive Lesser Spot-Nosed monkeys and investigates the relationship between allogrooming, solicitation of allogrooming, and aggression. It …

Donald Trump And Doublespeak: An Unsettling Precursor To The Dystopian Society Of George Orwell's 1984, Ivy Mckay

The Pegasus Review: UCF Undergraduate Research Journal

This paper analyses Donald Trump's 2016 Presidential campaign alongside George Orwell's 1984 I analyze specific social elements, including the rhetoric of Trump's supporters, the idea of post-truth, and power, and I exemplify how Trump's campaign and the government in Orwell's novel (the Party) share several commonalities. Trump's self-contradictory speaking and the use of Doublespeak in 1984 is one of the similarities between the fiction of Orwell's text and the reality of our lived experience. Furthermore, the paper discusses the possible effects of this Orwellian Party-like administration. In the final analysis, I conclude that George Orwell's vision of a dystopian future …

An Evaluation Of Mobile Applications For Improving Health In Older Adults: A Review Of The Literature, Patrick Healy

The Pegasus Review: UCF Undergraduate Research Journal

There are over one million mobile applications or "apps" available for use in improving health. One population that could potentially benefit from the use of mobile applications is the elderly. Choosing appropriate applications can be daunting, however, and there is a paucity of research identifying which applications are useful for elderly patients. The aim of this study is to perform a literature review regarding the available mobile applications for health and fitness and to provide health care providers with evidence-based information about other potentially useful and novel applications for their older patients.

In an attempt to address the need for …

Energy Consumption And Routing Model For First Responder Vehicles, Alex Rodriguez

The Pegasus Review: UCF Undergraduate Research Journal

The ongoing research and prototyping of electric vehicles (EVs) offers numerous opportunities to investigate their performance in various service contexts. As EVs are integrated into society, the reliable prediction of fuel consumption and routing time becomes particularly important in emergency response services. This project develops a preliminary stochastic model that can route and predict the energy consumption and travel time for hypothetical emergency vehicles operating on an electric battery cell. Using a Monte-Carlo framework, we constructed a routing model designed to minimize travel time and resource consumption under various simulated conditions. In doing so, we establish the foundation for balancing …

Throttling Downlink Throughput To Mitigate Device Temperature Increase, Shivank Nayak, Blake Kragten, Siddharth Ray

Defensive Publications Series

The temperature of a mobile device can increase due to heavy use, e.g., high-speed downloads, large computational load, etc. Sustained periods of high temperature can damage the mobile device. The techniques of this disclosure reduce downlink throughput upon detection of device temperature that exceeds a threshold. Throughput is reduced, e.g., by signaling the thermal state to the network, by reporting lower channel quality indicator (CQI) values to the network, etc. After the temperature drops to a safe level, throughput is brought back up in a phased manner.

Task-Specific Color Spaces And Compression For Machine-Based Object Recognition, Shumeet Baluja, David Marwood, Nicholas Johnston

Defensive Publications Series

An image is compressed to reduce the memory or bandwidth it occupies. Compression is presently carried out such that the reconstructed (decompressed) image is faithful to the original image. In some recent contexts, images are generated that are not necessarily intended for human viewership. For example, such images are generated for the purposes of machine-based tasks such as action-detection, scene-recognition, etc. In such cases, compression that is driven by fidelity of the decompressed image to the original can be sub-optimal. This disclosure describes techniques to compress images based on the end use of the image. For example, if an image …

Combined Timeline And Event Detection For Internet Of Things (Iot) Data Feeds, Saptarshi Bhattacharya, Shreedhar Madhavapeddi

Defensive Publications Series

Different Internet of Things (IoT) devices capture data relevant to respective functions and transmit such data over the Internet such that it can be stored and accessed by the user. Typically, such data access is limited to the respective single IoT device. Examining data from multiple IoT devices requires the user to check the data feed from each device separately. This disclosure describes techniques to combine data feeds from multiple IoT devices and sensors to generate a single combined data timeline with the user’s permission. The timeline is processed and filtered via smart algorithms to derive and mark events of …

Local Web Archiving For The Uninitiated Public Library: The Community Webs Program, Maria Praetzellis, Emilirose Rasmusson, Jacquelyn Oshman

Library Technology Conference

Many public libraries have active local history collections and collect print materials that document their communities, but, due to to various challenges, very few public libraries are building web archives. Community Webs is an IMLS-funded program that provides education, training, professional networking, and technical services to enable public libraries to fulfill this vital role. Participating libraries have been using Archive-It, the web archiving tool of the Internet Archive. This panel presentation will feature a representative from the Internet Archive and program participants from cohort libraries of varying sizes, including the New Brunswick Free Library of New Brunswick, NJ, and the …

A Tale Of Two Libraries And Their Streaming Video, Barb Bergman, Cindy Badilla-Melén

Library Technology Conference

Learn the pros and cons of streaming video, which offers convenience and functionality but also concerns about privacy and preservation. You'll learn from the experience of two libraries currently using this technology.

Using Your Library's Virtual Presence To Reach Users With Disabilities, Renee Grassi

Library Technology Conference

Is your library working towards improving accessibility to customers with disabilities? Have you developed new programs and services that intentionally welcome individuals with special needs, but are struggling to connect with your target audience? Developing inclusive library services will be more effective if your library connects with the disability community, and leveraging your organization’s virtual presence will help you do that. Dakota County Library’s Youth Services Manager Renee Grassi will share strategies to optimize your library’s website, social media, and digital resources to welcome individuals with disabilities at the library. Learn about innovative, easily replicable and cost-efficient ways to increase …

Untethered: Utilizing An Ipad Flashcard App To Interactively Engage And Educate Attendees At Outreach Activities, Katherine Chew

Library Technology Conference

Attracting event attendees to stop and interact with library staff about library resources and services is a persistent problem in librarianship, especially when you are competing against other, “flashier” exhibits within the immediate area. The challenge is to come up with a way to captivate people and engage them long enough to enlighten them about what the library has to offer that doesn’t involve lugging around a heavy or awkward laptop and requiring access to often patchy or expensive internet service.

Code-Switching In Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza And Sandra Cisnero's Caramelo, Julia Jordan

The Pegasus Review: UCF Undergraduate Research Journal

This research explores the practice of code-switching by bilingual Latinx writers by looking at the works Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldúa and Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros. In addition to discussing these two primary sources, the paper draws upon scholarly analyses of these works and the practice of code switching at large. This review discusses the growing prevalence of code-switching in Latinx literature, the subversive nature of the practice of code-switching, and the different approaches towards and functions of code-switching in literature. Ultimately, this research demonstrates the ways in which Anzaldúa and Cisneros use code-switching to explore Latinx …

Microgravity Experiments On Accretion In The Protoplanetary Disk, Addison Brown, Stephanie Jarmak

The Pegasus Review: UCF Undergraduate Research Journal

We present the results of an experimental investigation of low-energy collisions between cm-scale and smaller particles in the protoplanetary disk to better understand conditions conducive to the growth of planetesimals, the km-sized building blocks of planets. The COLLIDE (Collisions Into Dust Experiment) and PRIME (Physics of Regolith Impacts in Microgravity Experiment) programs involve cm-scale projectiles impacting a target bed of unconsolidated granular material in microgravity environments on Space Shuttle missions and parabolic airplane flights, respectively. In these experiments, a portion of the target material adhered onto the impactor in some lowvelocity impacts ( < 40 cm/s). Such impact speeds are too slow to study in a normal gravity environment (1 g, where g = 9.8 m/s² is the acceleration due to gravity …

Earthseed Planted: Ecofeminist Teachings In Octavia Butler's Parable Of The Sower, Delia Shahnavaz

The Pegasus Review: UCF Undergraduate Research Journal

Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower is set in a world where patriarchal supremacy has stifled not only womankind, but also the natural environment of the Earth. By exploring the innate connection between the desecrated Earth and the strangled matriarchy, this paper draws direct links to Butler's world and ecofeminist theory by Vandana Shiva and others, ultimately concluding that Butler's "Earthseed" serves as a representation of a world in which ecofeminism reigns supreme.

The Brothers: A Study Of The Social Structure Between Two Captive Cheetahs, Chenienne Clemens

The Pegasus Review: UCF Undergraduate Research Journal

Cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus) are easily differentiated among other Felids. They exhibit unique physiological features, and their type of social structure has not been seen in any other species of Felid. Coalitions of male cheetahs are seen both in the wild and in captivity, while female cheetahs remain solitary. This paper is a compilation of a twelve-week observational study of the two male cheetahs at the Central Florida Zoo in Sanford, Florida. The focus of the study was the social structure between the two related individuals. The observational data showed that there is a lack of any hierarchy or …

Temperature Effects On Greenhouse Gas Production From Treatment Wetland Soils Along A Nutrient Gradient, Kyle Dittmer, Havalend Steinmuller

The Pegasus Review: UCF Undergraduate Research Journal

It is generally accepted that increased temperatures are positively correlated with microbial respiration rates, causing greater greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (CO₂ and CH₄) from wetlands. The goal of this study was to understand the interacting effects of temperature and nutrient concentrations on GHG emissions from wetland soils. Complementary field studies and a laboratory study were completed within Cell 1 of the Orlando Wetlands Park (Christmas, FL). Four sampling locations were established along a transect and sampled in summer and winter for the field studies. Soils (0-10 cm) were incubated under anaerobic conditions for 48-hours at ambient or …