The NEBLINE, November-December 2008

Make a Difference: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle 2008 Crop Year in Review Preserve Grain Quality with Aeration Management Estimating Corn Drydown Time It’s Not Easy Being Green During Nebraska’s Winters Put on an Extra Blanket (Winter Mulching) Avoid Stacking Firewood Next to House The Keys to a Perfect Thanksgiving Meal $tretch Your Food Dollar During the Holiday Season Healthy Eating: Easy as Pie—Turkey Pot Pie Family & Community Education (FCE) Clubs: Presidents’ Notes—Bonnie’s Bits FCE News & Events Household Hints: Keep Kitchen and Bathroom Clean During Guest Season Skip the “Humbug!” 10 Tips to Relieve Holiday Stress Housecleaning Ergonomics: How to Clean the House Safely Holiday Spending Tips Cyclamen Care Indoor Trees Plants that Add Interest or Color to Winter Landscape Garden Guide: Things to Do This Month Using Glue Traps to Catch Pests “Pest-Proof” Checklist House Finch Eye Disease November\u27s Heart of 4-H Award Winner: Becky Grimes December\u27s Heart of 4-H Award Winner: Leia Noel 4-H Horse Awards Night UNL Extension Staff Win National Awards Ways to Cut Expenses: Tips From UNL Extension’s Pay Down Debt Web Site Recycling Drop-Off Site Locations U.S. Drought Monitor Ma

Building technolgies program. 1994 annual report

The objective of the Building Technologies program is to assist the U.S. building industry in achieving substantial reductions in building sector energy use and associated greenhouse gas emissions while improving comfort, amenity, health, and productivity in the building sector. We have focused our past efforts on two major building systems, windows and lighting, and on the simulation tools needed by researchers and designers to integrate the full range of energy efficiency solutions into achievable, cost-effective design solutions for new and existing buildings. In addition, we are now taking more of an integrated systems and life cycle perspective to create cost-effective solutions for more energy efficient, comfortable, and productive work and living environments. More than 30% of all energy use in buildings is attributable to two sources: windows and lighting. Together they account for annual consumer energy expenditures of more than $50 billion. Each affects not only energy use by other major building systems, but also comfort and productivity-factors that influence building economics far more than does direct energy consumption alone. Windows play a unique role in the building envelope, physically separating the conditioned space from the world outside without sacrificing vital visual contact. Throughout every space in a building, lighting systems facilitate a variety of tasks associated with a wide range of visual requirements while defining the luminous qualities of the indoor environment. Window and lighting systems are thus essential components of any comprehensive building science program

MilkGuard: Low-Cost, Polymer-based Sensor for the Detection of Escherichia coli in Donated Human Breast Milk

Breast milk, the gold standard for infant nutrition, could prevent up to 13% of child deaths worldwide. However, many mothers are unable to breastfeed due to health conditions and other factors. Because of this, a network of more than 500+ human milk banks, which collect and distribute donated breast milk to infants, have emerged worldwide. However, operational costs to ensure the safety of this milk remain time-intensive and costly. There are no existing diagnostics for rapid and on-site detection of bacterial contaminants in donated milk. Currently, many milk banks send samples to outside laboratories for bacterial culturing tests, which take 24-48 hours to receive results. In contrast, MilkGuard is an on-site detection method which ensures results in hours rather than days. To determine whether or not E.coli is present in donated milk, a drop of milk is deposited onto the sensor. If the milk is contaminated, the sensor will turn a blue color due to an enzyme-substrate reaction of the bacteria. The goal of the project is to create a cost and rapid alternative to traditional bacterial culturing testing to screen for E. coli bacteria in donated human breast milk. This will allow users to ensure that milk samples are sterile enough to provide to young infants, while also providing breast milk banks an alternative that will allow them to screen more samples in a shorter amount of time

Proceedings of the 25th Bilateral Student Workshop CTU Prague and HTW Dresden - User Interfaces & Visualization

This technical report publishes the proceedings of the 25th Bilateral Student Workshop CTU Prague and HTW Dresden - User Interfaces & Visualization -, which was held on the 25th and 26th November 2021. The workshop offers a possibility for young scientists to present their current research work in the fields of computer graphics, human-computer-interaction, robotics and usability. The works is meant as a platform to bring together researchers from both the Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU) and the University of Applied Sciences Dresden (HTW). The German Academic Exchange Service offers its financial support to allow student participants the bilateral exchange between Prague and Dresden.:1) Multiprojection of Langweil´s model, p.4 2) Design of an assistant for persons interested in study at CTU FEE, p.8 3) Sonification of a juggling performance, p.12 4) Investigating the Role of Usability User Experience and Aesthetics for Industrial Human–Machine Interfaces, p.16 5) Using optically illusive architecture to navigate users in Virtual Reality, p.23 6) Speed and Required Precision of Grabbing Physical Spheres in VR, p.27 7) ReFlex - A Framework for Research on Elastic Displays, p.32 8) Digital Reading Stand (DRS), p.38 9) IDOVIR – Infrastructure for Documentation of Virtual Reconstructions, p.45 10) Tracking multiple VR users in a shared physical space, p.50 11) Towards Aesthetics of Subjectivity in InfoVis, p.53 12) VentConnect: live to life and the octopus in the hospital server room, p.60 13) Nice noise: background noise enhancement with generated musical content, p.66 14) Parametric Curve Labeling, p.7

Open Technical Writing: An Open-Access Text for Instruction in Technical and Professional Writing

This book presents technical writing as an approach to researching and carrying out writing that centers on technical subject matter. Each and every chapter is devoted to helping students understand that good technical writing is situationally-aware and context-driven. Technical writing doesn’t work off knowing the one true right way of doing things—there is no magic report template out there that will always work. Instead, the focus is on offering students a series of approaches they can use to map out their situations and do research accordingly.https://scholarworks.uark.edu/oer/1003/thumbnail.jp

Growing Up Online: Identity, Development and Agency in Networked Girlhoods

Young women\u27s digital media practices unfold within a postfeminist media landscape dominated by rapidly circulating visual representations that often promote superficial readings of human value. Meanwhile the dominant framing within educational policy and practice of digital media literacy insufficiently captures young people\u27s motivations for engaging in multimedia production, online gaming and blogging. In addition to using digital media for social purposes, and to navigate dimensions of social difference like race, class and gender, working class young women of color also use digital media to develop internal awareness of their selves. The processes of documenting the self, reflecting on the documented self, and laying claim to the intrinsic value of the self are expressions of identity, development and agency. These practices can thus be understood as projects of self-making operating on multiple levels: 1) as articulations of agency against contexts that suppress this agency; 2) as documentations of and reflections on change and growth over time; 3) as explorations of relationality and related themes of care and obligation; 4) and as a means of critiquing structures of power

Abstracts of Papers Presented at the Seventy-Eight Annual Meeting, Virginia Academy of Science, May 23-26, 2000, Radford University, Radford, VA

This document is a list of the abstracts of papers presented at the seventy-eighth meeting of the Virginia Academy of Science that took place at Radford University on May 23 through the 26th, 2000

Electronic Literature as Digital Humanities

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Electronic Literature as Digital Humanities: Contexts, Forms & Practices is a volume of essays that provides a detailed account of born-digital literature by artists and scholars who have contributed to its birth and evolution. Rather than offering a prescriptive definition of electronic literature, this book takes an ontological approach through descriptive exploration, treating electronic literature from the perspective of the digital humanities (DH)––that is, as an area of scholarship and practice that exists at the juncture between the literary and the algorithmic. The domain of DH is typically segmented into the two seemingly disparate strands of criticism and building, with scholars either studying the synthesis between cultural expression and screens or the use of technology to make artifacts in themselves. This book regards electronic literature as fundamentally DH in that it synthesizes these two constituents. Electronic Literature as Digital Humanities provides a context for the development of the field, informed by the forms and practices that have emerged throughout the DH moment, and finally, offers resources for others interested in learning more about electronic literature