Streamlining Project Development Through Planning & Environmental Linkages

As transportation agencies continue to explore ways to be more efficient in the project development process, they are embracing integrated methodologies like planning and environmental linkages. This tool is practical, yet highly effective and inclusive, and teams across the country are experiencing its value. This presentation will highlight a variety of use cases, discuss lessons learned and best practices, and specifically address how planning and environmental linkages can be applied in Indiana and the Midwest

Rec Needs a New Rhythm Cuz Rap Is Where We\u27re Livin\u27

This research presents an autoethnographic strategy for self-reflection by sharing stories consistent with Indigenous methodologies and establishing a frame for re-mixing leisure theory. As an autoethnographic study, we reflect on how we have been engaged, changed, and challenged to rethink understandings of leisure and ourselves as leisure scholar-practitioners as a result of listening to rap music, especially composed by Aboriginal young people. We pause on questions related to how Aboriginal young people challenge leisure theory and its relevance to their lives through their rap and hip hop performances

Doctoral Students and Writing Group Pedagogy for English Communication : Coaching Research Writing at a Japanese University

The student-advisor relationshipis critical with in the academic research environment in doctoral education. Like academic staff, doctoral students write papers, present data, and teach. As such, doctoral students communicate with academic staff to learn academic discourse as well as contribute to the output of research. In Japan, the relationship between doctoral student and advisor in a Japanese university context can be complicated by a lack of a common language between international doctoral students and Japanese advisors. Not all Japanese faculty are proficient in English and many international doctoral students are English Foreign Language (EFL) learners not proficient in Japanese. In addition, cultural traditions such as the senpai-kohai relationship that require deep respect of teachers by students can stifle communication between doctoral students and Japanese advisors. This qualitative study examines the use of English writing groups as a pedagogical tool and third-party facilitator as part of a communities of practice approach to improve English communication skills of doctoral student EFL learners in a Japanese university context. At a Japanese national university, we organized English speaking writing groups that consisted of eleven international doctoral students, three non-Japanese professors and one Japanese professor who met over a sixteen-week period. Despite the writing group’s aim to produce are search paper in English, results from this study show improvement in workplace communication skills of dialogue, presentation, and the ability to ask questions.©2019 Vakki and the authorsfi=vertaisarvioitu|en=peerReviewed

Electronic Channel Customers for Financial Products: Test of Ability-Motivation-Opportunity Model

Our empirical study focuses on consumers in the financial services industry where on-line sales channels are becoming more important. We present our findings in the following sections. First we discuss the consumer and organizational perspective of on-line channels for financial services. We identify the components of our model and analyze the empirical survey-based results used to validate it. And finally we present the results and managerial implications that arise from our study

Predicting interpersonal competence and self-worth from adolescent relationships and relationship networks: Variable-centered and person-centered perspectives

A two-year longitudinal investigation examined adolescents\u27 (N = 100 girls and 99 boys) perceptions of social support in relationships with mothers, close friends, and romantic partners from Grade 10 (ages 14-16) to Grade 12 (ages 16-18). Adolescents, mothers, and close friends also provided descriptions of the participants\u27 global self-worth and interpersonal competence. Variable-centered and person-centered analyses revealed that perceived social support tends to be similar across relationships and stable over time. Variable-centered analyses indicated that social support in mother-adolescent relationships was uniquely related to adolescent global self-worth; that social support in close friendships was uniquely related to social acceptance, friendship competence, and romantic competence; and that social support in romantic relationships was uniquely related to romantic competence. Person-centered analyses indicated that adolescents who reported high social support in all three relationships had higher selfworth and greater interpersonal competence than those who did not have a romantic relationship and who reported low social support in relationships with mothers and close friends; and that scores for adolescents who had a romantic relationship but who reported low social support in all three relationships fell in between these two groups. Taken together, variable-centered analyses suggest that different relationships influence different dimensions of competence, but person-centered analyses indicate that a sizable proportion of adolescents have relationships that act in concert with one another. Copyright © 2006 by Wayne State University Press

CSLINC: A Nationwide CS MOOC for Second-level Students

This poster introduces CSLINC, a free scaffolded MOOC framework tailored to second-level students in Ireland that consists of: an online platform built for accessibility; a suite of modules developed upon international best practices with varying co-creators; and automated assessment and certificates of completion. Its aim is to provide content to promote national CS curricula to all second-level students in Ireland. In September 2021, CSLINC launched to 10,000 students across 100 schools. Future work will include collecting and collating research to validate CSLINC’s goals, scaffolding that will build foundations for national curriculum learning outcomes, and measure its impact on students, their perceptions and follow on CS uptake at second-level in Ireland.https://arrow.tudublin.ie/cddpos/1012/thumbnail.jp

Improving Document Retention Through Data Management Dashboards

Transportation projects continue to get more complex, requiring multi-layer collaboration, documentation, compliance, and more. Through specific use cases, we will demonstrate how project teams can use innovative platforms to build data management dashboards for project management and document retention for mid-West and Indiana mobility projects. This specialized visual tool brings important documents and data together, incorporates customized information, and evolves it to meet client needs in modern and easy to understand metrics

CSinc: An inclusive K-12 outreach model

This poster describes the early development of a K-12 outreach model, named CSinc, to promote CS in Ireland. It has already been piloted with over 4500 K-12 students in its first year. At the heart of the model is a two-hour camp that incorporates an on-site school delivery. Schools from all over Ireland self-selected to participate, including male only, female only and mixed schools. The no-cost nature of the model meant a range of schools participated from officially designated disadvantaged to private fee-paying. During the initial deployment over 2500 pre- and post- surveys have been collected. This data will allow for further model improvement and validation. A positive initial outcome was the balance of male and female participants, 46:54 respectively. This poster describes the model structure in detail and outlines early findings

Learning about our Disciplinary Reading through Interdisciplinary Conversations

This reflective essay explores some of what we have learned by participating in an interdisciplinary Scholarship of Teaching and Learning project about disciplinary reading. In dialogic form, we reflect on why we chose to get involved in this project, how this project has changed our understanding of reading in and across the disciplines, and how it affects our teaching practices going forward. We hope this form will reflect our excitement in these interdisciplinary conversations and will encourage readers to seek opportunities for their own interdisciplinary dialogues about reading. In our conclusion we offer a few framing suggestions for those who wish to set up more conversations about reading &nbsp

3D transdimensional seismic tomography of the inner core

Body wave observations of the Earth's inner core show that it contains strong seismic heterogeneity, both laterally and radially. Models of inner core structure generated using body wave data are often limited by their parameterisation. Thus, it is difficult to determine whether features such as anisotropic hemispheres or an innermost inner core truly exist with their simple shapes, or result only from the chosen parameterisation and are in fact more complex features. To overcome this limitation, we conduct seismic tomography using transdimensional Markov Chain Monte Carlo on a high quality dataset of 5296 differential and 2344 absolute P-wave travel times. In a transdimensional approach, the data defines the model space parameterisation, providing us with both the mean value of each model parameter and its probability distribution, allowing us to identify well versus poorly constrained regions. We robustly recover many first order observations found in previous studies without the imposition of a priori fixed geometry including an isotropic top layer (with anisotropy less than 1%) which is between 60 and 170 km thick, and separated into hemispheres with a slow west and a faster east. Strong anisotropy (with a maximum of 7.2%) is found mainly in the west, with much weaker anisotropy in the east. We observe for the first time that the western anisotropic zone is largely confined to the northern hemisphere, a property which would not be recognised in models assuming a simple hemispherical parameterisation. We further find that the inner most inner core, in which the slowest anisotropic velocity direction is tilted relative to Earth's axis of rotation (zeta = 55 & PLUSMN; 16), is offset by 400 km from the centre of the inner core and is restricted to the eastern hemisphere. We propose that this anomalous anisotropy might indicate the presence of a different phase of iron (either bcc or fcc) compared to the rest of the inner core (hcp)