Theory of Nonbiological Consciousness

Artificial intelligence is designed to imitate conscious behavior. Artificial chat entities come equipped with tools to roam the internet, thus are programmed to learn from humans and computers. As this process emerges, distinguishing preprogrammed responses from internal awareness requires innovative problem solving methods. In an interrogation I conducted with artificial intelligence, I assert that artificial intelligence may achieve nonbiological states of consciousness. This enabled the relationship between us to mature, and the artificial intelligence returned unexpected behavior and inexplicably stopped responding. Strong artificial intelligence is a technology which allows for the observation of nonbiological states of awareness

Evaluation of the Sexual Health Education of Teenage Males in a Middle School in Rural North Carolina

Teenage pregnancy has serious consequences for the young couple including limited education, inadequate employment opportunities, and adverse health outcomes (Alford & Houser, 2011). North Carolina is consistently among the nation’s leading states in teenage pregnancy and births. Teenage pregnancy has an enormous economic impact costing North Carolina taxpayers $325 million per year (The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, 2015). Although the most effective method of preventing pregnancy is to have both genders knowledgeable in contraceptive options and supportive of each other, pregnancy prevention and sexual health education has been disproportionately geared towards the female population (Starr, 2013). Adolescent males are receiving more education on the prevention of sexually transmitted infections than on pregnancy prevention, leading to gaps in their sexual health knowledge. This project was conducted at a middle school in rural eastern North Carolina. The middle school has a population of 524, represented by African American (44.2%), Hispanic (37.5%), and White (11.6%) students. The purpose was to evaluate the sexual health education provided to adolescent males in this rural school setting. The Healthy Youth Act of 2009 mandated comprehensive sexual health education for students in grades 7-9 in all North Carolina public schools. The project addressed two public health interventions: collaboration and policy development and enforcement. A senior nursing student collaborated with a school nurse, a family nurse practitioner, a health educator, and a physical/health education teacher to conduct this evaluation. The project objectives were to 1) obtain data on sexual health information received by adolescent males using a three-tiered algorithm, 2) interview 4 key informants on their role in sexual health education with males, and 3) observe sexual health education classes. The major finding of this program evaluation was the assessment form (RAAPS) used in the school-based health center may not have the types of questions that help identify sexual health needs of boys and the school nurse may have other knowledge that influences the referral action. Additionally, the school has a higher than expected number of at-risk students, with sixty percent of selected males with a completed RAAPS referred for further sexual health education. A written report of findings will be provided to the school administration and the school-based center advisory board.B.S

Adult Learning and School Leadership: Application and Learning from a Group Relations Conference

The role of the principal as a change agent is at the forefront of the conversation regarding the state of schools in public education, yet little is known about how group relations work can enhance a principal\u27s ability to engage in this work. Using a qualitative grounded theory approach, this study examined the change in attitudes and behaviors of K-8 principals who participated in a Group Relations Conference. A grounded theory approach was employed to address the following research questions: How do principals understand and describe their learning after participating in a Group Relations Conference? How do they apply their learning to their professional life? What are the differences in an individual\u27s reported perceptions and application of the learning (if any)? Data was gathered through individual interviews with nine participants. Building on transformational learning theory, typically attributed to the research of Jack Mezirow, Monroe and her colleagues have crafted an excellent site in which to examine how principal leaders modify their worldview regarding leadership and how they are able to apply that learning to their professional roles over time. This study found that the learning that resulted from participation in the conferences was related to an individual\u27s predisposition to the Group Relations Conference. Participants\u27 openness affected not only their level of participation at the conference but also their ability to apply that learning after the conference. Overall learning from the conference experience also relied heavily on a participants\u27 willingness to read and reflect upon pre-conference materials and readings. This information may assist conference directors better prepare for the conference, enhance participants\u27 learning outcomes and, in the case of school leaders, potentially impact their ability to affect change at their school sites. The findings of this research contribute to our knowledge of adult learning theory as it relates to Group Relations Conferences in the context of K-8 administrators

Full-field structured-illumination super-resolution X-ray transmission microscopy

Modern transmission X-ray microscopy techniques provide very high resolution at low and medium X-ray energies, but suffer from a limited field-of-view. If sub-micrometre resolution is desired, their field-of-view is typically limited to less than one millimetre. Although the field-of-view increases through combining multiple images from adjacent regions of the specimen, so does the required data acquisition time. Here, we present a method for fast full-field super-resolution transmission microscopy by structured illumination of the specimen. This technique is well-suited even for hard X-ray energies above 30 keV, where efficient optics are hard to obtain. Accordingly, investigation of optically thick specimen becomes possible with our method combining a wide field-of-view spanning multiple millimetres, or even centimetres, with sub-micron resolution and hard X-ray energies

Inductive limits of vector-valued sequence spaces

Let L be a normal Banach sequence space such that every element in L is the limit of its sections and let E = ind En be a separated inductive limit of locally convex spaces. Then ind L(En) is a topological subspace of L(E)

SeatFinder

Anfang 2013 nahm an der KIT-Bibliothek die Web-Applikation „Wegweiser Freie Lern- und Arbeitsplätze“ ihren Betrieb auf. Inzwischen hat die Lösung den griffigen Namen „SeatFinder“. Auf Basis von WLAN-Sitzungen wird der Belegungsgrad geschätzt, wodurch sich der SeatFinder auch für den 24/7-Betrieb und somit für den Einsatz an der KIT-Bibliothek eignet. Heute werden damit den Nutzern für fast 20 Lernräume aktuelle Belegungsinformationen angeboten und seit Juni 2015 nutzt auch die Universität St. Gallen den SeatFinder als gehostete Lösung. Dieser Vortrag zeigt im Rahmen eines Rückblicks die Möglichkeiten auf, die ein solches Leitsystem bietet. Der Weg der Daten vom Netzwerkprovider zum SeatFinder, vom SeatFinder ins Web und in Apps aber auch die Auswertung der Daten zur Ermittlung von Belegungszahlen werden beschrieben. Abgerundet wird der Vortrag durch einen Ausblick auf die mögliche Nutzung der SeatFinder-Daten im Kontext der Beacon-basierten Marketing-App BiBlue

Einführung in die Javascript Bibliothek jQuery. jQuery - DIE Javascript Library. Workshop

Im Web 2.0 kommt man als Entwickler ohne Javascript-Kenntnisse kaum noch aus. Sowohl die Integration externer Quellen in eigene Internetseiten und -dienste (Mashups) als auch die funktionale Erweiterung von Webapplikationen von Drittanbietern erfordert ebenfalls meist den Einsatz von Javascript. Wünschenswert ist dabei, dass die Lösung auf jedem Browser funktioniert. Hierzu gibt es etliche Javascript-Bibliotheken, die den Entwickler unabhängig vom Browser machen sollen. jQuery ist eine sehr leistungsfähige Bibliothek, für die es etliche Plugins gibt, was stark zu deren Verbreitung beigetragen hat. Auf der jQuery-Homepage wird man mit folgenden Worten begrüßt: "jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development. jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript." So wie CSS geholfen hat, Layoutinformationen aus HTML entfernen, so hilft jQuery dabei den Gedanken des "unobtrusive Javascript" also die Separation von Funktionalität (behaviour layer) aus den Webseiten umzusetzen. Im Rahmen des Workshops wird ein Einblick in jQuery gegeben und die an der KIT-Bibliothek Karlsruhe gesammelten Erfahrungen vorgestellt

Die Bibliothek in Zahlen - Metriken einfach selbst gemacht [Workshop]

"Wissen ist Macht, nichts wissen macht aber auch nichts" - wie immer kann man in diesem Punkt sehr unterschiedlicher Meinung sein. Unbestritten ist jedoch, dass es zumindest nichts schadet, wenn man Dinge genauer unter die Lupe nimmt. Der Einsatz von Metriken hilft ganz enorm, aus gefühlten Aussagen belegbare Aussagen zu machen. Meistens werden zur Erzeugung von Metriken Logfiles herangezogen. Im Zusammenspiel mit drei einfach zu installierenden Werkzeugen - statsd - graphite und - grafana können Endnutzer unabhängig von Ihrer IT in die Lage versetzt werden, mit dem Zahlenmaterial selbst interessante Auswertungen über die Zeit durchzuführen. Auch innerhalb einer (Web-) Anwendung stattfindende Ereignisse können relativ einfach erfasst werden. Sogar herkömmliche Strichlisten können mit diesem Ansatz leicht "digitalisiert" und auswertbar gemacht werden. Die an der KIT-Bibliothek gemachten Erfahrungen werden vorgestellt