A Field Guide for Grasses and Grass-like Plants of Idaho

The purpose of this project is to develop a user-friendly field guide to grasses and grass-like plants in Idaho, specifically geared to those with limited background in botany. The guide will feature 60 Idaho grasses and grass-like plants, intended for K-16 educators and students, ranchers, land owners, recreationists, and nature enthusiasts, with accompanying K-12 lesson plans. In the form of both a printed book and an offline app for iPhones and Androids, the guide will include colorful images showing detailed characteristics and vegetative features of each grass, an easy-to-use dichotomous key, and information on each plant’s history, forage value, and fire resistance. This dual resource will meet the needs of land managers making economic decisions regarding livestock production and field treatments; university students in wildlife and range sciences conducting class exercises and field research; K-12 educators during field botany excursions, teaching the use of dichotomous keys, and ecosystem studies; and recreationists engaged in nature study. Both book and app will be distributed via the University of Idaho Rangeland Center and the Idaho Range Resource Commission

Automatic Human Body Feature Extraction in Serious Games applied to rehabilitation Robotics

Current modern society is characterized by an increasing level of elderly population. This population group is usually suffers important physical and cognitive impairments, which implies that older people need care, attention and supervision by health professionals. In this paper, a new system for supervising rehabilitation therapies using autonomous robots for elderly people is presented. The therapy explained in this work is a modified version of the classical ’Simon Says’ game, where a robot executes a list of motions and gestures that the patient has to repeat. The success of this therapy from the point of view of the software is to provide from an algorithm that detect and classified the gestures that the human is imitating. The algorithm proposed in this paper is based on the analysis of sequences of images acquired by a low cost RGB-D sensor. A set of human body features is detected and characterized during the motion, allowing the robot to classify the different gestures. In addition, this paper describes the human-robot interaction performed by the ’Simon Says’ game implementation. Experimental results demonstrate the robustness and accuracy of the detection and classification method, which is crucial for the development of the therapy.This work has been partially supported by the MICINN Project TIN2015-65686-C5-5-R, by the Extremadura Government project GR15120, and by COMPUTAEX Foundation

Gestión pedagógica y emprendimiento empresarial de los estudiantes del CETPRO La Sagrada Familia del Distrito de Hualmay, 2021

El presente estudio Gestión pedagógica y emprendimiento empresarial de los estudiantes del CETPRO La Sagrada Familia del Distrito de Hualmay. Tiene como objetivo determinar la relación entre la gestión pedagógica y emprendimiento empresarial de los estudiantes del CETPRO La Sagrada Familia del Distrito de Hualmay, 2021. Metodología de tipo de investigación básica, cuantitativa de diseño no experimental, nivel correlacional y corte transversal. La población estuvo conformada por 824 estudiantes y una muestra de 199 alumnos. Obtuvo el siguiente resultado de los 199 estudiantes de diferentes grupos profesionales, el 70.35% perciben que hay alta gestión pedagógica consiguientemente el 29.15% indica medio y el 0.50% da a conocer que hay baja gestión pedagógica en el CETPRO La Sagrada Familia del distrito de Hualmay. Conclusión: Según el análisis y contrastación de la variable gestión pedagógica y emprendimiento empresarial, se comprobó que el grado de correlación es 0.668, Por consiguiente, se afirma que estadísticamente existe relación positiva moderada entre la gestión pedagógica y emprendimiento empresarial en los estudiantes de la institución. Se concluye que con una adecuada gestión pedagógica se puede impulsar el emprendimiento empresarial de los estudiantes del Centro de Educación Técnico Productiva

Chiral recognition by dissolution dynamic nuclear polarization NMR spectroscopy

The recognition of enantiomeric molecules by chemical analytical techniques is still a challenge. A method based on d-DNP (dissolution dynamic nuclear polarization) NMR spectroscopy to study chiral recognition was described for the first time [1]. DNP allows NMR sensitivity to be boosted by several orders of magnitude, overcoming one of the main limitations of NMR spectroscopy [2]. A method integrating d-DNP and 13C-NMR-aided enantiodifferentiation using chiral solvating agents (CSA) was developed, in which only the chiral analyte was hyperpolarized and selectively observed by NMR. The described method enhances the sensitivity of the conventional NMR-based procedure [3] and lightens the common problem of signal overlapping between analyte and CSA. As proof of concept, racemic metabolite 13C-labeled DL-methionine was enantiodifferentiated by a single-scan 13C-NMR experiment. This method entails a step forward in the chiral recognition of small molecules by NMR spectroscopy; it opens new possibilities in situations where the sensitivity is limited, for example, when low analyte concentration is available or when measurement of an insensitive nucleus is required. The advantages and current limitations of the method, as well as future perspectives, are discussed

Smart-Future-Living-Bodensee

All the papers in this book correspond to works presented during the workshop ”Smart-Future-Living-Bodensee”, held in Konstanz, Germany, on November 24, 201

Engaging Stakeholder Communities as Body Image Intervention Partners: The Body Project as a Case Example

Despite recent advances in developing evidence-based psychological interventions, substantial changes are needed in the current system of intervention delivery to impact mental health on a global scale (Kazdin & Blase, 2011). Prevention offers one avenue for reaching large populations because prevention interventions often are amenable to scaling-up strategies, such as task-shifting to lay providers, which further facilitate community stakeholder partnerships. This paper discusses the dissemination and implementation of the Body Project, an evidence-based body image prevention program, across 6 diverse stakeholder partnerships that span academic, non-profit and business sectors at national and international levels. The paper details key elements of the Body Project that facilitated partnership development, dissemination and implementation, including use of community-based participatory research methods and a blended train-the-trainer and task-shifting approach. We observed consistent themes across partnerships, including: sharing decision making with community partners, engaging of community leaders as gatekeepers, emphasizing strengths of community partners, working within the community\u27s structure, optimizing non-traditional and/or private financial resources, placing value on cost-effectiveness and sustainability, marketing the program, and supporting flexibility and creativity in developing strategies for evolution within the community and in research. Ideally, lessons learned with the Body Project can be generalized to implementation of other body image and eating disorder prevention programs

Modelling the Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Index 2015

The Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Index measures the factors and policies that make attractive the development of the tourism sector in different countries, providing rankings. The World Economic Forum started its publication in 2007. In this sense, some academics such as Mazanec and Ring (2011) criticized the arbitrary approach of assigning equal weighting to the three subindexes and 13 pillars in order to form this index and have estimated several models for the Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Index. Their results present problems of multicollinearity and implausible negative sign for natural resources, among other results. However, this index changed in 2015, assigning again equal weighting to the four subindexes and 14 pillars. This work finished in 2015 constitutes modifications of the PLS-SEM model published by Mazanec and Ring in 2011. Two complementary partial least squares structural equation models tested the hypotheses of the postulated positive relationship between each pillar and this tourism competitiveness index. Our models consider other different nomograms trying mainly to avoid the problem of multicollinearity and to clarify the importance of the pillars in the index composition. In one of the models, the pillars with the greatest weight in tourism competitiveness are cultural resources and business travel and natural resources, according to the main competitiveness destinations models reviewed. In the other model, only two pillars human resources and TICs formed an exogenous composite explaining the competitiveness index’s variance. However, further research should be implemented on how to form the Travel and Tourism Competitiveness index.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech

Emotional intelligence subdimensions as moderators in theassociation between body dissatisfaction and symptoms ofeating disorders among female Mexican adolescents

Objective: Strong empirical research has shown a relationship between body dissatisfaction and symptoms of eating disorders (ED) and the direct and combined influence of emotional factors and dimensions of emotional intelligence (EI) on ED symptoms. However, whether these emotional variables and competencies moderate the well-established relationship between body dissatisfaction and ED symptomatology has not yet been tested. Neither have studies of this nature been performed among high at-risk populations such as Mexican female adolescents. Thus, this research aimed to explore the moderator role of EI subdimensions in the relationship between body dissatisfaction and ED symptoms among female adolescents from Sinaloa, Mexico. Methods: A total of 485 female adolescents aged 14–19 years old (M = 16.81,SD = 1.33) who were students in middle school, high school, and college completed questionnaires about body dissatisfaction, ED symptomatology, and EI. We conducted moderating analyses. Results: Subdimensions of EI significantly moderated the relationship between body dissatisfaction and symptoms of ED. For participants high in body dissatisfaction, lower levels in stress management ability and higher levels in the interpersonal EI and Adaptability EI dimensions were associated with higher levels of ED symptomatology. Discussion: Subdimensions of EI have an important role in moderating the association between body dissatisfaction and symptoms of ED. The findings of this study contribute to improving the knowledge about the role of emotional competencies in ED. Proposals for future research and to improve preventative approaches are discussed. Public Significance Statement: This study shows the moderating role of EI dimensions in the well-established relationship between body dissatisfaction and ED symptomatology. The research was conducted with a population at high risk of ED: female adolescents in the northwest ...Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología, Grant/Award Number: CVU:891475; Programa Estratégico de Formación de Doctores Jóvenes, Universidad. Funding for open access charge: Universidad de Málaga / CBU