PBIS: A Shared Positive Culture- Into the Neighborhood and Beyond

PBIS: A Shared Positive Culture – Into the Neighborhood and Beyond Throughout our PBIS process, Mainstay Academy has sought to include community members in promoting a positive and lasting change with our students, staff, parents and other community stakeholders by focusing on our core values of being safe, respectful and responsible community members. By promoting a positive shared culture through the PBIS process, a more informed, tolerant, supportive, and safe community can be achieved. This presentation will illustrate how Mainstay Academy, a member of the Georgia Network of Educational and Therapeutic Supports, has worked to expand PBIS involvement to create connections beyond the school. Mainstay Academy PBIS student Ambassadors will share personal experiences and stories. They will discuss their aspects of the school and home community that have been beneficial in their personal development and growth. This school year the PBIS team will facilitate the student ambassadors’ implementation of student led initiatives used to expand our positive school culture into their homes and communities. Outreach, training processes, and results will be discussed

UNG Tuba-Euphonium Quartet

The UNG Tuba-Euphonium Quartet would like to present a performance at the Georgia Undergraduate Research Conference at the University of North Georgia\u27s Gainesville campus, November 2-3, 2018. The Quartet consists of two tubas and two euphoniums. In addition to tubas and euphoniums, we often incorporate percussion into our performances. The UNG Tuba-Euphonium Quartet consists of the top two euphonium players and the top two tuba players from Dr. Adam Freys studio. The quartet plays a wide variety of music, ranging from classical transcriptions, to original compositions for Tuba-Euphonium quartet, and even jazz. Members of the quartet often create their own arrangements/compositions which we perform as well. The quartet has performed at a numerous event around the University, such as \u27OctubaFest\u27, \u27Spring Euphoria\u27, and the Dahlonega campuses instrumental honors recital. In addition to these performances, the UNG Tuba-Euphonium Quartet regularly performs at local churches and last January, the quartet performed at the Georgia Music Educator in Service Conference in Athens, Georgia. The quartet will be competing in the quartet competition of the International Tuba-Euphonium Conference (ITEC) at the University of Iowa this upcoming May

Autonomous Rock Segmentation from Lidar Point Clouds Using Machine Learning Approaches

Rover navigation on planetary surfaces currently uses a method called blind drive which requires a navigation goal as input from operators on Earth and uses camera images to autonomously detect obstacles. Images can be affected by lighting conditions, are not highly accurate from far distances, and will not work in the dark; these factors negatively impact the autonomous capabilities of rovers. By improving a rover\u27s ability to autonomously detect obstacles, the capabilities of rovers in future missions would improve; for example, enabling exploration of permanently shadowed regions, and allowing faster driving speeds and farther travel distances. This thesis demonstrates how Lidar point clouds can be used to autonomously and efficiently segment planetary terrain to identify obstacles for safe rover navigation. Two Lidar datasets which represent planetary environments containing rock obstacles and sandy terrain were used to train a neural network to perform semantic segmentation. The neural network was based on the RandLA-Net architecture that was designed to efficiently perform semantic segmentation on point clouds using a random sampling algorithm without modifying the point cloud structure. Methods to handle the class imbalance of the datasets were explored to enable the model to learn the minority class and to optimize the model’s performance. The model achieved a recall score of 94.46% and precision score of 84.93% at a frame rate of 0.6238 seconds/point cloud on an Intel Xeon E5-2665 CPU, indicating that it is possible to use Lidar point clouds to perform semantic segmentation on-board planetary rovers with similar compute capabilities

PBIS Faculty Ownership and Buy-in from Implementation to Emergent/Operational

This presentation will discuss the intricacies involved in ensuring staff ownership during implementation through emergent and into operational stages with the PBIS process. The goal of the PBIS team was that staff would embrace, implement and use PBIS with fidelity. The PBIS team worked diligently to form a plan of introduction and implementation that would ultimately lead to positive change in faculty behavior. It was vital to our team that staff full invest in PBIS and the positive culture change it would bring to our program and student achievement. This presentation will explore the advanced planning, staff training, staff incentives and follow up procedures used by the team to ascertain staff ownership and fidelity with implementing PBIS

The Grizzly, February 8, 2000

Main Street Traffic Problematic for UC Pedestrians • Low Injury Rate No Accident at UC Sporting Fields and Facilities • CIE Hailed a Success After Inaugural Semester • Race for the President Heats up in New Hampshire • Opinion: Pledging: Meaningless, Horrible; Freshman Perspective; Study Abroad Questions of Residence on Return • A Piano Starr • Music Review: The Deb Callahan Band • Summer Plans: Internship or Summer Job? • UC Women\u27s Basketball Still Confident for CC Win • Swimming Edged out by the Mawrters • Ursinus Gymnastics Ousts SUNY-Cortland • Wrestling Battles for 2-1 Week • Men\u27s Basketball Pounds CC Competitionhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1458/thumbnail.jp

The Grizzly, February 15, 2000

UC Students Debate Pros, Cons of Pledging On Campus • Feelings of Brotherhood, Sisterhood Prevalent During Pledging Process • Employment Available for Graduating Seniors • True Love: Sorrow and Devotion • Hackers, Hijackers, and the Wide World of Sports • The Greeks Agree: Pledges Have no Free Will • Pledging: What\u27s the Big Deal Anyway? • muMs Schemes at Ursinus • Pat McGee to Jam at Ursinus • Music Review: The Alligator Blues Band • Gymnastics Tops RIC with Season High Score • Intramural 3 on 3 Action: Brains vs. Brute • Indoor Track Steps Up to Eight Way Challenge • Ursinus Wrestling Battles for 4-1 • Sports Profile: Shana Goanehttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1459/thumbnail.jp

The Grizzly, February 29, 2000

Phi Psi Sanctioned • UC Students Weather Winter Sickness • Meghan Gualtieri: Profile of a True UC Role Model • Ursinus\u27 Own Superbagger • GOP Race Tightens in Michigan and Arizona • Investors to Transform Mir Into Out-of-this-World Hotel • Opinion: Food and Diversity at Ursinus College; Fox\u27s Marry a Millionaire Fiasco Sends Wrong Message • A Student\u27s proTheatre: Halves • John Gwinn: Post-Modernist Extraordinaire? • Gymnastics Sustains Record-Breaking Run at Rutgers • UC Grad Bill Stiles Becomes Sports Information Director • Winter Track Season Ends Strong • Bears Captures Last Three Wins • Sports Profile: Yori Adegunwahttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1461/thumbnail.jp

What are the type, direction, and strength of species, community, and ecosystem responses to warming in aquatic mesocosm studies and their dependency on experimental characteristics? A systematic review protocol

Background Mesocosm experiments have become increasingly popular in climate change research as they bridge the gap between small-scale, less realistic, microcosm experiments, and large-scale, more complex, natural systems. Characteristics of aquatic mesocosm designs (e.g., mesocosm volume, study duration, and replication) vary widely, potentially affecting the magnitude and direction of effect sizes measured in experiments. In this global systematic review we aim to identify the type, direction and strength of climate warming effects on aquatic species, communities and ecosystems in mesocosm experiments. Furthermore, we will investigate the context-dependency of the observed effects on several a priori determined effect moderators (ecological and methodological). Our conclusions will provide recommendations for aquatic scientists designing mesocosm experiments, as well as guidelines for interpretation of experimental results by scientists, policy-makers and the general public. Methods We will conduct a systematic search using multiple online databases to gather evidence from the scientific literature on the effects of warming experimentally tested in aquatic mesocosms. Data from relevant studies will be extracted and used in a random effects meta-analysis to estimate the overall effect sizes of warming experiments on species performance, biodiversity and ecosystem functions. Experimental characteristics (e.g., mesocosm size and shape, replication-level, experimental duration and design, biogeographic region, community type, crossed manipulation) will be further analysed using subgroup analyses