The Amazing Adventures of the Princesses from Planet STEM

On Planet STEM, all girls are princesses-rare, unique and one-of-a-kind. One day, a plague hits the planet-the dark plague of Ignorance. After 20 princesses rally to ask their fairy godfather for help and he doesn\u27t deliver, learn how the princesses save themselves and Planet STEM by putting their strengths, talents and passions to work in the areas of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) with 100% girl power!! This book is for girls ages 5-9, and their parents. Included is a list of resources for girls on planet Earth to engage more in STEM!https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/butlerbooks/1009/thumbnail.jp

Spontaneous Calcium Release in Cardiac Myocytes: Store Overload and Electrical Dynamics

Heart disease is the leading cause of mortality in the United States. One cause of heart arrhythmia is calcium (Ca2+) mishandling in cardiac muscle cells. We adapt Izu\u27s et al. mathematical reaction-diffusion model of calcium in cardiac muscle cells, or cardiomyocytes implemented by Gobbert, and analyzed in Coulibaly et al. to include calcium being released from the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR), the effects of buffers in the SR, particularly calsequestrin, and the effects of Ca2+ influx due to voltage across the cell membrane. Based on simulations of the model implemented in parallel using MPI, our findings aligned with known biological models and principles, giving us a thorough understanding of several factors that influence Ca2+ dynamics in cardiac myocytes. Specifically, dynamic calcium store will cap previous calcium blow-up seen in the model. Calcium channels located in spatial opposition of calcium release units produce more predictable intracellular calcium propagation. And we used multi-parametric calcium dynamics tables, which act as a multidimensional bifurcation diagram, to visualize parameter boundaries between different biophysical dynamics

Reconceptualizing the English Lounge with Maker Duty

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Columbus State University Honors College: Senior Theses, Fall 2020/Spring 2021

This is a collection of senior theses written by honors students at Columbus State University during the Fall 2020 and Spring 2021 semesters.https://csuepress.columbusstate.edu/honors_theses/1002/thumbnail.jp

Finishing the euchromatic sequence of the human genome

The sequence of the human genome encodes the genetic instructions for human physiology, as well as rich information about human evolution. In 2001, the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium reported a draft sequence of the euchromatic portion of the human genome. Since then, the international collaboration has worked to convert this draft into a genome sequence with high accuracy and nearly complete coverage. Here, we report the result of this finishing process. The current genome sequence (Build 35) contains 2.85 billion nucleotides interrupted by only 341 gaps. It covers ∼99% of the euchromatic genome and is accurate to an error rate of ∼1 event per 100,000 bases. Many of the remaining euchromatic gaps are associated with segmental duplications and will require focused work with new methods. The near-complete sequence, the first for a vertebrate, greatly improves the precision of biological analyses of the human genome including studies of gene number, birth and death. Notably, the human enome seems to encode only 20,000-25,000 protein-coding genes. The genome sequence reported here should serve as a firm foundation for biomedical research in the decades ahead

"Your Children Belong to Us Already...": Nazi Family and Youth Policy and the role of the Hitler Youth

Dwyer-Frazier’s thesis examines Nazi efforts to control the family in Nazi Germany, with particular attention to its effects on children. Using the work of Hannah Arendt, journal articles and secondary sources, she argues that the Hitler Youth did not succeed in reducing the family to serving only procreative purposes, but it did force children from the private sphere into the public. While some children embraced this policy, youth resistance movements attempted to create a public sphere outside the authority of Nazis or parents. Dwyer-Frazier concludes that most German children were, like their parents, uncertain about Nazi ideology but unwilling to do anything but go along

Making virtual reality accessible for language learning: applying the VR application analysis framework

Virtual Reality (VR) is a valuable tool for learning, however, there is a lack of education-focused content for language learning needs. This article introduces the VR Application Analysis Framework (Lege, Bonner, Frazier, & Pascucci, 2020) to assist educators in scaffolding existing commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) applications for use in classroom activities through four key lenses: immersive capacity, cognitive load, purpose, and communicative capability. The framework is then used to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of an example COTS VR application, Tilt Brush. This analysis, completed using the framework, is followed by three lesson plans for Tilt Brush that demonstrate how VR could be used in the language classroom