Improving Academic Success: Creating a College Planning Resource for Students

Academic performance of students is a major concern for colleges, especially with the recent COVID-19 pandemic. Research has shown that active involvement, the development of self-regulation skills, and improved mental health all have a considerable impact on college students’ academic success. Colleges like Bowling Green State University need to consider how they can use these factors and leverage resources to improve student performance. In this project, a solution is proposed in the form of a college/personal planner which is directly based off research on early academic success. While further, more specific research is needed to fully understand the issue and how it is affecting BGSU in particular, the implementation of the proposed planner is a viable start towards improving the college learning environment

Single parameter testing Quarterly report

Single parameter testing of ac and dc amplifier

Budgeting in Student Life: An Educational Website

An applied honors project in the form of a website prototype. The purpose of this website is to introduce college students to the concept of budgeting and to teach them the core steps of creating their own budget, since many existing budgeting applications are pay-to-use, and the free options tend to have little to no instruction

Single parameter testing

Frequency response testing of ac and dc amplifiers, and single parameter testing of X-Y PLOTTE

Harmful Algal Blooms in Caesar Creek Lake and their Relationship to Riparian Cover

Caesar Creek Lake (CCL) in Warren County, OH has recently been experiencing harmful algal blooms (HABs) which are most likely attributed to an excess of phosphorus (P) from fertilizers and manures applied to surrounding fields. Sediments act as a sink for P later supplying a source of P in lakes for HABs when waters become thermally stratified and anoxic. This study seeks to determine the relationship between HABs in CCL and riparian cover at the main tributaries, Anderson Fork and Caesar Creek. In order to do this, sediment samples were collected from four sample sites along Anderson Fork and three sample sites along Caesar Creek in which there were varying amounts of riparian cover. Sediment samples were digested using concentrated nitric and hydrochloric acids following EPA method 3050B. Digested solutions were analyzed for total phosphorus (TP) and total iron (TFe) at wavelengths 213.618 nm and 238.204 nm, respectively, using Inductively Coupled Plasma – Atomic Emission Spectroscopy (ICP-AES). Types and percentage of riparian cover at each site were determined and quantified using QGIS 3.14. To determine statistical relationships between sedimentary TP concentrations and predictor variables such as riparian cover and TFe concentrations, a mixed effects ANCOVA was carried out. Results revealed no significant statistical relationship (p-value\u3e0.1) between sedimentary TP concentrations and percentages of tree cover (TC), grass cover (GC), and urban cover (UC). A significant positive relationship (p-value\u3c0.0001) was observed between sedimentary TP and TFe concentrations likely indicating a large concentration of iron-phosphate (Fe-PO43-) complexes due to phosphate’s affinity for iron oxides. Distance from the Anderson Fork and Caesar Creek confluence was found to be statistically significant (p-value=0.0321) due to finding higher TP concentrations at downstream sites suggesting that P moves downstream by sorption to suspended solids in streambeds during stormwater runoff events. A significant interaction variable between stream and location was investigated to reveal that there was a significant difference between sedimentary TP concentrations at Anderson Fork LDB and center. Overall, streambank TP concentrations were higher than streambed concentrations revealing that P is deposited on the streambanks contributing to the legacy P pool

Single parameter testing, phase D Final report

Single parameter testing techniques for electronic measuring equipment and other component

Single parameter testing Quarterly report

Test signals, AC analysis, transfer function determination, and nonlinear components for single parameter testing of amplifie

High-Speed Dual-Wavelength Optical Polarimetry for Glucose Sensing

To non-invasively measure glucose concentrations across the aqueous humor of the eye, a high-speed, dual-wavelength optical polarimetric approach is proposed that addresses a key limitation of prior set-ups – system response time – while compensating for time-varying motion artifact due to corneal birefringence. This research is made up of three goals. The first goal is to design and construct a high-frequency, ferrite core Faraday rotator that can both rotate and modulate linearly polarized light in a frequency range of 30 to 75 kHz. The second goal is to implement a single ferrite core Faraday rotator into the current polarimetric approach. The third goal is to replace three air-core Faraday rotators with two ferrite core Faraday rotators for both modulation and compensation, allowing for two different signals to be measured on a single photodetector. In vitro phantom studies are performed with and without motion artifact. The sensor is shown to stabilize in ~2 msec and provide standard errors for glucose concentration of less than 13 mg/dL in the presence of motion. The results indicate that higher frequency modulation can reduce the overall system stabilization time with minimal loss of accuracy in the presence of motion artifact

Where the Wappetaw Independent Congregational Church Stood... , Archaeological Testing at 38CH1682, Charleston County, SC

This report presents the results of limited archaeological testing at Wappetaw Independent Church (38CHI682), Charleston County, South Carolina. Wappetaw was founded by a group of 51 Congregationalist emigrants from New England, who arrived in the Carolinas around 1696. The primary focus of documentary research for this project was the earliest years of settlement; settlement patterning and motivations for immigration are examined. Archaeologically, remains of the last church to occupy the site (ca. 1783-1897) were securely identified, and a tentative reconstruction of the foundation of this structure is provided. Evidence of earlier structures was also encountered, and indicates that at least one earlier church stood on the property. Archaeological evidence confirms documentary data that this earlier church was occupied by British forces during the American Revolution, and tends to confirm that it was burned at the time of their departure.https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/archanth_books/1200/thumbnail.jp

Coldwater reattachment of colonial tunicate Didemnum vexillum fragments to natural (eelgrass) and artificial (plastic) substrates in New England

© The Author(s), 2014. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in Aquatic Invasions 9 (2014): 105–110, doi:10.3391/ai.2014.9.1.09.The colonial tunicate Didemnum vexillum Kott, 2002, was introduced to New England in the 1980s and by 2000 it was widespread. This highly invasive species spreads by larval release and fragmentation. We tested the ability of D. vexillum fragments to reattach to natural (eelgrass Zostera marina (Linnaeus, 1753)) and artificial (plastic container) substrates during late fall and early winter. On average, 77% of D. vexillum fragments reattached to eelgrass and plastic in water temperatures between 6 and 10°C. Eelgrass appeared to facilitate D. vexillum reattachment success in early winter but this tendency should be further investigated.Funding to Carman came from the US EPA RARE Program and USGS-WHOI Cooperative Agreement