The Questions and Answers in the Correlation of Socioeconomic Status and Education

There are a large amount of diverse factors that contribute to a student\u27s academic success. Things such as basic needs, a student\u27s culture, the teacher\u27s culture, parent involvement, school and classroom environment, and actual instructional strategies all play a role in a student\u27s daily academic experience. When students are living in an area of poverty, or come from families of a low socio-economic status, one or all of these factors can become compromised. As a result teachers, parents, administrators and community leaders are faced with the challenge of providing a holistic approach to education with limited resources. many times these obstacles are remedied with preventative planning, taking time to understand differences, and the adults in a child\u27s life working together to reach a common goal

The Siting of Hog CAFOS in Eastern North Carolina: A Case of Environmental Justice?

The eastern region of North Carolina is home to over 2,500 active hog farms. These hog farms are referred to as confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs) because hogs are densely crowded into small areas. In the field of environmental justice, there have been a number of studies relating environmental justice implications to the siting of CAFO. This study spatially examines the location of the CAFOs in eastern North Carolina to determine if higher percentages of disadvantaged populations live near these polluting facilities. Two sets of analyses were conducted for this study. The first analysis compares the demographics around CAFOs sited within the 100-­‐year flood zone with CAFOs sited outside the 100-­‐year flood zone. The findings from this analysis suggest that comparing the mean demographics around CAFOs in the 100-­‐year flood zone, compared to the mean demographics around CAFOs not located in the 100-­‐year flood zone, does not provide statistically significant results supporting the hypothesis that more minority, low-­‐income, and lower education groups will live near CAFOs within the vulnerable 100-­‐year flood zone. The second analysis is a longitudinal analysis that spatially examines the siting of CAFOs in eastern North Carolina, and then statistically analyzes the demographics of census tracts within one and three miles of these facilities in 1990 and 2000. In general, the longitudinal analysis finds that greater percentages of Hispanic, low-­‐education, and low-­‐income populations live near CAFOs in Eastern North Carolina as compared to random points within the same region. Also, between 1990 and 2000, the disparities between CAFO locations and random locations widened for a number of key demographics, such as percent Hispanic and average housing value.Master of ScienceNatural Resources and EnvironmentUniversity of Michiganhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/90920/1/Jen_Horton_final2[1].pd

A Content Analysis of 3D Printing Policies at Academic Libraries

Many academic libraries are adopting 3D printing programs and researching, writing, and implementing policies for these programs. This article analyzes the content of 50 academic library 3D printing policies looking for commonalities. Five major themes emerged from the analysis: the policy\u27s purpose, potential users of the 3D printers, 3D printing procedures, the acceptable uses of the 3D printers, and user privacy considerations. This article provides a breakdown of these five major themes

Using Events like the 2017 Total Solar Eclipse to Promote Your Library, Your Campus, and Science Literacy to the Larger Community

The 2017 Total Solar Eclipse provided academic librarians in the United States, especially those in the direct path of totality, the opportunity to promote their library’s STEM related collections and services and engage with their campus and local communities. Events like this can help spread science literacy across a campus and a community. This poster outlines many of the ways one library, in the path of totality, partnered with campus and local groups to promote the eclipse and involve the university campus. Activities included creating displays and exhibits, serving on campus committees, presenting to adult and summer reading groups across the community, holding a book signing, offering astronomy related 3D printing workshops, providing instruction on finding and evaluating science related resources, etc. Information includes what worked and did not work on this campus and suggestions when participating in large community science related events

A Study to Determine the Effectiveness of Instruction in a Nursing Class at Southwest Virginia Community College through Distance Learning or Live on site Instruction

Questions posed by this study included: 1. Does a change in distance learning instruction to live instruction have a positive or negative impact on the effectiveness of instruction in relation to student development? 2. Does a change from distance learning instruction to live instruction provide for greater academic success? 3. Does a change from a live Nursing course to a distance learning course reduce attendance problems? 4. Does successful implementation, and technology used in program development, have an impact on student achievement in distance learning courses

A model leadership curriculum for managers of an Eden Alternative nursing home

A nursing home is a difficult environment for staff as well as residents. As a result, some nursing homes are moving toward a more holistic, person-centered approach to care. The Eden Alternative is one of those organizations. Empowerment of direct caregivers and the flattening of the hierarchical structure of the traditional nursing home are two important components of the culture change process known as the Eden Alternative. As a result, management within an Eden environment requires skills different from those in the traditional top-down organizational structure. A model curriculum is outlined to help managers of an Eden Alternative nursing home embrace personal growth and transformation in order to become the type of manager that the Eden Alternative model requires

When the necessary conditions are not sufficient: sequences with zero autocorrelation function

Recently K. T. Arasu (personal communication) and Yoseph Strassler, in his PhD thesis, The Classification of Circulant Weighing Matrices of Weight 9, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, 1997, have intensively studied circulant weighing matrices, or single sequences, with weight 9. They show many cases are non-existent. Here we give details of a search for two sequences with zero periodic autocorrelation and types (1,9), (1,16) and (4,9). We find some new cases but also many cases where the known necessary conditions are not sufficient. We instance a number of occasions when the known necessary conditions are not sufficient for the existence of weighing matrices and orthogonal de-signs constructed using sequences with zero autocorrelation function leading to intriguing new questions

Covert Distributed Computing Using Java Through Web Spoofing

We use the Web Spoofing attack reported by Cohen and also the Secure Internet Programming Group at Princeton University to give a new method of achieving covert distributed computing with Java. We show how Java applets that perform a distributed computation can be inserted into vulnerable Web pages. This has the added feature that users can rejoin a computation at some later date through bookmarks made while the pages previously viewed were spoofed. Few signs of anything unusual can be observed. Users need not knowingly revisit a particular Web page to be victims. We also propose a simple countermeasure against such a spoofing attack, which would be useful to help users detect the presence of Web Spoofing. Finally, we introduce the idea of browser users, as clients of Web-based services provided by third parties, paying for these services by running a distributed computation applet for a short period of time

A comparison of three emerging online government 3D printing resources: NASA 3D Resources, Smithsonian X3D, and the NIH 3D Print Exchange

United States governmental agencies, departments, and affiliates, are increasingly making 3D printable models available to the general public online. On March 20, 2014, a memorandum was sent out to United States executive departments and agencies about improving access to the government’s scientific collections (Holdren, 2014). This memorandum, from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), not only addressed physical collections, but specifically mentioned digital 3D models. On the White House’s blog, several reasons were given for making these collections more accessible including the idea that these collections are “… treasure troves of information ripe for exploration and learning” (Stebbins & Lieberman, 2014).Several areas of the United States government have begun making 3D models available to the general public or were already doing so at the time the memorandum was released. Three of the largest collections are from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the Smithsonian Institution, and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Two of these, the NIH and NASA, are government agencies while the Smithsonian Institution is a Trust Instrumentality of the United States (Legal Nature, 2016). These sites offer downloadable, printable files in addition to educational resources. The Smithsonian’s website even states it is “the end of ‘do not touch.’” (Getting Started, 2016).This review focuses on the 3D printing sections of these three websites including the models, supplementary materials, and resources

Deglacial chronology of the Sturgis Moraine in south-central Michigan and northeast Indiana

This poster was presented at the 2014 Geological Society of America Annual Meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada,19-22 October, 2014.The landscape of south-central Michigan and northeastern Indiana was formed from the retreat of the Saginaw Lobe of the LIS. Studying this landscape aids an understanding of the climate conditions during the retreat of the lobe from its LGM position. The purpose of this study is to generate chronology for the retreat of the Saginaw Lobe by dating the Sturgis Moraine. Previous work suggests that the Sturgis Moraine formed sometime between 15.5 14C and 16.1 14C kyrs BP. To date the Sturgis Moraine, Livingstone sediment cores were collected from lakes associated with the moraine. Ages of 13.7±6014C, 13.75±8014C, and 13.3±6014C kyrs BP were from wood fragments at the bottom of each sediment core. These ages are similar to the age of the Ft. Wayne Moraine and the Valparaiso Moraine.This project was funding by the Great Lakes Geologic Mapping Coalition in coordination with the Indiana Geological Survey. This project was also funded by the William A. Kneller Graduate Support Fund and the Dr. Lon Ruedisili Hydrogeology/Environmental Geology Fund at the University of Toledo