Forest Health Diagnostics Facebook Page: Impact and Natural Resources Programming Implications

The Southern Forest and Tree Health Diagnostics Facebook page, managed by Extension and forestry professionals in the southeastern United States, is designed to deliver forest and tree heath information to the public via a web-based, crowdsourced diagnostic service. We conducted an online survey to quantify the page\u27s impact by identifying audience demographics, engagement levels, and perceptions of the page\u27s value. Results indicated that stakeholders consider the Southern Forest and Tree Health Diagnostics page to be an effective diagnostics service and a valuable educational tool. This model could be used in other natural resources program areas to increase the reach of Extension professionals

Prospectus, April 10, 1985

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The Grizzly, April 7, 1999

History and English Departments Vandalized • RPR Fulfills $100,000 Pfahler Pledge • Administration to Consider Providing Laptops for Freshmen • Former CIA Agent Speaks at Ursinus • Emergency Care • Voices of Praise in Bomberger • Dawn of New Millennium Brings Fieldhouse to UC • Career Best for Junior O\u27Hara • Brackin, Erdosy Players of the Week • Softball Vies for Top Spot in Conference • Baseball Downs Stockton • UC Lax Claws Way to First Place • Baseball 2-1 in Conference Playhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1439/thumbnail.jp

Prospectus, September 15, 1983

PARKLAND\u27S ART GALLERY IS WORTH STOPPING IN FOR; News Digest: In St. Joseph…..; President shares accomplishments; Parkland events; Are the Jim Crow laws over?; Student voices view on Soviet mishap; Herpes affects 20 million; Trip planned; Elimination of nuclear weapons is desired: Question: If you had the power, what world problem would you eliminate?; Harvesting begins; Cartoons; Bowling club elects officers; Town Focus: St. Joseph grows active community spirit; People Profile: Pondy voices past; Normal rainfall is expected for September; CBS new fall lineup is short but sweet; Chicago Symphony to play at Krannert; Cheap Trick releases hit album; Shear\u27s solo album is a hit; Blood drive set; Classified; Malaria vaccine to be produced by grant; Skylines; Deathtrap in P.C.; Woods Words: Boyd fills women\u27s b-ball coach position; Students learn about recycling; Fast Freddy Contesthttps://spark.parkland.edu/prospectus_1983/1011/thumbnail.jp

The Vehicle, 1973

Vol. 15, No. 1 Table of Contents Hail to the Cheeks of MenNancy Broom Brownpage 1 Sister Eleanor\u27s Gray FriendsGina Morganpage 2 The Typing TeacherAnne Hubbardpage 3 Pensive AgainPeter McCullarpage 7 The Defense ManKathryn Majorpage 9 Wedding PreparationKathryn R. Leesmanpage 10 Reflections on BathingChris Benignuspage 14 Home: Bed of DustHelen Matternpage 14 One TimeChris Benignuspage 15 CombineRuth Ann Meyerpage 16 Park SitterEric H. Synderpage 17 The Sole TortoiseDennis Kroftpage 18 Blind SocietyMike Cordtspage 19 Black DreamPeter McCullarpage 21 The Poetry ReadingRay Schmuddepage 22 The FuneralMarsha Halfordpage 23 She and HerRosanne Davispage 24 The Cane Pole LungfishJeff Kayserpage 26 Du, stille WeltMary Bassettpage 27 ComradesNancy Broom Brownpage 29 Photography and Art Credits Dann Girecover, page 18 Mark McKinneypage 2, 17, 25 John Gravespage 8 Sally Brotherspage 13 Normal Le Clercqpage 28 Wm. Murawskipage 30https://thekeep.eiu.edu/vehicle/1029/thumbnail.jp

Open Problems in DAOs

Decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) are a new, rapidly-growing class of organizations governed by smart contracts. Here we describe how researchers can contribute to the emerging science of DAOs and other digitally-constituted organizations. From granular privacy primitives to mechanism designs to model laws, we identify high-impact problems in the DAO ecosystem where existing gaps might be tackled through a new data set or by applying tools and ideas from existing research fields such as political science, computer science, economics, law, and organizational science. Our recommendations encompass exciting research questions as well as promising business opportunities. We call on the wider research community to join the global effort to invent the next generation of organizations

Experiences of assessment in data and security courses using personal response systems

This paper details an experience report of two interventions which explored the use of a audience response system in summative assessment in two different ways within a conversion Masters degree programme. One course explored students understanding of topics and self-assessment of ability through small multiple-choice quizzes. The other course was based around cyber security and used the audience response system to ensure engagement with the pre-class reading material. Both interventions were designed in an attempt to encourage students to engage more effectively with the material. This paper aims to identify and contrast the ways in which the audience response system was used in assessment in higher education computing science with a view to suggesting key considerations for implementing such an intervention

The emergence of synaesthesia in a Neuronal Network Model via changes in perceptual sensitivity and plasticity

Synaesthesia is an unusual perceptual experience in which an inducer stimulus triggers a percept in a different domain in addition to its own. To explore the conditions under which synaesthesia evolves, we studied a neuronal network model that represents two recurrently connected neural systems. The interactions in the network evolve according to learning rules that optimize sensory sensitivity. We demonstrate several scenarios, such as sensory deprivation or heightened plasticity, under which synaesthesia can evolve even though the inputs to the two systems are statistically independent and the initial cross-talk interactions are zero. Sensory deprivation is the known causal mechanism for acquired synaesthesia and increased plasticity is implicated in developmental synaesthesia. The model unifies different causes of synaesthesia within a single theoretical framework and repositions synaesthesia not as some quirk of aberrant connectivity, but rather as a functional brain state that can emerge as a consequence of optimising sensory information processing

Using C. elegans to discover therapeutic compounds for ageing-associated neurodegenerative diseases

Age-associated neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease are a major public health challenge, due to the demographic increase in the proportion of older individuals in society. However, the relatively few currently approved drugs for these conditions provide only symptomatic relief. A major goal of neurodegeneration research is therefore to identify potential new therapeutic compounds that can slow or even reverse disease progression, either by impacting directly on the neurodegenerative process or by activating endogenous physiological neuroprotective mechanisms that decline with ageing. This requires model systems that can recapitulate key features of human neurodegenerative diseases that are also amenable to compound screening approaches. Mammalian models are very powerful, but are prohibitively expensive for high-throughput drug screens. Given the highly conserved neurological pathways between mammals and invertebrates, Caenorhabditis elegans has emerged as a powerful tool for neuroprotective compound screening. Here we describe how C. elegans has been used to model various human ageing-associated neurodegenerative diseases and provide an extensive list of compounds that have therapeutic activity in these worm models and so may have translational potential

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