Camp Dodge

Review of: "Camp Dodge" by Mary L. Jones and Michael Vogt

Developing a Just-in-Time Adaptive Mobile Platform for Family Medicine Education: Experiential Lessons Learned

EASEL is a platform designed to provide just-in-time adaptive support to students during experiential learning interviews conducted as part of required work in an online course in a family medicine education program in a Midwestern urban university setting EASEL considers the time and location of the student and provides questions and content before, during, and after the interviews take place EASEL will provide a new way to facilitate and support online family medicine students as they meet with patients and healthcare professionals This paper presents a look at the considerations, issues, and lessons learned during the development process of this interdisciplinary collaborative effort between the platform designers and family medicine faculty while working toward completion of the stud

On the use of control surface excitation in flutter testing

peer reviewedFlutter testing is aimed at demonstrating that the aircraft flight envelope is flutter free. Response measurements from deliberate excitation of the structure are used to identify and track frequency and damping values against velocity. In this paper, the common approach of using a flight control surface to provide the excitation is examined using a mathematical model of a wing and control surface whose rotation is restrained by a simple actuator. In particular, it is shown that it is essential to use the demand signal to the actuator as a reference signal for data processing. Use of the actuator force (or strain) or control angle (or actuator displacement) as a reference signal is bad practice because these signals contain response information. It may also be dangerous in that the onset of flutter may not be seen in the test results

Advanced sensors technology survey

This project assesses the state-of-the-art in advanced or 'smart' sensors technology for NASA Life Sciences research applications with an emphasis on those sensors with potential applications on the space station freedom (SSF). The objectives are: (1) to conduct literature reviews on relevant advanced sensor technology; (2) to interview various scientists and engineers in industry, academia, and government who are knowledgeable on this topic; (3) to provide viewpoints and opinions regarding the potential applications of this technology on the SSF; and (4) to provide summary charts of relevant technologies and centers where these technologies are being developed

Developing an Adaptive Mobile Platform in Family Medicine Field Experiences: User Perceptions

EASEL (education through application-supported experiential learning) is a platform designed to provide just-in-time content and reflection opportunities to students during field experiences, such as interviews or field labs, conducted as part of the workload in a course. This study was conducted in area of family medicine education at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. EASEL allows instructors and students flexibility to engage with course content based on the time of day and the location of each student conducting field work by providing access to questions and content before, during, and after a targeted field experience. In this study, three cohorts of family medicine students (N = 20) interviewed either a health care professional or a patient. Students used EASEL to facilitate and support their experience in the field. This study examined the student perceptions of EASEL. The data indicated instructive information on the usability of the EASEL platform and aided developers in considering future technologies to use as a part of the platform

How do you foresee the requirements for ultrasonic standards changing as NDE evolves from a defect detection mode to a quantitative defect characterization mode?

The topic of our panel discussion is: How do you foresee the requirements for ultrasonic standards changing as NDE evolves from a defect detection mode to a defect characterization mode? We\u27ve heard a number of comments yesterday and today about the problem of standards. Our plan for the balance of the day in the panel session is to hear from a group of experts who have had considerable experience, and therefore, have developed varied opinions on the problem of standards. We\u27ll hear briefly from each of them, and then have an open discussion where those in the audience are invited to participate

Practical eDNA sampling methods inferred from particle size distribution and comparison of capture techniques for a Critically Endangered elasmobranch

Environmental DNA (eDNA) methods are increasingly applied in the marine environment to identify species and community structure. To establish widely applicable eDNA techniques for elasmobranchs, we used the Critically Endangered largetooth sawfish (Pristis pristis Linnaeus, 1758) as a model species for: (1) assessing eDNA particle size distribution; (2) assessing the efficiency of long-term preservation of water samples; and (3) comparing the efficiency and detection sensitivity of filtration and precipitation methods. Water samples (1 L) collected from a tank containing one largetooth sawfish specimen were sequentially filtered through five filter membranes of decreasing pore size (20, 10, 5, 1.2, and 0.45 μm). The proportion of sawfish eDNA retained within each size class was determined through quantitative real-time PCR (qPCR) using a species-specific TaqMan probe assay. A linear mixed-effects model (lme) showed that the 1.2 and 20 μm filters captured most of the eDNA particles present in the sampled water. Additionally, whole water samples (0.375 L) were preserved in Longmire's buffer, stored at tropical ambient temperatures (26.3°C ± 3.0 SD) and extracted at five time points: immediately, one, two, and three months after collection, as well as frozen and extracted three months later, to assess the preservation efficiency of Longmire's buffer via qPCR analysis. A linear mixed-effects model showed that samples maintained maximal eDNA yield for at least three months after collection at ambient storage. Lastly, when comparing the filtration and precipitation methods, filtration using 0.45 μm pore size was more sensitive to capture of large-tooth sawfish eDNA than filtration with 20 μm filter or water precipitation. However, water precipitation was more efficient when accounting for volume of water processed. These results provide options for best capture and preservation of elasmobranch eDNA