Ensemble Cast: Reinventing First-Year Library Orientation to Feature All Departments

As the year winds down, you may already be planning new student orientation activities to showcase your library and services. This unique program, designed by a committee of departments, offers insight into the types of activities they implemented to help enhance interaction between library staff and students

Ensemble Cast: Reinventing First-Year Library Orientation to Feature All Departments

Hear how library staff reimagined their first-year student orientation activity in order to highlight the work being done by individual departments and communicate how each department supports the library as a whole. The poster will explore the first-year library orientation passport activity that got students moving around the library building to engage with each department and collect passport stamps. This is a modified PowerPoint version of the poster, which had been created in the digital iPoster system

Best Practices for Designing Online Learning Objects​

Before designing materials to support online learning, it\u27s important to take stock of what we know about how people learn in online spaces. This presentation will unpack a few e-learning myths and discuss concrete strategies for developing pedagogically sound videos, interactive tutorials, and other asynchronous online learning objects

Musselman Library Passport: Extended First-Year Orientation Activity

First-year students completing Musselman Library’s portion of the fall 2018 Charting Your Course (CYC) orientation received one of these passports before beginning the activity. After visiting each of the Library departments and learning about work staff members do there, students received a passport stamp in order to track their progress

Cavity Nonlinear Optics at Low Photon Numbers from Collective Atomic Motion

We report on Kerr nonlinearity and dispersive optical bistability of a Fabry-Perot optical resonator due to the displacement of ultracold atoms trapped within. In the driven resonator, such collective motion is induced by optical forces acting upon up to $10^5$ $^{87}$Rb atoms prepared in the lowest band of a one-dimensional intracavity optical lattice. The longevity of atomic motional coherence allows for strongly nonlinear optics at extremely low cavity photon numbers, as demonstrated by the observation of both branches of optical bistability at photon numbers below unity.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures. Modifed following reviewer comment

Empirical bounds for the ionizing fluxes of Wolf-Rayet stars.

Hα photometry and spectroscopic data were obtained for 10 Wolf-Rayet nebula, representing a wide variety of WN spectral types. The authors use these data to constrain the ionizing flux of the exciting Wolf-Rayet star, calcg. lower bounds for the Lyman continuum flux (Q0) and for the He0- and He+- ionizing fluxes (Q1 and Q2). Q0 appears independent of WN spectral type, and lower bound ests. tend to cluster around 48 dex. Finally, the authors discuss the effects of potential shock excitation and d. bounding on these nebula and compare the authors' results to recent models. The authors' results are consistent with the predictions of line-blanketed ISA-wind models and nonblanketed CMFGEN models but are consistent with only some of the line-blanketed CMFGEN models. [on SciFinder(R)

The role of gender in the relations among Dark Triad and psychopathy, sociosexuality, and moral judgments

The Dark Triad (D3) traits of narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy have been linked to a range of moral behavior, and to sociosexuality and sexual behavior, particularly in males. The current study examined whether males and females differ with respect to relations among D3 traits and dimensions of psychopathy from the Triarchic Psychopathy Measure (TriPM), sexual behavior, sociosexuality, tendency towards infidelity, and moral judgments, using a community sample. D3 and TriPM measures were generally more strongly correlated with sexual behavior for males in ways that might increase numbers of matings and sexual partners, but were more strongly correlated with intention towards infidelity and sociosexual attitudes for females—in ways that might facilitate extra-pair mating. Sociosexuality and self-reported sexual behavior showed a strong pattern of overall and gender-specific relations to moral judgments. D3 and psychopathy measures were also related to everyday moral judgments, although generally less so than were sociosexuality and sexual behavior. These results clearly point to the importance of taking gender into account when considering the relations between D3 traits, sexual behavior, sociosexuality, and moral judgments

Inverse Function: Pre-Service Teachers’ Techniques and Meanings

Researchers have argued teachers and students are not developing connected meanings for function inverse, thus calling for a closer examination of teachers’ and students’ inverse function meanings. Responding to this call, we characterize 25 pre-service teachers’ inverse function meanings as inferred from our analysis of clinical interviews. After summarizing relevant research, we describe the methodology and theoretical framework we used to interpret the pre-service teachers’ activities. We then present data highlighting the techniques the pre-service teachers used when responding to tasks that involved analytical and graphical representations of functions and inverse functions in both decontextualized and contextualized situations and discuss our inferences of their meanings based on their activities. We conclude with implications for the teaching and learning of inverse function and areas for future research

Micro-Raman Study of Stress Distribution Generated in Silicon During Proximity Rapid Thermal Diffusion

proximity rapid thermal diffusion (RTD). A compressive stress was found on the whole silicon wafer after 15 s RTD. After 165 s RTD, the distribution of the stress across the wafer was found to be different: compressive at the edge and tensile at the middle. Thermal stress was relieved in the RTD wafers via slip dislocations. These slip dislocations were observed in the product wafers using optical microscopy. Slip lines propagated from the wafer edge to the wafer centre in eight preferred positions of maximum induced stress. The thermally induced stress and the slip dislocation density increased with time spent at the RTD peak temperature

A clinical evaluation of extended wear contact lenses

A clinical evaluation of extended wear contact lense