106 research outputs found
Creating Online Graduate Engineering Degrees at the University of New Mexico
This paper describes the motivation, strategies, and implementation details that lead to the creation of online graduate-level degree programs in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of New Mexico. It also presents some of the benefits as well as the challenges encountered when designing and implementing these programs. The paper concludes with a discussion of lessons learned and the future directions of the program
Live Coding, Live Notation, Live Performance
This paper/demonstration explores relationships between code, notation including representation, visualisation and performance. Performative aspects of live coding activities are increasingly being investigated as the live coding movement continues to grow and develop. Although live instrumental performance is sometimes included as an accompaniment to live coding, it is often not a fully integrated part of the performance, relying on improvisation and/or basic indicative forms of notation with varying levels of sophistication and universality. Technologies are developing which enable the use of fully explicit music notations as well as more graphic ones, allowing more fully integrated systems of code in and as performance which can also include notations of arbitrary complexity. This itself allows the full skills of instrumental musicians to be utilised and synchronised in the process.
This presentation/demonstration presents work and performances already undertaken with these technologies, including technologies for body sensing and data acquisition in the translation of the movements of dancers and musicians into synchronously performable notation, integrated by live and prepared coding. The author together with clarinetist Ian Mitchell present a short live performance utilising these techniques, discuss methods for the dissemination and interpretation of live generated notations and investigate how they take advantage of instrumental musicians’ training-related neuroplasticity skills
Avaliação do Ensino de Empreendedorismo entre Estudantes Universitários por meio do Perfil Empreendedor
Entrepreneurship is a socioeconomic phenomenon that has been valued for its influence on the growth and
development of regional and national economies. The main promoter of this phenomenon are entrepreneurs,
subjects endowed with multiple features that make up their profiles. They are dynamic and results oriented,
benefitting from the fruits of their own personal efforts. Entrepreneurial education is highlighted as one of the most
efficient ways to promote an entrepreneurial culture and train new entrepreneurs. However, some difficulty has
been observed in assessing the effectiveness of teaching and learning this subject. The objective of this study was
to analyze, by means of multivariate techniques, an instrument whose function is to measure the learning of
Entrepreneurship, verifying the change in entrepreneur profiles of 407 college students participating or not in an
entrepreneurial training process. The results showed that students who participated in Entrepreneurship
educational training activities showed significant changes in their entrepreneurial profiles. The main contributions
showed growth in the Self-realization, Planner, Innovative and Risks Assumed dimensions
Improving Internal Peptide Dynamics in the Coarse-Grained MARTINI Model: Toward Large-Scale Simulations of Amyloid- and Elastin-like Peptides
We present an extension of the coarse-grained MARTINI
model for
proteins and apply this extension to amyloid- and elastin-like peptides.
Atomistic simulations of tetrapeptides, octapeptides, and longer peptides
in solution are used as a reference to parametrize a set of pseudodihedral
potentials that describe the internal flexibility of MARTINI peptides.
We assess the performance of the resulting model in reproducing various
structural properties computed from atomistic trajectories of peptides
in water. The addition of new dihedral angle potentials improves agreement
with the contact maps computed from atomistic simulations significantly.
We also address the question of which parameters derived from atomistic
trajectories are transferable between different lengths of peptides.
The modified coarse-grained model shows reasonable transferability
of parameters for the amyloid- and elastin-like peptides. In addition,
the improved coarse-grained model is also applied to investigate the
self-assembly of β-sheet forming peptides on the microsecond
time scale. The octapeptides SNNFGAIL and (GV)4 are used
to examine peptide aggregation in different environments, in water,
and at the water–octane interface. At the interface, peptide
adsorption occurs rapidly, and peptides spontaneously aggregate in
favor of stretched conformers resembling β-strands
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Abstract: This paper describes the motivation, strategies, and implementation details that lead to the creation of online graduate-level degree programs in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of New Mexico. It also presents some of the benefits as well as the challenges encountered when designing and implementing these programs. The paper concludes with a discussion of lessons learned and the future directions of the program
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