Adapting curriculum for autism in art education

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) describes a complex group of brain development disorders characterized by difficulties in social interaction, communication and behavior. ASD is one of the nation\u27s leading disorders, affecting nearly one in every 68 children (Centers for Disease Control Prevention, 2017). Currently there is limited understanding and research in ways ASD is being promoted and integrated within art education. This limitation has led to blurred understandings in how art educators can adapt materials, projects, and roles of paraprofessionals within the classroom. Societal views on ASD often deny the giftedness of these children and fail to see the effects that ASD dependence has on helping these students be successful. Many students with ASD are dependent on certified individuals within education to constantly help them find their unique path of learning. It is urgent that we deepen our research and understanding of how ASD students can be best served throughout their k-12 art education endeavors. This research will help identify where further applications should continue exploring the current areas lacking adequate ASD awareness within K-12 art education classrooms

Evaluating the Use of Tootling for Improving Upper Elementary/Middle School Students\u27 Disruptive and Appropriate Behavior

The purpose of the current study was to extend the literature on a positive peer reporting procedure called Tootling. There has been limited research on the effectiveness of the Tootling intervention for reducing disruptive behavior in the classroom (Cihak, Kirk, & Boon, 2009; Lambert, 2012). Additionally, Tootling has primarily been utilized with lower elementary school students, and the present study evaluated the intervention procedures with upper elementary/middle school students (i.e., sixth and seventh grades). The current study also examined the effects of the Tootling intervention on individual target students referred for disruptive behavior in addition to classwide student behavior. An ABAB design across three classrooms was used to evaluate the efficacy of Tootling. Dependent variables consisted of disruptive as well as appropriate student behavior both classwide and for target students and were measured using a 10 second momentary time sampling procedure. Additionally, Tootling included an interdependent group contingency and posted feedback towards the class goal. Overall, increases in appropriate behavior and decreases in disruptive behavior were observed both at the classwide and individual student levels. Considerations for future research as well as limitations and implications for practice are discussed

Benchmarking GPUs on SVBRDF Extractor Model

With the maturity of deep learning, its use is emerging in every field. Also, as different types of GPUs are becoming more available in the markets, it creates a difficult decision for users. How can users select GPUs to achieve optimal performance for a specific task? Analysis of GPU architecture is well studied, but existing works that benchmark GPUs do not study tasks for networks with significantly larger input. In this work, we tried to differentiate the performance of different GPUs on neural network models that operate on bigger input images (256x256)

Faculty Recital: Melanie Cramer Fuller, flute

Kennesaw State University School of Music presents Faculty Recital: Melanie Cramer Fuller, flute with Christy Lambert, piano.https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/musicprograms/1677/thumbnail.jp

Faculty Recital: Melanie Fuller, flute

Kennesaw State University School of Music presents Faculty Recital: Melanie Fuller.https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/musicprograms/1668/thumbnail.jp

The Nature Press, Vol. 3

Nature News was a newsletter publication about activities at the Cheadle Center for Biodiveristy and Ecological Restoration

Indigenous resilience through urban disaster: the Maori response to the 2010 and 2011 Christchurch Otautahi earthquakes

The scale of damage from a series of earthquakes across Christchurch Otautahi in 2010 and 2011 challenged all networks in the city at a time when many individuals and communities were under severe economic pressure. Historically, Maori have drawn on traditional institutions such as whanau, marae, hapu and iwi in their endurance of past crises. This paper presents research in progress to describe how these Maori-centric networks supported both Maori and non-Maori through massive urban dislocation. Resilience to any disaster can be explained by configurations of economic, social and cultural factors. Knowing what has contributed to Maori resilience is fundamental to the strategic enhancement of future urban communities - Maori and non-Maori

Video summarization by group scoring

In this paper a new model for user-centered video summarization is presented. Involvement of more than one expert in generating the final video summary should be regarded as the main use case for this algorithm. This approach consists of three major steps. First, the video frames are scored by a group of operators. Next, these assigned scores are averaged to produce a singular value for each frame and lastly, the highest scored video frames alongside the corresponding audio and textual contents are extracted to be inserted into the summary. The effectiveness of this approach has been evaluated by comparing the video summaries generated by this system against the results from a number of automatic summarization tools that use different modalities for abstraction

Mental Health Services in Rural Jails [Policy Brief]

Based on interviews with state and local corrections and mental health informants in four rural states (Minnesota, Montana, Texas, and Vermont), the researchers sought to learn more about hte challenges that rural jails face along with promising practices being used to meet the needs of inmates with mental health concerns