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Use of Role-play and Gamification in a Software Project Course
Soft skills are increasingly important to the engineering profession and course modifications are often needed to ensure students have opportunities to practice them prior to graduation. This suggests that engineering programs need to go beyond simply offering industry-based capstone courses and internships. Role-play has a long history as a tool for learning. It can be used to simulate real world practices in environments where consequences can be mitigated safely. In this paper, we discuss the use of team role-play activities to simulate the experience of working in a professional, game development studio as a means of enhancing an advanced undergraduate game design course. In conjunction with the role-play, a gamification framework was used within the course to allow students to customize their course participation. Gamification was used to reward students for compliance with software process steps and for taking the initiative to improve their âsoft skillsâ. In this project, allowing students to negotiate the nature of their activities and rewards helped them develop those skills. We are using student feedback and our own lessons learned to plan the next iteration of this course
Coarse Graining RNA Nanostructures for Molecular Dynamics Simulations
A series of coarse-grained models have been developed for the study of the
molecular dynamics of RNA nanostructures. The models in the series have one to
three beads per nucleotide and include different amounts of detailed structural
information. Such a treatment allows us to reach, for the systems of thousands
of nucleotides, a time scale of microseconds (i.e. by three orders of magnitude
longer than in the full atomistic modelling) and thus to enable simulations of
large RNA polymers in the context of bionanotechnology. We find that the
3-beads-per-nucleotide models, described by a set of just a few universal
parameters, are able to describe different RNA conformations and are comparable
in structural precision to the models where detailed values of the backbone
P-C4' dihedrals taken from a reference structure are included. These findings
are discussed in the context of the RNA conformation classes
Evolution of the afterglow optical spectral shape of GRB 201015A in the first hour: evidence for dust destruction
Instruments such as the ROTSE, TORTORA, Pi of the Sky, MASTER-net, and others
have recorded single-band optical flux measurements starting as early as
10 seconds after a gamma-ray burst trigger. The earliest
measurements of optical spectral shape have been made only much later,
typically on hour time scales, never starting less than a minute after trigger,
until now. Beginning only 58 seconds after the Swift BAT triggerred on
GRB201015A, we observed a sharp rise in flux to a peak, followed by an
approximate power law decay light curve, . Flux was
measured simultaneously in three optical filter bands, g', r', and i', using
our unique instrument mounted on the Nazarbayev University Transient Telescope
at Assy-Turgen Astrophysical Observatory (NUTTelA-TAO). Our simultaneous
multi-band observations of the early afterglow show strong colour evolution
from red to blue, with a change in the optical log slope (after correction for
Milky Way extinction) of ; during this time the X-ray log slope
remained constant. We did not find evidence for a two-component jet structure
or a transition from reverse to forward shock that would explain this change in
slope. We find that the majority of the optical spectral slope evolution is
consistent with a monotonic decay of extinction, evidence of dust destruction.
If we assume that the optical log slope is constant throughout this period,
with the value given by the late-time slope, and we further assume an SMC-like
extinction curve, we derive a change in the local extinction
from 0.8 mag to 0.3 mag in
2500 s. This work shows that significant information about the early
emission phase (and possibly prompt emission, if observed early enough) is
being missed without such early observations with simultaneous multi-band
instruments.Comment: 7 pages, 3 figures. Submitted to MNRA
Early-time optical spectral shape measurements of GRB 200925B
Optical broad-band spectral shape measurements of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are
typically made starting an hour or more after the trigger event. With our
automated, rapid-response system, the Burst Simultaneous Three-channel Imager
(BSTI) on the Nazarbayev University Transient Telescope at Assy-Turgen
Astrophysical Observatory (NUTTelA-TAO), we began measurements of GRB200925B
129 s after the Swift BAT trigger. The temporal decay log slopes in the g', r',
and i' bands in the time interval 129 s to 1029 s are -0.43 \pm 0.31, -0.43 \pm
0.15, and -0.72 \pm 0.14, respectively. During the decay phase, a shift in
color from red to blue, a change in log slope of \{beta} from -2.73 to -1.52
was measured. The evolution in the optical spectral slope is consistent with a
decrease in extinction caused by dust destruction.Comment: Submitted to RevMexAA(SC
Lung epithelial signaling mediates early vaccine-induced CD4 + T cell activation and Mycobacterium tuberculosis control
Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the leading causes of death due to a single infectious agent. The development of a TB vaccine that induces durable and effective immunity to Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Forests for the New Millennium - MAKING FORESTS WORK FOR PEOPLE AND NATURE
THE WAYS IN WHICH FORESTS ARE PERCEIVED AND USED HAVE CHANGED DRAMATICALLY OVER RECENT YEARS. FORESTS ARE NO LONGER SEEN SIMPLY AS A SOURCE OF TIMBER, BUT AS COMPLEX ECOSYSTEMS WHICH SUSTAIN LIVELIHOODS AND PROVIDE A RANGE OF PRODUCTS AND ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES. IT IS NOW WIDELY RECOGNISED THAT FORESTS CAN CONTRIBUTE TO RURAL DEVELOPMENT AND POVERTY ALLEVIATION.Forest, economics, livelihoods
Industry/University Collaboration at the University of Michigan-Dearborn: A Focus on Relevant Technology
https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/154104/1/kampfner1996.pd
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