The Effects of Integrating External Applications into Learning Management Systems (LMS)

Learning Management Systems (LMS) have become the new norm for education at all levels. Due to the increasing popularity of LMSes, supplemental learning applications are now being tailored to work with an LMS by the use of Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI), which is a standard that helps provide the capability to connect external applications. Despite these advances in educational technology, some instructors seem to have a hard time adopting them. This thesis has two main goals: the first goal is to gauge professor and student interest in using integrated educational apps, and the second goal is to create an LTI application using the current Mechanix platform created by the Sketch Recognition Lab (SRL). In order to gauge interest in integrated software, a survey was sent out to professors and students. N1=29 professors and N2=30 students responded to the survey and gave feedback. Results show that both groups greatly prefer integrated applications over non-integrated applications. Also practical steps were shown on how to make an application LTI compliant

Nations within a nation: variations in epidemiological transition across the states of India, 1990–2016 in the Global Burden of Disease Study

18% of the world's population lives in India, and many states of India have populations similar to those of large countries. Action to effectively improve population health in India requires availability of reliable and comprehensive state-level estimates of disease burden and risk factors over time. Such comprehensive estimates have not been available so far for all major diseases and risk factors. Thus, we aimed to estimate the disease burden and risk factors in every state of India as part of the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study 2016

Nolanville Comprehensive Plan 2021-2041

Nearly five years after the completion of the 2015 Comprehensive Plan, TxTC partnered with the City of Nolanville again in 2019 with the ENDEAVR project. ENDEAVR (Envisioning the Neo-traditional Development by Embracing the Autonomous Vehicles Realm)— is an ambitious project to re-envision ”smart” city solutions in small towns with students from a wide range of university degree programs in urban planning, landscape architecture, visualization, computer science, and civil, electrical and mechanical engineering. ENDEAVR launched in 2018 with a $300,000 grant from the Keck Foundation, which supports projects that promote inventive educational approaches. The City of Nolanville sought to explore “smart” city solutions to make efficient and prudent improvements to traffic flow, public safety, optimize utility systems, high-bandwidth digital networks, and foster autonomous vehicles. Additionally, TxTC included these “smart” city solutions to update its 2015 comprehensive plan. The new 2020 comprehensive plan embeds “smart” city solutions into its priorities and capital improvement projects to foster diversity and continue to make Nolanville “A Great Place to Live”