Communicating with Students Via E-mail: Creating No Excuse for “There’s Nothing to Do On Campus”

In the past decade, technology has transformed how society communicates. From the internet to cell phones to iPods and video games, interactive communication has become the norm. At the University of Rhode Island, students adapt quickly to the constantly changing technology. Yet student organizations and the University as a whole have not adapted as quickly to such changes. This has led to an uninformed and uninterested student body when it comes to programming and events on campus. As students instant message on their laptops and text message on their cell phones (simultaneously, of course), organizations, clubs and athletics struggle to increase attendance at events -- events that many students have no idea exist. Ultimately, these groups are missing the boat when it comes to communicating electronically with their target audiences. Seeing this problem as an opportunity, I used my education in public relations to create a way for student organizations to spread the word about what’s happening at URI via e-mail. With the creation of a free weekly e-mail listing of campus events, the goal of this project is to offer organizations and departments the opportunity to reach students via e-mail. Beginning with the creation of a website, the project continued with an electronic survey of students. The goal of the survey was to gain a better understanding of how students might respond to the e-mail listing. The response was overwhelmingly positive and led to the creation, layout and design of RhodyWire. Throughout the semester, a marketing campaign was developed and implemented to create awareness about RhodyWire and to direct students to opt-in for the listing. RhodyWire debuted on April 2 and is sent every Monday to its subscribers. The future of RhodyWire has been discussed and plans have been made for it to continue next year. It is important to continuously promote RhodyWire and to listen to what its readers want. Thus, fliers will be distributed at Freshman Orientation to make incoming freshman aware of RhodyWire. In response to readers’ desires to know about what is happening off campus, guidelines will be set to determine what off campus events are appropriate for RhodyWire. I hope that the groundwork I have laid for RhodyWire will serve as a foundation that will continue to develop once I graduate. In the future, RhodyWire can potentially be the first e-mail that students read every Monday morning

Hilfeplanung im Jugendamt Landkreis Hildesheim. Eine Arbeitsbroschüre für die Mitarbeiter_innen des Jugendamts-Erziehungshilfe im Landkreis Hildesheim

In der Zeit von Juli 2015 bis September 2017 fand in Zusammenarbeit des Jugendamts-Erziehungshilfe des Landkreises Hildesheim und der Universität Hildesheim das Projekt „Hilfeplanung in den Hilfen zur Erziehung“ statt. Das Projekt hatte zum Ziel, gemeinsame Standards in den einzelnen Arbeitsschritten der Hilfeplanung festzulegen. Die folgende Broschüre stellt die zentralen Diskussionen und Ergebnisse des Projekts dar und gibt somit einen Überblick über die im Projekt erarbeiteten und die für das Jugendamt-Erziehungshilfe konstitutiven Standards im Rahmen des Hilfeplanungsprozesses

A Sub-Picosecond Digital Clock Monitoring System

We describe a low-cost system designed to monitor wander in digital clocks with a precision of $\le$ 1 ps. With this system we have shown that it is possible to track phase variations at the sub-picosecond level by adding noise to a reference clock. As in many cases where a clock is part of a complex distribution network small changes in temperature and other effects can lead to small changes in the a clock's phase. As a further demonstration of the system, we have used it to measure the phase changes induced in optical signals in fibers.Comment: 19 pages 26 figure

Electron Energy Regression in the CMS High-Granularity Calorimeter Prototype

We present a new publicly available dataset that contains simulated data of a novel calorimeter to be installed at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. This detector will have more than six-million channels with each channel capable of position, ionisation and precision time measurement. Reconstructing these events in an efficient way poses an immense challenge which is being addressed with the latest machine learning techniques. As part of this development a large prototype with 12,000 channels was built and a beam of high-energy electrons incident on it. Using machine learning methods we have reconstructed the energy of incident electrons from the energies of three-dimensional hits, which is known to some precision. By releasing this data publicly we hope to encourage experts in the application of machine learning to develop efficient and accurate image reconstruction of these electrons.Comment: 7 pages, 6 figure

Predicting the Future of the CMS Detector: Crystal Radiation Damage and Machine Learning at the LHC

The 75,848 lead tungstate crystals in CMS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider are used to measure the energy of electrons and photons produced in the proton-proton collisions. The optical transparency of the crystals degrades slowly with radiation dose due to the beam-beam collisions. The transparency of each crystal is monitored with a laser monitoring system that tracks changes in the optical properties of the crystals due to radiation from the collision products. Predicting the optical transparency of the crystals, both in the short-term and in the long-term, is a critical task for the CMS experiment. We describe here the public data release, following FAIR principles, of the crystal monitoring data collected by the CMS Collaboration between 2016 and 2018. Besides describing the dataset and its access, the problems that can be addressed with it are described, as well as an example solution based on a Long Short-Term Memory neural network developed to predict future behavior of the crystals

Wie sehen Jugendliche Gender und Sex in öffentlicher Erziehung? Rekonstruktionen der Perspektiven von Adressat_innen der Kinder- und Jugendhilfe

"Der Beitrag zeigt die Sichtweisen der jugendlichen Adressat_innen auf sexualpädagogische Angebote in der offenen Jugendarbeit und der Heimerziehung. Im Vorfeld werden die Felder mit ihren Anforderungen und Herausforderungen zu sexueller Vielfalt und sexualpädagogischen Angeboten dargestellt. Der empirische Teil wird durch die Beschreibung des Erhebungs- und Auswertungsverfahrens - dem Gruppendiskussionen und erzählgenerierende Interviews unter Berücksichtigung der Adressat_innenperspektive zugrunde liegen - eingeleitet. Im empirischen Hauptteil werden im Sinne der Adressat_innenforschung die jugendlichen Sichtweisen dargestellt. Diese Darstellung unterteilt sich in drei Bereiche: Sexualität und Paarbeziehungen, Genderkonstruktionen und sexualpädagogische Angebote. Der Artikel schließt mit der Forderung nach weiterer Forschung zum Thema Gender in der Kinder- und Jugendhilfe, um die Sichtweisen der Jugendlichen zu berücksichtigen, aber auch, um reflektieren zu können, dass Jugendliche ebenfalls in einer heterosexuellen Matrix verhaftet sind und es einer Sexualpädagogik bedarf, die geschlechtersensibel gedacht werden kann." (Autorenreferat)"This article presents the viewpoints of young people who are living in residential care or taking part in youth work schemes. First, we present both fields with their specific needs and challenges as regards sexual diversity and sex education. The empirical part begins with a description of the survey and analysis-group discussions and interviews which take account of participatory research. The empirical part of the article presents the young people's points of view and is split into three sections: Sexuality and partner relationships; gender constructions; and sex education. In conclusion, we call for further research into youth work in order to include young people's perspectives as well as to be able to reflect the fact that young people too are trapped in the heterosexual matrix and that therefore sex education needs to be gender sensitive." (author's abstract

POSITIONEN: Kinderrechte in der Vollzeitpflege – Reformbedarf zur Verwirklichung von Schutzkonzepten in der Infrastruktur der Pflegekinderhilfe

Das Team "Foster Care" benennt in diesem Positionspapier wichtige Forderungen für die SGB VIII Reform in Bezug auf die Umsetzung von Schutzkonzepten in der Pflegekinderhilfe

Avalanche photodiodes for the CMS electromagnetic calorimeter

Avalanche photodiodes(APD's) will be used as photodetectors in the CMS barrel electromagnetic crystal calorimeter for high precision energy measurements in a hostile radiation environment. Significant progress has been made in the characteristics of these devices being expressly developed for CMS. Parameters of the final structure APD's together with demonstrations of radiation hardness and plans for quality assurance/control during the production phase are presented

E835 at FNAL: Charmonium Spectroscopy in pˉp\bar p p Annihilations

I present preliminary results on the search for $h_c$ in its $\eta_c\gamma$ and $J/\psi\pi^0$ decay modes. We observe an excess of \eta_c\gamma$events near 3526 MeV that has a probability${\cal P} \sim 0.001$to arise from background fluctations. The resonance parameters are$M=3525.8 \pm 0.2 \pm 0.2 $MeV,$\Gamma\leq$1 MeV, and$10.6\pm 3.7\pm3.4(br) < \Gamma_{\bar{p}p}B_{\eta_c\gamma} < 12.8\pm 4.8\pm4.5(br) $eV. We find no event excess within the search region in the$J/\psi\pi^0$ mode.Comment: Presented at the 6th International Conference on Hyperons, Charm and Beauty Hadrons (BEACH 2004), Chicago(Il), June 27-July 3,200

Creativity in Citizen Cyberscience

An interview study was conducted to explore volunteers’ experiences of creativity in citizen cyberscience. Participants were recruited from 4 projects: GeoTag-X, Virtual Atom Smasher, Synthetic Biology, and Extreme Citizen Science. Ninety-six interviews were conducted in total: 86 with volunteers (citizen scientists) and 10 with professional scientists. The resulting thematic analysis revealed that volunteers are involved in a range of creative activities, such as discussing ideas, suggesting improvements, gamification, artwork, creative writing, and outreach activities. We conclude that the majority of creative products are community-related. Creativity in citizen cyberscience is a collective process: volunteers create within a project and a community, both for themselves and for others