Prospectus, January 21, 1985

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Prospectus, September 25,1984

ARE WE MISSING OUT BY WAITING?; \u27Fan Fare\u27 gives various aspects of the arts and entertainment; PC Digest; Board adopts $16,761,087 budget; Staff profiles-Mark Matthews-Shirley Hubbard-Autobiographical; Interest in communications started early; Snowball keeps getting bigger and bigger; PC Happenings; Dental Clinic accepts new patients; Health series listed; EMT workshop planned; Messiah auditions will be held Sept. 29; Osteoporosis is seminar topic; The Writing Clinic is free for everyone; Ceramic artist at Parkland; Organizations Parkland Cobra may get \u27face lift\u27; Parkland Theatre season opens; Secretarial Review offered at Parkland in October; IOC has good attendence; Did you know...; Record enrollment in Chanute classes; Be a Parkland tour guide; Celebrate the Arts Week; Classifieds; Creative Corner...Especially for you!!; \u27Knik-knak\u27-It almost almost seemed feminine or was it his imaginiation?; Anniversary of Life Changes; \u27Doom Story\u27-What horrors await this faithful crew?; The Penny; The Sidewalk; War is Hell; Alcoholism and Drug Abuse-why do so many turn to an artificial stimulant for happiness?; Alcoholics Anonymous; New system more efficient; What is ABBA\u27s game plan? Will they go \u27On & On & On\u27; Jennings\u27 latest luke warm; Bid for treasures during auction for WILL; Music warms the heart; GiGi romances again; Chick offers diverse music; U of I Symphony begins season; Parkland presents \u27Wager\u27; Fast Freddy Contest; Pumphrey spikes boost Cobras over intimidated Moraine Valley; IM football begins; Golfers tie for 12th; Cobras win 4th Wesleyan wins in Decaturhttps://spark.parkland.edu/prospectus_1984/1011/thumbnail.jp

Prospectus, August 27, 1984

HOPE FOR SATISFYING, REWARDING EXPERIENCE AND BEST YEAR EVER FROM PRESIDENT STAERKEL; PC Happenings; Fall-In 1984-Join us for the big fall kick-off; Student Services-to supplement your studies with practical experience; Herbsleb honored; Voter Registration deadline Oct. 2 at Parkland; Campus Services...Day and Evening; Warm Welcome to Parkland; Awareness of diverse individual needs basis for expanding support systems/self-help groups; Black Student Association BSA\u27s priority is on teaching black history and culture to everyone; Champaign County N.O.W. reaches out to new woman; Homosexual, heterosexuals strive for understanding of each other in C-U Gay and Lesbian Illini; One right way and plenty of wrong ways to offer help to the disabled; Champaign County Mental Health Center available to all; Prospectus staff enjoys opportunity for creativeness, camaraderie, challenge, and extended family; Mike Dubson, Reporter, Autobiographical; Autobiographical Jeanene Edmison; Parkland News Editor, Office Manager; Autobiographical James E. Costa, Reporter; Advice from the Duodenum; Profiles in Courage The unsung heroes of Parkland College student workers smooth the way; The Dead Zone will make your skin crawl; Students now feel free to turn down a drink; Trolley\u27s broaden early residents\u27 lives; Champaign offers variety with 37 parks/ 480 acres; Urbana has total of 22 parks covering 400 acres; Black voters turn out in record numbers; Which system produces better candidates?; Community musicians welcome to join groups at Parkland; Champaign-Urbana retains glimpses of yesteryear with charming older homes; Champaign culture; Arts school has widespread reputation; Don\u27t miss Missing Persons; Good ol\u27 days were fun; Celebrate; Parkland\u27s new baseball coach: Tom Dedin, Jr.; Certain traits typical for world-class distance runner/athleticshttps://spark.parkland.edu/prospectus_1984/1015/thumbnail.jp

Searching for network modules

When analyzing complex networks a key target is to uncover their modular structure, which means searching for a family of modules, namely node subsets spanning each a subnetwork more densely connected than the average. This work proposes a novel type of objective function for graph clustering, in the form of a multilinear polynomial whose coefficients are determined by network topology. It may be thought of as a potential function, to be maximized, taking its values on fuzzy clusterings or families of fuzzy subsets of nodes over which every node distributes a unit membership. When suitably parametrized, this potential is shown to attain its maximum when every node concentrates its all unit membership on some module. The output thus is a partition, while the original discrete optimization problem is turned into a continuous version allowing to conceive alternative search strategies. The instance of the problem being a pseudo-Boolean function assigning real-valued cluster scores to node subsets, modularity maximization is employed to exemplify a so-called quadratic form, in that the scores of singletons and pairs also fully determine the scores of larger clusters, while the resulting multilinear polynomial potential function has degree 2. After considering further quadratic instances, different from modularity and obtained by interpreting network topology in alternative manners, a greedy local-search strategy for the continuous framework is analytically compared with an existing greedy agglomerative procedure for the discrete case. Overlapping is finally discussed in terms of multiple runs, i.e. several local searches with different initializations.Comment: 10 page

Accuracy and repeatability of wrist joint angles in boxing using an electromagnetic tracking system

© 2019, The Author(s). The hand-wrist region is reported as the most common injury site in boxing. Boxers are at risk due to the amount of wrist motions when impacting training equipment or their opponents, yet we know relatively little about these motions. This paper describes a new method for quantifying wrist motion in boxing using an electromagnetic tracking system. Surrogate testing procedure utilising a polyamide hand and forearm shape, and in vivo testing procedure utilising 29 elite boxers, were used to assess the accuracy and repeatability of the system. 2D kinematic analysis was used to calculate wrist angles using photogrammetry, whilst the data from the electromagnetic tracking system was processed with visual 3D software. The electromagnetic tracking system agreed with the video-based system (paired t tests) in both the surrogate ( 0.9). In the punch testing, for both repeated jab and hook shots, the electromagnetic tracking system showed good reliability (ICCs > 0.8) and substantial reliability (ICCs > 0.6) for flexion–extension and radial-ulnar deviation angles, respectively. The results indicate that wrist kinematics during punching activities can be measured using an electromagnetic tracking system

Implications of the 2019–2020 megafires for the biogeography and conservation of Australian vegetation

Australia's 2019–2020 'Black Summer' bushfires burnt more than 8 million hectares of vegetation across the south-east of the continent, an event unprecedented in the last 200 years. Here we report the impacts of these fires on vascular plant species and communities. Using a map of the fires generated from remotely sensed hotspot data we show that, across 11 Australian bioregions, 17 major native vegetation groups were severely burnt, and up to 67–83% of globally significant rainforests and eucalypt forests and woodlands. Based on geocoded species occurrence data we estimate that >50% of known populations or ranges of 816 native vascular plant species were burnt during the fires, including more than 100 species with geographic ranges more than 500 km across. Habitat and fire response data show that most affected species are resilient to fire. However, the massive biogeographic, demographic and taxonomic breadth of impacts of the 2019–2020 fires may leave some ecosystems, particularly relictual Gondwanan rainforests, susceptible to regeneration failure and landscape-scale decline

Prospectus, April 18, 1984

CHORAL UNION DEMANDING AND REWARDING; News Digest; Is your child part of the identi-child program?; Budding playwrights get chance to have work produced; PC Happenings: Parkland wins Automotive Contest, German Club annual Springfest, EMT workshop offered, Petitions available for Stu-Go, Stu-Go lacks quorum; Here Comes the Easter Bunny (or the Easter Hare?); Faces We Make; Former Prospectus entertainment writer: Alender services held; Strange things at the library; Only Food Service Management course in area: Sutton leads Food Service Management program; Criminal justice program well rounded; Running may increase protein need; Easter means Easter egg time; Second Wind hosts race; Did You Know...; Classifieds; Creative Corner...Especially for you!!: Recollections, She\u27s More than a Nurse, You are a corn-fed steak..., Memories..., A fire burns, AKTING??????????????..., Sometimes in their heed to tact..., Clouds, Disturb Not the Dead, Follow the Wind, I don\u27t know why I bother..., Innoncent Eyes, Please tell me what it is you want..., Running scared from yourself and tripped, babe..., Time Bomb, Don\u27t go away--Linger on..., Class, Raggedy Ann lay in the back of an old station wagon..., Too Late, To God; Ice Capades comes to town: Skaters say it\u27s hard work but well worth it; few surprises during Hollywood\u27s biggest night; \u27Queen\u27 film at Assembly Hall; Director shines in film; \u27Go-Go\u27s\u27 are back on track; \u27Weird Al\u27 hits big time; Fan Club to host film; Parkland College 1984 baseball roster; Cobra men lose two; 1984 Parkland Outdoor Track Bests; Sports Digest; Women lose twin bill; Prospectus survey resultshttps://spark.parkland.edu/prospectus_1984/1024/thumbnail.jp