Urban/Suburban/Rural Communities

Students will be able to use Google Earth as a tool to make assumptions and tell what they notice about a variety of communities in the United States

Designing a Model of an Online Business and Writing a Business Plan

The best way to determine the success of a new business is to develop a business plan for the company. The plan will build a foundation for the business and will present all of the potential strengths, issues, and strategies that may be used and faced. The plan acts as a calling card for the company, while allowing the entrepreneur to see the business through an investor’s eyes. It should be completed in a way that is presentable, understandable, and encouraging to the investor who is considering helping in your venture. It is also a decision tool for the entrepreneur to decide whether or not opening this new business is a smart idea. In addition to introducing the business and its goals, a business plan includes the answers to several concerning questions. Answers determining how the company will make a profit, what personnel will need to be acquired, who the customers are, what marketing techniques will be used, where funding will come from, among several others. For this project I have chosen to create a model for an online business that I have thought of. The product that I will be selling is posters of words that the customers have chosen. The words will be formed by different, unique letters that I have taken pictures of from signs in any location (not including copyrighted letters). These signs include restaurant titles, stores, billboards, posters, and anything within my reach. The idea is that once the customer has chosen the letters and word that they want to appear on their poster, they will be able to order it right through the website. The largest part of my project will be creating a business plan for this idea. The plan will address and clarify all the different aspects that will go into starting this online busines

Fuel control for gas turbine with continuous pilot flame

An improved fuel control for a gas turbine engine having a continuous pilot flame and a fuel distribution system including a pump drawing fuel from a source and supplying a line to the main fuel nozzle of the engine, the improvement being a control loop between the pump outlet and the pump inlet to bypass fuel, an electronically controlled throttle valve to restrict flow in the control loop when main nozzle demand exists and to permit substantially unrestricted flow without main nozzle demand, a minimum flow valve in the control loop downstream of the throttle valve to maintain a minimum pressure in the loop ahead of the flow valve, a branch tube from the pilot flame nozzle to the control loop between the throttle valve and the minimum flow valve, an orifice in the branch tube, and a feedback tube from the branch tube downstream of the orifice to the minimum flow valve, the minimum flow valve being operative to maintain a substantially constant pressure differential across the orifice to maintain constant fuel flow to the pilot flame nozzle

Neural correlates of nonverbal social communication in high-risk infants

The aim of this study was to replicate and extend a study by Grossmann and colleagues (2008), examining infant neural responses to gaze in 5-month-olds, to older and high-risk infants. Participants were 9-month-old infants (5 preterm, [3 female]; 12 full term [7 female]) who underwent fNIRS while viewing gaze paradigms. Findings revealed that hemisphere predicted peak oxygenated hemoglobin (HbO2) across groups and conditions, with higher activation in the left hemisphere across groups. Interaction of group by condition predicted peak HbO2 value, with an increase in activation in the high-risk group during the averted condition. Participants as random effects accounted for a significant amount of the variance, highlighting the importance of individual variability in infant studies. Lower activation in left frontal regions was related to higher expressive language while lower activation in right frontal and temporal regions was related to higher receptive language. Overall, higher activation was related to reduced language performance, negative affect, and behavior problems at 12 months