165 research outputs found
Incorporating Redundant Systems to Capture the Kentucky Money Shot
The Kentucky Eclipse Ballooning Project began in early 2015 when students and faculty from The University of Kentucky attended the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center BalloonSat Workshop in Huntsville, Alabama. These students then accelerated after the Eclipse Ballooning Project Workshop hosted in Bozeman, Montana where they built and learned systems designed by Montana Space Grant. In 2015-2016, the students began a sequence of 10 balloon launches in preparation for the total solar eclipse on August 21, 2017.
In the early stages of this project, University of Kentucky students set the goal to capture footage of a separate high-altitude weather balloon in front of the solar eclipse, an image dubbed “The Kentucky Money Shot”. After establishing that goal, students began working on approaches and designs to capture this picture with one overarching theme: redundancy. Every aspect of the project from the number of balloons and imaging systems to tracking systems and launch procedures were designed with redundant aspects and through collaboration among the payload, ground station, launch, and mission control teams. The short time window of eclipse totality, 2 minutes 28 seconds, motivated design iterations throughout the progressive practice launches and ground tests including launching two balloons simultaneously, streaming and storing footage of the flight from multiple cameras, and using SPOT Trackers and Iridium systems as multiple tracking approaches. All of these practices and tests led to flying the final redundant designs on August 21st, 2017 to successfully capture “The Kentucky Money Shot”
Exile Vol. VIII No. 1
FICTION
Chance Encounter by Meredith Rose 5-12
The Chosen One by William Weaver 15-23
No Fuss, No Muss by Barbara Thiele 30-36
Easter Sunday by Christine Cooper 38-39
POETRY Two Poems by Barbara Purdy 12-13
Myself by Christine Cooper 24-25
The Kangaroo by Virginia Schott 27
Upon Remembering the Once-Novelty of Icicles by Barbara Purdy 27
Coming Awake by Janet Tallman 28
Poem by Christine Cooper 29
The Orb Weaver by Elizabeth Biggert 29
III Haiku by Robert Hoyt 37
GRAPHICS
linocut by Beverly Erbacher 14
pen and ink by Jackie Sims 26
woodcut by Elizabeth Surbeck
EDITORIAL
A Sense of Finality by William Weaver 4
Awarded the EXILE-Denison Bookstore Writing Prize: The Chosen One by William Weaver 15-23
pen and ink 26 was originally credited to Elizabeth Surbeck. However the bound copy has Jackie Sims listed as the correct name in pencil. This interpretation is followed, though there is no Jackie Sims listed in the Contributors sectio
'Set the record straight' : nonviolence and the interpretation of trans life writing AND Under the sign of Gevurah : lesbians, vampires, and law in Batwoman"
This paper argues that readers must take a nonviolent approach when interpreting trans life writing. Many past feminists have failed to correctly interpret trans life writing, leading to transphobic conclusions. Based on the writings of Judith Butler, a nonviolent method of interpretation regards both the form and content of trans life writing to be restricted by forces external to the writer, and accounts for these constraints in a more empathetic style of interpretation. Further, this paper makes reference to the concepts of hermeneutic injustice and epistemic exploitation, as outlined by scholars in the field of epistemic injustice, to illuminate its suggestions for methodology. AND This paper argues that the occasionally explicit Kabbalistic symbolism in Batwoman comics plays a crucial role in illustrating how the DC Comics character of Batwoman stands for, and is restricted by, various forms of law. This paper makes extensive references to histories of Kabbalah as well as primary texts of Jewish mysticism to demonstrate how Batwoman comics are defined by sovereign and psychoanalytic manifestations of the law. In the end, it argues that Batwoman comics also reveal several ways beyond the oppression of the law
The Economic Impact of Early Life Environmental Tobacco Smoke Exposure: Early Intervention for Developmental Delay
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Early-life exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) can result in developmental delay as well as childhood asthma and increased risk of cancer. The high cost of childhood asthma related to ETS exposure has been widely recognized; however, the economic impact of ETS-related developmental delay has been less well understood.
METHODS AND RESULTS:The Columbia Center for Children\u27s Environmental Health (CCCEH) has reported adverse effects of prenatal ETS exposure on child development in a cohort of minority women and children in New York City (odds ratio of developmental delay = 2.36; 95% confidence interval 1.22-4.58). Using the environmentally attributable fraction (EAF) approach, we estimated the annual cost of one aspect of ETS-related developmental delay: Early Intervention Services. The estimated cost of these services per year due to ETS exposure is \u3e Dollars 50 million per year for New York City Medicaid births and Dollars 99 million per year for all New York City births.
CONCLUSION:The high annual cost of just one aspect of developmental delay due to prenatal exposure to ETS provides further impetus for increased prevention efforts such as educational programs to promote smoke-free homes, additional cigarette taxes, and subsidizing of smoking cessation programs
Population Point Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 Infection Based on a Statewide Random Sample — Indiana, April 25–29, 2020
During April 25–29, 2020, Indiana conducted statewide random sample testing of persons aged ≥12 years to assess prevalence of active infection and presence of antibodies to SARS-CoV-2; additional nonrandom sampling was conducted in racial and ethnic minority communities to better understand the impact of the virus in certain racial and ethnic minority populations.Nir Menachemi reports a grant from State of Indiana which funded this study. Virginia Caine reports that she is a member of the MMWR Editorial Board. Brian E. Dixon and William F. Fadel report grants from the Indiana State Department of Health. Paul K. Halverson reports a grant from the State of Indiana. No other potential conflicts of interest were disclosed
University of Kentucky Measurements of Wind, Temperature, Pressure and Humidity in Support of LAPSE-RATE Using Multisite Fixed-Wing and Rotorcraft Unmanned Aerial Systems
In July 2018, unmanned aerial systems (UASs) were deployed to measure the properties of the lower atmosphere within the San Luis Valley, an elevated valley in Colorado, USA, as part of the Lower Atmospheric Profiling Studies at Elevation – a Remotely-piloted Aircraft Team Experiment (LAPSE-RATE). Measurement objectives included detailing boundary layer transition, canyon cold-air drainage and convection initiation within the valley. Details of the contribution to LAPSE-RATE made by the University of Kentucky are provided here, which include measurements by seven different fixed-wing and rotorcraft UASs totaling over 178 flights with validated data. The data from these coordinated UAS flights consist of thermodynamic and kinematic variables (air temperature, humidity, pressure, wind speed and direction) and include vertical profiles up to 900 m above the ground level and horizontal transects up to 1500 m in length. These measurements have been quality controlled and are openly available in the Zenodo LAPSE-RATE community data repository (https://zenodo.org/communities/lapse-rate/, last access: 23 July 2020), with the University of Kentucky data available at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3701845 (Bailey et al., 2020)
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