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Dropping Out in Southeast Kansas: Why Students Leave School Early

This qualitative study takes a deeper look into the lived experiences of students in southeast Kansas who have dropped out of high school. As a result, school and community leaders are better informed to create effective strategy, policy, and practice in dropout prevention. Framed as a phenomenology, data was collected by conducting in-depth, face-to-face interviews with 12 participants and a focus-group interview with four participants. The researcher administered a survey/questionnaire to an additional 15 participants. Utilizing the Streamlined Codes-To-Theory Model (Saldana, 2009); organizational, structural, and elaborative coding techniques were implemented to reduce the data into categories, which led to the establishment of common themes and conclusions for the study. The findings indicate the most common reasons participants share for their decision to drop out relates to negative school experiences, followed closely by life-events occurring outside of the school culture. Many participants stated that there was nothing anyone could have said or done to keep them in school; however, almost half said they might have been persuaded to stay in school if conditions were different. The overriding conclusion was that students who dropped out lacked the appropriate motivation to finish or complete the desired goal, to graduate. This was explained by applying the Expectancy-Value Theory of Achievement Motivation (Keller, 1987) to the study. This study concludes that dropout can be reduced by increasing the value a student places in having an education or being connected to the school. Further, chances of completing the diploma requirements can be greatly enhanced by increasing students\u27 confidence in their own ability to be successful

Advances in Microfluidics and Lab-on-a-Chip Technologies

Advances in molecular biology are enabling rapid and efficient analyses for effective intervention in domains such as biology research, infectious disease management, food safety, and biodefense. The emergence of microfluidics and nanotechnologies has enabled both new capabilities and instrument sizes practical for point-of-care. It has also introduced new functionality, enhanced sensitivity, and reduced the time and cost involved in conventional molecular diagnostic techniques. This chapter reviews the application of microfluidics for molecular diagnostics methods such as nucleic acid amplification, next-generation sequencing, high resolution melting analysis, cytogenetics, protein detection and analysis, and cell sorting. We also review microfluidic sample preparation platforms applied to molecular diagnostics and targeted to sample-in, answer-out capabilities

She Floats Thru the Air: With The Greatest of Ease

A colorful booklet showing mountain tramways in Idaho, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Quebec. Booklet serves primarily as an advertisement for tramway construction by the American Steel and Wire Company.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1299/thumbnail.jp

Closed Circuit Television Cerdas Berbasis NodeMCU ESP-32

Closed circuit television disingkat CCTV merupakan alat bantu yang telah banyak digunakan oleh perusahaan maupun rumah tangga dalam melakukan pemantuan. CCTV pada umumnya dihidupkan secara terus menerus dalam kurun waktu yang ditentukan pengguna. Penggunaan CCTV secara terus menerus berdampak pada pemborosan daya listrik dan usia penggunaan perangkat lebih singkat. Maka diperlukan penelitian CCTV hemat energy dan hidup hanya pada waktu yang diperlukan untuk penggunaan perangkat CCTV yang lebih lama. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah membangun Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) yang hemat energi dan masa penggunaan perangkat yang lama. Terdiri dari dua blok uatama yaitu CCTV Sistem dan blok controller. Blok CCTV berfungsi menangkap gambar dan menampilkan pada layar LCD 14 Inchi. Blok controller dengan pemroses Utama NodeMCU ESP32 sebagai pengatur waktu CCTV mendapat tegangan listrik untuk hidup. CCTV Cerdas ini akan bekerja pada rentan waktu jam 21.00 malam sampai 06.00 pagi dengan mengimplementasikan modul Real Time Clock (RTC) untuk masukkan waktu. CCTV Cerdas mendapat tegangan supply jika sensor PIR Motion mendeteksi panas tubuh manusia pada radius 3 Meter.  Berdasarkan hasil pengujian alat dapat disimpulkan bahwa CCTV Cerdas berbasis NodeMCU ESP-32 dapat bekerja dengan baik yaitu setiap kali sensor PIR mendeteksi panas tubuh maka akan menyalakan unit CCTV.Closed circuit television abbreviated (CCTV) has been widely used by companies and households for monitoring. CCTV users generally turn it on continuously. Continuous use of CCTV has an impact on wasting electrical power and shortening the device's lifespan. research was carried out on energy-saving CCTV and a longer CCTV usage period. The aim of this research is to build a Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) that is energy efficient and has a longer device usage period. Smart CCTV Consists of a CCTV System block and a controller block. The CCTV block functions to capture images and display them on a 14 inch LCD screen. The controller block with the NodeMCU ESP32 main processor as the CCTV timer gets electrical voltage to turn on. This Smart CCTV will work between 21.00 pm to 06.00 am by implementing a Real Time Clock (RTC) module to enter the time. The CCTV block gets a supply voltage if the PIR Motion sensor detects human body heat in a radius of 3 meters. The test results show that the NodeMCU ESP-32 based Smart CCTV can work well. The CCTV block will always turn on whenever the PIR sensor detects human body heat

Security: Collective good or commodity?

This is the author's accepted manuscript. The final published article is available from the link below. Copyright @ 2008 Sage.The state monopoly on the legitimate use of violence in Europe and North America has been central to the development of security as a collective good. Not only has it institutionalized the state as the prime national and international security provider, it has helped to reduce the threat from other actors by either prohibiting or limiting their use of violence. The recent growth of the private security industry appears to undermine this view. Not only are private security firms proliferating at the national level; private military companies are also taking over an increasing range of military functions in both national defence and international interventions. This article seeks to provide an examination of the theoretical and practical implications of the shift from states to markets in the provision of security. Specifically, it discusses how the conceptualization of security as a commodity rather than a collective good affects the meaning and implementation of security in Western democracies.ESR

Flight Control Design for a Tailless Aircraft Using Eigenstructure Assignment

We apply eigenstructure assignment to the design of a flight control system for a wind tunnel model of a tailless aircraft. The aircraft, known as the innovative control effectors (ICEs) aircraft, has unconventional control surfaces plus pitch and yaw thrust vectoring. We linearize the aircraft in straight and level flight at an altitude of 15,000 feet and Mach number 0.4. Then, we separately design flight control systems for the longitudinal and lateral dynamics. We use a control allocation scheme with weights so that the lateral pseudoinputs are yaw and roll moment, and the longitudinal pseudoinput is pitching moment. In contrast to previous eigenstructure assignment designs for the ICE aircraft, we consider the phugoid mode, thrust vectoring, and stability margins. We show how to simultaneously stabilize the phugoid mode, satisfy MIL-F-8785C mode specifications, and satisfy MIL-F-9490D phase and gain margin specifications. We also use a cstar command system that is preferable to earlier pitch-rate command systems. Finally, we present simulation results of the combined longitudinal/lateral flight control system using a full 6DOF nonlinear simulation with approximately 20,000 values for the aerodynamic coefficients. Our simulation includes limiters on actuator deflections, deflection rates, and control system integrators