The Economic Impact of the 2015 Big Nac Music Festival

Infrastructure is what drives small towns in the United States. Defined as “the basic, underlying framework of a system or organization” (The Free Dictionary, 2015), the infrastructure of a small town encapsulates the various roads, businesses, schools, and factories involved with providing the town with economic stability. Unfortunately, in the years following the United States’ economic downturn, this stability has been severely altered. Thus, in an effort to maintain their economies, many small towns are learning to adapt and innovate to protect and nurture their resources. Such innovations include fairs, meetings, conventions, and, the focus of this study, events

Concert recording 2017-04-08a

[Track 1]. Suite for unaccompanied cello in D minor, BWV 1008. I. Prelude [Track 2]. II. Sarabande / Johann Sebastian Bach -- [Track 3]. Sonata for cello and piano in E minor, opus 38. I. Allegro non troppo / Johannes Brahms -- [Track 4]. Silent woods, opus 68, No. 5 for cello and piano / Anontiń Dvorăk -- [Track 5]. Elegy for cello and piano (2017) / Brandon Wade

Concert recording 2018-04-21a

[Track 1]. Suite no. 3 for unaccompanied cello in C major, BWV 1009. I. Prélude [Track 2]. II. Allemande [Track 3]. III. Courante [Track 4]. IV. Sarabande [Track 5]. V. Bourrée I & II [Track 6]. VI. Gigue / J.S. Bach -- [Track 7]. Nocturne in E-flat major, op. 9, no. 2 / Frédéric Chopin transcribed by David Popper -- [Track 8]. Sonata for cello and piano in G minor, op. 19. I. Lento Allegro moderato / Sergei Rachmaninoff -- [Track 9]. Sonata for cello and piano in D minor. I. Prologue: lent, sostenuto e molto risoluto [Track 10]. II. Sérénade: Modérément animé [Track 11]. III. Final: Animé, léger et nerveux / Claude Debussy

Concert recording 2017-04-08a

[Track 1]. Suite for unaccompanied cello in D minor, BWV 1008. I. Prelude [Track 2]. II. Sarabande / Johann Sebastian Bach -- [Track 3]. Sonata for cello and piano in E minor, opus 38. I. Allegro non troppo / Johannes Brahms -- [Track 4]. Silent woods, opus 68, No. 5 for cello and piano / Anontiń Dvorăk -- [Track 5]. Elegy for cello and piano (2017) / Brandon Wade

Bird Collision Mitigation Report Fall 2020

Bird Strike Mitigation Project Report for Sustainability Exchange, Washington University in St. Louis, Fall 202

Age Differences in the Impact of Emotional Cues on Subsequent Target Detection

Emotional cues within the environment capture our attention and influence how we perceive our surroundings. Past research has shown that emotional cues presented before the detection of a perceptual gap can actually impair the perception of elementary visual features (e.g., the lack of detail creating a spatial gap) while simultaneously improving the perception of fast temporal features of vision (e.g., the rapid onset, offset, and re-emergence of a stimulus). This effect has been attributed to amygdalar enhancements of visual inputs conveying emotional features along magnocellular channels. The current study compared participants’ ability to detect spatial and temporal gaps in simple stimuli (a Landolt Circle) after first being exposed to a facial cue in the periphery. The study was an attempt to replicate past research using younger adult samples while also extending these findings to an older adult sample. Unlike younger adults, older adults generally display an attentional bias toward positive instead of negative emotional facial expressions. It is not clear if this positivity bias is strictly driven by cognitive control processes or if there is a change in the human visual system with age that reduces the amplification of negative emotive expressions by the amygdala. The current study used psychophysical data to determine if the rapid presentation of an emotional cue and subsequent perceptual target to older adults leads to the same benefit to temporal vision evinced by younger adults or if amygdalocortical enhancements to perception degrade with age. The current study was only able to partly replicate findings from past research. The negative facial cues that were presented in the periphery did not lead to an enhancement in temporal gap detection for the younger adult sample nor a reduction in spatial gap detection. In fact, the opposite was found. Younger adults’ spatial gap detection benefited from the negative emotional cues. The negative and neutral emotional cues had no effect on the older adult sample. The older adults’ performance on both gap detection tasks was not impacted by the emotional cue

Unattended Underground Energy Harvesting Sensor

The team designed an underground energy harvesting sensor that utilizes the ambient energy from its surroundings to provide low power telecommunications to a remote host. The scope of this project is to analyze the feasibility of such system and explore the capabilities of available energy harvesting techniques that utilize the environment, feasibility of operation, and creating a design. Some of the most common methods that have been proven to function on certain environments are thermoelectric and solar energy. Thermoelectricity uses a temperature gradient and solar uses the energy of the sun. To provide a remote vibration signal an accelerometer was suggested. Based on the requirements the Monnit wireless accelerometer was selected. The wireless accelerometer is a (1.775x1.040x0.785”) high frequency device that collects readings of motion vibrations from nearby objects from underground requiring at max 0.126W of power at 3.6V that is countered by 2-4 (1.580x1.760x0.139”) RC12-8-01LS thermoelectric coolers. These coolers utilize the temperature difference between the underground earth and the surface to generate 0.156W of power at 0.5V to continuously recharge a lithium ion battery. The accelerometer takes the readings and sends them to the Gateway aboveground. The (5.004x3.800x1.510”) Monnit 3G International gateway takes the readings from the sensor and sends it to the host through cellular data using 13.75W of power at 5.5V countered by one 6W (13.100x14.000x0.500”) solar panal to continuously recharge the lithium ion battery. A max 36W 12V (5.710x3.350x1.100”) lithium ion battery is used because it surpasses all competitors in rechargeability, lifetime, and strength. Upon completion the concept of energy generation for low power telecommunications is feasible.https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/capstone/1207/thumbnail.jp

Greek Life Application Project

The goal of this project is to implement and deploy a mobile application for Valparaiso University Greek Life organizations. Several frameworks were considered for the project, including Xamarin, React Native, and Ionic. Ultimately, Ionic was chosen for its similarity to previous programming languages such as Ruby on Rails. The application is built on the Ionic platform using a combination of implemented HTML and Javascript, alongside an extension to Firebase services and Google calendar API. The Google calendar API has been implemented to allow only Valparaiso University emails to view personal and Greek Life’s public calendars. Other features include a message board alert system, event notifications, and application tabs for ease of navigation through the applications menus. A major request, and basis for the project was for an ease of use and convenient localization for Greek Life related document, which have been organized into a table sorted by category. By inclusion of the former mentioned functions, the consumer’s requests are met

Prospectus, November 4, 1998

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Greek Life Application Project

The goal of this project is to implement and deploy a mobile application for Valparaiso University Greek Life organizations. Several frameworks were considered for the project, including Xamarin, React Native, and Ionic. Ultimately, Ionic was chosen for its similarity to previous programming languages such as Ruby on Rails. The application is built on the Ionic platform using a combination of implemented HTML and Javascript, alongside an extension to Firebase services and Google calendar API. The Google calendar API has been implemented to allow only Valparaiso University emails to view personal and Greek Life’s public calendars. Other features include a message board alert system, event notifications, and application tabs for ease of navigation through the applications menus. A major request, and basis for the project was for an ease of use and convenient localization for Greek Life related document, which have been organized into a table sorted by category. By inclusion of the former mentioned functions, the consumer’s requests are met