Interior Materials and Applications: A Hands-On Project with First Presbyterian Church

Experiential learning is the philosophical term behind the idea of immersing oneself in a subject in order to learn. Aristotle wrote, "for the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them". Being hands-on is especially important in the classroom because it allows students to engage in kinesthetic learning. 'Doing' helps them to gain a better understanding of the material. It allows students to experiment with trial and error, learn from their mistakes, and understand the potential gaps between theory and practice. It also provides educators with a unique opportunity to enrich the minds of their students in new and engaging ways. This project seeks to afford freshman design students the hands-on training, knowledge, skills and competencies needed in the workplace as they pursue their degree. In the spring 2022 approximately 50 freshman students from the IDES 115 Interior Materials and Applications, Sections 1 and 2 (a required course in the Interior Design major), taught by PI Alfaro and Co-PI Son, will align with a community partner, First Presbyterian Church of Muncie, to specify appropriate materials for a future youth room in their church, learn from qualified consultant’s appropriate application techniques, and then apply what they learn to actually refinish the space for the community partner. Students, using hands-on techniques, will gain an understanding of current materials and construction practices, and explore innovation in material application with guidance from guest consultants. The project addresses the production of specifications and schedules, cost analysis, project management, and applicable building codes

Centro educativo de nivel primaria y secundaria " San Juan Bautista" en el distrito de Julcan - departamento de la libertad

La presente tesis consiste en la investigación y desarrollo del proyecto arquitectónico de un nuevo Centro Educativo de nivel Primaria y Secundaria ``San Juan Bautista`` en el Distrito de Julcan – Departamento dela La Libertad. El propósito principal de esta investigación es elaborar un proyecto arquitectónico para el Centro Educativo de nivel Primaria y Secundaria ``San Juan Bautista`` en el Distrito de Julcan en el cual se puedan realizar actividades académicas, administrativas y de investigación de manera adecuada, satisfaciendo las necesidades de los alumnos e impulsando tanto el desarrollo de aprendizaje, cumpliendo con los estándares reglamentarios; y a la vez identificando al proyecto con la finalidad de brindar una mejor infraestructura educativa en el Distrito de Julcán, que cumplan con los estándares básicos en la actualidad. De igual forma, se busca lograr una expresión innovadora en cuanto a la espacialidad y función del proyecto, haciendo uso de los conceptos de espacios multifuncionales y escuela libre; de esta manera las actividades académicas puedan ser compartidas en ambos niveles. Además, se propone incorporar en el proyecto sistemas que disminuyan el consumo energético; así como un sistema de tejas solares, el cual posibilita un uso renovable de la energía, brindando sostenibilidad a los usuarios y al proyecto. Es así que el Proyecto se basa en el análisis de las necesidades de los usuarios, cuanto a infraestructura y finalmente se plantea un nuevo modelo de infraestructura educativa, en la que los espacios sociales y de interacción son tan relevantes como las aulas mismas, ya que contribuyen a que la educación básica regular en el Perú deje de tener una forma hermética y pueda convertirse en una con un mejor sistema funcional y espacial.This thesis consists of the research and development of the architectural project of new elementary and secondary education center ``SAN JUAN BAUTISTA`` in the Julcan District – Department of La Libertad. The main purpose of this research is to develop an architectural project for the Elementary and Secondary Education Center San Juan Bautista in the Julcan District in wich academic, administrative and research activities can be carried out in an adequate way, satisfying the needs of the students and promoting both the learning development, complying with the regulatory standards; and at the same time identifying the project in order to provide a better educational infrastructure in the District of Julcan, wich meets the basic standards today. Similarly, it seeks to achieve an innovative expression in terms of the spatiality and function of the project, making use of the concepts of multifunctional spaces and free school; in this way academic activities can be shared at both levels. In addition, it is proposed to incorporate into the project systems that reduce energy consumption; as well as a system of solar tiles, wich enables a renewable use of energy, providing sustainability to users and the project. The project is based on the analysis of the need of the users, in terms of infrastructure and finally a new model of educational infrastructure is proposed, in wich the social and interaction spaces are as relevant as the classrooms themselves, since they contribute to the fact that regular basic education in Perù eases to have a hermetic form and can become one with a better functional and spatial system.Tesi

Infección materna por sarscov2 factor de riesgo para bajo peso al nacer en neonatos a término. estudio multicéntrico, 2020-2021

Objetivo: Determinar si la infección materna por Sarscov2 es un factor de riesgo para bajo peso al nacer en neonatos a término en un estudio Multicéntrico. Material y métodos: Se ejecutó el presente estudio de carácter analítico denominado casos y controles integrada por una muestra de 53 neonatos con bajo peso al nacer a término y 212 sin bajo peso al nacer, se procedió al cálculo del chi cuadrado, odds ratio y la regresión logística. Resultados: El 22.6% de los neonatos a termino con bajo peso al nacer y 11.8% sin bajo peso al nacer tuvieron el antecedente materno de infección por Sarscov2, sin embargo al aplicar la regresión logística no se halló riesgo no diferencias estadísticas significativas con una p=0.071, situación similar se encontró en las covariables: Edad materna avanzada con una p=0.087, el antecedente materno de bajo peso al nacer con una p=0.051, Anemia materna gestacional con una p=0.050, maternidad adolescente con una p=0.065 y sexo del recien nacido con una p=0.763. Conclusión: La infección materna por Sarscov2 en la etapa gestacional no constituye factor de riesgo para el bajo peso al nacer en el nacido a términoObjective: To determine if maternal Sarscov2 infection is a risk factor for low birth weight in term neonates in a multicenter study. Material and methods: The present analytical study called cases and controls was carried out, made up of a sample of 53 neonates with low birth weight at term and 212 without low birth weight, we proceeded to calculate the chi square, odds ratio and logistic regression. Results: The 22.6% of full-term neonates with low birth weight and 11.8% without low birth weight had a maternal history of Sarscov2 infection, however, when applying logistic regression, no risk or significant statistical differences were found with a p =0.071, a similar situation was found for the covariates: Advanced maternal age with p=0.087, Maternal history of low birth weight with p=0.051, Maternal gestational anemia with p=0.050, adolescent maternity with p=0.065 and sex of the newborn with a p=0.763. Conclusion: Maternal infection by Sarscov2 during the gestational stage is not a risk factor for low birth weight in full-term infantsTesi

Hyperspectral Mapping of the Invasive Species Pepperweed and the Development of a Habitat Suitability Model

Mapping and predicting the spatial distribution of invasive plant species is central to habitat management, however difficult to implement at landscape and regional scales. Remote sensing techniques can reduce the impact field campaigns have on these ecologically sensitive areas and can provide a regional and multi-temporal view of invasive species spread. Invasive perennial pepperweed (Lepidium latifolium) is now widespread in fragmented estuaries of the South San Francisco Bay, and is shown to degrade native vegetation in estuaries and adjacent habitats, thereby reducing forage and shelter for wildlife. The purpose of this study is to map the present distribution of pepperweed in estuarine areas of the South San Francisco Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project (Alviso, CA), and create a habitat suitability model to predict future spread. Pepperweed reflectance data were collected in-situ with a GER 1500 spectroradiometer along with 88 corresponding pepperweed presence and absence points used for building the statistical models. The spectral angle mapper (SAM) classification algorithm was used to distinguish the reflectance spectrum of pepperweed and map its distribution using an image from EO-1 Hyperion. To map pepperweed, we performed a supervised classification on an ASTER image with a resulting classification accuracy of 71.8%. We generated a weighted overlay analysis model within a geographic information system (GIS) framework to predict areas in the study site most susceptible to pepperweed colonization. Variables for the model included propensity for disturbance, status of pond restoration, proximity to water channels, and terrain curvature. A Generalized Additive Model (GAM) was also used to generate a probability map and investigate the statistical probability that each variable contributed to predict pepperweed spread. Results from the GAM revealed distance to channels, distance to ponds and curvature were statistically significant (p < 0.01) in determining the locations of suitable pepperweed habitats

Notes on the use and interpretation of radiostereometric analysis

ABSTRACT With increasing numbers of research groups carrying out radiostereometric analysis (RSA), it is important to reach a consensus on how the main aspects of the technique should be carried out and how the results should be presented in an appropriate and consistent way

A Target Enrichment Bait Set for Studying Relationships among Ostariophysan Fishes

© 2020 by the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. Target enrichment of conserved nuclear loci has helped reconstruct evolutionary relationships among a wide variety of species. While there are preexisting bait sets to enrich a few hundred loci across all fishes or a thousand loci from acanthomorph fishes, no bait set exists to enrich large numbers (\u3e1,000 loci) of ultraconserved nuclear loci from ostariophysans, the second largest actinopterygian superorder. In this study, we describe how we designed a bait set to enrich 2,708 ultraconserved nuclear loci from ostariophysan fishes by combining an existing genome assembly with low coverage sequence data collected from two ostariophysan lineages. We perform a series of enrichment experiments using this bait set across the ostariophysan tree of life, from the deepest splits among the major groups (\u3e150 Ma) to more recent divergence events that have occurred during the last 50 million years. Our results demonstrate that the bait set we designed is useful for addressing phylogenetic questions from the origin of crown ostariophysans to more recent divergence events, and our in silico results suggest that this bait set may be useful for addressing evolutionary questions in closely related groups of fishes, like Clupeiformes

A Chiral Effective Lagrangian for Nuclei

An effective hadronic lagrangian consistent with the symmetries of quantum chromodynamics and intended for applications to finite-density systems is constructed. The degrees of freedom are (valence) nucleons, pions, and the low-lying non-Goldstone bosons, which account for the intermediate-range nucleon-nucleon interactions and conveniently describe the nonvanishing expectation values of nucleon bilinears. Chiral symmetry is realized nonlinearly, with a light scalar meson included as a chiral singlet to describe the mid-range nucleon-nucleon attraction. The low-energy electromagnetic structure of the nucleon is described within the theory using vector-meson dominance, so that external form factors are not needed. The effective lagrangian is expanded in powers of the fields and their derivatives, with the terms organized using Georgi's ``naive dimensional analysis''. Results are presented for finite nuclei and nuclear matter at one-baryon-loop order, using the single-nucleon structure determined within the model. Parameters obtained from fits to nuclear properties show that naive dimensional analysis is a useful principle and that a truncation of the effective lagrangian at the first few powers of the fields and their derivatives is justified.Comment: 43 pages, REVTeX 3.0 with epsf.sty, plus 12 figure

Comparative methods in R hackathon

The R statistical analysis package has emerged as a popular platform for implementation of powerful comparative methods to understand the evolution of organismal traits and diversification. A hackathon was organized to bring together active R developers as well as end-users working on the integration of comparative phylogenetic methods within R to actively address issues of data exchange standards, code interoperability, usability, documentation quality, and the breadth of functionality for comparative methods available within R. Outcomes included a new base package for phylogenetic trees and data, a public wiki with tutorials and overviews of existing packages, code to allow Mesquite and R to interact, improvement of existing packages, and increased interaction within the community

Phylotastic! Making tree-of-life knowledge accessible, reusable and convenient

Abstract Background Scientists rarely reuse expert knowledge of phylogeny, in spite of years of effort to assemble a great “Tree of Life” (ToL). A notable exception involves the use of Phylomatic, which provides tools to generate custom phylogenies from a large, pre-computed, expert phylogeny of plant taxa. This suggests great potential for a more generalized system that, starting with a query consisting of a list of any known species, would rectify non-standard names, identify expert phylogenies containing the implicated taxa, prune away unneeded parts, and supply branch lengths and annotations, resulting in a custom phylogeny suited to the user’s needs. Such a system could become a sustainable community resource if implemented as a distributed system of loosely coupled parts that interact through clearly defined interfaces. Results With the aim of building such a “phylotastic” system, the NESCent Hackathons, Interoperability, Phylogenies (HIP) working group recruited 2 dozen scientist-programmers to a weeklong programming hackathon in June 2012. During the hackathon (and a three-month follow-up period), 5 teams produced designs, implementations, documentation, presentations, and tests including: (1) a generalized scheme for integrating components; (2) proof-of-concept pruners and controllers; (3) a meta-API for taxonomic name resolution services; (4) a system for storing, finding, and retrieving phylogenies using semantic web technologies for data exchange, storage, and querying; (5) an innovative new service, DateLife.org, which synthesizes pre-computed, time-calibrated phylogenies to assign ages to nodes; and (6) demonstration projects. These outcomes are accessible via a public code repository (GitHub.com), a website ( http://www.phylotastic.org ), and a server image. Conclusions Approximately 9 person-months of effort (centered on a software development hackathon) resulted in the design and implementation of proof-of-concept software for 4 core phylotastic components, 3 controllers, and 3 end-user demonstration tools. While these products have substantial limitations, they suggest considerable potential for a distributed system that makes phylogenetic knowledge readily accessible in computable form. Widespread use of phylotastic systems will create an electronic marketplace for sharing phylogenetic knowledge that will spur innovation in other areas of the ToL enterprise, such as annotation of sources and methods and third-party methods of quality assessment.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/112888/1/12859_2013_Article_5897.pd