Goal Setting and Student Conferencing Action Research Study

This paper aims to answer the question: “How does student choice, goal setting and student conferencing impact student motivation to continue learning in a Montessori classroom?” The previous research has shown that choice is more motivational for students than no choices. Researchers have different opinions on what the options should look like to be most effective. This research compares these and sees what is most effective with the data. New and older research was used in conjunction with the foundations of the Montessori method to see what fits seamlessly to implement without much effort. The findings are the right combination of research methods and the Montessori method

Book Review: The Heart of Higher Education: A Call to Renewal

A Review of “The Heart of Higher Education: A Call to Renewal” By Parker J. Palmer and Arthur Zajonc San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2010, 237 pp., $24.95, ISBN: 978-0-470-48790-

Genetic Algorithm Optimization of a Film Cooling Array on a Modern Turbine Inlet Vane

In response to the need for more advanced gas turbine cooling design methods that factor in the 3-D flowfield and heat transfer characteristics, this study involves the computational optimization of a pressure side film cooling array on a modern turbine inlet vane. Latin hypersquare sampling, genetic algorithm reproduction, and Reynolds-Averaged Navier Stokes (RANS) computational fluid dynamics (CFD) as an evaluation step are used to assess a total of 1,800 film cooling designs over 13 generations. The process was efficient due to the Leo CFD code\u27s ability to estimate cooling mass flux at surface grid cells using a transpiration boundary condition, eliminating the need for remeshing between designs. The optimization resulted in a unique cooling design relative to the baseline with new injection angles, compound angles, cooling row patterns, hole sizes, a redistribution of cooling holes away from the over-cooled midspan to hot areas near the shroud, and a lower maximum surface temperature. To experimentally confirm relative design trends between the optimized and baseline designs, flat plate infrared thermography assessments were carried out at design flow conditions. Use of flat plate experiments to model vane pressure side cooling was justified through a conjugate heat transfer CFD comparison of the 3-D vane and flat plate which showed similar cooling performance trends at multiple span locations. The optimized flat plate model exhibited lower minimum surface temperatures at multiple span locations compared to the baseline. Overall, this work shows promise of optimizing film cooling to reduce design cycle time and save cooling mass flow in a gas turbine

Limb Salvage for Diabetic Patients with Peripheral Arterial Disease

•According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC) (2017), the total number of patients diagnosed with diabetes is exceeding 30.2 million and rapidly increasing. •According to the CDC (2016), approximately 8.5 million people in the United States have peripheral artery disease (PAD), which includes 12-20% of individuals who are older than age 60. •According to a study performed by Swaminathan et al. (2014), 186,000 patients underwent lower extremity amputation (LEA). Data also shows that patients undergoing LEA have a mortality rate of 20% noted within one year, and a 40% to 50% mortality rate indicated within 18 months. •The review of literature analyzed studies that compared vascularization procedures to determine whether early diagnosis and intervention provide benefit to reduce lower extremity amputation in diabetic patients with PAD and critical limb ischemia (CLI), and to determine cost effectiveness. •Research suggests that limb salvage is cost efficient with early detection, proper patient compliance and use of a multidisciplinary approach. However, unpredictable factors such as poor patient compliance may skew cost analyses and validate claims to dispute reduction of costs.https://commons.und.edu/pas-grad-posters/1014/thumbnail.jp

Let\u27s Get It Straight: The Effect of \u3cem\u3eFehribach\u3c/em\u3e, \u3cem\u3eThe HA2003 Liquidating Trust\u3c/em\u3e, and \u3cem\u3eJoyce\u3c/em\u3e on a Debtor\u27s Pre-Bankruptcy Professionals and Where to Go From Here

The Seventh Circuit has recently decided a trilogy of cases in which stockholders or creditors attempted to hold a business’s professionals—such as financial advisors and investment bankers—liable for the losses they suffered as a result of the business’s bankruptcy or financial demise. In all three of the cases, Fehribach v. Ernst & Young LLP, The HA2003 Liquidating Trust v. Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, and Joyce v. Morgan Stanley & Co., the Seventh Circuit declined to hold the professionals liable, thereby eliminating a potential “deep pocket” for the creditors or stockholders. The outcomes of these cases were consistent despite the fact that the cases were brought under varying causes of action, including negligence, constructive fraud, breach of contract, and using the ever-controversial damages theory of deepening insolvency. This Note explores the various causes of action brought against these professionals in other circuits and lower federal courts—specifically highlighting deepening insolvency and standard tort theories—before considering the Seventh Circuit’s treatment of these claims in Fehribach, The HA2003 Liquidating Trust, and Joyce. This Note concludes that the Seventh Circuit’s unwillingness to hold a business’s professional liable on a third-party claim could be more easily applied through the use of a general analytical framework in which to evaluate these claims and proposes that the framework applied should look something similar to the three-prong test as applied to lenders in the context of equitable subordination

Studies on the role CREB as a mediator of neurotrophin-3 actions in oligodendrocytes

In the central nervous system (CNS), oligodendrocytes (OLGs) are the cells responsible for producing the myelin membrane which allows for the saltatory conduction of neuronal impulses. We have previously shown that CREB (cAMP response element binding protein), a transcription factor that belongs to a large family bZip (basic leucine zipper) proteins, could be a mediator of neuronal signals that, coupled to different signal transduction pathways, may play different regulatory roles at specific stages of oligodendrocyte development. We have found before that, in committed OLGs, CREB activation by phosphorylation can be triggered by β-adrenergic stimulation and appears to play a role in the induction of OLG differentiation by cAMP. In contrast, in 01.0 precursor cells, CREB phosphorylation is stimulated by neuroligands that increase calcium levels by a process that involves a mitogen activated protein kinase (MAPK)/protein kinase C (PKC) pathway. This observation suggested that, at this early developmental stage, CREB could play a role in regulating cell proliferation In support Of this hypothesis, we have now found that a rapid and dramatic stimulation of CREB phosphorylation is one ofthe earliest events that precedes the increase in cell proliferation that is observed when OLG precursors are treated with neurotrophin-3 (NT-3) Moreover, our present results also showed that down-regulation of CREB expression in the OLG precursors abolished the increase in cell proliferation that is observed when the cultures are treated with NT-3. Experiments in which CREB phosphorylation was investigated in the presence of different kinase inhibitors indicated that the activation of this transcription factor in the presence of NT-3 is mediated by the concerted action of MAPK- and PKC-dependent signal transduction pathways. Additional experiments using specific inhibitors of protein kinase A (PKA), Caz2+-calmodulin-dependent kinase (CamK) and phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K) pathways suggested that these kinases may not play a significant role in mediating CREB phosphorylation by NT-3. However, further studies are required for more conclusive results about these kinases. Thus, our present results support the idea that stimulation of OLG proliferation by NT-3 involves the CREB transcription factor and its activation by MAPK- and PKC-dependent signal transduction pathways

ACCOMMODATING CONSERVATION: REGULATING ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE IN A HIMALAYAN TOURIST TOWN

This dissertation discusses the construction of socio-spatial landscapes in Leh, Ladakh and elucidates the relationships between stakeholders in the tourism arena, conservation profession, regional and state government, and local civil society. It explains processes of urban regulation, juxtaposing the (re)production and representation of Ladakhi architectural heritage both during the conservation of historical buildings and during the construction of new tourist accommodations. Qualitative ethnographic research and spatial studies were conducted to investigate how competing discourses on Ladakhi heritage generated by state-based tourism industries and by non-governmental organizations are shaping building traditions, residence patterns, and livelihoods for resident Ladakhis. Leh\u27s built environment is a product of numerous contestations and negotiations between residents, NGOs and the state in places I call heritage construction sites: architectural conservation projects and new guest-house construction projects, respectively. In this study, I pinpoint how Ladakhis identify with or contest the transformation of their urban landscape, answering the question whose heritage is it

Using sign language with hearing preschool children

The purposed of this review is to examine the effects of using American Sign Language (ASL) with hearing preschool children without disabilities. The research examined the effects on cognitive skills, fine motor skills, IQ, student behavior, and memory when American Sign Language is implemented into a preschool classroom. A variety of sources were examined and synthesized to provide the reader with informational data and recommendations

Let\u27s Get It Straight: The Effect of \u3cem\u3eFehribach\u3c/em\u3e, \u3cem\u3eThe HA2003 Liquidating Trust\u3c/em\u3e, and \u3cem\u3eJoyce\u3c/em\u3e on a Debtor\u27s Pre-Bankruptcy Professionals and Where to Go From Here

The Seventh Circuit has recently decided a trilogy of cases in which stockholders or creditors attempted to hold a business’s professionals—such as financial advisors and investment bankers—liable for the losses they suffered as a result of the business’s bankruptcy or financial demise. In all three of the cases, Fehribach v. Ernst & Young LLP, The HA2003 Liquidating Trust v. Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, and Joyce v. Morgan Stanley & Co., the Seventh Circuit declined to hold the professionals liable, thereby eliminating a potential “deep pocket” for the creditors or stockholders. The outcomes of these cases were consistent despite the fact that the cases were brought under varying causes of action, including negligence, constructive fraud, breach of contract, and using the ever-controversial damages theory of deepening insolvency. This Note explores the various causes of action brought against these professionals in other circuits and lower federal courts—specifically highlighting deepening insolvency and standard tort theories—before considering the Seventh Circuit’s treatment of these claims in Fehribach, The HA2003 Liquidating Trust, and Joyce. This Note concludes that the Seventh Circuit’s unwillingness to hold a business’s professional liable on a third-party claim could be more easily applied through the use of a general analytical framework in which to evaluate these claims and proposes that the framework applied should look something similar to the three-prong test as applied to lenders in the context of equitable subordination