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Get PDFGrace Miholic is a freshman at Louisiana Tech University. She’s been writing poetry since she was in the seventh grade, and is passionate about it. She hopes to one day publish her own poetry book, but until then she has a poetry account on Instagram: g.sinclairwrites
Endosymbiosis
Get PDFKaitlin Maloy is a studio art MFA candidate at Louisiana Tech University where she also earned her undergraduate degree in biology. She specializes in digital paintings that communicate scientific concepts
65 Singing Roses
Get PDFFrancesca Weis is a junior at Louisiana Tech University double majoring in biology and chemistry. As a hopeful future physician, an artistic mindset will be immensely advantageous to her. It serves as both a tool and an escape, filling in the gaps that the other leaves behind. Without art, she wouldn’t know relaxation; she wouldn’t have developed study tactics such as sketching diagrams of the body, drawing pathways of a protein, or mapping out the mechanism of a chemical reaction; Nor would Francesca be who she is today
Whale Spotted
Get PDFJody Johnson is in her third year at Louisiana Tech University as a mechanical engineering student. In all the free time that she can manage to get, she creates drawings using either ink, pencil, or colored pencil. It has been a passion of Jody’s since she was about fourteen years old and she believes that art, science, and math closely coincide, as she has learned so much from studying the things that she tries to capture on paper
from “Life”
Get PDFAna Balestrazzi is originally from Venezuela. She is a freshman at Louisiana Tech University studying political science. She takes pictures as a hobby, and was inspired by her father, a photographer. Her father graduated from Louisiana Tech University with a major in geography and minor in photography. Her pictures were inspired by beautiful things she found as she travelled
Vida
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ImmunoEngineering and Biomanufacturing- Emerging Frontiers in Biomedical Engineering
No full textDr. Krishnendu Roy, Ph.D.
Robert A. Milton Chaired Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology
Director, NSF Engineering Research Center (ERC) for Cell Manufacturing Technologies (CMaT)
Director, Marcus Center for Therapeutic Cell Characterization and Manufacturing (MC3M)
Director, Center for ImmunoEngineering at Georgia Tech
The Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory
The Parker H. Petit Institute for Biosciences and Bioengineering
Lecture Sponsor: College of Engineering and Science & Center for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicin
The Gateway Effect and Predicting Hard Drug Use
No full textThis paper uses a linear probability model to predict the use of drugs based upon demographic variables as well as information on the use of other substances collected from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health. In addition to analysis of various demographic variables, a two stage regression is used to isolate the marginal effect of tobacco use on marijuana use, and marijuana use on the use of illicit drugs other than marijuana. This use pattern is commonly referred to as a \ gateway drug\ theory. The findings are consistent with a traditional gateway drug theory, finding that the dominant determinant of marijuana use is tobacco use, and that the dominant determinant of illicit drug use is marijuana use. Additionally, several demographic variables are found to have a strong effect on likelihood of using marijunana and illicit drugs
Termite Nutrient Preference and Impacts on Decomposition
No full textTermites are the major wood decomposers in warmer climates and their activity, which can impact nutrient cycling, decomposition, and soil erosion, depends on the availability of biologically essential nutrients; termites require certain nutrients and shortfalls can decrease termite activity. Of the ~25 biologically essential elements, phosphorus (P), sodium (Na) and potassium (K) are highly concentrated in termites relative to wood. This nutritional disparity suggests that in environments with wood rich in these elements, wood may decompose faster because these nutrients limit termite survival, reproduction and function. Because K is essential for termite nervous system function and osmoregulation, I predict that termites will be most attracted to wood with increased K. To test this prediction, we deployed artificial wood substrates (100% cellulose sponges) saturated in one of six treatments: 1) K (KCl), 2) K+P (KH2PO4), 3) Na (NaCl), 4) Na+K (NaCl + KCl), 5)Na+K+P (KH2PO4 + NaCl), 6) H2O (Control). Ten blocks with one of each treatment were separated by ≥30m and sponges within blocks were separated by 3m. After three months, sponges and a soil sample below sponges were collected and analyzed for presence or absence of termites. Invertebrates were extracted from sponges using Berleses and sponges were dried and reweighed for mass loss. Preliminary results suggest that termites were most attracted to K only sponges and least to controls and decomposition was highest in K+P and Na+K+P treatments. Together, this suggests that K and P may limit termite activity and wood decomposition
Consciousness and Art
No full textAcross human cultures, there is a boundless variety of aesthetic preferences and modes of artistic representation, but as with many other aspects of human behavior, certain universalities emerge upon broad analysis of global art history. It seems almost trivial to point out, for example, that line is present in every society that ever made drawings or paintings. Recent art history has demonstrated that line is not mandatory when making a picture: Impressionism, pointillism, color field painting, and abstract expressionism are full of examples of art that do not utilize line at all. But these carefully chosen exceptions serve to point out the ubiquity of line, which is potentially explained in large part by an evolutionary psychology perspective. As an artist, I explore this concept. Vision, like all perceptual processes, cuts utilitarian corners when reporting information to the brain and as a result omits, modifies, supplements, and takes wild guesses with sensory input. The resulting perceptual experience of reality is in large part a construction, and while useful and not noticeably contrived, it is no more representative of an objective reality than the art that it makes possible. In this perspective, line is revealed to be an invention of the human mind, and a result of a necessarily sensitive process of edge accentuation in the visual process. My presentation for the symposium would analyze the elements and principles of art through a cognitive psychological perspective using research done in that field, art history, and my own body of work