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Energy and Speed a multidisciplinary 4th grade lesson
Get PDFThis project will be called energy and speed, a fourth-grade multidisciplinary lesson. In this project I will go into a fourth grade classroom and teach a science lesson on the connections between energy and speed. There will also be an element of writing in the lesson. Overall, the lessons goals and objectives will be about both writing and science. It is more effective for students to work on both of these skills and knowledge at the same time versus taking time out of the day to teach each lesson and subject individually. I will be doing this lesson to teach a class of fourth grade students some science content while using their writing skills. Multidisciplinary lessons are valuable in the field of elementary education. According to open.edu, multidisciplinary lessons can help improve a students critical thinking, problem solving, communication, application of information, flexibility, and synthesizing ideas. Multidisciplinary lessons help students see information from other perspectives as well as make connections about the real world across subject topics. Using multidisciplinary lessons also help the teacher. They are a way to get more standards learned throughout the day without having to teach a lesson for each one. There is simply not enough time in the year for teachers to teach a standard for each lesson, and elementary students could not sit through that many lessons in a day and still learn
SpotOn
Get PDFSpotOn is a project developed to solve problems with owners losing their pets. The project is in short a solar-powered dog harness with GPS capability with its own application for mobile devices
JSPER (Just Stablediffusion Plus Easy Retraining)
Get PDFJSPER is an an AI art generation Web Application that is both flexible and accessible. Our goal is to enable anyone to create and use their own customized art models, regardless of technical skill level. These models can be trained on almost anything, from a person, to an animal, to a specific object, or even style. The user only has to upload a handful of images of their subject. Then, training settings get optimized at the push of a button to match the type of subject the user is training. After training, their customized model can be used to generate new images of the subject for a wide range of uses
The Viking Warrior Woman? Birka Chamber Grave Bj 581
Get PDFOn a very small island called Björkö in the middle of Lake Mälaren, in southern Sweden, was a Viking settlement called Birka that was occupied for about 200 years. This town was the perfect trading area where merchants and tradesmen came with goods from all over Europe, and other parts of the world. Beginning in the late nineteenth century some 1,100 graves were excavated by Swedish antiquarian Hjalmar Stolpe. One of these graves in particular, labeled Bj 581, seen as remarkable at the time of excavation would later become a significantly controversial grave. The individual in grave Bj 581 was buried with an array of weapons, including a sword, two shields, a fighting knife, two lances, an ax, and 25 armor-piercing arrows. There were also two horses, with bridles and a set of stirrups, a gaming set and game board found in the grave. From the very beginning, the grave Bj 581 was interpreted to be that of a high-status warrior. In 2017, through genetic analysis of the osteological remains it was confirmed that the individual in this grave was genetically female. Since this discovery, the social status of the person in the grave has come under scrutiny. This presentation draws from scholarship from both sides of what I’ve labeled the “pro-warrior woman” side and the “anti-warrior woman” side. I am focusing on texts from the early twentieth-century which are close to when the burial was excavated and are some of the first published about this grave. I am pairing those with a post-2017 genetic discovery scholarship. The question of the individual’s social role as a high-status warrior is a gender-based argument that arose after the genetic testing that confirmed the person in this grave is genetically female
Enhancing Disease Detection in South Asian Freshwater Fish Aquaculture Through Convolutional Neural Networks
Get PDFAquaculture expansion necessitates innovative disease detection methods for sustainable production. This study investigates the efficacy of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) in classifying diseases affecting South Asian freshwater fish species. The dataset comprises 1747 images representing 7 class, healthy specimens and various diseases: bacterial, fungal, parasitic, and viral. The CNN architecture includes convolutional layers for feature extraction, max-pooling layers for down sampling, dense layers for classification, and dropout layers for regularization. Training employs categorical cross-entropy loss and the Adam optimizer over 30 epochs, monitoring both training and validation performance. Results indicate promising accuracy levels, with the model achieving 92.14% and test loss 0.2918.Training history analysis reveals an initial accuracy increase, followed by a plateau and eventual overfitting. Future improvements may involve regularization techniques implementation or additional data acquisition through data augmentation for better generalization performance. CNNs offer automated disease detection, alleviating the burden on aquatic animal health experts and facilitating timely interventions to mitigate infection spread and economic losses. Integration of deep learning enables real-time surveillance and adaptive management strategies, enhancing disease monitoring capabilities. This research aligns with broader efforts to improve global food security and underscores the transformative potential of AI-driven solutions in aquaculture disease management
Exploring The Possible Mental Health and Wellbeing Benefits of Video Games for Adult Players
Get PDFIntroduction: This poster is a summary of a research paper that I analyzed titled “Exploring the possible mental health and wellbeing benefits of video games for adult players: A cross-sectional study.”
Research Question: This poster will analyze a research paper that explores the possible positive or negative effects that video gaming has on player well-being and psychological health and identify any correlations between player demographics and game genre.
Methods: The method of data collection this research paper used was an anonymous cross-sectional survey that was hosted on google forms. 177 variables were analyzed including player demographics, video game genres that participants played and the amount of time they played them, who they played with and whether the participant perceived psychological effects from the video games.
Findings: Researchers found that there were significant correlations between video game genres and psychological outcome variables. Video game genre and gender were determining factors of perceived psychological benefits. Video game genres that participants perceived had the most psychological benefits included role-playing games, music games, and survival horror games
Alleviating Environmental Stresses in Native Arkansas Plants by Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Inoculation
Get PDFThe rapid human-driven changes in the environment during the Anthropocene have placed extreme stress on many native plants and animals. Beneficial interactions with microorganisms may be crucial for ameliorating these stressors and facilitating the ecosystem services host organisms provide. The role of an important mutualistic association with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) in the competitive ability and successful adaptation of Arkansas native species by enhancing nutrient uptake has not been previously considered. Analysis of field root and soil samples from the native species in their native range as well as a controlled green-house experiment will be conducted to determine the level of mycorrhizal colonization in the roots of native plants and the dependency on mycorrhizal fungi for growth and nutrients uptake. The field root samples are expected to show that native plant species are heavily colonized by AMF in relatively dry conditions compared to mesic or wet sites. The results from the control growth experiment will check whether the mycorrhizal treatment plants have significantly higher relative growth rates and biomass compared to the non-mycorrhizal plants. The dependence of native species on the mycorrhizal fungi for growth and nutrients uptake based on habitat conditions will also be examined. Given the importance of native species for ecosystem services, findings from this study may be critical for the conservation and successful restoration and management of native plants and their habitats in Arkansas
Microhabitat Use of the Highland Darter (Etheostoma teddyroosevelt) in the Illinois Bayou Watershed of Arkansas
Get PDFHighland Darters (Etheostoma teddyroosevelt) are an Ozark regional endemic species, occurring in the Arkansas River and upper White River systems of Arkansas, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Missouri. There have been very few studies on this species, specifically those that have quantified the habitat use of this species across its range. A new study was needed to fill in the knowledge gap of microhabitat use by the Highland Darter in Arkansas. We wanted to address this knowledge gap by assessing the microhabitat use of this species in the Illinois Bayou watershed in Arkansas. Highland Darters were observed during snorkel surveys at known and unknown localities for this species. For each unique observation, microhabitat use (1-m2 area) was determined for this species. Various environmental and habitat variables were measured within the area of observation Microhabitat data were assessed across multiple spatial scales (watershed and site). A total of 12 individuals were observed from 3 sites during August-September 2023. At the watershed level, mean (±SE) frequency of substrate in Highland Darter microhabitats were 65.4 (±7.3) % cobble, 15.4 (±7.0) % gravel, 0.7 (±0.7) % bedrock, and 10.2 (±3.6) % sand/silt. Further, at 35 the watershed level, mean estimates of other environmental/habitat variables at Highland Darter microhabitats were 25.4 (±7.3) % for canopy cover, 0.01 (±0.01) m3/sec for discharge, and 0.4 (±0.7) m for depth. There appears to be some spatial variation in the environmental variables within the microhabitat of the Highland Darter. This research is will aid in the understanding of Highland Darter biology and ecology. Future research will assess the seasonality of microhabitat use by Highland Darters
A Career in Sociology
Get PDFReview of OER Sociology textbook by Vera Kennedy, available at https://commons.libretexts.org/book/socialsci-4303
Introduction to Sociology 3e
Get PDFReview of OER Sociology textbook by Tonja R. Conerly, Kathleen Holmes, and Asha Lal Tamang, available at https://openstax.org/details/books/introduction-sociology-3e?Book%20detail