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Continuous Solutions of Nonlinear Cauchy-Riemann equations and Pseudoholomorphic Curves in Normal Coordinates
No full textWe establish elliptic regularity for nonlinear inhomogeneous Cauchy-Riemann equations under minimal assumptions, and give a counterexample in a borderline case. In some cases where the inhomogeneous term has a separable factorization, the solution set can be explicitly calculated. The methods also give local parametric formulas for pseudoholomorphic curves with respect to some continuous almost complex structures
Incorporating Active Learning into a One-Shot for Engineering Technology Students: What Worked and What Failed
No full textThis short talk will discuss the experience of incorporating active learning to a one-shot information literacy session for engineering technology students. The librarian will cover her reflections from the session, compare that to the student feedback received, and offer suggestions for librarians seeking to incorporate active learning activities into their instruction
The Child and the Dog
No full textModeling and Animation Creative Project I am presenting a Creative/ Research project of a short animation movie using the technique of computer graphics 3D animation based on the work of Nathan Greno and Bryan Howard, the top animators for the film Tangled. The main purpose of this creative project is how to take a personal idea and to transform it into an animation, with the similar animating technique of both Nathan Greno and Bryan Howard, and how I can create using the methods and captivating style that Nathan Greno and Bryan Howard use to tell a story. The goals of my project are to understand more on how to use computer graphics, how to create a character and to understand the visual effects that are necessary to make an animation look clean and interesting. The idea that came to mind was to take this certain animation style and turn it into a silent film. The main character would be a bullmastiff that helps children who have recently passed away. The children that the dog helps are considered lost. For the animation the bullmastiff finds children with no color. The dog then leads the child around to memorable places for the child to help regain his or her memory. As the child to starts to regain memory, color is added. Once the child fully remembers his or her child can pass to the other side. When that child goes away, the bullmastiff starts again with finding another colorless or lost child and starts again. The bullmastiff would take a dominate role to lead the children to regain their memories. This idea heavily depends on background music, as it would be a silent film. I want to learn more about the process of building a character in a CGI system. I would be looking up how to design a character with the style of the Disney animated film Tangled, which is CGI. The next thing that I would do would be to learn and research about some of the features to make a 3D film smooth and visually attractive. My last goal is how to do a storyboard. I would research how to communicate a simple or a complex idea from the animator narrative standpoint. The end result of this creative project will have an enormous impact in my future professional work as an animator, and to understand how to become a successful filmmaker in the animation industry.http://opus.ipfw.edu/stu_symp2017/1025/thumbnail.jp
Psychological Flow and Personality
No full textFlow has been conceptualized as an intrinsically rewarding state of optimal experience that is enjoyable and uplifting. People who experience flow become so absorbed in what they are doing they lose temporal and self-awareness. Flow has been associated with a host of positive emotional and behavioral outcomes. In an effort to understand the determinants of flow, much research has focused on personality traits. For example, several studies have shown that people who are extraverted tend to exhibit high flow propensity, while introverts tend to exhibit relatively less flow propensity. We think this extraversion-flow link is potentially misguided because it does not consider the powerful role that situations can play in determining a wide-range of psychological states, including the extent to which introverts and extraverts experience flow. Our main proposition is that extraverts will tend to experience greater flow in group situations and less flow in solitary situations, while introverts will tend to experience greater flow in solitary situations, and less flow in group situations. We also explored several other potential personality-situation interactions on flow propensity. To test our predictions, we asked participants (N = 195) to complete an online questionnaire. They completed a measure of introversion-extraversion and other personality traits. They then completed two measures of flow (The Flow Questionnaire, the Flow Proneness Questionnaire). Finally, participants indicated the extent to which they had experienced flow in 25 different situations, including social group situations (e.g., attending a concert with friends, going to a party), and solitary situations (e.g., reading an enjoyable book, writing a research paper). Our primary hypotheses were supported. Extraverts were significantly more likely to experience flow in social group situations than in solitary situations, while introverts were significantly more likely to experience flow in solitary situation than in social group situations. We also identified several other interesting personalitysituation interactions on flow propensity. Research suggests that flow is psychologically healthy state. It is therefore useful to identify the variables that determine or predict flow. Rather than emphasizing the role of personality characteristics, which is the dominant focus amongst flow scholars, our research suggests that a concurrent consideration of both personality and situational forces is necessary to fully understand the dynamics of flow.http://opus.ipfw.edu/stu_symp2017/1005/thumbnail.jp
“Surviving” the Rwandan Genocide: The Impact of the Genocide on Survivors’ Later Mental Health
No full textDuring the Rwandan genocide, over 800,000 Rwandans lost their lives over the course of just 100 days. From early April to early July 1994, the Rwandan government, headed by extremist Hutu military leaders, ordered the extermination of Rwandan Tutsis along with moderate Hutus. In addition to mass extermination, the government ordered a campaign of terror and violence; victims faced unimaginable atrocities such as torture, rape, and witnessing the deaths of people they knew. Only after the Rwandan Patriotic Front seized control of Rwanda did the genocide stop. Despite its short duration, the genocide continued to affect the survivors, even after many years had passed. Organizations such as the United Nations conducted interviews of the survivors in the years following the genocide. Numerous survivors had their interviews recorded in order to have a more complete perspective of what transpired during the Rwandan Genocide, in the hope of seeing perpetrators brought to justice. The experiences repeatedly recounted in the testimonies--seeing the murders of fellow Rwandans, the uncertainty regarding the murders, exposure to other violent acts, such as genocidal rape caused survivors excruciating psychological trauma. Research conducted found that survivors’ mental health was negatively affected by the genocide. In particular, gender played a role in survivors’ mental health; female survivors had a higher probability of developing depression and post-traumatic stress disorder than male survivors. In the testimonies, survivors of both genders referenced the negative impact mass violence and rape had on women. But while female survivors described their experiences during the genocide, such as genocidal rape, male survivors lamented on witnessing the effects of the genocide on their female family members. Female survivors have suffered the greatest long term physical and psychological trauma, that until recently has not been looked at. This finding potentially impacts the way that survivors of a genocide receive treatment.http://opus.ipfw.edu/stu_symp2017/1003/thumbnail.jp