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The Utah Statesman, January 13, 2025
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The Utah Statesman, April 28, 2025
No full textWeekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/newspapers/2900/thumbnail.jp
A Sweetgrass Method of Bullying Prevention for American Indian/Alaska Native Part 2
Get PDFBullying is widespread in the United States. Bullying negatively impacts all youth involved, including those who are bullied, those who bully others, and those who witness bullying, known as bystanders. The Sweetgrass Method (SGM) is a culturally responsive framework that empowers Native and non-Native practitioners working with American Indian/Alaska Native clients. The method focuses on the initial dialogue of building a healthy relationship through self-reflection, communication, and continuity. The SGM looks at weaving Western and traditional approaches into a tailored approach that is culturally responsive to the individuals they serve. The SGM provides a framework by weaving the three strands: the first strand in the braid is Introspection, which is a commitment to self-reflection (life-long practice to self-evaluation and self-critique on bullying prevention supports). The second strand is Communication, which is a commitment to building relationships/partnerships with people and groups to address Bullying concerns. The third strand is Continuity: Ongoing strategies toward power inequality and student responsibility for bully prevention (Baez & Isaac, 2013; Baez et al., 2022). The SGM to Bullying Prevention is a community-based participatory practice approach incorporating practice-based evidence (PBE), which looks at what works for this community setting. The PBE is a promising practice among American Indian/Alaska Native school communities. Practice-Based Evidence: A range of behavior approaches and supports derived from and supportive of the positive culture of the local society and traditions (Bartgis & Bigfoot, 2010). Applying the SGM in collecting practice-based evidence is to objectively understand the relationship between our actions as a practitioner and the response of those we serve
Rabbit Breeding and Management: A Guide for Producers
Get PDFThis fact sheet provides essential information to help rabbit producers understand effective breeding goals and programs for managing and improving rabbit production
Immersive Modeling of Water Banking Elicits Local Knowledge to Explore Strategies to Get More Water to Great Salt Lake
Get PDFThis study used immersive online collaborative modeling of water banking to explore strategies to get more water to the declining Great Salt Lake (GSL). In a model session, each collaborator immersed in a water user role. They articulated a strategy to consume and bank water. Then they adapted their strategy in response to their available water, others’ choices, and the real-time discussion of choices. Collaborators included 29 farmers, ranchers, practitioners, and experts. Collaborators who personified agricultural users had the most varied strategies. They balanced economic viability, long-term sustainability, and land preservation. Pricing water was challenging, with prices ranging from 300 per acre-foot. The modeling highlighted the importance of local context in shaping water bank dynamics. The study yielded two novel strategies to deliver more water to GSL: (1) bank water in an upstream reservoir during summer months, then release water to GSL in the winter when there are few intermediary diversions; and (2) combine small volumes of banked water into larger, short-duration pulse releases for measurable downstream delivery. Immersive modeling increased engagement, social learning, and empathy for other users. The modeling found win-win outcomes where agricultural users retained water rights, generated income, and supported environmental goals. A next step is for a local water agency to set up a water bank under existing Utah law. Another next step is to scale up modeling to a river basin where there is potentially more water to deliver to GSL and increased complexity of interstate management
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No full textFrequently, throughout art media, artists rarely venture from realism. With the stylistic tools and artistic innovations made over the last 150 years that venture past realism, it is time for artists everywhere to take the next big step and begin the ombre of style and genre within works, challenging society in new ways. The goal of this project is to research the function and effect of different genres and styles within theatre and find what is required to successfully communicate them both textually and within a production. This includes reading and researching plays, theatre history, and the influence/evolution of style and genre in theatre, writing a play that communicates thematic elements integral to the story using the aforementioned ombre of style and genre, producing the play (marketing, employing entrepreneurial and artistic minds, budgeting, etc.), directing technical and artistic efforts towards a common creative goal, and performing the self-written play/effectively communicating artistic ideas in front of a live audience. The effect theme has on audiences can vary greatly depending on how and what combinations of genre and style are used. Ergo, we come to the research questions: “What nuances of the writing and performance processes allow for effective combination of different genres and styles?” and “How can genre and style combinations be meaningfully integrated into a playscript and communicated in a production of the play?” Whereas “genre” denotes categorization of art based on common elements, “style” focuses on how elements manifest and how different approaches to those elements can enhance/change the audience’s experience and understanding. For example, Macbeth contains themes of revenge, death, and betrayal: common elements of tragedy. However, the potential styles of production for Macbeth vary greatly. A naturalist production might emphasize the good, bad, and ugly of a person’s life, whereas a surrealist production might emphasize the psychotic instability of Macbeth’s mind, hellish divinity of the Weird Sisters, and all-encompassing scope of death. With the completion of the research (reading scripts, writing, and real-time performance and appraisal), the results and conclusions, because they are of an artistic nature, are hard to quantify and/or qualify. In short, with an increase in the stylistic amplitude engaged in theatre, there comes a higher risk for successful satisfaction of the audience. However, an increase in stylistic amplitude does not necessarily equate to an increase in emotional amplitude in the audience’s experience, though it may (and did within the bounds of this research). Despite the lack of inherent correlation between audience’s emotional satisfaction and range of style used, the ways in which themes were painted by non- /antirealistic styles were able to affect the audience in atypical, “fresher” ways that led to an increase in emotional amplitude experienced by the audience, feigning a correlation between emotional and stylistic amplitudes. This was deducted in the comparison of three factors: Emotional amplitude achieved by both mono- and poly-stylistic pieces Frequency of mono- and poly-stylistic pieces being produced and consumed in the world Audience satisfaction
Further research is required for accurate deductions at this juncture
Automated Pointing Budget and Reaction Wheel Sizing Tool for CubeSat Attitude Control With Iterative Sensitivity Analysis
Get PDFReaction wheels are a widely used solution for CubeSat attitude control, offering precise pointing capabilities without the need for a propulsion system. However, sizing reaction wheels correctly is a persistent challenge due to the difficulty of accurately defining the pointing budget, which determines the required torque and momentum storage capacity. Designers must account for mission-specific constraints, spacecraft mass properties, and environmental disturbances, all of which introduce uncertainty into the sizing process. As a result, reaction wheels are often either oversized, leading to unnecessary mass and power consumption, or undersized, risking performance failures such as saturation. To address this challenge, a more systematic and adaptive approach to reaction wheel sizing is needed.
This paper introduces a novel iterative sensitivity analysis tool that simplifies pointing budget generation and automates reaction wheel sizing, ensuring an optimized solution tailored to mission-specific constraints. Unlike conventional sizing methods that rely on static estimates, this tool incorporates variations in spacecraft mass properties, external torques, and operational scenarios to impact pointing stability and reaction wheel performance. By allowing users to input ranges rather than single-point estimates for key parameters, such as aerodynamic torque, solar radiation pressure, gravity gradient torque, and payload-induced disturbances, the tool dynamically refines the pointing budget and reaction wheel sizing recommendations based on worst-case, nominal, and best-case scenarios.
To further assist designers, the tool includes a reaction wheel margin calculator, which evaluates how close a selected configuration is to saturation under different operating conditions. This prevents both overdesign and underperformance by ensuring that the selected wheels provide adequate control authority across all mission phases. Additionally, the tool features adaptive control mode profiling, allowing CubeSat developers to explore how different operating conditions, such as imaging, communications, or standby, affect pointing requirements and wheel sizing.
The methodology is validated through FreeFlyer simulations, case studies, and comparisons with existing CubeSat missions. Results demonstrate that incorporating iterative sensitivity analysis and adaptive control mode profiling enables designers to fine-tune reaction wheel selection with greater confidence while reducing unnecessary mass, power consumption, and cost. By automating these processes and integrating real-world variability into the design workflow, this tool reduces engineering effort, minimizes design risk, and ensures reliable attitude control system performance in diverse operational conditions
CubeSat DR3AM: A 4U Demonstrative Robust 3D Additive Manufacturing System
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Design, Development, and Testing of an Electrical Power System With a Multiple-Battery Charge Regulator Approach for the 6U CubeSat VERTECS
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Modular Payload Connectivity for Rapid Integration and Testing
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