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Wheaton Magazine
No full textSpring 2019 issue of the Wheaton MagazineWheaton College (MA)Between the lines: A lot to smile about, pg.2@DHANNO: Embracing community, pg.3Around the Dimple: Advancing advising for success, pg.4Around the Dimple: Three Freedoms teach-in prepares support for at-risk scholars, pg.5Around the Dimple: Uncovering herstory, pg.6Around the Dimple: Banding together, pg.7Around the Dimple: Hands-on curating experience, pg.8Around the Dimple: Accelerating losses, pg.9Around the Dimple: Interdisciplinary collaboration, pg.10Around the Dimple: Wheaton plays founding role in launching humanities consortium, pg.11Conversation: Professor examines juvenile justice, pg.12Publications, Honors and Creative Works, pg.13Lyons pride: Key lessons, pg.14Campus Scene: Open for business, pg.16Campus scene: An evening with Callie Crossley, pg.16Campus scene: Grow with the flow, pg.17Campus scene: MLK Legacy celebration, pg.17Campus scene: Nurturing potential, in cells and students, pg.18Campus scene: Leveraging experiental learning, pg.22Campus scene: The plot thickens, pg.28Alumni association network: And the winner is..., pg.32Alumni association network: Alumni awards for peace advocates, pg.33Alumni association network: A personal tour of Bhutan, pg.34Alumni association network: Enforcing the laws for nature, pg.35Class Notes, pg.36Class Notes: Essence magazine recognizes Indira Henard '03, pg.38Class Notes: Roxanna Azari '10 speaks at UN, pg.38Class Notes: Tuning into culture, pg.39Class Notes: Leadership in action, pg.40Class Notes: Finding beauty in fungi, pg.41Class Notes (removed), pg.42In Memoriam, pg.62Perspective: Making a splash, pg.6
Refugee Paths
No full textA game about the European Refugee Crisis. You will be following the journey of a refugee fleeing their home country to seek asylum in a European country. You will choose a path to follow and then be prompted with scenarios that require you to make hard choices. There will be bolded links within each page that take you to the next stage of your journey or provide you with additional information. Although we encourage you to stick with your initial decisions, you can always use the back arrow on the left to return to the previous stage
The NASA Roadmap to Ocean Worlds
No full text26 pages; Color IllustrationsDistributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.24 pages; color illustrations
Preliminary study on the effects of Matrigel on Gallus gallus growth cones treated with amyloid beta.
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Evidence for the effects of cortisol on mitochondrial activity in Gallus gallus neurons.
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Examining different measures used to detect gerrymandering.
No full textIncludes bibliographical references (leaves 110).iii, 110 leaves : illustrationsGerrymandering is the act of changing political boundaries so as to favor one political party or class in an election. Much effort has been made in recent years to mathematically detect gerrymandering in order to prevent this manipulation. Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods have been used to sample the distribution of legal and reasonable redistrictings of a particular area, which allows comparison of specific districtings with the space of reasonable legal districtings. Depending on the state, districting plans in America are often required to be {esc}(3z{esc}(Bcompact{esc}(3y{esc}(B, though this term is loosely defined by the law. Fortunately, the MCMC method can take into account the compactness of districts, but of course this requires a strict definition of compactness. Unfortunately, different groups have used a multitude of measures of compactness. An open question in this field is what relationship, if any, exists between diffferent measures of compactness. Two of the methods that have been used are the Isoperimetric Score and the Cut Edge Score of a districting plan. Isoperimetric Score looks at the geography of a districting plan, while Cut Edge Score examines the relational structure of a districting plan. Looking at these two seemingly different measures of compactness, I have found that prioritizing Cut Edge Score with MCMC methods may result in more compact districting plans, both in terms of Isoperimetric Score and Cut Edge Score, more easily than when taking into account Isoperimetric Score. Moreover, there is consistently a strong relationship between the two scores. In ad- dition, I looked at the Population Balance Score of districting plans, which measures how close a districting plan is to having an equal population in each district. Look- ing at this score, I have found that in certain cases prioritizing Cut Edge Score in MCMC methods results in better Population Balance Scores than when prioritizing Isoperimetric Score.1 Abstract -- 2 Introduction -- 2.1 Defining gerrymandering -- 2.2 Difficulties when detecting gerrymandering -- 2.3 Recent work to detect gerrymandering -- 2.4 Overview of results -- 3 Theory -- 3.1 Markov chains -- 3.2 Maps to graphs -- 3.3 Scores -- 3.3.1 Population balance score -- 3.3.2 Cut edge score -- 3.3.3 Isoperimetric score -- 3.4 Markov chains on districting plans -- 4 Methods -- 4.1 Grids -- 4.2 Acceptance functions -- 4.2.1 Always accept -- 4.2.2 Prioritize scores -- 4.2.3 Varying acceptance percentages -- 5 Analysis and discussion -- 5.1 Grids -- 5.1.1 Districting plans -- 5.1.2 VAPI -- 5.1.3 VAPCE -- 5.1.4 VAPPB -- 5.1.5 Summary of results on Pennsylvania -- 5.2 Pennsylvania -- 5.2.1 VAPI-PA -- 5.2.2 VAPCE-PA -- 5.2.3 VAPPB-PA -- 6 Conclusion -- 7 Future Work
3D Modeling at Wheaton College
No full textWe are an interdepartmental team building and deploying a pilot workflow of effective practices for faculty and students as they create, catalog, manage, curate, and disseminate a growing collection of their digital works. By piloting with four faculty members and their students from multiple disciplines, we are developing a workflow where (i) pieces of digital scholarship are initially stored, managed, and shared on an individual’s personal digital space, and (ii) donated and curated pieces become a new type of collection elevated and promoted via multiple digital platforms for wider dissemination and use. Student projects born from both academic rigor and entrepreneurial experiences inspire future scholarship.Council of Independent College's Consortium on Digital Resources for Teaching and Researc
3D Modeling at Wheaton College
No full textWe are an interdepartmental team building and deploying a pilot workflow of effective practices for faculty and students as they create, catalog, manage, curate, and disseminate a growing collection of their digital works. By piloting with four faculty members and their students from multiple disciplines, we are developing a workflow where (i) pieces of digital scholarship are initially stored, managed, and shared on an individual’s personal digital space, and (ii) donated and curated pieces become a new type of collection elevated and promoted via multiple digital platforms for wider dissemination and use. Student projects born from both academic rigor and entrepreneurial experiences inspire future scholarship.Council of Independent College's Consortium on Digital Resources for Teaching and Researc