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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
Preliminary study on the effects of amyloid-beta protein on autophagy in Gallus gallus neurons.
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Dipole-Dipole Non-Radiative Energy Transfer Mediated by Surface Plasmons on a Metallic Interface
No full text8 pages;color illustrationsDistributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.24 pages; color illustrations
Be still in haste.
No full textv, 89 leavesThe composition of this piece primarily took place in spare hours, squeezed in during a period of great personal change and reflection. It was inspired heavily by Wendell Berry's poem , which evokes the sign of the moment, settling into one's environment, observing the world rush by, then continuing on. The poem's quiet way of stretching and compressing time appealed to me greatly as a researcher studying time in music and how our brains track beat and meter. In composing this piece, I took a minimalist approach to manipulating time by featuring irregular phrase lengths and literal sighs layered over a slow, steady cello ostinato. This segues into a faster middle section comprised of human sounds such as clapping, stomping, and shouts, which create a variety of composite rhythms. Finally, the end of the piece falls into a slow, stilted dance. The overlying clarinet and flute duet took shape later on in the compositional process- this piece was intended to be written for voice duet and orchestra but evolved over time as I explored different timbral combinations
Evidence that intracellular amyloid-beta affects mitochondrial activity in Gallus gallus neurons as determined by fluorescence microscopy.
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American kestrel nest box occupancy and success in cranberry bogs in Southeastern Massachusetts.
No full textIncludes bibliographical references (leaves 41-43).iii, 43 leaves : illustrationsAmerican Kestrel (Falco spaverius) Northeastern populations have been declining over the past decades. European Starling (Sturnus vulgaris) competition for nest boxes with American Kestrels have also increased. This study examined local, landscape, and weather variables around kestrel nest boxes in cranberry (Vaccinium macrocarpon) bogs across southeast Massachusetts in order to determine how the kestrel nest box occupancy and fledging success and the starling occupancy changed over time and which variables encouraged kestrel nest occupancy and success and discouraged starling occupancy. We used data collected from an 18- year study, ArcGIS, and generalized linear mixed models in order to create models to determine these impacts. We found that kestrel nest box occupancy and success decreased over time, while kestrel nest box failure stayed consistent and starling kestrel nest box occupancy increased. Kestrel fledging success stayed relatively consistent throughout the study. We also found that cranberry and grassland area, as well as distance to nearest nest box and human habitation were significant variables in predicting kestrel nest box occupancy and fledging success, while only distance to nearest nest box and human habitation were significant to predicting starling occupancy
Monitoring vegetation health in the Great Marsh : 25 years of satellite observations and freshwater input data.
No full textIncludes bibliographical references (leaves 39-46).i, 46 leaves : illustrationsSalt marshes are extremely valuable coastal ecosystems that carry out a wide range of ecosystem services; however, these ecosystems face serious threats from human- caused environmental changes, such as sea level rise and drought. This study aims to assess the relationship between freshwater input and the overall health of a salt marsh over a 25-year time period. The Great Marsh in northern Massachusetts was selected due to its susceptibility to variations in freshwater input into the marsh, and 13 Landsat scenes between 1993 and 2018 were acquired along with discharge data from two of the marsh’s rivers. Using LiDAR data, elevation masks were created for the low, high and fringe marsh zones, and the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) was used to assess marsh vegetation health in each of the zones. No relationship was discovered between the amount of freshwater input into the marsh and the health of each of the marsh zones; however, upstream regions of the marsh tended to be healthier than downstream regions. These results indicate that freshwater input may not play as important a role as other factors in determining salt marsh health
Preliminary study investigating the effects of nicotine on myelin in Gallus gallus glial cells.
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3D Modeling at Wheaton College
No full textA python script to cut a video into still frames for use in 3D modeling softwareWe 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