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Pitch location by pitch type analysis
No full textThis is a data visualization project based on MLB data submitted for the 2022-24 Data Bloom Data Viz contest at River Campus Libraries.Data source: https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/statcast_searchFilter criteria: Season: 2023 Regular and Postseason Pitch type: Fastball, Curveball, Slider, Changeup, Knuckleball Result Type: Single, Double, Triple, Homerun, Strikeout (ran query multiple times due to result limit and aggregated in excel).The visualization depicts the distribution of hits and strikeouts within the strike zone, revealing that hits are concentrated within the strike zone, while strikeouts often occur outside. It also highlights clustering patterns of different pitch types and demonstrates the impact of pitch movement on their distribution.This visualization was awarded the Best Undergraduate Visualization prize.</p
Coculture Optimization Files
No full textImages of BPLCs cultured in µSiMs and different seeding densities to test with collagen iv coating. Also summary powerpoint of BPLC morphology with age</p
Permeability_IMR90-4_EECM-BMEC-BPLC-Cocultures_RawFiles_NotForPublication
No full textRaw data excel files for permeability studies on EECM-BMEC-like cell and BPLC cocultures, which were not included in publication as they only contain non-stimulated data or were excluded for other stated reasons (e.g. BPLC over and undergrown)</p
Analysis of cell junctions in JAG1-deficient cochleae
No full textPresented on April 12, 2024 at the University of Rochester.Abstract: During cochlear development, Notch signaling plays an important role in determining the fates of hair cells and supporting cells. JAG1, a Notch ligand, is involved in lateral induction, the first of the two crucial roles Notch signaling has in the sensory regions. The JAG1 ligand is localized to supporting cells and, unlike other Notch ligands, continues to be expressed in the mature cochlea. However, deleting JAG1 early in development leads to fused stereocilia in the inner hair cells of the cochlea beginning at P(8), accompanied by hearing loss in the mice at 6 weeks of age indicated by raised ABR levels. Because JAG1 is localized to supporting cells, and the phenotype presents in hair cells, these results suggest a possible signaling interaction defect between hair cells and supporting cells. The three types of junctions in the mammalian cochlea are gap junctions which are involved in signal transmission, adherens junctions which are involved in calcium dependent intercellular adhesion, and tight junctions which serve as selectively permeable barriers between neighboring cells. Tight junctions and adherens junctions will be looked at using antibody staining. Primary antibodies for N-cadherin, which is localized to inner hair cells, and E-cadherin, which is localized to outer hair cells and Henson’s cells will be used to examine adherens junctions. Primary antibodies for ZO-1 and Occulin (OCC), which are both membrane proteins, will be used to examine tight junctions. I will discuss ways to optimize conditions for antibody staining of junction markers, to continue investigating potential abnormalities in hair cell-supporting cell interactions in the developing mouse cochlea. After antibody optimization, cochleae of different time points from JAG1-deficient mice will be stained with junction markers and imaged using confocal microscopy to look for alterations in expression or localization, indicating abnormalities in cell junctions.</p
Prior Art: Patents and the<b> </b>Nature of Invention in Architecture
No full textA groundbreaking text on the history of the use of patents in architecture.Although patents existed in Renaissance Italy and even in Confucian thought, it was not until the middle third of the nineteenth century that architects embraced the practice of patenting in significant numbers. Patents could ensure, as they did for architects' engineering brethren, the economic and cultural benefits afforded by exclusive intellectual property rights. But patent culture was never directly translatable to the field of architecture, which tended to negotiate issues of technological innovation in the context of the more abstract issues of artistic influence and formal expression. In Prior Art, scholar Peter Christensen offers the first full-scale monographic treatment of this complex relationship between art and invention.Christensen's method, a site-oriented approach steeped in multinational and multilingual archival work, is geared toward unifying fractured global histories of architectural patents through the distinct union of architectural, cultural, and legal history. Prior Art offers a record of the marriage of intellectual property and architectural invention—a momentous, understudied, and still underutilized aspect of architectural culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries—and the ways in which it influenced how buildings are conceived, designed, engineered, constructed, and promoted.Published by The MIT PressISBN electronic: 9780262378345</p
Using Virtual Reality to Study Spatial Mapping and Threat Learning
No full textThis data is from a virtual reality threat conditioning study comparing those that learned the contingencies of the paradigm (learners) and those who did not. Participants collected flowers in a virtual environment one at a time, and after collecting a flower, they rated on a scale (0-9) how likely they were to get a shock (9 being more likely). Unknown to participants, half of the environment predicted shock (at reinforcement rates 35%, 50%, and 60%), while the other half was "safe". Participants also collected and returned objects to their original location 4 times each. 2 objects were located in the "safe" half, two were located in the dangerous half. The distance between where the participant placed the object and it's original location was measured. State and trait anxiety scores were measured before (state and trait) and after (state only) the conditioning task. Participants also completed the Raven's Progressive Matrices before the task. During the task, skin conductance level was collected as participants approached a flower (SCL) and after they collected the flower and rated the likelihood of shock but before receiving a shock (SCR). At the end of the task, participants were asked to name the objects they collected and their locations. Learner: 1 - learner; 0 -non-learnerReinforcement rate: Shock reinforcement rate: 35%, 50%, 60%Age: Participant's ageGender: Participant's genderSTAI_State_Pre: State Trait Anxiety Inventory score; State, before taskSTAI_State_Post: State Trait Anxiety Inventory score; State, after taskSTAI_Trait: State Trait Anxiety Inventory score; TraitRaven: Raven visual IQ scoreNumber_mem_obj: Number of objects rememberedNumber_mem_loc: Number of object locations rememberedSCR_Safe_n:SCR (jitter period) for n'th safe trial; normalized and range-correctedSCR_Dang_n: SCR (jitter period) for n'th dangerous trial; normalized and range-correctedSCL_Safe_n: SCL (approaching flower) for n'th safe trial; normalized and range-correctedSCL_Dang_n: SCL (approaching flower) for n'th dangerous trial; normalized and range-correctedExp_Safe_n: Shock expectation rating for n'th safe trialExp_Dang_n:Shock expectation rating for n'th dangerous trialDist_n_k: Distance of object n, iteration kCondition A - Dangerous objects: 1, 2; Safe objects: 3, 4; B - Dangerous objects: 3, 4; Safe objects: 1, 2;</p
Repository Platform Comparison Chart and Spreadsheet
No full textThe Repository Platform Comparison Chart and Spreadsheet documents were created to assist the UR community in deciding which tool is most appropriate for storing, planning or sharing their research outputs.The flowchart and spreadsheet compare these tools:GitLabInter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)LabArchivesOpen Science Framework (OSF)protocols.ioUniversity of Rochester Research Repository (URRR)</p
Harkenrider: Introduction to the Charles Grandison Finney Letter
No full textStudents in two of Professor Robert Westbrook's courses in American intellectual history, "The American Mind, 1600-1865" (History 267) and "The American Mind, 1865-1990" (History 268), use manuscript materials as part of a research assignment. This assignment, called "Other People's Mail," requires that students transcribe a document and write an introduction to it, placing the document in its context and suggesting the ways in which it bears on significant themes in the course.Please Note: All rights regarding the papers rest with the authors. The images of the manuscripts may not be reproduced without obtaining prior written permission from the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections.This document was adapted from a webpage hosted on the Rare Books, Special Collections, and Manuscripts website, before being converted into a static document and uploaded to URRR on 2024-10-05.</p
Restaurant Menu (Data Cleaning)
No full textRestaurant Menu DatasetWith approximately 45,000 menus dating from the 1840s to the present, The New York Public Library’s restaurant menu collection is one of the largest in the world. The menu data has been transcribed, dish by dish, into this dataset. For more information, please see http://menus.nypl.org/about.This dataset is not clean and contains many missing values, making it perfect to practice data cleaning tools and techniques.Dataset Variables:id: identifier for menuname: sponsor: who sponsored the meal (organizations, people, name of restaurant)event: categoryvenue: type of place (commercial, social, professional)place: where the meal took place (often a geographic location)physical_description: dimension and material description of the menuoccasion: occasion of the meal (holidays, anniversaries, daily)notes: notes by librarians about the original materialcall_number: call number of the menukeywords: language: date: date of the menulocation: organization or business who produced the menulocation_typecurrency: system of money the menu uses (dollars, etc)currency_symbol: symbol for the currency ($, etc)status: completeness of the menu transcription (transcribed, under review, etc)page_count: how many pages the menu hasdish_count: how many dishes the menu has</p
River Campus Libraries Data Set Grant Program
No full textThis presentation material supports a workshop presented at the 2024 RIT & UR Staff Conference.This lightning talk is about sharing the RCL Data Set Grant Program. This student-oriented service aims to help UR undergraduates and graduate students in the Arts, Sciences, and Engineering, the Warner School of Education, and Simon Business School obtain non-traditional data sets for their research studies and create data from their projects. Since this grant program launched in 2019, we have offered grants to 28 recipients from the Economics Dept and Political Science Dept. Earth and Environmental Sciences, Computer Science, and Simon Business School with a total amount of $34,910. Please come and listen to how this program works.</p