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The Impact of Different Forms of Physical Activity on an Athlete\u27s Memory.
Get PDFMemory is an integral part of human life, needed for all aspects of daily living, especially for college students. Previous research has shown a plethora of benefits to several systems of the body for those who participate in chronic aerobic activity. This research has shown chronic aerobic physical activity to provide an enhanced memory through numerous physiological adaptations. Studies on chronic anaerobic activity and its effect on the brain are minimal, demanding more research be done. PURPOSE: Determine the effect of aerobic and anaerobic exercise on memory and cognitive function in different classifications of collegiate athletes. METHODS: Study to consist of 60 athletes (N=60), 20 athletes (N=20) from each classification at The University of Akron: Division 1 (D1), club and recreational. Data to be collected from a physical activity questionnaire, collecting information on volume and type of activity performed, and a memory test. Physical activity bouts to be completed prior to data collection. Data to be compared using an ANOVA test to determine statistical significance between the type of physical activity the athlete performs and their score on the memory test. RESULTS: The anticipated result is for all athletes to score in the “normal function” range of the memory test. It is anticipated the D1 athletes will have the highest scores as their volume of both aerobic and anaerobic training generally surpasses club and recreational athletes. Outliers are expected for those training at too high of volume and are overtraining. CONCLUSION: Expectation is that participation in chronic physical activity is correlated to increased memory capabilities. Aerobic and anaerobic physical activity each have unique mechanisms in enhancing memory. Current research supports the claim, however, there is a paucity of evidence on the effect of anaerobic physical activity on memory. Future research should focus on the significance of anaerobic physical activity and the distinctive benefits it has on memory and cognitive function
Tropical Fish Study in Tahiti, French Polynesia
Get PDFIn May of 2023, I embarked on an exciting research journey to Moorea, French Polynesia, alongside fellow students and faculty members from the University of Akron and Syracuse University. This expedition was part of the university-sponsored Tropical Vertebrate Biology course, where we delved into the exploration of various tropical species inhabiting the island, including sea urchins, geckos, and my primary focus, the blackspotted rockskipper.
My research team, composed of my co-authors and me, was particularly intrigued by the unique refuge-seeking behavior displayed by blackspotted rockskippers. These amphibious fish are renowned for their remarkable ability to inhabit tide pools and rocky beach jetties, swiftly navigating and jumping across these challenging terrains, especially when confronted with predators. Our curiosity led us to question the rapid decision-making processes involved in their behavior and the factors influencing these decisions.
In our study, we investigated the refuge preferences of blackspotted rockskippers, with a specific focus on their behavior in the presence of conspecifics (members of the same species). Our findings revealed a significant trend in which rockskippers exhibited a preference for solitude.
We are proud to announce that our research findings have been successfully published in the Journal of Fish Biology, which holds exclusive rights to our work. For a comprehensive overview of our results and insights, please refer to the following link:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jfb.1554
One Object, Fluctuating Trajectories: Harnessing the Document Future of Premodern Manuscripts
Get PDFUsing copy theory as a framework to explore document surrogacy and simulation, this paper discusses premodern manuscripts as a case study for understanding relevant aspects of temporality and materiality in the experience of documents to speculate on the nature of immersive documents of the future. This speculation is powered on mapping and synthesizing the paths of interconnected temporal and material change manuscripts have followed by examining multiple “versions” of these documents based on various contexts of use and access and technological innovations. As hand copied documents of similar texts, premodern manuscripts are posited as both copies and originals depending on their human context and purpose, which have implications for the work scholars who study the informative content of manuscripts alongside their status as unique heritage objects. Description and digitization also play a role in increasing and complicating the nature of access and scholarship. The paper concludes with the suggestion that the expansion of copies and representations of manuscripts can be employed the development of immersive document systems informed document phenomenology to create holistic virtual manuscript experiences
QR Code Automatic Guiding Plus of Museum UGM Indonesia: Visitors’ Survey from the Concepts of Museum Communication and Niels Windfeld Lund’s Complementarity Document
Get PDFModern technology has been proven to be present in various fields, and this phenomenon interests many organizations to benefit from sustainability and stability, including what contributes to creating a healthy and safe living environment for the people. One of the museums in Indonesia has been applying the technology: Museum Universitas Gadjah Mada (Gajah Mada University) or Museum UGM in Yogjakarta. The museum has recently launched QR Code Museum Automatic Guiding Plus (UGM QR Code), a revolutionary technology, containing navigation, guidance, and narration about the collections on display using a QR Code scanner on a smartphone. This technology gives visitors access to short descriptions of the collections and pertinent information about the museum’s collection such as research, photos, and books.
Digitalization of the collection is an attempt by the museum to engage with the visitors through technology. The visitors’ engagement can be developed when the visitors have positive experiences in terms of information retrieval using the technology. From the museum communication perspective by Yudhawasthi, at least a museum has to create four experiences to enhance connectivity: Spiritual, Educational, Recreational, and Ukhuwah (SERU). It means that all the digitalized formats of the collections in this process should be felt, absorbed, and reflected as a positive experience. Can the visitors have a SERU experience when they use the technology? With this implementation, The Museum UGM tries to interpret the collections with all aspects as a resource center, managing all kinds of documents. Can the visitors recognize the digitalized formats as informational (mental), material (physical), and communicational (social)? From a document perspective, this concept is introduced by Niels Windfeld Lund as a complementarity document. With complementarity, we can recognize that it is more than just a document\u27s content contributing to its meaning. This paper aims to map the SERU experience of the visitors when they use the digitalized formats of collections and recognize the complementarity aspects of the document from the visitors’ perspective.
This research used a quantitative approach in the form of a survey. The instrument used was a questionnaire designed to map SERU dimensions and aspects of complementarity. The sampling technique was accidental sampling. The result shows that the UGM QR Code fulfills the elements of a document and shows all the complementarity aspects of a document. From the museum communication concept, the UGM QR Code is identified to trigger the respondents\u27 Spiritual, Educational, and Recreational experiences. However, there was a lack of Ukhuwah experience felt by the respondents
Conversations on Cultural Heritage: Confirming the Family Home as an Archive
Get PDFFamily archives, as repositories of cultural heritage, play a crucial role in preserving multi-generational knowledge. The family is the first collaborative unit in which community memory-keeping is operationalized. The family home is an archive or library of data for generations of family members living through historical movements, patterns of migration, and technological advancement. Thus, \u27home\u27 is a data-rich repository of local history. Memory-keeping tasks, such as recording events in family Bibles and maintaining photo albums, scrapbooks, and journals, are multi-generational literacy practices. The stories within a family archive endure, but the narrators may change over time. Archiving family cultural heritage is a robust yet unsung methodology for filling unacknowledged gaps in human history. The family archive is also an essential and undervalued site of meaning and identity construction, emphasizing these archives\u27 personal and emotional significance. The proliferation of meanings in archives, particularly in familial histories, is attributed mainly as a symbol or metaphor for representing an identity, as a record of memory produced by people of a particular cultural setting
Saxophone: A Deeper Understanding
Get PDFThe goal of this project is to provide a comprehensive background on the creation and evolution of the saxophone, as well as to examine the acoustic factors that contribute to its function. Beyond that, the project will assess differences within the saxophone family (including soprano, alto, tenor, and baritone saxophones) and between major brands (including Selmer, Yamaha, and Yanagisawa). The project will be largely constructed from previous research, in addition to personal experiences. The end result will consist of a written report that individuals-especially future saxophone students-will be able to use to expand their knowledge and understanding of the saxophone
Increasing Student Success in the Large Ensemble Classroom
Get PDFMusic teachers face many challenges with high quality instruction in large ensemble classes. When there is only one ensemble for students in grades nine through twelve to participate in, their respective skill levels span across a large spectrum. However, the student must perform the part that the composer wrote for their instrument or voice type, regardless of their ability to do so. Students with disabilities and students with less experience are at a vast disadvantage. As a result, the teacher is left with the decision of choosing music that is too difficult for some students or too easy for others. This paper examines what strategies, accommodations, and modifications high school orchestra teachers, specifically, are using to overcome the natural challenges of large ensembles as it relates to the students’ playing abilities. Additionally, the composer’s impact on the success of the ensemble will be explored through the creation of an original composition that has differentiated parts to cater to the specific needs of the ensemble
The Patent Law Origins of Science Fiction
Get PDFThis Article reveals the surprising role of patent law in shaping the literary genre of science fiction. Drawing on previously unpublished sources, the Article shows that Hugo Gernsback—the so-called “father” of science fiction who started the first all-science-fiction magazine in 1926—believed that works of science fiction are analogous to patents. Like patents, science fiction stories can disclose useful information to the public about new inventions. Like patents, science fiction stories can influence future inventors and drive innovation. Gernsback went even further, positing that some of the inventions depicted in science fiction should themselves be patentable. In 1952, he urged Congress to reform the Patent Act to make so-called “Provisional Patents” available to science fiction authors who depicted major technological developments before their time. He argued that science fiction authors who filed for Provisional Patents should get an extra thirty years in which to show their invention worked. If they could do so, they would thereafter be able to obtain an ordinary patent, to last another twenty years. Many will find Gernsback’s proposal deeply problematic from the perspective of patent policy, and rightly so. Granting patent rights too early in an invention’s lifecycle creates new and unjustified opportunities to hold up innovation. A science fiction author who obtained a Provisional Patent for a theoretical invention could crawl out of the woodwork half a century later and sue the very people who figured out how to make the invention work. Gernsback’s ideas for patent reform were half-baked and, the Article shows, probably self-serving. Nonetheless, exploring the connection he cultivated between patents and science fiction yields many surprising insights for science fiction and for innovation policy. Science fiction has more in common with patents than it might seem. Although science fiction does not typically impart enough information to “enable” others to make and use the inventions it describes, science fiction can inspire readers and supply them with a motivation—in Gernsback’s words, a “stimulus”— to implement science fictional inventions in the real world. Science fiction, like patents, can play a role in promoting innovation
Rebalancing International Investment Law
Get PDFSeveral reform initiatives are currently ongoing seeking to cure international investment law from its inherent pro-investor bias. To achieve this goal, recent investment treaties contain enhanced provisions on the right to regulate and seek to increase investor compliance in such areas as environmental protection, sustainable development, and corporate social responsibility. Yet, how to reconcile the ongoing reform efforts at the international and regional levels seeking to create a new, rebalanced system of international investment law? How to achieve this proverbial system where interests of foreign investors are protected without encroaching on the rights of the host states? The answers to these questions remain largely open. This article argues that in the current system of international investment law, where both substantive and procedural laws remain diversified and provide foreign investors with options in structuring their investments and bringing investment claims, the traditional top-down approach (with reliance on universal and regional treaty-making) does not allow achieving uniformity of international investment law with regard to the greater emphasis on the rights of the host state and compliance of foreign investors. As long as sovereign states remain interested in foreign investments, they will be willing to compromise on their rights and risk investment arbitrations in order to gain competitive advantage in the market for foreign investments. In the classic prisoner’s dilemma fashion, driven by self-interests, sovereign states might not cooperate internationally, although such cooperation appears to be in their best interest. In these settings, a better approach might be to leave it to the market and to look at the bottom-up solutions, which provide incentives for the host state not to lower responsible investment standards and for arbitral tribunals and foreign investors—to raise and consider the rights of the host state as part of investor-State dispute settlement
State v. Pardoned Individual, 2024-Ohio-2969 (12th Dist.) – appellant’s reply brief
Get PDFThis appellate reply brief submitted to the Court Of Appeals Twelfth Appellate District Of Ohio argues that the trial court erred in denying the sealing of defendant\u27s pardoned conviction. It contends that an unconditional pardon should entitle the recipient to have the conviction sealed, aligning with the rehabilitative intent of a pardon. The brief emphasizes that denying the sealing undermines the purpose of the pardon and continues to impose collateral consequences on the individual. The appellant seeks a reversal of the trial court\u27s decision, advocating for the sealing of the pardoned conviction to fully restore his rights and reputatio