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Kauai in Spring
No full textMedium: Ink and acrylic on watercolor paper
Dimensions: 11 x 14https://pilotscholars.up.edu/franco_exhibit/1007/thumbnail.jp
The World of St. Francis
No full textMedium: Ink and acrylic on watercolor paper
Dimensions: 18 x 24https://pilotscholars.up.edu/franco_exhibit/1003/thumbnail.jp
Examining the Effect of Maternal Obesity on Vitamin D Metabolism in the Placenta
Get PDFIn the United States and in many other developed countries, obesity is becoming an increasingly widespread problem due to several factors including poor nutrition and sedentary lifestyles. Previous studies have shown obese people to have less circulating vitamin D than lean people and this study aimed to determine whether obese mothers pass less vitamin D through their placenta to their offspring than lean mothers do and whether vitamin D deficiency resulting in fewer vitamin D receptors in the placenta can be reversed by treatment of placental cells with the active and inactive forms of vitamin D. The data collected from this study show that placentas from obese mothers have less vitamin D receptors than placentas from lean mothers and that placental cells treated with the active form of vitamin D show increased expression of vitamin D receptors. Preliminary tests of mitochondrial respiration have found that placental cells from an obese mother respond more dramatically in terms of oxygen consumption rate to treatment with both the active and inactive forms of vitamin D than placental cells from a lean mother do. Vitamin D plays an important role in the placenta, and future studies should be conducted to determine the daily dosage of vitamin D necessary to reverse vitamin D deficiency during pregnancy
Afternoon Street
No full textMedium: Pen and watercolors on paper.
Description: Painting based on photagraph taken in South Korea by a friend studying abroad.https://pilotscholars.up.edu/thaynecovert_exhibit/1006/thumbnail.jp
Listening to the Teacher Voice: Best Practice for Students on the Autism Spectrum
Get PDFRecently, teachers have been seeing an influx of students with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) in their classrooms. As this number increases, it is important that these teachers and teacher leaders be aware of the advances in the field regarding methods of working with children with ASD. Some of these practices are written down and published online for the public, but others are only found by accessing the authentic experiences of teachers who developed best teaching methods throughout their careers. This study seeks to be a resource for current educators and preservice teachers in inclusive classrooms, sharing best practices working with students with autism. A literature review and teacher interviews were conducted exploring what designated special education and inclusive classroom teachers consider best practice in teaching elementary age students with autism. Results indicated that effective teaching methods include a focus on consistency, visuals, and relationships. Participants communicated a lack of resources available for teachers to learn about teaching students with autism and that their practices were developed through observation and personal investigation. Participants emphasized teacher workshops and collaborating with colleagues as suggestions for improving teacher education on working with students with ASD
Cognitive and Linguistic Time Constructs in English Written Language of High School Students
Get PDFThis qualitative study examines the cognitive and linguistic time constructs found within thirty written language samples collected from general education students at a technical high school in the Pacific Northwest. The students’ written language samples responded to the question, “What do you do on a typical day?” These written language samples were collected as part of the high school’s intake process.
Using four main rounds of analysis, the researcher examined the written language samples for: the surface structures of time such as tense, time words, modals, and conditionals; temporal propositions as defined by Arwood and Beggs (1992); speech acts, semantic roles and semantic relationships; and cognitive constructs of time such as the moving time, moving ego and succession of events conceptual metaphors.
The findings of the study indicate that the students are not writing using grammatically correct surface structures of time, nor are they making temporal propositions. Instead, the students are using mostly base form verbs in either present or ambiguous tense constructions. Most, but not all, of the students used the agent role in their writing, and more students used the locative role than used the time role. All the students expressed actions, but not all students used the agent action semantic relationship. All the students were able to express the speech act of responding, and two thirds of the students used what may be a new type of primitive speech act, listing of actions. All of the students used the succession of events conceptual metaphor for time, while one student used the moving ego metaphor and another used the moving iv time metaphor. These findings indicate that this group of students is functioning at the restricted pre-language function level of language function (ages 3-7 years), and at the preoperational level of development for temporal cognition (ages 3-7 years). These finding suggest that this group of students may have difficulty performing temporal tasks such as: arriving to class on time, planning and executing assignments and projects, turning in homework on time, expressing their ideas in a way that is meaningful to others, and participating in higher order thinking for diverse subjects including science, mathematics, English language, and history
Visualizing Microaggressions in Primetime Television
Get PDFThrough an examination of pilot episodes from two primetime television shows told from the perspective of people of color, this study looks closely at how microaggressions are displayed and engaged with. Through a discourse analysis in combination with critical race theory, the way in which microaggressions are made visual help legitimize the impact these microaggressions have for people of color in everyday life. By looking at Black-ish and Fresh Off the Boat, the study showed how people of color silently react to this silent form of racism. There is a depicted struggle prevalent in both shows as the characters of color must assimilate to predominantly white environments. These television shows provide counternarratives to the common, mainstream narrative seen through a white lens as depicted on most primetime television shows
Hyster-Yale Group Load-Dimensioning System
No full textThe Hyster Yale Load-Dimensioning System group is working to create an automated, volumetric measurement system to determine the volume of loads for shipping companies. Previously, companies using these shipping services have been charged for both weight and volume of the packages. However, companies would alter these numbers to be less than the true size of the load in order to save cost on shipping. This equates to a large loss in profit as the shipping company is not being paid for its full work. The goal of the project is to create an on-board solution to correct these measurements, therefore saving the shipping company loss in profit. The final product is to measure boxes of all shapes and sizes in order to accommodate for irregularly shaped products being shipped. The system will be activated by a push of the button from the forklift operator, causing the system to take the measurement and correlate it with the inputted serial number of the shipment. This report will explain the actions taken to create the goal design along with all the updates in the process.https://pilotscholars.up.edu/egr_project/1012/thumbnail.jp
HK Ideation - Bariatric Patient Transfer Apparatus
No full textWorking under industry sponsor Dr. Nathan Kemalyan and Rob Hagen, founders of the start-up HK-Ideation. ME Patient Transfer senior design team developed the Aeroller: an assistive device for the rotation and translation of bariatric patients in a hospital setting. This device utilizes a unique mechanism of staged air chamber inflation to roll a patient from one bed to another.https://pilotscholars.up.edu/egr_project/1013/thumbnail.jp
Identity, Mission, and Markets: A Multiple-Case Study on Select Catholic High Schools in the United States
Get PDFSince 1965, over 7,000 Catholic schools have closed in the United States. This phenomenon is referred to by both Catholic and secular news agencies as, “The Catholic School Crisis.” The crisis is in part due to the marketization of education in the United States which has created a competitive economic market between all types of schools. In a market-driven culture, schools compete for students and funds the same way businesses compete for customers and dollars. This multiple-case study investigated how leaders within select Catholic high schools understand and communicate their institutional identity within a market context and how that identity can be observed to be influenced by market forces. In aggregate, twenty semistructured interviews, four school walkabouts, and thirty documents/artifacts were collected for this study. Key findings revealed that religious charisms are essential to institutional identity and that Catholic high schools identify as inclusive faith-based communities. However, data also evidenced that Catholic high schools shift their practices and discourse to accommodate the market even if such practices and discourse are antithetical to their mission. Importantly, this study also found that Catholic high schools also shift their practices and discourse to align and realign with their religious mission, highlighting a continuous tension between mission and market