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Faculty Senate Minutes, Academic Year 2022-2023, March 30, 2023
Get PDFMinutes for the Governors State University Faculty Senate Meeting held March 30, 2023
Plagiarism Checker
Get PDFThe Turnitin Plagiarism Checker App is a program that helps users to check their written content for plagiarism. This project is important because plagiarism is a major issue in academia and other fields, where it can lead to academic misconduct, professional repercussions, and legal issues. This application is designed to solve the problem of plagiarism by making it easier for users to check their work for originality before submitting it. The app uses Selenium and Beautiful Soup to automate the process of uploading files and retrieving plagiarism reports from the Turnitin website. The application is an enhancement of an existing service provided by Turnitin, a popular plagiarism detection service used by many educational institutions. The application uses a Python script to automate the process of submitting written content to the Turnitin website, retrieving the plagiarism report, and saving the report to a local file. The application can handle multiple files and provides an average plagiarism score for the submitted content. The application is applicable to anyone who needs to submit written work, including students, academics, and professionals. It is particularly useful for educational institutions that need to check large volumes of written work for plagiarism. The application is compatible with various file formats, including DOCX, PDF, and TXT. The application is released under an open-source license, meaning it is freely available to anyone who wishes to use it
The Concept of Social Engineering and Cybercrime in the Digital Age
Get PDFThe increased implementation of digitalization which has come to rise has also raised concerns in terms of privacy and security of the data. Data leaks and stealing of privacy are some of the common practices which have grown over the years. Social engineering majorly depends on the normal human instincts for trusting in stealing personal as well as corporate information which can be implemented for committing the cybercrimes further. The attackers can use social engineering for convincing an employee for divulging the passwords of the company. Hence, there is a need to understand the fact of how social engineering can as well as cybercrime have evolved over the year. Based on this the work aimed to review the social engineering concepts as well as cybercrimes in this digital world. The concepts will be understood better with the use of literature that is focused on the topic of social engineering as well as cybercrimes. Using a literature review the secondary data will be collected based on this literature
Faculty University Service Roster - October 2023
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Time-dependent Effects of Microplastics on Soil Bacteriome
No full textMicroplastic threats to biodiversity, health and ecological safety are adding to concern worldwide, but the real impacts on the functioning of organisms and ecosystems are obscure owing to their inert characteristics. Here we investigated the long-lasting ecological effects of six prevalent microplastic types: polyethylene (PE), polypropylene (PP), polyamide (PA), polystyrene (PS), polyethylene terephthalate (PET), and polyvinyl chloride (PVC) on soil bacteria at a 2 % (w/w) level. Due to the inertia and lack of available nitrogen of these microplastics, their effects on bacteriome tended to converge after one year and were strongly different from their short-term effects. The soil volumes around microplastics were very specific, in which the microplastic-adapted bacteria (e.g., some genera in Actinobacteria) were enriched but the phyla Bacteroidetes and Gemmatimonadetes declined, resulting in higher microbial nitrogen requirements and reduced organic carbon mineralization. The reshaped bacteriome was specialized in the genetic potential of xenobiotic and lipid metabolism as well as related oxidation, esterification, and hydrolysis processes, but excessive oxidative damage resulted in severe weakness in community genetic information processing. According to model predictions, microplastic effects are indirectly derived from nutrients and oxidative stress, and the effects on bacterial functions are stronger than on structure, posing a heavy risk to soil ecosystems.https://opus.govst.edu/fac/1185/thumbnail.jp
Variations in Litterfall Dynamics, C:N:P Stoichiometry and Associated Nutrient Return in Pure and Mixed Stands of Camphor Tree and Masson Pine Forests
No full textLitterfall, directly and indirectly, affects the soil physicochemical properties, microbial activity, and diversity of soil fauna and flora by adding organic matter and nutrients to the soil. This study explores litterfall dynamics such as litterfall production, litter decomposition rate, and associated nutrient return in three forest types, that is, camphor tree forest (CTF), Masson pine forest (MPF), and camphor tree and Masson pine mixed forest (CMF), in subtropical China. Results showed that CMF had the highest mean annual litterfall production (4.30 ± 0.22 t ha−1), which was significantly higher than that of MPF (3.41 ± 0.25 t ha−1) and CTF (3.26 ± 0.17 t ha−1). Leaf represented the major fraction of litterfall, constituting over 71% of the total litterfall mass in the three forest types. The contribution of branch litter was 16.3, 8.9, and 16.9%, and miscellaneous litter was 12.6, 18.9, and 11.1% in CTF, MPF, and CMF, respectively. The concentration of macronutrients ranked as N \u3e Ca \u3e K \u3e Mg \u3e P in all litter fractions. The total annual macronutrient return to the soil from the litterfall was in order as CTF (74.2 kg ha−1‧yr−1) \u3e CMF (70.7 kg ha−1‧yr−1) \u3e MPF (33.6 kg ha−1‧yr−1). The decomposition rate was higher in leaf litter than in branch litter throughout the three forests. Among the forest types, the leaf and branch decomposition rates were in a pattern: CTF \u3e CMF \u3e MPF. The ratio of C/N in both leaf and branch litters was significantly higher in MPF than in CTF and CMF, while no significant differences in N/P ratio were found in these litters among the three forests. The high N:P ratios in leaf litter (23/30) and the branch (24/32) litter indicated the high N returning and low nutrient returning to the soil. Our results suggested that the broadleaved forests have faster litter decomposition and higher macronutrient returns than conifer forests. Moreover, the litter decomposition rate was mainly associated with litterfall quality and chemical composition. The introduction of broadleaved trees into monoculture coniferous stands could increase litter production nutrients return, and thus, it had advantages in soil nutrients restoration and sustainable forest management.https://opus.govst.edu/fac/1169/thumbnail.jp