113 research outputs found
ASEE Conference 2025: Lasting Impacts of Credited Information Literacy Library Instruction for Graduate Engineering Students
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Full-field inspection of three-dimensional structures using steady-state acoustic wavenumber spectroscopy
No full textUnderstanding pedestrians' perception of crowdedness at mass events: A simultaneous survey and monitoring study into personal, trip and event characteristics
No full textAt mass events, pedestrians can experience the level of crowdedness as unsafe, unpleasant and stressful. To gain a better understanding of perceived crowdedness, the effects of personal, trip and event characteristics at an event are researched. Data collection was performed by a simultaneous survey and monitoring study at the TT Festival in Assen and at the Red light district in Amsterdam. A SEM model shows that perceived crowdedness is influenced by mainly by the density, quantified using Wi-Fi sensor data. Besides that, trip purpose and familiarity with the event influence perceived crowdedness as well. Furthermore, this research shows that perception of safety, comfort, atmosphere and attractiveness of the environment are also related to the perception of crowdedness
Talking with Dragons: How Dragons Reveal the Hero\u27s Heart
No full textThe author shines a light onto the transformation Dragons over time and their relationships with heroes in European narrative and art. The study provides primary source analysis as well as a review of the secondary literature as represented through the works for Frazer, Dundes, and Tolkien
Talking with Dragons: How Dragons Reveal the Hero\u27s Heart
No full textThe author shines a light onto the transformation Dragons over time and their relationships with heroes in European narrative and art. The study provides primary source analysis as well as a review of the secondary literature as represented through the works for Frazer, Dundes, and Tolkien
Measuring European Foreign Policy Impact. The EU and the Georgia Crisis of 2008. College of Europe EU Diplomacy Paper 9/2010
No full textThis paper assesses the political influence of the European Union (EU) on the Russo-Georgian conflict in August 2008 by systematically categorising all cases of European foreign policy (EFP) action in this context according to their impact. Based on a modified version of Roy Ginsberg’s framework for measuring political impact, the paper explicitly uses an 'outside-in' perspective, i.e. it focuses on how third countries perceive and experience European foreign policy actions. To what extent and how did the EU have a political impact on the conflicting parties during the 2008 war in Georgia? The research finds that in fifty percent of all cases European foreign policy had a considerable or significant impact on both Georgia and Russia, whereas in the other half, the impact was only marginal or even nil. Most importantly, the EU exerted this impact without the use of any kind of coercive means or the threat thereof – let alone military measures. European foreign policy often successfully relied on diplomatic means, persuasion through negotiations, declarations and financial incentives. The results challenge traditional thinking, according to which more foreign policy capabilities – military in particular – are a necessary precondition in order for the EU to become a credible player in world politics
Courses That Matter: Material Embodiment and Meaning Making in Undergraduate Women?s Health Education in the United States, 1970-2024
No full textThis dissertation focuses on undergraduate women's health education in the U.S. over the past 50 years, with particular attention paid to ways in which undergraduate women's health education has discursively engaged with fat embodiment and various competing constructs of “health” itself. This dissertation argues that undergraduate women's health education has compromised its ability to live up to its founding raison d’être by allowing for an imperative of “health promotion” to take precedence—pedagogically and curricularly—over collective, embodied subjectivity and processes of anti-oppressive knowledge building. This project understands an imperative of health promotion as being necessarily shaped by ideologies of the “normal” that have been incubated in dominant cultures of white supremacy, ableism, imperialism, cis- and heteronormativity, compulsory thinness, and capitalist exploitation.
This dissertation is not a critique from outside of undergraduate women's health education, looking in to chastise, but rather strives to be a reflexive account from within, attending to ways in which we as undergraduate women's health education participants—which I’ve been as a student, a guest lecturer, a curriculum designer, an author, and an instructor—have perpetuated harms counterproductive to our stated pedagogical and political aims. This project explores how those of us engaged in feminist health knowledge cultures (including within undergraduate women's health education) might more effectively attend to those harms and we might work to create the conditions of possibility for repair.
Chapter 1 is an extended introduction contextualizing this interdisciplinary project in women’s and gender studies, fat studies, and disability studies scholarship. Chapter 2 describes the mixed-methods approach used in this project, which engages semi-structured autoethnographic interviews and textual analysis of undergraduate women's health syllabi from the last 50 years, along with an archive of published writing by past and current instructors of post-secondary women's health education. Chapter 3 offers a genealogy of the 20th century women’s health movement in the United States from an intersectional and disability studies perspective; this perspective emphasizes the effects of ideologies of “positive eugenics” in the U.S. on the “birth moment” of the women’s health movement in the late 1960s. Chapter 4 offers a genealogy of undergraduate women's health education in the U.S., surfacing and highlighting common practices and pedagogical protocols and their broader implications for feminist knowledge- and community-building. Chapter 5 gives an account of fat embodiment as a perennial and contested topic in undergraduate women's health education in the U.S. over the past 50 years. Finally, Chapter 6 explores how two competing ideological/pedagogical approaches to fat embodiment have manifested in texts used in undergraduate women's health education, illustrating and articulating the stakes and implications of each in terms of health promotion and anti-oppressive knowledge building.PhDEnglish & Women's & Gender PhDUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/197339/1/ecnagy_1.pd
Detection of mass, growth rate, and stiffness of single breast cancer cells using micromechanical sensors
No full textCancer is an intricate disease that stems from a number of different mutations in a cell. These mutations often control the cellular growth and proliferation, a hallmark of cancer, and give rise to many altered biophysical properties. There exists a complex relationship between the behavior of a cell, its physical properties, and its surrounding environment. Knowledge gleaned from cellular biomechanics can lead to an improved understanding of disease progression and provide methods to target it. There are many studies that look at biophysical changes on a large population level, though there is much information that is lost by treating populations as homogeneous in properties and cell cycle phase. Biophysical studies on individual cells can link mechanics with function through coordination with the cell cycle, which is a fundamental physiological process that is crucial for understanding cellular physiology and metabolism. Development of more precise, reliable, and versatile measurement techniques will provide a greater understanding the physical properties of a cell and how they affect its behavior. Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) technology can provide tools for manipulating, processing, and analyzing single cells, thus enabling detailed analyses of their biophysical properties.
Growth is a vital element of the cell cycle, and cell mass homeostasis ensures that the cell mass and cell cycle transitions are coordinately linked. An accurate measurement of growth throughout the cell cycle is fundamental to understanding mechanisms of cellular proliferation in cancer. Growth can be identified through many ways; however, cell mass has been unexplored until the recent development of cantilever-type MEMS devices for mass sensing through resonant frequency shift. Measuring the dependency of growth rate on cellular mass may help explain the coordination and regulation of the cell cycle. However, MEMS mass sensing devices still require further development and characterization in order to reliably investigate long-term cell growth over the duration of the cell cycle.
This dissertation focuses on the use of MEMS resonant pedestal sensors for measuring the mass and growth rate of single cancer cells. This work included characterization and improvement of the sensors to address current challenges in the measurement of long-term growth rate. The MEMS resonant pedestal sensors were first used to measure physical properties of biomaterials, including the micromechanical properties of hydrogels through verification of stiffness effect on mass measurements. Before studying live cells, modifications to the fabrication process were introduced to improve cell capture and retention. These include integration of an on-chip microfluidic system for delivery of fluids during mass measurements and the micro-patterning of sensor surfaces for select functionalization and passivation. These modifications enable long-term measurement of the changes in mass of normal and cancerous cells over time. This is the first investigation of the differences in growth rate between normal and cancer cells using MEMS resonant sensors.Item withdrawn by Mark Zulauf ([email protected]) on 2013-10-22T15:19:29Z
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Credited Information Literacy Training Sessions for Graduate Students - Still Relevant after 18 years: A Case Study
No full textFormation documentaire créditée et obligatoire aux cycles supérieurs : contexte et bénéfices pour la clientèle étudiante et le corps professoral
No full textRÉSUMÉ: Depuis 2002, la Bibliothèque de Polytechnique Montréal offre des formations documentaires obligatoires et créditées. Plus de 6 500 étudiantes et étudiants aux cycles supérieurs en génie y ont participé. Un sondage effectué au fil des ans révèle que plus de 90 % de la clientèle étudiante est satisfaite des apprentissages réalisés durant les cours. Les étudiantes et étudiants apprécient particulièrement apprendre à créer et exécuter une stratégie de recherche complexe dans une base de données bibliographiques, mais aussi découvrir de nouvelles ressources et en apprendre davantage sur le plagiat et le droit d’auteur. Les résultats d’un sondage auprès du corps professoral font ressortir que ses membres jugent ces formations utiles, une grande majorité d’entre eux indiquant que celles-ci ont permis à leurs étudiantes et étudiants de produire de meilleures revues de littérature. Les facteurs de succès de ces formations comprennent l’aspect crédité et obligatoire, les travaux portant sur le sujet de recherche et l’encadrement par les bibliothécaires. Outre les bénéfices pour la clientèle étudiante et le corps professoral, ces formations documentaires contribuent aussi au développement professionnel des bibliothécaires et amènent les bibliothèques universitaires à faire davantage partie de l’équation pour favoriser le succès des activités de recherche et d’enseignement de leur institution
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