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Designing for TARA: The radar control unit
No full textThis thesis describes the work done on a control system for the Transportable Atmospheric RAdar (TARA), which is located at the Cabauw Experimental Site for Atmosperic Research (CESAR). It describes the way in which this radar control unit was implemented within the TARA, by making use of a high-level programming language. The control unit consists of a PXI-system of National Instruments, LabVIEW software, a DDS from Analog Devices and provided Matlab code. The project resulted in a working prototype. The TARA itself is a FM-CW radar with the possibility of sending and receiving in multiple polarizations and orientations for weather measurements. The system was tested and most functions worked properly. During the test, the measurements with the new system generated the same data as the current system. This proved that the system is working correctly, which is of great importance for the ATMOS group, because they are planning to transport the TARA to a measurement campaign in France in 2012 using the upgraded system.Remote Sensing of the EnvironmentElectrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Scienc
Engagement, Learning, Outreach, and Fun in 60 Seconds: Button Making at the Rutgers University Libraries
No full textButton making is a low-cost, high-impact, pop-up makerspace activity that libraries can use to facilitate outreach, connect patrons with collections, teach about copyright, and promote creativity and fun, all in just 60 seconds.
In the fall of 2016, the Rutgers University Libraries- New Brunswick Learning and Engagement team spent $518 to purchase a button maker and supplies to make 1,000 buttons. Since then, the libraries have collaborated on button projects with many departments on campus including the Rutgers Art History Student Association, the Zimmerli Art Museum, and the School of Arts & Sciences Honors program. These partnerships have helped the libraries build strong ties with the Rutgers New Brunswick communities and attracted a devoted group of button makers who regularly come to library events.
Making a button provides quick moment of engagement between a patron and a library staff member, but it is from these kinds of meaningful brief encounters that libraries can learn about their patrons’ lives and needs. These encounters can also be a source for the powerful stories, images, and statistics that help libraries demonstrate their impact and value to their communities.thanks for your help, please let me know any questions. I think we can put this version in SOAR? Best, MC
The new real-time measurement capabilities of the profiling TARA radar
No full textIn the past 10 years, the S-band FM-CW TARA (Transportable Atmospheric RAdar), placed at the Cabauw Experimental Site for Atmospheric Research (CESAR), provided in real-time vertical profiles of the Doppler moments. Classical spectral processing was carried out. The polarimetric and multi-beam measurement capabilities of the radar were not exploited in real-time. It was only possible to acquire raw data for case studies. Based on them, new algorithms were developed using spectral polarimetry and the multi-beam capability of TARA. They have been tested during the COPS (2007) and EUCAARI-IMPACT campaigns (2008). To measure in real-time the Doppler moments of three beams, the differential reflectivity, the linear depolarization ratio, the horizontal wind and the vertical mean Doppler velocity, it became necessary to upgrade TARA. This resulted in a new design of the radar control unit and a new processing based on spectral polarimetry. This major upgrade took place in 2011. TARA can now deliver multi-parameters profiles with high spatial and time resolution and raw data in real-time. They are stored with the NetCDF format. Furthermore, detailed quick-looks of all the observables are available in real-time at http://ftp.tudelft.nl/TUDelft/irctr-rse/tara/index.html. For the design of the radar control unit and processing, a flexible solution that can process the data in a high level programming language, was chosen. This was done to be able to easily implement future developments in radar signal processing and algorithms.Geoscience & Remote SensingCivil Engineering and Geoscience
College Students Discuss an Important Location to Them During the Pandemic Through Building Websites
No full textDuring the COVID-19 pandemic, many college students, including low-income and racial minorities, experienced stressors related to their physical and psychological health, relationships, finances, and academic status. Moreover, most students had possessed difficulty previously in writing about their personal and communal identities and needs; exploring place-related rhetorics; and engaging in digital composition practices, including creating a website. This article presents an exploratory case study, which applies a mixed-methods approach employing a convergent-parallel strategy, involving an assignment where students used digital composition practices to build a website about a place, such as their hometown or a local park, that was important to them during the pandemic. The study involved 65 low socioeconomic status (SES) students from a rural university with a Native American subpopulation. For the assignment, students explored their identity and background, as well as how they and their location of choice were impacted by the pandemic. As outcomes of formulating a website about two difficult topics for the students to raise, their identity and the pandemic’s impact upon themselves as part of the greater, epic crisis, students learned to think critically; examine their personal and cultural pandemic-related concerns; research information about their place of choice; make creative decisions about their website; draft, compose, and revise digital work; and reflect upon their project. In completing a website about an important location as the study’s aim, students became more willing to consider their background and the pandemic’s impact on them and to gauge the 24 potentially related stressors they experienced tied to their physical and mental health, familial and social relationships, financial outlook, and academic goals. The author delineates the website assignment’s objectives, and both students and faculty raters measured students’ writing outcomes upon completing their site
Novel Dialogue 2.3: Because I Couldn't Be a Dancer: Sigrid Nunez and Tara Menon (JP)
No full textThe brilliant New York writer Sigrid Nunez's most recent novel is What Are You Going Through; her previous one, The Friend, (2018) won the National Book Award. She speaks with Tara Menon, of the Harvard English department, and author of a terrific article about Sigrid Nunez in the Sewanee Review. The conversation ranges widely and then plunges into depths. Because life is defined by grief and mourning, so too are my novels, says Nunez. She thinks her upbringing with immigrant parents who felt adrift from their homeland and her own "failure" as a dancer (recounted in her 1995 debut novel, A Feather on the Breath of God ) are the ferment from which her vocation as a writer arose. The question of genre is tossed around: "fictional memoir" perhaps, which gets confused (insultingly, Tara thinks!) with auto-fiction. But Sigrid is fascinated by establishing a reality that is entirely made-up ("not a single friend angry!"), yet also documentary in nature. Perhaps the best tag for her work is "essay novel": that allows one to do what Javier Marias calls "literary thinking." And there's a wonderfully non-Pavlovian answer to the treat question: sometimes you can just have the whiskey
Stories
No full textAuthor Note:
(Tara) Setareh Farahani is a graduate of the Bachelor of Social Work program at Ryerson University. The author is thankful for the support of the Ryerson Faculty of Community Services, including the Ryerson School of Social Work, and the CAOS reviewers in the publication of her multiple artistic works. Correspondence concerning these artistic works should be addressed to Tara Farahani at [email protected]. 
Why I Eat
No full textAuthor Note:
(Tara) Setareh Farahani is a graduate of the Bachelor of Social Work program at Ryerson University. The author is thankful for the support of the Ryerson Faculty of Community Services, including the Ryerson School of Social Work, and the CAOS reviewers in the publication of her multiple artistic works. Correspondence concerning these artistic works should be addressed to Tara Farahani at [email protected].
 
Faro: Never Again: TARA spots turbulence quicker to make airports safer
No full textTARA, a unique radar system recently developed at the International Research Centre for Telecommunications Transmission and Radar (irctr) of tu delft, can be used to observe the formation of precipitation and various other physical processes that occur in clouds. This provides important information that is used to map the effects of global warming on the worlds climate.As it turned out, the Delft radar system is sensitive enough to detect turbulent airflows. If the researchers get their way, TARA may soon be deployed to improve safety near airports, preventing accidents like the Martinair crash at Faro Airport (in the south of Portugal) in December 1992 which killed 56 people,and the Transavia runway mishap at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport on Christmas Eve 1997. Abderrahim Moumen has been working on the heart of TARA, the antenna system for his doctorate. He has developed a miniature antenna that can be used in combination with a precision reflector to obtain highresolution, three-dimensional, dynamic measurements of wind and rain without the need forany mechanical guidance. Even though his invention has yielded a high resolution, the cost has turned out to be very low
Rural College Students’ Eco-anxiety and Attitude toward Discussing Environmental Sustainability Topics Post-pandemic
No full textThis mixed-methods study examines Southwestern U.S. college students’ potential experiencing of eco-anxiety, application of green practices, and attitude toward discussing environmental sustainability issues in the classroom post-pandemic, examining the population by sex, race, age, and income. The study offers faculty recommendations for implementing a sustainability curriculum. Conducted in a rural, marginalized area, it used survey and short-answer questions, an exploratory case-study design, and a convergent parallel strategy, assessing 376 participants (188 women, 188 men), including racial minority and low SES students. The survey adapted questions from four scales: Hogg Eco-Anxiety Scale, Pandemic-related Political Identities Scale, Sustainability Consciousness Questionnaire, and Sustainable University Scale. Data was analyzed using independent samples t-tests and a grounded theory approach for short-answer comments. Women reported statistically significantly higher eco-anxiety levels than men. Native Americans also reported statistically significantly higher eco-anxiety levels than Caucasians, with other minority groups also showing greater rates
Isolation and Inclusion: The Modulation of Limited and Plural Points of View in Jamaica Kincaid’s <i>The Autobiography of My Mother</i>
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