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Jonathan Ned Katz Author Event: The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adam
No full text“The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams,” interview with author, Jonathan Ned Katz, moderated by Emily Weiner (WWU) and organized by Congregation Beth Israel
Threads, Buckets, and Impact: A Framework for Tool Accelerated Machine Learning Courses
No full textArtificial intelligence and machine learning (ML) have exploded in use, accessibility, and awareness in the past few years, particularly with the release of ChatGPT in late 2022. Advances in end-user ML tools are accelerating the development of ML applications, lowering the technical barrier of entry for users outside of the computer science (CS) community. Access to ML education within STEM is mostly limited to upper-level computer science courses that have deep pre-requisite requirements or to introductory workshops that yield limited ML skills. Despite the critical need for ML education, there is a lack of guidance in instructional design for applied ML courses and no framework for incorporating end-user ML hardware and software tools into courses. Six applied ML courses were designed and developed for engineering and engineering technology students at Louisiana Tech University. The courses utilized several ML hardware and software platforms for computer vision, predictive maintenance, and reinforcement learning applications. A set of five course threads were defined to group related topics within the courses to develop student knowledge, skills, and attitudes for applied ML. These threads were used to categorize and assess learning and self-efficacy of the students enrolled in the courses. This work culminated in the development of the Impact Framework. This educational framework gauges the time and effort spent within a course by assigning course threads to buckets - broader categories of knowledge, skills, and attitudes. Impact is measured as the product of time spent within an activity and the level of complexity of that activity according to the Structure of Learning Outcomes (SOLO) taxonomy. The Impact Framework was demonstrated by applying it to the six courses designed and delivered as part of this work. The measurement of impact was used to assess the ability of an end-user ML tool to expand the scope of ML course content while reducing the skills necessary to accomplish meaningful ML projects. The Impact Framework may also be applied to other subjects and disciplines to assist course designers in organizing and balancing course content and activities
Expressive Things in Adam Bede
No full textA drop of ink is the first thing in the first sentence of George Eliot\u27s first novel: \u27With a single drop of ink for a mirror, the Egyptian sorcerer undertakes to reveal to any chance corner farreaching visions of the past.\u27 Like many objects in Adam Bede, this one is more complicated than first appears. In its generalized imaging of magical creation, ritual and prophesy, it is an invocation, introducing and solemnizing the other object with which it is twinned and compared, the real drop of ink at the end of the author\u27s pen which has actually written this sorcerer\u27s ink-drop into existence: \u27This is what I undertake to do for you, reader. With this drop of ink at the end of my pen, I will show you the roomy workshop of Mr. Jonathan Burge. .\u27. Two ink-drops, one impersonal and \u27single\u27, the other particular and the first of many, compound an elaborate creative fiat, and the movement from the first drop to the second forms a suggestive and apt paradigm of the ordinary magic of fictional transformation, as it creates an imaginative expansion from the small convex drop of ink on the pen, the tool of this author\u27s trade, via the sorcerer\u27s apparatus of ink-drop-mirror, to the large interior space of Jonathan Burge\u27s workshop, which contains the carpenters and the unobtrusively introduced tools of their trade - plane, hammer, screwdriver, chisel- with the objects they are making. The first drop of ink starts a move from the brilliantly self-conscious introduction of the artist to the actual work of writing the first scene, set in a workroom. The whole exercise makes a quiet, cunning, democratic and wonderfully unsentimental link between three acts of making, the sorcerer\u27s, the novelist\u27s and the carpenter\u27s - apparently but not actually in that order, because in this narrative conjuring trick the writer\u27s ink-drop precedes but also succeeds the sorcerer\u27s. That significant \u27single\u27 shows the artist\u27s playful awareness of what she is doing, and \u27roomy\u27 describes the ink-drop on her pen as well as the workshop. George Eliot\u27s creativity is self-delighting, as it embodies knowledge and thought in dynamic, affective and sensuous forms.
The things in the narrative introduction and in the workshop, the tools (pen, plane, hammer, screw, and others unnamed) and the objects being made (novel, carved shield, door, and others undesignated), are part of a formal but discreet presentation of narrator and workmen. The fictional characters are variously and sufficiently introduced through their making: Adam\u27s skilled carving of a shield, Seth\u27s forgetfulness about door-panels, and the plane, screwdriver and hammer thrown down by the three other men on the first stroke of six. The writer\u27s inkdrop is a powerful nonce object (though with links beyond this novel to Marian Evans\u27s actual pens and several fictional ones),2 but the carpenter\u27s tools and work turn up in later scenes: Adam makes two coffins and a firescreen, and promises to mend a spinning-wheel; Arthur remembers making superfluous thread-reels and round boxes when he was a boy being taught carpentry by Adam; in a second moment of absent-mindedness, Seth forgets a basket of tools which is picked up by Adam and dropped before he attacks Arthur in the wood; Seth is making a workbox for Dinah, just before Lisbeth mentions her attachment to Adam, but we never see him finishing or giving it. The metaphor of carpentry flows into idiolect and sociolect: \u27You don\u27 see such women turned off the wheel every day\u27 (Ch. 14)
Theme‑Based Book Review: Shifting Views of Public Sector Corruption
No full textThis theme-based book review considers three recent titles related to public sector corruption: Populism and corruption: The other side of the coin, edited by Jonathan Mendilow and Eric Phelippeau; Critical perspectives on public systems management in India, by Amar KJR Nayak and Ram Kumar Kakani; and Handbook on corruption, ethics and integrity in public administration, edited by Adam Graycar.Journal ArticleFinal article publishe
Pronounced long-term trends in year-round diet composition of the European shag Phalacrocorax aristotelis (vol 165, 188, 2018)
No full textThe article Pronounced long-term trends in year-round diet composition of the European shag Phalacrocorax aristotelis, written by Richard J. Howells, Sarah J. Burthe, Jonathan A. Green, Michael P. Harris, Mark A. Newell, Adam Butler, Sarah Wanless and Francis Daunt, was originally published electronically on the publisher’s internet portal (currently SpringerLink) on 21 November 2018 without open access. With the author(s)’ decision to opt for Open Choice the copyright of the article changed on 20th February 2019 to © The Author(s) 2019 and the article is forthwith distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, duplication, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made. The original article has been corrected
Molecular organization of the actin cortex in apical constriction and epithelial folding
No full textThesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Biology, 2017.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (pages 120-139).Actin and myosin generate contractile forces to change tissue and cell shape. These shape changes are essential for many biological functions, ranging from muscle contraction to tissue morphogenesis in development. While the spatial organization and composition of the actin and myosin contractile force generating machine is well known in muscle, it is less understood in nonmuscle epithelia, which change shape during development and form functional barriers on an organism's inner surfaces. Prevailing models for nonmuscle contractility suggest that the intrinsic ability of mixed polarity actin networks and uniformly distributed myosin to contract into asters drives nonmuscle contractility. Here, I provide insight into the mechanism of nonmuscle contraction by demonstrating that the apical actin cortex and associated proteins are spatially organized in epithelia. In addition, I demonstrate that this spatial organization forms a sarcomere-like actomyosin apparatus, which is essential for epithelial contractility. This updated model is likely to inform our understanding of a wide range of contractile force-generating systems, and may lead to advances in understanding of pathologies that involve defects in contractility, like cardiovascular disease and pulmonary fibrosis.by Jonathan S. Coravos.Ph. D
Dataset of traffic dynamics during the 2019 Kincade Wildfire Evacuation
No full textThis dataset has been sourced from the Performance Measurement System of the California Department of Transportation. The data has been processed, analysed, presented and summarized in the paper: Rohaert et al., ‘Traffic dynamics during the 2019 Kincade wildfire evacuation’, [Submitted for peer-review to an international journal.], 2022.
CRediT author statement
Arthur Rohaert: Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing. Erica D. Kuligowski: Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing - review & editing. Adam Ardinge: Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing - review & editing. Jonathan Wahlqvist: Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing - review & editing. Steven M.V. Gwynne: Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing - review & editing. Amanda Kimball: Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project Administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing - review & editing. Noureddine Bénichou: Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing - review & editing. Enrico Ronchi: Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing
Acknowledgements
This work has been funded under award 60NANB20D191 from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), U.S. Department of Commerce. The authors would like to thank the WUI-NITY team (Guillermo Rein, Nikolaos Kalogeropoulos, Harry Mitchell, Max Kinateder, Maxime Berthiaume). The authors also acknowledge the technical panel of the project for their support and guidance: Carole Adam, Amy Christianson, Tom Cova, Lauren Folk, Abishek Gaur, Paolo Intini, Justice Jones, Bryan Klein, Chris Lautenberger, Ruggiero Lovreglio, Jerry McAdams, Ruddy Mell, Elise Miller-Hooks, Cathy Stephens, Steve Taylor, Sandra Vaiciulyte, Xilei Zhao, Rita Fahy, Lucian Deaton, and Michele Steinberg
Romans 6:6 - The "Old Man" of Romans 6
No full textIn Chapter Four of Dead Men Rising, author Jonathan Williams explores the meaning of "old man," in Romans 6. Countless expositors have identified him with something internal to the human make-up, something like an old sin nature that causes people to sin. But interpretive problems arise from this perspective. If the old man is something that is part of our sinful human nature, and if, as the passage says, the "old man" was crucified, why is there still sinful activity within us? Whatever it is inside us that is causing us to want to sin is very much alive! Ingenious ideas have been presented to explain this experience. Upon close examination, Jonathan Williams shows that the old man is not something within us. It is something about us, a status that we have as descendants of Adam and a status that is replaced by our union with Christ in his death and resurrection.
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Evaluation of native bee nesting rates and beetle community assemblages in the presence of clothianidin in the soil of natural areas
No full textThe neurotoxic insecticide class of neonicotinoids has become one of the most widely used groups of insecticides in recent years. They exhibit long half-lives and have the potential to linger in the environment and affect arthropod communities long after application. Many studies have looked at the effects neonicotinoids have on arthropod communities in a lab setting, however comparatively few studies have looked at arthropod communities and neonicotinoid contamination in restored prairie habitats. This study was aimed towards better understanding the impact of the common neonicotinoid clothianidin, on native bee and beetle communities in restored prairie settings. For native bees, we found that nesting probability and nesting abundance increased in sites contaminated with clothianidin. Conversely, we did not see differences in beetle family assemblages between clothianidin contaminated and control sites; however, beetle feeding guild abundances and trophic interactions between feeding guilds were influenced by clothianidin contamination.
These results suggest that neonicotinoid contamination of natural habitats can have a number of environmental consequences for arthropods and that these effects are not always consistent between taxa or feeding guild. Further trophic interactions between beetle feeding guilds in conjunction with clothianidin are discussed, as well as implications of clothianidin contamination on both bees and beetles in prairie restorations.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2022-12-01The student, Jonathan Tetlie, accepted the attached license on 2020-12-10 at 13:46.The student, Jonathan Tetlie, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2020-12-10 at 13:55.This Thesis was approved for publication on 2020-12-10 at 14:22.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #16116 on 2021-03-04 at 16:20:51Made available in DSpace on 2021-03-05T21:42:53Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Hacia la construcción semiótica del mundo. Las consideraciones de Adam Smith sobre el lenguaje
No full textThis article explores the aportation of Adam Smith’s Considerations Concerning the First Formation of Languages to the rest of his work. It starts analyzing its internal structure in the light of its documented sources, of which it follows a linguistic model that is more constructive than referential. From the initial approach that language, first of all, communicates needs, the author connects this germ of the process of socialization with Smith’s published works, explaining them as a semiotic development of the fundamental idea that the human being has not a definite Nature, but an open history in which he must make to himself.El presente artículo explora la aportación de Considerations Concerning the First Formation of Languages, de Adam Smith, al resto de su obra. Comienza analizando su estructura interna a la luz de sus fuentes documentadas, de la que se sigue un modelo lingüístico más constructivo que referencial. A partir del planteamiento inicial de que el lenguaje, ante todo, comunica necesidades, el autor conecta este germen del proceso de socialización con las obras publicadas de Smith, explicándolas como un desarrollo semiótico de la idea fundamental de que el ser humano no tiene una naturaleza definida, sino una historia abierta en la que tiene que hacerse a sí mismo
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