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Fiona Sackett is a sophomore History major with a minor in Theatre who is also part of the Honors Program at IPFW. She is interested in American cultural history from the Civil War era until post-World War II, with a specific interest in popular fashion of the different eras. She is from Huntington, Indiana and the oldest of four siblings

How can a regional campus use an open access platform to accentuate that which makes it unique? The Helmke Library at Indiana University – Purdue University Fort Wayne has recently created a new area within Opus, our institutional repository, called the Student Research and Creative Endeavor Commons, designed to promote and showcase undergraduate research and student/faculty collaborations. Regional campuses provide many valuable opportunities for undergraduates to collaborate with faculty members in research, publications, presentations, and creative works to a degree they may not have at larger institutions. The Student Research and Creative Endeavor Commons will showcase such collaborations, as well as providing undergraduates the satisfaction of seeing their works published in an institutional repository and providing them with permanent URLs to share with potential employers and graduate schools. In addition to hosting student works in specifically undergraduate focused conferences and journals hosted by IPFW, the Student Research and Creative Endeavor Commons also includes sections called Student/Faculty Collaborative Presentations and Student/Faculty Collaborative Publications, which will serve to highlight the many opportunities IPFW undergraduates have to gain valuable real world experience working hand-in-hand with faculty scholars. We have sought to streamline the process of promoting such collaborations for our professors by adding a button to the submission fields for publications and presentations in the various departmental areas of our repository which simply says, “Does this work include student research?” If “Yes” is selected, a copy of the work will automatically flow into the Student/Faculty Collaborative Presentations or Student/Faculty Collaborative Publications areas. Beyond publishing student works, the Student Research and Creative Endeavor Commons will also seek to be a driving force in the future of undergraduate research by hosting an open access scholarly journal relating to the pedagogical underpinnings of student research and publishing. In addition outlining present accomplishments and future goals, I will also discuss some of the practical challenges we have faced in creating a space within the repository designed to meet the unique needs undergraduate research in its myriad varieties and navigating the treacherous waters of wildly varying faculty paradigms of student/faculty collaboration from discipline to discipline, as well as how we, along with our faithful bepress consultants, have met and will continue to meet these challenges. In summary, the Student Research and Creative Endeavor Commons will showcase undergraduate research and publishing, along with student/faculty collaborations, and will, in turn, promote the unique opportunities students at IPFW have to work alongside faculty in scholarship and creative endeavors. We also hope that the presence of a uniquely undergraduate focused area within our repository will serve to further drive rigorous undergraduate scholarship, creative endeavor, and student/faculty collaborations at IPFW

This study aimed to assess the impact of an entire academic teacher development programme at a Midwestern masters comprehensive university in the United States over a period of five years by examining changes in teaching and student outcomes of nine randomly selected programme participants. Researchers analysed syllabi, course evaluations, grade distributions, programme activity reports, interviews and vita, and concluded that the centre’s impact was greatest on tenure-track faculty who struggled with their teaching. Far more useful to future improvement, however, were the insights gained from reflection on study methods, the researchers’ emotional responses to their findings, their struggle to make sense of the data and grappling with the definition of ‘impact’. In this paper, the researchers share useful lessons learned and illustrate the difficulties inherent in evaluating academic development programmes, with a view to qualifying recommendations currently prevailing in the literature

This study aims to understand Secondary General Education teachers’, 9th through 12th grade teachers of subjects such as math, English science, etc., perceptions and approaches to students with ED. A mixed methods approach was used to survey General Education teachers in a Midwestern high school. General education teachers did not feel adequately prepared to meet the needs of students with an Emotional Disability. Teachers identified many challenges in working with students with ED. Teachers identified how to keep these students engaged in the classroom and interested in learning as a struggle. They also acknowledged the managing the classroom after an outburst from the student as a struggle

The common school philosophy of the nineteenth century in the United States is revisited from a contemporary perspective. Is the basic ethos of the philosophy of Horace Mann and others still relevant today? This question is examined and applied to the conservative advocacy of free markets, individual freedom, and school choice in order to assess the extent to which the delivery of government-supported education is done in a way that upholds the values of the past while simultaneously addressing paramount issues related to social equity, diversity, and social cohesion today

Nowcasting is defined as the prediction of the present, the very near future, and the very recent past using real-time data. Nowcasting with social media creates challenges because of the HACE characteristics of big data (i.e., heterogeneous, autonomous, complex, and evolving associations). Thus, this thesis proposes a feature extraction method to improve nowcasting with social media. The proposed social media event detection algorithm utilizes K-SPRE methodology and the results are processed with sentiment analysis. In addition, we develop a parallel algorithm of the methodology on a cloud environment, and we adapt an artificial neural network to build a predictive model for nowcasting. Furthermore, we complete a case study with real data: Twitter and the Center for Disease Control (CDC) influenza like illness (ILI) reports. Experiments with predicting the CDC’s ILI report shows nowcasting with social media outperforms the traditional time series AR(1) model by as much as 16% to 20%, in terms of statistical error. In addition, implementation of the social media event detection algorithm with cloud computing improved the algorithm’s running time by 65%

In the Phi29 bacteriophage, the DNA packaging nanomotor packs its double-stranded DNA genome into the virus capsid. At the late stage of DNA packaging, the negatively charged genome is increasingly compacted at a higher density in the capsid with a higher internal pressure. During the process, two Donnan effects, osmotic pressure and Donnan equilibrium potentials, are significantly amplified, which, in turn, affect the channel activity of the portal protein, GP10, embedded in the semipermeable capsid shell. In the research, planar lipid bilayer experiments were used to study the channel activities of the viral protein. The Donnan effect on the conformational changes of the viral protein was discovered, indicating GP10 may not be a static channel at the late stage of DNA packaging. Due to the conformational changes, GP10 may generate electrostatic forces that govern the DNA transport. For the section of the genome DNA that remains outside of the connector channel, a strong repulsive force from the viral protein would be generated against the DNA entry; however, for the section of the genome DNA within the channel, the portal protein would become a Brownian motor, which adopts the flash Brownian ratchet mechanism to pump the DNA against the increasingly built-up internal pressure (up to 20 atm) in the capsid. Therefore, the DNA transport in the nanoscale viral channel at the late stage of DNA packaging could be a consequence of Brownian movement of the genomic DNA, which would be rectified and harnessed by the forces from the interior wall of the viral channel under the influence of the Donnan effect

Limestone is a rock that is relatively soft and susceptible to acidic solutions. For thousands of years people around the world have used this rock to build structures, monuments, and statues. In recent years there has seen an interest in how these rocks tend to weather based on human and environmental factors around them that can cause a change. This study focuses on how different pH levels in water can affect limestone that is found in Indiana. Samples were taken from a limestone road cut that is 0.7 miles away from downtown Wabash. These samples were then saturated in three different pH levels 3, 5, and 7 over a month long period. Thin sections are made from the samples and examined under the microscope to see the effect of the different levels of acidic water. The results show the pH levels have great effect on the limestone with time. Also, the lower the pH, the greater the impact on the limestone. Images of the weathering of the limestone with time over the study time indicate that the weathering effects of the acidic water is gradual and unlikely to happen right away as also observed in limestone monuments rock that is used to build limestone monumentshttp://opus.ipfw.edu/stu_symp2016/1022/thumbnail.jp

Fascinated with building “living” digital representations of past cultures, Bachelor of Arts senior Daniel Johnson has developed a study combining digital visualization techniques with historical, archaeological, and literary records. Seeking to highlight an emerging form of engagement for educational content, Daniel is exploring the application of computer animation and simulation technology in an effort to bridge the gap between creative disciplines and historic archival. His research thus far has focused on current digital technology and media used in museum exhibits, including life-size physical panoramas and interactive working models, to assemble strategies for their transformation into interactive digital worlds. Daniel hopes to team with the research communities of educational institutions, museums, government organizations, and talented artists in order to gain access to related projects or resources aimed at archiving ancient cultures. By combining reconstructed artifacts with archaeological research and historic records, artists and programmers may someday work together to create digital models of civilizations that explore the prominent physical, social, and economic status of a people. Daniel hopes to see the development of large-scale interactive exhibits in the near future that make use of virtual/augmented reality to take users back in time with a fully-immersive experience.http://opus.ipfw.edu/stu_symp2016/1015/thumbnail.jp

Until very recently, the world of robotics has been an exclusive and imposing field due, in part, to both the high cost of purchasing specialized robots and the steep learning curve, thus excluding the field from the immense pool of resources and ingenuity that exists in the open source and DIY communities. In this poster we present a way to overcome these obstacles and make the world of robotics research and development more of an inclusive environment for non-academic individuals using the ArPi Method for Robotic Construction. This method aims to utilize inexpensive microcontrollers and processors, wired together to mimic the neuroanatomy of a human, to construct highly skilled, artificially intelligent robots capable of performing tasks with the same degree of ability as more costly commercial products. This focus on easily accessible components, already well-used in the open-source community, creates a gentle transition for those already in the community to become acquainted with the method, and the focus on ease of use creates a gentler learning curve for non-academics to begin creating quickly. We demonstrate the abilities of this method by creating a simple wall-following agent capable of maneuvering through a maze using two components already common in the open-source community: the Arduino Microcontroller and Raspberry Pi Microcomputer. We wired these together in such a manner that information streaming from an iCreate 2 robot base about relative wall distance from the agent is piped through one Arduino and aggregated, processed and reasoned over by a series of two interconnected Raspberry Pi’s, the second of which sends information about the decided action sequence to a second Arduino, who creates and sends instructions about movement to the iCreate 2 robotic platform to carry out.http://opus.ipfw.edu/stu_symp2016/1060/thumbnail.jp

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The experiential workshop is for experienced clinicians who want to advance their clinical skills and deepen their therapeutic practice. The presenters will engage in a variety of music experiences, including improvisational, compositional, re-creative, and receptive methods in both large and small groups. Experiential learning exercises will focus on how to leverage and maximize the power of music and all of its elements to best meet the needs of the clients. Presenters will demonstrate and assist participants in developing skills to effectively process the music therapy experiences through verbal and non-verbal methods. Methods and strategies that can be tailored and applied to various clinical and client population settings will be explored

One critical measure of success in primarily undergraduate institutions is to achieve high retention rate. Retention rate is the number of students who continue as students at the same institution in the next year compared to the number of students in the current year. Teaching-focused institutions are generally regional, and students are highly diversified in terms of their academic backgrounds and interests. It tends to be a great challenge to retain a high percentage of engineering students at regional campuses. The purpose of the presented work is to integrate everyday examples in mechanical engineering courses to motivate students in completing their studies. This approach has proven very beneficial to both students and instructors. Students are highly motivated and inspired to apply their engineering knowledge directly to everyday, real-world applications; this results in a higher level of student engagement, which in turn, leads to opportunities to improve teaching performance for instructors

A collection of surveys taken over the past several decades indicates that trust in government has been declining. One of the surveys is the General Social Survey (GSS). The GSS collects information from the general public on a wide variety of subjects, including attitudes toward government, politics, and policy issues. The 2014 GSS finds that only 11 percent of Americans have a great deal of confidence in the executive branch. Political trust is a crucial element of representative governance. With the upcoming Presidential election, it is critical to understand what explains public confidence in the executive branch of the federal government. To see government succeed, there needs to be a foundation of trust among all citizens. To address this research question, data from the 2014 General Social Survey are analyzed using ordered logistic regression. The main findings of this study include the following: Government employees are more likely to express confidence in executive branch leaders. In other words, government employees support the very institutions they work for. Also, Democrats are more likely to express confidence in executive branch leaders given that the White House was controlled by the Democratic Party in 2014. This study shows that executive leaders are seen as partisan leaders who have strong influence on forming attitudes toward government. Keywords: confidence in government, public/private differences, and political ideology

The ethical code of the National Organization for Human Services (NOHS), Ethical Standards for Human Services Professionals, was first drafted and approved in the 1990u27s. More recently, a substantial five-year effort was given to preparing for and developing its first revision. The revision process and changes to the ethical code, approved early in 2015, are highlighted in this article. The revised Ethical Standards for Human Services Professionals was compared with the ethical code for the HS-BCP, and differences and similarities are described. Suggestions for future revisions processes are offered

Some cyanobacteria can protect themselves from ultraviolet radiation by producing sunscreen pigments. In particular, the sheath pigment scytonemin protects cells against long-wavelength UVA radiation and is only found in cyanobacteria which are capable of extracellular polysaccharide (EPS) production. The presence of a putative glycosyltransferase encoded within the scytonemin gene cluster, along with the localization of scytonemin and EPS to the extracellular sheath, prompted us to investigate the relationship between scytonemin and EPS production under UVA stress. In this study, it was hypothesized that there would be a relationship between the biosynthesis of scytonemin and EPS under both UVA and oxidative stress, since the latter is a by-product of UVA radiation. EPS production was measured following exposure of wild-type Nostoc punctiforme and the non-scytonemin-producing strain SCY59 to UVA and oxidative stress. Under UVA, SCY59 produced significantly more EPS than the unstressed controls and the wild type, while both strains produced more EPS under oxidative stress compared to the controls. The results suggest that EPS secretion occurs in response to the oxidative stress by-product of UVA rather than as a direct response to UVA radiation