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A series of cores drilled to a depth of ~400 ft from lower Kope Fm. (mid Katian) downward to the High Bridge Group (Sandbian) in the Cincinnati, Ohio area are a link between the Lexington Limestone and the Utica Shale in the Sebree Trough. One 300 foot interval was studied petrographically with 200 thin sections. Preliminary analysis suggests five microfacies: 1) organic, laminated, brown shale with 0.5-1 cm depositional units separated by single layer dalmanellid pavements; 2) calcareous shale to micrite with fine silt and 2-20 cm units; 3) Stacked dalmanellid pavements with siliciclastic mud and calcisiltite matrix, horizontally oriented, unbroken shells with spar or matrix filled articulated valves, units 0.5 – 20 cm thick; 4) Packstones showing a diversity of partially fragmented, randomly oriented brachiopods, bryozoans, and trilobites, some nonskeletal phosphate particles, infiltration structures and erosive bases; and 5) Grainstones, consisting of comminuted shells of a variety of fossils, with high phosphate content, and erosive bases. The 30 foot Logana (~260 – 290 ft) consists mostly of facies 1 with facies 2 and 3. The packstones and grainstones are largely restricted to the Curdsville (u3e290 ft) and the Grier (u3c260 u3eft).There is no evidence of long distance transport of any clasts larger than silt sized, but packstones and grainstones appear to have been increasingly reworked in place with phosphate enrichment, reflecting longer exposure on the seafloor before burial. Hence, petrographic work permits distinguishing beds that record longer term reworking. Further work may permit delineation of small-scale cycles

My name is Brandon Perry, and I am a secondary education major with a focus in history. I aim to become a high school teacher who hopefully teaches a subject focusing on the 20th century. Whether the subject matter is strictly American history or extended to the world, the 20th century has always struck prominent to me. My interests expand to cross country running and cycling. I have participated in cross-country running since the 7th grade. Ever since my first competitive race, I developed the runneru27s high and fused that into my personality today. Since my days of high school, I had signed 4 death waivers, two for skydiving and two for an obstacle race known as Tough Mudder. History is tied with thrill and excitement, as it is never filled with a dull moment. Rash decisions and impulsive motives pollute every century. For the unknown never being predictable, history will always keep my attention

This special project is a handbook with strategies for beginning college students with disabilities for the successful college experience. These students with disabilities do not need to learn through trial and error. This handbook can help guide them as they go through the difficult change college brings. In order to create this handbook, an extensive literature review was conducted and research was done through a survey. The purpose of this survey was to determine what college students with disabilities know about strategies and information that will assist them as they strive to have a successful college experience. The survey covered the following: self-advocacy, self-determination, campus and community resources, and laws related to college students with disabilities. The results of the survey found that a majority of students with disabilities are unaware of their rights under the law and do not speak up when their rights are violated. They also are unaware of community resources and did not know how to advocate for themselves before beginning college. This information was then used to create a handbook titled: Survival Guide for College Students with Disabilities. This handbook gives an overview of the results of the survey. It covers self-advocacy, self-determination, laws related to college students with disabilities, and campus and community resources. The goal is to give them the information they need to assist them as they go through college

Reptile species and populations are declining globally (Gibbons et al., 2000). Some of the main factors leading to this decline are habitat destruction and degradation, so delineation of key habitat for reptiles for protection and restoration is particularly important for reptile conservation. Long-term efforts to monitor populations are also critical if declines are to be noticed and their causes determined. One such effort involves monitoring the Northern population segment (NPS) of Copper-bellied Watersnakes, Nerodia erythrogaster neglecta, which is geographically isolated from other populations and is listed as federally threatened by the US Fish and Wildlife Service. Copperbellies are also endangered in three states in which NPS occurs (MI, OH, and IN). The objective of the current study was to use occupancy modeling as part of ongoing monitoring efforts for the NPS and build upon previous studies of habitat preferences of copperbellies. I also estimated abundance and density of copperbellies at a portion of sites in the Northern population segment’s range, and compared population parameter estimates for copperbellies to those of its more common sympatric congener, the Northern Watersnake (Nerodia sipedon sipedon). There were very few detections of copperbellies over the course of this 2 year study, resulting in low sample sizes and difficulty in ascertaining habitat effects on occupancy of copperbellies. Abundance estimates, density estimates, and occupancy estimates for copperbellies were all low, especially compared to estimates for Northern Watersnakes. Furthermore, estimates of wetland colonization rates were very low for copperbellies, but extinction rates were high. These results are alarming, but consistent with findings of previous occupancy studies done in the area (Lee u26 Kingsbury, 2014). Model assumptions are discussed, and recommendations for future studies and management are given

The focus of this paper is on the use of the Manufacturing System Design Decomposition (MSDD) to make effective cost and production system design decisions. A comparative study is conducted to illustrate how and why the total cost is reduced when the functional requirements defined by the MSDD are achieved. The ultimate goal of this research was to advance manufacturing and productionsystem development to being guided by engineering science and design rather than the common practice of duplicating another person’s or entity’s notion of the best physical implementation

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We reviewed the current state of waste management practices in Nigeria using examples from different parts of the country. Commonly practiced waste disposal methods in Nigeria, such as burial, open-air burning, and open dumping, were found to be ineffective and detrimental to public health and the environment. It was also shown that waste management cannot be successfully operated as a social service. Rather, the generator of waste must be held responsible. Problems confronting efficient waste management in ..

Fyodor S. Wheeler is a junior history major and religious studies minor focusing on Western civilization and the history of the Christian Church. His first paper presented at the IPFW Undergraduate History Conference (2016) was “Empires of the Air: The Beginning of Radio,” at the 2016 conference. He currently serves as a tutor- not Tudor- for Western Civilization Part I

Most people have this stigma or preconceived notion that growing older is a bad thing. What I have found is that we can learn a lot from people who are more seasoned with age, and they are still living and experiencing new things each and every single day. I love hearing their stories, and I think they need to be shared. My project is a collection of these life experiences and reflections, titled “A Life Well Lived”. To create this project I did extensive research through surveys and personal one on one interviews with the elderly population. Many of the people I interviewed multiple times, collecting stories and images about them. I asked them research questions and personal questions regarding their thoughts on aging. I compiled these stories into a project highlighting their outlook on life and their experience. Through this process, I began to understand how people feel about aging and hope to open up a dialogue on the subject. In this way, I hope to reduce the stigma and fear associated with aging.http://opus.ipfw.edu/stu_symp2017/1022/thumbnail.jp

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Biological soil crusts (BSCs) are microbial assemblages that play important roles in the areas they inhabit, and can influence aspects such as local nitrogen flux, water infiltration, and plant seedling germination. In the dune environment, BSCs can form close connections with sand particles to stabilize dunes at their surface. Despite their potential critical role within Indiana Dunes State Park, little is known about their diversity, ecology, or interactions with plant communities there. The objective of this study, therefore, was to examine abiotic and biotic factors that influence dune BSCs, using Illumina high-throughput sequencing (HTS) to characterize these microbial communities. We hypothesized that specific environmental variables would influence BSC microbial diversity. In this study we sampled every 50m along a 550m transect, moving from the Lake Michigan shore inward to the hind-dune environment. At each sampling point soil pH, PAR, UV, and chlorophyll and scytonemin pigments were measured, and plant community cover, richness, and diversity were assessed. Moisture, conductivity, and nutrient content (total N and P) were also measured at every 100m. Overall, our HTS effort recovered 1,214,542 bacterial sequences across our 30 samples, and five major phyla were found to dominate our BSC samples, these being Proteobacteria (~20% of all sequences), Acidobacteria (~17%), Actinobacteria (~16%), Bacteriodetes (~17%), and Cyanobacteria (~10%). While there were no significant trends observed for BSC diversity moving along the transect, we did note a significant negative correlation for biological pigments and soil pH, suggesting a shift in the microbial community structure in response to these environmental parameters. The tendency for pH to structure terrestrial microbial communities has been noted in many studies; therefore, we are currently carrying out additional analyses to examine BSC community composition changes across our transect in relation to measured abiotic variables, with pH being of special interest.http://opus.ipfw.edu/stu_symp2017/1039/thumbnail.jp

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A number of studies have found that a variety of political phenomena, including democracy, can spread through a diffusion process. It is also possible that non-democratic phenomena can follow a similar pattern. The spread of authoritarian regimes in Europe between World I and World War II provided a classic case to determine whether there were such patterns. In fact, the creation of authoritarian political systems followed a diffusion pattern in some periods under some circumstances. There were also indications that those countries that were at lower levels of economic development were a factor that led to the establishment of authoritarian political systems

Education of a child is mostly understood as teaching practices in schools, but education is also the child’s complete development. The purpose of this case study was to examine the multiple factors that influence a developing child’s cognitive, social emotional, language and physical development. The study considered the ecological factors based on Bronfenbrenneru27s Ecological Theory (home, school and community) that contribute to the child’s learning and development (McDevitt u26 Ormrod, 2016). This case study uses Bronfenbrenner’s theory to examine the contextual influences on a developing child through analyzes of the child’s individual self within the microsystem of school, peers, family and community. This inquiry was a 15-week case study that was conducted at a local school in Fort Wayne Community Schools in which one child was observed in the school setting. During the fifteen weeks of the case study, I did six naturalistic observations of the child in the school setting, engaged in informal interviews with the child, teacher and other school staff and collected anecdotal field notes. As a student teacher intern and researcher, I also spent time working with the child one-on-one in the classroom and got to know him on a personal level. The observations were analyzed using concepts of child development research and theories of child development to learn about one child’s unique experience in the classroom. This case study demonstrated a real-life experience of a child and the influential factors of child development looking at cognitive, social emotional, language and physical development. Knowledge acquired during this study was understanding a child’s thought process of the world and learning, good relationships with peers, socialization, and the importance of active and competitive play in school for boys. This case study demonstrates the importance of not only to teaching and mentoring students in the classroom but accommodating content based on each students’ needs.http://opus.ipfw.edu/stu_symp2017/1009/thumbnail.jp

In this poster presentation, the author examines how core competencies of technical communication incorporate information systems and project management. The presentation explores particular data governance concepts that can be used to expand upon Hart-Davidson’s (2001) “core competencies of technical communicators” and Redish’s (2010) four elements of successful technical communication. Data governance defines roles and “assigns responsibilities for decision areas to these roles,” while establishing standards and ensuring compliance with strategies on an organization-wide basis (Weber, Otto, and Österle, 2009, p. 2). Technical communicators should be versatile and add value to their organizations and products (Dubinsky, 2015), as seen by the growing variety of competencies identified by Brumberger and Lauer (2015). These competencies connect technical communication to information systems and project management, as well as other fields. The presentation explores how this added value corresponds to Nardi and O’Day’s (1999) idea of the workplace “gardener,” an individual who grows productivity in his or her workplace. Specifically, this presentation demonstrates methods of bridging the fields of information systems and technical communication, elevating technical communication from its traditional support role by utilizing data governance concepts and versatile workplace “gardeners.”http://opus.ipfw.edu/stu_symp2017/1032/thumbnail.jp

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This short talk will discuss the experience of incorporating active learning to a one-shot information literacy session for engineering technology students. The librarian will cover her reflections from the session, compare that to the student feedback received, and offer suggestions for librarians seeking to incorporate active learning activities into their instruction