Ключевые показатели

As water moves downstream, it carries sediments that become sorted and rounded. The purpose of this research project, a requirement for an upper level geology course, is to determine the water content of soil, overall composition of sediments (gravel, sand, etc.), and grain size changes (if it does change) along a river profile, using a creek that runs through the Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW) campus. In the 2014 Fall semester, grain size distribution analysis was performed on 14 soil samples collected along the length of the creek. Fourteen soil samples were also collected from same sites in the 2015 Spring and Fall semesters resulting in three sets of data. Collected data indicates water content and grain size distribution vary along the creek profile. Water content for the Fall 2014 samples has a range of ~20 -28%. This is closely mimicked with the Fall 2015 samples with a range 20-25%. However the Spring 2015 data begins ~28% and falls to ~24% over the course of the creek profile. This could be due to a higher influx of water during the spring season keeping the sediments waterlogged. Certain soil samples contained significantly lower water content than others, that, when examined more closely, revealed different soil profiles containing less silt-clays and higher sand-gravel. The soil composition data ranges from coarse to fine grained sands, silts, and clays with less gravel present in the recent samples. This could be due to heavy flooding experienced in this area as well as recent construction on campus. Knowing the cause(s) of finning sediments downstream in the creek may help in managing the stream and probably other rivers in northern Indiana. This is an ongoing research and new data will be presented

Heather Dewey is a senior with a History major and three minors: Spanish, International Studies, and Creative Writing. This presentation was the first research assignment she completed that made use of historic foreign language journals. She plans on attending graduate school in 2017, but hasn’t decided whether she wishes to focus on American History or Latin American Studies. She also submits work to fiction writing magazines, and is always eager to see their criticisms because it gives her a way to improve her skills

Recent efforts to engage more explicitly with the interpretation of emotions in archaeology have sought new approaches and terminology to encourage archaeologists to take emotions seriously. This is part of a growing awareness of the importance of senses—what we see, smell, hear, and feel—in the constitution and reconstitution of past social and cultural lives. Yet research on emotion in archaeology remains limited, despite the fact that such states underpin many studies of socio-cultural transformation. The Archaeology of Anxiety draws together papers that examine the local complexities of anxiety as well as the variable stimuli—class or factional struggle, warfare, community construction and maintenance, personal turmoil, and responsibilities to (and relationships with) the dead—that may generate emotional responses of fear, anxiousness, worry, and concern. The goal of this timely volume is to present fresh research that addresses the material dimension of rites and performances related to the mitigation and negotiation of anxiety as well as the role of material culture and landscapes in constituting and even creating periods or episodes of anxiety

Property management is an important aspect in sustaining the Earth’s ecosystems. Anthropogenic changes to the planet have made conservation important in maintaining species abundance and diversity as well as limit damages to sensitive ecosystems. Invasive species have become a standard, consistent problem in managed ecosystems. Such species often invade into disturbed areas, which commonly are a result of restoration or other management activities. In dredging open water bodies at Eagle Marsh Nature Preserve (Allen County, IN), artificial mounds were constructed with the soil removed. This movement of soil created a disturbance which facilitated for the recruitment and colonization of invasive species. The purpose of this study was to quantify the effectiveness of transferring a native seed bank in a mesic prairie to the artificial mounds as a method of controlling invasive species. The native seed bank in the mesic prairie would be lost due to additional management. This study was conducted with greenhouse and field experimentation. Soil samples containing the seed bank were moved to a greenhouse to quantify plant emergence following different intact and mixed soil treatments. All emerging plant species were identified and counted. All treatment methods contained a high diversity of native species and a low diversity of invasive species with the exception of the seed bank soil mixed with soil from the mounds. The mound mixed soil contained a higher diversity of invasive species than other treatments. A plant survey of the mounds was conducted in July 2014. In October 2014, 960 m2 of soil was transferred from the donor site to the mounds. A post-move survey conducted in July 2015 indicated the native species diversity increased while the diversity of invasive species decreased. Soil transfer as a management strategy was appropriate in this situation where a large native seed bank in a donor region existed. By moving soil from one location to another, we were able to promote native plant establishment and reduce invasive species emergence. While soil transfer is effective, other management strategies may not have the same results. Callery pear (Pyrus calleryana) is an invasive tree introduced to North America as an ornamental from southwest Asia. It easily invades disturbed areas, causing a disruption to mid- to late-successional species establishment. The purpose of this study was to assess Callery pear demographics in a managed prairie and quantify the effects of a prescribed fire management strategy on Callery pear density and recruitment. This study was conducted at Arrowhead Prairie (Allen County, IN), managed by Little River Wetlands Project (LRWP). Before 2009, Arrowhead Prairie was primarily used for agriculture. Following LRWP acquisition, the property has undergone active management including native plant seeding and prescribed fire. The prairie was divided into a north and south section using a historic ditch, with the south section burned in April 2014 and the north section burned in May 2015. Bare seeds, fruit, first-year seedlings, and second-year seedlings were also burned in a separate controlled experiment. Fire in both years top killed Callery pear individuals, with 100% of surveyed trees producing epicormic shoots and 83% producing more than one epicormic sprout. First-year seedlings exposed to the fire had a 3% resprout rate while all seconds-year seedlings resprouted. In contrast, 13% of individuals at Arrowhead Prairie had epicormic shoots without fire. Trees were significantly shorter post-burn than prior to the burn; however, root collar diameter was not different, suggesting that resources were used in primary growth. While fire did reduce stem height, it did increase the number of stems occurring within the burned section due to epicormic sprouting. Root stored reserves provided necessary energy to produce numerous sprouts by the majority of pear trees, although no trees produced flowers during the duration of the study. Plant age likely plays an important role in response to fire, with seeds and fruits succumbing. However, older seedlings may survive with increased epicormic shoot production. Multiple techniques combined with relevant studies allows for land managers to make appropriate decisions in terms of management. Although many of these techniques are not universal, a wide range of researched techniques provides multiple avenues of approach when managing a parcel of land

Mobile processors continue to increase in performance while becoming more power efficient, providing consumers with improved gaming, multi-media, and browsing, along with longer lasting device usage. To keep up with consumer multimedia demand, mobile processor manufacturers have begun to integrate Graphical Processing Units (GPU) on mobile processors, providing users with the high performance graphics required for mobile gaming applications. The addition of integrated GPUs to the mobile processors also offers new opportunities for introducing to the mobile platform computationally intensive algorithms that were formerly impractical when running on the mobile CPU processor alone. GPU manufacturers such as NVIDIA are scaling down their GPU architecture from desktop systems to those developed for use on mobile processors, such as the Tegra K1, featuring a single GPU processing core. This research effort investigates the performance of the computationally intensive Continuous Space Language Model (CSLM) algorithm on the NVIDIA Tegra K1 mobile processor and compares its performance on this platform to that of the desktop GPU platform reported by Thompson et al. [1]. The performance on the embedded GPU platform will also be compared to that of a conventional embedded CPU. However, first, the execution time of the algorithm will be observed while executing on a laptop CPU platform to provide a reference point for the performance of the Tegra K1 CPU processor(s). Next, the algorithm will be configured to execute solely on the Tegra K1 CPU processor(s), and the execution time will be observed. Finally, the execution time of the algorithm will be observed after porting only the computationally intensive portions of the algorithm to the Tegra K1 GPU while other portions remain on the embedded CPU

The Panel, Building on Foundations: Creating Multiple Methodological Spaces in Media Studies won the Top Panel Award. Panelists will discuss how to build on foundations of traditional media research and use multiple methodological approaches in conjunction with one another. By engaging with multiple methods together—including rhetorical criticism with ethnographic field methods, critical rhetoric and performance with documentary, qualitative and quantitative methods of analysis, and critical/cultural analysis with autoethnography—panelists offer ways to take media studies into the future and offer insights that could not be accessed without using multiple methods together. In addition to Dr. Herbig, the panel included: Potentials of Rhetorical and Ethnographic Methods for Examining Production, Representation, and AudienceJennifer C. Dunn, Dominican University Deprogramming Health Programing: Mixed Method Evaluations of Mediated Health NarrativesMalynnda Johnson, University of Mount Union Breaking Boundaries: A New Look at the Cultural Work of Popular MediaTasha Rennels, Augustana Universit

Previous studies have shown that the worldu27s largest reptile - the leatherback turtle Dermochelys coriacea - conducts flexible foraging migrations that can cover thousands of kilometres between nesting sites and distant foraging areas. The vast distances that may be travelled by migrating leatherback turtles have greatly complicated conservation efforts for this species worldwide. However, we demonstrate, using a combination of satellite telemetry and stable isotope analysis, that approximately half of the nesting leatherbacks from an important rookery in South Africa do not migrate to distant foraging areas, but rather, forage in the coastal waters of the nearby Mozambique Channel. Moreover, this coastal cohort appears to remain resident year-round in shallow waters (u3c50 m depth) in a relatively fixed area. Stable isotope analyses further indicate that the Mozambique Channel also hosts large numbers of loggerhead turtles Caretta caretta. The rare presence of a resident coastal aggregation of leatherback turtles not only presents a unique opportunity for conservation, but alongside the presence of loggerhead turtles and other endangered marine megafauna in the Mozambique Channel, highlights the importance of this area as a marine biodiversity hotspot

We examined the role of sexting coercion as a component of the intimate partner abuse (IPA) construct among young adults to determine whether sexting coercion would emerge alongside other forms of partner aggression as a cumulative risk factor for psychological, sexual, and attachment problems. In a sample of 885 undergraduates (301 men and 584 women), 40% had experienced some type of coercion. Although there was some overlap between sexual coercion and sexting coercion (21% of participants had experienced both), some individuals had experienced only sexting coercion (8%) and some only sexual coercion (11%). Women were more likely than men to be coerced into sexting. Both sexting coercion and sexual coercion were significantly and independently related to negative mental health symptoms, sexual problems, and attachment dysfunction, and, notably, sexting coercion was found to be a cumulative risk factor for nearly all of these negative effects. These data support the idea that digital sexual victimization is a new component of IPA polyvictimization, potentially increasing the negative effects experienced by victims of multiple forms of partner aggression

Attitudes and behaviors regarding five types of public posts were examined among 361 undergraduates. Men rated four types of posts (Gross, Sexual, Crude/Crass, Personal/Political Rants) as more appropriate and enjoyable than did women. Oversharing (or u22TMIu22) on social media may be relevant for emerging adultsu27 social and identity development

Many of the agricultural drainage ditches that border farm fields of the Midwestern United States are channelized headwater streams. Despite their degraded state, these ditches support a surprising variety of fish and macroinvertebrate species including crayfish. Crayfish have long been used as model organisms for laboratory studies of aggression, but little is known about their aggressive interactions in the wild. Even less is known about their behavior in channelized headwater streams. Crayfish need different substrates and habitat types at different life stages, and they can be sensitive to the presence of toxic chemicals in the water. In this study eight sites on channelized headwater streams feeding Cedar Creek in Northeastern Indiana, nine sites feeding Upper Big Walnut Creek in Central Ohio, and one site on the East Branch of the Saint Joseph River in Southeastern Michigan were monitored over two years for evidence of crayfish aggression. Crayfish were collected by a combination of electrofishing and seine netting techniques. Individuals were identified to species, sexed, measured, and any damaged appendages were noted as injuries. Data on instream habitat quality were also collected. Concentrations of nutrients and pesticides at all study sites were provided by scientists at the National Soil Erosion Research Laboratory. The mean count of injuries per individual, proportion of injured individuals, mean number of claw injuries per individual, proportion of individuals with multiple injuries, and crayfish density within the sites were calculated. A habitat diversity index and a water toxicity index were developed to assess site quality. A mixed model multiple regression analysis was used to correlate site quality index values with crayfish injury response variables. We found crayfish density to be the major predictor of all the injury response variables, and that habitat and water quality had no significant correlation with crayfish injury or density. Crayfish may not need high quality habitat as defined for other species, beyond what a typical channelized headwater stream can provide. Also, observed concentrations of agrichemicals in the sites were often well below established chronic effect benchmarks. Crayfish are well adapted to life in ditches due to their flexibility in habitat utilization and tolerance of agrichemicals. However, further research is needed to identify factors that determine crayfish community densities.http://opus.ipfw.edu/stu_symp2016/1024/thumbnail.jp

Despite the fact that 30,000 French troops invaded Mexico in the 1860s and installed Maximilian in power and created the Second Mexican Empire, Mexican liberals put up a sustained guerilla military resistance. But this paper examines a different significant battle, the one that took place on the political front. Both Maximilian and the liberal resistance that opposed him led by Juárez sought diplomatic support and recognition. At the time, not only was Mexico divided, but also the U.S. since the country was in the middle of the Civil War. This paper examines the attempts Maximilian and Juárez made to gain recognition and support during this complicated period during which the Union had to weigh the impact that its action in Mexico might have on France’s attitudes about the American Civil War.http://opus.ipfw.edu/stu_symp2016/1003/thumbnail.jp

http://opus.ipfw.edu/stu_symp2016/1049/thumbnail.jp

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.http://opus.ipfw.edu/stu_symp2016/1026/thumbnail.jp

Do you want to know more about federal government information and issues like drones, government secrecy, new food and drug regulations, and scientific innovations? Discover the new access to authentic official U.S. federal government information: govinfo, https://www.govinfo.gov/. Govinfo is the new U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) beta website that will eventually replace the Federal Digital System (FDsys) public website. As it is being built, the U.S. Government Publishing Office needs your feedback to build a better system and to make sure your questions are being answered! This program will introduce govinfo with a tour and sample searches. The second part will be an interactive session and discussion with the attendees. Feedback based on this session will be sent to GPO to build a better database for official government information. Come and help improve govinfo for Indiana library needs

In this paper, I analyze how Spenser leads his reader to make moral judgments by using the unique characteristics of allegory—that is, the fact that readers transfer not only meanings but also emotional reactions and moral judgments from the source domain to the target domain. I build upon enactivist literary theories as well as other cognitive theories of allegory to analyze two episodes in Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queene, the Castle of Alma episode, in which a body is figured as a place, and the Belge episode, in which a place is figured as a body. The Castle of Alma, although it explicitly allegorizes human emotions, is a strangely affectless place, conveying a stoic version of temperance that the reader experiences by imaginatively identifying with the fictional bodies of Guyon and Arthur who travel through this body-place. The focus on the body as material, including the personifications of both emotional states and mental faculties, intellectualizes the experience of having a body in ways that discourage the reader from engaging emotionally with this episode. In contrast, the Belge episode, by making a place into a suffering maternal body, works to prompt both intellectual and emotional responses by inviting the reader to identify with the suffering of the Low Countries by identifying with the experiences of Belge’s body. A key instance occurs in 5.10.25, when the ambiguity of whether the pronoun “her” refers to Belge herself or to one of her cities leads by stanza’s end to the jarring image of a castle built in Belge’s neck. In both cases, the emotional reaction and its associated moral intuition derive from the literal level, not the allegorical projection. Spenserian allegory does not transfer only “meaning”; that is, the full package of what the reader projects from the source-domain of the literal level of the text is not just propositional information. Before the reader even makes that projection from source-domain to target-domain she or he has already had an emotional reaction and an intuitive moral response. Through control of this process, Spenser hopes to influence the moral intuitions of his readers

This paper proposes a systematic approach to model human–machine interactions (HMIs) in supervisory control of machining operations; it characterises the coexistence of machines and humans for an enterprise to balance the goals of automation/productivity and flexibility/agility. In the proposed HMI model, an operator is associated with a set of behavioural roles as a supervisor for multiple, semi-automated manufacturing processes. The model is innovative in the sense that (1) it represents an HMI based on its functions for process control but provides the flexibility for ongoing improvements in the execution of manufacturing processes; (2) it provides a computational tool to define functional requirements for an operator in HMIs. The proposed model can be used to design production systems at different levels of an enterprise architecture, particularly at the machine level in a production system where operators interact with semi-automation to accomplish the goal of ‘autonomation’ – automation that augments the capabilities of human beings

Clustering of long-term recording electrocardiography (ECG) signals in the healthcare systems is the most common source in detecting cardiovascular diseases as well as treating heart disorders. Currently used clustering algorithms do have their share of drawbacks: (1) Clustering and classification cannot be done in real time; (2) Implementing existing algorithms would lead to higher computational costs. These drawbacks motivated us in developing novel optimized clustering algorithm which could easily scan large ECG datasets for characteristic biomarkers. In this paper, we present an advanced K-means clustering algorithm based on compressed sensing theory in combination with the K-singular value decomposition method. We validate the proposed algorithm’s performance with principal component analysis and linear correlation coefficient dimensionality reduction methods followed by sorting the data using the K-nearest neighbors and probabilistic neural network classifiers. The proposed algorithm outperforms existing algorithms by achieving a classification accuracy of 99.98 % (increasing 11 % classification accuracy compared to the existing algorithm). This ability allows reducing 15 % of average classification error, 10 % of training error, and 20 % of root- mean-square error. The proposed algorithm also reduces 13 % clustering energy consumption compared to the existing clusteringalgorithm by increasing the classification performance

An alarming number of cases of Snake Fungal Disease (SFD), a condition frequently resulting in morbidity and mortality in snakes, have been documented in numerous species across much of the eastern US. We sampled a skin lesion on the face of a free-ranging Lampropeltis triangulum (Eastern Milksnake) from the northern Lower Peninsula of Michigan. The lesion tested positive for Ophidiomyces ophiodiicola, the causative agent of SFD. Our results document the second species from Michigan known to be infected with SFD. This case adds to the growing body of literature detailing the distribution of snake species affected, and further indicates that this pathogen is widespread in the eastern US. We stress the continued need for increased, systematic sampling efforts to determine the species affected by SFD and the potentially deleterious impacts it has on snake populations

The epistemology of dualism has informed the construction of dichotomies and differences in cultural discourses for a long time. Interestingly, such construction is often, though not always, indicated by the preposition “between” that signifies separation. In their writings about Ireland, Joyce and Beckett seek to deconstruct dualism by illustrating the pitfalls of radical provincialism on the one hand and by envisioning global humanities often indicated by the conjunction “and” that signifies addition, rather than separation, on the other. Drawing on the concept of universal identity developed by Levi-Strauss, Gunn, Hassan, and Jung, we offer a new reading of both authors’ representation of “global citizen” in such figures as Wellsley, Conroy, and Shuah

This article explores a series of short films that delve into various issues that exist for elite female athletes, from extreme wage disparity to blatant sexualization, and offers engaging ways to analyze them with students