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RDM Throughout a Rock’s Life (with humans)
Covers the data life cycle as it applies to geology, including the multiple formats of data involved, both analog (field notes books, rock specimens, and thin sections), as well as electronic formats, and the preservation ... -
Hybrid by Design: New Student Orientations and the Value of Asynchronicity
Covid changed our lives, our campuses, and how we connect with students. In-person activities were replaced with virtual ones and library events had to be reimagined digitally. With vaccinations on the rise and universities ... -
Cyber House Rules: how to host a winning virtual game night
Our institution has hosted monthly board game nights for our campus community for the last several years. However, when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, we were forced to cancel our in-person events and rethink how we would ... -
Data archive for "Fluorine Labeling of ortho-Phenylenes to Facilitate Conformational Analysis"
1H NMR spectroscopy is a powerful tool for the conformational analysis of ortho-phenylene foldamers in solution. However, as o-phenylenes are integrated into ever more complex systems, we are reaching the limits of what ... -
Competent enough: getting first-year business students started
This talk will describe how two librarians collaborated with first-year cohort coordinators at the business school to develop a one-shot lesson plan that would introduce library resources and research strategies to 1,100+ ... -
Environmental Healing Through the Use of Nature and the Built Space
Integrative medicine and nature-based healing are effective ways to help those who are suffering medically to recover faster and more efficiently by utilizing the built, natural, and medical environments. Nature-based ... -
Validation and Deployment of a Direct Saliva Real-Time RT-PCR Test on Pooled Samples for COVID-19 Surveillance Testing
Minimal Data Set with anonymized indicators used for validation and analysis of saliva PCR test results, Ct values, diagnostic confirmations, and summary statistics. -
Spatial Experience in Architectural Environment Through Dance, Time, and Urban Choreography
Space and time are two inseparable parts of architecture. The human body experiences space through movement in different ways than dancing. A dancer carves the space through dancing. Sensorial experiences have an impact ... -
Applying Design Criteria for Autism Spectrum Disorder to the Design of Public Sports Facilities
In the last twenty years the prevalence of autism spectrum disorders has increased from 1 in 166 children diagnosed in 2004 to 1 in 59 children being in 2018 in the United States. Despite these growing numbers, the ... -
Planting Urban Buildings: Cooling and Connection in the Built Environment
Urban architectural design and construction is advancing toward greater symbiosis with the natural environment. A complex and promising trend situates plants on the building exterior, encouraging absorptive surfaces and ... -
Entangled Stewardship: Examining Contaminated Landscapes at the American Periphery
Beyond many American City cores exist a series of land uses characterized by waste, former infrastructures, homogeneous development, and ecologically entangled spaces of the American economy and productivity. This is ... -
Sanctuary for the gadget freaks: re-conceptualization of urban spaces in the age of IoT
The increasing number of gadget ownership and people’s dependence on the Internet of things (IoT) in everyday life, encourages us to reassess the concepts of ‘Placemaking’ of the digital era. If historically considered, ... -
Can We Make a Building From Waste: Reinventing Materials
One of the biggest challenges facing today’s architecture is the waste that comes from building materials. It is estimated that the construction process currently results in as much as 40% of wasted materials. This ... -
Designing Fire Stations for the Health & Wellness of Firefighters & Their Communities
Fire departments are making procedural and cultural changes due to the results of research regarding the health effects of carcinogens and firefighters' behavioral health but, where is the change in fire station design? ... -
How Vernacular Architecture Affects the Global: Lessons from Bangladesh
Vernacular architecture is a very adaptable and reasonable way to address human needs, which seems to be largely forgotten in contemporary architecture.1 For thousands of years, vernacular architecture has been ... -
Building Memories
Buildings matter because they are the symbols and the repositions of memory. Our lives are entangled with memories. Memory is the brain’s ability to store, retain or recall experiences during years. Remembering is the ... -
Rethinking the Retail Experience - From Technology to Social Engagement
The expression “going shopping” suggests an activity that supports people's need to be social. Participating in the retail experience allows for that need to be fulfilled. Shopping provides movement in a community and ... -
Addressing Homelessness as a means of Preserving the Urban Fabric
In 1772, Clarksburg, West Virginia, was a well known Appalachian city. Before the Great Depression, Clarksburg had a booming economy from coal and glass production. By the 21st Century, Clarksburg was a forgotten memory ... -
Psychological and Physiological Rehabilitation: Restoration by Natural Environment
The environment presents the nonprofit sky’s gifts: sun, air, rain, view, even Terrain. It is an environment’s instrument that could be a gift or a design problem, so the genuineness is how to use this element right to ...