Objectives/Goals This project was designed to determine how varying the amount of a specific ingredient that constitute a bioplastic mixture can affect tensile strength. I hypothesized that if more glycerin is added to a mixture of cornstarch, water, vinegar, and glycerin, then a bioplastic with increased tensile strength and flexibility will be produced. Methods/Materials Mold, 40 bioplastics ...

Nanoscience and nanotechnology have become part of the lay vernacular over the last decade, with the promise of a fantastic new world of medicine, ultra fast computers and energy independence; an exciting sci-fi future. Nano has pervaded the popular press, and authors have found it a useful tool in fiction literature, albeit very often with a foreboding tonality that to some portends a frighten...

© Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 2005 information. The building blocks for learning are still being processed by the brain, and a learner who has specialized too soon, perhaps missing out some important steps in development, may be able to relearn more efficiently with the right teacher. So – lessons for education? Not so many. But a fantastic collection of interesting facts about the brain, and man...

Project PHOTON has developed a set of instructional materials suitable for a onesemester laboratory based introduction to photonics course. The textbook, laboratory experiment kit and laboratory manual have been thoroughly field tested by participating high schools and two year colleges. All materials have been aligned to national Math, Science, Technology and Language Arts standards. OCIS code...

Introduction Experiential learning is crucial for the development of all learners. Literature exploring how and where experiential learning happens in the modern clinical learning environment is sparse. We created a novel, web-based educational tool called "Learning Moment" (LM) to foster experiential learning among our learners. We used data captured by LM as a research database to determine w...

We present a uniform framework for the treatment of a large class of toy models of quantum theory. Specifically, we will be interested in theories of wavefunctions valued in commutative involutive semirings, and which give rise to some semiring-based notion of classical non-determinism via the Born rule. The models obtained with our construction possess many of the familiar structures used in C...

We wish to congratulate the authors for their innovative contribution, which is bound to inspire much further research. We find latent variable model selection to be a fantastic application of matrix decomposition methods, namely, the superposition of low-rank and sparse elements. Clearly, the methodology introduced in this paper is of potential interest across many disciplines. In the followin...

Acknowledgments This research project would not have been finished if I had not the help of some people. First, I would like to thank Sheelagh Carpendale, my supervisor in Calgary, and Henry Sonnet, my supervisor in Magdeburg, for giving me the opportunity to do my internship in Canada in a great lab with great people. Special thanks to Stacey, Mike B., Russel, Gregor and Ed who helped me a lot...