scholarly journals Diurnal observation of a Malayan Krait Bungarus candidus (Reptilia: Elapidae) feeding inside a building in Thailand

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 15947-15950
Author(s):  
Cameron Wesley Hodges ◽  
Anji D'souza ◽  
Sira Jintapirom
Keyword(s):  
Early Morning ◽  
University Campus ◽  
Human Settlements ◽  
Nocturnal Species ◽  
Large Building ◽  
Insight Into

Malayan Kraits Bungarus candidus have been reported to bite humans during the night after entering dwellings.  We report an observation of an adult krait feeding on a colubrid snake Chrysopelea ornata during the early morning, in the hallway of a large building at the center of a university campus in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand.  To our knowledge, this is the first observation of a wild B. candidus feeding within a building.  This observation provides insight into why kraits enter human settlements, and since the event took place shortly after sunrise it also indicates that this nocturnal species can remain active during daylight when feeding.  Further studies will be required to determine how often B. candidus forages among human structures.   

scholarly journals Mobile Applications at a Mega University: Anadolu University Campus App

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ozgur Yilmazel ◽  
Erk Ekin
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Applications ◽  
Mobile App ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
University Campus ◽  
User Community ◽  
The University ◽  
Insight Into

This paper explores the use of mobile applications to aid on-campus and off-campus students at a mega university. Anadolu University — with over 1,900,000 students enrolled from over 30 countries — is the world's second largest university by enrolment(List of largest universities by enrolment, 2014). From its early days, the Universityhas used various means to access its students. During the last decade,with the introduction of mobile technologies and smartphones that are connected everywhere, the expectations of students have changed. Students now expect to be in contact with their educational institutions without any barriers. Anadolu University released its first mobile campus app onaniOS platform in May 2012. Students adopted the App quickly and the mobile app user community requested new functionalities. Since then,the University has released three major and over 25 minor releases of the app on both iOS and Android smartphones. This paper describes the lifecycle of Anadolu Campus App and its evolution over the years. It has been widely acceptedby our students both on campus and off campus, andthe increasing number of users gives an insight into the high rate of adoption of smartphones.

scholarly journals Rapid, Large-Scale Wastewater Surveillance and Automated Reporting System Enable Early Detection of Nearly 85% of COVID-19 Cases on a University Campus

mSystems ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Smruthi Karthikeyan ◽  
Andrew Nguyen ◽  
Daniel McDonald ◽  
Yijian Zong ◽  
Nancy Ronquillo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
Early Detection ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Reporting System ◽  
Spatial Sampling ◽  
Campus Community ◽  
University Campus ◽  
University Campuses ◽  
Insight Into

Wastewater-based epidemiology can be particularly valuable at university campuses where high-resolution spatial sampling in a well-controlled context could not only provide insight into what affects campus community as well as how those inferences can be extended to a broader city/county context. In the present study, a large-scale wastewater surveillance was successfully implemented on a large university campus enabling early detection of 85% of COVID-19 cases thereby averting potential outbreaks.

scholarly journals Location and Coverage Analysis of Bike- Sharing Stations in University Campus

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 80-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suleyman Mete ◽  
Zeynel Abidin Cil ◽  
Eren Özceylan
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Models ◽  
Walking Distance ◽  
University Campus ◽  
University Administrators ◽  
Future Planning ◽  
Distance Methods ◽  
Coverage Analysis ◽  
Bike Sharing ◽  
Insight Into

Abstract Background: Bike-sharing programmes have become popular in a large number of cities in order to facilitate bicycle use. Determining the location of bike sharing stations is vital to success of these programmes. Objectives: In this paper, a case study is applied to the Gaziantep University campus in order to find possible locations of the stations for users (students). The purpose is to minimize the total walking distance. Methods/Approach: Set and maximal covering mathematical models are considered to decide on coverage capability of determined 20 demand points and 20 potential bike stations. Then, the mathematical models of P-center and P-median are used to build possible stations and to allocate demand points to the opened stations. Finally, an undesirable facility location model is used to find the bike stations, which have the maximum distance from demand nodes, and to eliminate them. Results: In computational results, it is clearly seen that the proposed approaches set the potential bike station covering all demand points. They also provide different solutions for the campus planners. Conclusions: The methodology outlined in this study can provide university administrators with a useful insight into locations of stations, and in this way, it contributes significantly to future planning of bike-sharing systems.

'University is a place of imagination where anything can happen': evaluating widening participation initiatives with young children

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 238-245
Author(s):  
Katherine Sela ◽  
Naomi Winstone
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Sentence Completion ◽  
Widening Participation ◽  
University Campus ◽  
Older Children ◽  
Children’S Perspectives ◽  
Evaluation Data ◽  
Drawing Tasks ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Insight Into

There is increasing awareness of the importance of working with younger children in widening participation initiatives. While typical evaluation methods, such as feedback questionnaires, may be appropriate for collating evidence of the impact of initiatives with older children and teenagers, these tools are less appropriate for younger children. In the context of the evaluation of a campus-based creative writing programme for 9- to 10-year-old children, this paper discusses the utility of creative approaches to evaluation. Prior to and following their visit to a university campus, children completed a worksheet to gain their perspectives of university through sentence completion, comparison and drawing tasks. These methods provide insight into how children's perspectives are shaped by visiting a university campus, as well as differences between those who do and do not know someone who has attended university. We present snapshots of the evaluation data and discuss the implications for evaluation of widening participation initiatives with young children.

scholarly journals How does the OH reactivity affect the ozone production efficiency: case studies in Beijing and Heshan

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yudong Yang ◽  
Min Shao ◽  
Stephan Keβel ◽  
Yue Li ◽  
Keding Lu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Production Efficiency ◽  
Ambient Air ◽  
Early Morning ◽  
Chemical Mechanism ◽  
Ozone Production ◽  
University Campus ◽  
Oxygenated Volatile Organic Compounds ◽  
Volatile Organic ◽  
Peking University ◽  
Significant Diurnal Variation

Abstract. Total OH reactivity measurements have been conducted in August 2013 on the Peking University campus, Beijing and from October to November 2014 in Heshan, Guangdong Province. The daily median result for OH reactivity was 19.98 ± 11.03 s−1 in Beijing and 30.62 ± 19.76 s−1 in Heshan. Beijing presented a significant diurnal variation with maxima over 27 s−1 in the early morning and minima below 16 s−1 in the afternoon. Measurements in Heshan gave a much flatter diurnal pattern. Missing reactivity was observed at both sites, with 21 % missing in Beijing and 32 % missing in Heshan. Unmeasured primary species, such as branched-alkenes could contribute to missing reactivity in Beijing, especially in morning rush hour. An observation-based model with the Regional Atmospheric Chemical Mechanism 2 was used to understand the daytime missing reactivity in Beijing by adding unmeasured oxygenated volatile organic compounds and simulated intermediates of primary VOCs degradation. However, the model failed to explain the missing reactivity in Heshan, where the ambient air was found to be more aged, and the missing reactivity was presumably to attribute to oxidized species, such as aldehydes, acids and di-carbonyls. The ozone production efficiency was 27 % higher in Beijing and 35 % higher in Heshan when constrained by the measured reactivity, compared to the calculation with measured and modeled species included, indicating the importance of quantifying the OH reactivity for better understanding ozone chemistry.

scholarly journals An experimental approach to exploring the feasibility of unmanned aerial vehicle and thermal imaging in terrestrial and arboreal mammals research

2020 ◽  
Vol 211 ◽  
pp. 02010
Author(s):  
Dede Aulia Rahman ◽  
Yudi Setiawan ◽  
Arif K Wijayanto ◽  
Ahmad Abdul Aziz Fathur Rahman ◽  
Trisna Rizky Martiyani
Keyword(s):  
Infrared Imaging ◽  
Early Morning ◽  
Aerial Survey ◽  
University Campus ◽  
Thermal Infrared Imaging ◽  
Sparse Vegetation ◽  
Large Size ◽  
Aerial Vehicle ◽  
Late Evening ◽  
Low Levels

The visual camouflage of many species living in the dense cover of the tropical rainforest become obstacles to conducting species monitoring. Unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) combined with thermal infrared imaging (TIR) can rapidly scan large areas from above and detect wildlife that has a body temperature that contrasts with its surrounding environment. This research tested the feasibility of DJI Mavic 2 Enterprise Dual with FLIR as aerial survey platforms to detect terrestrial and arboreal mammals in the five tree density classes in the remaining natural environment on the IPB University campus. This study demonstrated that large-size terrestrial mammal thermal signatures are visible in sparse vegetation at daytime and in the area under the canopy at night monitoring. In contrast, arboreal mammals were better detected in at early morning and night. Survey timing highly influenced the results – the best quality thermal images were obtained at sunrise, late evening, and at night. The drones allow safe operation at low altitudes with low levels of disturbance to animals. Both terrestrial and arboreal mammals are well detected and easily identified when the drone is flying at an altitude < 50 m HAGL. Our preliminary results indicated that thermal surveys from drones are a promising method.

scholarly journals Exploration on development mode of material and energy circulating metabolism on university campus:a case study of Chang’an campus of Northwest Polytechnical University

2020 ◽  
Vol 143 ◽  
pp. 02051
Author(s):  
He Xijie ◽  
Li Ying
Keyword(s):  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Typical Case ◽  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
University Campus ◽  
Development Mode ◽  
Environmental Pressure ◽  
The University ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Focus Point

Every university campus usually bears the living consumption of materials and energy for thousands of people, and the linear metabolism aggravates the waste of materials and energy,and worsens the environmental pressure. However,the university campus can provide the additional site for the cycle facilities of the material and energy because of its abundant occupied land and low building density.Hence,the Chang’an campus of northwest polytechnic university will be studied as a typical case,and the development mode of material and energy circulating metabolism will be explored on the basis of the perspective of architecture and the focus point of material and energy circulating metabolism.The findings in this study will provide a new insight into developing the ecological mode of colleges and universities, thus propose a new solution to the ecological crisis.

scholarly journals Geo-referencing bird-window collisions for targeted mitigation

PeerJ ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. e4215 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Scott Winton ◽  
Natalia Ocampo-Peñuela ◽  
Nicolette Cagle
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Analysis ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Complex Geometries ◽  
Gps Data ◽  
University Campus ◽  
Compass Direction ◽  
Bird Mortality ◽  
Conservation Concern ◽  
Large Building ◽  
Bird Collisions

Bird collisions with windows are an important conservation concern. Efficient mitigation efforts should prioritize retrofitting sections of glass exhibiting the highest mortality of birds. Most collision studies, however, record location meta-data at a spatial scale too coarse (i.e., compass direction of facing façade) to be useful for large buildings with complex geometries. Through spatial analysis of three seasons of survey data at a large building at a university campus, we found that GPS data were able to identify collision hotspots while compass directions could not. To demonstrate the broad applicability and utility of this georeferencing approach, we identified collision hotspots at two additional urban areas in North America. The data for this latter exercise were collected via the citizen science database, iNaturalist, which we review for its potential to generate the georeferenced data necessary for directing building retrofits and mitigating a major source of anthropogenic bird mortality.

scholarly journals PENINGKATAN DAYA SAING MASYARAKAT: PEMBUATAN KAIN KANVAS LUKIS DENGAN TEKNIK PELABURAN MENGGUNAKAN LITHOPON DI PESANTREN RANCA HERANG, DESA CIBOGO, BANDUNG

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 115
Author(s):  
Wawan Suryana ◽  
Ariesa Pandanwangi ◽  
Ismet Zainal Effendi ◽  
Sharon Elnissi ◽  
Farhan Deniansha
Keyword(s):  
Fine Arts ◽  
Boarding School ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Standard Of Living ◽  
University Campus ◽  
Study Program ◽  
Christian University ◽  
The Village ◽  
The City ◽  
Insight Into

<p>Cibogo Village, Kodya Bandung is located behind the Maranatha Christian University campus. The village has a Islamic boarding school (Pondok Pesantren) Ranca Herang which is currently actively inhabited by students and female students. These students focus on studying religion, at the end of the year they are always ready to go into society and be independent. On that basis, the pesantren submitted a letter to the Fine Arts Study Program with the aim of getting training from lecturers and students, namely skills that can increase community competitiveness. The method of implementing this activity uses mentoring methods and practical methods. This activity is in the form of training in making painted canvas cloth with the laying technique using a lithophone. This solution was given because the large number of requests for canvas from schools in the city of Bandung had not been fulfilled. Apart from providing training, this program also provides insight into the tools and materials for creating fine arts. The results of this training are carried out in stages and the results show that they are able to make canvas cloth practically, it is hoped that those who acquire these skills will later become provisions to earn a living from making canvas paintings so that they can improve their standard of living, over life, during life community life.</p>

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