Virtual reality (VR) technology has permeated American consumer culture in recent years, resulting from and leading to a hotbed of academic VR research. Although its original home has belonged in the technical sciences of engineering and computer science, it has become a widespread subject of study in the social sciences as well. The proposed study seeks to evaluate the methods and practices of VR research related to communication and psychology as it transitions into these...

QA Testing Share/Trove in production environment.

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Culturally Relevant Pedagogy (CRP) has been widely implemented in education, its benefits have been extensively confirmed in research, however, is not prevalent as a pedagogical practice in Engineering Education. Similarly, there is no agreement on what CRP means and how it can be effectively implemented, many times is described as culturally responsive teaching, culturally sustainable pedagogy, etc. Although related,these terms have different meanings. We consider important to better differentiate and define what CRP is and...

Betrayal aversion occurs when an individual seeks to avoid utility losses from exposure to possible betrayal by others. We connect this phenomenon of betrayal aversion to voting where there is the potential for political betrayals by candidates. We seek to identify the unique influence of betrayal aversion on voting distinct from other commonly studied phenomenon’s like political distrust, political cynicism, political alienation, etc. Specifically, we examine the relationship between betrayal aversion and voting using a...

At Virginia Tech our unit, Digital Imaging and Preservation Services, is a newly formed team whose goal is to establish a fully integrated digital curation system that encompasses data creation and digitization, long-term preservation storage, and stable, robust access, to wit, the entire digital lifecycle. Our combined poster presentation addresses the challenges, pitfalls, and successes of our team's efforts to produce such a system, in terms of concrete, practical workflows. With this poster we hope...

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Natural Language Processing (NLP) has been an emerging data analysis method for big data sets that are not amenable to manual analysis due to their size and complexity. The purpose of this systematic literature review is to explain the use of NLP in engineering education by reviewing research papers from 1990 to 2021. It provides findings of how NLP has been used, catalogs its practices for data analysis. Moreover, it presents trends in the uses...

As students traverse a pathway through both formal and informal engineering experiences, it is important to understand their development of teamwork which is one of the most important professional competencies required by ABET and potential employers in industry. Organizations both in industry and academia have realized the benefits of working in teams to solve engineering problems which are ill-structured, complex, rapidly changing, and global. Teamwork has been studied in engineering education for several decades. Specifically,...

We are a collaborative molecular modeling and bioinformatics lab at Virginia Tech. We work with individuals all over campus and at other universities to provide computational support to their research, as well as pursuing our own work on amyloid and IDPs. With this OSF, we give you information on our most commonly used techniques and example methods for generating a shared group, multi-project OSF. For information about our current projects or to view our tutorials,...

Sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs), artificially sweetened beverages (ASBs), and 100% fruit juices are frequently consumed and have been documented that they could lead to serious disease burden. However, inconsistent evidence on the association between SSBs, ASBs, and 100% fruit juices consumption and mortality have been presented. PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, and PsycINFO were systematically searched. We conducted a random-effects meta-analysis and dose-response meta-analysis to assess the association and calculated...

Enabling interoperability throughout the research lifecycle often aligns with or is a key component of the missions of open source tool providers. Even before the introduction of the FAIR framework, open source tools and infrastructure have emphasized opportunities to connect the systems and workflows that researchers rely on so that research communication can be faster, more efficient, and more secure. OSF, like many of our friends in the open science infrastructure space, is strengthened both...

We perform a systematic review of the literature on emotions in engineering education. The review is of the type meta-synthesis as described by Siddayway et al (2019) and aims to critically assess the state of the art in EEE-research, particularly focusing on authors’ use of emotion theories and research methods.

The objective of this study was to determine polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) and copolymer ruminal degradability and kinetics. Commercial PHA, polybutylene succinate adipate (PBSA), PBSA:PHA copolymer blends, and forage controls were incubated in rumen fluid for up to 240 h. Mass loss was measured after each incubation time, and digestion kinetic parameters were estimated. Thermogravimetric and differential scanning calorimetry analyses were conducted on incubated samples.

Webinar for OSFI Members on the OSF API and the potential for interoperability.

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Exploratory Experiment for Cycle 1

Two new N-acetyl-ᴅ-glucosamine derivatives, penichryfurans A (1) and B (2), were obtained from the fermentation of an endophytic fungus Penicillium chrysogenum which inhabited the marine medical red alga Grateloupia turuturu. Their structures were established by detailed spectroscopic analysis of 1D and 2D NMR in combination with HRESIMS data. The absolute configurations were determined by the (Mo2(OAc)4)-induced CD and comparison of the calculated and experimental electronic curcular dichroism (ECD) spectra. Both compounds were evaluated for their...