“Emergence” by Deborah Judy, AACC Visual Arts student. Oil on panel, 2022.
Volume 1, May 2022
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Submerged Aquatic Vegetation (SAV) is critical to maintaining water quality and providing food and shelter for numerous estuarine organisms. As part of a larger project to restore SAV in the Chesapeake Bay, the goals of this research project were to identify healthy beds for seed harvesting, harvest seeds from four… Read more →
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High bacterial levels in recreational bodies of water can be a risk to human health, and significant effort and funding are invested in monitoring fecal indicator bacteria (FIB) levels. Despite the health risk, methods commonly utilized to determine bacterial concentrations provide no information about the source of contamination. This study… Read more →
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Enterococci are the preferred fecal indicator bacteria (FIB) for monitoring the safety of recreational beaches. A reliable and cost-effective method to identify the species of origin for entero cocci-contaminated rivers is essential for decreasing the risk to human health. In this study human and canine fecal samples were analyzed in… Read more →
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Substance use disorder is defined as the perpetual craving and re- peated use of a drug despite its negative impact on the user and their overall well-being. One drug that is very common in substance use disorders is alcohol. Alcohol serves as a stimulant drug in small doses, but when… Read more →
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The important ecological role of submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV) makes its year-to-year distribution of significant interest to environmental monitoring organizations. The use of drones to perform the task of SAV monitoring through multispectral analyses is a promising tool to achieve a methodology that is automatable, repeatable, time efficient, and accessible.… Read more →
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The traditional standards-based or competency-based grading systems, preferred by American schools and colleges, do not incor- porate non-academic student achievement factors, such as effort, attendance, or attitude when evaluating student performance. This paper reviews current literature on the effectiveness of an alternative grading system, called effort-based grading, that includes criteria… Read more →
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For most of human history, security of data communication has been essential. The relevance of encryption in times of war and (more recently) in the information age is difficult to overestimate. During the 20th century, advances in mathematics and technology prompted the proliferation of many new methods of encryption. Among… Read more →