This course is designed to provide an engaging and personally relevant overview of the discipline of Abnormal Psychology. You will examine the cognitive and behavioral patterns which impair personal effectiveness and adjustment. Students will provide much of the substantive content and teaching presence in this course. Additional content has been curated from "The Noba Project (http://nobaproject.com/)" and "Abnormal Psychology: An e-text! (http://abnormalpsych.wikispaces.com/).
Openly-licensed course materials developed for the Open Educational Resources (OER) Degree Initiative, led by Achieving the Dream. https://courses.lumenlearning.com/catalog/achievingthedream

Students explore the many different ways that engineers provide natural lighting to interior spaces. They analyze various methods of daylighting by constructing model houses from foam core board and simulating the sun with a desk lamp. Teams design a daylighting system for their model houses based on their observations and calculations of the optimal use of available sunlight to their structure.

This resource is a video abstract of a research paper created by Research Square on behalf of its authors. It provides a synopsis that's easy to understand, and can be used to introduce the topics it covers to students, researchers, and the general public. The video's transcript is also provided in full, with a portion provided below for preview:

"The intestinal epithelium constantly regenerates to maintain its barrier function, so intestinal stem cells (ISCs) are crucial to a healthy gut. Diet affects ISC activity both directly, by providing energy and metabolic substrates, and indirectly, by altering the gut microbiota, which can modulate inflammation and change epithelial structure. Gut microbes rely on dietary fiber as their main energy source, and specifically, soluble fiber is required for the production of microbiota-derived metabolites such as vitamins. Studies have shown benefits of soluble fiber consumption, but not all types of soluble fiber are well tolerated, and it's unclear which effects are direct (acting on ISCs) versus indirect (acting on the microbiota). To find out, researchers used mouse models, histochemistry, host-cell transcriptomics, and 16S microbiome analysis to examine the effects of the soluble fiber inulin on the gut..."

The rest of the transcript, along with a link to the research itself, is available on the resource itself.

Students are introduced to the concept of light pollution by investigating the nature, sources and levels of light in their classroom environment. They learn about the adverse effects of artificial light and the resulting consequences on humans, animals and plants: sky glow, direct glare, light trespass, animal disorientation and energy waste. Student teams build light meters using light sensors mounted to LEGO® MINDSTORMS® NXT intelligent bricks and then record and graph the light intensity emitted in various classroom lighting situations. They are introduced to the engineering concepts of sensors, lux or light meter, and lumen and lux (lx) illuminance units. Through this activity, students also learn how to better use light and save energy as well as some of the technologies designed by engineers to reduce light pollution and energy waste.