Poster Contest Research Articles

Semiotic Analysis on Verbal and Visual Signs in Cyber Safety Poster

The title of this research is Semiotic Analysis on Verbal and Visual Signs in Cyber Safety Posters. There are two aims of this study. They were to find out the types of verbal and visual signs and describe the meaning and function of verbal and visual signs in cyber safety posters. In this study, a cyber safety poster was discussed. The poster won the golden prize in the 2013 Information Security Awareness Video & Poster Contest. The data were collected from the posters using documentative and note-taking techniques. After the data were collected, they were descriptively analysed based on the Semiotic theory proposed by Pierce (in Chandler, 2007) and the theory types of meaning and function proposed by Leech (1981). The data analysis was presented through formal and informal methods. The result of the analysis showed that verbal signs dominated the poster. Then, based on the Semiotic theory proposed by Pierce, three sign classifications were found in the data. They were 4 signs classified as Rhematic Indexical Sinsign, 2 signs were (Rhematic) Iconic Sinsign, and a sign categorised as Rhematic Symbol (ic Legisign). The result indicated that the cyber safety posters dominantly used Rhematic Indexical Sinsign, a sign based on real experience. Meanwhile, based on the theory types of meaning and function proposed by Leech (1981), the analysis showed that there were 4 conceptual and 3 connotative meanings, 4 informative and 3 directive functions. It meant that conceptual meaning and informative function were the dominant types used in the Cyber Safety poster. Keywords: Semiotics, Verbal, Visual, Sign, Poster

Congratulations to Diversity Student Poster Contest Winners

Congratulations to Diversity Student Poster Contest Winners

2023 MPD Student Poster Contest – Winning Abstracts

2023 MPD Student Poster Contest – Winning Abstracts

Winners of the 2022 Poster Contest.

Winners of the 2022 Poster Contest.

2022 MPD Student Poster Contest – Winning Abstracts

2022 MPD Student Poster Contest – Winning Abstracts

Analysis of the Implementation of Strengthening Character Education Through Pesantren Ramadan

Schools play an important role in fostering students' character with various programs in and outside the classroom to fortify students from the negative effects of globalization. This study aims to analyze the implementation of strengthening character education through the Pesantren Ramadan program to develop the religious character of students. The research method used is qualitative with a descriptive approach. Principals, teachers, and students became informants in this study. The data were collected through interviews, observation, and documentation, then the data were analyzed using the triangulation method. This study shows that this school implements the strengthening of school culture-based character education, one of which is the Pesantren Ramadan. This program aims to develop religious character as the main character and other characters such as independence, care for others, and integrity. There are several activities in the Pesantren Ramadan: Azan Competition, Religious Lecture Contest, Calligraphy Competition, Short Letter Memorizing Competition, Tartil Competition, Islamic Poster Contest, Zuhur Prayer, Al-Qur'an Tadarus, Collection of Zakat Fitrah, and Commemoration of Nuzul Al-Qur' an. Thus, the Islamic Boarding School of Ramadan effectively increases students' religious character.

AWWA Water Science Author Spotlight

Having published an article in AWWA Water Science, Amir Alansari answered questions from the publication's editor-in-chief, Kenneth L. Mercer, about the research. Critical Elements of Flocculation in Drinking Water Treatment Amir Alansari and James Amburgey I'm a water treatment specialist at Stantec at their office in Winston-Salem, N.C. My research focus is primarily on coagulation chemistry and process optimization. Lately I've been working on developing new digital tools for predicting optimal coagulation conditions using artificial intelligence. It was a $5,000 stipend to participate in the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program over the summer at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. I was in the civil and environmental engineering program and stumbled into the world of water treatment by chance. Amir won first place in the ACE19 student poster contest. Dr. Amburgey had the biggest influence on my career and on everything I have accomplished so far. I completed all three civil engineering degrees (bachelor's, master's, doctorate) working with him at the same university. In total, I spent 12 years under his mentorship, during which time I was able to freely follow my curiosity and work on whatever I wanted. The best advice I got from him was to use the time I had in graduate school to grow my skill sets as a researcher and an engineer as much as possible. My coauthor and I read a paper that was published in 1992 in Journal AWWA by Han and Lawler, where they mathematically showed that mechanical mixing played an insignificant role in the flocculation process. We recognized the implications of their work on the recommended design guidelines for flocculation; however, an extensive literature review did not yield any conclusive evidence that supported or challenged their theory. Our article presents results from a series of experiments we performed to measure the effects of various flocculation parameters (e.g., mixing duration) on settled and filtered water-turbidity removal efficiency and determine whether Han and Lawler were correct. I try my best to have a positive impact on the lives of people around me. I'd like to think that my work is contributing to the body of knowledge, even if it is a tiny contribution. Many of our current design guidelines are based on work done about four to six decades ago. There have been a lot of scientific and technological advancements since then. I believe water treatment design could benefit from a 21st-century overhaul, which would require a renewed research interest and collective effort from the research community, regulators, consulting engineers, and industry. The current funding model does not favor this type of research. It considers topics such as coagulation as matured topics, with nothing left to discover. Our research highlighted the benefits of optimizing coagulation conditions (via jar tests) using filtered turbidity as the performance metric instead of settled water turbidity. We found that jar-test mixing conditions had a significant effect on settled turbidity removals. This means that operators no longer have to “calibrate” their jar test procedures to get their results to match the full-scale process. It simplifies the optimization process by reducing the number of variables to just two—coagulant dose and coagulation pH—which ultimately means they can achieve better treatment performance while minimizing chemical usage. To learn more about Amir's research, visit his AWWA Water Science article, available online at https://doi.org/10.1002/aws2.1213.

Processed and Packed: How Refined Are the Foods That Children Bring to School for Snack and Lunch?

BackgroundIncreasing consumption of highly processed foods has been associated with adverse health outcomes among children. In the US, children consume up to half of their daily energy intake at school. ObjectivesWe sought to characterize foods that children bring from home to school according to processing level and to evaluate the effectiveness of a school-based intervention, Great Taste Less Waste (GTLW), in reducing the proportion of energy brought from highly processed foods from home compared with control. DesignSecondary data analysis of a 7-month school-based, cluster-randomized trial. Participants/settingThird- and fourth-grade students (n = 502, mean age: 9.0 ± 0.62 years) at 10 public elementary schools in Eastern Massachusetts (school year 2012-2013). InterventionGTLW included a 22-lesson classroom curriculum, homework activities, monthly parent newsletters, a food shopping and packing guide for parents, food demonstrations, school-wide announcements, and a poster contest. Main outcome measuresThe energy content of foods brought to school was estimated from digital photographs, and foods were assigned to 1 of 3 processing levels (less processed or unprocessed, moderately processed, or highly processed) based on an established classification system. Statistical analyses performedThe percentage of energy brought from foods categorized into each processing level was calculated and compared pre- and postintervention using hierarchical linear models. ResultsMost of the food brought from home to school was highly processed (70% of food energy brought). Foods categorized as snack foods and desserts contributed the greatest percentage of total energy to the highly processed category at baseline and follow-up (72% and 69%, respectively). Energy from foods brought for snack tended to be more highly processed than those brought for lunch. No significant differences were observed from pre- to postintervention in the GTLW group compared with control for the percentage of energy brought from highly processed foods in adjusted models (β: −1.1, standard error: 2.2, P = .6) or any other processing level. ConclusionsHighly processed foods were prevalent in home-packed lunches and snacks, and these patterns persisted after a targeted intervention. Further research is needed to identify strategies to improve the healthfulness of foods brought from home to school.

Artes gráficas y la Exposición Nacional del libro de 1928: materialidad, arte e industria en la producción del libro en Argentina

En septiembre de 1928 tuvo lugar en Buenos Aires la Primera Exposición Nacional del Libro, evento que aglutinó gran parte de las discusiones en torno al desarrollo de la industria editorial en la década de 1920, al tiempo que representó un hito significativo para la consolidación de las artes gráficas en Argentina.
 En las primeras décadas del siglo XX diversas iniciativas institucionales configuraron, paulatinamente, una tradición del grabado como un “arte del libro”, aliado de la ilustración literaria. La Exposición colaboró en gran medida con este proceso: destinó un espacio dedicado a la exhibición de grabados y ediciones de lujo y contó con una comisión especial de ilustradores integrada, entre otros, por Adolfo Bellocq y Alfredo Guido quienes desplegaron una intensa labor como promotores del grabado de ilustración desde la práctica artística y pedagógica. Asimismo, se recurrió a una estrategia para promocionar el evento que contaba con cierta tradición en el mundo de la gráfica: el concurso de carteles artísticos.
 Así, se analiza esta exposición en sus aspectos vinculados con la circulación de imágenes e ideas en torno al libro como objeto y, particularmente, las tempranas tensiones referidas a las artes gráficas en el contexto de la industria editorial argentina.

Congress2019 poster winners.

The following articles represent the first place and runner-up winners from the Nursing Management Congress2019 poster contest. Both posters were presented and recognized at last year's Congress in New Orleans. Congratulations to our winners!

Congratulations to Poster Contest Winners; TMS Member Named ANS Fellow

Congratulations to Poster Contest Winners; TMS Member Named ANS Fellow

2020 MPD Student Poster Contest – Winning Abstracts

2020 MPD Student Poster Contest – Winning Abstracts

Congress2018 poster winners.

The following articles represent the first-place and runner-up winnersfrom the NMCongress2018 poster contest. Both posters were presented and recognized at last year's conference. Congratulations to our winners!

2019 MPD Student Poster Contest – Winning Abstracts

2019 MPD Student Poster Contest – Winning Abstracts

Winners of the Student/Resident Poster Contest 2018

Winners of the Student/Resident Poster Contest 2018

Congress2017 poster winners.

The following articles represent the first-place and runner-up winners from the NMCongress2017 poster contest. Both posters were presented and recognized at last year's conference. Congratulations to our winners!

Editorial: Quasars at All Cosmic Epochs

The conference was sponsored jointly by the National Institute for Astrophysics, the Padova Astronomical Observatory, the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Padova, and the Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia (IAA) of the Consejo Superior de Investigacion Cientifica (CSIC) whose support is gratefully acknowldeged. We are very grateful for the facilitation and sponsorship (including the best poster contest) that was provided by the Journal Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences. Sponsors Officina stellare and Springer Verlag provided conference material free-of-charge. The meeting has been part of the events meant to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the foundation of the Padova Observatory.

Ringwood Mines Superfund Site: Implications for Local Flora and Fauna

Barbra Walker's poster, Ringwood Mines Superfund Site: Implications for Local Flora and Fauna, won the undergraduate poster contest at the 2018 New Jersey History and Historic Preservation Conference. The conference was held June 7-8 at Passaic County Community College in Paterson, NJ.

The AATSP: A Snapshot of the Present and a Vision for the Future

The AATSP:A Snapshot of the Present and a Vision for the Future Emily Spinelli On December 29, 1917 some 130 individuals gathered at the College of the City of New York for the first annual meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish. A terrible blizzard was underway in New York City that day and many attendees arrived late. The early founders of the organization had planned well and even with the difficult weather conditions, the meeting went on as scheduled and four papers were presented. In his history of the first seventy-five years of the AATSP, Richard B. Klein remarked, "It is worthwhile noting that the AATS was born at a difficult time of year, under egregious weather conditions, and at the height of World War I" (Klein 1992: 1037). Despite this difficult and inauspicious beginning, the AATS moved forward with its "devotion to things Hispanic" (Klein 1992: 1037) and its mission "to enhance the place of Spanish in the curriculum of the entire country" (Klein 1992: 1040). Membership began to increase, the size of the annual meeting expanded, and new member services were initiated. However, the next major development for the organization did not occur until December 1944 when Portuguese faculty members were admitted as members and the name of the organization became the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP). These beginning years of the AATSP can be viewed as a metaphor for the hundred-year history of the organization as well as inspiration for the future. From its beginnings, through the middle years of the twentieth-century, and into the new millennium, the AATSP faced financial downturns, grim political situations, and challenging circumstances for the teaching of world languages. Because of the vision and determination of the membership and leadership, the AATSP expanded and became a model for other language-specific organizations. The present-day AATSP owes much of its success to the period of the late 1950s through the 1990s when the AATSP underwent tremendous growth and added programs and activities. After a financial downturn and decline in membership in the early years of the twenty-first century, the AATSP today is again financially stable, has a growing membership base topping 10,000, and has an increasing number of successful programs and publications. The following overview of the various programs and publications of the AATSP provides a snapshot of the organization in its centennial year and offers suggestions for continued progress. Membership and Member Benefits The demographic changes that occurred in the United States in the 1990s and early 2000s caused a major shift in the education system and society as a whole by replacing policies involving uniformity and "one size fits all" with policies reflecting individualization and "the customer is always right" (Spinelli 2004). Professional organizations that continued with a one-size-fits-all [End Page 9] approach to their programming began to face declining membership. This latter trend was well documented in Sarah L. Sladek's book The End of Membership as We Know It (2011) in which the author provided recommendations for organizations to maintain or improve membership numbers in a new reality. In order to attract new and retain current members, the AATSP has focused on increasing the number of member benefits without increasing dues and offering a greater variety of programs to appeal to more individuals. The AATSP currently offers a wide selection of professional development opportunities including the annual conference, webinars, scholarships and travel stipends for study abroad, as well as numerous events at the chapter level. Over the last decade the AATSP has created new publications in both print and digital format and improved the quality of the existing publications. The number of AATSP programs has increased and now includes National Portuguese Examinations, National Spanish Examinations, Online Classroom Resources, Phi Lambda Beta, Poster Contest, Sociedad Honoraria Hispánica, and the Sociedad Hispánica de Amistad. Notwithstanding the expansion in the number of programs and publications, the AATSP still faces two membership challenges: the need to continually attract new members and the need to establish a membership that is more or less equally divided between those at the K–12 level and those at...

The Inconvenient Youth: Exploring How High School Teens Voluntarily Influence (Pester?) Others on Confronting Air Pollution via a Clean Air Poster Contest

Abstract Learning to drive is a coveted and exciting rite of passage for many teens. What if during this time, however, teens practiced teaching others about air pollution and how responsible drivi...