We are students majoring in mathematics education, computer systems technology, and construction management & civil engineering, and we are interning in the Interdisciplinary Design Game-Based Learning Lab (ID GBL2). Our game, Powerless Night, is a narrative-driven digital role-playing game we are developing to help undergraduate students, our classmates, understand mathematics and engineering concepts in a way that is playful and dynamic. We researched story structure, wrote a detailed story for our game using the hero’s journey plot structure, explored game mechanics, and created a 3D game world in the real-time development platform, Unity. Next semester, we will develop a playable prototype. We hope to make the concepts explored through our role-playing game virtual world less difficult to understand in reality.
This work aims to review and assess the current state of Radiology research in Alzheimer’s Disease to complement and coordinate multi-modal research progress via Radiomics. Alzheimer’s Disease. Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) is a center that utilizes the different standard methods for the use of clinical magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and positron emission tomography (PET) and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers for advancing. Early diagnosis and assessing the efficacy of treatment and related biomarkers for Alzheimer’s Disease. AD is an accumulation of β-amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles made up of tau amyloid fibrils, causing damage to synapses leading to memory loss. Aβ amyloid PET imaging, MRI, CSF, biomarkers, and RSfMRI are candidates for selecting at-risk patients for AD. These processes detect prevention treatments or delay the progression. The ADNI study examined patients with early mild cognitive impairment (MCI), early AD, and normal patients. Each biomarker differed due to their continual alteration in disease progression. Neurodegeneration occurred in the hippocampus.
PHYS 1002ID: Introduction to the Physics of Natural Disasters Interdisciplinary
Professor Abdou Bah
This geophysics course for non-science majors focuses on natural disasters and the dynamic Earth processes that control them. It integrates the principles of geology, meteorology, climatology, oceanography, and astronomy to provide rudimentary understanding of geophysics. Students learn about the nature, causes, risks, impacts, and prediction of natural disasters including hurricanes, earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis, and climate change. Laboratory exercises are incorporated with class work to illustrate and supplement the lecture material.
For hundreds of millions of years, the forces of plate tectonics have shaped the Earth as they slowly move over, under, and past each other. The occurrence of an Earthquake is quite unpredictable which makes them one of the most destructive and dangerous natural disasters. An intense and deadly seismic event struck offshore east of Tohoku, Japan on February 13th, 2021. After researching the effects on the economy, the aftermath of the Earthquake and what Japan put in place to help reduce damage can teach us about Earthquakes and how to better prepare for the most frightening destructive phenomena of nature.
Hello, our group project is called the NY flood of 2021. Our major focuses in our projects were to demonstrate what a flood is and how they form. Then we used the NY flood of 2021 to illustrate what can happen to a major city with good infrastructure in which we demonstrated the damages and deaths done due to this flood. Then we came up with multiple solutions that can help limit damages and lives taken due to floods.
Climate change has been an issue for at least 25 years and it has affected every aspect of our lives. Changes to our planet’s surface temperature has been an ongoing issue with a 2 degrees F increase since the late 19th century, due to the continuous increase of carbon dioxide emission. Sea Level rising is a direct consequence of increased temperatures which is known as Global Warming. Sea level rising is mostly due to glaciers melting from Antarctica and Greenland, following is the oceans warming and gulf stream. NY coastlines are in danger of being underwater by 2050 with a sea rise of 40 cm. Given the current trajectory of our climate, NY will need to prepare by building retractable water-tight gates and barriers, elevating the land and limiting the construction of residential buildings by the coastline.
