The EPA Storm Water Management Model, SWMM, first developed in 1969-71, was one of the first models focusing on stormwater. It has been continually maintained and updated and is perhaps the best known and most widely used of the available urban runoff quantity/quality models (Huber and Roesner, 2013). This technical reference manual (one of three volumes) describes the hydrology process simulated in SWMM.
SWMM is a dynamic rainfall-runoff simulation model used for single event or long-term (continuous) simulation of runoff quantity and quality from primarily urban areas. The runoff component of SWMM operates on a collection of subcatchment areas that receive precipitation and generate runoff and pollutant loads. The routing portion of SWMM transports this runoff through a system of pipes, channels, storage/treatment devices, pumps, and regulators. SWMM tracks the quantity and quality of runoff generated within each subcatchment, and the flow rate, flow depth, and quality of water in each pipe and channel during a simulation period comprised of multiple time steps.
Several months ago I visited the Manual Thinking workshop in Barcelona, where Luki and his partner Gerrit Jan Veldman, lead clients including Nestl, Spanish Cookware Company Lku and University Design programs from Belgium to Tokyo through brainstorming sessions using their proprietary, visual, active and immersive Manual Thinking process. Unlike most innovation workshop environments that tend to feel secluded, this one, located in the beautiful, historic Barcelona El Born neighborhood, has floor to ceiling windows that face the street and provide energizing natural light and the dynamism of people constantly walking by.
The interior wall is lined with Manual Thinking Boxes, filled with items to inspire creativity and from which quick prototypes are often made. The items provide stimuli for observing characteristics that can be applied to creating new product features and attributes.
In contrast to the usual left to right and top to bottom ways of viewing information, Mind Maps start with first defining objectives with a precise sentence, and then placing the core idea or topic in the center. Individual product or service components are arrayed around the core idea and each component can be further brainstormed. The tool encourages creativity, idea exploration, prioritization and organization in a structured way.
A requirement for effective sessions is enough space for participants to move around, sit, stand, write on large posters, and place them on walls. Team members constantly change positions and posture, both physically and mentally. In addition to using their hands to create the Mind Maps, they also make preliminary prototypes using items from the Mind Map boxes.
An interesting alternative to writing priorities is forming little balls of different sizes of clay to denote the relative magnitude of preference. Once everyone has created and placed theirs on the surface next to each idea, the balls can be combined to illustrate the relative priorities of the entire group. Different size balloons have also been used. Voting becomes a fun activity that energizes the group.
Luki and Gerrit created blank maps and sticker kits for companies, schools and independent groups to use on their own. Their website www.manualthinking.com has templates of Mind Maps that can be downloaded and printed, and the step by step manual they sell enables groups to learn and apply the approach on their own.
Manual Thinking is an original and effective method that generates ideas that might otherwise never emerge, like the silicone steamer from Lku that cooks food tastefully in a microwave with less need for oil...
Jeffrey Huber, an adjunct assistant professor and project designer, won a 2011-12 New Faculty Teaching Award from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture and American Institute of Architecture Students.
Jeffrey Huber, an adjunct assistant professor and project designer, was one of three recipients of the 2011-12 ACSA/AIAS New Faculty Teaching Award. The Community Design Center is an outreach program of the Fay Jones School of Architecture.
For his portfolio, Huber presented teaching work that focused on independent studies courses, research, and design studios that he taught with architect Larry Scarpa and Stephen Luoni, director of the design center. Huber considers both colleagues strong mentors.
Huber submitted a portfolio that featured a proposed design for the new Fayetteville High School, which combined master plans and small learning communities. This project, done in the design studio with Scarpa, won a 2010 Education Honor Award from the American Institute of Architects.
Other projects submitted for this award include the Fayetteville 2030: Transit City Scenario, which features a streetcar system to curb urban sprawl and prompt more compact walkable neighborhood environments along the College Avenue corridor, and Townscaping an Automobile-Oriented Fabric, which introduces context-sensitive highway solutions and urban agriculture solutions along U.S. 62 in Farmington. These projects won AIA Honor Awards for Regional and Urban Design in 2012 and 2011, respectively.
Huber also was co-author and developed graphics for the 227-page book Low Impact Development: A Design Manual for Urban Areas. He has also led independent studies courses with landscape architecture students for xeriscape gardens at the Fayetteville wastewater treatment plant.
Low Impact Development: A Design Manual for Urban Areas won one of three 2011-12 Collaborative Practice Awards. Huber and Luoni, working with the ecological engineering group in the department of biological and agricultural engineering at the university, guided production of the low-impact design manual. The center and the group developed the book under a grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Arkansas Natural Resources Commission.
The manual also won a 2011 Award of Excellence in Communications from the American Society of Landscape Architects; a 2011 AIA Honor Award for Regional and Urban Design; and a 2010 Unique Contribution to Planning Award from the Arkansas Chapter of the American Planning Association.
Winning projects and awards will be presented at the 100th annual meeting of the ACSA, planned for March 1-4 in Boston. All award winners will be published in the 2011-2012 Architecture Education Awards Book, to be released in March.
Danna Villarreal, a doctoral student in biological and agricultural engineering, and Meutia Hanafiah, a doctoral student in anthropology, won $5,000 International Peace Scholarships from the P.E.O. Sisterhood.
After 22 years at the University of Arkansas Police Department, Debra Abshier will retire on July 31. UAPD will celebrate her contributions to the department from 2-4 p.m. Monday at the Administrative Services Building
The theme for this summit is "Becoming a Better Leader: Deepening Leadership Skills and Values." It will be from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 24, in the Graduate Student Lounge in Gearhart Hall.
Russell Lloyd, PT is a Physical Therapist in Huber Heights, OH. He earned his Doctor of Physical Therapy from Temple University in Philadelphia, PA in 2010. He received his Bachelor of Athletic Training from Kent State University in Kent, OH in 2006.
Russell specializes in vestibular physical therapy and treats patients with sports concussion, concussion, benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, vestibular hypofunction, and vertigo. Techniques and treatments may include canalith repositioning, gaze stabilization exercises, adaptation exercises, habituation exercises, and substitution exercises.
Russell also specializes in sports physical therapy and treats patients with sprains/strains, post-operative knee, shoulder, hip, and ankle surgeries, fractures, and sacroiliac (SI) joint pain. Techniques and treatments may include instrument-assisted soft tissue mobilization (IASTM), manual therapy, and injury prevention.
Russell specializes in orthopedic physical therapy and treats patients with back pain, sprains/strains, fractures, joint pain, and post-operation patients. Techniques and treatments may include manual therapy, therapeutic exercise, instrument-assisted soft tissue mobilization (IASTM), myofascial or joint mobilization, and postural training.
Russel joined the Sports Medicine Outreach Team and Vestibular TEAMS committee in 2022 and the Concussion TEAMS committee in 2023.
A basic task in the analysis of count data from RNA-seq is the detection of differentially expressed genes. The count data are presented as a table which reports, for each sample, the number of sequence fragments that have been assigned to each gene. Analogous data also arise for other assay types, including comparative ChIP-Seq, HiC, shRNA screening, and mass spectrometry. An important analysis question is the quantification and statistical inference of systematic changes between conditions, as compared to within-condition variability. The package DESeq2 provides methods to test for differential expression by use of negative binomial generalized linear models; the estimates of dispersion and logarithmic fold changes incorporate data-driven prior distributions. This vignette explains the use of the package and demonstrates typical workflows. An RNA-seq workflow on the Bioconductor website covers similar material to this vignette but at a slower pace, including the generation of count matrices from FASTQ files. DESeq2 package version: 1.45.3
Here we show the most basic steps for a differential expression analysis. There are a variety of steps upstream of DESeq2 that result in the generation of counts or estimated counts for each sample, which we will discuss in the sections below. This code chunk assumes that you have a count matrix called cts and a table of sample information called coldata. The design indicates how to model the samples, here, that we want to measure the effect of the condition, controlling for batch differences. The two factor variables batch and condition should be columns of coldata.
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