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This research paper explores how different relationships between people and nature can be fostered by learning experiences to bridge harmful gaps in the field of sustainability. Current disconnectedness from nature and people both within and across geographical borders hinder the cultivation of sustainable solutions. After attending a sustainability-oriented educational experience abroad in Ecuador recently, I decided to investigate how cross-cultural exchanges in Ecuador influences participants’ views of nature, new points of intersectionality participants learn while amongst nature in Ecuador, and what about this experience made it uniquely meaningful. Research methods included individual interviews and a group hike and picnic focus group discussion to collect qualitative data. I found that during this experience, students were able to lean into being vulnerable with each other, connect with indigenous community members beyond language borders, and connect with nature in ways that fostered awareness of the human position within it. From this, I learned that there were unique aspects of this learning experience that allowed for these relationships to be built and therefore for sustainable knowledge from the trip to stick when participants got back to the United States. The amount and flexibility of learning and processing time and dynamics created by classroom structure were important variables to the effectiveness of the learning experience. Institutions can learn from these experiences and connect people back to nature to implement successful sustainability solutions in the future.
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In this research, I surveyed existing methods of characterizing Epilepsy from Electroencephalogram (EEG) data, including the Random Forest algorithm, which was claimed by many researchers to be the most effective at detecting epileptic seizures [7]. I observed that although many papers claimed a detection of >99% using Random Forest, it was not specified “when” the detection was declared within the 23.6 second interval of the seizure event. In this research, I created a time-series procedure to detect the seizure as early as possible within the 23.6 second epileptic seizure window and found that the detection is effective (> 92%) as early as the first few seconds of the epileptic episode. I intend to use this research as a stepping stone towards my upcoming Masters thesis research where I plan to expand the time-series detection mechanism to the pre-ictal stage, which will require a different dataset.
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