http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ A search of MERLOT materials Copyright 1997-2013 MERLOT. All rights reserved. Sun, 19 May 2013 21:23:03 PDT Sun, 19 May 2013 21:23:03 PDT http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/images/merlot.gif http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ 44 34 http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=594505 This film examines exposures to alpha particles that are emitted from the nuclei of some heavy, unstable atoms. Major topics include health effects, exposures, and protective measures. Other educational concepts include internal radiation hazard, radon and its daughters/progeny. This instructional film is from Kansas State University's web-based course, GENAG 711, Occupational and Agricultural Health. Copyright 2011, Mitch Ricketts. For an illustrated transcript, copy and paste this web address into your browser " target=״_blank״>http://www.ksre.ksu.edu/agsafe/p.aspx?tabid=47 http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=594476 This film explores the health effects of ionizing radiation (radioactivity). The film also examines methods for reducing exposures to radiation in workplaces. Educational concepts include ionizing radiation, radiation sickness, radiation burns, other health effects, ion pairs, free radicals, penetration versus interaction, and time/distance/shielding. This instructional film is from Kansas State University's web-based course, GENAG 711, Occupational and Agricultural Health. Copyright 2011, Mitch Ricketts. For an illustrated transcript, copy and paste this web address into your browser " target=״_blank״>http://www.ksre.ksu.edu/agsafe/p.aspx?tabid=47 http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=598064 In this film, we’ll explore methods for engaging learners through the experience of a field trip. When students perform meaningful tasks in the field, the activity becomes a form of concrete, experiential learning. This instructional film is from Kansas State University's web-based course, GENAG 721, Occupational and Agricultural Safety and Health Interventions. Copyright 2011, Mitch Ricketts. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=594456 This film examines the process of radioactive decay as part of an educational unit on the health effects of ionizing radiation (radioactivity). Educational concepts include radioisotope, radioactive decay, alpha radiation, beta radiation, gamma radiation, x-radiation, decay chain, and half-life. This instructional film is from Kansas State University's web-based course, GENAG 711, Occupational and Agricultural Health. Copyright 2011, Mitch Ricketts. For an illustrated transcript, copy and paste this web address into your browser " target=״_blank״>http://www.ksre.ksu.edu/agsafe/p.aspx?tabid=47 http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=522604 This website provides a wide range of information related to metropolitcan transportation topics and provides online resources in research, education, outreach, links to other organizations, and news/events.The METRANS Transportation Center is a US DOT University Transportation Center (UTC). Established in 1998 through the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21), METRANS is a joint partnership of the University of Southern California and California State University, Long Beach. Under the UTC program, federal funding requires a dollar-for-dollar match with non-federal funds. The California State Department of Transportation (Caltrans) provides the full non-federal match to METRANS. METRANS is the first and largest UTC in Southern California, home to nearly 2/3 of the state's population, and in GNP equivalent the 10th largest economy in the world. The Los Angeles region is also the most congested metropolitan area in the US and the only one in the 2004 State of California "extreme" non-attainment category for ozone. The region is a center for international trade: the Los Angeles/ Long Beach port complex is the largest container port in the US (Total Cargo Value: over $378 billion FY 2007); and LAX is the 4th largest air freight center in the US, following only Memphis, the FedEx hub, and Anchorage. As a center of both international trade and immigration, it is home to both extreme wealth and extreme poverty, and has one of the largest transit-dependent populations in the country. METRANS is committed to addressing the transportation challenges of regions such as Los Angeles. METRANS' mission is to solve transportation problems of large metropolitan regions through interdisciplinary research, education and outreach. The University Transportation Center program has three objectives: Foster independent, high quality research to solve the nation's transportation problems Train the next generation transportation workforce Disseminate information, best practices, and technology to the professional community METRANS accomplishes these objectives through a comprehensive and collaborative program of research, education, information dissemination and technology transfer organized around four topical focus areas. The main focus is goods movement and international trade, accounting for about half of all METRANS research and most of METRANS outreach and information dissemination activities. The second focus area is mobility of urban populations, with special emphasis on public transportation, and accounting for about one third of METRANS research. Highway infrastructure, and safety, security and vulnerability are relatively new topic areas. The partnership of USC and CSULB brings together two large urban universities (a combined student body of about 65,000) with complementary strengths. USC is among the nation's leading research universities, and CSULB is one of the largest teaching universities in California. Participating faculty come from several fields of engineering, as well as planning, public policy, public administration, economics, and geography. USC offers PhD and masters programs with transportation specialization in engineering, urban planning, public policy, and public administration. CSULB offers an interdisciplinary Master of Arts in Global Logistics. Professional development programs are offered through its Center for International Trade and Transportation at the College of Continuing and Professional Education. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=669623 AntWeb is "the world's largest database of images, specimen records, and natural history on ants. As of May 2012 AntWeb has 77510 ant images, of 18508 specimens representing over 8304 species. AntWeb provides tools for submitting images, specimen records, annotating species pages, and managing regional species lists. AntWeb is community driven and open to contribution from anyone with specimen records, natural history comments, or images.״ Their catalog contains 3D images of every ant species helping researchers and scientists to identify each ant species. AntWeb is a global effort to catalog all ant species. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=642010 This film introduces students to structures of the eye as they relate to vision and eye health. This instructional film is from Kansas State University's web-based course, GENAG 711, Occupational and Agricultural Health. Copyright 2010, 2011, Mitch Ricketts. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=600061 This 28:40 minute YouTube film examines exposures to gamma rays that are emitted from the nuclei of certain radioactive atoms. Major topics include health effects, exposures, and protective measures. Other educational concepts include external radiation hazard, internal radiation hazard, and shielding. This instructional film is from Kansas State University's web-based course, GENAG 711, Occupational and Agricultural Health. Copyright 2011, Mitch Ricketts. For an illustrated transcript, copy and paste this web address into your browser " target=״_blank״>http://www.ksre.ksu.edu/agsafe/p.aspx?tabid=47 http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=562117 A grasp of the current conflict surrounding the responsibility and direction of the juvenile justice system becomes more obtainable when one takes into consideration how the system has progressed since its inception. The juvenile justice system was created in the late 1800s to reform U.S. policies regarding youth offenders. Since that time, a number of reforms - aimed at both protecting the "due process of law" rights of youth, and creating an aversion toward jail among the young - have made the juvenile justice system more comparable to the adult system, a shift from the United State's original intent. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=594432 This film briefly considers the nature of atoms as an introduction to an educational unit on the health effects of ionizing radiation (radioactivity). Educational concepts include atoms, nucleus, proton, neutron, electron, element, isotope, electrical charges, and ions. This instructional film is from Kansas State University's web-based course, GENAG 711, Occupational and Agricultural Health. Copyright 2011, Mitch Ricketts. For an illustrated transcript, copy and paste this web address into your browser http://www.ksre.ksu.edu/agsafe/p.aspx?tabid=47