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Presenting research visually: a poster design overview
Presented by Rachel Dueck, University MarketingNorthern Arizona University
Importance of posters
EXPLAIN your project visually
SHOW outcomes
RELAY the project to your audience
Poster design basics
EDIT your story
MAINTAIN balance
CONTRAST your background and your foreground
CHOOSE FONTS wisely
CHECK your work from a technical standpoint
EDIT your story
Point 1
Point 2
Point 3
BOLD HEADINGS
VISUALS
CHARTS
MAINTAIN balance
GOOD BAD
CONTRAST
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Make sure text and imagery maintain a high level of contrast.
Make sure text and imagery maintain a high level of contrast.
CHOOSE FONTS wisely
GOOD BAD
Make sure all fonts are highly legible for both headings and body text.
Be sure to choose a size that will be legible from a distance as well.
Choosing FontsMake sure all fonts are highly legible for both headings and body text.
Be sure to choose a size that will be legible from a distance as well.
Choosing Fonts
CHECK your work, technically
CHECK your work, technicallyRemember to ZOOM to 100% to check graphics and text size
GOOD BAD
A Slip of Paper in a Black Walnut Box: An Examination of the Suffrage Debate
in Beverly, Massachusetts 1913-1915Sarah Fuller, Bridgewater State University
4th of July Celebration, 1920, Dodge Street in North Beverly, Helen Wales and Beverly Dunham (L to R)
…the hand of woman/a frail hand it istrue/But it can rock the cradle and dropthe ballot too…And though against thatfragile hand/Distrust and doubt arehurled./Still, the hand that rocks thecradle/ Should help to rule the world.
Woman Suffrage is the openingwedge to Socialism and Feminism,propagandas antagonistic toeverything held dear in Christiancivilization.
…she is not capable, has never shownherself and never will show herself capableof sustaining alike the life of the family withall its profound and absorbing demands,and the laborious technique of public life.
…the decline and fall of great nations andcivilizations in our world history…threesymptoms invariably attend the period ofdecay…the coming of women into public lifeand political prominence. This lastfactor…the fever of the diseased civilization.
The Beverly Beacon: A Woman's Newspaper11/1/1913
Mary Boyden, Anti Suffrage Secretary and Treasurer Records , 1915
Thesis: By presenting never before analyzed primary sourcedocuments recently discovered in the archives of the local BeverlyHistorical Society in Beverly, MA, this study shines light on the localnarrative, a missing piece of the state and national suffrage picture.Pro- and anti-suffrage women of Beverly, MA focused their attentionon three major arguments: national economic changes and how theseaffected female responsibility within the home and family, whether ornot female moral superiority had a role to play in politics, and finally,the social and political consequences that might result if women wereallowed to vote.
If the polls are such vile, disorderlyplaces as is claimed, then it is timewoman purified them by herpresence. Surely the affairs of stateneed to be conducted with decencyand sobriety.
We used this probability model to allow for realistic clustering ofplaque granules.
A Mathematical Model for the Effects of Plaque Aggregation on the Neuronal NetworkThomas Howard with mentor Dr. Irina Seceleanu
(a) Program begins by plotting a horizontal line. (b) This linebranches to form 3 new lines half the original length andextended straight out and perpendicular to it. (c) Each newlyformed line branches in three more lines as in step (b). (d) Thejy new iteration generates new line segments of length. (e) Horizontal and (f) vertical offset can be manipulated torealize different geometries. (g) The fractal tree is skewed usingrandomly generated coefficients to ensure a realisticrepresentation of the neuronal network.
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(e) (f) (g)
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Identify and label vertices and edges of the fractal tree, whereeach vertex represents a neuron. Similar to the neuronal networkin the human brain, a signal travels in one direction. For ease ofrepresentation, we use a symmetric fractal tree.
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater, Massachusetts
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Each vertex is assigned a high or low number of receptors using aBernoulli distribution with parameter p. The probability pdecreases from 1 to 0.8 as we move downstream along theneuronal network.
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(a) During the first iteration, a cell is randomly chosen with uniformprobability from an grid where n was chosen to be 400. A highprobability box is defined around the cells immediately adjacent tothe first cell. (b) A cell is chosen from within the high probabilitybox and a new box is positioned relative to the new cell. (c) Mostcell deposits will occur in the high probability box as a result of ourprobability distribution. (d) In a minority of cases, cells are chosenfrom the complement of the previously defined high probability box.A new box is formed around this last deposit.
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If a vertex has a highnumber of receptors, thesignal passes through theneuron with probability 0.9.If the vertex has a lownumber of receptors, thesignal only passes throughthe neuron with a probabilityof 0.3.
Image in orange depicts thepath of the signal in a healthyneuronal network.
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• given the current locationSPA of the plaque, the nextgranule will be depositedin spacwith the followingprobabilities:• each cell in adjacent highprobability box is picked withprobability .• all other cells are pickeduniformly with totalprobability of .
PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION FOR THE LOCATION OF THE NEXTPLAQUE GRANULE IN THE MATRIX A:
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• Deposit 5000 plaque granules.• Identify the closest edge in the fractal tree for each plaque
granule and compute distance from plaque granule to edge.• If distance is less than 5 we record this in a counter and deletethose edges whose counter exceeds a certain threshold value. Edgesdownstream are subsequently deleted from fractal tree.
The image below shows which neuronal pathways (in red) havebeen deteriorated by plaque granules deposited on the network.
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Image in green shows the path of signal through the neuronalnetwork that has been affected by the plaque deposits
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• The frequent use of the neuronal pathways in thehuman brain due to learning and memory exerciseshelps strengthen the neuronal connections whichbecome more resistant to plaque degeneration.
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Photograph, imaging fromhuman hippocampus.
Computer generated imageusing our mathematicalmodel.
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• We simulated theseeffects in our model byincreasing thethreshold value for thenumber of plaquegranules in the vicinityof an edge required fordeletion of that edge.
Table below shows theaverage of the numberof neurons the signalreached for each of ourthree models havingrun the simulations alarge number of times.
Path of Signal Neurons Reachedwithout Plaque 413/1093
after Plaque 279/1093with Learning 329/1093
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Additional resources
nau.edu/ugr
nau.edu/Research/Undergraduate/Poster-Presentation-Tips/
nau.edu/ugsymposium
nau.edu/CEFNS/Forestry/Student-Resources/Information-Technology/Plot-a-Poster/