Presenting research visually: a poster design overview

Presented by Rachel Dueck, University Marketing

Northern 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

GOOD BAD

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 Fonts

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 Fonts

CHECK your work, technically

CHECK your work, technically

Remember 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 1913-1915

Sarah Fuller, Bridgewater State University

4th of July Celebration, 1920, Dodge Street in North Beverly, Helen Wales and Beverly

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…the hand of woman/a frail hand it is true/But it can rock the cradle and drop the ballot too…And though against that fragile hand/Distrust and doubt are hurled./Still, the hand that rocks the cradle/ Should help to rule the world.

Woman Suffrage is the opening wedge to Socialism and Feminism, propagandas antagonistic to everything held dear in Christian civilization.

…she is not capable, has never shown herself and never will show herself capable of sustaining alike the life of the family with all its profound and absorbing demands, and the laborious technique of public life.

…the decline and fall of great nations and civilizations in our world history…three symptoms invariably attend the period of decay…the coming of women into public life and political prominence. This last factor…the fever of the diseased civilization.

The Beverly Beacon: A Woman's Newspaper 11/1/1913

Mary Boyden, Anti Suffrage Secretary and Treasurer

Records , 1915

Thesis: By presenting never before analyzed primary source documents recently discovered in the archives of the local Beverly Historical Society in Beverly, MA, this study shines light on the local narrative, a missing piece of the state and national suffrage picture. Pro- and anti-suffrage women of Beverly, MA focused their attention on three major arguments: national economic changes and how these affected female responsibility within the home and family, whether or not female moral superiority had a role to play in politics, and finally, the social and political consequences that might result if women were allowed to vote.

If the polls are such vile, disorderly places as is claimed, then it is time woman purified them by her presence. Surely the affairs of state need to be conducted with decency and sobriety.

We used this probability model to allow for realistic clustering of plaque granules.

A Mathematical Model for the Effects of Plaque Aggregation on the Neuronal Network

Thomas Howard with mentor Dr. Irina Seceleanu

(a) Program begins by plotting a horizontal line. (b) This line branches to form 3 new lines half the original length and extended straight out and perpendicular to it. (c) Each newly formed line branches in three more lines as in step (b). (d) The jy new iteration generates new line segments of length . (e) Horizontal and (f) vertical offset can be manipulated to realize different geometries. (g) The fractal tree is skewed using randomly generated coefficients to ensure a realistic representation of the neuronal network.

Generating the Neuronal Network using a Fractal Tree

(a) (b) (c) (d)

(e) (f) (g)

Integrating Fractal Tree with Graph Theory Package

Identify and label vertices and edges of the fractal tree, where each vertex represents a neuron. Similar to the neuronal network in the human brain, a signal travels in one direction. For ease of representation, we use a symmetric fractal tree.

Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater, Massachusettsthoward@student.bridgew.edu

Path of Signal through Neuronal Network without Plaque Deposits

Each vertex is assigned a high or low number of receptors using a Bernoulli distribution with parameter p. The probability p decreases from 1 to 0.8 as we move downstream along the neuronal network.

(a) (b) (c) (d)

(a) During the first iteration, a cell is randomly chosen with uniform probability from an grid where n was chosen to be 400. A high probability box is defined around the cells immediately adjacent to the first cell. (b) A cell is chosen from within the high probability box and a new box is positioned relative to the new cell. (c) Most cell deposits will occur in the high probability box as a result of our probability distribution. (d) In a minority of cases, cells are chosen from the complement of the previously defined high probability box. A new box is formed around this last deposit.

Depositing Plaque Granules using a non-homogeneous

Markov Chain

If a vertex has a high number of receptors, the signal passes through the neuron with probability 0.9. If the vertex has a low number of receptors, the signal only passes through the neuron with a probability of 0.3.

Image in orange depicts the path of the signal in a healthy neuronal network.

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• given the current location SPA of the plaque, the next granule will be deposited in spacwith the following probabilities:• each cell in adjacent high probability box is picked with probability .• all other cells are picked uniformly with total probability of .

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION FOR THE LOCATION OF THE NEXT PLAQUE GRANULE IN THE MATRIX A:

Identifying Deteriorated Neuronal Connections due to

Plaque• 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 delete those edges whose counter exceeds a certain threshold value. Edges downstream are subsequently deleted from fractal tree.

The image below shows which neuronal pathways (in red) have been deteriorated by plaque granules deposited on the network.

Path of Signal through Neuronal Network after Plaque Deposits

Image in green shows the path of signal through the neuronal network that has been affected by the plaque deposits

Simulating the Impact of Learning on Neuronal

Degeneration due to Plaque

• The frequent use of the neuronal pathways in the human brain due to learning and memory exercises helps strengthen the neuronal connections which become more resistant to plaque degeneration.

Image of Neuronal Network with Plaque Deposits

Photograph, imaging from human hippocampus.

Computer generated image using our mathematical model.

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• We simulated these effects in our model by increasing the threshold value for the number of plaque granules in the vicinity of an edge required for deletion of that edge.

Table below shows the average of the number of neurons the signal reached for each of our three models having run the simulations a large number of times.

Path of Signal Neurons Reachedwithout Plaque 413/1093

after Plaque 279/1093

with Learning 329/1093

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Compare with image in orange in and note that the signal reached less neurons than in a healthy brain.

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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/