{"title":"The Two Sides of Video Games","authors":"Boyu Wang","doi":"10.37906/isteamc.2020.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37906/isteamc.2020.9","url":null,"abstract":"With the progress of technology during the 21st century, video games have gradually replaced books and newspapers to become mainstream entertainment for many people. In the face of this emergence, reactions to this type of entertainment vary greatly and opinions surrounding the impacts are often polarized. Many believe that video games impact users negatively, leading to violent behavior and depression. On the contrary, others who support video games believe that players can become averse to violence and reduce stress levels. This research paper elaborates and compares two opposing views through example citation and discussion. The author compares video games to books, illustrates the similarities between the two, and the uniqueness of video games through evidence and demonstration. With supporting evidence, the author suggests that the effects of video game usage are not as negative as some imagine. Moreover, this research paper will illustrate the benefits of playing video games.","PeriodicalId":309267,"journal":{"name":"International STEAM Communications","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134321442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Relationship between AI and Human in the Future","authors":"Yide Song","doi":"10.37906/isteamc.2020.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37906/isteamc.2020.8","url":null,"abstract":"The relationship between human and Artificial intelligence (AI) is an arguable topic. In some fictions, AI has been considered as a potential risk for human. However, this topic has seldom considered from both technology and fictions. In this paper review the recent AI technology and fictions. This article presents the hope of AI in daily life and science research, creation and basic algorithm. It shows that people will rely more on AI, however it is impossible to replace human without breakthrough in future development. In the end, this paper justified that AI need restriction.","PeriodicalId":309267,"journal":{"name":"International STEAM Communications","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127371163","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Effects of Quarantine on Depression","authors":"Aaron Zeng","doi":"10.37906/isteamc.2020.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37906/isteamc.2020.6","url":null,"abstract":"The 2020 Covid-19 Virus introduced a new norm into everybody's lives. Among many changes, a significant one was that people were forced to stay inside their homes for days on end, putting many people at high risk for developing mental disorders, such as anxiety, depression, and stress. This paper will specifically focus on depression and combine various sources to analyze how quarantine can lead to depression. This research shows that insufficient sunlight, stressful environments, and lack of human contact are major factors. Furthermore, older adults suffer more due to their low social media usage. This study concludes on how we can prevent this in future pandemics, proposing an app for older adults to use that is simplistic in its design to encourage users of all ages while filtering out stressful news that might cause panic.","PeriodicalId":309267,"journal":{"name":"International STEAM Communications","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125937766","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Making Mars Habitable to Humans","authors":"Maohui Luo","doi":"10.37906/isteamc.2020.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37906/isteamc.2020.7","url":null,"abstract":"This article summarizes and discusses approaches to make Mars habitable to human beings. The human being needs key requirements to survive, which are food, oxygen, water, and shelter. The techniques of photocatalytic water splitting technique and electrolysis are compared for oxygen generation. The hydroponic and aquaponics, vertical farming, and aeroponics are analyzed in this article to viable solutions to providing food on Mars. The shelter is another mandatory requirement for humans to survive on Mars. Techniques and approaches such as 3D printing, inflatable shelters, caves, and lava tubes are discussed in the article. To fully colonize Mars, terraforming is recommended as it creates an Earth-like environment and allows humans to live on Mars as if they live on Earth. However, it could take hundreds of years to achieve the terraforming goal. The combined use of all these techniques can make a suitable environment for the life of humans on Mars, and the goal of colonizing Mars is feasible and achievable.","PeriodicalId":309267,"journal":{"name":"International STEAM Communications","volume":"92 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121711938","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Learner based Perspective on STEM Learning in AP Courses","authors":"Albert Bao","doi":"10.37906/isteamc.2020.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37906/isteamc.2020.5","url":null,"abstract":"STEM fields are at the core of 21st Century Innovation. However only a small number of American students pursue STEM disciplines as their future careers. In high school, AP STEM courses provide unique opportunities to improve students’ awareness, interests, and access to STEM learning in the school environment. A positive experience in these AP courses can be a catalyst to shaping a student’s career interests and preferences towards STEM fields. However, these courses are also the most challenging among all high school curricula, and the situation is even more complicated by the shortage of teachers skilled in STEM subjects. It is then important to help students develop effective learning strategies for these courses. Through surveying high school students who have studied AP STEM courses, this study has found that students highly value learning physics with a concept-based approach, chemistry and calculus with a procedure-based strategy, and biology with a mix between memorization and concept. Additionally, students prepared best with a mix between concept-based activities, such as labs, and procedure-based activities, such as practice problems, in both physics and chemistry. Students who took biology found memorization-based preparations to be the most useful, and calculus was prepared best with procedure.","PeriodicalId":309267,"journal":{"name":"International STEAM Communications","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128518475","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Garbage Classification","authors":"Rong Li","doi":"10.37906/isteamc.2020.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37906/isteamc.2020.2","url":null,"abstract":"Starting from late May of 2019, the Chinese government has started to enforce the garbage classification law in Beijing, which requires local citizens to mandatorily classify their trash in public places, such as schools and hospitals, and will gradually cover more areas. In July, the laws on garbage management were also implemented in Shanghai, with more cities following this footstep. This chain of events has clearly demonstrated the determination of the Chinese government in dealing with garbage classification, which has long been a significant problem in China, in order to protect the environment and develop sustainable cities. This paper combines a variety of sources, including internet webpages and interviews, etc., to analyze different aspects of the laws implemented by the Chinese government in Shanghai and Beijing, including their benefits and problems, to finally form a prediction that the laws would not succeed or show evident effectiveness for these cities in the near future. This paper helps provide insights to the garbage classification policies, and advocates that citizens should wait patiently for the success of the laws, instead of bragging or criticizing them right away.","PeriodicalId":309267,"journal":{"name":"International STEAM Communications","volume":"303 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122867037","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Is the cause of RBD neurological or psychological?","authors":"","doi":"10.37906/isteamc.2021.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37906/isteamc.2021.6","url":null,"abstract":"RBD stands for Rapid Eye Movement Disorder and is a sleep disorder that happens during your REM (Rapid Eye Movement) stage of sleep. People often associate the cause of RBD with dreams because people dream during the REM stage of sleep, which is also when RBD tends to happen as well. It may affect a small fraction of the general population, but that is still a fairly large amount of people in the world who suffer from RBD. Previous research by Michel Jouvet proved that RBD in cats were caused by brain lesions, and two scientists discovered that brain lesions can suppress negative emotions. From these two discoveries I have decided to research whether or not RBD can be categorized as something to do with psychological behaviour or neurological behaviour. I have modeled two experiments and several possibilities that one may receive in which I will have a certain reasoning for each.","PeriodicalId":309267,"journal":{"name":"International STEAM Communications","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122622797","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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