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The Impact Of Daylight Saving Time Transitions On Domestic Violence Call Volume, Quynh-Nhu Pham
The Impact Of Daylight Saving Time Transitions On Domestic Violence Call Volume, Quynh-Nhu Pham
Master's Projects
Daylight Saving Time (DST) is a longstanding practice in many countries, involving the seasonal adjustment of clocks by one hour forward in the spring, and one hour backward in the fall. Although DST was initially introduced to promote energy conservation and maximize daylight hours, it has become a subject of debate, given its impact on physical and mental health, cognitive performance, and criminal behavior (Kountouris & Remoundou, 2014).
In 2022, Colorado enacted a law adopting year-round DST, contingent upon a federal law enabling states to maintain DST throughout the year as opposed to ST, like Hawaii and Arizona (Chasan, 2024). …
Assumptions, Resources, And Inputs To Case Management: Implications For California’S Regional Center System, Jonathan Flint
Assumptions, Resources, And Inputs To Case Management: Implications For California’S Regional Center System, Jonathan Flint
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This project adds to knowledge of case management assumptions, resources, and inputs for California’s Regional Center system by surveying members of the Service Access and Equity working group, formed by the Department of Developmental Services (DDS). It recommends development of a logic model to evaluate case management activities because their intended societal impacts are difficult to directly measure. Additionally, it adds to the debate on health equity and racial disparities in Medicaid long-term services and supports (LTSS). In 1969, passage of the Lanterman Developmental Disabilities Services Act (The Lanterman Act) led to the first and still only entitlement to community-based …
Suburban Bay Area City Approaches To Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion (Dei), Arianna Bush
Suburban Bay Area City Approaches To Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion (Dei), Arianna Bush
Master's Projects
The ultimate goal of government is to serve the community for the greater good. Creating an inclusive and representative environment for those working in government and for the population they serve will improve many aspects of public service. In recent decades, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) have been increasingly prioritized as America has become increasingly diverse. However, this effort intensified in 2020 after the murder of George Floyd and the subsequent Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests. “Three years after Floyd's death and the movement hit the streets, 74% of Black executives said they saw positive change in hiring, retention, and …
Image Segmentation By Convolutional Neural Networks In Coral Resilience Research, Jennifer Benbow
Image Segmentation By Convolutional Neural Networks In Coral Resilience Research, Jennifer Benbow
Master's Projects
As ocean temperatures rise, coral bleaching is becoming more frequent and severe. Selective breeding experiments show promise for enhancing coral resilience, but scaling these projects is hindered by the labor-intensive nature of taking numerous time series measurements as corals grow. Automating this process with computer vision is one solution to this bottleneck, and to our knowledge, no such tool exists at present. To fill this gap, we have trained a set of machine learning models, based on the Mask R-CNN framework, for segmenting juvenile corals in lab-based coral resilience research. This work shows that retraining the Mask R-CNN architecture through …
How Are Mcps Doing On Achieving Assessed Calaim Requirements? A Comparative Analysis Of Selected Not-For-Profit, Publicly Governed Health Plans In California, Junell Chen
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At the heart of a larger societal movement, the imperative to foster diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) is a resounding call to action across all sectors. This pressing concern underscores the need for proactive and equity-centric solutions, including within the American healthcare system. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has been instrumental in shaping policies and initiatives, such as Healthy People, aimed at promoting health equity and reducing health disparities. Similarly, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has instituted supplementary compliance requirements to hold healthcare stakeholders accountable for implementing equitable programs designed to eliminate health disparities …
Regional Sea Level Rise Prediction In Monterey Bay With Lstms And Vertical Land Motion, Branden Lopez
Regional Sea Level Rise Prediction In Monterey Bay With Lstms And Vertical Land Motion, Branden Lopez
Master's Projects
Earth system data is vast in volume and variety, and is used to forecast weather,
hurricanes, floods, and sea level. Sea Level Rise (SLR) impacts various sectors, espe- cially ecosystems, food production, industry, population, health, and the availability of
clean water. Because of its broad impact, describing the behavior and forecasting SLR is an important topic. Traditional Machine Learning (ML) models vary in use, but many are not capable of capturing all the non-linear spatial and temporal properties of SLR factors. Deep learning models efficaciously handle complex time series data, noise, and high dimensional spaces, making them a focus of …
Ubiquitous Application Data Collection In A Disconnected Distributed System, Deepak Munagala
Ubiquitous Application Data Collection In A Disconnected Distributed System, Deepak Munagala
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Despite some incredible advancements in technology, a significant population of the world does not have internet connectivity. These people lack access to crucial information that is easily available to the rest of the world. To solve this problem, we implement a Delay Tolerant Network (DTN) that allows users in disconnected regions access to the internet. This is enabled by collecting all data requests on the users’ phones and passing them to a device that can carry them to a connected region. This device can then collect the necessary information and give it back to the users in the disconnected region. …
Untraining Gender Bias: An Eye-Tracking Study, Ripujit S. Bamrah
Untraining Gender Bias: An Eye-Tracking Study, Ripujit S. Bamrah
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In recent years, social cognitive theory has emphasized the role of cognitive processes in shaping perceptions and behavior related to gender bias. By examining the impact of targeted training interventions, this study seeks to better understand the influence of such processes on decision-making in the context of character selection. This human-computer interaction study explores the potential of intervention-based training to untraining gender bias in character selection. With an increasing need to address gender bias in various domains, understanding the impact of gender-based training becomes crucial. According to our hypothesis, exposure to masculine characters would boost people’s preference for female- intellectualized …
Nosql Databases In Kubernetes, Parth Sandip Mehta
Nosql Databases In Kubernetes, Parth Sandip Mehta
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With the increasing popularity of deploying applications in containers, Kubernetes (K8s) has become one of the most accepted container orchestration systems. Kubernetes helps maintain containers smoothly and simplifies DevOps with powerful automations. It was originally developed as a tool to manage stateless microservices that run seamlessly in containers. The ephemeral nature of pods, the smallest deployable unit, in Kubernetes was well-aligned with stateless applications since destroying and recreating pods didn’t impact applications. There was a need to provision solutions around stateful workloads like databases so as to take advantage of K8s. This project explores this need, the challenges associated and …
Resilience Training For Healthcare Professionals: A Literature Review, Michelle Dictor
Resilience Training For Healthcare Professionals: A Literature Review, Michelle Dictor
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Purpose: An exploration of various resilience training programs to determine if there is a significant impact on the psychological resilience of health care professionals.
Method: An electronic systematic review using San Jose State University’s OneSearch database search engine was completed. The review contains published research articles between 2011-2022. Nine published articles were reviewed and used for this systematic review.
Results: There is limited data related to resilience training and resources in accredited nursing programs. Resilience training programs are both a feasible and acceptable way of building psychological resilience among interdisciplinary health care professionals.
Conclusion: Mindfulness-based resilience training programs can be …
Graph Based System For Evidential Reasoning, Divyarajsinh Chauhan
Graph Based System For Evidential Reasoning, Divyarajsinh Chauhan
Master's Projects
In the modern data driven world, graph editing tools have become very essential as they provide means to understand, visualize and manipulate complex relationships between various datasets. They have especially played a crucial role in the space of evidential reasoning, where it has made a significant impact in the decision making process by developers, analysts and researchers to understand and represent the connection in the data. Existing tools fail to handle huge amounts of data efficiently and also don’t have the features required to handle tasks related to evidential reasoning.To address these gaps, we developed Pygrapher Web UI tool. We …
Gender Classification Via Human Joints Using Convolutional Neural Network, Cheng-En Sung
Gender Classification Via Human Joints Using Convolutional Neural Network, Cheng-En Sung
Master's Projects
With the growing demand for gender-related data on diverse applications, including security systems for ascertaining an individual’s identity for border crossing, as well as marketing purposes of digging the potential customer and tailoring special discounts for them, gender classification has become an essential task within the field of computer vision and deep learning. There has been extensive research conducted on classifying human gender using facial expression, exterior appearance (e.g., hair, clothes), or gait movement. However, within the scope of our research, none have specifically focused gender classification on two-dimensional body joints. Knowing this, we believe that a new prediction pipeline …
Dynamic Predictions Of Thermal Heating And Cooling Of Silicon Wafer, Hitesh Kumar
Dynamic Predictions Of Thermal Heating And Cooling Of Silicon Wafer, Hitesh Kumar
Master's Projects
Neural Networks are now emerging in every industry. All the industries are trying their best to exploit the benefits of neural networks and deep learning to make predictions or simulate their ongoing process with the use of their generated data. The purpose of this report is to study the heating pattern of a silicon wafer and make predictions using various machine learning techniques. The heating of the silicon wafer involves various factors ranging from number of lamps, wafer properties and points taken in consideration to capture the heating temperature. This process involves dynamic inputs which facilitates the heating of the …
Image Captioning Using Reinforcement Learning, Venkat Teja Golamaru
Image Captioning Using Reinforcement Learning, Venkat Teja Golamaru
Master's Projects
Image captioning is a crucial technology with numerous applications, including enhancing accessibility for the visually impaired, developing automated image indexing and retrieval systems, and enriching social media experiences. However, accurately describing the content of an image in natural language remains a challenge, particularly in low-resource settings where data and computational power are limited. The most advanced image captioning architectures currently use encoder-decoder structures that incorporate a sequential recurrent prediction model. This study adopts a typical Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) encoder Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) decoder structure for image captioning, but it has framed the problem as a sequential decision-making task. …
Influence Maximization Based On Community Detection And Dominating Sets, Ameya Marathe
Influence Maximization Based On Community Detection And Dominating Sets, Ameya Marathe
Master's Projects
An online platform where various people come together to share information and communicate is called a social network. These platforms are set apart from other means of communication mostly because you can follow and interact also with different people even some you never met, comment on their posts, and re-sharing their posts. Companies such as Amazon and Walmart use these platforms daily for marketing purposes, like spreading information regarding new products and services they offer. They carefully select a subset of users, called influencers, who are usually the ones with high influence over the rest of the users. Influencers receive …
A Novel Efficient Deep Learning Framework For Facial Inpainting - Face Reconstruction From Masked Images, Akshay Ravi
A Novel Efficient Deep Learning Framework For Facial Inpainting - Face Reconstruction From Masked Images, Akshay Ravi
Master's Projects
The use of face masks due to the covid-19 pandemic has made surveillance of people very difficult. Since a mask covers most of the facial components, security cameras are rendered of little to no use in the identification of criminals. In order to realize what a face looks like behind a mask, we have to construct the facial features in the masked region. On a higher level, this falls under the field of image inpainting, i.e. filling missing regions of images or correcting irregularities in images. Current research on image inpainting shows promising results on images that have missing/incorrect patches …
Wikipedia Web Table Interpretation, Keyword-Based Search, And Ranking, Kartikee Dabir
Wikipedia Web Table Interpretation, Keyword-Based Search, And Ranking, Kartikee Dabir
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Information retrieval and data interpretation on the web, for the purpose of gaining knowledgeable insights, has been a widely researched topic from the onset of the world wide web or what is today popularly known as the internet. Web tables are structured tabular data present amidst unstructured, heterogenous data on the web. This makes web tables a rich source of information for a variety of tasks like data analysis, data interpretation, and information retrieval pertaining to extracting knowledge from information present on the web. Wikipedia tables which are a subset of web tables hold a huge amount of useful data, …
Rideshare Using Degrees Of Separation: A Social Network-Based Approach, Gokul Garikipati
Rideshare Using Degrees Of Separation: A Social Network-Based Approach, Gokul Garikipati
Master's Projects
Conventional ride-sharing services, such as Lyft and Uber, routinely match drivers with riders based on their proximity to each other, using GPS coordinates and mapping technology. The application then calculates the cost of the ride based on factors such as distance traveled and time spent in the car. The concept of six degrees of separation suggests that a maximum of 6 steps or relationships can connect any two individuals in the world. This idea could be applied to a ride-share service to provide a more personalized and efficient experience for users. Instead of just matching riders with drivers based on …
Comparative Analysis Of Transformer-Based Models For Text-To-Speech Normalization, Pankti Dholakia
Comparative Analysis Of Transformer-Based Models For Text-To-Speech Normalization, Pankti Dholakia
Master's Projects
Text-to-Speech (TTS) normalization is an essential component of natural language processing (NLP) that plays a crucial role in the production of natural-sounding synthesized speech. However, there are limitations to the TTS normalization procedure. Lengthy input sequences and variations in spoken language can present difficulties. The motivation behind this research is to address the challenges associated with TTS normalization by evaluating and comparing the performance of various models. The aim is to determine their effectiveness in handling language variations. The models include LSTM-GRU, Transformer, GCN-Transformer, GCNN-Transformer, Reformer, and a BERT language model that has been pre-trained. The research evaluates the performance …
Sign Language Recognition Using A Hybrid Machine Learning Model, Peeyusha Shivayogi
Sign Language Recognition Using A Hybrid Machine Learning Model, Peeyusha Shivayogi
Master's Projects
Sign Language is a visual language used by millions of people around the world. American Sign Language (ASL) is one of the most popular sign languages and the third most popular language in the United States. Automatic recognition of ASL signs can help bridge the communication gap between deaf and hearing individuals. In this project, we explore the use of deep learning models for ASL sign recognition, using the MNIST dataset as a benchmark. We preprocessed the data by reshaping the images to the input layer size of the models and normalized the pixel values. We evaluated five popular deep-learning …
Ml-Based User Authentication Through Mouse Dynamics, Sai Kiran Davuluri
Ml-Based User Authentication Through Mouse Dynamics, Sai Kiran Davuluri
Master's Projects
Increasing reliance on digital services and the limitations of traditional authentication methods have necessitated the development of more advanced and secure user authentication methods. For user authentication and intrusion detection, mouse dynamics, a form of behavioral biometrics, offers a promising and non-invasive method. This paper presents a comprehensive study on ML-Based User Authentication Through Mouse Dynamics.
This project proposes a novel framework integrating sophisticated techniques such as embeddings extraction using Transformer models with cutting-edge machine learning algorithms such as Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN). The project aims to accurately identify users based on their distinct mouse behavior and detect unauthorized access …
Insecure Deserialization Detection In Python, Aneesh Verma
Insecure Deserialization Detection In Python, Aneesh Verma
Master's Projects
The importance of Cyber Security is increasing every single day. From the emergence of new ransomware to major data breaches, the online world is getting dangerous. A multinational non- profit group devoted to online application security is called OWASP, or the Open Web Application Security Project. The OWASP Top 10 is a frequently updated report that highlights the ten most important vulnerabilities to web application security. Among these 10 vulnerabilities, there exists a vulnerability called Software and Data Integrity Failures. A subset of this vulnerability is Insecure Deserialization. An object is transformed into a stream of bytes through the serialization …
The Search For Metabolic Variants In Response To Climate Change In The American Pika, Tyler Stewart Trader
The Search For Metabolic Variants In Response To Climate Change In The American Pika, Tyler Stewart Trader
Master's Projects
Climate change and rising temperatures pose a serious threat to the long-term survival of American pika (Ochotana princeps), emphasizing the interest in the adaptive capability of the pika. This project queried single nucleotide polymorphisms in a population of American pika in Yosemite National Park using Whole Genome Sequencing data, with a specific interest in metabolic variants. The sample data included temporally separated cohorts, comparing modern population data to historical data taken before rapid anthropogenic climate change. Statistically significant variants were identified under Approximate Bayesian Computation using a population decline model. Although population statistics indicated little change between the …
The Effects Of Nursing Bedside Shift Report On Patient Safety And Satisfaction: A Systematic Review Of The Literature, Alyssa Wong
The Effects Of Nursing Bedside Shift Report On Patient Safety And Satisfaction: A Systematic Review Of The Literature, Alyssa Wong
Master's Projects
Introduction: Nursing bedside shift report is a recommended strategy to promote the effective exchange of accurate patient information during the handoff process with the goal of decreasing communication errors and adverse patient events. However, adopting this handoff method into nursing practice has been challenging in the clinical setting. This systematic review aims to understand the rationale behind nursing bedside handoff by identifying the advantages and barriers to implementation and exploring how this affects patient safety and experience.
Methods: A systematic review was conducted by searching through electronic databases and Google Scholar to identify English-language peer-reviewed journal articles published between 2012 …
Classification Of Darknet Traffic By Application Type, Shruti Sharma
Classification Of Darknet Traffic By Application Type, Shruti Sharma
Master's Projects
The darknet is frequently exploited for illegal purposes and activities, which makes darknet traffic detection an important security topic. Previous research has focused on various classification techniques for darknet traffic using machine learning and deep learning. We extend previous work by considering the effectiveness of a wide range of machine learning and deep learning technique for the classification of darknet traffic by application type. We consider the CICDarknet2020 dataset, which has been used in many previous studies, thus enabling a direct comparison of our results to previous work. We find that XGBoost performs the best among the classifiers that we …
Graphical User Interface For Evidential Reasoning Models, Rohin Gopalakrishnan
Graphical User Interface For Evidential Reasoning Models, Rohin Gopalakrishnan
Master's Projects
The Capri system is an evidential reasoning system based on the belief function calculus to support automated reasoning and decision making in uncertain environments. Example domains of application include, medical diagnosis, as well as identifying biological biomarkers. The purpose of this project is to build a Python web-based and app-based Graphical User Interface (GUI), called PyGrapher, that facilitates building graphical evidential reasoning models. The graphical models built using PyGrapher will then be converted to a form that is suitable for input to the Capri system. The PyGrapher system provides an intuitive means to build and manipulate evidential reasoning models as …
Vehicle-Based Disconnected Data Distribution, Aditya Singhania
Vehicle-Based Disconnected Data Distribution, Aditya Singhania
Master's Projects
The world today is highly connected and there is an immense dependency on this connectivity to accomplish basic everyday tasks. However much of the world lacks connectivity. Even in well-connected locations, natural disasters can cause infrastructure disruption. To combat these situations, Delay Tolerant Networks
(DTNs) employ to store and forward techniques along with intermittently connected transports to provide data connectivity. DTNs focus on intermittently connected networks however what if the regions are never connected? For example, Region A - is never connected to the internet, and Region B – has internet connectivity. Using a vehicle that travels between the two …
Graph Deep Learning Based Hashtag Recommender For Reels On Social Media, Sriya Balineni
Graph Deep Learning Based Hashtag Recommender For Reels On Social Media, Sriya Balineni
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Many businesses, including Facebook, Netflix, and YouTube, rely heavily on a recommendation system. Recommendation systems are algorithms that attempt to provide consumers with relevant suggestions for items such as movies, videos, or reels (microvideos) to watch, hashtags for their posts, songs to listen to, and products to purchase. In many businesses, recommender systems are essential because they can generate enormous amounts of revenue and make the platform stand out when compared to others. Reels are a feature of the social media platforms that enable users to create and share videos of up to sixty seconds in length. Individuals, businesses, and …
Application Of Knowledge Graph Techniques On Textbooks, Yutong Yao
Application Of Knowledge Graph Techniques On Textbooks, Yutong Yao
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Textbooks are written and organized in a way that facilitates learning and understanding. Sections like glossary terms at the end of a textbook provide guidance on the topic of interest. However, it takes manual effort to create the index terms in the glossary that highlight the key referenced terminologies and related terms. Knowledge graphs, which have been used to represent and even reason over data and knowledge, can potentially capture textbook’s important terms, concepts, and their relations. Popular since the initial introduction by Google Knowledge Graphs (KGs), they combine graph and data to capture and model enormous amounts of relational …
Analyzing Improvement Of Mask R-Cnn On Arms Plates (And Sponges And Coral), James Lee
Analyzing Improvement Of Mask R-Cnn On Arms Plates (And Sponges And Coral), James Lee
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Coral Reefs and their diverse array of life forms play a vital role in maintaining the health of our planet's environment. However, due to their fragility, it can be challenging to study the reefs without damaging their delicate ecosystem. To address this issue, researchers have employed non-invasive methods such as using Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures (ARMS) plates to monitor biodiversity. Data was collected as genetic samples from the plates, and high-resolution photographs were taken. To make the best use of this image data, scientists have turned to machine learning and computer vision. Prior to this study, MASKR-CNN was utilized as …