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Android Drone: Remote Quadcopter Control With A Phone, Aubrey John Russell
Android Drone: Remote Quadcopter Control With A Phone, Aubrey John Russell
Computer Engineering
The purpose of the “Android Drone” project was to create a quadcopter that can be controlled by user input sent over the phone’s Wi-Fi connection or 4G internet connection. Furthermore, the purpose was also to be able to receive live video feedback over the internet connection, thus making the drone an inexpensive option compared to other, equivalent drones that might cost thousands of dollars. Not only that, but the Android phone also has a host of other useful features that could be utilized by the drone: this includes GPS, pathing, picture taking, data storage, networking and TCP/IP, a Java software …
Implementation And Testing Of A Book Lookup System For The Robert E. Kennedy Library, Casey C. Sheehan
Implementation And Testing Of A Book Lookup System For The Robert E. Kennedy Library, Casey C. Sheehan
Computer Science and Software Engineering
The goal of this senior project centered around improving the quality of student and teacher experiences when visiting the library. The task of finding a book amongst the shelves is an arduous one, which I felt could be improved upon through implementation and testing of a Book Lookup system for the Cal Poly Robert E. Kennedy Library. Development for this project was done using a Python framework. Testing and earlier designs were also created using JavaScript and PHP. Repeated tests were conducted on the accuracy of the software and its ability to decrease user search-time when compared to conventional methods.
Review Classification, Balraj Aujla
Review Classification, Balraj Aujla
Computer Science and Software Engineering
The goal of this project is to find a way to analyze reviews and determine the sentiment of a review. It uses various machine learning techniques in order to achieve its goals such as SVMs and Naive Bayes. Overall the purpose is to learn many different machine learning techniques, determine which ones would be useful for the project, then compare the results. Research is the foremost goal of the project, and it is able to determine the better algorithm for review classification, naive bayes or an SVM. In addition, an SVM which actually gave review’s scores rather than just classifying …
Ios Application For Inventory In Small Retail Stores, Andrea Savage
Ios Application For Inventory In Small Retail Stores, Andrea Savage
Computer Science and Software Engineering
Currently, small retail stores with low technology budgets such as those right here in San Luis Obispo are struggling to integrate new technologies into their companies. This mobile application built for iOS with a Firebase backend is seeking to remove their barriers to entry. I built this application to give small retail stores a customizable application that allows them to display products electronically to customers and maintain accurate inventory both in one place. The construction of this application hinged around three major design decisions: UI design of the color management views, organization of the database, and accessing the database with …
Microstructural Analysis Of Thermoelastic Response, Nonlinear Creep, And Pervasive Cracking In Heterogeneous Materials, Alden C. Cook
Microstructural Analysis Of Thermoelastic Response, Nonlinear Creep, And Pervasive Cracking In Heterogeneous Materials, Alden C. Cook
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This dissertation is concerned with the development of robust numerical solution procedures for the generalized micromechanical analysis of linear and nonlinear constitutive behavior in heterogeneous materials. Although the methods developed are applicable in many engineering, geological, and materials science fields, three main areas are explored in this work. First, a numerical methodology is presented for the thermomechanical analysis of heterogeneous materials with a special focus on real polycrystalline microstructures obtained using electron backscatter diffraction techniques. Asymptotic expansion homogenization and finite element analysis are employed for micromechanical analysis of polycrystalline materials. Effective thermoelastic properties of polycrystalline materials are determined and compared …
A Comparison Of Global Climate Reanalysis And Climate Of South Greenland And The North Atlantic, Jeff Auger
A Comparison Of Global Climate Reanalysis And Climate Of South Greenland And The North Atlantic, Jeff Auger
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Global climate reanalysis models are regularly used in many scientific fields concerning climate and atmospheric observation. This thesis utilizes reanalysis models in two chapters in order to gain insight into North Atlantic climate teleconnections and their relation to precipitation across South Greenland. This first chapter of this thesis compares the four most recent reanalysis models – ECMWF Reanalysis Interim (ERA-I), NCEP Climate Forecast System Reanalysis (CFSR), JMA 55-year Reanalysis (JRA-55), and NASA Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications (MERRA) – and develops from these models a monthly-mean ensemble average of common meteorological variables for the period 1979-2013. Results from …
Land Use And Land Cover Based Habitat Analyses Of Invasive Species Along The Lower Tonawanda Creek Applying Unmanned Helicopter Remote Sensing, Chenliuli Jiang
Land Use And Land Cover Based Habitat Analyses Of Invasive Species Along The Lower Tonawanda Creek Applying Unmanned Helicopter Remote Sensing, Chenliuli Jiang
Great Lakes Center Masters Theses
Trapa natans (water chestnut) is an exotic annual aquatic plant, which is native to Eurasian and African continents. It is an invasive species in North America and has already caused serious environmental problems because of its strong capability of adaption and propagation. The objectives of this research were to survey and map water chestnut in the lower Tonawanda Creek (Erie Canal) applying unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), evaluate the current management of controlling and removing water chestnut, and analyze how land use and land cover (LULC), as well as habitat conditions, influence the growth of water chestnut. The UAV was not …
Compounding Fire Disturbance History Encourages Coast Redwood (Sequoia Sempervirens) Regeneration And Community Dominance, Matthew R. Brousil
Compounding Fire Disturbance History Encourages Coast Redwood (Sequoia Sempervirens) Regeneration And Community Dominance, Matthew R. Brousil
Master's Theses
Disturbance is fundamental to forest ecosystem function and overall health, but climate change is likely to increase both disturbance frequency and intensity in the future. Forests subject to increasingly frequent and intense disturbances are more likely to experience compounding disturbance effects. Compounding disturbances may exert unpredicted, non-additive stresses on ecosystems, leading to novel conditions that may exceed the capacity for local species to survive and regenerate. I further hypothesize that compounding disturbances could create conditions misaligned with species’ adaptations by altering physical and chemical growing conditions in forest soils, affecting forest composition, structure, and, subsequently, function for many years following …
Ransomware In High-Risk Environments, Shallaw M. Aziz
Ransomware In High-Risk Environments, Shallaw M. Aziz
Information Technology Capstone Research Project Reports
In today’s modern world, cybercrime is skyrocketing globally, which impacts a variety of organizations and endpoint users. Hackers are using a multitude of approaches and tools, including ransomware threats, to take over targeted systems. These acts of cybercrime lead to huge damages in areas of business, healthcare systems, industry sectors, and other fields. Ransomware is considered as a high risk threat, which is designed to hijack the data. This paper is demonstrating the ransomware types, and how they are evolved from the malware and trojan codes, which is used to attack previous incidents, and explains the most common encryption algorithms …
Soil Moduli Obtained From A Back Pressure Constant Rate Of Strain Bender Element Consolidation Apparatus, Yi Zhao
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
A back-pressure saturated, constant-rate-of-strain consolidation device was modified to incorporate bender elements (BP-CRS-BE) and thus allowed for shear wave measurements during consolidation tests. This newly fabricated system has many advantages over other previous or current devices: 1) it can be utilized not only for laboratory prepared soil samples but also for field sampled soils such as Shelby tube samples, and 2) continuous compression curves, and continuous values of vertical hydraulic conductivity and coefficient of consolidation can be acquired with a significant reduction in testing time. Soil modulus values such as shear modulus and constrained modulus are also able to be …
The Utility Of Mobile Phones For Health Among Women Living With Hiv In Urban Malawi, Linda Marie Dietrich
The Utility Of Mobile Phones For Health Among Women Living With Hiv In Urban Malawi, Linda Marie Dietrich
Theses and Dissertations
The use of mobile phones are becoming ubiquitous with growing interest by healthcare providers to utilize mobile phone technology for various health-related applications, called mHealth. This is especially true in low-income countries such as those in sub-Saharan Africa. When implementing mHealth applications, it is important to understand the dynamic social, cultural and environmental factors where mHealth will be implemented to ensure that interventions developed are effective. A qualitative study to explore the sociotechnical factors experienced by women participating in an HIV support group in urban Malawi was conducted to enhance our understanding of women’s experience with mobile phone use and …
The Impact Of Nanomaterial Functionalization And Core Chemical Composition On Toxicity To Daphnia Magna, Jared S. Bozich
The Impact Of Nanomaterial Functionalization And Core Chemical Composition On Toxicity To Daphnia Magna, Jared S. Bozich
Theses and Dissertations
Nanomaterials (NMs) are being developed for a variety of industrial, biomedical, and environmental applications. Initially these materials consisted of simple metal oxides or carbon based NMs. More recently NMs have become increasingly complex consisting of multiple transition metals and surfaces functionalized with polymers, surfactants and ligands that have the ability to alter their physiochemical properties and enhance performance. As manufactured NM production increases, so does the concern about their release into the environment and potentially harmful effects. The focus of toxicology has largely been on first generation materials and we have comparatively less information about the potential impacts of complex …
A Multi-Faceted Biogeochemical Approach To Analyzing Hypoxia In Green Bay, Lake Michigan, Shelby Labuhn
A Multi-Faceted Biogeochemical Approach To Analyzing Hypoxia In Green Bay, Lake Michigan, Shelby Labuhn
Theses and Dissertations
Green Bay, Lake Michigan is a large freshwater estuary that has experienced seasonal hypoxia for decades. Hypoxia, or dissolved oxygen concentrations less than 2 mg L-1, is a problem in coastal ecosystems around the world because it has a negative impact on ecosystem health by decreasing biodiversity and fisheries. In order to create adequate management policies for hypoxia, it is important to understand the sources and sinks of oxygen within Green Bay. This study utilizes a number of traditional and novel field methods to measure the production and respiration of oxygen within lower Green Bay, defined as south of Chambers …
Determining The Impacts Of Environmental Contaminants To Zebra Mussels Using Genetic Biomarkers, Nicklaus James Neureuther
Determining The Impacts Of Environmental Contaminants To Zebra Mussels Using Genetic Biomarkers, Nicklaus James Neureuther
Theses and Dissertations
ABSTRACT
DETERMINING THE IMPACTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINANTS TO ZEBRA MUSSELS USING GENETIC BIOMARKERS
by
Nicklaus James Neureuther
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2016
Under the Supervision of Professor Rebecca Klaper, PhD
Persistent legacy contaminants and emerging chemicals of concern continue to be a threat to the function and health in the Great Lakes Areas of Concern (AOCs). While chemical monitoring programs traditionally sample water and sediment, these studies can only provide information of the type and level of contamination within an (AOC). This being said, information on the biological impacts to the biota are needed to measure impairments of chemical exposure, …
Identifying With “The Native” In Anglo-American Environmental Writing: A Rhetorical Study, Alexis Piper
Identifying With “The Native” In Anglo-American Environmental Writing: A Rhetorical Study, Alexis Piper
Theses and Dissertations
ABSTRACT
IDENTIFYING WITH “THE NATIVE”
IN ANGLO-AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTAL WRITING:
A RHETORICAL STUDY
by
Alexis F. Piper
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2016
Under the Supervision of Professor Anne Wysocki
In an effort to contribute to rhetorical theories of “identification” this dissertation examines Anglo nature writing written for Anglo audiences in the United States over several centuries. In my conclusion, I suggest approaches current nature writers might use to offer audiences ways of engaging with Indigenous peoples and Native conceptions of environment that are more ethical, appropriate, and effective than approaches used in previous centuries. I maintain that such approaches could potentially …
Bringing The Outside In: Examining The Impacts That Climate, Exchange, And Identity Processes Have On Organizationally-Beneficial Employee Green Behavior, Sashi C. Sekhar
Bringing The Outside In: Examining The Impacts That Climate, Exchange, And Identity Processes Have On Organizationally-Beneficial Employee Green Behavior, Sashi C. Sekhar
Theses and Dissertations
My dissertation contributes to growing practitioner and researcher interest in the corporate social responsibility topic of employee green behavior, a key strategic input to organizational environmental sustainability efforts. While it has been recognized that employee behavior can significantly impact sustainability efforts (Daily, Bishop, and Govindarajulu, 2009; Ones and Dilchert, 2012), the psychological mechanisms through which this occurs and the precise nature of these behaviors have not been rigorously examined. To address the gaps, my research investigates the interrelationship between organizational and individual factors in motivating organizational citizenship behavior directed toward the natural environment (OCB-E). The model, which derives from social …
An Adapative Treecode-Accelerated Boundary Integral Solver For Computing The Electrostatics Of A Biomolecule, Andrew Joseph Szatkowski
An Adapative Treecode-Accelerated Boundary Integral Solver For Computing The Electrostatics Of A Biomolecule, Andrew Joseph Szatkowski
Theses and Dissertations
The Poisson-Boltzmann equation (PBE) is a widely-used model in the calculation of electrostatic potential for solvated biomolecules. PBE is an interface problem defined in the whole space with the interface being a molecular surface of a biomolecule, and has been solved numerically by finite difference, finite element, and boundary integral methods. Unlike the finite difference and finite element methods, the boundary integral method works directly over the whole space without approximating the whole space problem into an artificial boundary value problem. Hence, it is expected to solve PBE in higher accuracy. However, so far, it was only applied to a …
Analizimi Dhe Zhvillimi I Modulit Të Orarit Në Wordpress, Gëzim Rexhepi
Analizimi Dhe Zhvillimi I Modulit Të Orarit Në Wordpress, Gëzim Rexhepi
Theses and Dissertations
Përdorimi i një orari do të ishte një lehtësim i madh në menaxhimin e ngjarjeve të cilat ndodhin në një festival, si rezultat i kërkesave dhe nevojave për një orar i cili do të ishte lehtë i menaxhueshëm nga festivalet e ndryshme vendosa të zhvilloj ketë orar. Ky orar është dizajnuar dhe implementuar për festivalin “Dokufest”. Mirëpo ky orar mund të përdoret edhe nga festivale të tjera. Ky orar do ju ndihmoj festivaleve të ndryshme që të kenë më të lehtë shtimin e ngjarjeve të ndryshme e pastaj ato ngjarje ti shfaqin në këtë orar i cili është mjaft i …
Siguria Në Php, Shpat Ajvazi
Siguria Në Php, Shpat Ajvazi
Theses and Dissertations
Që të rezultojë me sukses një softuer duhet të përmbush shumë kritere, disa nga këto kriteret janë: efikasiteti, siguria dhe fleksibiliteti. Pavarësisht rëndësisë së softuerit çdo softuer duhet te ketë sigurinë në nivel të lartë duke mos lejuar të dhënat të përfundojnë në duar të personave të pa autorizuar. Pothuajse çdo ditë krijohen mundësi të reja për të sulmuar softuer-ët që funksionojnë përmes internet kjo tregon se siguria duhet të analizohet dhe që zhvilluesit gjithmonë duhet të ndjekin teknologjinë e fundit. Në pjesën kryesore shqyrtohen problemet dhe sulmet që bëhen në PHP sa i përket aspektit të sigurisë. Siguria e …
Zbatimi I Mpls Vpn Dhe Siguria, Fëllënza Bunjaku
Zbatimi I Mpls Vpn Dhe Siguria, Fëllënza Bunjaku
Theses and Dissertations
Viteve të fundit, temat e nivelit bachelor po ballafaqohen me një nga trendet më të mëdha në botën e rrjetave kompjuterike duke zgjuar poashtu edhe interesimin tim për të studiuar dhe punuar këtë temë aktuale por duke marr në shqyrtim zbatimin e Multiprotocol Label Switching-Virtual Private Network dhe Siguria të cilës në vazhdim të këtij punimi do t’i referohemi si (MPLS VPN).
Objektivi kryesor i këtij punimi është të kuptuarit e teknologjisë MPLS VPN përmes përkufizimit të kësaj teknologjie, si dhe paraqitjes së një skenario ku shqyrtohen protokolle të ndryshme të komunikimit. Shumica e ofruesve të shërbimeve (angl. ISP) që …
Web Aplikacionet Dinamike Me Java Ee, Jetë Leci
Web Aplikacionet Dinamike Me Java Ee, Jetë Leci
Theses and Dissertations
Qëllimi i kësaj teze të shkallës bachelor është bërë për analizimi dhe studimin e platformës më të mirë për zhvillimin e web aplikacioneve dinamike, ky studim nuk paraqet bazat e programimit në Java apo zhvillimin e pjesës së bazës së shënimeve ky studim ofron një pasqyrë të teknologjive dhe framework-ëve për implementimin e aplikacioneve me platformën Java Enterprise Edition. Ky kapitull perfshinë një përmbledhje të shkurtë të studimit dhe përvojës sime së bashku, duke shfaqur një pasqyrë të zhvillimit të aplikacioneve dinamike në web me anë të shpjegimit të secilës pjesë përbërëse të platformës shumë të njohur për realizimin e …
Hybrid Stm/Htm For Nested Transactions In Java, Keith G. Chapman
Hybrid Stm/Htm For Nested Transactions In Java, Keith G. Chapman
Open Access Dissertations
Transactional memory (TM) has long been advocated as a promising pathway to more automated concurrency control for scaling concurrent programs running on parallel hardware. Software TM (STM) has the benefit of being able to run general transactional programs, but at the significant cost of overheads imposed to log memory accesses, mediate access conflicts, and maintain other transaction metadata. Recently, hardware manufacturers have begun to offer commodity hardware TM (HTM) support in their processors wherein the transaction metadata is maintained “for free” in hardware. However, HTM approaches are only best-effort: they cannot successfully run all transactional programs, whether because of hardware …
Visual Analytics Of Location-Based Social Networks For Decision Support, Junghoon Chae
Visual Analytics Of Location-Based Social Networks For Decision Support, Junghoon Chae
Open Access Dissertations
Recent advances in technology have enabled people to add location information to social networks called Location-Based Social Networks (LBSNs) where people share their communication and whereabouts not only in their daily lives, but also during abnormal situations, such as crisis events. However, since the volume of the data exceeds the boundaries of human analytical capabilities, it is almost impossible to perform a straightforward qualitative analysis of the data. The emerging field of visual analytics has been introduced to tackle such challenges by integrating the approaches from statistical data analysis and human computer interaction into highly interactive visual environments. Based on …
Exploring The Potential Impacts Of Climate Change On North America's Laurentian Great Lakes Tourism Sector, Natalie Chin
Exploring The Potential Impacts Of Climate Change On North America's Laurentian Great Lakes Tourism Sector, Natalie Chin
Open Access Dissertations
Climate change is one of the major challenges facing the global hospitality and tourism sector in the coming century and, given the important role that weather and climate play in all aspects of the tourism experience, tourism businesses owners need to start thinking about and enacting climate change adaptation strategies now. This work has utilized a combination of social science and physical science methods to (1) understand how the Great Lakes tourism sector could be impacted by climate change and (2) provide some insights into how researchers can help business owners prepare for these potential impacts. Overall, the results of …
Combinatorial Algorithms For Perturbation Theory And Application On Quantum Computing, Yudong Cao
Combinatorial Algorithms For Perturbation Theory And Application On Quantum Computing, Yudong Cao
Open Access Dissertations
Quantum computing is an emerging area between computer science and physics. Numerous problems in quantum computing involve quantum many-body interactions. This dissertation concerns the problem of simulating arbitrary quantum many-body interactions using realistic two-body interactions. To address this issue, a general class of techniques called perturbative reductions (or perturbative gadgets) is adopted from quantum complexity theory and in this dissertation these techniques are improved for experimental considerations. The idea of perturbative reduction is based on the mathematical machinery of perturbation theory in quantum physics. A central theme of this dissertation is then to analyze the combinatorial structure of the perturbation …
Effective Memory Management For Mobile Environments, Ahmed Mohamed Abd-Elhaffiez Hussein
Effective Memory Management For Mobile Environments, Ahmed Mohamed Abd-Elhaffiez Hussein
Open Access Dissertations
Smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices exhibit vastly different constraints compared to regular or classic computing environments like desktops, laptops, or servers. Mobile devices run dozens of so-called “apps” hosted by independent virtual machines (VM). All these VMs run concurrently and each VM deploys purely local heuristics to organize resources like memory, performance, and power. Such a design causes conflicts across all layers of the software stack, calling for the evaluation of VMs and the optimization techniques specific for mobile frameworks.
In this dissertation, we study the design of managed runtime systems for mobile platforms. More specifically, we deepen the …
Hydrocode Modeling Of Oblique Impacts Into Terrestrial Planets, Jordan D. Kendall
Hydrocode Modeling Of Oblique Impacts Into Terrestrial Planets, Jordan D. Kendall
Open Access Dissertations
The abundance of moderately siderophile elements (“iron-loving”; e.g., Co, Ni) in the Earth’s mantle is 10 to 100 times larger than predicted by chemical equilibrium between silicate melt and iron at low pressure, but it does match expectation for equilibrium at high pressure and temperature. Recent studies of differentiated planetesimal impacts assume that planetesimal cores survive the impact intact as concentrated masses that passively settle from a zero initial velocity and undergo turbulent entrainment in a global magma ocean; under these conditions, cores greater than 10 km in diameter do not fully mix without a sufficiently deep magma ocean. I …
Gravity-Assist Trajectories To Venus, Mars, And The Ice Giants: Mission Design With Human And Robotic Applications, Kyle M. Hughes
Gravity-Assist Trajectories To Venus, Mars, And The Ice Giants: Mission Design With Human And Robotic Applications, Kyle M. Hughes
Open Access Dissertations
Gravity-assist trajectories to Uranus and Neptune are found (with the allowance of impulsive maneuvers using chemical propulsion) for launch dates ranging from 2024 to 2038 for Uranus and 2020 to 2070 for Neptune. Solutions are found using a patched conic model with analytical ephemeris via the Satellite Tour Design Program (STOUR), originally developed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Delivered payload mass is computed for all solutions for select launch vehicles, and attractive solutions are identified as those that deliver a specified amount of payload mass into orbit at the target body in minimum time. The best cases for each …
Ambient Ionization - Mass Spectrometry: Advances Toward Intrasurgical Cancer Detection, Alan Keith Jarmusch
Ambient Ionization - Mass Spectrometry: Advances Toward Intrasurgical Cancer Detection, Alan Keith Jarmusch
Open Access Dissertations
My dissertation research has focused on the development of ambient ionization – mass spectrometry (MS) for clinical measurements, specifically intrasurgical cancer detection. The molecular differences between normal and cancerous tissue were detected via direct tissue analysis in vitro by touch spray ionization (TS) or by analyzing sectioned or smeared tissue using desorption electrospray ionization (DESI). The physical form of the tissue, e.g. in vitro sampling, sectioned, or smeared, was inconsequential in differentiating normal from cancerous tissue; however, the spectra acquired by TS and DESI differed due to differences in ionization processes. We envision that TS-MS and DESI-MS could impact diagnostic …
A Framework For The Statistical Analysis Of Mass Spectrometry Imaging Experiments, Kyle Bemis
A Framework For The Statistical Analysis Of Mass Spectrometry Imaging Experiments, Kyle Bemis
Open Access Dissertations
Mass spectrometry (MS) imaging is a powerful investigation technique for a wide range of biological applications such as molecular histology of tissue, whole body sections, and bacterial films , and biomedical applications such as cancer diagnosis. MS imaging visualizes the spatial distribution of molecular ions in a sample by repeatedly collecting mass spectra across its surface, resulting in complex, high-dimensional imaging datasets. Two of the primary goals of statistical analysis of MS imaging experiments are classification (for supervised experiments), i.e. assigning pixels to pre-defined classes based on their spectral profiles, and segmentation (for unsupervised experiments), i.e. assigning pixels to newly …