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Poetry Walk Keynote: Rosanna Warren, Rosanna Warren

Talking in the Library Lecture Series

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A Hierarchical Network Management Strategy For Distributed Ciiot With Imperfect Csi, Fan Yang, Shilong Zhang, Chunnian Liu, Jie Huang, Tao Yu, Keping Yu, Mohsen Guizani

Machine Learning Faculty Publications

In the distributed Cognitive Industrial Internet of Things (CIIoT), since industrial devices may self-organize to determine their connection and dispersion and the network may be distributed with no infrastructure, network management with self-organizing characteristics is still an unsolved and a difficult problem. To overcome this challenge, this article proposes a hierarchical network management strategy for distributed CIIoT with imperfect channel state information (CSI) considering services with different transmission delay requirements. First, we build a two-layer architecture that supports collaborative spectrum sensing and multinode spectrum sharing in a distributed CIIoT. Then, to improve the network management efficiency and reduce the number …

Tokengreen: A Versatile Nft Framework For Peer-To-Peer Energy Trading And Asset Ownership Of Electric Vehicles, Madhusudan Naik, Akhilendra Pratap Singh, Nihar Ranjan Pradhan, Neeraj Kumar, Amiya Nayak, Mohsen Guizani

Machine Learning Faculty Publications

The rapid increase in the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) and the installation of charging stations (CSs) are key components for bidirectional energy transfer between EVs and CSs. However, the traditional techniques of energy trading have issues of trust, scalability, traceability, provenance, and authenticity among energy prosumers. To address these challenges, particularly information imbalances between energy buyers and sellers, we propose TokenGreen, a novel framework that leverages blockchain and nonfungible tokens (NFTs) to enable participants to have ownership of energy assets through investments in distributed energy generation, distribution, and clean energy infrastructure, leading to trust and transparency management among the …

The Role Of Occupational Therapy In The Recognition, Assessment, And Treatment Of Presbyvestibulopathy, Jennifer Hill, Ellen Hudgins, Sharon Leonard

Articles, Abstracts, and Reports

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Citdet, Jordan A. James, Heather K. Manching, Matthew R. Mattia, Kim D. Bowman, Amanda M. Hulse-Kemp, William J. Beksi

Computer Science and Engineering Datasets - Archive

The CitDet dataset is composed of images captured at the USDA Agricultural Research Service Subtropical Insects and Horticulture Research Unit in Fort Pierce, FL, USA. Data was collected between October 2021 and October 2022. 579 images were captured from different sections of the orchard using the open-source application Field Book on Android tablets. While collecting images, we faced the camera in a portrait orientation directly centered on the tree of interest. All images were taken at the edge of the soil in the tree row to simulate a ground-based robot imaging the tree while moving between two rows of trees. …

Supplementary Data For Potential For Climate-Based Financing Of Watershed Management To Restore Streams And Improve Water Quality Following A Wildfire: A Case Study Of The Provo River Watershed, Braxton W. Porter, Robert B. Sowby

ScholarsArchive Data

Data presented in Thesis Dissertation "Potential for Climate-Based Financing of Watershed Management to Restore Streams and Improve Water Quality Following a Wildfire: A Case Study of the Provo River Watershed". Provides all inputs, results, and code used in the presented analysis.

Inventory For Baker-Cederberg/Rochester General Hospital, Rochester General Hospital

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Inventory for Baker-Cederberg/Rochester General Hospital archival record groups. There are 31 record groups listed.

Computational Design, Synthesis, And Assessment Of 3-(4-(4-(1,3,4-Oxadiazol-2-Yl)-1h-Imidazol-2-Yl)Phenyl)-1,2,4-Oxadiazole Derivatives As Effective Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Inhibitors: A Prospective Strategy For Anticancer Therapy, Nilesh Raghunath Khedkar, Milind Sindkhedkar, Alex Joseph

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The epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) enzyme plays a critical role in governing the cell cycle, positioning it as a promising target for the development of anticancer drugs. In this study, we endeavored to design and synthesize innovative EGFR inhibitors with potential applications in anticancer therapy. A novel series of compounds, namely 3-(4-(4-(1,3,4-oxadiazol-2-yl)-1H-imidazol-2-yl)phenyl)-1,2,4-oxadiazoles (30a-j), were meticulously designed using FBDD efforts and synthesized. The synthesized compounds underwent thorough characterization using ¹HNMR, ¹³CNMR, HRMS, and mass spectrum analyses. The in vitro anticancer activities of the newly developed compounds (30a-j) were evaluated against four human cancer cell lines such as prostate …

2024 Genz Story Expression Projects: Eric Lipetz, Sindee Kerker

GenZ Story Expression Projects eBooks

Lynn University held its 13th GenZ Story Expression Workshop, and features Holocaust survivor Eric Lipetz.

This eBook was created as a tribute to the Holocaust survivor.

Welcoming The Stranger: Abrahamic Hospitality And Its Contemporary Implications, Ori Z. Soltes, Rachel Stern, Endy Moraes

Religion

Embracing hospitality and inclusion in Abrahamic traditions

One of the signal moments in the narrative of the biblical Abraham is his insistent and enthusiastic reception of three strangers, a starting point of inspiration for all three Abrahamic traditions as they evolve and develop the details of their respective teachings. On the one hand, welcoming the stranger by remembering “that you were strangers in the land of Egypt” is enjoined upon the ancient Israelites, and on the other, oppressing the stranger is condemned by their prophets throughout the Hebrew Bible.

These sentiments are repeated in the New Testament and the Qur’an …

Stochastic Gradient Descent With Preconditioned Polyak Step-Size, F. Abdukhakimov, C. Xiang, D. Kamzolov, M. Takáč

Machine Learning Faculty Publications

Abstract: Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) is one of the many iterative optimization methods that are widely used in solving machine learning problems. These methods display valuable properties and attract researchers and industrial machine learning engineers with their simplicity. However, one of the weaknesses of this type of methods is the necessity to tune learning rate (step-size) for every loss function and dataset combination to solve an optimization problem and get an efficient performance in a given time budget. Stochastic Gradient Descent with Polyak Step-size (SPS) is a method that offers an update rule that alleviates the need of fine-tuning the …

A Communication-Efficient Federated Learning Framework For Sustainable Development Using Lemurs Optimizer, Mohammed Azmi Al-Betar, Ammar Kamal Abasi, Zaid Abdi Alkareem Alyasseri, Salam Fraihat, Raghad Falih Mohammed

Machine Learning Faculty Publications

The pressing need for sustainable development solutions necessitates innovative data-driven tools. Machine learning (ML) offers significant potential, but faces challenges in centralized approaches, particularly concerning data privacy and resource constraints in geographically dispersed settings. Federated learning (FL) emerges as a transformative paradigm for sustainable development by decentralizing ML training to edge devices. However, communication bottlenecks hinder its scalability and sustainability. This paper introduces an innovative FL framework that enhances communication efficiency. The proposed framework addresses the communication bottleneck by harnessing the power of the Lemurs optimizer (LO), a nature-inspired metaheuristic algorithm. Inspired by the cooperative foraging behavior of lemurs, the …

A Service Function Chain Mapping Scheme Based On Functional Aggregation In Space-Air-Ground Integrated Networks, Peiying Zhang, Kunkun Yan, Neeraj Kumar, Lizhuang Tan, Mohsen Guizani, Konstantin Igorevich Kostromitin, Jian Wang, Jianyong Zhang

Machine Learning Faculty Publications

Being a novel network architecture, the Space-air-ground integrated network (SAGIN) offers advantages such as extensive network coverage and seamless ubiquitous access. However, it also encounters the challenge of balancing a growing user demand with limited network service resources. In order to further improve the utilization rate of network resources, a group of virtual network functions can be connected according to certain business logic to form a dynamic reconfigurable service function chain. This can provide diversified and high-quality network services for users. So by aggregating the same type of network function, we can reduce the cost of service chain mapping. Based …

Guest Editorial: Zero Trust Security Methods For Wireless Networks, Moayad Aloqaily, Helen Paik, Willian T. Lunardi, Cihan Tunc, Fang He

Machine Learning Faculty Publications

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Metaverse For Wireless Systems: Architecture, Advances, Standardization, And Open Challenges, Latif U. Khan, Mohsen Guizani, Dusit Niyato, Ala Al-Fuqaha, Merouane Debbah

Machine Learning Faculty Publications

The growing landscape of emerging wireless applications is a key driver towards the development of novel wireless system designs. Such a design can be based on a metaverse that uses a virtual model of the physical world system along with other schemes/technologies (e.g., optimization theory, machine learning, and blockchain). A metaverse using a virtual model performs proactive intelligent analytics prior to a user request for analysis and efficient management of the wireless system resources. A metaverse also enables self-sustainability in wireless systems that leads to the least possible intervention from network operators for its operation. Although the metaverse can offer …

Softwarized Resource Allocation Of Tailored Services With Zero Security Trust In 6g Networks, Haotong Cao, Longxiang Yang, Sahil Garg, Mubarak Alrashoud, Mohsen Guizani

Machine Learning Faculty Publications

Comparing with previous five generation networks consisting of dedicated appliance, 6G network appliances are designed to be softwarized and isolated into software (resource and function) blocks and general-purpose hardware. Tailored services, having customized resources and function demands, can be executed by chained software blocks and co-exist in the underlying 6G general-purpose hardware. However, physical hardware is vulnerable to a wide range of security threats and attacks. When attacked, this can result in devastation and failure of tailored services. Furthermore, the quality of a tailored service will be greatly degraded. Recently, zero security trust emerges and is accepted as one contemporary …

A Summary Of Two Decades Of Qtl And Candidate Genes That Control Seed Tocopherol Contents In Maize (Zea Mays L.), My Abdelmajid Kassem, Dounya Knizia, Khalid Meksem

College of Health, Science, and Technology

Tocopherols are secondary metabolites synthesized through the shikimate biosynthetic pathway in the plastids of most plants. It is well known that ?–Tocopherol (vitamin E) has many health benefits for humans and animals; therefore, it is highly used in human and animal diets. Tocopherols vary considerably in most crop (and plant) species and within cultivars of the same species depending on environmental and growth conditions; tocopherol content is a polygenic, complex traits, and its inheritance is poorly understood. The objective of this review paper was to summarize all identified quantitative trait loci (QTL) that control seed tocopherols and related contents identified …

Animal Biographies: Measuring The Efficacy Of Empathy Adjacent Language, Mackenzie R. Bennett

Boise State Graduate Student Projects

With the guidance of a 2019 briefing document from the Seattle Aquarium, Zoo Boise created a new type of exhibit signage meant to encourage personal connection with its animals and empathetic engagement that will hopefully translate to more concern for wildlife conservation in zoo visitors. This new signage provides personal information, such as names, birth dates, and life histories, on the individual animals at Zoo Boise. This is in contrast with traditional zoo exhibit signage, which lists impersonal, species-level information alone. In order to test the efficacy of the new signage in eliciting empathetic engagement, we conducted a comparative study …

Retrieval Augmented Scientific Claim Verification, Hao Liu, Ali Soroush, Jordan G. Nestor, Elizabeth Park, Betina Idnay, Yilu Fang, Jane Pan, Stan Liao, Marguerite Bernard, Yifan Peng, Chunhua Weng

School of Computing Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Objective: To automate scientific claim verification using PubMed abstracts. Materials and Methods: We developed CliVER, an end-to-end scientific Claim VERification system that leverages retrieval-augmented techniques to automatically retrieve relevant clinical trial abstracts, extract pertinent sentences, and use the PICO framework to support or refute a scientific claim. We also created an ensemble of three state-of-the-art deep learning models to classify rationale of support, refute, and neutral. We then constructed CoVERt, a new COVID VERification dataset comprising 15 PICO-encoded drug claims accompanied by 96 manually selected and labeled clinical trial abstracts that either support or refute each claim. We used CoVERt …

Influence Of Solar Insolation On Energy And Exergy Efficiency Of A Rectangular Duct Solar Air Heater With Various Types Of V Rib Roughness: An Analytical Approach, Avinash K. Hegde, Raghuvir Pai, K. Vasudeva Karanth

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In the current work, the energy and exergy evaluations for several V ribs in a rectangular duct SAH are evaluated and compared with smooth SAH for a heat flux range of 800 to 1200 W/m². The analysis uses correlations for the friction factor and Nusselt number for different V ribs that have been developed by various researchers. The investigators' recommended optimum design parameters are employed to analyse the specific rib. The thermohydraulic and exergy efficiency of various V ribs are evaluated using the MATLAB code and comparisons of the findings are provided. The staggered discrete multi-V-shape rib configurations …

Identification And Characterization Of Chitinase Producing Marine Microorganism: Unleashing The Potential Of Chitooligosaccharides For Bioethanol Synthesis, P. V. Atheena, K. M. Rajesh, Keyur Raval, Subbalaxmi Selvaraj

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The dwindling supply of the petroleum product and its carbon footprint has initiated search for a sustainable fuel and alternate feed-stocks. One such underexplored feedstock is chitin, a waste derived from sea food processing. The limitation of insolubility and crystallinity inherent in chitin is addressed with the chitin hydrolysates. In the present study, a chitinases producing marine isolate was isolated from the sediments of Arabian Sea from a depth of 20 m. In order to increase the expression of the chitinases, sequential optimisation using one factor at a time and Taguchi experimental designs were employed which resulted in a yield …

Statistical Evaluation Of Satellite-Based Chirps Precipitation Data Averaged Over The Midland And Highland Regions Of Kidangoor Sub-Catchment, Kerala, G. S. Deepa Varghese, Mohandas Chadaga, U. A. Lathashri, Surumi Rasia Salim

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The steep topographical setting of Kerala, traversing from Western Ghats in the east to the sandy beaches on the west, demands the use of precipitation data at a very fine spatio-temporal resolution for a range of hydrological and hydrometeorological studies. The limitation of the existing rain gauge network data in representing the variability in the monsoon showers received, across the physiographic divisions of the state, could be overcome using satellite rainfall dataset offered at a finer resolution. In this paper, a statistical evaluation of the satellite derived CHIRPS (Climate Hazards Group Infrared Precipitation with Stations) precipitation data for the Kidangoor …

A Consistent Transversely-Isotropic Hyper-Viscoelastic Model: Finite Element Implementation And Mechanical Characterization Of Biological Tissues, Manu Hegde, K. Karthik, Vishwanath Managuli, Subraya Krishna Bhat

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Soft tissues like skeletal muscles, ligaments and tendons exhibit transversely-isotropic hyper-viscoelastic (VE) behavior. Simulating the mechanical response of such soft tissues under various types of loading scenario requires accurate constitutive models. Several models have been proposed towards this goal. Although these models successfully capture the deformations under different kinds of loadings, they offer limited description of the shear behaviour. The reason for this discrepancy is found to be the absence of few of the required strain invariants corresponding to the transversely-isotropic VE solids. We attempt in this work to develop a transversely-isotropic VE model that is capable of capturing the …

A Prospective Study Evaluating Patient Reported Outcome Measures In Patients Who Have Undergone Chest Wall Perforator Flaps, Ishita Laroiya, Melissa Tan, Axel Kaehne, Geeta Shetty

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Aims: To evaluate Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) and surgical outcomes in patients undergoing Chest Wall Perforator Flaps (CWPFs). Methods: This was an observational single cohort study using an audit approach and a survey instrument. 84 patients who had undergone CWPFs in the last 5 years at the Department of Breast Surgery, City Hospital Birmingham, were identified from a pre-existing database. Surgical outcomes were recorded. Patients were contacted telephonically or in person at the time of follow-up and were asked to fill up a PROMs questionnaire. Results: Out of 84 patients, 58 patients chose to respond. The average age of …

Experimental Analysis Of The Effect Of The Woven Aramid Fabric On The Strain To Failure Behavior Of Plain Weaved Carbon/Aramid Hybrid Laminates, Sojan Andrews Zachariah, Satish Shenoy, Dayananda Pai

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Remarkable advances in the research and development of micro/mini Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) seek thin, lightweight and strong materials for their structural applications. As these structures involve various loading conditions in both the in-plane and through-the-thickness directions during their life cycle, the assurance of the structural stability in each direction is deemed mandatory. The woven Aramid fibers as high strain materials (HSM) are known to improve the through-the-thickness impact strength. However, the addition of the HSM can affect the overall tensile behavior of composite laminates. This study investigates the effect of the woven Aramid fiber on the in-plane tensile behavior …

A Commentary On The Development And Use Of Smartphone Imaging Devices, Gagan Raju, Aashrayi Ranjan, Soumyabrata Banik, Ashmini Poddar

Open Access archive

Current-age smartphones are known for their wide array of functionality and are now being utilized in the field of healthcare and medicine due to their proven capabilities as smartphone imaging devices (SIDs). Recent technical advancements enabled the integration of special add-on lenses with smartphones to transform them into SIDs. With the rising demand for efficient point-of-care (PoC) devices for better diagnostic applications, SIDs will be a one-stop solution. Additionally, portability, user-friendliness and low-cost make it accessible for all even at remote locations. Furthermore, improvements in resolution, magnification and field-of-view (FOV) have attracted the scientific community to use SIDs in various …

Assessment Of Fly Ash And Ceramic Powder Incorporated Concrete With Steam-Treated Recycled Concrete Aggregates Prioritising Nano-Silica, Asha Uday Rao, Prathibha P. Shetty, Radhika Bhandary P, Adithya Tantri

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Present research involves determining the effects of a proposed novel nano-silica prioritized-steam-treated recycled concrete aggregate (RCA) on microstructural, mechanical, and durability aspects of concrete incorporated with waste ceramic powder (WCP). The study on novel nano-silica prioritized-steam-treated recycled concrete aggregate revealed that 3% nano-silica induction with 3-h steam treatment for 50% adhered mortar bonded RCA performed optimally. The physical characterization of treated RCA showed improvement compared to untreated RCA, which was confirmed by microstructure study indicating the formation of additional calcium silicate hydrates in the bonded adhered mortar of treated RCA. Furthermore, as WCP has significant contents of alumina and silica, …

The Challenges Of The Increasing Institutionalization Of Climate Security, Judith N. Hardt, Dhanasree Jayaram, Cameron Harrington, Duncan Mclaren

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A rapid and widespread institutionalization of climate security is underway, led by powerful states and international organizations. Recognition of the climate crisis by security actors as a serious threat to humanity is long overdue, but it is imperative that this institutionalization is critically scrutinized. This commentary highlights specific dangers that accompany the institutional mainstreaming of climate security, including a non-reflexive integration into traditional security paradigms, a growing geopolitical separation between discourses emerging from the Global South and North, and policymaking that tends to draw from a narrow view of the science. Science-based and actionable research informed by pluralistic understandings of …

The Fraction Of Biomass Of C3 And C4 Plants In The C3 Plant Community And C4 Plant Community, Zigeng Chen, A. Joshua Leffler

NRM Departmental Data Sets

Data description:
C3_biomass_frac: the fraction of biomass of C3 plants
C4_biomass_frac: the fraction of biomass of C4 plants

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Slr Practitioner Needs, Daniella Hirschfeld, Kelli Archie, Emilio Mateo, James C. Arnott, Julie A. Vano

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As sea levels continue to rise, practitioners at the local and regional scale are under increased pressure to reduce risks to people and property posed by the threats of sea-level rise (SLR) and associated impacts. To achieve this, a transdisciplinary approach that integrates data-driven research with local knowledge and community engagement is necessary. As such, it is imperative the science community understands the needs of practitioners. However, there has been little qualitative assessment of adaptation practice in coastal areas, especially with a focus on the needs of practitioners in making use of current SLR science. Our mixed-methods approach began with …