Connections: Library Orientation, Usu Libraries

All E-Learning Resources

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This module is a library introduction for incoming USU Connections students. This module will discuss library spaces on USU campuses, money-saving resources, and research tips and resources. This module can be embedded in USU-1010 Canvas courses.

Procedural Level Generation For A Top-Down Roguelike Game, Kieran Ahn, Tyler Edmiston

Honors Thesis

In this file, I present a sequence of algorithms that handle procedural level generation for the game Fragment, a game designed for CMSI 4071 and CMSI 4071 in collaboration with students from the LMU Animation department. I use algorithms inspired by graph theory and implementing best practices to the best of my ability. The full level generation sequence is comprised of four algorithms: the terrain generation, boss room placement, player spawn point selection, and enemy population. The terrain generation algorithm takes advantage of tree traversal methods to create a connected graph of walkable tiles. The boss room placement algorithm randomly …

Grafting Jig For Small-Diameter American Beech: Proof Of Concept And First Print File, Andrea L. Myers, Tara Bal

Michigan Tech 3D Designs

This tool may be useful for grafting other small diameter woody plant species. This jig can be used by non-experts to simplify and standardize the initial cuts necessary for side grafting small-diameter American beech. The initial file which is suitable for 3D printing is available here, whereas we have the intention of undergoing iterative revisions to refine the tool, considering different sizes and modifications. Future versions will be added through the same avenue as advancements are made.

C-Dem 2023 Partners' Meeting May 5 Powerpoint Presentation, Consortium On Electoral Democracy

Meeting Notes

No abstract provided.

Evaulating Key Parameters Impacting Asphaltene Permeability Reduction Behavior In Micro-Pores During Carbon Dioxide Injection, Sherif Fakher, Aseel Al-Sakkaf, Mahmoud Ali

Faculty Journal Articles

Asphaltene is a heavy component of crude oil that can deposit in the pores of the formation and result in permeability reduction, and with time, pore plugging. Understanding the behavior of asphaltene and the mechanism by which it precipitates and deposits in the crude oil is vital in reducing asphaltene damage in the formation. Also, by evaluating asphaltene permeability reduction in the formation, we can predict the behavior of the asphaltene and determine the extent to which pore plugging will occur. This research studies the impact of carbon dioxide (CO2) pressure, temperature, and oil viscosity on asphaltene permeability reduction. These …

Multiple Sequence Alignment Guided By Clam, Emily Light

Senior Honors Projects

For my honors project, I am continuing my research with my academic advisor, Dr. Daniels on creating an approach to the Multiple Sequence Alignment problem in the Rust programming language. This approach will be attached to Dr. Daniels’ CLAM (Clustered Learning for Approximate Manifolds) to enable it to globally and locally align DNA sequences. This research was divided into three separate parts: building the algorithms, implementing them into CLAM’s metric, and measuring and improving the performance of the algorithms. This project includes two separate but related algorithms; Needleman-Wunsch algorithm and the Smith-Waterman algorithm.

The Needleman-Wunsch algorithm takes in two DNA …

Minions Fitness Tracker, Mohammad Hasibur Rahman

2023 MathWorks Fitness Tracker Challenge-Archive

I made a fitness tracker that counts the steps of user using their mobile device. I made this tracker using MATLAB sensor and added the sensor path with the mobile device, the tracker would count the number of steps taken by finding peaks in acceleration data.

Spot1328 Meira Spit, Robert C. Mahon, Elizabeth J. Trower, Benjamin P. Smith, Tyler A. Lincoln, Juliana Olsen-Valdez, John S. Magyar, Cedric J. Hagen

2D Wave Spectral Data, South Arm, Great Salt Lake, Utah

Data in this folder are produced by a SoFarOcean Spotter wave buoy deployed along the south arm of the Great Salt Lake, near Antelope Island State Park from the period of July 13, 2021 through June 28, 2022, in relatively shallow water, approximately 1.6m.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Water depths for #1328 (Miera Spit) started at ~1.7 m, but dropped rapidly to 0.9 m on July 15, 2021 and dropped further to ~0.4 m on August 17, 2021. The timing of these rapid water depth changes matches the timing of buoy location changes when the anchor was dragged inshore by waves. When …

Spot1328 Meira Spit Derived Data, Robert C. Mahon, Elizabeth J. Trower, Benjamin P. Smith, Tyler A. Lincoln, Juliana Olsen-Valdez, John S. Magyar, Cedric J. Hagen

2D Wave Spectral Data, South Arm, Great Salt Lake, Utah

Data in this folder are produced by a SoFarOcean Spotter wave buoy deployed along the south arm of the Great Salt Lake, near Antelope Island State Park from the period of July 13, 2021 through June 28, 2022, in relatively shallow water, approximately 1.6m.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Water depths for #1328 (Miera Spit) started at ~1.7 m, but dropped rapidly to 0.9 m on July 15, 2021 and dropped further to ~0.4 m on August 17, 2021. The timing of these rapid water depth changes matches the timing of buoy location changes when the anchor was dragged inshore by waves. When …

Spot1356 Black Rock, Robert C. Mahon, Elizabeth J. Trower, Benjamin P. Smith, Tyler A. Lincoln, Juliana Olsen-Valdez, John S. Magyar, Cedric J. Hagen

2D Wave Spectral Data, South Arm, Great Salt Lake, Utah

Data in this folder are produced by a SoFarOcean Spotter wave buoy deployed along the south arm of the Great Salt Lake, near Antelope Island State Park from the period of July 13, 2021 through June 28, 2022, in relatively shallow water, approximately 1.6m.

Spot1356 Black Rock Derived Data, Robert C. Mahon, Elizabeth J. Trower, Benjamin P. Smith, Tyler A. Lincoln, Juliana Olsen-Valdez, John S. Magyar, Cedric J. Hagen

2D Wave Spectral Data, South Arm, Great Salt Lake, Utah

Data in this folder are produced by a SoFarOcean Spotter wave buoy deployed along the south arm of the Great Salt Lake, near Antelope Island State Park from the period of July 13, 2021 through June 28, 2022, in relatively shallow water, approximately 1.6m.

Interactive Map Code (R And Rstudio), Peter G. Butterfield

Data Files: White Oaks in Vinton Furnace Experimental Forest

Interactive map code puts data and coordinates into readable table format and creates data visualizations.

Hearing Aid Fitting Software Manipulations, Fadi Najem

Pacific Open Texts

This learning module is suitable for Doctor of Audiology students at the intermediate level of their learning about amplification. The module provides a comprehensive and interactive guideline for hearing aid finetuning and troubleshooting patients’ complaints regarding hearing aids. The module also provides a quick guide on how to set the hearing aids in test mode for test box measurements and how to locate data sheets for selected manufacturers.

Mfa Master Project, Owen Pierce

Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations

I am a storyteller.

I just happen to paint, draw and sculpt my stories more often than I write them. Thematically, I gravitate towards stories that speak about ecological and humanitarian concerns. Fantasy illustration is where I can create with the greatest freedom and indulge my love of crafting stories, and also as a form of escapism. As the author

Ursula K. Le Guin quotes, “If the direction of escape is towards freedom, what then is ‘escapism’ an accusation of?” Long running series of programs, films and books attest to this desire to be engaged at a deeper, more meaningful …

Image Classification Data And Covariates For Assessing Efficacy Of Machine Learning Image Classification For Automated Occupancy-Based Monitoring, Randy T. Larson, Marlin Dart

NRM Departmental Data Sets

We used camera data for three sympatric species black-tailed jackrabbits (Lepus californicus), kit foxes (Vulpes macrotis), and pronghorns (Antilocapra americana) to evaluate the influence of competing image classification approaches on estimates of occupancy and inferences about space use. We classified images with: (i) single review (manual), (ii) double review (manual by two observers), (iii) an automated-manual review (machine learning to cull empty images and single review of remaining images), (iv) a pre-trained machine-learning algorithm that classifies images to species (base model), (v) the base model accepting only classifications with ≥95% confidence, (vi) the base model trained with regional images (trained …

Publication Rates Of Abstracts Presented Across 6 Major Spine Specialty Conferences, Tariq Z. Issa, Yunsoo Lee, Mark J. Lambrechts, Christopher Reynolds, Ryan Cha, James Kim, Jose A. Canseco, Alex R. Vaccaro, Christopher K. Kepler, Gregory D. Schroeder, Alan S. Hilibrand

Rothman Institute Papers

Background: Although scientific researchers aim to present their projects at academic conferences as a step toward publication, not all projects mature to become a peer-reviewed manuscript. The publication rate of meetings can be utilized to assess the quality of presented research. Our objective was to evaluate the contemporary publication rate of abstracts presented at spine conferences.

Methods: We reviewed annual meeting programs of North American Spine Society (NASS), Scoliosis Research Society (SRS), International Meeting on Advanced Spine Techniques (IMAST), Spine Global Spine Congress (GSC), Lumbar Spine Research Society (LSRS), and Cervical Spine Research Society (CSRS) from 2017 to 2019. Abstracts …

Room 2: Building Interactive Oer Content With Twine, Stewart Baker

Open Educational Resources Symposium

Twine is an open source, web-based tool designed to create interactive text games. Although it's typically used to create fiction, Twine can also be used as an asynchronous web-based teaching tool. This presentation will dive into the basics of what Twine can do and show you how to start writing your first Twine game—whether it's as part of an OER or just for fun.

Download the html file (the blue download button!) and open it in your browser to see what Stewart has been working on!

Room 2: Creating Interactive Open Content

Zoom Link: https://lanecc.zoom.us/j/94430798683

Cloud Microphysical Response To Entrainment And Mixing Is Locally Inhomogeneous And Globally Homogeneous: Evidence From The Lab, Jaemin Yeom, Ian Helman, Prasanth Prabhakaran, Jesse Anderson, Fan Yang, Raymond Shaw, Will Cantrell

Michigan Tech Research Data

The effects of entrainment-mixing on the cloud droplet size distribution are examined in the Pi cloud chamber that creates a turbulent supersaturated environment for cloud formation. The experiments are conducted with a temperature-controlled flange to mimic the entrainment-mixing process. The entrainment zone is created at the center of the top surface of the chamber, allowing dry air of controlled temperature (T_e) and flow rate (Q_e) to flow into the mixing cloud region. Due to the large-scale circulation, the downwind region is directly affected by entrained dry air from the flange, whereas the upwind region is representative …

Reducing Officer-Involved Deaths Of Civilians In Urban Areas: Forecasting The Effects Of Departmental Policies, James D. Kelsay, Ian A. Silver, Leah C. Butler

SAGE Open Access Agreement Publications-Archive

Recent police-involved deaths of Black civilians have sparked public outcry and demand for police reforms. However, many departmental policies intended to reduce the lethal use-of-force by police officers lack empirical support for their effectiveness. To address this shortcoming, a Bayesian random intercept model is used to forecast the effects of eight departmental policies on the number of police-involved civilian deaths across 66 police departments. Results suggest that although several policies are associated with a reduction in officer-involved deaths of civilians in some police departments, they are unlikely to eliminate officer-involved deaths completely. Specifically, we observed that introducing additional departmental policies …

Encrypted Malicious Network Traffic Detection Using Machine Learning, Niklas Knipschild

Symposium of Student Scholars

The research project aims to find ways to detect malicious packets inside encrypted network traffic. In addition to this goal maintaining user privacy is a priority. As encryption has become less expensive to implement more and more network traffic is encrypted. Currently, 90% of all network traffic is encrypted, and this trend is expected to increase. The creators of malware areemploying various methods to ensure delivery of their malware, including encryption. One proposed method to combat this suggests implementing machine learning with various algorithms to analyze packet attributes to determine if they contain malware, without actually knowing what's inside …

Remember The Hand: Manuscription In Early Medieval Iberia, Catherine Brown

Medieval Studies

Remember the Hand studies a body of articulate manuscript books from the Christian monasteries of northern Iberia in the tenth and eleventh centuries. These exceptional, richly illuminated codices have in common an urgent sense of scribal presence—scribes name themselves, describe themselves, even paint their own portraits. While marginal notes, even biographical ones, are a common feature of medieval manuscripts, rarely do scribes make themselves so fully known. These writers address the reader directly, asking for prayers of intercession and sharing of themselves. They ask the reader to join them in not only acknowledging the labor of writing but also in …

Genetic Distance Matrices For Gyrinicola Description, Matthew Walker

Zoology Data Sets

The data set contains .csv files for a paper describing various Gyrinicola for future publication.

The Worlding Of Arabic Literature: Language, Affect, And The Ethics Of Translatability, Anna Ziajka Stanton

Literary Studies

Critics have long viewed translating Arabic literature into English as an ethically fraught process of mediating between two wholly incommensurable languages, cultures, and literary traditions. Today, Arabic literature is no longer “embargoed” from Anglophone cultural spaces, as Edward Said once famously claimed that it was. As Arabic literary works are translated into English in ever-greater numbers, what alternative model of translation ethics can account for this literature’s newfound readability in the hegemonic language of the world literary system?

The Worlding of Arabic Literature argues that an ethical translation of a work of Arabic literature is one that transmits the literariness …

Alignments And Tree Files For Gyrinicola Description, Matthew Walker

Zoology Data Sets

This data set contains the .tree and .nxs files used for the phylogenetic inference portion of a paper for submission.

Shannon V Nelson 2023 Dissertation Supplementary Data, Shannon Nelson, Neil C. Hansen, Matthew D. Madsen, Val Jo Anderson, Dennis L. Eggett, Bryan G. Hopkins

ScholarsArchive Data

This data set includes soil matric potential and temperature data for a field trial at the Utah Test and Training Range (UTTR) evaluating the use of banded superabsorbent polymer (SAP) to increase soil moisture and seedling establishment in rangeland restoration.

Why The Elevation Of Disabled Advocate Moxa Kiran Thakker Is Important, Sanjay Jain, Rahul Bajaj

Popular Media

Appointments such as that of disabled advocate Moxa Kiran Thakker as a judge in the Gujarat High Court repudiate the theory that persons with disability are not competent enough to discharge responsibilities.

Start-Ups Vs Google: Action Can Be Taken Only As Per Law: Rahul Singh, Rahul Singh

Popular Media

The Alliance of Digital India Foundation (ADIF) filed a plea against Google’s user choice billing system (UCB) in the Delhi High Court. The court asked the Competition Commission of India to look into ADIF’s complaint by April 26—the day the new billing system was to go into effect. In this podcast episode, Associate Professor Rahul Singh helps listeners understand the dynamics between start-ups and Google. He also talks about the possibility of tech giants like Google being monitored.

Nomina: Radix, Sophie Morrison

KUCC -- Kutztown University Composition Conference

No abstract provided.

Carbon Fibers Recycling From Degraded Prepregs And Mechanical Properties Or Recycled Composite, Monjur Morshed Rabby, Minhazur Rahman, Partha Pratim Das, Vamsee Vadlamudi, Rassel Raihan

Institute of Predictive Performance Methodologies (IPPM-UTARI)-Archive

The size of the global composites market is anticipated to grow more than previously. Due to the rapidly rising volume of CFRP production, the waste from this material poses numerous problems and has significantly increased the socio-technological pressure to find sustainable composite recycling solutions. The problem is that recycling the composite part is challenging once its service life has expired. The same problem is true for the raw materials (prepregs) used in composite manufacturing. When the prepreg out-life/shelf-life is over, prepregs are abandoned, resulting in a loss of millions of dollars and an adverse environmental effect. In this study, the …

Incidence And Risk Factors For Retinal Detachment And Retinal Tear After Cataract Surgery: Iris® Registry (Intelligent Research In Sight) Analysis, Michael J. Morano, M. Ali Khan, Qiang Zhang, Colleen P. Halfpenny, Douglas M. Wisner, James Sharpe, Alexander Li, Maurizio Tomaiuolo, Julia A A. Haller, Leslie Hyman, Allen C. Ho

Wills Eye Hospital Papers

Objective To report the incidence of and evaluate demographic, ocular comorbidities, and intraoperative factors for rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD) and retinal tear (RT) after cataract surgery in the American Academy of Ophthalmology IRIS® Registry (Intelligent Research in Sight).

Design Retrospective cohort study.

Participants Patients aged ≥ 40 years who underwent cataract surgery between 2014 and 2017.

Methods Multivariable logistic regression was used to evaluate demographic, comorbidity, and intraoperative factors associated with RRD and RT after cataract surgery.

Main Outcome Measures Incidence and risk factors for RRD or RT within 1 year of cataract surgery.

Results Of the 3 177 195 …