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A Book Review: Pachinko, Young B. Choi

KAUPA Letters

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Chatgpt Applications On Security Standards Selection And Future Ai Application Trends In Cybersecurity, Young B. Choi

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As the powers of Artificial Intelligence is growing dramatically these days, people started to think about the potential applications of AI tools such as ChatGPT and similar tools in various domains. This paper explores the functions of Chat GPT on security standards selection processes and will introduce a brief history of recent advancement of AI with outstanding issues and recent development directions of Artificial Intelligence.

Students As Partners In The Library: Creating Meaningful Information Literacy Instruction Together, Rachel Fundator, Samantha Legrand

Libraries Faculty and Staff Scholarship and Research

• In an effort to create more student-centered and inclusive learning environments, instructors are using pedagogical approaches, such as students-as-partners (SAP), to bring student voices into the conversation about teaching and learning and to invite students to make meaningful choices about what happens in the classroom (Cook-Sather et al., 2019). Libraries can and should explore ways to incorporate SAP into our offerings (Salisbury et al., 2020). In libraries, student partners can become co-creators of information as they develop goals and curricula and bring interdisciplinary perspectives from across the institution to the development of information literacy (IL) programs. By inviting students into …

Information Literacy As A Discipline: A New Lens For Information Literacy Practitioners, Karen Kaufmann, Clarence Maybee

Libraries Faculty and Staff Scholarship and Research

Presented at the AFC Learning Resources Committee Virtual Conference, this work spotlights a new lens for considering information literacy research and practice.

Spiral: Student Partners For Information Research And Literacy Undergraduate Research Program, Rachel Fundator, Samantha Legrand, Secret Permenter, Ben Weiss

Libraries Faculty and Staff Scholarship and Research

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Extended Summary In English For 중국의 세계화 (China's Globalization), Yeomin Yoon

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손실과 피해의 보상, Chung Gil Lee

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The World View Of The Believers Of “Strive To Benefit Humanity” (홍익인간): Vertical And Horizontal Connectivity, Yeomin Yoon

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My Dialogue With Chatgpt, Semoon Chang

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Kaupa Letters: Volume 10, Issue 4, Korean American University Professors Association

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‘쓸모 있음’이라는 우상, Seung Suk Baik

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Virtual Enterprise In The Metaverse And The Roles Of Artificial Intelligence, Jinho Kim

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The Metaverse is considered the next generation of information technology. However, most Metaverse-related services and applications are limited to individual communication and entertainment. Research and services have not yet been developed for companies’ Metaverse-based operations. Therefore, in this paper, we briefly discuss the current research trend related to virtual enterprise in the Metaverse, the benefits of virtual enterprise in the Metaverse, and the roles of artificial intelligence in virtual enterprise in the Metaverse.

Work-In-Progress: Transformation Of A School Of Engineering Technology Gateway Experience, Rustin Webster, Matthew Turner, Brittany Newell

School of Engineering Technology Faculty Publications

This work-in-progress (WIP) paper begins to 1) describe the transformation of a School of Engineering Technology (SoET) gateway experience and 2) explore students’ outcomes and perceptions in the general areas of preparedness for success, satisfaction, learning preference, and competency development. In the Fall of 2022, the SoET gateway experience was transformed from two unintegrated/decoupled courses to a single course, based in part on observational problems with course design, curriculum, instructional methods, grading, assessments, integration, and documentation. Overall course objectives aimed to introduce students to foundational engineering technology (ET) knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) needed for success in future SoET courses …

U.S. Government Information Resources For Accountability On U.S. Assistance To Ukraine, Bert Chapman

Libraries Faculty and Staff Presentations

Provides detailed coverage of U.S. Government information resources documenting accountability for U.S. civilian and military assistance to Ukraine. Includes U.S. laws, agencies involved in U.S. arms export policy, Defense Department resources and data, Defense Dept. Inspector General reports, Government Accountability Office reports, congressional committee hearings, a letter from a congressional committee to the Secretaries of Defense and State and U.S. Agency for International Development administrator, congressional debate, and congressional recorded votes.

A Comparison Of Airport Risks: Unmanned Aircraft Systems (Uas) Sightings, Wildlife Strikes, And Runway Incursions, Cheng Wang, Sarah M. Hubbard

Journal of Aviation Technology and Engineering

To provide a context for the potential threat of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) sightings on airport operations, this paper compares the characteristics of UAS sightings with two common airport threats: wildlife strikes and runway incursions. This study analyzed over 60,000 events in a three-year period (September 2016 to August 2019), including 6,551 UAS sightings from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) UAS Sightings Report database, 47,574 wildlife strikes from the FAA Wildlife Strike database, and 6,041 runway incursions from the FAA Runway Safety database. The results suggest both similarities and differences among the airport threats. Both UAS sightings and wildlife strikes …

Safety Management Of Wildlife Hazards To Aviation: An Analysis Of Wildlife Strikes In Part 139 Airports In Florida 2011–2020, Tiago Dikerts De Tella, Flavio A. C. Mendonca

Journal of Aviation Technology and Engineering

Purpose: The purpose of this study was threefold: (1) to investigate wildlife strike reporting trends in Part 139 airports in the state of Florida (2011–2020); (2) to evaluate the existence of a difference in the rate of reported wildlife strikes between the seasons of the year (2011–2020); and (3) to develop information based upon the data analyzed that can be used for the safety management of wildlife hazards in Florida.
Design/methodology: The researchers in this study answered the research questions through the analyses, revision, and evaluation of existing wildlife strike and aircraft operations data. The data analyzed in this …

Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance For Usvs Using Cross-Domain Deep Reinforcement Learning And Neural Network Model Predictive Controller, Jianwen Li, Jalil Chavez-Galaviz, Kamyar Azizzadenesheli, Nina Mahmoudian

Purdue University Libraries Open Access Publishing Fund

This work presents a framework that allows Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs) to avoid dynamic obstacles through initial training on an Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) and cross-domain retraining on a USV. This is achieved by integrating a Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) agent that generates high-level control commands and leveraging a neural network based model predictive controller (NN-MPC) to reach target waypoints and reject disturbances. A Deep Q Network (DQN) utilized in this framework is trained in a ground environment using a Turtlebot robot and retrained in a water environment using the BREAM USV in the Gazebo simulator to avoid dynamic obstacles. …

Mhealth Hyperspectral Learning For Instantaneous Spatiospectral Imaging Of Hemodynamics, Yuhyun Ji, Sang Mok Park, Semin Kwon, Jung Woo Leem, Vidhya Vijayakrishnan Nair, Yunjie Tong, Young L. Kim

Purdue University Libraries Open Access Publishing Fund

Hyperspectral imaging acquires data in both the spatial and frequency domains to offer abundant physical or biological information. However, conventional hyperspectral imaging has intrinsic limitations of bulky instruments, slow data acquisition rate, and spatiospectral trade-off. Here we introduce hyperspectral learning for snapshot hyperspectral imaging in which sampled hyperspectral data in a small subarea are incorporated into a learning algorithm to recover the hypercube. Hyperspectral learning exploits the idea that a photograph is more than merely a picture and contains detailed spectral information. A small sampling of hyperspectral data enables spectrally informed learning to recover a hypercube from a red–green–blue (RGB) …

When Therapy Dogs Provide Virtual Comfort: Exploring University Students’ Insights And Perspectives, Christine Yvette Tardif-Williams, John-Tyler Binfet, Freya L. L. Green, Renata P. S. Roma, Akshat Singal, Camille X. Rousseau, Rebecca J. P. Godard

People and Animals: The International Journal of Research and Practice

With the proliferation of canine-assisted interventions and the emphasis placed on the impact of these sessions in bolstering the well-being of visitors to sessions, especially university students, it can be easy to overlook just how participating in one of these sessions is experienced by participants. Capturing participants’ experiences is important as this holds the potential to inform program design and delivery and elucidate mechanisms within the intervention that were found to be especially efficacious. Forging new empirical terrain, this study explored the insights and perceptions of 469 undergraduate students who participated in a virtual canine-assisted stress-reduction intervention at a mid-size …

Emotional Depictions Of Dogs And Cats In Interactions With Humans In Picture Books, Juri Nakagawa, Naoko Koda

People and Animals: The International Journal of Research and Practice

This study quantitatively analyzed the depiction of dogs’ and cats’ emotions in picture books and discussed the effects on children’s recognition of real dog and cat emotions. The stories depicted many basic emotional depictions of interest, joy, and surprise in dogs and cats, whereas the humans in the stories showed more varied, complicated emotions. Interest was most often caused by familiar humans in dogs, and by objects in cats. Joy was most often caused by familiar humans in dogs and cats, which would lead child readers to recognize that dogs and cats are friendly toward humans. There were depictions of …

Effects Of Equine Interaction On Mutual Autonomic Nervous System Responses And Interoception In A Learning Program For Older Adults, Ann L. Baldwin, Lisa Walters, Barbara K. Rector, Ann C. Alden

People and Animals: The International Journal of Research and Practice

Equine-assisted learning (EAL) may improve the health of older adults, but scientific data are sparse. This study investigated whether people aged 55 and older show increased heart rate variability (HRV) during EAL and awareness of bodily sensations that are overall pleasant. Subjects (n = 24) participated in mindful grooming during which they slowed their breathing and brushed a horse while noticing sensations in their body and watching the horse’s reactions. The subject’s and horse’s HRV were recorded simultaneously before, during, and after mindful grooming. For control, the same subjects performed mindful grooming with a plush simulation horse. During exit …

Expressed Willingness Of Stem Teachers To Teach Engineering, Zerrin Doganca Kucuk, Selvet Ece Genek, Hayriye Sinem Bozoglu, M. Sencer Corlu

Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education Research (J-PEER)

Teaching engineering at the middle and high school levels has been a topic of discussion among scholars regarding the challenges it creates. One of the most critical challenges at the school level is identifying qualified teaching staff to lead engineering courses. The present study explored teachers’ willingness to lead an engineering course and the reasons behind their willingness or unwillingness to do so. The study involved 434 participants, who were enrolled in a STEM professional development program and were diverse regarding their teaching subjects, the grade levels they taught, and the locations of their schools in Turkey. In this mixed-methods …

Understanding The Impact Of Professional Development For A Cohort Of Teachers With Varying Prior Engineering Teaching Experience, Jennifer Kouo, Medha Dalal, Eunsil Lee, Bruk Berhane, Olushola Emiola-Owolabi, Jumoke Ladeji-Osias, Cheryl Beauchamp, Ken Reid, Stacy Klein-Gardner, Adam Carberry

Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education Research (J-PEER)

Engineering for US All (e4usa) is a National Science Foundation-funded first-of-its-kind initiative aimed at making engineering more inclusive and accessible to underrepresented populations. The ‘‘for us all’’ mission of e4usa encompasses both students and teachers. Paramount to the success of e4usa was the construction of professional development (PD) experiences to prepare and support teachers with different levels of engineering teaching experience as they implemented the e4usa yearlong course. The perspectives of nine teachers with varying degrees of engineering teaching experience were examined during two PD opportunities to compare experiences and dynamics between the teachers. Data sources consisting of focus groups …

Hybrid Statistical And Machine Learning Methods For Daily Evapotranspiration Modeling, Erdem Kucuktopcu

Purdue University Libraries Open Access Publishing Fund

Machine learning (ML) models, including artificial neural networks (ANN), generalized neural regression networks (GRNN), and adaptive neuro-fuzzy interface systems (ANFIS), have received considerable attention for their ability to provide accurate predictions in various problem domains. However, these models may produce inconsistent results when solving linear problems. To overcome this limitation, this paper proposes hybridizations of ML and autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) models to provide a more accurate and general forecasting model for evapotranspiration (ET0). The proposed models are developed and tested using daily ET0 data collected over 11 years (2010–2020) in the Samsun province of Türkiye. The results show …

Oppressive Authority: Dismantling, Reexamining, And Reconstructing Notions Of Authority In Information Literacy Instruction, Melissa Chomintra

Libraries Faculty and Staff Scholarship and Research

The following chapter examines ways knowledge authority structures can be oppressive in relation to information literacy instruction and discusses how librarians can implement equitable and inclusive pedagogy in their library instruction by dismantling, reexamining, and reconstructing notions of authority.

Comparing Self-Report Assessments And Scenario-Based Assessments Of Systems Thinking Competence, Kirsten A. Davis, Dustin Grote, Hesam Mahmoudi, Logan Perry, Navid Ghaffarzadegan, Jacob Grohs, Niyousha Hosseinichimeh, David B. Knight, Konstantinos Triantis

School of Engineering Education Faculty Publications

Self-report assessments are used frequently in higher education to assess a variety of constructs, including attitudes, opinions, knowledge, and competence. Systems thinking is an example of one competence often measured using self-report assessments where individuals answer several questions about their perceptions of their own skills, habits, or daily decisions. In this study, we define systems thinking as the ability to see the world as a complex interconnected system where different parts can influence each other, and the interrelationships determine system outcomes. An alternative, less-common, assessment approach is to measure skills directly by providing a scenario about an unstructured problem and …

Comprehensive Exploration Of Graphically Defined Reaction Spaces, Qiyuan Zhao, Sai Mahit Vaddadi, Michael Woulfe, Lawal A. Ogunfowora, Sanjay S. Garimella, Olexandr Isayev, Brett A. Savoie

Purdue University Libraries Open Access Publishing Fund

Existing reaction transition state (TS) databases are comparatively small and lack chemical diversity. Here, this data gap has been addressed using the concept of a graphically-defined model reaction to comprehensively characterize a reaction space associated with C, H, O, and N containing molecules with up to 10 heavy (non-hydrogen) atoms. The resulting dataset is composed of 176,992 organic reactions possessing at least one validated TS, activation energy, heat of reaction, reactant and product geometries, frequencies, and atom-mapping. For 33,032 reactions, more than one TS was discovered by conformational sampling, allowing conformational errors in TS prediction to be assessed. Data is …

Preparing For The Informed Workplace One Micro-Credential At A Time, Margaret Phillips, Heather Howard, Dave Zwicky, Fred Berry

Libraries Faculty and Staff Presentations

The modern workplace is a transdisciplinary, information-rich environment, and this makes information literacy skills vital for students. With this grant funded project, we are developing, piloting, assessing, and promoting a suite of micro-learning modules for undergraduate engineering, technology, and business students at a large, public university. The modules revolve around information literacy topics relevant to the workplace, integrated into a scalable micro-credentialing platform. The topics covered include (1) effective information gathering strategies, (2) competitive analysis, (3) patent information, (4) industry standards, and (5) informed communication. We, the module creators, take a broad view of information literacy, including gathering information from …

Direct Van Der Waals Simulation (Dvs) Of Phase-Transforming Fluids, Tianyi Hu, Hao Wang, Hector Gomez

Purdue University Libraries Open Access Publishing Fund

We present the method of direct van der Waals simulation (DVS) to study computationally flows with liquid-vapor phase transformations. Our approach is based on a discretization of the Navier-Stokes-Korteweg equations, which couple flow dynamics with van der Waals’ nonequilibrium thermodynamic theory of phase transformations, and opens an opportunity for first-principles simulation of a wide range of boiling and cavitating flows. The proposed algorithm enables unprecedented simulations of the Navier-Stokes-Korteweg equations involving cavitating flows at strongly under-critical conditions and ��(105) Reynolds number. The proposed technique provides a pathway for a fundamental understanding of phase-transforming flows with multiple applications in science, engineering, …

Ltap Conference 2023, Larry Campbell

Purdue Road School

This fleet discussion will focus on replacement options for your fleet by either purchasing or leasing to own and what the options available are depending on how your budget works. Some considerations we discuss include the replacement cycle, depreciating considerations, recovery programs, and options you may want to consider at the end of a lease term.