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Realities Of Nutrition, Judi S. Morrill Jan 2025

Realities Of Nutrition, Judi S. Morrill

Open Educational Resources

What Is Nutrition Reality? Is it in the advertising claims that a food is natural or supplies instant energy? Is it in the myriad of dietary supplements? Is it in the diet plans for instant weight loss and glowing health? The only way to find out is to learn the basic principles of nutrition science, so you can be your own nutrition expert. Here is the true introduction to nutrition that you will read with pleasure and real understanding. It will free you from dependence on popular sources of information - often misinformation - so you can distinguish illusion from …

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Words And Stardom: Modernist Poetic Responses To Asta Nielsen, Karl E. Toepfer Jan 2025

Words And Stardom: Modernist Poetic Responses To Asta Nielsen, Karl E. Toepfer

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This essay discusses how four modernist poets portrayed the Danish movie star Asta Nilesen (1881-1972). German Hans Schiebelhuth (1895-1944) describes the "demonic" power of Nielsen's image to awaken dark aspects of his adolscent personality. For the Flemish poet Paul van Ostaijen (1896-1928), Nielsen's cinematic image provokes a radical shattering of language into extravagant "word-images." Danish writer Rudolf Broby-Johansen (1900-1987) linked Nielsen's image to a radical (Marxist) critique of oppressive sexual politics within a capitalist society. German Franz Behrens (1895-1977) composed a lengthy, expressionist ode to Nielsen from the perspective of one who actually worked as a screenwriter in the German …

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Disease Diagnosis Using Rag Llm With Smart Prompt Engineering, Qadeerullah Syed Jan 2025

Disease Diagnosis Using Rag Llm With Smart Prompt Engineering, Qadeerullah Syed

Master's Projects

Although recent trends indicate that LLMs outperform traditional methods in solving complex problems with enhanced reasoning, there has been barely any progress in replicating the quality of diagnoses like those of actual human doctors. The identification of an accurate diagnosis with thorough reasoning is still a significant challenge, even with advanced AI models. The process of performing accurate diagnosis remains challenging due to a lack of transparency in state-of-the-art models existing today, a lack of explanation in the diagnosis process, an emphasis on results rather than reasoning, and a lack of foundational knowledge in models, along with limited exploration of …

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Hierarchical Bloom Filter Tree (Hbft): Scalable Geospatial Metadata Indexing For Bigdata Systems, Mrudula Patteparapu Jan 2025

Hierarchical Bloom Filter Tree (Hbft): Scalable Geospatial Metadata Indexing For Bigdata Systems, Mrudula Patteparapu

Master's Projects

Big Data infrastructure growth has produced overwhelming metadata volumes which create extensive problems for spatial indexing and both system scalability and database queries. Traditional solutions consisting of R-trees and conventional Bloom filters manage to provide either range query support or approximate membership testing, yet they face performance issues when used at large-scale metadata management. This research proposes Hierarchical Bloom Filter Tree (HBFT) as an improved framework that integrates hierarchical spatial partitioning with partitioned, scalable, cuckoo, and striped Bloom filter variants based on existing studies in hierarchical and probabilistic indexing. The complete evaluation process shows that HBFT outperforms PostGIS (an industry-standard …

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Domain-Specific Graph Rag Pipelines: Optimized Approaches For Building Efficient Personal Knowledge Repositories, Omkar Yadav Jan 2025

Domain-Specific Graph Rag Pipelines: Optimized Approaches For Building Efficient Personal Knowledge Repositories, Omkar Yadav

Master's Projects

Managing personal data, including notes, calendar events, to-do lists, and other personal information, has become increasingly complex and challenging. In response to this issue, I propose a framework using RAG that enables a large language model (LLM) to efficiently query this data without requiring training on the personal data itself. Conventional retrieval systems, including those leveraging vector-based retrievalaugmented generation (RAG), are effective at handling basic queries but struggle to deliver coherent global abstractions, integrate diverse knowledge sources, and account for temporal nuances. This research explores domain-specific Graph based RAG frameworks that incorporate a knowledge graph to better model relationships, thereby …

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Clustering Organ Cell Types, Venkata Satya Swathi Mattaparthi Jan 2025

Clustering Organ Cell Types, Venkata Satya Swathi Mattaparthi

Master's Projects

The Human Cell Atlas (HCA) created a reference map of all human cells. My project uses the Tabula Sapiens dataset, developed under HCA and based on single-cell RNA sequencing data, to explore cell type and tissue diversity. I performed experiments using the Elbow method and a formula based on dataset observations to determine the number of clusters, then applied k-means clustering on two representative subsets of the All Cells dataset. Clusters were selected for analysis using Shannon’s Diversity Index and Pielou’s Evenness. A novel algorithm based on the cell differentiation tree was used to validate the biological coherence of the …

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Large Language Models For Bacterial Genomic Analysis, Manvendra Chavan Jan 2025

Large Language Models For Bacterial Genomic Analysis, Manvendra Chavan

Master's Projects

Identification of bacterial gene sequences with agricultural applications has the potential to transform agricultural biotechnology. These genes can be used in environmentally friendly pest control strategies. One such use case is identifying genes with potential insecticidal properties. With an increasing number of genomic information and decreasing numbers of available annotated sequences, finding new insecticidal genes has become more challenging.The traditional methods relying on sequence alignment and annotated databases are not effective in detecting functionally relevant genes lacking close homology to known cases. This project investigates the data-driven classification of genes by sequence modeling. This research is focused on learning DNA …

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Collaborative Governance In Practice: Evaluating Intergovernmental Relations Through The Santa Clara County Healthy Cities Initiative, Astrid J. Robles Jan 2025

Collaborative Governance In Practice: Evaluating Intergovernmental Relations Through The Santa Clara County Healthy Cities Initiative, Astrid J. Robles

Master's Projects

In the United States, intergovernmental relations (IGR) is rooted in the principles of American federalism, which focuses on the constitutional power dynamics between national, state, and local governments. While federalism outlines the structural framework, IGR specifically focuses on how federal, state, and local governments interact administratively, financially, and politically within the federal system. Beginning in the 1960’s, governments across the U.S. began to rely on non-governmental and private sector organizations for program implementation (Boyd & Fauntroy, 2000). This shift gave rise to the concept of collaborative governance, which expanded the scope of IGR by incorporating traditionally excluded groups from the …

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Smithian Merchant Towns And Good Government In The Wealth Of Nations, John B. Estill Jan 2025

Smithian Merchant Towns And Good Government In The Wealth Of Nations, John B. Estill

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

Commentators on Adam Smith’s Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations often characterize Smith as a proponent of government in multiple areas, including security in person, property, contract, and some public goods. However, Smith understood government more expansively than people today. In volume I, book III, chapters I–IV, Smith describes the evolution of merchant towns in England that led to “good governance” that dismantled the feudal system. This limited government not only included the security provided by the formal laws and institutions. It also aligned the informal elements of individual civic ethics and self-reliance with the …

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Adaptive Cobot Interaction Via Smartwatch Data Fusion For Car Assembly Automation, Riddhik Tilawat Jan 2025

Adaptive Cobot Interaction Via Smartwatch Data Fusion For Car Assembly Automation, Riddhik Tilawat

Master's Projects

In modern car manufacturing, collaborative robots (cobots) work with human operators during shared workcell interactions to maximize production speed and flexibility. Collaboration between humans and robots is safe and effective only when operator intent recognition via a single wrist-worn inertial measurement unit (IMU) is accurate and low-latency. This thesis develops an IMU-only intent recognition pipeline, and is evaluated on three datasets: the public OPPORTUNITY dataset, the Sony Smartwatch Gesture dataset and a custom Samsung Galaxy watch 6 dataset. The proposed framework leverages five step sequence-to-label problems which are stepwise posed as data streams transforming raw IMU data into trainable tensors. …

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Edurag: Improving Ai Teaching Assistants With Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Geethika Vadlamudi Jan 2025

Edurag: Improving Ai Teaching Assistants With Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Geethika Vadlamudi

Master's Projects

This paper is based on the emerging need for AI-driven teaching assistants to deliver personalized, effective, and responsive educational assistance. Earlier proposals for educational technology such as rule-based systems and adaptive learning platforms have been limited by the lack of flexibility, domain accuracy, and slow, non-interactive support. With the launch of large language models (LLMs) like GPT-3, GPT-4, they have demonstrated that they can generate the kind of human-responsive text. When it comes to more substantive education matters, though, such models suffer from domain accuracy, in addition to whether accurate information can be imparted. And that is where the aspect …

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A Close Look At Dissolved Silica Dynamics In Disko Bay, West Greenland, Mark J. Hopwood, Dustin Carroll, Yuanyuan Gu, Xin Huang, Jana Krause, Stefano Cozzi, Carolina Cantoni, María Fernanda Gastelu Barcena, Shandy Carroll, Arne Körtzinger Jan 2025

A Close Look At Dissolved Silica Dynamics In Disko Bay, West Greenland, Mark J. Hopwood, Dustin Carroll, Yuanyuan Gu, Xin Huang, Jana Krause, Stefano Cozzi, Carolina Cantoni, María Fernanda Gastelu Barcena, Shandy Carroll, Arne Körtzinger

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

Discharge of calved ice, runoff and mixing driven by subglacial discharge plumes likely have consequences for marine biogeochemistry in Disko Bay, which hosts the largest glacier in the northern hemisphere, Sermeq Kujalleq. Glacier retreat and increasing runoff may impact the marine silica cycle because glaciers deliver elevated concentrations of dissolved silica (dSi) compared to other macronutrients. However, the annual flux of dSi delivered to the ocean from the Greenland Ice Sheet is poorly constrained because of difficulties distinguishing the overlapping influence of different dSi sources. Here we constrain silica dynamics around Disko Bay, including the Ilulissat Icefjord and four other …

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Modeling Of Precipitation Over Africa: Progress, Challenges, And Prospects, A. A. Akinsanola, C. N. Wenhaji, R. Barimalala, P. A. Monerie, R. D. Dixon, A. T. Tamoffo, M. O. Adeniyi, V. Ongoma, I. Diallo, M. Gudoshava, C. M. Wainwright, R. James, K. C. Silverio, A. Faye, S. S. Nangombe, M. W. Pokam, D. A. Vondou, N. C.G. Hart, For Full Author List, See Comments Below Jan 2025

Modeling Of Precipitation Over Africa: Progress, Challenges, And Prospects, A. A. Akinsanola, C. N. Wenhaji, R. Barimalala, P. A. Monerie, R. D. Dixon, A. T. Tamoffo, M. O. Adeniyi, V. Ongoma, I. Diallo, M. Gudoshava, C. M. Wainwright, R. James, K. C. Silverio, A. Faye, S. S. Nangombe, M. W. Pokam, D. A. Vondou, N. C.G. Hart, For Full Author List, See Comments Below

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

In recent years, there has been an increasing need for climate information across diverse sectors of society. This demand has arisen from the necessity to adapt to and mitigate the impacts of climate variability and change. Likewise, this period has seen a significant increase in our understanding of the physical processes and mechanisms that drive precipitation and its variability across different regions of Africa. By leveraging a large volume of climate model outputs, numerous studies have investigated the model representation of African precipitation as well as underlying physical processes. These studies have assessed whether the physical processes are well depicted …

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Measurement Resolution Enhanced Coherence For Lattice Fermions, Hilary M. Hurst, Yik Haw Teoh, I. B. Spielman Jan 2025

Measurement Resolution Enhanced Coherence For Lattice Fermions, Hilary M. Hurst, Yik Haw Teoh, I. B. Spielman

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

Weak measurement enables the extraction of targeted information from a quantum system while minimizing decoherence due to measurement backaction. However, in many-body quantum systems, backaction can have unexpected effects on wave-function collapse. We theoretically study a minimal many-particle model consisting of weakly measured noninteracting fermions in a one-dimensional lattice. Repeated measurement of the on-site occupation number with single-site resolution stochastically drives the system toward a Fock state, regardless of the initial state. This need not be the case for measurements that do not, even in principle, have single-site spatial resolution. We numerically show for systems with up to 16 sites …

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A Unifying Double-Reference Approach To Semantic Paradoxes: From The White-Horse-Not-Horse Paradox And The Ultimate-Unspeakable Paradox To The Liar Paradox In View Of The Principle Of Noncontradiction, Bo Mou Jan 2025

A Unifying Double-Reference Approach To Semantic Paradoxes: From The White-Horse-Not-Horse Paradox And The Ultimate-Unspeakable Paradox To The Liar Paradox In View Of The Principle Of Noncontradiction, Bo Mou

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

The purpose of this study is to suggest and explain an engaging approach to three distinct types of (alleged or genuine) semantic paradoxes, the White-Horse-Not-Horse Paradox, the Ultimate-Unspeakable Paradox, and the Liar Paradox, in a unifying way that is sensitive to distinct features of them. Although the three types of semantic paradoxes address distinct types of objects, and although their seemingly paradoxical features are different (alleged or genuine), their distinct structures and contents can be understood and treated on the same common ground, which is jointly conceived in people's pretheoretic understandings of truth and of the double-reference feature of people's …

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RaˉMaˉNuja's Cosmopsychist-Panentheistic Solution To The Hard Problem Of Consciousness, Anand Jayprakash Vaidya, S. Siddharth Jan 2025

RaˉMaˉNuja's Cosmopsychist-Panentheistic Solution To The Hard Problem Of Consciousness, Anand Jayprakash Vaidya, S. Siddharth

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

Recent decades have seen a renewal of interest in panpsychism as a solution to the hard problem of consciousness. This has, in part, also driven an increase in interest in classical Indian philosophical traditions among analytic philosophers of mind. Many of these cross-cultural studies pertaining to panpsychism (and cosmopsychism) have focused on one particularly influential school of Indian philosophy, Advaita (non-dual) Veda nta, the most famous proponent of which is sankara. In this work, we would like to consider the view of another influential philosopher and the school that developed based on his view - Rama nuja (eleventh century CE) …

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Self-Disclosure And Social Support In A Web-Based Opioid Recovery Community: Machine Learning Analysis, Yu Chi, Huai Yu Chen, Khushboo Thaker Jan 2025

Self-Disclosure And Social Support In A Web-Based Opioid Recovery Community: Machine Learning Analysis, Yu Chi, Huai Yu Chen, Khushboo Thaker

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

Background: The opioid crisis remains a critical public health challenge, with opioid use disorder (OUD) imposing significant societal and health care burdens. Web-based communities, such as the Reddit community r/OpiatesRecovery, provide an anonymous and accessible platform for individuals in recovery. Despite the increasing use of Reddit for substance use research, limited studies have explored the content and interactions of self-disclosure and social support within these communities. Objective: This study aims to address the following research questions: (1) What content do users disclose in the community?; (2) What types of social support do users receive?; and (3) How does the content …

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Generating Synthetic Malware Samples Using Generative Ai, Tiffany Bao, Kylie Trousil, Quang Duy Tran, Fabio Di Troia, Younghee Park Jan 2025

Generating Synthetic Malware Samples Using Generative Ai, Tiffany Bao, Kylie Trousil, Quang Duy Tran, Fabio Di Troia, Younghee Park

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Malware attacks have a significant negative impact on organizations of varied scales in the field of cybersecurity. Recently, malware researchers have increasingly turned to machine learning techniques to combat sophisticated obfuscation methods used in malware. However, collecting a diverse set of malware samples with various obfuscation techniques is challenging and often takes years, especially for newly developed malware. This issue is further compounded by a well-known limitation of machine learning models: their poor performance when training data is scarce. In this paper, we propose a new system for generating synthetic malware samples to augment imbalanced malware dataset. Our approach decomposes …

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Finding Floral And Faunal Species Richness Optima Among Active Fire Regimes, Zachary L. Steel, Alissa M. Fogg, Raphaela Floreani Buzbee, Kate Wilkin, Brandon M. Collins, Ryan Burnett, Marc D. Meyer, Amarina Wuenschel, Scott L. Stephens Jan 2025

Finding Floral And Faunal Species Richness Optima Among Active Fire Regimes, Zachary L. Steel, Alissa M. Fogg, Raphaela Floreani Buzbee, Kate Wilkin, Brandon M. Collins, Ryan Burnett, Marc D. Meyer, Amarina Wuenschel, Scott L. Stephens

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

Changing fire regimes have important implications for biodiversity and challenge traditional conservation approaches that rely on historical conditions as proxies for ecological integrity. This historical-centric approach becomes increasingly tenuous under climate change, necessitating direct tests of environmental impacts on biodiversity. At the same time, widespread departures from historical fire regimes have limited the ability to sample diverse fire histories. We examined 2 areas in California's Sierra Nevada (USA) with active fire regimes to study the responses of bird, plant, and bat communities to a broad spectrum of temporal, spatial, and severity patterns of fire. Bird and plant species richness peaked …

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From Disciplinary Enthusiasm To Soulless Tasks: Norms Behind Computing Educators' Emotion Display, Virginia Grande, Päivi Kinnunen, Matthew Barr, Anne Kathrin Peters, Mihaela Sabin, Matilde Sánchez-Peña, Ethel Tshukudu Jan 2025

From Disciplinary Enthusiasm To Soulless Tasks: Norms Behind Computing Educators' Emotion Display, Virginia Grande, Päivi Kinnunen, Matthew Barr, Anne Kathrin Peters, Mihaela Sabin, Matilde Sánchez-Peña, Ethel Tshukudu

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

Computing educators' emotion display is regulated by various norms and conventions. These (unwritten) rules affect which emotions educators feel comfortable expressing to different extents when students can perceive such displays. We draw on emotions and norms literature to investigate higher education computing educators' perceptions of what kinds of norms they have as criteria when considering which emotions they are (not) comfortable showing when teaching. Based on the qualitative content analysis of 22 interviews with computing educators from seven countries, we present various–sometimes connected or conflicting–norms that influence emotion display. These norms comprise moral, national, societal, professional, and affiliation norms that …

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Grand Challenges For Human Factors And Ergonomics, Waldemar Karwowski, Gavriel Salvendy, Mica Endsley, William Rouse, Paul Salmon, Kay Stanney, Andrew Thatcher, Tony Andre, Jessie Yang, Hasan Ayaz, Ahmet Cakir, Vince Duffy, Colin Drury, Qin Gao, Yinni Guo, Peter Hancock, William S. Marras, Patrick Rau Jan 2025

Grand Challenges For Human Factors And Ergonomics, Waldemar Karwowski, Gavriel Salvendy, Mica Endsley, William Rouse, Paul Salmon, Kay Stanney, Andrew Thatcher, Tony Andre, Jessie Yang, Hasan Ayaz, Ahmet Cakir, Vince Duffy, Colin Drury, Qin Gao, Yinni Guo, Peter Hancock, William S. Marras, Patrick Rau

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

Contemporary society faces a growing set of complex global issues representing significant human health, well-being, and sustainability threats. Human Factors and Ergonomics (HFE) has a critical role to play in responding to these issues; however, there remain a set of grand challenges that require resolution. This paper presents and discusses six grand challenges for HFE and related key research thrust areas for each of the challenges. The grand challenges are (1) Evolution in Societal Thinking; (2) Future of Human Work in Industry 5.0; (3) Climate Change and Sustainability; (4) Future of Education and Training; (5) Future of Personalized Health, and …

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Second Thoughts? Czerny, Beethoven, And The Ninth Symphony’S Choral Finale, Mark Evan Bonds Jan 2025

Second Thoughts? Czerny, Beethoven, And The Ninth Symphony’S Choral Finale, Mark Evan Bonds

The Beethoven Journal

Sometime after the premiere of the Ninth Symphony, according to Carl Czerny, Beethoven told a small circle of friends that he had made a “wrong choice” in writing a choral finale, that he was resolved to write a purely instrumental finale in its place, and that he already had an idea in his head for the new finale. Czerny never committed this report to writing, but he did transmit it orally to three others who did: Leopold von Sonnleithner, Otto Jahn, and Gustav Nottebohm. Anton Schindler would later deny the report, but the available evidence strongly supports the veracity of …

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Japanese Incarceration Memorial As Trauma Portfolio Play, A. J. Faas, Alyssa Singh, Cibella Gamma Jan 2025

Japanese Incarceration Memorial As Trauma Portfolio Play, A. J. Faas, Alyssa Singh, Cibella Gamma

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

In collaboration with the Japanese American Museum of San José, California, we examined their exhibit of WWII-era incarceration of Japanese Americans to understand how the presentation of different positionalities (e.g., Japanese/American, loyal/disloyal) engage with and contest the terms of incarceration and internal politics within the Japanese American community. In our analysis, we focus on the reproduction and contestation of particular narratives of power and identity and treat the memorial exhibit as a variety of community-based “trauma portfolio” that unsettles state bureaucratic constructions of suffering and (in)justice. We conclude by identifying transformative possibilities for engaging with the different positionalities of incarcerated …

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Pain For Pain: The Benefits And Challenges Of Bdsm Participation For People With Chronic Pain–An Exploratory Study, Reni Forer, Bryce Westlake Jan 2025

Pain For Pain: The Benefits And Challenges Of Bdsm Participation For People With Chronic Pain–An Exploratory Study, Reni Forer, Bryce Westlake

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

Research is beginning to find that many BDSM (bondage/discipline, domination/submission, sadism/masochism) practitioners experience benefits beyond sexual pleasure. Additionally, given the relationship between pain and pleasure common in BDSM, there may be certain unanticipated benefits for practitioners reporting chronic pain (PRCP). We conducted an online survey of an international convenience sample of BDSM practitioners (N = 525). Participants were asked about self-perceived benefits and challenges related to participating in BDSM with CP. Using chi-square, independent sample t-test, logistic regression, and linear-by-linear association, responses were combined with demographics, participation timelines, co-participants, motivations, and frequency of activities to identify differences between PRCP and …

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Lgbtq+ Advocacy And Inclusive School Policies Are Associated With Self-Worth Among Youth In Gender-Sexuality Alliances Over The School Year, V. Paul Poteat, Abigail Richburg, Jack Day, Emily K. Finch, Jerel P. Calzo, Robert A. Marx, Arthur Lipkin, Hirokazu Yoshikawa Jan 2025

Lgbtq+ Advocacy And Inclusive School Policies Are Associated With Self-Worth Among Youth In Gender-Sexuality Alliances Over The School Year, V. Paul Poteat, Abigail Richburg, Jack Day, Emily K. Finch, Jerel P. Calzo, Robert A. Marx, Arthur Lipkin, Hirokazu Yoshikawa

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

Inclusive school policies and youth advocacy could promote well-being and positive development among youth of diverse sexual orientations and gender identities. Utilizing three waves of data over a 6-month period, we tested a three-level multilevel model on the extent to which youth’s advocacy in gender-sexuality alliances (GSAs; school clubs affirming youth identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning or with other expansive sexual orientations or gender identities [LGBTQ+]) and attending schools that more thoroughly implemented LGBTQ+ inclusive policies and practices were associated with youth’s self-worth. Participants were 627 youth (87% LGBQ+ youth, 45% transgender or nonbinary youth, 48% youth of …

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“They're Like Slash”: Multimodality And Embodied Agency In Students' Critical Engagements With Texts, María José Aragón, Meghan Corella, Nora W. Lang Jan 2025

“They're Like Slash”: Multimodality And Embodied Agency In Students' Critical Engagements With Texts, María José Aragón, Meghan Corella, Nora W. Lang

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

Despite recent calls to more fully incorporate multimodal perspectives into literacies research, there is still limited scholarship examining how students critically engage in reading activities by drawing on embodied practices. Racially and linguistically minoritized students are particularly disadvantaged by dominant logocentric and developmentalist approaches, which privilege oral and written discourse and often position these students as less capable of performing complex literacy practices. Drawing from three independent ethnographic studies, our multimodal interactional analysis examines how students of a range of ages and raciolinguistic backgrounds use embodied actions and other semiotic resources to agentively navigate text, task, and ideological constraints in …

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Rondo: A Minimal Single Page Application For Digital Exhibits, Nick Szydlowski Jan 2025

Rondo: A Minimal Single Page Application For Digital Exhibits, Nick Szydlowski

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

Minimal computing is a promising conceptual framework for digital humanities infrastructure, but the static site architecture most commonly associated with minimal computing can present a steep learning curve, particularly in a workshop or classroom context. This article introduces Rondo, a new minimal framework for digital exhibits which requires no software installation or command line interaction. Rondo differentiates itself from static site tools by adopting a single page application architecture with data stored in a Google Sheet, but it includes tools to disconnect from Google Sheets and create a static site with no external dependencies. Rondo’s reliance on Google Sheets reflects …

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Educator Perspectives Of High School Long-Term English Learners, Martin Gutierrez Jr. Jan 2025

Educator Perspectives Of High School Long-Term English Learners, Martin Gutierrez Jr.

Dissertations

This qualitative study was twofold. The study began by exploring how educators perceive students who are Long Term English Learners (LTELs) and then moved to an autoethnographic examination of the researcher’s own secondary school experiences as an LTEL. The research reviewed teacher and administrator perceptions by focusing on three high school teachers who taught Long Term English Learners during the study period to understand the reclassification process. The researcher interviewed a district-level administrator to understand institutional policies and procedures that determine LTEL student identification and reclassification processes. The researcher presented their autoethnographic narrative to explore how holistic measures support multilingual …

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Inspection Technologies For Construction And Maintenance Of Highway Infrastructure – Review And Analysis, Manideep Tummalapudi, Prem Raj Timilsena Jan 2025

Inspection Technologies For Construction And Maintenance Of Highway Infrastructure – Review And Analysis, Manideep Tummalapudi, Prem Raj Timilsena

Mineta Transportation Institute

The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and state Departments of Transportation (DOTs) seek to provide high quality infrastructure that meets or exceeds the desired quality standards crucial for ensuring safety and efficiency in our nation's transportation systems. Efficient inspection practices—which enable conformance with plans, specifications, and quality standards—are an essential part of this effort. In this digital age, state DOTs are relying on emerging technologies to improve inspection practices. However, there is limited knowledge available regarding various emerging technologies used for highway infrastructure construction and maintenance inspection. This study identifies various emerging technologies that are implemented at the state DOTs and …

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Development Of Physics-Based Deterioration Models For Reinforced Soil Retaining Structures, Amr Morsy, Islam Ebo Jan 2025

Development Of Physics-Based Deterioration Models For Reinforced Soil Retaining Structures, Amr Morsy, Islam Ebo

Mineta Transportation Institute

Reinforced soil walls are key earth retention features in the transportation infrastructure. They are used to support and retain soil in a wide variety of crucial structures, such as highways, bridges, and railways, to ensure stability. They also provide solutions for constructing embankments and slopes in constrained spaces, allowing for efficient land use and improved infrastructure planning. This study used advanced numerical modeling to improve the understanding of the behavior and long-term performance of the aging reinforced soil walls from the 1970s for asset management purposes. An asset-scale model was created to simulate the effects of weather on these walls. …

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