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Lindholm-Leary, Kathryn J., San Jose State University

Emeritus and Retired Faculty Biographies

University of California, Los Angeles ,Psychology, Ph.D. 1981

University of California, Los Angeles, Psychology, M.A. 1977

University of California, Santa Barbara, Psychology, B.A, 1976

Hendrick, Timothy, San Jose State University

Emeritus and Retired Faculty Biographies

Brigham Young University, M.A. 1982

California State University, Northridge, Psychology, B.A. 1971

Salsburg Institute, (Salsburg, Austria), Fellow

Douglass, Malcolm Paul, San Jose State University

Emeritus and Retired Faculty Biographies

University of California, Los Angeles, English, Ph.D. 1981

Claremont Graduate University, Education, MA 1976

Amherst College, English, BA 1974

Kendall, Susan L., San Jose State University

Emeritus and Retired Faculty Biographies

University of Nevada, Las Vegas, History, 1980 M.A.

University of Denver, Library Science, 1972 M.A.

St. Louis University, History, 1969 B.A.

Kauppila, Paul (1960-2022), San Jose State University

Emeritus and Retired Faculty Biographies

University of Texas at Austin, Graduate School of Library & Information Science, MLIS, 1993

San Francisco State University, Broadcast Communication Arts, BA 1989

Mckee, Alison L., San Jose State University

Emeritus and Retired Faculty Biographies

University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Film, Ph.D 2003

University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of English, M.A. 1985

University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of English, B.A. 1983

Automated Fuel Vending Machine, Kush Desai

Student RSCA

This paper introduced an Automated Fuel Vending Machine system meticulously designed to address fuel dispensing challenges in developing countries. Traditional vending machines entail significant yearly installation costs and substantially burden economies with limited resources. This system emerged as a practical solution to alleviate long queues at petrol pumps, particularly in densely populated regions such as India. The system reduced labor costs and simplified fuel dispensing by eliminating the need for a salesperson. The design focused on creating a cost-effective and easily installable solution, meeting the modern demand for efficient and rapid service. The automated system proved a feasible alternative, offering …

Assessing Gtfs Accuracy, Gregory L. Newmark

Mineta Transportation Institute

The promised benefits of the General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) Schedule and Realtime standards are dependent on the underlying quality of the data. Despite this fundamental reliance, there has been relatively little research on techniques and strategies to assess GTFS accuracy. The need for such assessment is growing as federal and state governments increasingly require transit agencies to make these data available to the public. This research fills this gap by presenting a suite of methods and metrics to assess the temporal accuracy of GTFS Realtime and the spatial accuracy of GTFS Schedule feeds. The temporal assessment demonstrates an approach …

Liu, Mengxiong, San Jose State University

Emeritus and Retired Faculty Biographies

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, School of Informational & Library Studies, Ph.D., 1990

University of Denver, Denver, CO, Graduate School of Librarianship & Information Management, M.L.S., 1983

International Studies University, Shanghai, China, English Department, B.A., 1968

Pathways To Parenthood Among Transgender Men And Gender Diverse People Assigned Female Or Intersex At Birth In The United States: Analysis Of A Cross-Sectional 2019 Survey, Shalmali Sunil Bane, Juno Obedin-Maliver, Sachiko Ragosta, Jen Hastings, Mitchell R. Lunn, Annesa Flentje, Matthew R. Capriotti, Micah E. Lubensky, Diana M. Tordoff, Heidi Moseson

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

Objective: To assess pathways to parenthood, pregnancy outcomes, future pregnancy desire, and fertility counseling experiences among a cross-sectional sample of transgender men and gender diverse individuals assigned female or intersex at birth in the United States Methods: Participants were recruited from The Population Research in Identity and Disparities for Equality (PRIDE) Study and the general public. Eligible participants for this analysis were able to read and understand English, assigned female or intersex at birth, US residents, 18+ years old, and identified as transgender, nonbinary, or gender diverse. We analyzed responses to close-ended survey questions, overall and stratified by gender identity, …

Moving Towards The Electrification Of Medium- And Heavy-Duty Vehicles In The Inland Empire, Kimberly Collins, Raffi Der Wartanian, Francisca Beer, Yunfei Hou

Mineta Transportation Institute

This report investigates the transition to zero-emission medium- and heavy-duty vehicles (MDHD) within California’s Inland Empire (IE), emphasizing the significance of electric vehicle charging infrastructure and opportunity charging strategies in facilitating sustainable transportation. Utilizing a mixed-methods approach that combines a systematic literature review, geospatial and big data analytics, and thematic analysis of expert interviews, the study explores the multifaceted challenges and opportunities of electrification. The literature review assesses policies at various governance levels, while geospatial analysis identifies regional traffic patterns and infrastructure needs. Big data analytics examine vehicle movements, complemented by insights from interviews with 16 regional experts, offering a …

Unlocking Icu Barriers: Investigating The Challenges Of Early Progressive Mobility, Leslie S. Bigler

Doctoral Projects

Approximately 800,000 patients in the United States annually are admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) due to critical illnesses and prolonged immobility contributes to poor patient outcomes. While existing data demonstrates early and progressive mobility helps improve outcomes, adherence remains inconsistent for a variety of reasons such as safety concerns, staffing, and lack of knowledge and confidence of mobilization techniques. This quality improvement project, conducted in a 20-bed Medical Intensive Care Unit, asked staff to identify barriers to adherence to mobility protocols. Nurse managers and clinical educators play a crucial role in addressing these issues using strategies such as …

Shillinglaw, Susan, San Jose State University

Emeritus and Retired Faculty Biographies

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, English, 1985 Ph.D.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, English, 1976 M.A.

Cornell College, English and Art, 1973 B.A.

Digitization Of Photo Archives As An Effort To Preserve Information At The Library And Archives Service Of Bantul, Yogyakarta - Indonesia, Yeni Rahmawati, Dwi Ridho Aulianto

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Photo archives are valuable sources of information with historical and cultural significance and, therefore, need to be preserved. However, the fragile and vulnerable physical condition of photo archives and the limited adequate storage facilities pose particular challenges for regional archival institutions like the Library and Archives Service of Bantul Regency (DISPUSIP Bantul). To address this issue, DISPUSIP Bantul has undertaken efforts to digitize photo archives to preserve the information they contain. This research aims to understand the process of digitizing photo archives undertaken by DISPUSIP Bantul. The research method used is descriptive qualitative, with data collection techniques through interviews and …

Ai And Lifelong Learning: Examining Ai’S Role In Lifelong Learning And Professional Development., Victor Omeiza Jatto, Oluwadamisola Modupe Olayemi, Morakinyo Sunday Fakunle

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has transformed educational paradigms and professional development, altering how knowledge is acquired, refined, and applied throughout an individual's life. This paper explores the pivotal role(s) of AI in facilitating lifelong learning—a continuous, voluntary pursuit of knowledge driven by individual and professional motivations. AI's capability to personalize learning experiences, provide real-time feedback, and predict future learning needs is fundamental to this transformation. Key applications of AI in education include intelligent coaching systems, adaptive learning platforms, and AI-powered tools such as virtual tutors and chatbots. These technologies have confirmed significant potential in enhancing learning outcomes, reducing …

Shape Memory Polymers In 4d Printing: Investigating Multi-Material Lattice Structures, David Pokras, Yanika Schneider, Sohail Zaidi, Vimal K. Viswanathan

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

This paper evaluates the design and fabrication of a thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) shape memory polymer (SMP) using fused deposition modeling (FDM). The commercially available SMP filament was used to create parts capable of changing their shape following the application of an external heat stimulus. The characterization of thermal and viscoelastic properties of the SMP TPU revealed a proportional change in shape fixity and recovery with respect to heating and cooling rates, as well as a decreasing softening temperature with increasing shape memory history due to changes in the polymer microstructure. Inspired by the advancements in 3D and 4D printing, we …

Tai Chi Expertise Classification In Older Adults Using Wrist Wearables And Machine Learning, Yang Hu, Mengyue Huang, Jonathan Cerna, Rachneet Kaur, Manuel E. Hernandez

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

Tai Chi is a Chinese martial art that provides an adaptive and accessible exercise for older adults with varying functional capacity. While Tai Chi is widely recommended for its physical benefits, wider adoption in at-home practice presents challenges for practitioners, as limited feedback may hamper learning. This study examined the feasibility of using a wearable sensor, combined with machine learning (ML) approaches, to automatically and objectively classify Tai Chi expertise. We hypothesized that the combination of wrist acceleration profiles with ML approaches would be able to accurately classify practitioners’ Tai Chi expertise levels. Twelve older active Tai Chi practitioners were …

Ultrathin Boron Growth Onto Nanodiamond Surfaces Via Electrophilic Boron Precursors, Krishna Govindaraju, Tyanna Supreme, Daniel N. Labunsky, Nicole Martin, Juan Miguel Del Rosario, Alana Washington, Ezhioghode O. Uwadiale, Solomon Adjei, Sandra Ladjadj, Cynthia V. Melendrez, Sang Jun Lee, Maria V. Altoe, Avery Green, Sebastian Riano, Sami Sainio, Dennis Nordlund, Abraham Wolcott

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

Diamond as a templating substrate is largely unexplored, and the unique properties of diamond, including its large bandgap, thermal conductance, and lack of cytotoxicity, makes it versatile in emergent technologies in medicine and quantum sensing. Surface termination of an inert diamond substrate and its chemical reactivity are key in generating new bonds for nucleation and growth of an overlayer material. Oxidized high-pressure high temperature (HPHT) nanodiamonds (NDs) are largely terminated by alcohols that act as nucleophiles to initiate covalent bond formation when an electrophilic reactant is available. In this work, we demonstrate a templated synthesis of ultrathin boron on ND …

Time-To-Failure Prediction Of Fine-Grained Soil Slopes Subject To Weather-Driven Deterioration, Arm M. Morsy

Mineta Transportation Institute

Embankments have been widely used in the construction of transportation and flood defense infrastructure. Embankments constructed from clays experience a suite of weather-driven deterioration processes that lead to a progressive loss of hydromechanical performance, causing potentially severe and costly consequences. This study aimed to predict the time to failure of aging, deteriorating clay embankments supporting transportation infrastructure. A multi-phase numerical modeling approach was developed to replicate the long-term, weather-driven, hydromechanical behavior of clay embankments. This model simulated the behavior of a number of well-documented embankment failure case studies that had sufficient data to derive the necessary soil properties and climate …

Ten Years Forward: An Evaluation Of California’S Active Transportation Program, Bruce Appleyard, Mario Carbajal, Madison Swayne, Nell Ahangarfabrik, Megan Honey

Mineta Transportation Institute

California’s Active Transportation Program (ATP) is a competitive, grant-based program that serves as a major funding stream for active transportation infrastructure in California. The program has six goals based on increasing nonmotorized transportation, safety, equity, sustainability, and health. Evaluation of the ATP’s administrative and scoring processes is crucial to ensure goals are met as equitably and efficiently as possible. Additionally, establishing a methodology for evaluating the safety impacts of active transportation projects is critically important. Through a series of interviews and an extensive review of the documents and rubrics of the program, this report discusses how the Active Transportation Program …

Is Parking Cash-Out Worth It? Comparing Cost-Effectiveness And Climate And Equity Benefits In The Bay Area And South Coast Air Quality Management Districts, Fynnwin Prager, Tianjun Lu, Ashley Membere, Parveen Chhetri

Mineta Transportation Institute

This research explores the potential impacts of California parking cash-out policy changes on the Bay Area and LA County. Parking cash-out—a California law since 1992—requires that certain qualifying employers who subsidize employee parking offer employees the option to give up their parking space and receive cash instead. Studies show parking cash-out substantially reduces VMT and emissions, yet enforcement remains voluntary. Current policy covers few firms (<1%) and employees (around 11%) in the study regions. Policy reform to include companies with 20+ employees could increase this to 18%. Our experimental-design survey (n=963) explores behavioral changes in response to multiple policy variables and finds that 76.9% of employees would accept cash-out if offered, and that participants who had to pay the market rate for parking and were full-time commuters were more likely to switch to using public transportation at lower cash minimums. VMT related to employees covered by parking cash-out are substantial (5.6 million in the Bay Area; 5.7 million in LA County), and account for a combined 6,593 daily tons of GHG. As even limited adoption could have significant environmental benefits, parking cash-out would be a more cost-effective approach to reducing VMT than traditional TDM programs such as trip-reduction programs, workplace parking taxation, or transit subsidies and road diets, though further evidence on the direct influence of parking cash-out on commuter behavior is needed.

Forecasting Commercial Vehicle Miles Traveled (Vmt) In Urban California Areas, Steve Chung, Jaymin Kwon, Yushin Ahn

Mineta Transportation Institute

This study investigates commercial truck vehicle miles traveled (VMT) across six diverse California counties from 2000 to 2020. The counties—Imperial, Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, and San Francisco—represent a broad spectrum of California’s demographics, economies, and landscapes. Using a rich dataset spanning demographics, economics, and pollution variables, we aim to understand the factors influencing commercial VMT. We first visually represent the geographic distribution of the counties, highlighting their unique characteristics. Linear regression models, particularly the least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) and elastic net regressions are employed to identify key predictors of total commercial VMT. LASSO regression …

Threat And Hazard Identification And Risk Assessment (Thira) Guidance For Railroads, Frances L. Edwards, Daniel C. Goodrich

Mineta Transportation Institute

Climate change creates new challenges for all critical transportation infrastructure, especially for railroads with an open system that is continuously exposed to the elements. A Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment (THIRA) is a necessary first step for an organization to understand the challenges and develop strategies for adaptation to them. In many cases, the railroad sector is uniquely positioned to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions through mitigation steps. This guide will assist railroad risk managers and emergency managers to evaluate the risks and determine how best to respond to them through preparation, mitigation, or adaptation. The THIRA is the …

Comparison Of Transport Models In Dense Plasmas, Zachary A. Johnson, Luciano G. Silvestri, George M. Petrov, Liam G. Stanton, Michael S. Murillo

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

We compare a variety of models used for the calculation of transport coefficients in dense plasmas, including average-atom models, models based on kinetic theory, structure matching effective potentials, and pair-potential molecular dynamics. In particular, we focus on the parameter space investigated in the second charged-particle transport coefficient code comparison workshop [Stanek et al., Phys. Plasmas 31, 052104 (2024)]. Each model is based on the self-consistent output of our average-atom calculations. Ionic transport properties are generated from implicit electron pair matched molecular dynamics simulations, bypassing the need for either dynamical electron simulations or on-the-fly electronic structure calculations. These matched pair potentials …

Evolutionary Genomic Analyses Of Canine E. Coli Infections Identify A Relic Capsular Locus Associated With Resistance To Multiple Classes Of Antimicrobials, Kristina Ceres, Jordan D. Zehr, Chloe Murrell, Jean K. Millet, Qi Sun, Holly C. Mcqueary, Alanna Horton, Casey Cazer, Kelly Sams, Guillaume Reboul, William B. Andreopoulos, Patrick K. Mitchell, Renee Anderson, Rebecca Franklin-Guild, Brittany D. Cronk, Bryce J. Stanhope, Claire R. Burbick, Rebecca Wolking, Laura Peak

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

Infections caused by antimicrobial-resistant Escherichia coli are the leading cause of death attributed to antimicrobial resistance (AMR) worldwide, and the known AMR mechanisms involve a range of functional proteins. Here, we employed a pangenome wide association study (GWAS) approach on over 1,000 E. coli isolates from sick dogs collected across the US and Canada and identified a strong statistical association (empirical P < 0.01) of AMR, involving a range of antibiotics to a group 1 capsular (CPS) gene cluster. This cluster included genes under relaxed selection pressure, had several loci missing, and had pseudogenes for other key loci. Furthermore, this cluster is widespread in E. coli and Klebsiella clinical isolates across multiple host species. Earlier studies demonstrated that the octameric CPS polysaccharide export protein Wza can transmit macrolide antibiotics into the E. coli periplasm. We suggest that the CPS in question, and its highly divergent Wza, functions as an antibiotic trap, preventing antimicrobial penetration. We also highlight the high diversity of lineages circulating in dogs across all regions studied, the overlap with human lineages, and regional prevalence of resistance to multiple antimicrobial classes.

Regrounding The Unworldly: Carnap’S Politically Engaged Logical Pluralism, Noah Friedman-Biglin

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

Recent discussions of logical pluralism trace its origins to Rudolf Carnap’s principle of tolerance; indeed, the principle is seen as one of Carnap’s lasting philosophical contributions. In this paper, I will argue that Carnap’s reasons for adopting this principle are not purely logical, but are rather founded in the Vienna Circle’s manifesto—a programmatic document that brings the Circle’s philosophical work together with a program of social change. Building on work by Uebel, Romizi, and others, I argue that we must understand the principle in light of Carnap’s role in writing the manifesto, and thus as integrated into the larger philosophical …

Smart City Community Watch—Camera-Based Community Watch For Traffic And Illegal Dumping, Nupur Pathak, Gangotri Biswal, Megha Goushal, Vraj Mistry, Palak Shah, Fenglian Li, Jerry Gao

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

Highlights: What are the main findings? The smart city community watch program developed using YOLOv5 for object detection and DeepSORT for multi-object tracking achieves 97% accuracy in detecting illegal dumping. The web-based application integrates person detection, trash detection, license plate detection and extraction, and a decision algorithm aiding government agencies to monitor and effectively manage illegal dumping. What are the implications of the main findings? With the 97% detection accuracy and real-time detection capabilities of the YOLOv5- and DeepSORT-based solution, this solution can help in saving government expenditure to clean up illegal dumping. The solution can be integrated with smart …

Kritisamhita: A Machine Learning Dataset Of South Indian Classical Music Audio Clips With Tonic Classification, Samhita Konduri, Kriti V. Pendyala, Vishnu S. Pendyala

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

There are currently a limited number of Indian classical music datasets, especially those large enough and with useful annotations, particularly the subtler ones, such as the tonic, for training classification or prediction models. The dataset described in this paper is created with useful tonic annotations, to fill this gap. The tonic pitch, or base pitch, plays an important role in music, so much so that it is sometimes called the keynote. The vocalists and the accompanying instrumental ensemble are fine-tuned to this keynote to render the composition. The first and second authors of this paper, who are vocalists themselves, recorded …

Mathias, Harry, San Jose State University

Emeritus and Retired Faculty Biographies

San Francisco State University, Radio, Television, Film, BA, 1968

San Francisco State University, Creative Arts Interdisciplinary Studies with emphasis Film Production, Broadcast TV Production, Broadcast Engineering, Drama, and Computer Graphic Video Imaging Systems Design, MA,1974,

Shaw, William H, San Jose State University

Emeritus and Retired Faculty Biographies

London School of Economics and Political Science, Politics, 1976, Ph.D.

Stanford University, Philosophy, 1970, A.B.