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Handwritten Bangla Character Recognition Using The State-Of-The-Art Deep Convolutional Neural Networks, Md Zahangir Alom, Paheding Sidike, Mahmudul Hasan, Tarek M. Taha, Vijayan K. Asari

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

In spite of advances in object recognition technology, handwritten Bangla character recognition (HBCR) remains largely unsolved due to the presence of many ambiguous handwritten characters and excessively cursive Bangla handwritings. Even many advanced existing methods do not lead to satisfactory performance in practice that related to HBCR. In this paper, a set of the state-of-the-art deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) is discussed and their performance on the application of HBCR is systematically evaluated. The main advantage of DCNN approaches is that they can extract discriminative features from raw data and represent them with a high degree of invariance to object …

Ltc Newsletter, University Of Dayton. Ryan C. Harris Learning Teaching Center

LTC Newsletter

Spring 2018

A Historical Reassessment Of Congress's "Power To Dispose Of" The Public Lands, Jeffrey M. Schmitt

School of Law Faculty Publications

The Property Clause of the Constitution grants Congress the “Power to Dispose” of federal land. Congress uses this Clause to justify permanent federal land ownership of approximately one-third of the land within the United States. Legal scholars, however, are divided as to whether the original understanding of the Clause supports this practice. While many scholars argue that the text and intent of the framers show that Congress has the power to permanently own land within the states, others contend that these sources demonstrate that Congress has a duty to dispose of all federal land not held pursuant to another enumerated …

Doc 2018-01 Human Sexuality Studies Certificate, Lee J. Dixon, Leslie H. Picca, Andrew Slade, Rebecca Whisnant, Kristen Altenau Keen

Senate Documents

Legislative Authority; Art. III. B. 1-7; DOC 2015-04

A Label Law That Requires No Label, Amy Mclaughlin

University of Dayton Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Annual Christmas Card, Kayla Harris

Marian Library Blog Archive

In a time when handwritten letters are replaced with a quick email or text message, the annual Christmas card, with family updates and well-wishes for loved ones remains a tradition this time of year.

Video: Ipi Hosts Intern From Malawi, Aaron Alford

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

Ignatius Mvula spent two months this fall at the University of Dayton's Institute for Pastoral Initiatives (IPI) learning to develop online faith formation courses for his diocese in Malawi, Africa.

College Faculty In The News: Dec. 10, 2017, University Of Dayton

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

Local news agency, The Oakwood News, picked up on the value of the iconic Old River Park doubling as a living laboratory for University of Dayton environmental biology students. Follow this and other recent media coverage of the service, research, scholarship and commentary of College of Arts and Sciences programs and their faculty.

Mary In The News: Dec. 6, 2017, Michael Duricy

Marian Library Blog Archive

Read recent items about Mary in both Catholic and secular news. Also, see International Marian Research Institute news and updates.

2018 Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Sells Out In Record Time, Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop

Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog

The 2018 Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop has sold out in a record four hours and 42 minutes. Craig Ferguson, comedian, actor, writer and, for 10 entertaining years, the madcap host of the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, will kick off the workshop next spring. This blog gives the tentative list of faculty and keynotes.

Stop: School Trafficking Outreach Program, University Of Dayton, Abolition Ohio

Abolition Ohio

No abstract provided.

University Of Dayton Magazine. Winter 2017-18, University Of Dayton Magazine

University of Dayton Alumni Publications

The University of Dayton Magazine is published quarterly by the Office of Communications for alumni, parents, students, faculty/staff, trustees and other friends of UD. Articles include "In Distinguished Company," "What Makes Us Human," and "Maybe Just Give Up and Go Home."

168th Commencement, Fall

Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

Doctrinal Evolution And The Living Constitution, Eliot T. Tracz

University of Dayton Law Review

No abstract provided.

Grounded In Mercy: Embracing A Practical Theological Response To The Reality Of Hiv/Aids Sero‐Discordancy, Simonmary Asese Aihiokhai

Journal of the Black Catholic Theological Symposium

The crises of HIV/AIDS infections and deaths in sub-Saharan Africa call for pragmatic solutions that are grounded in a broader vision of God’s mercy. While the church has and continues to be the major non-governmental provider of assistance to those communities and persons battling with HIV/AIDS infections, a critical and holistic review of its stance on rejecting any usefulness of condoms as prophylactics for preventing HIV infections. This approach is most urgent today as Africans continue to experience high rates of HIV infection among monogamous married couples who are sero-discordant.

"Justice And Mercy": The Question Of Discordancy, The Development Of Doctrine And African Catholicism, John Segun Odeyemi

Journal of the Black Catholic Theological Symposium

The call for Justice and Mercy in the teachings of Pope Francis raises critical questions across theological and secular contexts. In the light of the Pontiff’s call for a Jubilee year of Mercy, in Evangelii Gaudium, and references in his teachings to these themes, I intend to investigate the theological meaning of Justice and Mercy and to reconcile these with what Pope Francis means. Then proffer as a concrete example, discordancy in Africa as an opportunity for a doctrinal and magisterial definition on the use of condoms as prophylactics to show a Church that acts mercifully and does justice.

Black And Brown Pauls: A Pauline Case Of Racial Profiling; A Hermeneutical Reading Of Acts 21:27‐40a And 22:23‐29 And The Reality Of The African American And Hispanic Communities In The United States, Dempsey Rosales Acosta

Journal of the Black Catholic Theological Symposium

The present study analyzes the socio-historical context and setting narrated in the canonical episode of Paul’s arrest and his treatment in Jerusalem according to the narrative of Acts 21:27-40a and 22:23-29. The pericopes become the fundamental platform through which it is possible to present both a hermeneutical and theological interpretation of the liabilities and ultimate consequences of racial profiling, especially when it is exercised by the civil authorities, an institutionalized power, or a general culture. The diachronic and synchronic exegetical analysis of the pericopes are combined with the methodological approaches of cognitive semantics and the practical theology that lead to …

Orpheus, Fall 2017: Hive/Swarm, University Of Dayton

Orpheus: UD's Literary and Artistic Magazine

No abstract provided.

Citizens Nowhere: The Anomaly Of American Samoans' Citizenship Status After Tuaua V. United States, Elizabeth K. Watson

University of Dayton Law Review

No abstract provided.

Highlighting The Humanities, Will Van Winkle

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

A newly formed University of Dayton student committee is working to create an inclusive community for all humanities majors. The Humanities Visibility Project, facilitated by assistant professors of English Shannon Toll and David Fine, successfully hosted its first large-scale event in October.

Movies For Advent, Gloria Falcão Dodd

Marian Library Blog Archive

While there are many ways that one can try to maintain or to retrieve "the true meaning of Christmas," why not enrich one's spiritual growth with some appropriate videos?

Write On, University Of Dayton

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

The University of Dayton's wildly popular Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop will feature celebrated writers - and a few celebrities. Registration opens Dec. 5.

Write On, University Of Dayton

News Releases

The wildly popular University of Dayton Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop will feature celebrated writers — and a few celebrities. Registration opens Dec. 5.

Narrating Human Trafficking: Advocacy Strategies In The Face Of Apathy, Invisibility, And Indifference, Kelli Lyon Johnson

Biennial Conference: The Social Practice of Human Rights

The inclusion of personal stories about victims and survivors has been a common advocacy strategy in the struggle to end human trafficking. This paper examines the reasons for the prevalence of personal narratives in anti-trafficking advocacy and provides an analytical framework for understanding the three most common narrative strategies used these advocacy discourses.

One typical reason given for the inclusion of such stories centers on the explicit attempt to elicit empathy — an effort to personalize or humanize the human rights violation across social, geographical, and identity gaps for an audience theoretically empowered to contribute to change through their own …

Transformations Of Free Movement: Syrian Refugee Rights Within Neoliberal Signal Territories, Jordan Hayes

Biennial Conference: The Social Practice of Human Rights

Alongside representations of the fractious civil conflict in Syria, our media frequently depict victims of forced displacement using their smartphones. In October 2015, Time published images of refugees taking selfies after making the journey from the Turkish coast to Lesbos, Greece. These images show refugees using mobile devices to enjoy human rights like the freedoms of expression and movement. Absent is the state sanction implied by UN compacts such as the 1951 Refugee Convention.

This paper situates these representations, recent scholarship, and my own fieldwork with Syrian refugees sheltering in the Kurdish Region of Iraq within an analysis of human …

Transnational Abolitionist Rhetoric To End Modern Slavery, Laura Barrio-Vilar

Biennial Conference: The Social Practice of Human Rights

In his 1998 autobiography, Restavec: From Haitian Slave Child to Middle-Class American, Jean-Robert Cadet denounces the horrors of modern child slavery as he narrates his life journey. Emotionally, physically, and sexually abused under the restavek system, Cadet migrates with his “masters” to the United States, where he pursues a formal education, joins the army, and acquires a middle-class status.

Today, Cadet has his own organization, dedicated to ending child slavery in Haiti through education and advocacy. In this presentation, I analyze how Cadet adopts conventional genre characteristics of slave narratives and U.S. migration literature in order to enter the …

Indigenous Rights In The Trump Era, Tereza M. Szeghi

Biennial Conference: The Social Practice of Human Rights

This paper examines the ways in which the Dakota Access Pipeline and the related protests were divergently covered in mainstream versus alternative news sources and what this divergent coverage suggests about the current status of American Indian affairs and the role of American Indians in the U.S. cultural imaginary. Moreover, the paper will address the status of American Indian tribal sovereignty in the Trump era more broadly, with particular focus on American Indians' treaty-related rights to self-determination in the use of their lands.

Out Of The Prison And Onto The Streets: The Trafficking Of Incarcerated Women (A Trans-Disciplinary Media Research Project), Mei-Ling Mcnamara

Biennial Conference: The Social Practice of Human Rights

Women are being actively targeted for the sex trafficking trade within US prisons and are recruited by a network of fellow inmates who are given "finders fees" for supplying victims. In prisons from Florida to North Carolina, Ohio to Massachusetts, women are promised housing and food in exchange for work upon release but instead are deceived and prostituted for the human trafficking trade. Some traffickers stalk their victims through public-access profiles from statewide prison websites, then groom them over months through correspondence and phone calls.

Inside the largest women’s prison in the United States, the Florida Lowell Correctional Institution, officers …

Encounters With Climate Change: How Sdg 13 Can Move From Awareness To Action, Rebecca C. Potter

Biennial Conference: The Social Practice of Human Rights

In a well-known passage from his book I and Thou, Martin Buber relates his encounter with a tree: “I contemplate a tree,” he writes, and then lists the various ways he could perceive the tree, as an artist or biologist, as someone interested in the trees parts and construction or interested in its function as a living system. But in all cases, Buber observes, “the tree remains my object and has its place and its time span, its kind and condition.”

Yet sometimes, “if will and grace are conjoined,” Buber describes being drawn into a relation with the tree wherein …

Sustainability Graduate Certificate, Dave Larsen

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

The University of Dayton will launch a graduate certificate in sustainability studies in January, expanding the College of Arts and Science's recently created sustainability studies program beyond the sustainability, energy and the environment minor established in 2010.