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Research Institute Wins $44 Million Award To Support Research In Advanced Structures Technologies For U.S. Air Force, University Of Dayton

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The United States Air Force awarded the University of Dayton Research Institute a $44-million ceiling contract to support research in advanced structures technologies for aerospace vehicles ranging from planes to unmanned vehicles.

The Many Faces Of The Madonna: 25 Years Of Exhibits In The Marian Library, University Of Dayton. Marian Library

Marian Library Art Exhibit Guides

Selected from the over 120 exhibits that have been displayed in the Marian Library Gallery, the Marian art in this retrospective points to Mary, the Mother of Jesus Christ, as a highly visible figure of Christianity worldwide.

Exhibit dates: Feb. 11–Nov. 1, 2019

Curator: Father Johann G. Roten, S.M.

Graphic designer: Ann Zlotnik

Doc 2019-04 Proposal For Group Facilitation And Leadership Certificate, Kelly Vibber

Senate Documents

Legislative Authority.


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

Doc 2019-01 Proposal For Bachelor Of Science In Sustainability, University Of Dayton. College Of Arts And Sciences

Senate Documents

Legislative Authority

Contains:

1. Rationale for the New Degree Program

2. Description of the Impact on Other Programs and Departments

3. Prospective Enrollment

4. Attraction and Retention of Underrepresented Student Groups

5. Evidence of Industry Need and Employability of Graduates

6. Identification of Similar University Programs and Peer Institutions

7. Description of Proposed Curriculum

8. Review of resource Availability and Adequacy

9. Projected Additional Investment and Evidence of Capacity

Doc 2019-02 Bachelor Of Arts In Sustainability, Full Proposal, University Of Dayton. College Of Arts And Sciences

Senate Documents

Legislative Authority.

Contains:

1. Rationale for the New Degree Program

2. Description of the Impact on Other Programs and Departments

3. Prospective Enrollment

4. Attraction and Retention of Underrepresented Student Groups

5. Evidence of Industry Need and Employability of Graduates

6. Identification of Similar University Programs and Peer Institutions

7. Description of Proposed Curriculum

8. Review of resource Availability and Adequacy

9. Projected Additional Investment and Evidence of Capacity

Honorslink, Issue 2019.1, University Of Dayton

HonorsLINK Newsletter

The Honors Program newsletter, HonorsLINK contains in-depth stories about students and alumni, recent achievements and announcements from alumni, news about current students and a six-month calendar of events.

Performance Analysis Of Machine Learning And Deep Learning Architectures For Malaria Detection On Cell Images, Barath Narayanan, Redha Ali, Russell C. Hardie

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

Plasmodium malaria is a parasitic protozoan that causes malaria in humans. Computer aided detection of Plasmodium is a research area attracting great interest. In this paper, we study the performance of various machine learning and deep learning approaches for the detection of Plasmodium on cell images from digital microscopy. We make use of a publicly available dataset composed of 27,558 cell images with equal instances of parasitized (contains Plasmodium) and uninfected (no Plasmodium) cells. We randomly split the dataset into groups of 80% and 20% for training and testing purposes, respectively. We apply color constancy and spatially resample all images …

Active Recall Networks For Multiperspectivity Learning Through Shared Latent Space Optimization, Theus Aspiras, Ruixu Liu, Vijayan K. Asari

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

Given that there are numerous amounts of unlabeled data available for usage in training neural networks, it is desirable to implement a neural network architecture and training paradigm to maximize the ability of the latent space representation. Through multiple perspectives of the latent space using adversarial learning and autoencoding, data requirements can be reduced, which improves learning ability across domains. The entire goal of the proposed work is not to train exhaustively, but to train with multiperspectivity. We propose a new neural network architecture called Active Recall Network (ARN) for learning with less labels by optimizing the latent space. This …

Deep Temporal Convolutional Networks For Short-Term Traffic Flow Forecasting, Wentian Zhao, Yanyun Gao, Tingxiang Ji, Xili Wan, Feng Ye, Guangwei Bai

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

To reduce the increasingly congestion in cities, it is essential for intelligent transportation system (ITS) to accurately forecast the short-term traffic flow to identify the potential congestion sites. In recent years, the emerging deep learning method has been introduced to design traffic flow predictors, such as recurrent neural network (RNN) and long short-term memory (LSTM), which has demonstrated its promising results. In this paper, different from existing work, we study the temporal convolutional network (TCN) and propose a deep learning framework based on TCN model for short-term city-wide traffic forecast to accurately capture the temporal and spatial evolution of traffic …

Iact Undergraduate Certificate In Applied Creativity (Year 2 - 2019), Brian Laduca

IACT Certificate Program

At the Institute of Applied Creativity for Transformation (IACT) at ArtStreet, we seek to empower a creatively confident 21st-century student with the ability to discover, invent and innovate ambiguous ideas through a disruptive design process that will impact today’s ever-changing global world regardless of degree focus.

IACT is home to the nation’s first undergraduate certificate in Applied Creativity for Transformation. Open to undergraduate students of any major, the certificate is a first step in achieving the University of Dayton’s vision of innovation, applied creativity, entrepreneurship and community engagement for the common good.

Hanley Sustainability Institute Community Engagement Summary: Key Opportunities For The Strategic Plan, Hanley Sustainability Institute, University Of Dayton

Hanley Sustainability Institute Documents, Reports and Promotional Materials

In the fall of 2019, the Hanley Sustainability Institute launched a partnership with Design Impact (DI), a social innovation nonprofit based in Cincinnati. DI and HSI worked together to create a strategic vision for HSI that outlined the role the institute would play on and off campus. This strategic vision was shaped through broad and deep community engagement with many of HSI’s stakeholders— students, faculty, staff and community partners. A core team of UD staff and faculty from various departments guided the process.

Quasilinearization And Boundary Value Problems At Resonance For Caputo Fractional Differential Equations, Saleh S. Almuthaybiri, Paul W. Eloe, Jeffrey T. Neugebauer

Mathematics Faculty Publications

The quasilinearization method is applied to a boundary value problem at resonance for a Caputo fractional differential equation. The method of upper and lower solutions is first employed to obtain the uniqueness of solutions of the boundary value problem at resonance. The shift argument is applied to show the existence of solutions. The quasilinearization algorithm is then developed and sequences of approximate solutions are constructed that converge monotonically and quadratically to the unique solution of the boundary value problem at resonance. Two applications are provided to illustrate the main results.

Community As An Institutional Learning Goal At The Unversity Of Dayton, Steve Herndon, Kelly S. Johnson, Kimberly Edginton Bigelow, Una M. Cadegan, Diana Cuy-Castellanos, Alan Demmitt, Chris Fishpaw, Hunter Phillips Goodman, Daria-Yvonne J. Graham, Joseph Krella, Chad Painter, Kathy Sales, Kellie Schneider, Castel Sweet, William Vance Trollinger, Erick Salvador Vasquez, Chanel Wright, Mary B. Ziskin

Documents of the Provost's Office

This working paper summarizes the work of the Habits of Inquiry and Reflection Community Fellows. It considers the meaning of community both in UD’s historic mission and in the ways it is practiced at UD now; identifies obstacles and failures; and offers recommendations for advancing community as a learning goal at UD.

Premedical Programs Newsletter, January-February 2019, University Of Dayton

Pre-Health Resource Center Campus Communications

Newsletter for students, staff, and faculty in the premedical and predental programs.

Quasilinearization And Boundary Value Problems For Riemann-Liouville Fractional Differential Equations, Paul W. Eloe, Jaganmohan Jonnalagadda

Mathematics Faculty Publications

We apply the quasilinearization method to a Dirichlet boundary value problem and to a right focal boundary value problem for a RiemannLiouville fractional differential equation. First, we sue the method of upper and lower solutions to obtain the uniqueness of solutions of the Dirichlet boundary value problem. Next, we apply a suitable fixed point theorem to establish the existence of solutions. We develop a quasilinearization algorithm and construct sequences of approximate solutions that converge monotonically and quadratically to the unique solution of the boundary value problem. Two examples are exhibited to illustrate the main result for the Dirichlet boundary value …

Avery Fixed Point Theorem Applied To A Hammerstein Integral Equation, Paul W. Eloe, Jeffrey T. Neugebauer

Mathematics Faculty Publications

Abstract. We apply a recent Avery et al. fixed point theorem to the Hammerstein integral equation (see paper for equation). Under certain conditions on G, we show the existence of positive and positive symmetric solutions. Examples are given where G is a convolution kernel and where G is a Green’s function associated with different boundary-value problem.

Investigation Of The Effect Of Vehicle Color On Safety, Deogratias Eustace, Fayez Khalaf Alanazi, Peter W. Hovey

Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering Mechanics Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Myanmar’S Pop Music Industry In Transition, Heather Maclachlan

Books and Book Chapters by University of Dayton Faculty

In the wake of the November 2010 elections, one important signal of the Myanmar government’s commitment to change was the cessation of the censorship of music recordings in October 2012.

1 Prior to that date, the country’s Press Scrutiny Board conducted rather rigorous censoring of so-called stereo series (albums), in cassette and later in compact disc formats. Producers wishing to sell their series in retail shops were required to submit a copy of the recording and ten copies of the song lyrics to the censors at the Press Security Board (MacLachlan 2011:148). Although the censoring was supposed to be provided …

Application Of Signal Processing And Machine Learning Techniques For Segmentation And Spatial Registration Of Material Property Data, Josiah Dierken, Daniel Sparkman, Sean Donegan, Sarah Wallentine, John Wertz, David Zainey

Office for Research Publications and Presentations

Errors introduced into data acquired for nondestructive evaluation due to suboptimal digitization rates, bandwidth, and signal processing settings can dominate the perceived noise in acquired data, leading to artifacts and erroneous interpretation. Furthermore, the presence of such errors incurred through the data acquisition process can also inhibit post-processing techniques utilized in multimodal data segmentation and registration efforts. This study illustrates the use of advanced signal processing techniques to limit the effects of quantization errors in normal-incidence ultrasonic inspection data, thereby optimizing the signals for further processing while maintaining the integrity of the data. In conjunction with signal processing methods, K-means …

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

LTC Newsletter

Spring 2019

Recurrent Residual U-Net For Medical Image Segmentation, Md Zahangir Alom, Christopher Yakopcic, Mahmudul Hasan, Tarek M. Taha, Vijayan K. Asari

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

Deep learning (DL)-based semantic segmentation methods have been providing state-of-the-art performance in the past few years. More specifically, these techniques have been successfully applied in medical image classification, segmentation, and detection tasks. One DL technique, U-Net, has become one of the most popular for these applications. We propose a recurrent U-Net model and a recurrent residual U-Net model, which are named RU-Net and R2U-Net, respectively. The proposed models utilize the power of U-Net, residual networks, and recurrent convolutional neural networks. There are several advantages to using these proposed architectures for segmentation tasks. First, a residual unit helps when training deep …

A Survey Of Techniques For Mobile Service Encrypted Traffic Classification Using Deep Learning, Pan Wang, Xuejiao Chen, Feng Ye, Zhixin Sun

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

The rapid adoption of mobile devices has dramatically changed the access to various net- working services and led to the explosion of mobile service traffic. Mobile service traffic classification has been a crucial task that attracts strong interest in mobile network management and security as well as machine learning communities for past decades. However, with more and more adoptions of encryption over mobile services, it brings a lot of challenges about mobile traffic classification. Although classical machine learning approaches can solve many issues that port and payload-based methods cannot solve, it still has some limitations, such as time-consuming, costly handcrafted …

Exploring The Efficacy Of Natural Products In Alleviating Alzheimer’S Disease Using Animal Models, Prajakta Deshpande, Neha Gogia, Amit Singh

Biology Faculty Publications

Alzheimer’s disease (hereafter AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that affects the central nervous system. There are multiple factors that cause AD, viz., accumulation of extracellular Amyloid-beta 42 plaques, intracellular hyper-phosphorylated Tau tangles, generation of reactive oxygen species due to mitochondrial dysfunction and genetic mutations. The plaques and tau tangles trigger aberrant signaling, which eventually cause cell death of the neurons. As a result, there is shrinkage of brain, cognitive defects, behavioral and psychological problems. To date, there is no direct cure for AD. Thus, scientists have been testing various strategies like screening for the small inhibitor molecule library …

A Student Journal To Celebrate, Preserve, And Improve Beginning Undergraduate Writing, Ann E. Biswas, Maureen E. Schlangen, Heidi Gauder

Books and Book Chapters by University of Dayton Faculty

At the end of each semester, composition instructors at the University of Dayton (UD) collected portfolios of student writing for the annual program assessment, encouraging their students to return the following semester to pick up their folders of work. However, the stacks of unclaimed portfolios that piled up in faculty offices each year was an indication that students cared little about what they had written, perhaps believing no one beyond their instructor was interested in reading their writing now or in the future. Nevertheless, academic scholars have recognized that student writing improves—as do a sense of ownership and pride in …

"Whole-Brained" Engineering Education In Undergraduate Studies At The University Of Dayton, Kylie Moellering

Undergraduate Voices

This inquiry is a case study which explores, explicates, and summarizes the recent shift to “whole-brained” engineering education for undergraduate-level students at the University of Dayton. This case study is primarily structured around the experiences and insights of an interviewee, Dr. Ken Bloemer, who is the Director of the Visioneering Center at the University of Dayton. The Visioneering Center is principally focused on promoting the progress of engineering education at the university. Voices from scholarly literature pertaining to this vision and other undergraduate engineering curricula are then used to reinforce the interviewee’s views and give deeper insight into the various …

Undergraduate Voices, Volume 1 (2018): Addendum, Amir Kalan

Undergraduate Voices

Additional articles approved for publication in December 2018 in Volume 1.

Cognitive Factors In Higher Education Students: Goals, Mindset, And Internalized Motivation, Mary Kovach

Journal of Research, Assessment, and Practice in Higher Education

This manuscript demonstrates the value of understanding three cognitive factors in higher education. These three cognitive factors (i.e. goals, mindset, and internalized motivation) provide educators with the ability to enhance academic outcomes and to motivate students towards achievement. Each cognitive factor is dissected and applied to students in the higher education classroom. Additionally, research is presented to create a motivational atmosphere, specifically within the classroom environment, that will improve student mindset and develop stronger academic goals for students. Lastly, this manuscript proposes suggestions for future research that will contribute to the findings of the overall construct of motivation in an …

Unmasking Of Impostor Syndrome, Aishwarya Joshi, Haley Mangette

Journal of Research, Assessment, and Practice in Higher Education

Members of minority populations are forced to hide behind a mask of stereotypes others associate to them. Individuals who feel fraudulent when they fulfill certain stereotypes, associate their success to external forces, define the problem as impostor syndrome (IS). The paper focuses on the prevalence and relevance of IS on college campuses. The session will explore the affect and effect of IS from different cultural lenses and discuss possible preventive and coping strategies for academic and mental health professionals. The purpose is to ‘unmask’ the impostor syndrome caused by stereotypes and stereotype threats that prevents individuals from reaching ‘new heights’ …

A Call That Could Save A Life, Jeaneen Parsons

Materials from the University of Dayton Magazine Website

The 911 easy access bill championed by Dan Wilson ’84 was signed into law by President Trump

University Of Dayton Sets Another Research Record, Claims Top Spot Nationally For Materials Engineering, University Of Dayton

News Releases

The University of Dayton set another research record in fiscal year 2018 and claimed the top spot in the nation among universities for materials engineering research in the latest National Science Foundation rankings for fiscal year 2017. UD ranks in the top 25 of all U.S. colleges and universities in seven categories.