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2019-09-26 Common Academic Program Committee Minutes, University Of Dayton. Common Academic Program Committee

Common Academic Program Committee Minutes

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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 …

Predicting Public Opinion On Drug Legalization: Social Media Analysis And Consumption Trends, Farahnaz Golrooy Motlagh, Saeedeh Shekarpour, Amit Sheth, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Michael L. Raymer

Computer Science Faculty Publications

In this paper, we focus on the collection and analysis of relevant Twitter data on a state-by-state basis for (i) measuring public opinion on marijuana legalization by mining sentiment in Twitter data and (ii) determining the usage trends for six distinct types of marijuana. We overcome the challenges posed by the informal and ungrammatical nature of tweets to analyze a corpus of 306,835 relevant tweets collected over the four-month period, preceding the November 2015 Ohio Marijuana Legalization ballot and the four months after the election for all states in the US. Our analysis revealed two key insights: (i) the people …

Reachability Analysis For Neural Feedback Systems Using Regressive Polynomial Rule Inference, Souradeep Dutta, Xin Chen, Sriram Sankaranarayanan

Computer Science Faculty Publications

We present an approach to construct reachable set overapproxi- mations for continuous-time dynamical systems controlled using neural network feedback systems. Feedforward deep neural net- works are now widely used as a means for learning control laws through techniques such as reinforcement learning and data-driven predictive control. However, the learning algorithms for these net- works do not guarantee correctness properties on the resulting closed-loop systems. Our approach seeks to construct overapproxi- mate reachable sets by integrating a Taylor model-based flowpipe construction scheme for continuous differential equations with an approach that replaces the neural network feedback law for a small subset of …

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.

Living The Marianist Spirit: How Are You Being Called To Bring Christ Into The World As Mary Did?, Association Of Marianist Universities, University Of Dayton

Documents of the Office for Mission and Rector

Booklet describes the five pillars of the Marianist charism and the Marianist System of Virtues. It also invites readers to learn more about the Marianists: Marianist.com (Marianist Family website); www.nacms.org (books for purchase and free online articles); amuhighered.org (Association of Marianist Universities).

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.

January 2019, Pope Francis

Marian Thoughts of Pope Francis

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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.

Data Visualization Tools For Archives And Special Collections, Kayla Harris, Andrew Harris

Marian Library Faculty Publications

As archivists, we often view ourselves as stewards of the collections, preserving materials for other researchers to use. We arrange, describe, and promote the items, but it’s not always within our job descriptions to interpret the materials we work with or to create new knowledge. Yet data visualization, or any effort that helps users see data in a visual way, can be an easy and accessible way to promote collections. This article highlights data visualization tools archivists have begun to use to enhance their digital holdings. Each tool requires a different level of technical expertise, but many are user-friendly and …

Review: 'Learner-Centered Pedagogy: Principles And Practice', Kayla Harris

Marian Library Faculty Publications

Learner-Centered Pedagogy: Principles and Practice combines theory and application to explain why “who we are as people matters” in regards to learning. Although the text is written for instructional librarians teaching information literacy, the scenarios are easily adapted to a special collections context, making this a key text for any archivist, especially those with responsibilities for outreach or instruction.

Review: 'Human Operators: A Critical Oral History On Technology In Libraries And Archives', Kayla Harris

Marian Library Faculty Publications

What is technology? Although the definition changes depending on context, editor Melissa Morrone starts off her collection of oral history interviews, Human Operators: A Critical Oral History on Technology in Libraries and Archives, by posing that question. In a unique style, Morrone compiles, edits, and connects interviews from 42 different librarians and archivists into one book that reads like a conversational narrative. Many interesting topics are covered throughout, but the book mainly provides responses from librarians and archivists about how we, as humans, use and ultimately feel about technology in different environments.

Leading Change For School Improvement, Corinne Brion

Educational Leadership Faculty Publications

This teaching case study is meant to help current and future school leaders become change agents who lead effectively and improve their schools. I discuss one case in a fictitious city and school that is representative of many other American schools. In particular, I examine adaptive challenges that educational leaders commonly face. This case encourages administrators to participate in meaningful conversations with stakeholders to solve complex issues around leading change. The hope is to better understand how school leaders can transform schools, embrace adaptive challenges, and use change as opportunities for growth. I also pose questions designed to make future …

Voices Of Ghanaian Head-Teachers Working In Low-Fee Private Schools, Corinne Brion, Paula A. Cordeiro

Educational Leadership Faculty Publications

The year 2000 was pivotal for the developing nations of the world. During the Millennium Summit, 189 member nations of the United Nations and 23 international organizations came together to adopt the United Nations Millennium Declaration and to commit to help achieve eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Those goals were to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger; achieve universal primary education; promote gender equality and empower women; reduce child mortality; improve maternal health; combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases; ensure environmental sustainability; and develop a global partnership for development. These ambitious goals had specific targets to be achieved by 2015 (United …

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 …

The Large Contraction Principle And Existence Of Periodic Solutions For Infinite Delay Volterra Difference Equations, Paul W. Eloe, Jaganmohan Jonnalagadda, Youssef Raffoul

Mathematics Faculty Publications

In this article, we establish sufficient conditions for the existence of periodic solutions of a nonlinear infinite delay Volterra difference equation. (See paper for equation.)

We employ a Krasnosel’skii type fixed point theorem, originally proved by Burton. The primary sufficient condition is not verifiable in terms of the parameters of the difference equation, and so we provide three applications in which the primary sufficient condition is verified.

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.

Bearing Witness To Sexual Violence As A Violation Of Women's Rights, Josh Segalewitz

Joyce Durham Essay Contest in Women's and Gender Studies

On January 21, 2017, masses of people around the globe gathered for one of the largest collections of public protest in history. It is estimated that over seven million people gathered to raise awareness of human rights violations towards several different groups. However, perhaps the largest common trope was echoed time and time again in the phrase, "women's rights are human rights." Conversations surrounding women's rights have been pushed to the forefront of human rights discourse in the recent past, and although there has certainly been a lot of progress towards the universal enforcement of women's rights, the role of …

Questionnaire Design: How To Ask The Right Questions Of The Right People At The Right Time To Get The Information You Need, William F. Moroney, Joyce Anne Cameron

Books and Book Chapters by University of Dayton Faculty

This book explores how a well-designed questionnaire is customer-focused, simplifying the process for the respondent and thereby increasing both validity and response rates. It is recommended for use by psychologists, sociologists, political scientists, marketers, and other professionals.

Questionnaires, like any well-designed interface, should be intuitive. This manual provides a fool-proof approach to questionnaire design for practitioners, marketers, and researchers with little or no formal training. It provides practical instruction regarding what to do and how to do it and supports these instructions with real-world examples and findings from scientific studies. An augmenting website contains additional guidance, examples, a case study, …

Deadeye, Meredith Doench

Books and Book Chapters by University of Dayton Faculty

Book 3 of the Luce Hansen Thriller series.

Special Agent Luce Hansen’s Thanksgiving vacation with her new lover, forensic pathologist Harper Bennett, is cut short when she’s tasked with recapturing Deadeye, a vicious serial predator who has escaped custody. The timing couldn’t be worse, especially when Bennett seems to be struggling with the realities of Hansen’s work and questioning whether she’s willing to risk building a life with a woman who puts work first, even when the job puts her in the line of fire.

Hansen can’t put aside the chase even with her relationship on shaky ground. On the …

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

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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 …

The Real-Time Revolution: Transforming Your Organization To Value Customer Time, Jerry Power, Thomas W. Ferratt

Books and Book Chapters by University of Dayton Faculty

Publisher's description: Business survival requires valuing what customers value—and in our overworked and distraction-rich era, customers value their time above all else. Real-time companies beat their rivals by being faster and more responsive in meeting customer needs.

To become a real-time company, as top scholars Jerry Power and Tom Ferratt explain, you need a real-time monitoring and response system. They offer detailed advice on how to put procedures in place that will collect data on how well products or services are saving customer time; identify strengths, weaknesses, threats, and opportunities; and specify innovations needed to save even more customer time. …

Hell As ‘Heterotopia’: Edification And Interpretation From Enoch To The Apocalypses Of Peter And Paul, Meghan Henning

Books and Book Chapters by University of Dayton Faculty

Otherworldly journeys are a challenging object of study for the contemporary historian because they do not seem to resonate with the post-enlightenment worldview that bolsters scientific academic inquiry. And yet, even if we do not imagine heaven and hell in the same way that ancient thinkers did, the impulse to create “otherworlds” is still very much alive. With every new technology humans open the possibility of new spaces with complex relationships to the spaces that already exist. Here, before we think about the reception of 1 Enoch in the apocalypses, I would like to take a moment to propose a …

The Catholic Church In A Changing World: A Vatican Ii-Inspired Approach, Dennis M. Doyle

Books and Book Chapters by University of Dayton Faculty

The Catholic Church in a Changing World: A Vatican II Inspired Approach invites readers to consider their own beliefs while studying the contemporary teachings of the Catholic Church. Organized around two central documents of Vatican II, Lumen gentium and Gaudium et spes, the text presents contemporary theological and ecclesiological ideas with nuance, clarity, and fairness, especially regarding issues that might be polarizing. With short chapters, sidebars, recommendations for further reading, and an ecumenical and inclusive voice, The Catholic Church in a Changing World updates a proven and popular text to meet the needs of the modern classroom.

Supervision In The Field, James Hiller

Books and Book Chapters by University of Dayton Faculty

The first book in the field to provide a comprehensive examination of the many levels and facets of music therapy supervision, now in its 2nd edition. It contains 26 chapters by leading experts from the USA, Canada, Denmark, Australia, and Israel. Part one provides foundations of supervision. Part two presents principles and techniques for pre-professional supervision (e.g., for students in practicum and internship), while part three deals with ways of supervising professional music therapists. Part four examines the various kinds of supervision used in advanced institute training (e.g., Nordoff-Robbins, Guided Imagery and Music, Analytical Music Therapy).

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 …

A Supervised Learning Approach For Prediction Of X-Ray Computed Tomography Data From Ultrasonic Testing Data, Daniel Sparkman, Sarah Wallentine, Mark Flores, John Wertz, John Welter, Norman Schehl, Josiah Dierken, David Zainey, John Aldrin, Mike Uchie

Office for Research Publications and Presentations

Quantitative characterization of impact damage in polymer matrix composites (PMCs) with ultrasonic inspection is desired to enable improved prediction of damage evolution for lifmg of composite structures. Post-processing of single-sided pulse-echo Ultrasonic Testing (UT) data produces 2D C-scan images that indicate the presence and 2D extent of delaminations, with very high depth resolution of the first reflector, while further damage below the first reflector is hidden. X-ray Computed Tomography (XCT) characterizes internal damage with a 3D voxel-based representation. Delaminations, matrix cracks, and surface-breaking cracks can be clearly visible in some XCT reconstructions. Modern damage evolution models take as input full …