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Selection Of Criteria For The Prioritization Of Information Technology Services In A Neutrosophic Environment, Luis Javier Molina Chalacan, Marco Antonio Checa Cabrera, Luz Marina Aguirre Paz, Robert Vinicio Lalama Flores, Arlen Martín Rabelo

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

Nowadays, the provision of quality service should be the main goal of service companies. Those that provide information technology services have a greater challenge since technology is rapidly updating and pleasing customers in an enjoyable way is essential. The selection of certain criteria that allow prioritizing which client an information technology service is provided to, allows optimizing the working time of developers and technicians depending on the type of service demanded. Therefore, the objective of this work is to determine what criteria are necessary to develop software that allows prioritizing information technology services. We applied the Saaty AHP multicriteria method …

Neutrosophic Research Method For The Analysis Of Indeterminacy On Academic Visibility For Quality Digital Inclusion, Rita Maricela Plúas Salazar, Germánico René Tovar Arcos, Raúl Ruperto Pánchez Hernández, Ariana Daniela Del Pino Espinoza

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

This paper aims to promote educational inclusion and achieve a positioning that makes visible the actions involved in this academic process. It has as a reference a project aimed at families of students with SEN during their schooling, this need arises due to the difficulties that parents have to deal with the academic performance of children and adolescents. Technology in the educational context is the new trend in the process of teaching and learning in students, the media and digital education are the tools now to promote educational inclusion in the Ecuadorian context. It is intended to implement the activities …

Management Of Indeterminacy In The Analysis Of Knowledge About Reproductive Tract Infections In Women, Julio Morillo Cano, Melba Esperanza Narváez Montenegro, Adisnay Rodríguez Placencia, Olger Efraín Velastegui Naranjo

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

The research aims to assess the level of knowledge about reproductive tract infections among women to apply statistical analysis of the probability of indeterminacy. The main methods and techniques used were: theoretical, analytical-synthetic, and inductive-deductive, while within the empirical are the survey, measurement, and statistical-mathematical. The sample was calculated using neutrosophic statistics and python interval arithmetic library. The results achieved are evaluated quantitatively and qualitatively, where the validity of the same was demonstrated since there was a level of significance equal to or less than p 0.05.

Neutrosophic Statistical Analysis Of The Rehabilitation Of Arterial Hypertension, Lester Wong Vázquez, María Fernanda Orozco Noboa, Francisco Xavier Poveda Paredes, Jorge Marcelo Quintana Yánez

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

The present research addresses the subject of a neutrosophic statistical analysis of the rehabilitation of arterial hypertension. Through the consultation of the literature referring to the research topic, that necessary to cover the scientific path and the preparation of the report, the systematized investigative experiences, the use of methods of the theoretical, empirical, statistical, and mathematical level, as well as investigative techniques; it was possible to show that there are shortcomings that weigh down the subject studied. That is the reason why this analysis is carried out. Through which, after processing the information, it is evident that the results correlate …

Neutrosophic Analysis Of The Educational Orientation To The Diabetic Patient That Reflects Its Impact On The Quality Of Life, Ronelsys Martínez Martínez, Elizabeth Cristina Mayorga Aldaz, Olga Pampin Copa, Kenia Peñafiel Jaramillo

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

This investigation is founded on the premise of the need to carry out a neutrosophic analysis of the educational orientation of the diabetic patient, which shows its impact on quality of life. To deal with the subject, it relies on an educational guide. We used a questionnaire consisting of seven questions to investigate the state of knowledge on diabetes in a sample of 210 diabetic patients. We defined a scale, where patients can answer in the form of intervals, such that we obtain as accurately as possible the patients’ opinions. We processed the data utilizing Neutrosophic Statistics, which extends statistical …

A New Model Based On Subjective Logic And Neutrosophic Measure For Legal Reasoning, Eduardo Luciano Hernández Ramos, Francisco Alejo Guanoluisa Almache, Alba Rosa Pupo Kairuz, Carlos Alberto Medina Riofrío

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

Legal sciences are the theoretical body of law. This branch of knowledge studies the rules and principles that govern the correct functioning of society. The proper administration of justice is essential for the satisfaction of the subjective and objective needs of citizens. It ensures that members of society fulfill their duties and can satisfy their rights before their families and other citizens. The purpose of this paper is the presentation of a neutrosophy-based model for representing decision-making within a trial, specifically concerning both, the sufficient proof and weighing of pieces of evidence. Concepts based on the neutrosophic measure are used …

Handling Of Indeterminacy In Statistics. Application In Community Medicine, Jorge Enrique Lana Cisneros, Carlos López Barrionuevo, Elsy Labrada González, Alex Gabriel Lara Jácome

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

Currently, humanity has made significant progress in the development of telecommunications and the economic, social, and health sectors; probably, in the same way, a series of pathogenic organisms have evolved considerably, causing harm to humanity. That is why Health Sciences has resorted to the technological advances offered by the industrial and telecommunications era. Among the tools of great help to combat infectious agents are statistical tools, which contribute a decisive step in advancing scientific studies aimed at communities and society. The application of Statistics in Health Sciences is essential to apply its knowledge in preventive activities, health promotion, and clinical …

Forms Of Life And Comprehension Analysis And Application Of Concepts From The Philosophical Investigations, Vincent Graziano

Philosophy ETDs

In this paper I have examined the notion of ‘forms of life’ against the concept of ‘comprehension’. Particular attention was given to Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations. I first defend my view that comprehension is made possible by forms of life; or, that forms of life condition our comprehension. A comprehension-event is one which will always occur in a language-game, and is structured by grammar. After I defend my position, I apply this view to three canonical philosophical issues: conceptual universals or how we see one when there are many, the mind-body gap or the difficulty of unifying our ideas about the …

Experiences And Perceptions Of People Living With Narcolepsy, Teresa Sellstrom

Nursing ETDs

The purpose of this study was to investigate the experiences and perceptions of persons living with narcolepsy from their perspective. An anonymous, online survey that included both open-ended and structured questions was administered to adults with narcolepsy with or without cataplexy (N = 72; 65 F) recruited through the auspices of the Narcolepsy Network (NN). A total of 69 participants responded to at least one open-ended question about experiences of diagnosis, treatment, and living with the condition. An Interpretive Description approach was used to analyze open ended responses. The major themes included serious medical issues (e.g., misdiagnosis and difficulties with …

Coalition For Prisoners' Rights Newsletter, Vol. 46-C, No. 8, Coalition For Prisoners' Rights

Coalition for Prisoners' Rights Newsletters

Anniversaries

George Jackson's Struggle & Death

Attica Prison Uprising

En Apoyo A Cuba

Wall City Nuestra Msion - producida por: San Quentin News escrito por prisioneros - avanzando en la justicia

Intensive Management Unit Challenge

Diversity Accepted: Pride Celebration

UC Davis Books to Prisoners [as published in The Fire Inside of the CCWP, #64]

CA Coalition for Women Prisoners

Rac1 In Ovarian Cancer Metastasis And Tumor Microenvironment Remodeling: An Experimental And Computational Analysis, Melanie Rivera

Biomedical Sciences ETDs

Ovarian cancer is the leading cause of gynecologic malignancies, and the patient survival rate has not changed significantly in 20 years. Patients are often diagnosed at an advanced stage of disease with widespread tumor cell dissemination and metastasis. Therefore, drivers of ovarian cancer metastasis need to be identified. In Chapter 2, we reveal the role of Rac1 in ovarian cancer metastasis using a combination of experimental and computational approaches. In Chapter 3, we demonstrate that changes in gene expression and cytokine levels within the immunosuppressive ovarian cancer tumor microenvironment are dependent on Rac1 expression and activity. Collectively, the …

A Tale Of Itam Tails: New Insights Into The Molecular Mechanisms That Tune Fcɛri Signaling, William K. Kanagy

Biomedical Sciences ETDs

Immunoreceptor Tyrosine-based Activating Motif (ITAM) receptors are critical in sensing extracellular antigen and initiating an immune response. The ITAM receptor FcɛRI, termed the high affinity IgE receptor, is the primary promoter of inducing the Type 1 allergic response and is primarily expressed in mast cells and basophils. In this dissertation, I worked to determine how early signaling events initiated at the FcɛRI ITAM interface tune downstream signaling outcomes. I began by determining that differential phospho-tyrosine ITAM patterns produce unique recruitment profiles of the accessory kinases proteins Syk and Lyn. I next determined the differential signaling ITAM capabilities of Lyn and …

Measuring Language Development In Children With Down Syndrome Who Use Aac, Ji Sun Park

Speech and Hearing Sciences ETDs

Purpose: This study examined the inter-observer agreement (IOA) and within-observer agreement as well as the clinical potential of newly proposed measures that are designed to monitor language progress of children with Down syndrome who use AAC. Measures were explored based on the Graphic Symbol Utterance and Sentence Development Framework.

Method: Participants included 8 preschoolers with Down syndrome. Four graduate student observers coded 13 measures across 57 intervention sessions. Each session was coded by two observers for IOA, and all sessions were recoded for within-observer agreement. Statistical analyses were completed on utterance level and session level.

Results: Across all observers and …

Machine Learning Based Dynamic Power Dispatching And Smoothing Using Hybrid Energy Storage System For Renewable Energy Systems, Bhuvaneshwarr Ramalingam

Electrical and Computer Engineering ETDs

The stochastic fluctuations from Renewable Energy Resources (RER) have a great influence on power quality and off-grid communities. A combination of the different storage systems is accessible for RER generation intermittency and to bring about finest smoothing operating cycle compared to sole Energy Storage System (ESS). Additionally, energy management in Hybrid Energy Storage System (HESS) creates an uncertainty during power smoothing operation. This research materializes, an intelligent mechanism for power smoothing and dispatch with the introduction of hybridized storage that can accommodate the unpredictable behavior of RER under dynamic load. A feed-forward neural network is proposed as a power smoothing …

Converting Parylene C Into A Thin Film Piezoelectric Material, Murali Manohar Duggina

Nanoscience and Microsystems ETDs

Thin-film piezoelectric materials are increasing in demand, but most materials are stiff ceramic materials. Polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) is a common polymer piezoelectric material, but it has limitations such as it requires post-processing steps to promote appropriate β-phase and it has a low operating and Curie Temperature, which limits its use in traditional microfabrication processing. The toxicity of PZT makes it incompatible with biomedical applications. Therefore, there is a need to develop a new class of polymer piezoelectric films that are compatible with current microfabrication methods. Parylene C (PA-C) is a chemical vapor deposited semi-crystalline polymer material with a nonsymmetric polymer …

Rethinking The Plra: The Resiliency Of Injunctive Practice And Why It’S Not Enough, Allison Freedman

Faculty Scholarship

During the latter part of the twentieth century, prison populations in the United States increased exponentially and the nation became notorious for mass incarceration. Despite what many viewed as a broken prison system, in 1996 Congress passed the Prison Litigation Reform Act (“PLRA”), with the avowed purpose of hindering prisoners and their advocates from bringing civil rights actions to challenge prison conditions, laws, and policies. To accomplish this, Congress curbed courts’ most powerful remedial tool—injunctive relief. As a result, early scholarship predicted that injunctive practice would become a useless tool in prison reform litigation.

Instead, twenty-five years after Congress passed …

Ms4 Swmpp 2021, National Technology & Engineering Solutions Of Sandia, Llc (Ntess), Department Of Energy (Doe)

Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4) Permit

Stormwater discharges from Sandia National Laboratories/New Mexico (SNL/NM) are eligible for coverage under the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4) Permit. This Stormwater Management Plan (SWMP) was prepared by National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia (NTESS) for the Department of Energy (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Sandia Field Office (SFO), owner of SNL/NM, located in Albuquerque, NM.

Evaluation Of Fine And Coarse Graded Asphalt Mixes, Md Mehedi Hasan

Civil Engineering ETDs

During the last 20 years, asphalt pavements were built in New Mexico (NM) and around the country using mostly Superpave coarse graded mixes as opposed to fine graded mixes. This is because coarse mix uses larger aggregates with good interlocking and requires less asphalt binder than a fine mix, while both mixes fulfill the Superpave criteria. Recently, it was observed nationally that the Superpave coarse graded mixes have good field rutting performances but poor cracking performances. It is hypothesized that fine graded mix can help improve pavement cracking performances. The idea is, the fine mixes would have less air voids …

Facemask Use During High Intensity Interval Exercise In Temperate And Hot Environments., Andrew D. Wells, Zachary Fennel, Jeremy Ducharme, Abdulaziz Masoud, Jon Houck, Bryanne Bellovary, Michael Deyhle, Yu Yu Hsiao, Fabiano Amorim, Christine Mermier

Health, Exercise, and Sports Sciences ETDs

BACKGROUNDː Facemask use has been recommended during physical activity to prevent spreading and contracting the virus that causes COVID-19. There have been concerns about negative physiological and perceptual effects of mask-wearing, especially during higher-intensity activities. Emerging research suggests there is a minimal impact of wearing a surgical mask on physiological responses across a wide array of exercise intensities and modalities. However, there are no published data regarding the impact of surgical mask use in hot or temperate environments during high intensity interval exercise (HIIE). Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of surgical mask use during …

Directional Integrity And Landmark Anchoring Of The Head Direction Cell System In The Tgf344-Ad Rat Model Of Alzheimer’S Disease, Laura E. Berkowitz

Psychology ETDs

Spatial navigation and memory are impaired in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and are prominent behavioral markers of preclinical AD. The TgF344-AD rat model of AD exhibits similar behavioral and pathological features to humans and thus serves as an excellent model to investigate the mechanisms underlying spatial impairment in AD. Brain regions in the parahippocampal cortex contain spatially responsive pyramidal cells that support spatial navigation and memory including place cells, grid cells, and head direction cells. Furthermore, GABAergic interneurons in these regions support precise temporal organization of spike dynamics and may play a critical role in maintaining reliable …

Brief For The National Stripper Well Association As Amicus Curiae, L. Ruth Fawcett Tr. V. Oil Producers, Inc. Of Kansas, Joseph A. Schremmer, Charles C. Steincamp

Faculty Scholarship

In its briefings, the Class in this appeal, in spite of the evidence, evokes the myth of a great conspiracy between operators and marketers, and it advances a theory that threatens impermissible economic and underground waste of natural gas resources. The language of the parties' oil and gas leases, on the other hand, sets up bargained-for arrangement that enables the parties to share in the benefits of stripper gas production and promotes conservation of the state's natural gas reserves.

Monitoring Damage Occurrence, Post-Peak Crack Propagation And Air Permeability In Concrete Using The Brazilian Indirect Tension Test, Angel M. Padilla

Civil Engineering ETDs

This research aims to investigate the relationship between stress, damage, crack propagation, and permeability evolution in concrete. A novel experimental test method is presented that enables monitoring post-peak cracking behavior of concrete using the Brazilian tension test by slowing crack propagation while concurrently measuring permeability and monitoring damage propagation using acoustic emission techniques. The modified Brazilian test method utilizes spring supports in parallel to the test specimen to off-load the test specimen incrementally to slow down the post-peak crack propagation. A vacuum flow system is attached to the rear side of the concrete during loading to measure apparent air permeability …

Petrology And Geochemistry Of Evolved Achondrites: Planetesimal Mantles And Crusts, Zoltan Vaci

Earth and Planetary Sciences ETDs

Melting and differentiation are fundamental to early solar system evolution on planetary bodies that accreted enough material to heat up radioactively or through impacts and breach their solidi. Partially and fully melted material is present in the meteorite record in the form of primitive achondrites and achondrites, which are fragments of planetesimals that underwent heating events in the first few million years of solar system history. Although the vast majority of this material is mafic or ultramafic, new evolved samples, recovered in the last few decades, are pushing the petrologic and geochemical boundaries of planetesimal melting, differentiation, and crust formation. …

A Corpus-Based Investigation Of Phrasal Complexity In L1, L2 Phd Students, And Expert Writers In Education Field, Hani Albelihi

Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies ETDs

This study compared 11 noun modifiers, adopted from Biber et al.’s (2011) index, in the writing of English native speakers (NS) and non-native speakers (NNS) graduate students in Education field and compare them with the frequencies found in published writings. Also, it investigated how the language background influences NP complexity in academic writing. The findings showed compared to the expert writers, the student writers used different amounts of phrasal modifiers in their dissertations (e.g., premodifying nouns). Then, a Chi-square test and residual analysis were run to explore how language background influences the noun phrases. Four particular noun modifiers were influenced …

Mud Binds Mitotic Kinesins Non-Claret Disjunctional And Pavarotti In D. Melanogaster, Vincent Cutillas

Biology ETDs

The cytoskeleton is crucial to maintaining an even distribution of chromosomes and subsequently to divide the cell during every cell cycle. During mitosis, spindle structure and movement dictates how chromosomes will be separated and act as the sole mechanism for even distribution of these chromosomes. The cytoskeleton also remains a major cellular component during cytokinesis when the cell must cleave the membrane in order to form two resulting daughter cells. Both processes require an extensive use of the immobile structures of the cytoskeleton, such as microtubules (MTs), intermediate filaments, and microfilaments, but also the mobile units, which are the motor …

Disability Injustice: A Latino’S Creative Autoethnographic Testimonio On The Organizational Culture Of Higher Education, Leonel A. Diaz Jr.

Organization, Information and Learning Sciences ETDs

Using creative autoethnographic testimonio (CAT), a story is told about the injustices within the learning environment and work environment of higher education toward a person with disabilities: sleep apnea, learning disabilities, negative mental health. The author explores the health difficulties of addressing sleep deprivation while attending graduate school and working full-time as a professional. With sleep apnea impacting his health, his mental health declines. As his health declines, there is an increase in discrimination, hostility, oppression, bullying, and toxic masculinity. Initially, the medical system dismisses his declining health and refuses to look further into it. Once he receives medical care …

Main Concept, Sequencing, And Story Grammar (Mssg) Analyses Of The Cinderella Story In Latent Aphasia, Janet B. Adams

Speech and Hearing Sciences ETDs

Commonly used standardized tests, like the Western Aphasia Battery-Revised (WAB-R), are not sensitive to higher level discourse deficits, leading to certain individuals not meeting diagnostic criteria for aphasia. Consequently, individuals with aphasia are excluded from receiving potentially beneficial services and/or from being included in research. In a large sample of persons with stroke-induced aphasia, this study analyzed discourse samples using Main Concept, Sequencing, and Story Grammar (MSSG) Analyses to examine macrostructural discourse characteristics of persons with latent aphasia (PWLAs) compared to persons with no underlying brain injury (PNBIs) and persons classified as having anomic aphasia (PWAAs) by the WAB-R. A …

The Trauma, Substance Use, And Crime Connection: Characteristics And Recidivism Outcomes Of Adult Offenders, Kathryn F. Fokas

Psychology ETDs

Despite exceptionally high rates of trauma and substance use among incarcerated offenders, treatments remain limited in scope and availability within the criminal justice system. Identifying shared underlying mechanisms and potential gender differences could facilitate the development of interventions to target the vicious cycle of trauma, substance use, and crime. This study aimed to test a novel conceptualization of trauma, substance use, and criminal history as a composite risk factor for recidivism, including posttraumatic world assumptions as a hypothesized mediator and gender as a potential moderator. Participants were adult offenders from a community corrections program. Due to many institutional barriers and …

Spanish And English Phoneme Recognition By Training On Simulated Classroom Audio Recordings Of Collaborative Learning Environments, Mario J. Esparza Perez

Electrical and Computer Engineering ETDs

Audio recordings of collaborative learning environments contain a constant presence of cross-talk and background noise. Dynamic speech recognition between Spanish and English is required in these environments. To eliminate the standard requirement of large-scale ground truth, the thesis develops a simulated dataset by transforming audio transcriptions into phonemes and using 3D speaker geometry and data augmentation to generate an acoustic simulation of Spanish and English speech. The thesis develops a low-complexity neural network for recognizing Spanish and English phonemes (available at github.com/muelitas/keywordRec). When trained on 41 English phonemes, 0.099 PER is achieved on Speech Commands. When trained on 36 Spanish …

The Transformation Of Identity In Early Medieval England: Continuity, Disruption, And Creolization, Michael Sean Limmer

History ETDs

The period following Rome’s administrative withdrawal from Britain (c. 410 CE) has sparked intense debate for centuries, spawning a variety of theories concerning ethnic identity and the nature of cultural exchange on the island. Presently, the very nature of the term “Anglo-Saxon” itself is at the center of these discussions. This thesis examines historical, archaeological, and genetic evidence to cast a light on who constituted the people of Britain during this migration period through to the time of Alfred, and to what extent creolization might have played out. Ultimately, the evidence from this period suggests that ethnic identities cannot reasonably …