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College Of Science And Mathematics Newsletter, Summer 2018, College Of Science And Mathematics, Wright State University

College of Science and Mathematics Newsletters

This 5 page newsletter discusses various happenings within the College of Science and Mathematics. It begins with a letter from the dean, and continues on with news, events, alumni news, and other community news.

Creating Real-Time Dynamic Knowledge Graphs, Swati Padhee, Sarasi Lalithsena, Amit P. Sheth

Kno.e.sis Publications

No abstract provided.

Item-Level Gender Fairness In The Force And Motion Conceptual Evaluation And The Conceptual Survey Of Electricity And Magnetism, Rachel Henderson, Paul Miller, John Stewart, Adrienne L. Traxler, Rebecca Lindell

Physics Faculty Publications

Gender gaps on the most widely used conceptual inventories created by physics education researchers have been extensively studied. Most of the research exploring the consistent gender gaps has been performed at the student level using the total evaluation score; less research has been performed examining these assessments at the item level and this research has been predominately restricted to the Force Concept Inventory (FCI). Many studies have identified subsets of FCI items as unfair to either men or women. An item is fair if men and women of equal ability in conceptual physics score equally on the item. This study …

Adaptive Divergence In A Defense Symbiosis Driven From The Top Down, Jeremy J. Heath, Patrick Abbot, John O. Stireman Iii

Biological Sciences Faculty Publications

Most studies of adaptive radiation in animals focus on resource competition as the primary driver of trait divergence. The roles of other ecological interactions in shaping divergent phenotypes during such radiations have received less attention. We evaluate natural enemies as primary agents of diversifying selection on the phenotypes of an actively diverging lineage of gall midges on tall goldenrod. In this system, the gall of the midge consists of a biotrophic fungal symbiont that develops on host-plant leaves and forms distinctly variable protective carapaces over midge larvae. Through field studies, we show that fungal gall morphology, which is induced by …

Board Of Trustees Meeting Minutes, June 8, 2018

Board of Trustees Minutes

Minutes from the Wright State University Board of Trustees Meeting held on June 8, 2018.

Isscm Alumni Newsletter, Summer 2018, Raj Soin College Of Business, Wright State University

ISSCM Newsletters

A nine page alumni newsletter from the Department of Information Systems and Supply Chain Management in the Raj Soin College of Business at Wright State University.

Augmented Personalized Health: Using Semantically Integrated Multimodal Data For Patient Empowered Health Management Strategies, Amit P. Sheth, Hong Y. Yip, Utkarshani Jaimini, Dipesh Kadariya, Vaikunth Sridharan, R. Venkataramanan, Tanvi Banerjee, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Maninder Kalra

Kno.e.sis Publications

Healthcare as we know it is in the process of going through a massive change from:

1. Episodic to continuous

2. Disease-focused to wellness and quality of life focused

3. Clinic-centric to anywhere a patient is

4. Clinician controlled to patient empowered

5. Being driven by limited data to 360-degree, multimodal personal-public-population physical-cyber-social big data-driven URL: https://mhealth.md2k.org/2018-tech-showcase-home

High Power Generation Of Thz From 1550-Nm Photoconductive Emitters, A. Mingardi, W. D. Zhang, E. R. Brown, A. D. Feldman, T. E. Harvey, And R.P. Mirin

Physics Faculty Publications

Two photoconductive emitters - one with a self-complementary square spiral antenna, and the other with a resonant slot antenna - were fabricated on a GaAs epilayer embedded with ErAs quantum dots. Driven with 1550 nm mode-locked lasers, ~117 μW broadband THz power was generated from the device with the spiral antenna, and ~1.2 μW from the device with resonant slot antenna. The optical-to-THz conversion is through extrinsic photoconductivity.

Recruiting And Retaining Generations X And Y In Organizations, Celina Calloway

The University Honors Program

The workforce today is made up of diverse generations, and currently the professional workforce is made up of the three main generations: Baby Boomers, Generation X, and Generation Y. The Baby Boomers generations makes up 29% (44.6 million) of today’s labor force, next to generation X representing about 34% (52.7 million), and generation Y being hand in hand with generation X but just passing them the amount of people at 34% (53.5 million) (Clark, 2017). Organizations will recruit applicants and hire future employee from these three generations. With each generation, in order to find the best candidates for open positions, …

Terminal Phenotypes Observed In Caenorhabditis Hybrids, Anthony Wade

The University Honors Program

When C. briggsae females are mated to C. nigoni males fertile F1 females are obtained. However, all of the F1 males arrest during embryogenesis. In the reciprocal cross of C. nigoni females mated to C. briggsae males, fertile F1 females and some sterile F1 male adult hybrids are obtained. The goal of this study was to determine the terminal phenotypes of the arrested embryos in these crosses. From these terminal phenotypes, tissue-specific defects in the development of hybrid embryos were inferred. Hybrid crosses were set and allowed to mated overnight. The following day gravid females were dissected to release hybrid …

Board Of Trustees Meeting Minutes, April 26-27, 2018

Board of Trustees Minutes

Minutes from the Wright State University Board of Trustees Meeting held on April 26 -27, 2018.

Pharmaflights: Fragment Based Drug Discovery Based On Chalcones With A 3,4,5-Trimethoxy Substitution On Ring B., Cody Fourman

The University Honors Program

The 3,4,5-trimethoxyphenyl motif is a common structural feature of a number of natural occurring antimitotic agents, especially those capable interacting with microtubules such as the cis-stilbene, combrestatin A-4. Chalcones possessing this pharmacophore have likewise been demonstrated to exhibit a diverse range of biological actions including anticancer, anti-invasive, antioxidant, and anti-inflammatory activities. As part of an experiential learning experience in academic drug discovery termed WSU PharmaFlights, so-called flights of 6-10 molecules based on a particular biologically relevant structural pattern on the privileged chalcone scaffold are to be designed, synthesized, and spectroscopically characterized as a starting point for lead-development with potential biological …

Modeling And Visualization Of Uncertainty-Aware Geometries Using Multi-Variate Normal Distributions, Christina Gillman, Thomas Wischgoll, Bernd Hamann, James Ahrens

Computer Science and Engineering Faculty Publications

Many applications are dealing with geometric data that are affected by uncertainty. It is important to analyze, visualize, and understand the properties of uncertain geometry. We present a methodology to model uncertain geometry based on multi-variate normal distributions. In addition, we propose a visualization technique to represent a hull for uncertain geometry capturing a user-defined percentage of the underlying uncertain geometry. To show the effectiveness of our approach, we have modeled and visualized uncertain datasets from different applications.

Friends Of The Libraries Newsletter, Spring 2018, Friends Of The Libraries

Friends of the Libraries Newsletter

This two page newsletter details events held by the Friends of the Libraries including the winners of the Student Assistant Awards, the winners of the Top Scholars awards, details of the Annual Luncheon, Staff Grants, National Library Workers Day, and funding for the StAR Awards.

College Of Science And Mathematics Newsletter, Spring 2018, College Of Science And Mathematics, Wright State University

College of Science and Mathematics Newsletters

This 3 page newsletter discusses various happenings within the College of Science and Mathematics. It begins with a letter from the dean, and continues on with news, events, alumni news, and other community news.

Wright State University's Symposium Of Student Research, Scholarship & Creative Activities From Friday April 13, 2018, Wright State University

Celebration of Undergraduate & Graduate Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activities Materials

The student abstract booklet is a compilation of abstracts from students' oral and poster presentations at Wright State University's Symposium of Student Research, Scholarship & Creative Activities on April 13, 2018.

Usability Assessment For Caregiver Behavior Analysis Using Gaming Technology, Alexandrea C. Oliver, Tanvi Banerjee, Jennifer Hughes, Noah L. Schroeder

Computer Science and Engineering Faculty Publications

The proposed research focuses on developing a mobile application for Android systems that will detect changes in behavior and activity patterns of those who are primary caregivers for dementia patients. This application will be used to detect fluctuation in the behavior and the task performance of the caregivers as a measure of caregiver stress. By detecting these changes in behavior, the goal is to analyze the effects of caregiving to evaluate caregiver burnout. A usability study was conducted for this application to find the optimal design factors and features that benefit the target user: the caregiver.

The purpose of this …

Vaule-Added Erosion In Global Value Chains: Rethining International Trade, Xiao Jiang

Seminars in Local and Global Regional Economies

The prevalence of "vertical specialization" and global value chains (GVCs) demands that we think differently about international trade and its relationship to employment. This talk discusses employment effects of GVCs trade. Dr. Jiang argues that the expansion of foreign high value-adding activities in the upper stream of GVCs is likely to lead to a decline of domestic value-added share, leading to intensification of international and domestic distributional conflicts.

Dr. Xiao Jiang’s research combines mathematical modeling, simulations and statistics with classical political economy. He has provided economic consulting for the International Labor Organization, the Association for East and Southeast Asian Countries, …

The Guardian, Week Of March 12, 2018, Wright State University Student Body

The Guardian Student Newspaper

News articles from The Guardian for the week of March 12, 2018. The Guardian, the official student-run newspaper for Wright State University. It has been published regularly since March of 1965.

Chlorination Of 3-Arylsydnones With Iodine Monochloride, Ben Owens

The University Honors Program

An improved method for the chlorination at the 4-position of 3- arylsydnones 1 was developed, using iodine monochloride (ICl) dissolved in DCM. 1,3,4-Oxadiazol-2(3H)-ones 3 were then synthesized from the resultant 4-chloro-3-arylsydnones 2. The scope and limitations will be presented.

Towards Practical Privacy-Preserving Analytics For Iot And Cloud Based Healthcare Systems, Sagar Sharma, Keke Chen, Amit P. Sheth

Kno.e.sis Publications

Modern healthcare systems now rely on advanced computing methods and technologies, such as IoT devices and clouds, to collect and analyze personal health data at unprecedented scale and depth. Patients, doctors, healthcare providers, and researchers depend on analytical models derived from such data sources to remotely monitor patients, early-diagnose diseases, and find personalized treatments and medications. However, without appropriate privacy protection, conducting data analytics becomes a source of privacy nightmare. In this paper, we present the research challenges in developing practical privacy-preserving analytics in healthcare information systems. The study is based on kHealth - a personalized digital healthcare information system …

February 19, 2018 - From The President's Desk, Cheryl B. Schrader

From the Desk of the President

President Cheryl B. Schrader writes to the Wright State community to announce the creation of the search committee for the Provost. She explains that the search committee would interview candidates over the spring semester and that the community would have opportunity to provide feedback.

Wetting Properties Of Structured Interfaces Composed Of Surface-Attached Spherical Nanoparticles, Nikolai V. Priezjev, Bishal Bhattarai

Mechanical and Materials Engineering Faculty Publications

The influence of the external pressure and surface energy on the wetting transition at nanotextured interfaces is studied using molecular dynamics and continuum simulations. The surface roughness of the composite interface is introduced via an array of spherical nanoparticles with controlled wettability. We find that in the absence of an external pressure, the liquid interface is flat and its location relative to the solid substrate is determined by the particle size and the local contact angle. With increasing pressure on the liquid film, the interface becomes more curved and the three-phase contact line is displaced along the spherical surface but …

Board Of Trustees Meeting Minutes, February 15-16, 2018

Board of Trustees Minutes

Minutes from the Wright State University Board of Trustees Meeting held on February 15-16, 2018.

An Uncertainty-Aware Workflow For Keyhole Surgery Planning Using Hierarchical Image Semantics, Christina Gillmann, Robin G.C. Maack, Tobias Post, Thomas Wischgoll, Hans Hagen

Computer Science and Engineering Faculty Publications

Keyhole surgeries become increasingly important in clinical daily routine as they help minimizing the damage of a patient's healthy tissue. The planning of keyhole surgeries is based on medical imaging and an important factor that influences the surgeries' success. Due to the image reconstruction process, medical image data contains uncertainty that exacerbates the planning of a keyhole surgery. In this paper we present a visual workfiow that helps clinicians to examine and compare different surgery paths as well as visualizing the patients' affected tissue. The analysis is based on the concept of hierarchical image semantics, that segment the underlying image …

Faculty Senate Agenda And Minutes, January 22, 2018

Faculty Senate Minutes and Agendas

Agenda and minutes from the Wright State University Faculty Senate Meeting held on January 22, 2018.

The Guardian, Week Of January 22, 2018, Wright State Student Body

The Guardian Student Newspaper

News articles from The Guardian for the week of January 22, 2018. The Guardian, the official student-run newspaper for Wright State University. It has been published regularly since March of 1965.

Trust In Visualization (And What It Has To Do With Theory), Thomas Wischgoll

Computer Science and Engineering Faculty Publications

There are different issues with trust involved when working with domain experts to visualize their data. There may be limitations with the data that require special precautions, such as sensitivity or security limitations. It may have taken a lot of effort to collect or create the data so that a certain level of trust is required for the domain expert to share the data. At the same time, the domain expert needs to be able to trust in the final visualization results. This presentation discusses these issues with trust and what requirements for a theoretical foundation this results in. Furthermore, …

Mosquito Hunter: An Intern's Perspective In A Public Health Department Mosquito Surveillance Program, Marisa Walterbusch

The University Honors Program

As a Special Services Intern at Public Health - Dayton & Montgomery County (PHDMC), I gained first-hand experience as to the daily functioning of a Public Health Department and had the opportunity to work on a special project, the Mosquito Surveillance Program. PHDMC employs professionals in a variety of disciplines, all working towards the goal of protecting the health of the public. One way they accomplish this is through various inspections including restaurant, wellhead, and landfill. Another method to protect the public health is through the capture and testing of mosquitoes, with the goal of preventing the spread of mosquito-borne …

Wright State University Fact Sheet, 2017-2018, Office Of Institutional Research & Effectiveness, Wright State University

Wright State University Fact Sheets

The Wright State University Fact Sheet showcasing numbers and statistics for Wright State University including demographics, funding, programs, and employment for the 2017-2018 academic year.