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Wright State University Fact Sheet, 2018-2019, 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 2018-2019 academic year.

Xr-Based Workforce Develop In The Southwestern Region Of Ohio, Thomas Wischgoll

Computer Science and Engineering Faculty Publications

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2017-18 First Destination Survey - Wright State University, Office Of Institutional Research, Wright State University

Post-Graduation Outcomes

The First Destination Survey was administered to students during the first year after graduation from Wright State University. The survey was emailed to all students who graduated between July 1, 2017, and June 30, 2018 (Summer 2017, Fall 2017, and Spring 2018). All data are self-reported by the respondent at the time of the survey completion. Included in the report are degrees earned by college, salary, job location, industry, and job function.

Analyzing Public View Towards Vaccination Using Twitter, Mahajan Rutuja

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Educating people about vaccination tends to target vaccine acceptance and reduction of hesitancy. Social media provides a promising platform for studying public perception regarding vaccination. In this study, we harvested tweets over a year related to vaccines from February 2018 to January 2019. We present a two-stage classifier to: (1) classify the tweets as relevant or non-relevant and (2) categorize them in terms of pro-vaccination, anti-vaccination, or neutral outlook. We found that the classifier was able to distinguish clearly between anti-vaccination and pro-vaccination tweets, but also misclassified many of these as neutral. Using Latent Dirichlet Allocation, we found that two …

Paradoxical Behavior In Groundwater Levels In Response To Precipitation Events, Alexandra Shelters

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Groundwater levels are expected to fluctuate with precipitation, rising when precipitation increases and falling when it decreases. However, observations often show that groundwater levels rise in months when precipitation has decreased from the previous month, or alternately, falls in months when precipitation has increased from the previous month. Such paradoxical behavior is documented in a 30-year record for a monitoring well in southwestern Ohio. This record was analyzed to evaluate the hypothesis that mass balance controls the change in groundwater level such that changes cannot be predicted solely from monthly changes in precipitation. Though precipitation may vary from one month …

Implication Of Inorganic Nitrogen And Phosphorous Species As A Cause Of A Harmful Algal Bloom Event In Caesar Creek Lake, Ohio And Its Tributaries, Baxter Jeffrey Foskuhl

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Agricultural runoff poses a threat to the Wilmington, Ohio municipal water supply and its source waters. A harmful algal bloom (HAB) was documented in June 2019 in Caesar Creek Lake, Waynesville, Ohio. This study seeks to establish baseline nutrient concentrations in Caesar Creek Lake (Warren County, Ohio) and its tributaries, and to identify potential non-point sources of excess nitrogen and phosphorous that contributed to the HAB event. In collaboration with the Wilmington Water Department, dissolved inorganic nitrogen DIN-[N] (sum of NH3-[N], NH4+-[N], NO2--[N], NO3--[N] concentrations), dissolved phosphorous DP-[P], particulate phosphorous PP-[P], total phosphorous TP-[P] (total sum of DP-[P] and PP-[P] …

Efficient Numerical Methods For Chemotaxis And Plasma Modulation Instability Studies, Truong B. Nguyen

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In this thesis, we develop efficient numerical solvers for nonlinear systems of partial differential equations (PDEs). These systems of PDEs concern two different sets of physical problems. The first set includes chemotaxis models such as Keller-Segel models and cancer cell invasion models. Solutions of these models are observed to experience the blow-up phenomenon or the development of sharp and spiky features. Therefore, efficient and accurate numerical techniques must be employed in order to capture the solutions' behaviors. For this research, we design efficient solvers for these systems in the one and two spatial dimensions. In particular, we plan to apply …

Detecting Malicious Behavior In Openwrt With Qemu Tracing, Jeremy Porter

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In recent years embedded devices have become more ubiquitous than ever before and are expected to continue this trend. Embedded devices typically have a singular or more focused purpose, a smaller footprint, and often interact with the physical world. Some examples include routers, wearable heart rate monitors, and thermometers. These devices are excellent at providing real time data or completing a specific task quickly, but they lack many features that make security issues more obvious. Generally, Embedded devices are not easily secured. Malware or rootkits in the firmware of an embedded system are difficult to detect because embedded devices do …

Degradation Of Halogenated Hydrocarbons By Zero-Valent Magnesium And Copper/Magnesium Bimetallic Reductant, & Characterization Of Poly- And Perfluoroalkyl Substances In Treated Wastewater Reclaimed For Direct Potable Reuse, Bo Wang

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Chlorinated hydrocarbons (CHCs) in groundwater can be treated by monometallic and bimetallic metal reductants through abiotic degradation. The breakdown of CHCs is achieved by gaining electrons from those reductants and removing chlorines from CHC molecules to transform the CHCs into less chlorinated compounds. This study explored the abiotic degradation of selected CHCs by zero valent magnesium Mg0 and bimetallic Cu/Mg reductant. Results showed that zero valent Mg0 was not effective in the treatment of carbon tetrachloride (CT), chloroform (CF) and dichloromethane (DCM). In contrast, the presence of Cu in Cu/Mg bimetallic reductant significantly accelerated the degradation kinetics. Degradation kinetics were …

In Vitro Uptake And Biodistribution Of Silver Nanoparticles In Vero 76 Cells, Miriam A. Crane

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The number of consumer products containing nanomaterials over the last eight years has increased over two-fold. Silver is one of the most commonly used materials in consumer goods nanoparticle fabrication.1 Thus, the uptake and biodistribution of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) within mammalian cells can provide insight into their possible toxicological effects. In this study, starch-capped AgNPs of an average diameter of 9 ± 5 nm were synthesized via a bottom-up method, and characterized by Raman spectroscopy, transmission electron microscopy (TEM), inductively couple plasma optical emission spectroscopy (ICP-OES), and absorption spectroscopy. Vero 76 cells were incubated with 0.0, 0.1, 1.0, and 3.0 …

The Gender Gap In Patents: An Exploration Of Bias Against Women In Patent Attainment And “Blockchain” As Potential Remedy, Susan Stewart Stute

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Steering women toward educational paths and careers in fields of invention would seem, in theory, to be the obvious solution to closing the gap between the number of men and women filing for and being granted invention patents. Billions of dollars have been invested at the federal, state, and local levels to spur interest and competency in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) learning, but gender disparity in innovation workplaces persists. Studies indicate that, in addition to the educational barriers that can be and have been addressed legislatively, social and cultural influences affect outcomes for career women, as well as …

Strategic Decision Facilitation: An Exploration Of Alternative Anchoring And Scale Distortion Optimization In Multi-Attribute Group Decision Making, Joseph Patrick Kristbaum

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Choosing between alternatives, regardless of the decision context in an organizational group setting is a difficult task. The integrity of the decision is under constant scrutiny and rarely are we ever able to characterize the magnitude of that with which we are consciously or subconsciously concerned: personal bias. This leads to long, drawn out timelines and loosely trusted decisions. This dissertation research focuses on using a traditionally, negatively viewed anchoring bias strategically in a series of experiments with a hypothesis that it can be used to positively reduce personal biases such as preference bias and judgement rooted in ambiguous or …

Knowledge-Enabled Entity Extraction, Hussein S. Al-Olimat

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Information Extraction (IE) techniques are developed to extract entities, relationships, and other detailed information from unstructured text. The majority of the methods in the literature focus on designing supervised machine learning techniques, which are not very practical due to the high cost of obtaining annotations and the difficulty in creating high quality (in terms of reliability and coverage) gold standard. Therefore, semi-supervised and distantly-supervised techniques are getting more traction lately to overcome some of the challenges, such as bootstrapping the learning quickly. This dissertation focuses on information extraction, and in particular entities, i.e., Named Entity Recognition (NER), from multiple domains, …

Sex Differences In The Outcomes Of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury In Children Presenting To The Emergency Department, Taylor M. Yeates

Master of Public Health Program Student Publications

Mild traumatic brain injuries (mTBI) put children and adolescents at risk for short and long-term health risks. The purpose of this study was to evaluate sex differences in post-acute outcomes among children and adolescents presenting to the Emergency Department (ED) for mTBI. The study is a secondary analysis of a de-identified dataset which was drawn from a concurrent cohort, prospective, and longitudinal study design that included 8 to 16 year-old children with mTBI and a comparison group of children with mild orthopedic injuries (OI) not involving the head. Participants were recruited and completed an initial assessment during their initial visit …

Automatic Identification Of Individual Drugs In Death Certificates, Soon Jye Kho, Amit Sheth, Olivier Bodenreider

Kno.e.sis Publications

Background:

Establishing trends of drug overdoses requires the identification of individual drugs in death certificates, not supported by coding with the International Classification of Diseases. However, identifying drug mentions from the literal portion of death certificates remains challenging due to the variability of drug names.

Objectives:

To automatically identify individual drugs in death certificates.

Methods:

We use RxNorm to collect variants for drug names (generic names, synonyms, brand names) and we algorithmically generate common misspellings. We use this automatically compiled list to identify drug mentions from 703,106 death certificates and compare the performance of our automated approach to that of …

Visual Entailment Task For Visually-Grounded Language Learning, Ning Xie, Farley Lai, Derek Doran, Asim Kadav

Computer Science and Engineering Faculty Publications

We introduce a new inference task - Visual Entailment (VE) - which differs from traditional Textual Entailment (TE) tasks whereby a premise is defined by an image, rather than a natural language sentence as in TE tasks. A novel dataset SNLI-VE (publicly available at https://github.com/necla-ml/SNLI-VE) is proposed for VE tasks based on the Stanford Natural Language Inference corpus and Flickr30k. We introduce a differentiable architecture called the Explainable Visual Entailment model (EVE) to tackle the VE problem. EVE and several other state-of-the-art visual question answering (VQA) based models are evaluated on the SNLI-VE dataset, facilitating grounded language understanding and providing …

Cmos Receiver Design For 802.11ac Standard Using Offline Calibrated Active Inductor Based Band Pass Filter In 90 Nm Technology, Shuo Li

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Wireless local area network is widely used in industry and people daily life. More and more mobile devices rely on this technology to perform data communication with 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz frequency band. As the development of CMOS technology is able to keep shrinking chip size and increasing circuit integration density, traditional on-chip passive inductor inefficient area consumption issue is becoming critical to receiver front end system design. In this dissertation, an active inductor-based band pass filter is studied and implemented with 90 nm technology. This active inductor design provides very small area consumption and larger quality factor compared …

Automated Vehicle Electronic Control Unit (Ecu) Sensor Location Using Feature-Vector Based Comparisons, Gregory S. Buthker

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In the growing world of cybersecurity, being able to map and analyze how software and hardware interact is key to understanding and protecting critical embedded systems like the Engine Control Unit (ECU). The aim of our research is to use our understanding of the ECU's control flow attained through manual analysis to automatically map and identify sensor functions found within the ECU. We seek to do this by generating unique sets of feature vectors for every function within the binary file of a car ECU, and then using those feature sets to locate functions within each binary similar to their …

10. Corrections To Design And Analysis Of Experiments, Angela Dean, Dan Voss, Danel Draguljic

Design and Analysis of Experiments

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Empathi: An Ontology For Emergency Managing And Planning About Hazard Crisis, Manas Gaur, Kaeedeh Shekarpour, Amelia Gyrard, Amit P. Sheth

Kno.e.sis Publications

In the domain of emergency management during hazard crises, having sufficient situational awareness information is critical. It requires capturing and integrating information from sources such as satellite images, local sensors and social media content generated by local people.
A bold obstacle to capturing, representing and integrating such heterogeneous and diverse information is lack of a proper ontology which properly conceptualizes this domain, aggregates and unifies datasets. Thus, in this paper, we introduce empathi ontology which conceptualizes the core concepts describing the domain of emergency managing and planning of hazard crises.
Although empathi has a coarse-grained view, it considers the necessary …

Augmenting Flight Imagery From Aerial Refueling, James D. Anderson, Scott Nykl, Thomas Wischgoll

Computer Science and Engineering Faculty Publications

© 2019, This is a U.S. government work and not under copyright protection in the U.S.; foreign copyright protection may apply. When collecting real-world imagery, objects in the scene may be occluded by other objects from the perspective of the camera. However, in some circumstances an occluding object is absent from the scene either for practical reasons or the situation renders it infeasible. Utilizing augmented reality techniques, those images can be altered to examine the affect of the object’s occlusion. This project details a novel method for augmenting real images with virtual objects in a virtual environment. Specifically, images from …

Enhanced Expression Of Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Mer (Mertk) On Socs3-Treated Polarized Raw 264.7 Anti-Inflammatory M2c Macrophages, Sankhadip Bhadra

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Macrophages are phagocytic cells located in tissues, organs and even circulated within our body as white blood cells. They are critical in detecting tissue damage and infection. Resident tissue macrophages initiate the signals for inflammation recruiting neutrophils and blood monocytes which mature into macrophages at sites of infection and in the resolution of inflammation. Based on the local cytokine milieu in tissue sites, macrophages may be polarized into pro-inflammatory M1 or anti-inflammatory M2 phenotypes. Receptor tyrosine kinase Mer (MERTK) helps in clearing dead neutrophils and other apoptotic cells from damaged tissue sites preventing chronic inflammation and autoimmune disorders. MERTK aids …

Phy 2450 Concepts In Physics For Early Childhood Education Core General Education Assessment, 2018-2019, College Of Science And Mathematics, Wright State University

Core General Education Assessments - All

This report assesses Wright State University's course PHY 2450, Concepts in Physics for Early Childhood Education, as part of the institution’s ongoing general education Core assessment plan.

Bio 1070 Health And Disease Core General Education Assessment, 2018-2019, College Of Science And Mathematics, Wright State University

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This report assesses Wright State University's course BIO 1070, Health and Disease, as part of the institution’s ongoing general education Core assessment plan.

Phy 2410 General Physics Ii Core General Education Assessment, 2018-2019, College Of Science And Mathematics, Wright State University

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This report assesses Wright State University's course PHY 2410, General Physics II, as part of the institution’s ongoing general education Core assessment plan.

Phy 2400 General Physics I Core General Education Assessment, 2018-2019, College Of Science And Mathematics, Wright State University

Core General Education Assessments - All

This report assesses Wright State University's course PHY 2400, General Physics I, as part of the institution’s ongoing general education Core assessment plan.

Ees 1070 Sustainable Earth Core General Education Assessment, 2018-2019, College Of Science And Mathematics, Wright State University

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This report assesses Wright State University's course EES 1070, Sustainable Earth, as part of the institution’s ongoing general education Core assessment plan.

Chm 2450 Concepts In Chemistry I For Early And Middle Childhood Education Core General Education Assessment, 2018-2019, College Of Science And Mathematics, Wright State University

Core General Education Assessments - All

This report assesses Wright State University's course CHM 2450, Concepts in Chemistry I for Early and Middle Childhood Education, as part of the institution’s ongoing general education Core assessment plan.

Chm 1220 Lab General Chemistry Ii Lab Core General Education Assessment, 2018-2019, College Of Science And Mathematics, Wright State University

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This report assesses Wright State University's course CHM 1220, Lab General Chemistry II Lab, as part of the institution’s ongoing general education Core assessment plan.

Chm 1020 Elementary Organic Chemistry With Applications Core General Education Assessment, 2018-2019, College Of Science And Mathematics, Wright State University

Core General Education Assessments - All

This report assesses Wright State University's course CHM 1020, Elementary Organic Chemistry with Applications, as part of the institution’s ongoing general education Core assessment plan.