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Writer Identity Using Stylometry And Machine Learning, Abdulla Alshuweihi, Sultan Alblooshi

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This particular study will be based on linguistics and stylometric use to find or identify the legitimate authors of the text. For this purpose, the study is expected to use the machine learning approach or framework that consists of various features to sort out and find the style of writing belonging to the right author. The machine learning approach is accompanied by the support of SAS (Statistical Analysis System).

SAS covers the algorithms problems required for better accurate functioning of machine learning approach experiments. In this learning framework, the experiments use a large amount of data to sort and filter …

Virtual Cleaning Of Works Of Art Using Deep Learning Based Approaches, Morteza Maali Amiri

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Virtual cleaning of art is a key process that conservators apply to see the likely appearance of the work of art they have aimed to clean, before the process of cleaning. There have been many different approaches to virtually clean artworks but having to physically clean the artwork at a few specific places of specific colors, the need to have pure black and white paint on the painting and their low accuracy are only a few of their shortcomings prompting us to propose deep learning based approaches in this research. First we report the work we have done in this …

Machine-Learning Classifier To Detect Atrial Fibrillation Based On Facial Action Units, Chongyu Zhu

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Facial action units (AUs) are numerical representations of indicative facial features drawn by facial landmark localization. Tiny muscular movements on the face can be reflected through facial AUs. In this project, using AUs to diagnose atrial fibrillation (AFib) in real-time is investigated for the first time, and AUs are shown to have a connection with AFib occurrence. Unlike ECG/PPG/VPG, the machine-learning-enabled AFib detector proposed in this project can realize real-time contactless monitoring of AFib continuously in home settings while maintaining the accuracy of AFib detection. ECG data and tablet image snapshots are synchronized to form the dataset that will be …

Drawing From The Past, Pengpeng Chen

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Drawing From the Past is a short, 3D animated film that portrays the different thoughts about drawing between two generations and is based on my personal experience. Some art students get less encouragement from their families than other students. In Asian traditional thinking, majoring in art was not the correct career direction, which is correct in that period， because of the economy. Majoring in art means students need to pay more money than other majors. In addition, art is not necessary for some people who worry about food. In the previous period, many people worry about their lives. That means …

Addressing The Drug Problem: The Establishment Of Drug Courts And Evaluating Their Effectiveness, Diana Blick

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Throughout the United States during the past few decades, there have been problems with the use of drugs. There has and always have been issues with drug addiction and drug crimes in terms of how to address those problems. From the harsh consequences of the Rockefeller Drug laws in 1973 to the establishment of the first drug court in 1989, there have been reforms to the drug laws to reduce the severity for punishments of drug offenses. The first drug court in the United States was established in Miami, Florida before spreading throughout the United States. The first drug court …

Experimental Simulation Of Nucleating Bubble Behavior In A Microgap With Air Injected Bubbles, Jack Green

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The following study investigates the behavior of bubbles created by air injection under a tapered microgap. It is a continuation of previous work from the Thermal Analysis and Microfluidics Lab at RIT which showed that placing a tapered gap manifold over a heated surface in a pool boiling setup could direct the flow of vapor created by two-phase heat transfer and create a pumping effect to increase its heat transfer performance. This study isolates this phenomenon and examines exactly how bubble motion affects liquid throughput. The results of this study provide insight into the specific parameters which induce this effect …

Development Of A Bio-Inspired Computational Astrocyte Model For Spiking Neural Networks, Jacob Kiggins

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The mammalian brain is the most capable and complex computing entity known today. For many years there has been research focused on reproducing the brain's processing capabilities. An early example of this endeavor was the perceptron which has become the core building block of neural network models in the deep learning era. Deep learning has had tremendous success in well-defined tasks like object detection, games like go and chess, and automatic speech recognition. In fact, some deep learning models can match and even outperform humans in specific situations. However, in general, they require much more training, have higher power consumption, …

Timing Jitter From Broadband Radio Observations Of Millisecond Pulsars, Jackson Hebel

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Timing the arrival of pulsar light is a critical tool for scrutinizing the characteristics of the interstellar medium (ISM) and the pulsar itself. Pulsar timing is affected by factors such as the solar system's kinematics, turbulence in the ISM, and intrinsic timing noise inherent to each pulsar. The North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) maintains a catalog of high-precision timing for millisecond pulsars. Using NANOGrav pulsars, and accounting for relative time-of-arrival (TOA) differences within observation epochs, the remaining noise in the TOA can be parsed out to just the jitter innate to the pulsar. This research utilizes wide …

Restaurant Branding Financial Analysis Using Data Analytics, Hamda Alwahedi, Khaled Aljaberi

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Abu Dhabi's hospitality industry is a vibrant and dynamic sector that has established itself as a premier destination for tourists seeking luxury, comfort, and unparalleled entertainment experiences.This study serves as a contribution to Abu Dhabi hospitality industry and economy, as it serves as a data driven and artificial intelligence (AI) solution that utilizes the latest technology to meet increasing demands. A local UAE chain, abc restaurant, is the primary source of data, after applying machine learning and data analysis technologies and techniques extensive analysis the key drivers of profits decline were identified. Further examining causes and factors in the social …

Sugar Freed, Sarah Gaygen

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Sugar Freed is a 2D digitally animated short film about a little girl named Molly, who gets fed up with her mother, a dentist, and ends up in a candy world ruled by evil gummy bears. Sugar Freed’s message evolved over time from a simple warning against sugar, to a child gaining an understanding of why her mother’s lessons are necessary, stemming from parts of my own childhood. The purpose of this film was to see if I could find the right balance between time management and quality control to produce an animated short that was well over four-minutes long, …

Side-Channel Attacks And Countermeasures For The Mk-3 Authenticated Encryption Scheme, Peter Fabinski

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In the field of cryptography, the focus is often placed on security in a mathematical or information-theoretic sense; for example, cipher security is typically evaluated by the difficulty of deducing the plaintext from the ciphertext without knowledge of the key. However, once these cryptographic schemes are implemented in electronic devices, another class of attack presents itself. Side-channel attacks take advantage of the side effects of performing a computation, such as power consumption or electromagnetic emissions, to extract information outside of normal means. In particular, these side-channels can reveal parts of the internal state of a computation. This is important because …

Initial Data Generation And Dynamical Simulations Of Binary Neutron Star Systems, Tanmayee Gupte

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The recent detection of gravitational waves (GWs) from a system of binary neutron stars (BNS) in coincidence with electromagnetic observations has launched a new era of multimessenger astrophysics. In light of the complementary knowledge to be gained through simultaneous observations, BNS mergers are one of the main targets for terrestrial GW interferometric detectors. These observations may prove critical in understanding the equation of state (EOS) of the nuclear matter inside the neutron star core, which is still poorly constrained given current observations. Understanding the neutron star (NS) EOS is critical for binary parameter estimation, and will hopefully aid in the …

The Pendulum Of Juvenile Justice Policy: Examining The Creation And Implementation Of New York State’S Raise The Age Legislation, Mary Xitco

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This paper discusses changes in juvenile justice policy, focusing largely on the last 40 years. Juvenile justice policy has historically transitioned quickly from conservative punitive strategies to liberal rehabilitative and lenient strategies. We see this most recently with the tough on crime strategies of the 1990s lowering the age of responsibility to now where states have decided to start raising the age of criminal responsibility up to 18 years old. This paper looks closely at what caused this most recent shift and gives historical context as to how juvenile justice policy trends may have predicted this.

An Analysis Of New York State’S Bail Reform: Identifying And Addressing Gun Violence With The Give Executive Team, Hannah Hodge

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In 2020, the New York legislature passed the bail reform law. The law included amendments to the Criminal Procedure Law (L 2019, ch 59, Part JJJ), eliminating cash bail and pretrial detention for non-violent crimes, and giving more guidance to judges setting bail (Rodriguez, 2022). Since the enactment of bail reform, there has been considerable debate concerning its impact on crime and violence. In spite of the ongoing debate about bail reform, few evaluations to date have ascertained bail reform’s impact on violence. The Monroe County Gun Involved Violence Elimination (GIVE) Executive Committee has commissioned the RIT Center for Public …

Process Development In Facilities Management Sector, Mohammad Zaher Aldiek

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This capstone project focuses on the enhancement and optimization of different aspects within the facilities management department of Dubai Developments, which is a leading real estate company in Dubai. Considering the huge number of buildings owned by the company and that the facilities management department was recently formed, there are still opportunities of improvement in terms of saving energy, growing productivity, improving operations processes and promoting sustainability. To do so, this capstone project focused on developing four main aspects within the FM department to ensure achieving the abovementioned objectives. Firstly, a retrofit project was implemented on the cooling system of …

Process Development In Facilities Management Sector, Mohammad Zaher Aldiek

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This capstone project focuses on the enhancement and optimization of different aspects within the facilities management department of Dubai Developments, which is a leading real estate company in Dubai. Considering the huge number of buildings owned by the company and that the facilities management department was recently formed, there are still opportunities of improvement in terms of saving energy, growing productivity, improving operations processes and promoting sustainability. To do so, this capstone project focused on developing four main aspects within the FM department to ensure achieving the abovementioned objectives. Firstly, a retrofit project was implemented on the cooling system of …

The Little Boy Who Became A Cow, Haemi Mimi Hong

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The Little Boy Who Became a Cow is a retelling of an age-old Korean folktale. My adaptation tells the story of a stubbornly selfish boy who lacks respect for his mother. One morning his mother breaks a jar of milk after she is unable to open the lid. They argue after he overtly ignores his mother’s request for help cleaning up the mess. She forces him to head to the nearby farm to get some fresh milk where his selfish ways lead him to steal a magical mask that turns him into a cow. He, in his bovine form, is …

Assessing The Performing Arts Experience At A Stem-Based Institution, Benjamin Willmott

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Past studies examined the role of performing arts within a STEM-based curriculum, but there has been little research to date on how to fully integrate the two into one unified program at the higher education level. A qualitative study was conducted utilizing a phenomenological approach vis-à-vis four focus groups with students engaged in the Performing Arts Scholarship Program at Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, NY. The commitment-trust theory of relationship marketing as well as self-efficacy theory were considered to ground the theoretical framework surrounding the success of the program and the experiences of a sample of 951 Performing Arts …

An Investigation Into The Role Of Technology In The Evolving Paradigms Of Teaching For The Educator And Learner In The Higher Education Sector Of Ireland, Jack Godley

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The research done throughout the writing of this Thesis has been in service of understanding the processes behind the use of emergent educational technologies and quantifying the merit of those technologies in the classroom of tomorrow. Emergent technologies exist on the cutting edge of possibilities. The thesis will delve into the correct means of choosing an emergent technology based on the needs of the end-user—the lecturer—through understanding their concerns, abilities, and insights. A framework was developed with the goal of bolstering the academic with the correct cutting-edge technology. Understanding the background of the research—detailed in the literature review—reveals that individual …

Mythos, Mattea R. Guldy

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Mythos is an animated TV series pitch created by Mattea Guldy and Selma Peña. The pitch consists of a pitch deck, a set of 3 scripts, and an animated proof of concept. I worked on the art for the pitch deck as well as the animated proof of concept, while Selma worked on the writing of the pitch deck and the set of 3 scripts. The ultimate goal of our series is to explore the themes of self-love and appreciation through the lens of friendship and comedy. Utilizing mythical creatures as a vessel for a universal appeal to any demographic …

Spatial Response Of Bobcats And Coyotes To Resources And Human Modification In Illinois, Nicole Gorman

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Mesocarnivores, including bobcats (Lynx rufus) and coyotes (Canis latrans), fill a unique ecological role throughout much of North America, where they were once influenced by larger predators, but are now the top predators where large carnivores have been extirpated. Their adaptability, generalist traits, and ability to coexist with humans to a greater extent than many species makes them an important subject for current predator research. In addition, their recent population recovery in the case of bobcats and historical range expansion in the case of coyotes make their study timely given a potential increase in their influence on their prey and …

Tracing The Roots Of Resistance, Collective Action And Solidarity Among Igbo Women, Sebastian Ukoh

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Most societies have always achieved balance through some internal mechanisms. Achieving gender balance and drawing lines without letting what we may term the "stronger sex" domineer the "weaker sex" is not always easy. Among the Igbos of South Eastern Nigeria, the women have always pressed home their demands without fear. We will be looking at how they have done this for more than a century, especially at the onset of the British colonial enterprise.

En’S Adventure: Exploring Modern Design Mechanics In Retro Adventure Games, Frank Fasola

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This project focuses creating a small game prototype that can be used to build a full game around. The primary focus is to create a short experience to establish the mechanics and gameplay of the game. Games made in the style of retro games are released every year, but most of these games strive to provide the same experience from the late 1980s. The project is a top down 2D retro adventure game made using modern techniques and learning from game development in the 30 years since these games were released.

Facilitators And Inhibitors To First Adult Care Visits In The Transition From Paediatric To Adult Orientated Inflammatory Bowel Disease Healthcare, Joanna Rea

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Background: Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) can be a very debilitating disease and it is found to be more extensive in children with rapid early progression (Van Limbergen et al., 2008). As adolescents, these children transition from paediatric to adult oriented care. The first adult care visits are a pivotal phase of a successful transition process, where adolescents potentially begin to actively take control of their disease. The aim of this study is to explore the inhibitors and facilitators to first adult care visits in the transition process from paediatric to adult oriented IBD healthcare.

Methods: An exploratory, descriptive, qualitative approach …

The Foreboding Campaign System, Michael Fetters

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This project creates a new campaign setting compatible with the Dungeons and Dragons system utilizing the SRD Open Game License content as a starting point. The campaign setting created establishes mechanics allowing for narrative interaction between the past and present timeline of events in the world of Lunaria. This new system, entitled The Foreboding, utilizes a shift mechanic to alter the player characters in several possible ways, ranging from changes in race or character history to interactions with past time periods and events that alter the present timeline of the narrative. New character options for race and class were also …

Evolution Of Authenticity: Investigating The (De)Restoration Of Ancient Sculpture (De)Restorations In The 1970s, Amelia Griese

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This thesis focuses on the period of de-restoration of ancient Greek and Roman sculptures in the 1970s. While three distinct periods of restoration history have been well-defined by scholars (17th to 19th century, the 1970s, and modern-day), the discussion of the motivations behind the focus on purism that led to de-restoration in the 1970s are lacking in the literature. The Lansdowne Herakles and the Aegina Marbles will be used in this analysis because of their illustration of the different periods of restoration history. While both the Lansdowne Herakles and the Aegina Marbles were de-restored in the 1970s, their fate in …

Virtual Reality And Video Game Gatekeeping, Autumn Franke

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This thesis focuses on the effects of the video game industry being the only influence on the development of virtual reality technology and the hindrance caused by it. The aim of this thesis is to discuss this flaw and recommend a different route to develop the technology through the education and medical fields instead of the video game industry.

Ux/Ui Research-Applied Strategies For Building A Custom Wordpress Theme Using Underscores And Elementor, Sandi Harageones

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The aim of this project is to offer a new, easier method to web designers and web design instructors for creating a custom-built WordPress theme using primarily Underscores, a starter theme made by Automattic, the creators of WordPress; and Elementor, a leading WordPressbased web creation platform. WordPress is a leading, free content management system (CMS) for building websites. Premised on user experience/user interface (UX/UI) applied research, this method can help web design professionals avoid using third-party WordPress themes. Moreover, web design instructors can incorporate this method into their course curricula to prepare their students for professions in custom CMS web …

The Role Of Lipocalin 2 In Type 1 Diabetic Osteopathy, Rawan Mahmoud Bdair

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Lipocalin 2 (LCN2), also known as neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL), plays an important role in the innate immune response and functions as a growth factor. The role of LCN2 as an anti-inflammatory protein and its function in bone metabolism is poorly understood. It is hypothesized that the administration of Lipocalin-2 in diabetic and non-diabetic rats will positively improve the bone microstructure. This study investigated the effect of lipocalin2 on bone metabolism in type 1 diabetic osteopathy (T1DO). Three-month-old male Wistar rats (n=24) were obtained from the animal house facility at United Arab Emirates University (UAEU) for this study. All animal …

The Impact Of Game Play On Children’S Impulse Control In Early Education Settings, Sara Rodehaver

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Executive functioning skills, especially impulse control, have been widely studied andinterventions have been developed to improve impulse control in young children. Play has also been studied for its benefits to young children’s development. Play skills have also been taught to students with autism spectrum disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. However, play has not often been utilized to teach impulse control directly. The current study attempted to define the components of impulse control as conditional discrimination, and to apply those discrimination skills in early childhood settings for students with no diagnosis. Kindergarten children participated in baseline measuring of conditional discrimination …