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“Onq”: Contextual Information Design, Sally Boniecki
“Onq”: Contextual Information Design, Sally Boniecki
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There is a countless amount of entertainment media available to a single viewer, and the internet makes that media easily accessible. However, keeping up with the rules, objectives, backstory, or culture of each one is difficult, and confusion hinders enjoyment. My thesis, “OnQ” dismantles the barrier of information in broadcast sports, viewership of which has been declining for 10-20 years. By exploring the flow of information, user interaction, user multitasking, and graphic design via on-demand explanations and statistics on top of live video, “OnQ” takes existing multitasking behavior and integrates it onto the same screen as the broadcast. Instead of …
Community Cat Shelter - A System That Brings The Community Together To Raise Community Cats, Zhishuo Sun
Community Cat Shelter - A System That Brings The Community Together To Raise Community Cats, Zhishuo Sun
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Due to the frequent abandonment of domestic cats and their proliferation in the wild, more and more stray cats, or feral cats, have been born in the city. These cats have a high mortality rate, kill birds, make noise, and have an impact on the human habitat. This study explores the pain points of harmonious coexistence between humans and stray cats and proposes a design intervention for some of these problems. The goal is for each community to address the problem of stray cats in that community from within, including issues such as securing the survival of stray cats and …
Alexios: Transporting Disaster Relief, Power Supply System In Urban Flooding, Yannan Pan
Alexios: Transporting Disaster Relief, Power Supply System In Urban Flooding, Yannan Pan
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Due to the terrain and river distribution, floods occur in China every year. The Yangtze River and the lower plain of Yellow River in eastern China are flood-prone, especially in urban areas. Whenever a flood comes, a lot of material and human resources are invested in the affected areas. However, there are some potential hazards in the existing flood control methods and related resettlement and management modes. In this paper, the author of this article will attempt to design a conceptualized urban flood relief and management system with a focus on the near future. the system will take use of …
Transitional Car Living, Between Homelessness And Permanent Shelter, Isaac Hertzson
Transitional Car Living, Between Homelessness And Permanent Shelter, Isaac Hertzson
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The worsening eviction crisis facing countries like the United States is caused by a variety of factors. The increasing costs of the housing market as large multi-national investing firms speculate on value of housing, to soaring rental prices, stagnating wages, inflation, and the devastation caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. Eviction creates destructive ripple effects throughout society as it often begets a negative feedback loop in which the evicted face housing discrimination leading to further eviction. Eviction is causally linked to issues with both mental and physical well being. To help those facing eviction this project proposes the creation of a …
A Smart Yoga Mat System Designed For Visually Impaired People, Dan Han
A Smart Yoga Mat System Designed For Visually Impaired People, Dan Han
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Globally, nearly 2.2 billion people are visually impaired, while 39 million are blind at present. Due to various factors, it is difficult for the blind to exercise. Though associations for blind people and disabled schools provide more possibilities for sports training for visually impaired people, these resources cannot reach everyone in need because of location and foundation limits. The project aims to make fitness more accessible for visually impaired people to help them keep healthy. Thus it could support their confidence and independence as they expected. Furthermore, society's awareness of visually impaired people's difficulties while exercising then, more studies could …
Identification Of Essential Gene Relations For Lung Adenocarcinoma Therapy Targets By Cross-Referencing Literature-Mined And Rnaseq Data, Mariel V. Pridmore
Identification Of Essential Gene Relations For Lung Adenocarcinoma Therapy Targets By Cross-Referencing Literature-Mined And Rnaseq Data, Mariel V. Pridmore
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Lung adenocarcinoma is the most frequently diagnosed subtype of lung cancer, and while the disease itself can be strenuous, the typical treatments such as chemotherapy are also known to cause whole body harm to the patient due to its systemic nature. Target therapies are increasingly gaining popularity for their ability to selectively apply the therapy to a specific cell. In terms of cancer, this method would lessen some, if not all the painful side-effects of chemotherapy and enhance a patient’s quality of life. Narrowing down what genes are deemed to be essential to the operation of the cell can help …
Poster Design: Possible Future Living Space For Overpopulated Hong Kong, Rong Dai
Poster Design: Possible Future Living Space For Overpopulated Hong Kong, Rong Dai
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According to the official statistics of China, Hong Kong’s limited land space has always struggled with overpopulation, and cheap cage homes quickly became an easy solution for many poor people. However, terrible and cramped living conditions not only make physical activities difficult, but also deprive residents of their basic housing rights. People can not envision what the living space will look like in the future, and they lack a sense of what a healthy community is. This project intends to visualize a possible future living space through illustration and information diagrams, giving the audience who live in overpopulated countries an …
Eliminating Moisture In Military Footwear: An Air Flow Solution For Soldiers Perspiring Feet When Training In Extremely Cold Weather, Mingshuo Li
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Ground soldiers in extremely cold environments could easily suffer terrible foot conditions because of the wet environment inside their boots produced by generated perspiration. The current winter military boot products on the market focus more on warmth and weather protection, eliminating moist air and functional design is lacking in winter boot products. A military boot system is proposed that will absorb and eliminate foot perspiration and provide a warm and comfortable environment for feet. This proposed design is to add an airflow system to the midsole of the shoe, pushing the air inside the shoe by naturally squeezing the airbag …
Kitchen Cooking System Designed For Wheelchair Users, Boheng Huang
Kitchen Cooking System Designed For Wheelchair Users, Boheng Huang
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This project is a system to help wheelchair users use the kitchen more conveniently. The kitchen is an indispensable place in everyone's daily life. However, for wheelchair users, the height of the kitchen countertop is too high, which makes them unable to easily take the items on the kitchen countertop and causes difficulty, complexity and a lack of safety to their daily life. The kitchen system project in this paper can solve the problem that the height of the kitchen console is inconsistent with that of wheelchair users. A small table that can adjust the height of the desktop can …
A Smart Walker That Reduces Falls And Injuries, Jungwhan Park
A Smart Walker That Reduces Falls And Injuries, Jungwhan Park
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Most of the elderly fall in their homes. As a result, the elderly may be socially, psychologically, fatally affected. Living spaces and the safety of residents are essential factors so that the elderly can lead an independent life. The purpose of this study was to develop a protective product for the elderly that will decrease the impact of falls and reduce injuries. Living alone, a slippery floor, a lack of exercise, spatial cognitive ability problems, dark environment or low vision, are the top five factors that showed the highest risk of falls. The results of this study is expected to …
Biohelm Smart Hockey Helmet: A Conceptual Wearable System For Protecting And Empowering Female Athletes, Anthony Parrucci
Biohelm Smart Hockey Helmet: A Conceptual Wearable System For Protecting And Empowering Female Athletes, Anthony Parrucci
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Women’s ice hockey is one of the fastest growing sports in the world and needs the most articles of protective equipment. At the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) level, not only do these athletes need to adapt to team issued equipment that rarely fits comfortably or safely but must also consider the important facets that impact overall performance. The main objective of this project is to promote inclusivity while protecting, empowering and educating athletes in an ethical, noninvasive manner to positively impact the culture of women’s sports. Overexertion at the NCAA level increases exponentially due to the intense training and …
Portable Exercise Equipment For Chinese Middle School Students To Stimulate Their Interest In Exercise, Bowen Zhang
Portable Exercise Equipment For Chinese Middle School Students To Stimulate Their Interest In Exercise, Bowen Zhang
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This study was intended to explore how to enhance Chinese junior high school students' interest in physical education classes and develop lifelong exercise habits through assembled multifunctional exercise equipment. By combining traditional exercise equipment with interactive software, new teaching possibilities for physical education for middle school students were explored. For this case study, the test participants were physical education teachers and students in China. By comparing the designed exercise models with traditional exercise equipment in terms of functionality, material comfort, and attractiveness, the discussion results showed that students had a positive relationship between enhancing physical activity and using the new …
Cat-Oriented Design: Redesigning The Living Space For Cats For Travel, Daheng Tong
Cat-Oriented Design: Redesigning The Living Space For Cats For Travel, Daheng Tong
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In recent years, increasing numbers of people keep cats, especially young people who study or work away from home. Having a cat can provide them with warmth and company when they are lonely. But keeping a cat also brings problems and responsibility, especially for young people, who move often and change jobs frequently. Moving with a cat is not easy for the cat or the owner. For cats, during the journey, any change in the environment can be frightening, and some of the more serious uncertainties can even lead to death. For the cat owner, in addition to having to …
Intelligent Relaxation System For Information Anxiety, Xiuyu Shi
Intelligent Relaxation System For Information Anxiety, Xiuyu Shi
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The development of information technology has brought a lot of convenience to people's lives and changed the way we work. There are many people who use cell phones and computers every day, which has caused many health problems, and information anxiety is one of them. This paper discusses a project that proposed to help with the problem of information anxiety among workers and investigates the root causes of information anxiety among IT workers. After user testing and design, this project gives a potential design solution that uses sensory feedback. In addition, this paper gives some insights into the negative effects …
Variable Gain Amplifier With Digital Control, Diksha Singh
Variable Gain Amplifier With Digital Control, Diksha Singh
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The design of CMOS variable gain amplifier (VGA) with digital control is presented in this project. The first stage of VGA is a two-stage op-amp connected in a voltage follower configuration with a series of resistors and transmission gates at the output followed by the second stage which consists of a two stage Op-amp in parallel with a series of transmission gates and resistors which is used to control the gain of the circuit. The two-stage op amp is designed using gm/Id methodology. The gain of this two-stage op amp is 80.34 dB, phase margin is 94.58º, input common mode …
Sustainable Applications Of Biochar Derived From Food Waste And Paper Feedstocks, Steven T. Barber
Sustainable Applications Of Biochar Derived From Food Waste And Paper Feedstocks, Steven T. Barber
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There is general agreement in the scientific literature that carbon sequestration is an important tool to mitigate human-induced climate change, but current methods are lacking scalability and economic viability. Though charcoal has been a common fuel for millennia, it has only very recently been purposefully created to sequester carbon. This carbon dense material, called biochar, has been extensively studied as a soil amendment though less studied for industrial applications. Chapter 1 provides an in-depth overview and background discussion of the history and definitions of biochar, distinguishing it from closely related though often misconstrued terms like charcoal, activated carbon, and carbon …
Testing Of Neural Networks, Devan Lad
Testing Of Neural Networks, Devan Lad
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Research in Neural Networks is becoming more popular each year. Re- search has introduced different ways to utilize Neural Networks, but an important aspect is missing: Testing. There are only 16 papers that strictly address Testing Neural Networks with a majority of them focusing on Deep Neural Networks and a small part on Recurrent Neural Networks. Testing Re- current neural networks is just as important as testing Deep Neural Networks as they are used in products like Autonomous Vehicles. So there is a need to ensure that the recurrent neural networks are of high quality, reliable, and have the correct …
Sku Time Series Forecasting Methods For Fmcgs, Mohammad Al Orbani
Sku Time Series Forecasting Methods For Fmcgs, Mohammad Al Orbani
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This research aims at using forecasting algorithm that predicts the demand that is to be needed on a monthly basis while factoring in occasional inconsistent patterns, seasonality, and non-stationary and cyclical patterns of the data. The prediction is to predict around 3000 SKUs in 19 end markets and since the data is necessary for marketing enhancement and strategies, the Forecasting accuracy must be high. Since market strategies will be based on those predictions and revenue will be lost in the case of an error. Hence, we need to keep in mind that the model is not overfitted and that it …
Covid-19 Vaccine Hesitancy And Governments Challenges, Laila Abdin
Covid-19 Vaccine Hesitancy And Governments Challenges, Laila Abdin
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Governments face the challenge of increasing the number of people who have been infected. Millions of daily examinations are being conducted around the world to detect the disease. The pandemic is growing increasingly challenging as the number of confirmed cases increases. Governments encounter a variety of obstacles in approving the benefits of Covid-19 vaccinations. Indeed, the idea of getting vaccinated is still fuzzy, and does vaccination protect against infectious disease? There are a lot of questions floating around. The lack of clear information about the Covid-19 vaccine will stymie the growing number of people who have been immunized. Therefore, governments …
Understanding Customer Behaviour In Restaurants Based On Data Mining Prediction Technique, Abdulrahman Yousef Alshamsi
Understanding Customer Behaviour In Restaurants Based On Data Mining Prediction Technique, Abdulrahman Yousef Alshamsi
Theses
Customer’s behavior varies from person to person based on their segmentations, while understanding these differences is one of the key elements of success in food and beverage sector. By understanding customer’s behaviors, restaurant’s owners will be able to identify their targeted customers and will give a clear insight on their menu products. Additionally, it will allow them to target their marketing campaigns, increase the revenue and optimize the cost. Artificial intelligence applications in this field have a huge positive impact in operations of food and beverage sector and depending on of this technology will change the way of restaurant’s management. …
Modeling Intra-Patient Planned Dose Change To Better Understand Dose Response In Cancer, Lauren Burke, Lin Hui Jiang, Tyler Frediani, Drew Haiber, James Winger
Modeling Intra-Patient Planned Dose Change To Better Understand Dose Response In Cancer, Lauren Burke, Lin Hui Jiang, Tyler Frediani, Drew Haiber, James Winger
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In this paper, we attempt to find the most efficient trial design to determine the optimal dose of cancer treatment. The two trial designs being evaluated are a standard trial design and intra-patient dose-switching trial. The optimal dose is the lowest dose that still causes a decrease in the tumor size. The most efficient trial is defined as the trial in which the distribution of parameters from the data set mostly closely matches the distribution from a simulated trial. We developed an ordinary differential equation to model the change in the sum of the length of tumor diameters over time. …
The Restaurant Meals Program: A Guide For New York State’S Successful Implementation, Evan Cohen
The Restaurant Meals Program: A Guide For New York State’S Successful Implementation, Evan Cohen
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In October 2021, New York State (NYS) Governor Kathy Hochul signed into law legislation enacting the Restaurant Meals Program (RMP) to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). The RMP is an extension of SNAP, allowing eligible SNAP recipients to spend their benefits at restaurants. The goal of the RMP is to allow a targeted SNAP population—the elderly, disabled, and homeless—to have greater accessibility to purchase prepared, low-cost, hot meals that would otherwise be out of reach. Restaurant Meals Programs are currently enacted in just six states. Few analyses have evaluated its strengths and weaknesses. By identifying the RMP-eligible population’s food-related …
Leveraging Identifier Naming Structures In Source Code And Bug Reports To Localize Relevant Bugs, James Dugan
Leveraging Identifier Naming Structures In Source Code And Bug Reports To Localize Relevant Bugs, James Dugan
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When bugs are found in source code, bug reports are created which contain relevant information for developers to locate and fix the bug. In large source code repositories, it can be difficult and time consuming for developers to manually analyze bug reports to locate a bug. The discovery of patterns between bug reports and source files has led to the creation of automated tools using various techniques. Automated bug localization techniques can reduce the amount of manual effort required by developers by ranking the most probable location of the bug using textual information from bug reports and source code. Although …
Identifying Psychological Mental Disorders Through Machine Learning, Mohammad Al Abdooli
Identifying Psychological Mental Disorders Through Machine Learning, Mohammad Al Abdooli
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Psychology is the Study of Human Behavior and the various ways of thinking in it’s both consciousness and unconsciousness mind as this field is still growing to various fields such as Sports, Criminal and even Administrative Psychology through, Furthermore, This Study aims to shape and accommodate both fields of Sciences together, There are very few Scholars and Researches done on Medical Mental Health from a Data Analytics perspective, examining the datasets of the patients ICD-11 or DSM-5 scores and correlating it with the patients well-being, family medical history or any accident the patient have been through, so the current study …
Sku Time Series Forecasting Methods For Fmcgs, Mohammad Al Orbani
Sku Time Series Forecasting Methods For Fmcgs, Mohammad Al Orbani
Theses
This research aims at using forecasting algorithm that predicts the demand that is to be needed on a monthly basis while factoring in occasional inconsistent patterns, seasonality, and non-stationary and cyclical patterns of the data. The prediction is to predict around 3000 SKUs in 19 end markets and since the data is necessary for marketing enhancement and strategies, the Forecasting accuracy must be high. Since market strategies will be based on those predictions and revenue will be lost in the case of an error. Hence, we need to keep in mind that the model is not overfitted and that it …
Detection Of Hateful Comments On Social Media, Essa Alzarouni
Detection Of Hateful Comments On Social Media, Essa Alzarouni
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Social media usage has grown tremendously in the contemporary communication landscape. Along with its numerous benefits, some users abuse the channels by spreading hatred, far from the intended purpose of building connections on a personal level. To date, an empirical method for detecting, quantifying, and categorizing hateful comments on social networks comprehensively and proactively is still lacking. Besides, majority of the cases remain unreported due to social confounders such as fear of victimization and the psychological implications of hateful comments, leading to a situation whereby, the detrimental effect of the situation is underestimated. The ill-defined situation in the growing online …
Customer Churn Prediction In Ecommerce Sector, Abdulrahman Alshamsi
Customer Churn Prediction In Ecommerce Sector, Abdulrahman Alshamsi
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With the increasing popularity of e-commerce and the rapid development. The competition among e-commerce companies becomes fiercer (Zhang, 2015). As known, the most significant matter is to retain customers by providing the best services along with a suitable price. Therefore, with the rapid increase of e-commerce transaction volume and intense competition in the market to meet the high demand from customers, it is necessary to attract customers through customised services and targeted strategies to increase customer loyalty. On the other hand, e-commerce customer churn shows nonlinear changes and asymmetrical customer categories. E-commerce customer churn data has a typical sample imbalance …
The Artists Of The Walter Crane Fan: Gender And Performance In 1895, Caroline Haller
The Artists Of The Walter Crane Fan: Gender And Performance In 1895, Caroline Haller
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The curiosity of the Walter Crane Fan, an autograph fan created in 1895, is that despite featuring forty signatures of famed artists, writers, musicians and public figures, it has received little critical examination. The re-discovery of the Walter Crane Fan when it came to auction, prompted its inclusion in The Cult of Beauty: The Aesthetic Movement 1860-1900 exhibition originally held at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London in 2011. Then, the Crane Fan was the focus of Robyne Calvert’s essay “An Artistic Fan in Victorian Society” in Connecting Whistler: Essays in Honour of Margaret F. Macdonald. However, to date, …
A Proposal For A Survey Of American Art History Course: An Intersectional Approach, Fernando Mejia
A Proposal For A Survey Of American Art History Course: An Intersectional Approach, Fernando Mejia
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The purpose of this project is to propose and create a course surveying American art history that currently is not offered at the Los Angeles Community College (LACCD). The creation of this course is important because it will fill a void within the curriculum in art history at LACCD. Most importantly, however, the course will offer students interested in American art an opportunity to take this course at the community college, which will prepare them for upper-division coursework before transferring, allowing them to focus on upper-division courses in the field. The Thesis Project addresses the state-of-field in the teaching of …
Personifications Of The Sacred And The Sovereign Represented In The Art Of The Sala Del Maggior Consiglio In Palazzo Ducale, Susan Sholar Hanny
Personifications Of The Sacred And The Sovereign Represented In The Art Of The Sala Del Maggior Consiglio In Palazzo Ducale, Susan Sholar Hanny
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The aim of this research is to conduct a comprehensive analysis of why the Venetian Republic incorporated specific personifications in the art of the Sala del Maggior Consiglio (Chamber of the Great Council) (fig. 1) in Palazzo Ducale (Doge’s Palace) (fig. 2) created after 1577 (when a fire destroyed most of the existing artwork in the room) to promulgate the sacredness and sovereignty of the Venetian Empire. In addition, the research seeks to connect the personifications to events in Venetian history that influenced the use of specific figurative images within the artwork and to the message the Venetian Republic was …