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Hacking The Urban Village | Architecture As Board Game, Xuyun Liu

Architecture Senior Theses

This thesis proposes the board game as a new research methodology and platform for the study of southern China's urban villages.

Hacking the Urban Village examines the urban villages that have, in recent decades, become a common but informal settlement type in China as a result of China's unprecedented period of urbanization.

This research forms the contextual core of a board game where game settings present the current urban conditions and players may explore alternative forms of urbanism. The board game offers players the opportunity to investigate both he formal conditions of the urban village life along with it attendant …

Releasing The Unconsciousness | Visualizing The City, Taihui Li

Architecture Senior Theses

This thesis explores how subway stations lost their identity as strategic node of connectivity which constructed the prevailing image of New York City. In Civilization and Its Discontents (1930), Sigmund Freud famously compared the human mind to the city of Rome. He argues that both contain strata of memory and history which have accumulated over the years through a messy and ad-hoc process. Like Rome, New York City also has a layered history, albeit not as deep.

This thesis contends that the subway entrance serves as an experiential entre into the unconscious experience of the unknown elements of the past. …

A Network Topology Control And Identity Authentication Protocol With Support For Movable Sensor Nodes, Ying Zhang, Wei Chen, Jixing Liang, Bingxin Zheng, Shengming Jiang

Computer Science Faculty Research

It is expected that in the near future wireless sensor network (WSNs) will be more widely used in the mobile environment, in applications such as Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) for marine monitoring and mobile robots for environmental investigation. The sensor nodes’ mobility can easily cause changes to the structure of a network topology, and lead to the decline in the amount of transmitted data, excessive energy consumption, and lack of security. To solve these problems, a kind of efficient Topology Control algorithm for node Mobility (TCM) is proposed. In the topology construction stage, an efficient clustering algorithm is adopted, which …

Dr. John H. Gibbon, Jr. And Jefferson's Heart-Lung Machine: Commemoration Of The World's First Successful Bypass Surgery, F. Michael Angelo

Posters: Jefferson History

On May 6, 1953 at Jefferson Medical College Hospital, Dr. John Heysham Gibbon, Jr., his staff, and with the help of his latest-designed heart-lung machine, “Model II,” closed a very serious septal defect between the upper chambers of the heart of eighteen-year-old Cecelia Bavolek. This was the first successful intercardiac surgery of its kind performed on a human patient. Ms. Bavolek was connected to the device for three-quarters of an hour and for 26 crucial minutes, the patient totally depended upon the machine’s artificial cardiac and respiratory functions. “Jack” Gibbon did not follow this epoch-making event by holding an international …

Cutr Connections [December 2015], Cutr

CUTR Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Privacy Almighty? The Cjeu's Judgment In Google Spain Sl V. Aepd, David J. Stute

Michigan Journal of International Law

The Internet has matured into an unprecedented repository of data, retrievable through myriad unique “links,” or Uniform Resource Locators. Yet, this wealth of information only became broadly accessible through the invention and continual development of algorithm-based search engines. Keyword searches empowered search-engine users to find—and sometimes stumble upon—information with great ease. Indeed, search-engine indices arguably have become the most comprehensive catalogues of information the world has ever seen. This wealth of accessible information poses challenges to traditional notions of privacy: aspects of our private and public lives, which previously would have rarely left the vicinities of our immediate social or …

Full Issue, The Mcnair Team

McNair Scholars Research Journal

No abstract provided.

A New Must Of The Public Trust: Modifying Wisconsin’S Public Trust Doctrine To Accommodate Modern Development While Still Serving The Doctrine’S Essential Goals, Evann D.S. Derus

Marquette Law Review

“It is not the law, as we view it, that the state, represented by its Legislature, must forever be quiescent in the administration of the trust doctrine, to the extent of leaving the shores of Lake Michigan in all instances in the same condition and contour as they existed prior to the advent of the white civilization in the territorial area of Wisconsin.”

Que Ondee Sola - December 2015-January 2016, Rebecca Rios

Que Ondee Sola

Student publication founded in 1972, articles include: Acerca de Eugenio Maria de Hostos y Bonilla, Diaspora Insular Expertise and the War Over War Against All Puerto Ricans, Yo Soy NEIUI/I am NEIU, Oscar Lopez Aboga por una Educacion Libertadora, Master Class, Paseo Boricua Parranda 2015: La Tradicion Sigue

Mmpp: A Package For Calculating Similarity And Distance Metrics For Simple And Marked Temporal Point Processes, Hideitsu Hino, Ken Takano, Noboru Murata

The R Journal

A simple temporal point process (SPP) is an important class of time series, where the sample realization of the process is solely composed of the times at which events occur. Particular examples of point process data are neuronal spike patterns or spike trains, and a large number of distance and similarity metrics for those data have been proposed. A marked point process (MPP) is an extension of a simple temporal point process, in which a certain vector valued mark is associated with each of the temporal points in the SPP. Analyses of MPPs are of practical importance because instances of …

Clustvarlv: An R Package For The Clustering Of Variables Around Latent Variables, Evelyne Vigneau, Mingkun Chen, El Mostafa Qannari

The R Journal

The clustering of variables is a strategy for deciphering the underlying structure of a data set. Adopting an exploratory data analysis point of view, the Clustering of Variables around Latent Variables (CLV) approach has been proposed by Vigneau and Qannari (2003). Based on a family of optimization criteria, the CLV approach is adaptable to many situations. In particular, constraints may be introduced in order to take account of additional information about the observations and/or the variables. In this paper, the CLV method is depicted and the R package ClustVarLV including a set of functions developed so far within this framework …

Srcs: Statistical Ranking Color Scheme For Visualizing Parameterized Multiple Pairwise Comparisons With R, Pablo J. Villacorta, José A. Sáez

The R Journal

The problem of comparing a new solution method against existing ones to find statistically significant differences arises very often in sciences and engineering. When the problem instance being solved is defined by several parameters, assessing a number of methods with respect to many problem configurations simultaneously becomes a hard task. Some visualization technique is required for presenting a large number of statistical significance results in an easily interpretable way. Here we review an existing color-based approach called Statistical Ranking Color Scheme (SRCS) for displaying the results of multiple pairwise statistical comparisons between several methods assessed separately on a number of …

Treeclust: An R Package For Tree-Based Clustering Dissimilarities, Samuel E. Buttrey, Lyn R. Whitaker

The R Journal

This paper describes treeClust, an R package that produces dissimilarities useful for clustering. These dissimilarities arise from a set of classification or regression trees, one with each variable in the data acting in turn as a the response, and all others as predictors. This use of trees produces dissimilarities that are insensitive to scaling, benefit from automatic variable selection, and appear to perform well. The software allows a number of options to be set, affecting the set of objects returned in the call; the user can also specify a clustering algorithm and, optionally, return only the clustering vector. The …

Program Committee Report December 2015, Regenstrief Center For Healthcare Engineering

RCHE Reports

No abstract provided.

Hemodynamic Analysis Of Fast And Slow Aneurysm Occlusions By Flow Diversion In Rabbits, Bong Jae Chung, Fernando Mut, Ramanathan Kadirvel, Ravi Lingineni, David F. Kallmes, Juan R. Cebral

Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Purpose: To assess hemodynamic differences between aneurysms that occlude rapidly and those occluding in delayed fashion after flow diversion in rabbits. Methods: Thirty-six elastase-induced aneurysms in rabbits were treated with flow diverting devices. Aneurysm occlusion was assessed angiographically immediately before they were sacrificed at 1 (n=6), 2 (n=4), 4 (n=8) or 8 weeks (n=18) after treatment. The aneurysms were classified into a fast occlusion group if they were completely or near completely occluded at 4 weeks or earlier and a slow occlusion group if they remained incompletely occluded at 8 weeks. The immediate post-treatment flow conditions in aneurysms of each …

Specialized Replication Operons Control Rhizobial Plasmid Copy Number In Developing Symbiotic Cells, Clarice Lorraine Perry

Theses and Dissertations

The rhizobium – legume symbiosis is a complex process that involves genetic cooperation from both bacteria and plants. Previously, our lab described naturally occurring accessory plasmids in rhizobia that inhibit this cooperation. A transposon mutagenesis was performed on the plasmids to detect the genetic factor that blocked nitrogen fixation. Several of the plasmids were found to possess a replication operon that when disrupted by transposon insertion, restored symbiotic function. This study describes an in-depth investigation into one of those plasmids, pHRC377, and into its replication operon. The operon, which we have called repA2C2, comes from the repABC family of …

Capturing The Benefits Of Complete Streets, Cutr

Research Reports

No abstract provided.

Perceived Vs. Actual Distance To Transit In Santiago, Chile, Diego Hernández, Regina Witter

Journal of Public Transportation

To plan public transport supply and to increase transit patronage, it is indispensable to be aware of people’s perception of the actual supply, that is, how extensive and accurate people’s knowledge is regarding the concrete features of transport supply, such as the locations of transit stops, timetables, and fare structures. This paper addresses the gap between the perceived and real distances to transit stops. The comparison between the real and perceived supply shows a considerably accurate perception. Nevertheless, a pattern is apparent. Metro supply has a higher overestimation rate than buses, i.e., walking distances are perceived as significantly shorter than …

Full Issue 18(4)

Journal of Public Transportation

No abstract provided.

Annual Report, Online Learning And Instructional Technology Services, 2014-2015, Kaya Van Beynen

Library Department and Committee Reports

Annual report for the Online Learning and Instructional Technology Services unit at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg's Nelson Poynter Memorial for the 2014-2015 year.

Theoretical Prediction Of Materials For Efficient Conversion Of Solar Energy, Pranab Sarker

Physics Dissertations - Archive

Our present work represents a systematic theoretical and computational research to find an affordable material for solar energy application using density functional theory (DFT) and post-DFT such as DFT+U and DFT-HSE06. Here, we predict a new photovoltaic material (CuSnW2O8) and a new photocatalyst (ZnSnW2O8). In addition, a new method for predicting the higher power conversion efficiency (PCE) optimized growth conditions will be presented. It is well known that all physical properties are calculated once crystal structure is known. However, knowing crystal structure is extremely challenging and to date, there is no success has been claimed in the case of a …

Green Criminological Concerns & Philosophical Beliefs, Alexander Allen Anderson

Criminology & Criminal Justice Theses - Archive

The purpose of this research project was to test the philosophical argument that people who maintained a dualistic mindset or sustained a belief in the existence of the soul would be less concerned with environmental crime. A survey was collected from a sample of 332 individuals at the University of Texas at Arlington in Arlington, Texas. The survey asked individuals to select on a likert scale how concerned they were with environmental harm. Preceding these, individuals were asked to answer either yes, no, or I don’t know on questions concerning their philosophical beliefs, looking for indicators of dualistic thinking and …

Distributed Algorithms For Electric Vehicle Charging, Akshay Malhotra

Electrical Engineering Theses - Archive

Coordinated charging of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) can effectively mitigate the negative effects imposed on the power distribution grid by uncoordinated charging. Simultaneously, coordinated charging algorithms can accommodate the PEV user’s needs in terms of desired state-of-charge and charging time. In this work, the problem of tracking an arbitrary power profile, by coordinated charging of PEVs, is formulated as a discrete scheduling process, while accounting for the heterogeneity in charging rates and restricting the charging to only the maximum rated power. Then, a novel distributed algorithm is proposed to coordinate the PEV charging and eliminate the need for a central …

Reducing Encoder Complexity Of Intra-Mode Decision Using Cu Early Termination Algorithm, Nishit Samirbhai Samirbhai Shah

Electrical Engineering Theses - Archive

In this thesis an intra prediction algorithm is proposed that terminates complete full search prediction for the CU and is replaced by CU early termination algorithm which determines the complexity of the CU block and then decision is made to further split or non-split the CU. When the CU texture is complex the CU is split into smaller sub units to find the best size and when the CU texture is flat, the CU is not divided further into sub – units. Down sampling is done first after which complexity is calculated by which a threshold value is set. This …

H.265 (Hevc) Bitstream To H.264 (Mpeg 4 Avc) Bitstream Transcoder, Deepak Hingole

Electrical Engineering Theses - Archive

With every new video coding standard the general rule of thumb has been to maintain same video quality at a reduced bit rate of about 50% as compared to the previous standard. H.265 is the latest video coding standard with support for encoding videos with wide range of resolutions, starting from low resolution to beyond High Definition i.e. 4k or 8k. H.265 also known as HEVC was preceded by H.264 which is very well established and widely used standard in industry and finds its applications in broadcast, storage, multimedia telephony. Currently almost all devices including low power handheld mobile devices …

Sparse Signal Reconstruction In Linear Inverse Scattering Problem, Tanmoy Bhowmik

Electrical Engineering Theses - Archive

Proper mathematical modeling of inverse scattering problem is of utmost importance in applications such as optical imaging and microscopy, radar, acoustic, seismic and medical imaging. However, the problem is non-linear and ill-posed due to the diffusive nature of wave propagation through the scattering medium. Born and Rytov approximation are two widely used techniques to linearize the inverse scattering problem that simplifies the mathematics and modeling of wave propagation through scattering medium in special cases. The linear inverse scattering problem is still severely ill-posed and hence, in general, the solution is not stable and unique, unless a priori knowledge about the …

A High Frequency Memristor Emulator Circuit, Manu Chilukuri

Electrical Engineering Theses - Archive

In this thesis, a low power, high frequency memristor emulator has been designed. The purpose of emulator circuit is to mimic the behavior of a memristor. The circuit consists of a summing amplifier, an integrator and a multiplier. The circuit has been implemented using commercial off the shelf (COTS) components in Keysight ADS simulation tool. For CMOS implementation, the emulator circuit has been designed using IBM 0.18um technology. The design of each circuit has been explained in this work. The Opamp designed achieves a gain of 89 dB, output swing of 1.584V and a bandwidth of 3.67 MHz. The circuit …

Multi-Stage Prediction Scheme For Screen Content Based On Hevc, Nagashree Mundgemane Nagaraj

Electrical Engineering Theses - Archive

Screen content is a computer generated content which contains text, graphics and animations and the coding of such content is different from coding a photographic content. This thesis emphasizes on coding the screen content keeping the present video coding standard High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) as the base. An extension to HEVC to support screen content coding (SCC) is currently under development by the Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding (JCT- VC) and the main goal of the extension is to provide improved compression performance of text, graphics and animation in addition to photographic content. This thesis focuses on a …

Reducing The Encoding Time Of Motion Estimation In Hevc Using Parallel Programming, Vasavee Vijayaraghavan

Electrical Engineering Theses - Archive

High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) is the current state-of-art video codec which is widely being adopted by lot of users. It has close to 50% reduction in encoding time compared to its predecessor, H.264 or AVC (Advanced Video Coding) at the cost of increased complexity. Lot of research is going towards reducing the complexity of this codec, at the same time, maintaining the visual quality that it produces and maintaining the reduced encoding time from its predecessor. As an effort to decrease the encoding time further, there can be several approaches. Parallel processing is taking a dominant role in many …

Siguria E Rrjetave Kompjuterike, Blinera Ahmeti

Theses and Dissertations

Shpërndarja e internetit në përmasa më të mëdha filloi në fillim të viteve 1980. Qysh në këtë fillim lindi edhe nevoja për sigurinë e rrjetave kompjuterike, menjëherë pas shfaqjes së sulmeve të para që shkaktuan dëme në informacionet dhe sistemet kompjuterike. Ndryshimet shumë të shpejta në botën e kompjuterikës, aplikacioneve mobile dhe rrjetave pa kabllo kanë ndryshuar plotësisht tiparet e sigurisë së rrjetave. Qysh nga ajo kohë, sado që ka pasur zhvillime tepër të mëdha në botën e internetit, ende ka shumë ngecje në zhvillimin e metodave të sigurisë së rrjetave.

Problemet me sigurinë më së lehti dhe më së …