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Avs Corner, December 2016, Peyton Voirin, Leslie Ward, Kim Hill, Johanna Johnson, Annie Kate Herlong

AVS Corner

No abstract provided.

Clemson Commencement Program, December 2016, Clemson University

Clemson Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

Commodity Prices Limit Nebraska Growth, Eric Thompson, Nebraska Business Forecast Council

Business in Nebraska

Over the last few years the service sector has been the primary engine of economic growth in the United States. Supported by growth in employment and real wages, the service sector has grown steadily with increases in retail trade, business services, personal services and construction activity. Growth has been limited, however, in the industrial sector, given weakness in the energy industry, poor demand for business investment and weak overseas economies. The net result has been moderate economic growth.

Several fundamental issues continue to support an outlook for moderate economic growth. First, the pace of job growth will slow given the …

Marketing Channel Attitudes Of Chinese Business-To-Business Companies: An Empirical Buyer Behavior Study For U.S. Companies Marketing To Chinese B2b Customers, Jonathan Cooley

Doctor of Business Administration (DBA)

Attracted by the large, growing domestic economy in China, many U.S. companies have decided to enter China providing products and services in the business-to-consumer (B2C) and business-to-business (B2B) markets. Combined with traditional marketing channels, Internet marketing is rapidly evolving and becoming a critical strategic element in the marketing department’s tool chest. While much is written about B2C markets and consumer preferences, little of the literature addresses the B2B Chinese customers’ attitudes toward the disparate array of traditional and Internet marketing approaches. Even less addresses Chinese B2B purchasing agents’ receptivity to Western companies soliciting them as new customers. This research compares …

To Overcome Communication Challenges In Distributed/Virtual Scrum Teams, Priyamvada Walimbe

Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of this research is to give an overview of a scrum in distributed teams and to suggest ways overcome communication challenges in such projects. In this research proposal, the latest available research on a scrum in distributed teams will be thoroughly analyzed and evaluated to know the possible solutions for communication problems in distributed teams. A review of the literature suggested scrum is widely accepted agile methodology in software projects and also it works best within collocated teams. However, the literature review also proposes that lack of proper communication is one of the main challenge faced by distributed …

Erp Critical Success Factors: Importance Of Erp Consultants In Erp Implementation, Adekunle S. Balogun

Dissertations and Theses

Enterprise Resource Planning, ERP is one of the most popular and successful information technology solution used in many organizations to share information within different business units to enhance and maximize productivity. The system is expensive, time-consuming, and complicated to implement and manage. The difficulties of ERP implementation have resulted in high rates of unsuccessful ERP implementation according to the stories of many organizations that have implemented the solution. The failure of ERP implementation has then led to several studies to investigate the Critical Success Factors (CSFs) that could influence the ERP implementation during and after implementation phases. Some of the …

Complex Solutions Of The Time Fractional Gross-Pitaevskii (Gp) Equation With External Potential By Using A Reliable Method, Nasir Taghizadeh, Mona N. Foumani

Applications and Applied Mathematics: An International Journal (AAM)

In this article, modified (G'/G )-expansion method is presented to establish the exact complex solutions of the time fractional Gross-Pitaevskii (GP) equation in the sense of the conformable fractional derivative. This method is an effective method in finding exact traveling wave solutions of nonlinear evolution equations (NLEEs) in mathematical physics. The present approach has the potential to be applied to other nonlinear fractional differential equations. Based on two transformations, fractional GP equation can be converted into nonlinear ordinary differential equation of integer orders. In the end, we will discuss the solutions of the fractional GP equation with external potentials.

Mccreary County - Place Names, Robert M. Rennick

Robert M. Rennick Manuscript Collection

Place names of McCreary County, Kentucky.

Marshall County - Place Names, Robert M. Rennick

Robert M. Rennick Manuscript Collection

Place names of Marshall County, Kentucky.

Mclean County - Place Names, Robert M. Rennick

Robert M. Rennick Manuscript Collection

Place names of McLean County, Kentucky.

A Different Approach To Project Management: The Use Of Soft Skills, Hannah Adams

Dissertations and Theses

The term soft skills is traditionally used to describe interpersonal and subjective skills such as leadership, communication, and emotional intelligence. This paper addresses a further explanation of soft skills, their relation to project management, project management education, and the highlighted differences between a transactional leader and a transformational leader. Project management has often been defined as the making of schedules/tasks; but more importantly providing the inspiration, motivation, and facilitator of great minds to produce innovative ideas. Because of the sheer necessity for human interaction within the project management profession, soft skills are of crucial concern. Although mastering soft skills is …

167th Commencement, Fall

Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

Commencement Program 2016 December: College Of Liberal Arts, The University Of Texas At Arlington

Commencement Programs, Photos, and Video

No abstract provided.

News Narratives About The Hpv Vaccine For Adolescent Males, Katherine E. Bennett

Communication Theses - Archive

The goal of this research was to examine portrayals of gender roles and expectations related to the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine for men and boys in U.S. newspapers within the theoretical framework of feminist theory, feminist media theory, hegemonic masculinity, and heteronormativity. Since the HPV vaccine was approved for girls in women in 2006, research has been conducted examining media portrayals of the HPV vaccine for girls and women, but little has been written about how the news has treated the subject for men and boys. This research examined print newspaper articles between 2011, when the U.S. Advisory Council on …

Predicting Human Behavior Based On Survey Response Patterns Using Markov And Hidden Markov Models, Arun Kumar Pokharna

Computer Science and Engineering Theses - Archive

With technological advancements in World Wide Web (www), connecting with people for gathering information has become common. Among several ways, surveys are one of the most commonly used way of collecting information from people. Given a specific objective, multiple surveys are conducted to collect various pieces of information. This collected information, in the form of survey responses, can be categorical values or a descriptive text that represents information regarding the survey question. If additional details regarding the response behavior, scenario in which survey is being responded, or survey outcomes is available, machine learning and prediction modeling can be used to …

Linchpin: A Yaml Template Based Cross Cloud Resource Provisioning Tool, Samvaran Kashyap Rallabandi

Computer Science and Engineering Theses - Archive

A cloud application developed, will have a specific requirement of particular cloud resources and software stack to be deployed to make it run. Resource templates enable the environment design and deployment required for an application. A template describes the infrastructure of the cloud application in a text file which includes servers, floating/public IP, storage volumes, etc. This approach is termed “Infrastructure as a code.” In Amazon public cloud, OpenStack private cloud, Google cloud these templates are called as cloud formation templates, HOT (Heat orchestration templates), Google cloud templates respectively. Though the existing template systems give a flexibility for the end …

Feature Selection Using An Extended Piecewise Linear Orthonormal Floating Search, Rohit Rawat

Electrical Engineering Dissertations - Archive

The piecewise linear orthonormal floating search (PLOFS) is a wrapper method for feature selection that uses a piecewise linear network (PLN) to evaluate candidate subsets. PLOFS has difficulty working on high dimensional data due to overfitting and poor clustering in the PLN subset evaluation function (SEF), and high computational complexity. The presence of noise features aggravates these problems. In order to improve upon the SEF used by PLOFS we mapped the PLN to a SPLN. Then a second order embedded feature selection was used to generate improved distance measure weights. Next, a second order method for positioning center vectors was …

Cloud Hopper: A Unified Cloud Solution To Manage Heterogeneous Clouds, Shraddha Jain

Computer Science and Engineering Theses - Archive

Cloud environments are built on virtualization platforms which offer scalability, on-demand pricing, high performance, elasticity, easy accessibility of the resources and cost efficient services. Most of the small and large businesses use cloud computing to take advantage of these features. The usage of the cloud resources depends on the requirements of the organizations. With the advent of cloud computing, the traditional way of handling machines by the IT professionals has decreased. However, it leads to wastage of resources due to inadequate monitoring and improper management of resources. Often it happens that the cloud resources once deployed are forgotten, and they …

Machine Learning Based Datacenter Monitoring Framework, Ravneet Singh Sidhu

Computer Science and Engineering Theses - Archive

Monitoring the health of large data centers is a major concern with the ever-increasing demand of grid/cloud computing and the higher need of computational power. In a High Performance Computing (HPC) environment, the need to maintain high availability makes monitoring tasks and hardware more daunting and demanding. As data centers grow it becomes hard to manage the complex interactions between different systems. Many open source systems have been implemented which give specific state of any individual machine using Nagios, Ganglia or Torque monitoring software. In this work we focus on the detection and prediction of data center anomalies by using …

Mavroomie: An End-To-End Architecture For Finding Compatible Roommates Based On User Preferences, Vijendra Bhogadi

Computer Science and Engineering Theses - Archive

Team Formation is widely studied in literature as a method for forming teams or groups under certain constraints. However, very few works address the aspect of collaboration while forming groups under certain constraints. Motivated by the collaborative team formation, we try to extend the problem of team formation to a general problem in the real world scenario of finding compatible roommates to share a place. There are numerous applications like “roommates.com" ,”roomiematch.com" , “Roomi” which try to find roommates based on geographical and cost factors and ignore the important human factors which can play a substantial role in finding a …

Evaluation Of Html Tag Susceptibility To Statistical Fingerprinting For Use In Censorship Evasion, Kelly Scott French

Computer Science and Engineering Theses - Archive

The ability to speak freely has always been a source of conflict between rulers and the people over which they exert power. This conflict usually takes the form of State-sponsored censorship with occasional instances of commercial efforts typically to silence criticism or squelch dissent, and people's efforts to evade such censorship. This is even more so evident in the current environment with its ever-growing number of communication technologies and platforms available to individuals around the world. If the face of efforts to control communication before it is posted or to prevent the discovery of information that exists outside of the …

Remote Patient Monitoring Using Health Bands With Activity Level Prescription, Pranay Shirolkar

Computer Science and Engineering Theses - Archive

With the advent of new commercially available consumer grade fitness and health devices, it is now possible and very common for users to obtain, store, share and learn about some of their important physiological metrics such as steps taken, heart rate, quality of sleep and skin temperature. For devices with this wearable technology, it is common to find these sensors embedded in a smart watch, or dedicated wearable wrist bands such that among other functionalities of a wearable device, it is capable of smartly assisting users about their activity levels by leveraging the fact that these devices can be, and …

Searching And Classifying Mobile Application Screenshots, Adis Kovacevic

Computer Science and Engineering Theses - Archive

Searching for a particular application layout image is a challenging task. No search provider gives an adequate method to filter the query results to the look of a mobile application. Searching for a particular style of application requires lots of manual time sifting through the results returned. Search engines such as Google are too broad and return too many unrelated results without providing sufficient filters on things like category or layout type. This paper proposes a technique that would allow the searching and classifying of mobile application screenshots based on the layout of the content, the category of the application, …

Integration Of Apache Mrql Query Language With Apache Storm Realtime Computational System, Achyut Paudel

Computer Science and Engineering Theses - Archive

The use of real time processing of data has increased in recent years with the increase of data captured by social media platforms, IOT and other big data applications. The processing of data in real time has been an important aspect of the day from finding the trends over the internet to fraud detection of in the banking transactions. Finding relevant information from large amount of data has always been a difficult problem to solve. MRQL is a query language that can be used on top of different big data platform such as Apache Hadoop, Flink, Hama, and Spark that …

Extracting And Modeling Useful Information From Videos For Supporting Continuous Queries, Manish Kumar Annappa

Computer Science and Engineering Theses - Archive

Automating video stream processing for inferring situations of interest has been an ongoing challenge. This problem is currently exacerbated by the volume of surveillance/monitoring videos generated. Currently, manual or context-based customized techniques are used for this purpose. To the best to our knowledge the attempted work in this area use a custom query language to extract data and infer simple situations from the video streams, thus adding an additional overhead to learn their query language. Objective of the work in this thesis is to develop a framework that extracts data from video streams generating a data representation such that simple …

Cell Segmentation In Cancer Histopathology Images Using Convolutional Neural Networks, Viswanathan Kavassery Rajalingam

Computer Science and Engineering Theses - Archive

Cancer, the second most dreadful disease causing large scale deaths in humans is characterized by uncontrolled growth of cells in the human body and the ability of those cells to migrate from the original site and spread to distant sites. The major proportion of deaths in cancer is due to improper primary diagnosis that raises the need for Computer Aided Diagnosis (CAD). Digital Pathology is a technique that acts as second set of eyes to radiologists in delivering expert level preliminary diagnosis for cancer patients. Cell segmentation is a challenging step in digital pathology that identifies cell regions from micro-slide …

Convolutional And Recurrent Neural Networks For Pedestrian Detection, Vivek Arvind Balaji

Computer Science and Engineering Theses - Archive

Pedestrian Detection in real time has become an interesting and a challenging problem lately. With the advent of autonomous vehicles and intelligent traffic monitoring systems, more time and money are being invested into detecting and locating pedestrians for their safety and towards achieving complete autonomy in vehicles. For the task of pedestrian detection, Convolutional Neural Networks (ConvNets) have been very promising over the past decade. ConvNets have a typical feed-forward structure and they share many properties with the visual system of the human brain. On the other hand, Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) are emerging as an important technique for image …

Learning Perception To Action Mapping For Functional Imitation, Bhupender Singh

Computer Science and Engineering Theses - Archive

Imitation leaning is the learning of advanced behavior whereby an agent acquires a skill by observing another's behavior while performing the same skill. The main objective of imitation learning is to make robots usable for a variety of tasks without programming them but by simply demonstrating new tasks. The power of this approach arises since end users of such robots will frequently not know how to program the robot, might not understand the dynamics and behavioral capabilities of the system, and might not know how to program these robots to get different/new tasks done. Some challenges in achieving imitation capabilities …

Cloud Merge: Heterogeneous Cloud Application Migration Using Platform As A Service, Mayank Jain

Computer Science and Engineering Theses - Archive

With the evolution of cloud service providers offering numerous services such as SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, options for enterprises to choose the best set of services under optimal costs have also increased. The migration of web applications across these heterogeneous platforms comes with ample of options to choose from, providing users the flexibility to choose the best options suiting their requirements. This process of migration must be automated to ensure the security, performance and availability, keeping the cost to be optimal while moving the application from one platform to another. A multi-tier web application will have many dependencies such as the …

Improving Memorization And Long Term Recall Of System Assigned Passwords, Jayesh Doolani

Computer Science and Engineering Theses - Archive

Systems assigned password have guaranteed robustness against guessing attacks, but they are hard to memorize. To make system assigned passwords more usable, it is of prime importance that systems that assign random password also assist users with memorization and recall. In this work, we have designed a novel technique that employs rote memorization inform of an engaging game, which is played during the account registration process. Based on prior work on chunking, we break a password into three equal chunks, and then the game helps plant those chunks in memory. We present the findings of 17 participant user-study, where we …