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Towards Approaches And Techniques For Analysing Wifi Location Data, John Mcauley, Clement Roux, James Little

Conference papers

Citieshaveanincreasinglydensenetworkofconnectedaccess points that enable individuals and groups to access the web on a range of different devices. Although, in most cases, the data collected from these networks is anonymised, when aggregated, it provides a rich illustration of how cities, public places and urban spaces are used. However, making use of this data can prove challenging as rarely, due to anonymization and data protection measures, is the data labelled and often the accuracy of the location information is questionable. Given these constraints, we have investigated a set of methods that can be applied to anonymous WiFi- location-based data. Through two specific …

A Christmas Carol (December 7-9, 2017), Charles Dickens

Student Theatre Programs

Program for A Christmas Carol.

Utilizing High-Resolution Archived Transit Data To Study Before-And-After Travel-Speed And Travel-Time Conditions, Travis Bradley Glick

Dissertations and Theses

Travel times, operating speeds, and service reliability influence costs and service attractiveness. This paper outlines an approach to quantify how these metrics change after a modification of roadway design or transit routes using archived transit data. The Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon (TriMet), Portland's public transportation provider, archives automatic vehicle location (AVL) data for all buses as part of their bus dispatch system (BDS). This research combines three types of AVL data (stop event, stop disturbance, and high-resolution) to create a detailed account of transit behavior; this probe data gives insights into the behavior of transit as well as …

Multi-Hazard Performance Assessment Of High-Rise Buildings, Jad El Khoury Antoun

LSU Master's Theses

In the last few decades, there has been an important increase in building high-rise constructions in many cities around the world. Since they offer several benefits in populous areas in terms of space efficiency, economy and sustainability, tower buildings attracted practitioners and researchers to understand better their exclusive behavior and response to natural hazards (e.g., hurricanes, earthquakes). Because of their flexibility and their commonly limited damping, skyscrapers are more susceptible to wind and earthquake actions than low- and mid-rise buildings. Moreover, many locations are prone to multiple hazards; hence, it is important to understand thoroughly the structural behavior of structures …

Classification Of A Meteorite Found Near Colgate, North Dakota, Justin Germann

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

In 1999 a 39 Kg stony meteorite was found near Colgate, North Dakota, during the construction of a new house. The surface of the meteorite contains many shallow regmaglypts and a weathered crust with a reddish orange color to dark brown-red, and the interior reveals a high abundance of metallic flecks. The SiO2/MgO ratio is 1.5, FeO/SiO2 ratio is 0.71, the Femetallic/FeO ratio is 0.72, the total metallic Fe is 19.8%,the average chondrule diameter is 0.3 mm, and the Fa composition is 20.27 mol%. The meteorite also has a crystalline matrix, with mostly well segregated chondrules, little igneous glass, and …

Interaction Between Visual And Phonotactic Orientation During Flight In Magicicada Cassini (Homoptera: Cicadidae), Thomas E. Moore, Franz Huber, Theo Weber, Ulla Klein, Cornelia Back

The Great Lakes Entomologist

Visual and phonotactic orientation often occur simultaneously in diurnal cicadas. and these animals generally have their largest sensory elaboration in eyes and hearing organs. Phonotactic orientation occurs principally during flight. Males and females of Magicicada cassini commonly perform low- altitude « 5 m) and short-distance « 15 m) flights in their natural habitat at flight speeds of 3 to 6 m/s. During flight, the long body axis is tilted 10° to Q , head upward. Wing beat frequencies of tethered animals at 24° to 26°C averaged 28.8 Hz. Body temperature in the field for flying individuals aver- aged 4.6°C above …

Improving Advertisement Delivery In Video Streaming, Mary Witkowski, Marshall Witkowski

Defensive Publications Series

Generally, the present disclosure is directed to improving advertisement delivery based on the content of a video. In particular, in some implementations, the systems and methods of the present disclosure can include or otherwise leverage one or more machine-learned models to predict a non-intrusive location for an advertisement based on the content of a video.

Predicting Search Queries Based On Personal Routines, Greg Hartrell

Defensive Publications Series

Generally, the present disclosure is directed to a computing system for predicting user intent in operation of a device based on personal routines. In particular, in some implementations, the systems and methods of the present disclosure can include or otherwise leverage one or more machine-learned models to predict user intent in operation of a device based on past and/or current operation of the device and routine of the user.

Allocating System Resources In Display Of Advertisements, Bin Liu, Jiefu Zheng

Defensive Publications Series

Generally, the present disclosure is directed to predicting whether bid data of a present ad query (e.g., the largest cost per thousand impressions provided by a bid responsive to the ad query) will satisfy a threshold (e.g., a threshold cost per thousand impressions) based on bid data from one or more previous ad queries and/or characteristics of the present ad query. In particular, in some implementations, the systems and methods of the present disclosure can include or otherwise leverage one or more machine-learned models to predict whether bid data of an ad query will satisfy a threshold based on bid …

Predicting Categorical Information For New Content In Application Recommender Systems, Jun Hong, Xiao Zhang

Defensive Publications Series

Generally, the present disclosure is directed to predicting categorical information for newly created content in an application recommender system. In particular, in some implementations, the systems and methods of the present disclosure can include or otherwise leverage one or more machine-learned models to predict categorical information of new applications in an applications marketplace based on screenshots of such new applications in the applications marketplace.

Underground Dinosaur Tracksite Inside A Karst Of Southern France: Early Jurassic Tridactyl Traces From The Dolomitic Formation Of The Malaval Cave (Lozère), Jean-David Moreau, Vincent Trincal, Daniel André, Louis Baret, Alain Jacquet, Michel Wienin

International Journal of Speleology

Although underground dinosaur tracksites inside anthropic cavities such as mines or tunnels are well-known throughout the world, footprints inside natural karstic caves remain extremely rare. The Malaval Cave (Lozère, southern France) is well-known by speleologists for the abundance and the exceptional quality of acicular and helictite aragonite speleothems. Recent palaeontological prospecting inside this cave allowed the discovery of tridactyl dinosaur tracks. Here, a detailed study of theropod footprints was for the first time conducted inside a natural karstic cave, using photogrammetric imaging technique. Tracks from the Malaval Cave are located inside the “Super-Blanches” galleries. More than 26 footprints were identified. …

Review Of Trembling Mountain By Kesang Tseten, Austin Lord

HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

No abstract provided.

Community And Resilience Among Sherpas In The Post-Earthquake Everest Region, Pasang Y. Sherpa

HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

In this article, I examine how residents of the Mount Everest region of Nepal responded after two major earthquakes occurred on April 25th and May 12th, 2015. This article is based on my participant-observation of discussions among Sherpas, on-foot surveys of earthquake damage, and the experiences of residents, which I recorded in Pharak, between the two major seismic events. I also reviewed institutional activities and reports that pertained to the Everest region and spoke at length with other Sherpas. In these discussions, the boundaries of ‘community’ were both fluid and self-understood. A ‘sense of community’ and ‘resilience’ emerged as salient …

Disaster Governance And Challenges In A Rural Nepali Community: Notes From Future Village Ngo, Lai Ming Lam, Varun Khanna, Rob Kuipers

HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

More than two years after the 2015 earthquakes devastated Nepal, Katunge village in Dhading district, Nepal, remained as destroyed as it was right after the earthquake. While the villagers were rather hopeful about rebuilding their houses and lives during the immediate relief effort in which we engaged, one month after the earthquake, now only a few are confident that they will ever rebuild their homes. In this article, we describe the reconstruction progress, followed by a critique of why the reconstruction progress has been so slow. We conclude with reflections on reconstruction challenges interwoven into the context of our NGO …

A Field-Based Study Of Impacts Of The 2015 Earthquake On Potentially Dangerous Glacial Lakes In Nepal, Alton C. Byers Iii, Elizabeth A. Byers, Daene C. Mckinney, David R. Rounce

HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

Following the earthquake that occurred on April 25, 2015 in Nepal, and the second major earthquake that occurred on May 12, 2015, we conducted field-based studies of five potentially dangerous glacial lakes in Nepal— Imja Tsho, Tsho Rolpa, Dig Tsho, Panga Dinga, and Thulagi. This research was undertaken in an effort to better understand what impacts the earthquake may have had on lake stability, flood potential as well as local perceptions of the dangers that post-earthquake outburst floods pose. Although only one relatively small, earthquakerelated glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF) was found to have occurred, the presence of new cracks, …

Calculating Risk, Denying Uncertainty: Seismicity And Hydropower Development In Nepal, Christopher Butler, Matthäus Rest

HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

If Ulrich Beck’s definition of ‘risk society’ describes societies increasingly structured by preoccupations with future environmental threats and related insecurities created by modernization, then Nepal’s hydropower community would appear to be quite the opposite, propelled into environmental denial by twin demands for domestic electricity and revenue earned through hydroelectric export. Our research reveals that prior to the April 2015 earthquake in Nepal, the hydropower community was engaging in what Eviatar Zerubavel calls ‘socially organized denial,’ largely ignoring the uncertainties associated with seismic activity. Earthquakes and tremors were viewed as unavoidable realities that should not impede hydropower development. This denial, we …

Globalization Tumult And Civilizational Greatness, Pradip N. Khandwalla

Markets, Globalization & Development Review

In the kind of tumultuous, strife-torn, and stressful world we are living in, we need to ask the questions: “Is our civilization moving in the right direction? What makes a civilization great?” Greed for power and greed for money, unless offset by a shared conception of civilizational excellence, often degenerate into widespread corruption, fraud, and violence. In developing countries like India, the challenge is to design a civilization that uses the creativity and enterprise of the market economy, the freedom of choice of democracy, and the altruism of the developmental state – to reverse degeneration and foster social, economic, and …

Study On Ultra Wideband Spectral Response And Efficient Hot Electron Detection Using Plasmon Field Effect Transistor, Seongman Cho

Open Access Dissertations

Plasmon based field effect transistors (FET) can be used to convert energy induced by incident optical radiation to electrical energy. Plasmonic FETs can efficiently detect incident light and amplify it by coupling to resonant plasmonic modes thus improving selectivity and signal to noise ratio. The spectral responses can be tailored both through optimization of nanostructure geometry as well as constitutive materials. In this paper, we studied various plasmonic nanostructures using gold for a wideband spectral response from visible to near IR. We show using empirical data and simulation results that detection loss exponentially increases as the volume of metal nanostructure …

Women's And Gender Studies 40th Anniversary, Lauren Reid

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

The University of Dayton women's and gender studies program was first discussed during the 1960s when issues of gender were being raised on college campuses. The University formally launched a women's study program in 1978 with a social justice-oriented mission to make students aware that women and gender issues matter.

Volume 113 Issue 12, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

The Southwestern - Archive

No abstract provided.

The Mystery Of The Spanish Antiphonary, Maureen Schlangen

University Libraries Blog Archive

Scholarly sleuths delight in the discovery of new clues about the age, origins and purposes of a rare book of Christmastide antiphons.

Executive Committee & Cabinet Minutes December 2017, Uno Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Minutes

These are the official minutes of the Faculty Senate Executive Council Meetings at the University of Nebraska - Omaha (UNO) for Academic year 2017-2018. Minutes are not posted until officially approved by the Executive Council at the following meeting. Minutes are archived yearly within the UNO Library Archives.

Students Present Malware Research In Washington Dc, Taylor University

2017 Website News Stories

No abstract provided.

Electrical Engineering Alumnus Leads Stanford Wave Physics Laboratory, Edwin B. Smith

University of Mississippi News

Jerry M. Harris is the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Geophysics

The Bates Student - Volume 148 Number 8 - December 6, 2017, Bates College

The Bates Student

No abstract provided.

Skinwalker Ranch, Natalie Randall

USU Student Folklore Fieldwork

So, in rural Utah, there’s this place called Skinwalker Ranch. And on this ranch, it’s pretty well known that there are some weird things that happen in regards to humans there. And nobody knows exactly what goes on in this place, but one time this group of high school kids, being high school kids, drive up on the ridge that is on the east end of the ranch, (I think it’s the east, I’m not positive), and they’re out away from the ranch a little ways, but if you park your car along the side of the road, and off …

Learn What It Takes To Refuse The Phishing Bait!, Lindenwood University

Archived Lindenwood Press Releases

No abstract provided.

Advanced Biotechnology Tools For Invasive Species Management, Invasive Species Advisory Committee

National Invasive Species Council

Increasingly, genetic tools are being used to detect and solve pressing environmental, social, and health-related challenges. It is clear that investments in technology innovation can be game changing, as advances in biotechnology may provide new methods to protect the nation’s resources from the negative impacts of invasive species. The current toolbox of management options is recognizably insufficient to deal with many of the high-impact species that have been introduced. However, “surrendering” to these species is generally not a viable option from ecological, health, economic, socio-cultural, or political perspectives. Cost-efficient solutions to these “grand invasive species challenges” need to be found. …

Health Information Seeking On The Internet: How Graduate And Senior Level College Students Determine Credibility, Khairul Islam

Student Theses and Dissertations

The current study observed that the college students’ health information seeking on the Internet was mainly reactive, upon their experience of health issues. They check the online resources mainly to acquire knowledge about their particular health problems. Sometimes the students also google health information proactively, which denoted their extra consciousness about their health and wellness. The college students apply their subjective health knowledge and the Internet skills to make sure that they have retrieved a reliable information that include matching the retrieved information with health symptoms, browsing lists, crosscheck with multiple sources, reputation, interpersonal reference, perceived health belief, past experiences, …