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Real-Time Indoor Assistive Localization With Mobile Omnidirectional Vision And Cloud Gpu Acceleration, Feng Hu, Zhigang Zhu, Jeury Mejia, Hao Tang Dec 2017

Real-Time Indoor Assistive Localization With Mobile Omnidirectional Vision And Cloud Gpu Acceleration, Feng Hu, Zhigang Zhu, Jeury Mejia, Hao Tang

Publications and Research

In this paper we propose a real-time assistive localization approach to help blind and visually impaired people in navigating an indoor environment. The system consists of a mobile vision front end with a portable panoramic lens mounted on a smart phone, and a remote image feature-based database of the scene on a GPU-enabled server. Compact and elective omnidirectional image features are extracted and represented in the smart phone front end, and then transmitted to the server in the cloud. These features of a short video clip are used to search the database of the indoor environment via image-based indexing to …

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Mutational Analysis Of The Molluscum Contagiosum Virus Mc160 Protein, Henri Estanbouli Dec 2017

Mutational Analysis Of The Molluscum Contagiosum Virus Mc160 Protein, Henri Estanbouli

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

The Molluscum Contagiosum Virus (MCV), belongs to a family of large DNA viruses called Poxviridae. MCV causes a common skin infection resulting in benign neoplasms. 122 million cases of MC were reported in 2010. The virus is not primarily lethal, though fatalities have occurred due to secondary bacterial infections. Even with the high volume of reported cases, MCV is very much understudied, and its pathogenicity is not well understood. Thus, with that in mind, a more in-depth understanding of the MCV-host interactions is a priority. Presumably during infection, MCV utilizes immune evasion molecules to inhibit activation of the host pro-inflammatory …

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Ny Times- Professor Reinert's Lawsuit Over Solitary Confinement Practices Gets A Victory For The Plaintiffs, Benjamin N. Cardozo School Of Law Dec 2017

Ny Times- Professor Reinert's Lawsuit Over Solitary Confinement Practices Gets A Victory For The Plaintiffs, Benjamin N. Cardozo School Of Law

Cardozo News 2017

No abstract provided.

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Pharmacy Professor Becomes Graduate School Associate Dean, Sydney Slotkin Dupriest Dec 2017

Pharmacy Professor Becomes Graduate School Associate Dean, Sydney Slotkin Dupriest

University of Mississippi News

Robert Doerksen is former director of medicinal chemistry graduate program

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Faculty Senate Minutes December 2017, Uno Faculty Senate Dec 2017

Faculty Senate Minutes December 2017, Uno Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Minutes

These are the official minutes of the Faculty Senate Meetings at the University of Nebraska - Omaha (UNO) for Academic year 2017-2018. The Faculty Senate supports faculty governance and believes that shared governance is essential to creating productive and rewarding environment for faculty and students. The Faculty Senate is a representative body of members elected by the faculty of the various academic departments and units of UNO. The Faculty Senate features representation from each academic college, Criss Library , and Omaha-base University of Nebraska – Lincoln (UNL) colleges.

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Mexican Working-Class Literature, Or The Work Of Literature In Mexico, Eugenio Di Stefano Dec 2017

Mexican Working-Class Literature, Or The Work Of Literature In Mexico, Eugenio Di Stefano

Foreign Languages and Literature Faculty Publications

Working-class literature has never had a wide audience in Mexico, always overshadowed by other types of literature, such as the novel of the Mexican Revolution, the regionalist novel, and the indigenous novel. Nevertheless, there is no better place, as this chapter will suggest, to consider the status of literature and its relationship to history and ideology than from the genre of work and the worker. Approaching working-class literature as an evolving genre in relation to different modernization projects, this chapter will map out similarities and point to differences between various labor literatures—including proletarian literature in the 1930s, the testimonio (a …

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Catalytic Activity Of Zsm-5 Zeolite Loaded With Transition Metals For The Selective Catalytic Reduction Of Nox, Saaid I.M., Mohamed A.R., Bhatia S. Bhatia Dec 2017

Catalytic Activity Of Zsm-5 Zeolite Loaded With Transition Metals For The Selective Catalytic Reduction Of Nox, Saaid I.M., Mohamed A.R., Bhatia S. Bhatia

ASEAN Journal on Science and Technology for Development

Catalytic activity measurement were carried out on catalysts formulated from ZSM-5 zeolite separately loaded with transition metals (Cu, Co, Ni, Fe) for the removal of NOx in simulated diesel exhaust conditions. Various factors were investigated to compare the performance of these catalysts including catalyst preparation method, Si/Al ratio of the parent zeolite support, and durability in the exhaust stream containing water vapor or SO2. In many experimental conditions except in the presence of water vapor or SO2, Cu-ZSM5 remained the most active catalyst with 100% NOX conversion at around 350°C. C0-ZSM5 and Ni-ZSM5 could also achieve complete NOx conversion but …

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Using Two Time Scales Of Turbulence For Boundary Layer Flows, Saeid Nawaf H. Dec 2017

Using Two Time Scales Of Turbulence For Boundary Layer Flows, Saeid Nawaf H.

ASEAN Journal on Science and Technology for Development

A near wall improvement of the k-ε model of turbulence is proposed and evaluated. The present model takes into account the asymptotic behavior of turbulent scales near wall region and for free turbulence region. The Kolmogorov turbulent time scale is introduced as a lower limit. The model is used for prediction of turbulent boundary layer flows. Predictions compared with experimental data of several flow cases, with encouraging results.

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Design Of Robust H∞ Power System Stabilizer Using Normalized Coprime Factorization, Ngamroo I., Dechanupaprittha S. Dec 2017

Design Of Robust H∞ Power System Stabilizer Using Normalized Coprime Factorization, Ngamroo I., Dechanupaprittha S.

ASEAN Journal on Science and Technology for Development

This paper proposes a new design procedure of robust power system stabilizers (PSS) using H∞ control via normalized coprime factorization (NCF) approach. The design procedure of the proposed PSS is systematically described. Moreover, the selection method of the weighting function in H∞ control design is explained in a simple manner. The performance and robustness of the proposed PSS are investigated in comparison with the conventional PSS by examining the case of a single machine connected to an infinite bus (SMIB) system. The simulation results are illustrated to ensure the effectiveness of the proposed PSS.

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Electron Microscopy Of Entomopathogenic Fungal Invasion On The Cabbage-Heart Caterpillar Crocidolomia Binotalis Zeller (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae), Hashim N., Ibrahim Y.B., Tan Y.H. Dec 2017

Electron Microscopy Of Entomopathogenic Fungal Invasion On The Cabbage-Heart Caterpillar Crocidolomia Binotalis Zeller (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae), Hashim N., Ibrahim Y.B., Tan Y.H.

ASEAN Journal on Science and Technology for Development

The infection on Crocidolomia binotalis Zeller by the entomopathogenic fungi Paecilomyces fumosoroseus (Wise) Brown and Smith, Beauveria bassiana (Bals.) Vuill, and Metarhizium anisopliae var. majus (Metsch.) Sorokin was studied histopathologically using electron microscopy. Conidia which landed on the cuticle germinated within four to six hours. In the case of B. basiana, shortly after landing, an appresorium was formed that attached itself fast onto the cuticle at the point of fungal entry. The infected larva then entered the moribund state 12 to 24 hours after inoculation. Death of the larva followed 24 to 48 hours later. By then the body cavity …

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Presidential Obstruction Of Justice, Daniel Hemel, Eric A. Posner Dec 2017

Presidential Obstruction Of Justice, Daniel Hemel, Eric A. Posner

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

No abstract provided.

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Initiation And Long-Term Instability Of The East Antarctic Ice Sheet, Sean P.S. Gulick, Amelia E. Shevenell, Aleksandr Montelli, Rodrigo Fernandez, Catherine Smith, Sophie Warny, Steven M. Bohaty, Charlotte Sjunneskog, Amy Leventer, Bruce Frederick, Donald D. Blankenship Dec 2017

Initiation And Long-Term Instability Of The East Antarctic Ice Sheet, Sean P.S. Gulick, Amelia E. Shevenell, Aleksandr Montelli, Rodrigo Fernandez, Catherine Smith, Sophie Warny, Steven M. Bohaty, Charlotte Sjunneskog, Amy Leventer, Bruce Frederick, Donald D. Blankenship

Faculty Publications

© 2017 Macmillan Publishers Limited, part of Springer Nature. All rights reserved. Antarctica's continental-scale ice sheets have evolved over the past 50 million years. However, the dearth of ice-proximal geological records limits our understanding of past East Antarctic Ice Sheet (EAIS) behaviour and thus our ability to evaluate its response to ongoing environmental change. The EAIS is marine-terminating and grounded below sea level within the Aurora subglacial basin, indicating that this catchment, which drains ice to the Sabrina Coast, may be sensitive to climate perturbations. Here we show, using marine geological and geophysical data from the continental shelf seaward of …

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The Ability Of Different Imputation Methods To Preserve The Significant Genes And Pathways In Cancer, Rosa Aghdam, Taban Baghfalaki, Pegah Khosravi, Elnaz Saberi Ansari Dec 2017

The Ability Of Different Imputation Methods To Preserve The Significant Genes And Pathways In Cancer, Rosa Aghdam, Taban Baghfalaki, Pegah Khosravi, Elnaz Saberi Ansari

Publications and Research

Deciphering important genes and pathways from incomplete gene expression data could facilitate a better understanding of cancer. Different imputation methods can be applied to estimate the missing values. In our study, we evaluated various imputation methods for their performance in preserving significant genes and pathways. In the first step, 5% genes are considered in random for two types of ignorable and non-ignorable missingness mechanisms with various missing rates. Next, 10 well-known imputation methods were applied to the complete datasets. The significance analysis of microarrays (SAM) method was applied to detect the significant genes in rectal and lung cancers to showcase …

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Speaking Of Spanish, Unh Communications And Public Affairs Dec 2017

Speaking Of Spanish, Unh Communications And Public Affairs

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

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Growth Policy, Annexation, And Incorporation Under Public Chapter 1101 Of 1998, A Guide For Community Leaders, Tennessee. Advisory Commission On Intergovernmental Relations. Dec 2017

Growth Policy, Annexation, And Incorporation Under Public Chapter 1101 Of 1998, A Guide For Community Leaders, Tennessee. Advisory Commission On Intergovernmental Relations.

Land Use Reports

No abstract provided.

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Progress For Whom, Toward What? Progressive Politics And New York City’S Mandatory Inclusionary Housing, Samuel Stein Dec 2017

Progress For Whom, Toward What? Progressive Politics And New York City’S Mandatory Inclusionary Housing, Samuel Stein

Publications and Research

In both its historical Progressive Era roots and its contemporary manifestations, U.S. urban progressivism has evinced a contradictory tendency toward promoting the interests of capital and property while ostensibly protecting labor and tenants, thus producing policies that undermine its central claims. This article interrogates past and present appeals to urban progressive politics, particularly around housing and planning, and offers an in-depth case study of one of the most highly touted examples of the new urban progressivism: New York City’s recently adopted Mandatory Inclusionary Housing program. This case serves to identify the ways in which progressive rhetoric can disguise neoliberal policies. …

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A Physical Framework For Evaluating Flood Inundation Risk Under Different Water Management Scenarios, Sage Hardesty Dec 2017

A Physical Framework For Evaluating Flood Inundation Risk Under Different Water Management Scenarios, Sage Hardesty

Master's Theses

In the United States, many river floodplains contain critical infrastructure that is vulnerable to extreme hydrologic events. These structures are designed based on flood frequency analysis aimed at quantifying the magnitude of the extreme events. However, many floodplains are ungauged or poorly gauged, making flood frequency analysis significantly uncertain. This research topic focuses on estimating flood frequency peaks for an ungauged critical infrastructure within Connecticut’s Naugatuck River Basin utilizing a physically based approach consisting of a distributed rainfall-runoff model forced by long-term reanalysis meteorological data and a hydraulic model driven by high-resolution LiDAR derived terrain elevation data. The hydrologic model …

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Combined Noncyclic Scheduling And Advanced Control For Continuous Chemical Processes, Damon Petersen, Logan D. R. Beal, Derek Prestwich, Sean Warnick, John Hedengren Dec 2017

Combined Noncyclic Scheduling And Advanced Control For Continuous Chemical Processes, Damon Petersen, Logan D. R. Beal, Derek Prestwich, Sean Warnick, John Hedengren

Faculty Publications

A novel formulation for combined scheduling and control of multi-product, continuous chemical processes is introduced in which nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC) and noncyclic continuous-time scheduling are efficiently combined. A decomposition into nonlinear programming (NLP) dynamic optimization problems and mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) problems, without iterative alternation, allows for computationally light solution. An iterative method is introduced to determine the number of production slots for a noncyclic schedule during a prediction horizon. A filter method is introduced to reduce the number of MILP problems required. The formulation’s closed-loop performance with both process disturbances and updated market conditions is demonstrated through …

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Столкновение "Открытий", Elena Pashutinskaya, Marina Bozhko Dec 2017

Столкновение "Открытий", Elena Pashutinskaya, Marina Bozhko

Documents

Translated article discussing legal questions surrounding the recapitalization of Otkritie.

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Profiling The Audience For Self-Transcendent Media: A National Survey, Arthur A. Raney, Sophie Janicke-Bowles, Mary Beth Oliver, Katherine R. Dale, Robert P. Jones, Daniel Cox Dec 2017

Profiling The Audience For Self-Transcendent Media: A National Survey, Arthur A. Raney, Sophie Janicke-Bowles, Mary Beth Oliver, Katherine R. Dale, Robert P. Jones, Daniel Cox

Communication Faculty Articles and Research

This article reports the findings from a national survey of self-transcendent (or inspiring) media audience members in the United States. Exposure to self-transcendent content is socially significant because, theoretically, it can orient users towards matters beyond themselves, ultimately promoting connections with others and altruistic behaviors. However, to date, little is known about the daily audiences for such fare. Four primary questions guided the investigation: (1) What are the media sources and contents identified as “inspiring” by the audience?, (2) Who makes up the current U.S. audience for self-transcendent media content?, (3) What personality traits and viewer characteristics are associated with …

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Seminary Releases Revised Mdiv Program, Samantha Angeles Dec 2017

Seminary Releases Revised Mdiv Program, Samantha Angeles

Andrews Agenda: Campus News

No abstract provided.

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Rankings And Enrollment Report, Stephen Payne Dec 2017

Rankings And Enrollment Report, Stephen Payne

Andrews Agenda: Campus News

No abstract provided.

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Board Report: October 2017, Gillian Sanner Dec 2017

Board Report: October 2017, Gillian Sanner

Andrews Agenda: Campus News

No abstract provided.

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Cholesterol Regulation Of Pulmonary Endothelial Calcium Entry Following Chronic Hypoxia, Bojun Zhang Dec 2017

Cholesterol Regulation Of Pulmonary Endothelial Calcium Entry Following Chronic Hypoxia, Bojun Zhang

Biomedical Sciences ETDs

Chronic hypoxia (CH)-induced pulmonary hypertension (PH) is associated with diminished ATP-induced endothelial Ca2+ entry as well as membrane cholesterol in pulmonary arteries. Store-operated Ca2+ entry (SOCE) and depolarization-induced Ca2+ entry are major components of the response to ATP and are similarly decreased after CH. Because endothelium-dependent vasodilation is closely associated with pulmonary endothelial [Ca2+]i, the blunted agonist-induced Ca2+ influx in pulmonary artery endothelial cells (PAEC) may contribute to the development of CH-induced PH. Interestingly, impaired agonist-induced Ca2+ influx in PAEC following CH can be restored by membrane cholesterol supplementation. In the current studies, we hypothesized that impaired Ca2+ entry in …

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Exploring Foot And Ankle Impairments Affecting Mobility And Balance In Stroke (Faimis Study), Tr Gorst, J Freeman, J Marsden, J Paton, M Cramp, A Rogers, S Morisson Dec 2017

Exploring Foot And Ankle Impairments Affecting Mobility And Balance In Stroke (Faimis Study), Tr Gorst, J Freeman, J Marsden, J Paton, M Cramp, A Rogers, S Morisson

School of Health Professions

No abstract provided.

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Development Of The New Educational Content "Small Uas In Civil Engineering Application Scenarios", E. Levin, K. Vach, R. Shults Dec 2017

Development Of The New Educational Content "Small Uas In Civil Engineering Application Scenarios", E. Levin, K. Vach, R. Shults

Michigan Tech Publications, Part 1

The key point of this paper is presentation of the main idea and some results of the project "Small UAS in civil engineering application scenarios" (SUAS-CAS). This project was proposed by newly established in 2016 ISPRS WG V/7: "Innovative Technologies in Training Civil Engineers and Architects". Here we are presenting our experience in using low-cost UAS in training architects at Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture, which was chosen as basic for this project. In the first part of paper, the project outline is presented. Then the first and possible follow project outcomes were described. In some details is …

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State V. Willard Appellant's Brief Dckt. 45204 Dec 2017

State V. Willard Appellant's Brief Dckt. 45204

Not Reported

No abstract provided.

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State V. Cruse Appellant's Reply Brief Dckt. 44922 Dec 2017

State V. Cruse Appellant's Reply Brief Dckt. 44922

Not Reported

No abstract provided.

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State V. Wiggins Respondent's Brief Dckt. 45107 Dec 2017

State V. Wiggins Respondent's Brief Dckt. 45107

Not Reported

No abstract provided.

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State V. Harvey Appellant's Brief Dckt. 45129 Dec 2017

State V. Harvey Appellant's Brief Dckt. 45129

Not Reported

No abstract provided.

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