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Renascence, Roberto Rafael Navarrete Jan 2018

Renascence, Roberto Rafael Navarrete

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

My thesis body of work offers a bridge into the physical, emotional, and spiritual scarring caused by global intolerance towards the LGBTQIA+ community and oppression embedded by patriarchal power. This body of work is a collection of resurfaced history and experiences transformed physically by intentionally subverting hyper-masculine materials into knots. My objective is to deconstruct individual knotted cords that make up the fabric of my identity and reconstruct them into an installation. Renascence offers a visceral experience for the audience that aesthetically explores the body’s transformation as it heals. This thesis asserts a place within a reflective, fluid, transitional identity …


Skin Lesion Segmentation And Classification Using Deep Learning, John B. Burdick Jan 2018

Skin Lesion Segmentation And Classification Using Deep Learning, John B. Burdick

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

Melanoma, a severe and life-threatening skin cancer, is commonly misdiagnosed or left undiagnosed. Advances in artificial intelligence, particularly deep learning, have enabled the design and implementation of intelligent solutions to skin lesion detection and classification from visible light images, which are capable of performing early and accurate diagnosis of melanoma and other types of skin diseases. This work presents solutions to the problems of skin lesion segmentation and classification. The proposed classification approach leverages convolutional neural networks and transfer learning. Additionally, the impact of segmentation (i.e., isolating the lesion from the rest of the image) on the performance of the …


The Assessment Of Functional Abilities In The Diagnosis Of Mci And Dementia In A Culturally Diverse Sample, Fernanda Ponce De Leon Arruda Jan 2018

The Assessment Of Functional Abilities In The Diagnosis Of Mci And Dementia In A Culturally Diverse Sample, Fernanda Ponce De Leon Arruda

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

Previous studies suggested that the Functional Activities Questionnaire (FAQ-10) has minimal ethnic bias and that a shorter version (FAQ-6) can equally diagnose MCI and dementia. Objective: We analyzed whether FAQ-6 is similar to FAQ-10 in diagnosing MCI and dementia. We examined their applicability across European Americans (EA) and Hispanic Americans, and how scores correlated to beta amyloid. Method: 222 participants (116 EA) completed a neuropsychological battery, FAQ, and PET scans, and were classified as cognitively normal (CN), MCI, or dementia. The diagnostic capacity of FAQ-10 and FAQ-6 were compared for the total sample and across ethnic groups. Scores were correlated …


Synthetic Fiber Reinforced Concrete In Marine Environments And Indirect Tension Test, Ryan Flaherty Jan 2018

Synthetic Fiber Reinforced Concrete In Marine Environments And Indirect Tension Test, Ryan Flaherty

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

An experiment was conducted to evaluate the durability, toughness, and strength of Synthetic Fiber Reinforced Concrete after being immersed in five separate environments for one year at FAU SeaTech. The specimens were molded and reinforced with two-inch Polypropylene/Polyethylene Fibers in a concrete aggregate matrix and were cut into identical sizes. Some of these environments had accelerated parameters meant to increase degradation to simulate longevity and imitate harsh environments or seawater conditions. The environments consisted of: a high humidity locker (ideal conditions), submerged in the Intracoastal Waterway (FAU barge), seawater immersion, a wet and dry seawater immersion simulating a splash/tidal zone, …


The University Journey Of Stem Transfer Students, Nancy Rich Jan 2018

The University Journey Of Stem Transfer Students, Nancy Rich

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

The purpose of this qualitative study was to understand the feelings and experiences of state college transfer STEM students regarding transfer from the state college to the university. The 25 participants in this study were asked to describe their feelings about the transfer process. Data were gathered from the interviews and from a review of short journals and documents. It was hoped that the experiences of successful transfer students would help illustrate the feelings present when these STEM transfer students enter the university as juniors and compete with native juniors or juniors who began their collegiate experiences as freshmen at …


Using Synthetic Biology To Create A Safe And Stable Ebola Surrogate For Effective Development Of Detection And Therapy Platforms, Douglas Holmes Jan 2018

Using Synthetic Biology To Create A Safe And Stable Ebola Surrogate For Effective Development Of Detection And Therapy Platforms, Douglas Holmes

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

Ebolavirus is responsible for a deadly hemorrhagic fever that has claimed thousands of lives in Africa and could become a global health threat. Because of the danger of infection, novel Ebola research is restricted to BSL-4 laboratories; this slows progress due to both the cost and expertise required to operate these laboratories. The development of a safe surrogate would speed research and reduce risk to researchers. Two highly conserved Ebola gene segments—from the glycoprotein and nucleoprotein genes—were designed with modifications preventing expression while maintaining sequence integrity, spliced into high copy number plasmids, cloned into E.coli, and tested for stability, safety, …


Two Essays On Media Connections And Corporate Finance Policies, Md Miran Hossain Jan 2018

Two Essays On Media Connections And Corporate Finance Policies, Md Miran Hossain

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

The study examines the effects of executives’ media connection on corporate policies. Extant literature in finance, economics and journalism provide inconclusive evidence in determining whether media works as watchdog to the financial market or whether media facilitates bias through manipulation of corporate news events. I introduce two competing hypotheses that may explain the research question. Information Efficiency Hypothesis predicts that media connected firms mitigate information asymmetry among its investors, enjoy better governance, and are less likely to manipulate information on corporate policy choices. Manipulation Hypothesis, in contrary, suggests that firms may strategically utilize media connections to alter the information flow …


Using Deep Learning Semantic Segmentation To Estimate Visual Odometry, Jason R. Blankenship Jan 2018

Using Deep Learning Semantic Segmentation To Estimate Visual Odometry, Jason R. Blankenship

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

In this research, image segmentation and visual odometry estimations in real time are addressed, and two main contributions were made to this field. First, a new image segmentation and classification algorithm named DilatedU-NET is introduced. This deep learning based algorithm is able to process seven frames per-second and achieves over 84% accuracy using the Cityscapes dataset. Secondly, a new method to estimate visual odometry is introduced. Using the KITTI benchmark dataset as a baseline, the visual odometry error was more significant than could be accurately measured. However, the robust framerate speed made up for this, able to process 15 frames …


Vibration Of Nonlocal Carbon Nanotubes And Graphene Nanoplates, Florian Hache Jan 2018

Vibration Of Nonlocal Carbon Nanotubes And Graphene Nanoplates, Florian Hache

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

This thesis deals with the analytical study of vibration of carbon nanotubes and graphene plates. First, a brief overview of the traditional Bresse-Timoshenko models for thick beams and Uflyand-Mindlin models for thick plates will be conducted. It has been shown in the literature that the conventionally utilized mechanical models overcorrect the shear effect and that of rotary inertia. To improve the situation, two alternative versions of theories of beams and plates are proposed. The first one is derived through the use of equilibrium equations and leads to a truncated governing differential equation in displacement. It is shown, by considering a …


On Neutrosophic Soft Topological Space, Tuhin Bera, Nirmal Kumar Mahapatra Jan 2018

On Neutrosophic Soft Topological Space, Tuhin Bera, Nirmal Kumar Mahapatra

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

No abstract provided.


Bezier Surface Modeling For Neutrosophic Data Problems, Selcuk Topal, Ferhat Tas Jan 2018

Bezier Surface Modeling For Neutrosophic Data Problems, Selcuk Topal, Ferhat Tas

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

No abstract provided.


Neutrosophic Eoq Model With Price Break, M. Mullai, R. Surya Jan 2018

Neutrosophic Eoq Model With Price Break, M. Mullai, R. Surya

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

No abstract provided.


Topsis Strategy For Multi-Attribute Decision Making With Trapezoidal Neutrosophic Numbers, Pranab Biswas, Surapati Pramanik, Bibhas C. Giri Jan 2018

Topsis Strategy For Multi-Attribute Decision Making With Trapezoidal Neutrosophic Numbers, Pranab Biswas, Surapati Pramanik, Bibhas C. Giri

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

No abstract provided.


Distance Measure Based Madm Strategy With Interval Trapezoidal Neutrosophic Numbers, Pranab Biswas, Surapati Pramanik, Bibhas Chandra Giri Jan 2018

Distance Measure Based Madm Strategy With Interval Trapezoidal Neutrosophic Numbers, Pranab Biswas, Surapati Pramanik, Bibhas Chandra Giri

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

No abstract provided.


Interval Neutrosophic Tangent Similarity Measure Based Madm Strategy And Its Application To Madm Problems, Kalyan Mondal, Surapati Pramanik, Bibhas C. Giri Jan 2018

Interval Neutrosophic Tangent Similarity Measure Based Madm Strategy And Its Application To Madm Problems, Kalyan Mondal, Surapati Pramanik, Bibhas C. Giri

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

No abstract provided.


Vikor Based Magdm Strategy Under Bipolar Neutrosophic Set Environment, Surapati Pramanik, Shyamal Dalapati, Shariful Alam, Tapan Kumar Roy Jan 2018

Vikor Based Magdm Strategy Under Bipolar Neutrosophic Set Environment, Surapati Pramanik, Shyamal Dalapati, Shariful Alam, Tapan Kumar Roy

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

No abstract provided.


Correlation Coefficient Measures Of Interval Bipolar Neutrosophic Sets For Solving Multi-Attribute Decision Making Problems, Surapati Pramanik, Partha Pratim Dey, Florentin Smarandache Jan 2018

Correlation Coefficient Measures Of Interval Bipolar Neutrosophic Sets For Solving Multi-Attribute Decision Making Problems, Surapati Pramanik, Partha Pratim Dey, Florentin Smarandache

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

No abstract provided.


The Ingenuity Of Neutrosophic Topology Via N-Topology, M. Lellis Thivagar, S. Jafari, V. Antonysamy, V. Sutha Devi Jan 2018

The Ingenuity Of Neutrosophic Topology Via N-Topology, M. Lellis Thivagar, S. Jafari, V. Antonysamy, V. Sutha Devi

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

No abstract provided.


Multi Attribute Decision Making Strategy On Projection And Bidirectional Projection Measures Of Interval Rough Neutrosophic Sets, Surapati Pramanik, Rumi Roy, Tapan Kumar Roy, Florentin Smarandache Jan 2018

Multi Attribute Decision Making Strategy On Projection And Bidirectional Projection Measures Of Interval Rough Neutrosophic Sets, Surapati Pramanik, Rumi Roy, Tapan Kumar Roy, Florentin Smarandache

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

No abstract provided.


Multi-Attribute Decision Making Based On Several Trigonometric Hamming Similarity Measures Under Interval Rough Neutrosophic Environment, Surapati Pramanik, Rumi Roy, Tapan Kumar Roy, Florentin Smarandache Jan 2018

Multi-Attribute Decision Making Based On Several Trigonometric Hamming Similarity Measures Under Interval Rough Neutrosophic Environment, Surapati Pramanik, Rumi Roy, Tapan Kumar Roy, Florentin Smarandache

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

No abstract provided.


Entropy Based Single Valued Neutrosophic Digraph And Its Applications, Kalyan Sinha, Pinaki Majumdar Jan 2018

Entropy Based Single Valued Neutrosophic Digraph And Its Applications, Kalyan Sinha, Pinaki Majumdar

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

No abstract provided.


Two Ranking Methods Of Single Valued Triangular Neutrosophic Numbers To Rank And Evaluate Information Systems Quality, Samah Ibrahim Abdel Aal, Mahmoud M. A. Abd Ellatif, Mohamed Monir Hassan Jan 2018

Two Ranking Methods Of Single Valued Triangular Neutrosophic Numbers To Rank And Evaluate Information Systems Quality, Samah Ibrahim Abdel Aal, Mahmoud M. A. Abd Ellatif, Mohamed Monir Hassan

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

No abstract provided.


On Neutrosophic Soft Topological Space, Kalyan Mondal, Surapati Pramanik, Bibhas C. Giri Jan 2018

On Neutrosophic Soft Topological Space, Kalyan Mondal, Surapati Pramanik, Bibhas C. Giri

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

No abstract provided.


Bezier Surface Modeling For Neutrosophic Data Problems, Seon Jeong Kim, Seok-Zun Song, Young Bae Jun Jan 2018

Bezier Surface Modeling For Neutrosophic Data Problems, Seon Jeong Kim, Seok-Zun Song, Young Bae Jun

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

No abstract provided.


Full Issue, Neutrosophic Sets And Systems Jan 2018

Full Issue, Neutrosophic Sets And Systems

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

No abstract provided.


Neutrosophic Eoq Model With Price Break, G. Muhiuddin, Hashem Bordbar, Florentin Smarandache, Young Bae Jun Jan 2018

Neutrosophic Eoq Model With Price Break, G. Muhiuddin, Hashem Bordbar, Florentin Smarandache, Young Bae Jun

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

No abstract provided.


Topsis Strategy For Multi-Attribute Decision Making With Trapezoidal Neutrosophic Numbers, Young Bae Jun, Florentin Smarandache, Mehmat Ali Ozturk Jan 2018

Topsis Strategy For Multi-Attribute Decision Making With Trapezoidal Neutrosophic Numbers, Young Bae Jun, Florentin Smarandache, Mehmat Ali Ozturk

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

No abstract provided.


Distance Measure Based Madm Strategy With Interval Trapezoidal Neutrosophic Numbers, Tuhin Bera, Nirmal Kumar Mahapatra Jan 2018

Distance Measure Based Madm Strategy With Interval Trapezoidal Neutrosophic Numbers, Tuhin Bera, Nirmal Kumar Mahapatra

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

No abstract provided.


Interval Neutrosophic Tangent Similarity Measure Based Madm Strategy And Its Application To Madm Problems, Emad Marei Jan 2018

Interval Neutrosophic Tangent Similarity Measure Based Madm Strategy And Its Application To Madm Problems, Emad Marei

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

No abstract provided.


Vikor Based Magdm Strategy Under Bipolar Neutrosophic Set Environment, M. Lellis Thivagar, Saeid Jafari, V. Sutha Devi, V. Antonysamy Jan 2018

Vikor Based Magdm Strategy Under Bipolar Neutrosophic Set Environment, M. Lellis Thivagar, Saeid Jafari, V. Sutha Devi, V. Antonysamy

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

No abstract provided.