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Female Mentorship: A Study On University Of San Francisco President’S Advisory Committee On The Status Of Women (Pacsw) Mentorship Program, Maria Bluth

Master's Theses

Mentorship is one way to advance gender equity, and it can enhance a women’s career, but finding a mentor can be intimidating, the University of San Francisco President’s Advisory Committee on the Status of Women (PACSW) Women’s Co-Mentoring Program seeks to increase confidence, community, and capacity amongst women-identified employees at the University of San Francisco. The program aims to accomplish this through the creation of intentional, time-bound one-on-one relationships between University employees based on confidentiality and collegiality (PACSW Mission Statement). The ideal goal of the Co-Mentorship program is to benefit the co-mentors, as well as positively impact the whole University …

Understanding Free-Roaming Horse Conflicts With Wildlife In The Great Basin, S. Nicole Frey, Eric Thacker, Katlyn Uhart

All Current Publications

Horses and burros were introduced to North America in the 1600s with European missionaries and explorers. Over time, abandoned and released horses and burros formed herds and by the time European-American settlers began to explore North America in the 1700s, these free-roaming horses and burros had adapted to their habitat and been incorporated into Native American culture. By the mid-1900s, most Americans considered these horses as wild and symbols of freedom and beauty.

In 1971, Congress passed the Wild and Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act (Public Law 73-482) to provide federal protection for free-roaming horses and burros (also known as …

Breaking The Matrix: Transcribing Bartók And Ligeti For The Guitar Using A New Capo System, Katalin Koltai

Soundboard Scholar

This paper demonstrates new transcriptions for the guitar of four piano pieces from the twentieth century: “The Night’s Music” from Bartók’s suite Out of Doors and Ligeti’s Musica ricercata, nos. 1, 2, and 7. The transcriptions deploy various newly invented single- and double-string magnet capos: I describe their design and, drawing on the work of De Souza, explain how their use transforms the affordances of the fretboard. In combination with scordaturas, the capos can be used to generate a series of radically altered open-string sets. Turning to the transcriptions of Bartók and Ligeti: by observing the pitch centers within …

Timbre-Based Composition For The Guitar: A Non-Guitarist’S Approach To Mapping And Notation, Jason Noble, Steve Cowan

Soundboard Scholar

Composing for the guitar can be intimidating for non-guitarists, but their fresh perspectives can uncover new ways of thinking about music for the instrument. This paper discusses timbre-based composition, an approach to writing for guitar that may be more intuitive for non-guitarist composers than traditional polyphonic composition. The rich palette of timbres available on the guitar, including pitched and nonpitched sounds, is conceived as primary compositional material. Issues of notation and mapping are addressed, focusing on three categories of mappings: (i) physical mapping from notational symbols onto physical objects, such as parts of the guitar; (ii) analogical mapping from …

Visualization Of Real-Time Displacement Time History Superimposed With Dynamic Experiments Using Wireless Smart Sensors And Augmented Reality, Marlon Frank Agüero Injante

Civil Engineering ETDs

Wireless Smart Sensor (WSS) process field data and inform structural field engineers and owners about the infrastructure health, condition, and safety. Engineers acquire the data and investigate changes on displacements under loads to make informed choices and prioritize decisions concerning maintenance, required repairs, and infrastructure replacements. However, reliable data collection and access to displacement information in the field in real-time under loads remains a challenge. The displacement data provided by the WSS in the field undergoes additional processing, and it is seen at a different location, at the decision-making headquarters. If inspectors were able to observe structural displacements in real-time …

Social Inclusion-Based Library Transformation: A National Library Of Indonesia’S Role To Support Sustainable Development Goals (Sdgs), Reza Mahdi, Muakibatul Hasanah, Andi Asari

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Since 2015, all countries that are members of the United Nations have participated in one of the programs to support human and environmental benefit, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Indonesia as a member of the United Nations supports the course of the program with the release of Presidential Regulation No. 59 year 2017 in which all institutions and ministers follow tpb in accordance with their respective basic duties. The National Library of Indonesia is one of the institutions affected by the regulation. As a building library and network between libraries in accordance with Law No. 43 year 2007 on Libraries, Perpusnas …

Rg Score Of Science Academics: An Ideal Tool To Measure The Research Productivity, Vinay R S, Sampath Kumar B T, Shiva Kumara S U

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to know the scholarly visibility of science faculty members of Karnataka state universities as reflected in ResearchGate.

Methodology: The list of faculty members working in various universities of Karnataka State was collected from websites of respective universities. The data related to Publications, Reads, Citations, h-index, RG Score, of each faculty members were extracted from ResearchGate profile pages of the faculty members.

Findings: The study revealed that 61.17% of science faculty members have created the RG profile. Among the academics, University of Mysore science faculty members have more citations (23821) and RG score (1016.78). …

Lossless Image Compression Using Wavelet And Vector Quantization., M. Helal, Sabry Saraya, S. El-Taweel

Mansoura Engineering Journal

In this paper, we propose a new low bit rate scheme that combines the Discrete Wavelet transform (IWT) and Vector Quantization (VQ) for image compression with high Compression Ratio (CR) in order to achieve acceptable quality of output images, Image compression using the combination of DWT willy VQ has been considered in many recent works; here in our paper the DWT was performed on several gray scale standard images, each of (256X256) byte. We used 4 images as the training images of the train VO using LBG algorithm and got the final optimal codebook. Then we used another two images …

Fpga Versus Asic Implementation Of Radix-4 Scalable Montgomery Modular Multiplier., Atef Ibrahim, Hamed El-Simary, Amen Nassar

Mansoura Engineering Journal

Traditional ASIC implementations have the well known draw-back of reduced flexibility compared to software implementations. Since modem security protocols are increasingly defined to be algorithm independent, a high degree of flexibility with respect to the cryptographic algorithms is desirable. A promising solution which combines high flexibility with the speed and physical security of traditional hardware is the implementation of cryptographic algorithms on reconfigurable devices such as FPGA. In this paper we compare - in terms of area and speed-FPGA Implementation of radix-4 scalable Montgomery modular multiplier using encoding technique (15] with ASIC implementation for different word sizes of operands. The …

Twitter Fake Account Detection And Classification Using Ontological Engineering And Semantic Web Rule Language, Mohammed Jabardi, Asaad Sabah Hadi

Karbala International Journal of Modern Science

Nowadays, Twitter has become one of the fastest-growing Online Social Networks (OSNs) for data sharing frameworks and microblogging. It attracts millions of users worldwide where subscribers communicate with each through posts and messages known as "tweets". The open structure and behaviour of Twitter cause it to be vulnerable to attacks from fake accounts and a large number of automated software, known as 'bots'. Bots are regarded to be malicious as they send spam to users of social networks over the internet. Data security and privacy are among the most critical issues of social network users, as the protection and fulfilment …

Editorial Board

Karbala International Journal of Modern Science

No abstract provided.

Autonomous Monitoring Of Blood Alcohol Content, Yun Sun Lee, Luke Brantingham, Aaditya Kandibanda, Kavinaath Murugan

Defensive Publications Series

A system may autonomously monitor the blood alcohol content (BAC) and/or degree of intoxication of a user by using a machine learning module. The machine learning module may include a machine learning classification model trained on data relating to the user. The system may collect data relating to the user about a first set of characteristics, such as heart rate, body temperature, physical coordination, physical appearance, and speech quality. The machine learning classification model may receive the data about the first set of characteristics to determine a first BAC and/or degree of intoxication range of the user. If the machine …

Health And Safety Reminders Via Augmented Reality Glasses, Ruofei Du, Shengzhi Wu

Defensive Publications Series

With the proliferation of personal electronic devices, the time individuals spend using their devices is an increasing concern. In particular, users may unconsciously spend too much time looking at a screen; their eyes may be too close to a screen, leading to eye strain; their posture may be suboptimal, leading to back or neck strain; etc. This disclosure describes techniques to leverage depth information detected with user permission via one or more sensors to determine when such situations occur and to provide suitable reminders to users, e.g., via augmented reality (AR) glasses.

Dynamic Acoustic Transparency Control System, Guohua Sun, Leng Ooi, Jae Lee

Defensive Publications Series

A dynamic acoustic transparency control mechanism for audio devices such as headphones or earbuds is described. The acoustic transparency level for the device is adjusted based on ambient sound detected using an external microphone. In some configurations, an automatic gain control (AGC) block is utilized in the signal path to automatically boost ambient sound to a designed level. In some configurations, a sound pressure level (SPL) is determined based on sound received at the external microphone and a lookup table is utilized to determine a gain based on the received SPL. In some configurations, the applied gain is determined based …

Identifying Speakers And Limiting Displayed Transcription To Select Speakers, N/A

Defensive Publications Series

Machine-generated speech transcriptions are helpful for people that are hard of hearing or individuals who don’t understand the spoken language to understand conversations that take place near them. Augmented reality glasses can display speech transcriptions to help users understand such conversations. However, the display of transcriptions can be distracting when the user wearing the AR glasses is herself speaking. This disclosure describes techniques to automatically identify speakers in a conversation and only display live transcriptions of speech from conversation participants other than the person to whom the transcription is being provided. Speakers may be identified using user-permitted factors, e.g., by …

Route Selection Based On Safety Parameters, N/A

Defensive Publications Series

Digital maps provided via websites, mobile apps, in-car navigation systems, etc. include features to provide route guidance. Currently, such maps compute routes based on parameters such as travel time, cost, transport mode, type of roadway, etc. This disclosure describes techniques to automatically assign a safety rating to routes based on historical data related to each route. For example, such data can include accident data for road segments along the route, data regarding injuries suffered in such accidents, etc. The safety rating can be displayed to users and can be utilized in route selection.

The Boundedness Of General Alternative Singular Integrals With Respect To The Gaussian Measure, Eduard Navas, Ebner Pineda, Wilfredo O. Urbina

Journal of Stochastic Analysis

No abstract provided.

The Defences Of The Floridas: Report Of Captain James Gadsden, Aide-De-Camp To General Andrew Jackson, James Gadsden

Florida Historical Quarterly

This report was secured by Dr. Mark F. Boyd, whom readers of the Quarterly know well, from the original in the files of the Intelligence Division, Engineers Corps, War Dept. Washington. In an early issue of the Quarterly Dr. Boyd will give us a paper on the so-called Negro Fort which will be an introduction to a series of letters written near the site of the fort by Edmund Doyle, trader and representative of John Forbes and Company (successors to Panton, Leslie and Company) to Forbes, and James and John Innerarity, members of that firm (1808-1817).

Two Uncollected Letters Of Andrew Jackson, Andrew Jackson

Florida Historical Quarterly

The above letter has been presented to The Florida Historical Society by Miss Gertrude N. L’Engle, a grand daughter of Thomas Baltzell, law partner of Joseph M. White to whom it was written.

Public Education In Spanish St. Augustine, Joseph B. Lockey

Florida Historical Quarterly

A school for white children existed in St. Augustine as early as 1606. Whether it continued to function during the rest of this first period of Spanish dominion is a question that cannot now be answered. But if it did survive, it must have come to a close on the cession of the province to the British in 1763; for the change of sovereignty was followed by a general abandonment of the territory by the Spanish inhabitants. When the Spanish came back twenty years later the British in turn departed. With the restoration of sovereignty went the restoration of the …

The Contention Over The Superintendencia Of The Floridas, D. C. Corbitt

Florida Historical Quarterly

Louisiana was granted the privilege of trading with France for a period of ten years by a royal cedula of January 22, 1782. The importance of this cedula in the history of Louisiana and in the commercial history of the Spanish Empire can scarcely be overestimated. We are interested here, however, in a side issue which it provoked.

Florida University (1883), C. L. Crow

Florida Historical Quarterly

The most ambitious and most visionary attempt ever made to establish in Florida an institution of higher learning was probably that of the founders, or founder, of Florida University. The plan of organization of the proposed school, altho not successfully carried out, was nevertheless worthy of some respect, for Dr. Kost, its main proponent, had perhaps a vision similar in part to that which afterward inspired Mr. Buckman.

Letters From East Florida, Dorothy Dodd

Florida Historical Quarterly

Before the outbreak of the Seminole Indian War in 1835 the northern counties of East Florida were increasing in population at a faster rate than Middle and West Florida. Although the country was but sparsely settled there were a number of flourishing plantations, but these were laid waste by the Indians during the next seven years and immigration into that section almost entirely ceased. On the termination of the war in 1842, Congress passed a temporary free homestead act to encourage settlers to come into the section that had been the seat of the war in the hope that settlement …

Some Experiences Of Bishop Young, Edgar Legare Pennington

Florida Historical Quarterly

The entwining network or railroads and inproved highways has practically obliterated all recollection of the handicaps of travel in Florida a few decades ago. It is hard to realize that the journey made in a few hours today required days - even weeks - in the years which followed the War Between the STates. So accustomed are we to thinking of our centres of population as bustling, wide-awake cities that we seldom picture them as isolated and crude communities or wretched little fishing-towns. Yet such conditions prevailed; and the second Episcopal Bishop of FLorida, the Right REverend John Freeman Young, …

The Fortifications At San Marcos De Apalache, Mark F. Boyd

Florida Historical Quarterly

The region of Apalache and of its bay on the Gulf coast seem to have been ignored by the Spaniards following the departure of De Soto from this vicinity after overwintering here in 1539-40. Certainly we are not aware of its further mention in available records until the arrival of the Christianizing Franciscan fathers in 1633, who probably, as did De Soto, came overland,, but in the latter instance from St. Augustine.

Edmund Kirby Smith’S Boyhood In Florida, Joseph B. James

Florida Historical Quarterly

Edmund Kirby Smith, who became one of the few full generals of the Confederate Army during the War Between the States, was born in St. Augustine, May 16, 1824. He was the second of Judge Joseph Lee Smith, who had left Connecticut in 1823 to become one of the two judges of the Superior Court of the Territory of Florida. President Monroe had appointed Judge Smith to that post in the new territorial government that was then being set up by the United States after the acquisition of Florida from Spain in 1821.

The Transfer Of Fort San Marcos And East Florida To The United States, Rogers W. Young

Florida Historical Quarterly

Spanish Florida, comprising the provinces of East and West Florida, was ceded to the United States under the provisions of the “Treaty of Amity, Settlement, and Limits, between the United States of America and His Catholic Majesty,” of February 22, 1819. The treaty was signed in Washington by Secretary of State John Quincy Adams, and Louis de Onis, the Spanish Minister to the United States. Ratifications of the treaty were delayed, but on October 24, 1820, Ferdinand VII of Spain affixed his ratification and confirmation, while acceptance on the part of the United States Senate followed on February 19, Three …

East Florida Seminary - Micanopy, C. L. Crow

Florida Historical Quarterly

For some eight years there existed in Florida, less than thirty miles apart, two schools founded at approximately the same time and bearing similar names: the one, “East Florida State Seminary, located in Ocala and controlled by the State; the other, “East Florida Seminary”, established in Micanopy and, at least nominally, under the care of the Florida Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. This Conference, it may be said in passing, extended at the time from Key West to Albany and from the Atlantic to Apalachicola, thus covering all Middle and East Florida and that part of Georgia lying …

The First American Road In Florida: Papers Relating To The Survey Of The Pensacola-St. Augustine Highway, 1824. Part Ii, Mark F. Boyd

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.

The First American Road In Florida: Papers Relating To The Survey And Construction Of The Pensacola-St. Augustine Highway, Part I, Mark F. Boyd

Florida Historical Quarterly

In these days of paved highways and of swift private transportation, accounts of early efforts to improve communications have a great interest. After American occupation of the territory of Florida, the inaccessibility of the only centers of population to each other soon attracted interest. This resulted in the projection and construction of the old Pensacola-St. Augustine highway, today an abandoned and almost forgotten route across the state, but interesting as the first instance of American road construction in Florida, as well as the fact that the eastern half would appear to follow one of the early Spanish routes from St. …