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Access Barriers To Telehealth, Quynh Chau, Amita Behuria Pathak, Daniel Turner, Jacquelyn Cheun, Carl Noe

SMU Data Science Review

Abstract. Telehealth has long been touted as an efficient and cost-effective way to deliver health care services to patients. The COVID-19 global pandemic hastened the adoption of this technology in the United States. Despite its promises, telehealth as a technology-based model of health service delivery has also highlighted access to care inequities in the form of uneven utilization across various patient demographics. This research uses machine learning and publicly available data sources to describe telehealth utilization based on social determinants of care. The implications of this application can be used to inform health care providers of how to target efforts …

Reading Level Identification Using Natural Language Processing Techniques, William Arnost, Ellen Lull, Joseph Schueder, Joseph Engler

SMU Data Science Review

This paper investigates using the Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) algorithm and lexical-syntactic features to measure readability. Readability is important in many disciplines, for functions such as selecting passages for school children, assessing the complexity of publications, and writing documentation. Text at an appropriate reading level will help make communication clear and effective. Readability is primarily measured using well-established statistical methods. Recent advances in Natural Language Processing (NLP) have had mixed success incorporating higher-level text features in a way that consistently beats established metrics. This paper contributes a readability method using a modern transformer technique and compares the results …

Predicting Power Using Time Series Analysis Of Power Generation And Consumption In Texas, Joshua Eysenbach, Bodie Franklin, Andrew J. Larsen, Joel Lindsey

SMU Data Science Review

Due to the recent power events in Texas, power forecasting has been brought national attention. Accurate demand forecasting is necessary to be sure that there is adequate power supply to meet consumer's needs. While Texas has a forecasting model created by the Electricity Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), constant efforts are required to ensure that the model stays at the state-of-the-art and is producing the most reliable forecasts possible. This research seeks to provide improved short- and medium-term forecasting models, bringing in state-of-the-art deep learning models to compare to ERCOT’s forecasts. A model that is more accurate than ERCOT’s own …

Do Teachers Know This?, David L. Pike

Artizein: Arts and Teaching Journal

A Communication Arts instructor in a Calgary Technical Institute discovers an opportunity to enlarge his vocation when a student asks him a simple four-word question. Methods of thinking and learning are soon integrated into the communications curriculum, and students, together with their instructors, are invited to develop more and better “TLC” capabilities as they study and practice their chosen disciplines. The article closes by suggesting, given the challenges we’re facing in working, learning, and living well together now, that we ask leaders in our communities and beyond the same question; and to encourage them to expand their leadership roles and …

Identifying Vacant Lots To Reduce Violent Crime In Dallas, Texas, Laura Lazarescou, Andrew Mejia, Tina Pai, Sabrina Purvis, Robert Slater, Owen Wilson-Chavez

SMU Data Science Review

Vacant lots have been associated with community violence for many years. Researchers have confirmed a positive correlation between vacant lots and vacant buildings with increased violence in urban and rural geographies. However, identifying vacant lots has been a challenge, and modeling methods were largely manual and time-intensive. This prevented cities and non-profit organizations from acting on the information since it was expensive and high-risk to develop remediation programs without clearly understanding where or how many vacant lots existed.

The primary objective of this study was to provide a predictive model that accelerates and improves the accuracy of prior land classification …

Machine Learning Forecasting Of Construction Demand In The Usa As Indicated By Economic, Geographic And Demographic Cues, Jayson Barker, Emil Ramos, John Rodgers, Saqib Shahzad

SMU Data Science Review

This paper aims to optimize the investment and position of a building supply company by using a predictive modeling approach that focuses on single-family housing starts in the United States. This approach aims to guide where capital investments such as truss-plants and lumber yards should be constructed before housing demand in a particular Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) rises. By accurately predicting these MSAs, a building supply company could save costs and improve service while establishing a competitive advantage in the market. This study leverages Multi-Linear Regressions, XGBoost Regression, and Artificial Neural Network (Multilayer Perceptron - MLP) algorithms to identify the …

63 Update: Fall 2022 Unifi Courses, University Of Northern Iowa. General Education Re-Envisioning Committee.

General Education Re-envisioning Committee Documents

The list of courses approved for the general education program for Fall 2022.

First Record Of Fungal Diversity In The Tropical And Warm-Temperate Middle Miocene Climate Optimum Forests Of Eurasia, Jennifer M.K. O'Keefe

Faculty Research at Morehead State University

The middle Miocene Climate Optimum (MMCO) was the warmest interval of the last 23 million years and is one of the best analogs for proposed future climate change scenarios. Fungi play a key role in the terrestrial carbon cycle as dominant decomposers of plant debris, and through their interactions with plants and other organisms as symbionts, parasites, and endobionts. Thus, their study in the fossil record, especially during the MMCO, is essential to better understand biodiversity changes and terrestrial carbon cycle dynamics in past analogous environments, as well as to model future ecological and climatic scenarios. The fossil record also …

First Record Of Fungal Diversity In The Tropical And Warm-Temperate Middle Miocene Climate Optimum Forests Of Eurasia, Ingrid C. Romero, Noelia B. Nuñez Otaño, Martha E. Gibson, Tyler M. Spears, C. Jolene Fairchild, Laikin Tarlton, Savannah Jones, Harvey E. Belkin, Sophie Warny, Matthew J. Pound, Jennifer M.K. O’Keefe

Faculty Publications

The middle Miocene Climate Optimum (MMCO) was the warmest interval of the last 23 million years and is one of the best analogs for proposed future climate change scenarios. Fungi play a key role in the terrestrial carbon cycle as dominant decomposers of plant debris, and through their interactions with plants and other organisms as symbionts, parasites, and endobionts. Thus, their study in the fossil record, especially during the MMCO, is essential to better understand biodiversity changes and terrestrial carbon cycle dynamics in past analogous environments, as well as to model future ecological and climatic scenarios. The fossil record also …

New Orleans During A Pandemic: Engaging African American Community Stakeholders On Covid-19 Information, Prevention, Testing And Vaccination, Anthony Thompson

XULAneXUS

This case study examines how the Louisiana Community Engagement Alliance Against COVID-19 Disparities (LA-CEAL) worked to engage African American residents in New Orleans during the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on research interviews with Black physicians, pharmacists, and community health providers, along with field notes collected during 12 months of project assistance, the study addresses four research questions concerning African American hesitancy toward COVID-19 treatment and vaccination, strategies for community engagement, clinical trial recruitment, and inclusive research practices during a pandemic. Findings indicate that vaccine hesitancy and research mistrust among Black New Orleanians are rooted in a long history of scientific racism …

Agricultural Land Usage In Mansfield, Connecticut: An Analysis Of The Town’S Past And Present Agricultural Landscapes And Recent Farmland Conservation Efforts, Julia Tillinghast

Honors Scholar Theses

The town of Mansfield has a long history within the agricultural sector of Connecticut, from producing the first successful silk mill in the state to housing Mountain Dairy, a dairy supplier which sells to local consumers. This paper examines the history and progress of agricultural land usage within Mansfield, beginning with an overview of farmland in the town’s first century and ending with the current status of resident farms. At the start of settlement by English colonists in the 1700s, the town was deforested to make space for farms, housing, and general expansion. Moving forward to the 20th century, industrialization …

2021 Winter Graduate Commencement, Lindenwood University

Commencement Programs

Lindenwood University Commencement program.

1978 August Memphis State University Commencement Program

Commencements

Program for the Summer convocation of the 66th commencement of Memphis State University at Memphis, Tennessee, held at the Mid-South Coliseum on August 12, 1978. Digitized by the Internet Archive.

1978 December Memphis State University Commencement Program

Commencements

Program for the Winter convocation of the 67th commencement of Memphis State University at Memphis, Tennessee, held at the Mid-South Coliseum on December 16, 1978. Digitized by the Internet Archive.

1978 May Memphis State University Commencement Program

Commencements

Program for the Spring convocation of the 66th commencement of Memphis State University at Memphis, Tennessee, held at the Mid-South Coliseum on May 6, 1978. Digitized by the Internet Archive.

1979 August Memphis State University Commencement Program

Commencements

Program for the Summer convocation of the 67th commencement of Memphis State University at Memphis, Tennessee, held at the Mid-South Coliseum on August 19, 1979. Digitized by the Internet Archive.

1979 December Memphis State University Commencement Program

Commencements

Program for the Winter convocation of the 68th commencement of Memphis State University at Memphis, Tennessee, held at the Mid-South Coliseum on December 15, 1979. Digitized by the Internet Archive.

1979 May Memphis State University Commencement Program

Commencements

Program for the Spring convocation of the 67th commencement of Memphis State University at Memphis, Tennessee, held at the Mid-South Coliseum on May 5, 1979. Digitized by the Internet Archive.

1980 December Memphis State University Commencement Program

Commencements

Program for the Winter convocation of the 69th commencement of Memphis State University at Memphis, Tennessee, held at the Mid-South Coliseum on December 20, 1980. Digitized by the Internet Archive.

1980 May Memphis State University Commencement Program

Commencements

Program for the Spring convocation of the 68th commencement of Memphis State University at Memphis, Tennessee, held at the Mid-South Coliseum on May 10, 1980. Digitized by the Internet Archive.

1981 August Memphis State University Commencement Program

Commencements

Program for the Summer convocation of the 69th commencement of Memphis State University at Memphis, Tennessee, held at the Mid-South Coliseum on August 16, 1981. Digitized by the Internet Archive.

1981 December Memphis State University Commencement Program

Commencements

Program for the Winter convocation of the 70th commencement of Memphis State University at Memphis, Tennessee, held at the Mid-South Coliseum on December 19, 1981. Digitized by the Internet Archive.

1982 August Memphis State University Commencement Program

Commencements

Program for the Summer convocation of the 70th commencement of Memphis State University at Memphis, Tennessee, held at the Mid-South Coliseum on August 15, 1982. Digitized by the Internet Archive.

1981 May Memphis State University Commencement Program

Commencements

Program for the Spring convocation of the 69th commencement of Memphis State University at Memphis, Tennessee, held at the Mid-South Coliseum on May 9, 1981. Digitized by the Internet Archive.

1982 December Memphis State University Commencement Program

Commencements

Program for the Winter convocation of the 71st commencement of Memphis State University at Memphis, Tennessee, held at the Mid-South Coliseum on December 18, 1982. Digitized by the Internet Archive.

1982 May Memphis State University Commencement Program

Commencements

Program for the Spring convocation of the 70th commencement of Memphis State University at Memphis, Tennessee, held at the Mid-South Coliseum on May 8, 1982. Digitized by the Internet Archive.

1983 August Memphis State University Commencement Program

Commencements

Program for the Summer convocation of the 71st commencement of Memphis State University at Memphis, Tennessee, held at the Mid-South Coliseum on August 14, 1983. Digitized by the Internet Archive.

1983 December Memphis State University Commencement Program

Commencements

Program for the Winter convocation of the 72nd commencement of Memphis State University at Memphis, Tennessee, held at the Mid-South Coliseum on December 17, 1983. Digitized by the Internet Archive.

1984 August Memphis State University Commencement Program

Commencements

Program for the Summer convocation of the 72nd commencement of Memphis State University at Memphis, Tennessee, held at the Mid-South Coliseum on August 19, 1984. Digitized by the Internet Archive.

1984 May Memphis State University Commencement Program

Commencements

Program for the Spring convocation of the 72nd commencement of Memphis State University at Memphis, Tennessee, held at the Mid-South Coliseum on May 12, 1984. Digitized by the Internet Archive.