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Uc-087 - Hibernate Funds: Back Office Portals For Fundraisers, Phillip Blackwell, Kasey L. Merritt, Patrick A. Krouba, Daniel Duran, Diana Calixto, Logan Miller

C-Day Computing Showcase

No abstract provided.

Uc-138 - 3d Extraction From Physics Exercise Videos, Zachary Matthews, Lhakpa N. Sherpa, Francisco J. Alvarez, Sam Guan, Philip Mcfarland, Cole Bruton

C-Day Computing Showcase

No abstract provided.

Uc-116 - Security Solution For A Small Business, Jessica Casasola, Craig Englert, Phuc Nguyen, Charles Pegram, James Vesper

C-Day Computing Showcase

No abstract provided.

Developing A Practice In Remote Sensing For Next-Generation Human Rights Researchers, Theresa Harris, Jonathan Drake, Umesh K. Haritashya, Wumi Asubiaro Dada, Fredy Cumes

Biennial Conference: The Social Practice of Human Rights

Remote sensing is increasingly recognized as an important tool for documenting human rights abuses. When used alongside interviews, case studies, surveys, forensic science, and other well-established research methods in human rights and humanitarian practice, remotely sensed data can effectively geolocate and establish chronologies for mass graves, forced displacement, destruction of cultural heritage sites, and other violations. But as a highly technical field of science that relies on ever-changing technologies, remote sensing and geospatial analysis are not readily accessible for human rights and humanitarian practitioners. The community of practice grew out of innovative work by practitioners at NGOs and specialized inter-governmental …

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

HISTORY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY, by Jerrell H. Shofner, reviewed by Herbert J. Doherty, Jr.; PELTS, PLUMES, AND HIDES: WHITE TRADERS AMONG THE SEMINOLE INDIANS, 1870-1930, by Harry A. Kersey, Jr., reviewed by James O. Buswell; ALVAR NUNEZ CABEZA DE VACA: THE FORGOTTEN CHRONICLER, by José B. Fernández, reviewed by Jack D. L. Holmes; FLORIDA’S CRISIS IN PUBLIC EDUCATION: CHANGING PATTERNS OF LEADERSHIP, by Arthur O. White, reviewed by Wayne J. Urban; THE MATERIAL CULTURE OF KEY MARCO, FLORIDA, by Marion Spjut Gilliland, reviewed by Jerald T. Milanich; THE INVASION OF AMERICA: INDIANS, COLONIALISM, AND THE CANT OF CONQUEST, by Francis …

The Emergence Of Technology Skills Divide (Tsd) For Educators In The United States: A Synthesis Through The Lens Of Digital Divide, Uriel Onye, Hammad R. Khan, Charity N. Aniche

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

No abstract provided.

A Better Way, Gerry Boyle

Colby Magazine

Alane O’Connor ’96 studied environmental economics at Colby. Associate Professor of Statistics Liam O’Brien first studied physics and mathematics.Together the pair has combined their broad experience to produce groundbreaking research that is changing the way clinicians around the world treat pregnant and opioid-addicted women and their unborn children.

Ready, Willing, And Able, Gerry Boyle

Colby Magazine

So what gives? How, after four years on Mayflower Hill, do these Colby alumni have an outsized impact in a fintech company that is focused on, for example, changing the way municipal bonds are traded? What makes them able to dive in and figure it out? “That’s part of the liberal arts education,” said Associate Professor of History John Turner, who taught Tagg Martin ’13, history major turned MarketAxess go-to analyst. “You’re always learning. … You are always going to be mastering something, as opposed to having mastered.”

Ict Based Agricultural Knowledge Transfer Of Women Farmers: A Case Of Gender Responsiveness From A Developing Country Perspective, Susmita Das, Paritosh Mondal, Rajesh Kumar Das

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Women are increasingly becoming an integral part of the rural economy. Feminization and empowerment in agriculture is taking place while outmigration of males in the rural Bangladesh is visible due to higher off farm income. The objective of this study is to determine the current state of the ICT-based agricultural knowledge transfer of female farmers in Bangladesh involved in agricultural operations. Data were collected through survey method using structured questionnaire from 140 female farmers involved in public ICT service centers of Bangladesh. The questionnaire was administrated face-to-face and collected data were analysed with SPSS version 23.0. The result from the …

Ow-Detr: Open-World Detection Transformer, Akshita Gupta, Sanath Narayan, K.J. Joseph, Salman Khan, Fahad Shahbaz Khan, Mubarak Shah

Computer Vision Faculty Publications

Open-world object detection (OWOD) is a challenging computer vision problem, where the task is to detect a known set of object categories while simultaneously identifying unknown objects. Additionally, the model must incrementally learn new classes that become known in the next training episodes. Distinct from standard object detection, the OWOD setting poses significant challenges for generating quality candidate proposals on potentially unknown objects, separating the unknown objects from the background and detecting diverse unknown objects. Here, we introduce a novel end-to-end transformer-based framework, OW-DETR, for open-world object detection. The proposed OW-DETR comprises three dedicated components namely, attention-driven pseudo-labeling, novelty classification …

Rhizobium Symbiotic Capacity Shapes Root-Associated Microbiomes In Soybean, Yuanhui Lu, Bin Ma, Wenfeng Chen, Klaus Schlaeppi, Matthias Erb, Erinne Stirling, Lingfei Hu, Entao Wang, Yunzeng Zhang, Kankan Zhao, Zhijiang Lu, Shudi Ye, Jianming Xu

Environmental Science and Geology Faculty Research Publications

Root-microbiome interactions are of central importance for plant performance and yield. A distinctive feature of legumes is that they engage in symbiosis with N₂-fixing rhizobia. If and how the rhizobial symbiotic capacity modulates root-associated microbiomes are still not yet well understood. We determined root-associated microbiomes of soybean inoculated with wild type (WT) or a noeI mutant of Bradyrhizobium diazoefficiens USDA 110 by amplicon sequencing. UPLC-MS/MS was used to analyze root exudates. The noeI gene is responsible for fucose-methylation of Nod factor secreted by USDA 110 WT strain. Soybean roots inoculated with the noeI mutant showed a significant decrease …

Creating Career Pathways Though Curriculum Connections In Math & Science Classrooms, Kelly W. Remijan

Publications & Research

Pathways to Work Partners will discover how the Illinois Math & Science Academy (IMSA) - Center for Teaching & Learning is helping to promote career pathways and curricular connections through the professional development of teachers and the creation and integration of classroom to career connections related to Prek-12^th grade curriculum focused on STEM concepts.

Conquer And Prevail Issue 91 December 2 2021, Wofford College. Office Of Marketing And Communications

Conquer and Prevail Newsletter

No abstract provided.

2021 Fall Engr333 Poster, Section B, Calvin University 2021 Engr Section B

ENGR 333

In 2020, residences used 21% of all final energy in the United States and were responsible for 20% of all U.S. carbon dioxide emissions (henceforth referred to as carbon emissions). Habitat for Humanity for Kent County is endeavoring to design homes that reduce energy consumption, energy expenditures, and carbon emissions. They have established a goal of a “low carbon footprint build” that will minimize energy consumption and carbon emissions, both during construction and across the lifetime of the house. To accomplish this goal, Habitat for Humanity for Kent County partnered with Calvin’s ENGR 333 – Thermal System Design and asked …

Women’S Equality In Utah: Why Utah Is Ranked As The Worst State, And What Can Be Done, Susan R. Madsen, Greg P. Madsen

Marketing and Strategy Faculty Publications

For the fourth year in a row, WalletHub has named Utah as the worst state in the nation for women’s equality in their report “2021’s Best & Worst States for Women’s Equality,” released August 23, 2021. To ascertain where women receive the most equal treatment, WalletHub’s analysis compared the 50 states across 17 key indicators of women’s equality. The indicators ranged from the gap between the number of female and male executives, to the disparity in unemployment rates for women and men, to gender differences in education and health.

2021 Fall Engr333 Poster, Section A, Gerald Darkey, Jonathan Jansma, Chris Singh, Ryan Whitney, Adam Brunsting, Adam Tjoelker, Jack Van Der Molen, Cornelius Van Liere, Derrick Bittner, William Terpstra, Matthew Winkle, Kelsey Yen, Kasen Anderson, Jack Cahalane, Samantha Krupa, James Kulaga, Chukwudubem Nweke, Nathan Holwerda, Jacob Meulink, John Stehouwer, Isaac Spackman, Moses Yang

ENGR 333

Habitat for Humanity (HFH) built a low-carbon home at 726 London Street SW. Mark Ogland-hand, a representative of HFH, connected with Professor Matthew Heun to begin a carbon study of this new home with the goals of understanding the carbon footprints of a traditional HFH home, the London home, and future improvements feasible for HFH to make in reducing the carbon emissions of their houses.

This Fhsu Alum Is Changing The World One Experience At A Time, December 02, 2021, Tisa Mason Ed.D.

Heart of a Tiger Columns

No abstract provided.

Analyze And Examine Wildfire Events In California, Aleena Hoodith, Sakim Zaman, Safoan Hossain, Jiehao Huang

Publications and Research

•A wildfire is an unplanned, unwanted, uncontrolled fire in an area of combustible vegetation starting in rural areas and urban areas. •Recent studies have shown that the effect of anthropogenic climate change has fueled the wildfire events, leading to an increase in the annual burned areas and number of events. •California is one of the places having the most deadliest and destructive wildfire seasons. With the global warming effect of 1°C since 1850, the 20 largest wildfires events that have occurred in California, 8 of them were in 2017. (Center For Climate And Energy Solutions) •Climate change is primarily caused …

Single-Variable Porous Nanomaterial Series From Polymer Structure-Directing Agents, Morgan Stefik

Faculty Publications

Block polymer structure-directing agents (SDA) enable the production of porous nanoscale materials. Most strategies rely upon polymer equilibration where diverse morphologies are realized in porous functional materials. This review details how solvent selectivity determines the polymer SDA behaviors, spanning from bulk-type to solution-type. Equilibrating behavior of either type, however, obscures nanostructure cause-and-effect since the resulting sample series convolve multiple spatial variations. Solution-type SDA behaviors include both dynamic and persistent micelles. Persistent micelle templates (PMT) use high solvent selectivity for kinetic entrapment. PMTs enable independent wall thickness control with demonstrated 2 Å precision alterations. Unimodal PMT pore size distributions have spanned …

An Analysis Of Comparison-Based Sorting Algorithms, Jacob M. Gomez, Edgar Aponte, Brad Isaacson

Publications and Research

Our names are Edgar Aponte and Jacob Gomez and we are Applied Mathematics students at City Tech. Our mentor is Prof. Isaacson and we conducted an analysis of comparison-based sorting algorithms, meaning that they can sort items of any type for which a “less-than” relation is defined. We implemented 24 comparison-based sorting algorithms and elaborated on 6 for our poster. We analyzed the running times of these sorting algorithms with various sets of unsorted data and found that introspective sort and timsort were the fastest and most efficient, with introspective sort being the very fastest.

The Transition To Peer Learning, C. G. Roth, H. V. Naringrekar, A. E. Flanders

Department of Radiology Posters

Problem Description: Historically, peer review has been compelled by regulatory and legislative mandates, such as the Joint Commission Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluation (OPPE) requirement and the Health Care Quality Improvement Act (HCQIA) enacted by Congress in 1986. [1] However, these external mandates were focused on quality assurance, generally carrying punitive connotations and practically translated into rote compliance without the benefit of learning and improvement. In fact, the lack of quality improvement focus prompted the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to release its 2015 report, “Improving Diagnosis in Health Care,” stating that a “critical type of error in health care—diagnostic error—has received …

Chemical And Physical Weathering Rates Of Basaltic Volcanic Regions: Utilizing Space In Place Of Time In The Hawaiian Archipelago, Benjamin Clyde Barton

Theses and Dissertations

With large populations living in tropical regions of the world with volcanic substrates, understanding basalt weathering processes is vital. The Hawaiian Islands are an excellent natural analogue to study chemical weathering rates due to a uniform bedrock (basalt), large variations in rainfall, and varying ages across the islands. Laterite weathering profiles (LWP) develop over time through chemical weathering, where LWP thickness is influenced by many factors, including precipitation and time. Using the rapid, non-invasive horizontal-to-vertical spectral ratio (HVSR) method, LWP thicknesses can be estimated to constrain chemical weathering rates. Studying the laterite weathering profiles developed from basaltic bedrock of varying …

2021-12-02 Audit Committee Agenda Book, Morehead State University. Board Of Regents., Audit Committee.

Morehead State Board of Regents Agenda Books and Meeting Minutes

Agenda booklet of the Audit Committee of the Board of Regents held on December 2, 2021, which includes the approved meeting minutes of August 19, 2021.

2021-12-02 Agenda Book, Morehead State University. Board Of Regents.

Morehead State Board of Regents Agenda Books and Meeting Minutes

Agenda booklet for the Board of Regents meeting of December 2, 2021 which includes the meeting minutes of the special called meeting of October 15, 2021.

Semantically Meaningful Sentence Embeddings, Rojina Deuja

School of Computing: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Text embedding is an approach used in Natural Language Processing (NLP) to represent words, phrases, sentences, and documents. It is the process of obtaining numeric representations of text to feed into machine learning models as vectors (arrays of numbers). One of the biggest challenges in text embedding is representing longer text segments like sentences. These representations should capture the meaning of the segment and the semantic relationship between its constituents. Such representations are known as semantically meaningful embeddings. In this thesis, we seek to improve upon the quality of sentence embeddings that capture semantic information.

The current state-of-the-art models are …

Evidence For Surface Effects On The Intermolecular Interactions In Fe (Ii) Spin Crossover Coordination Polymers, Thilini K. Ekanayaka, Hannah Kurz, Kayleigh A. Mcelveen, Guanhua Hao, Esha Mishra, Alpha T. N’Diaye, Rebecca Lai, Birgit Weber, Peter A. Dowben

Department of Physics and Astronomy: Faculty Publications

From X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) and X-ray photoemission spectroscopy (XPS) it is evident that the spin state transition behavior of Fe(II) spin crossover coordination polymer crystallites at the surface differs from the bulk. A comparison of four different coordination polymers reveals that the observed surface properties may differ from bulk for a variety of reasons. There are Fe(II) spin crossover coordination polymers with either almost complete switching of the spin state at the surface or no switching at all. Oxidation, differences in surface packing, and changes in coordination could all contribute to making the surface very different from the bulk. …

Measurement Of Speed Of Sound Using Smartphones, Omotolani Adelekan

Publications and Research

The goal of this experiment is to determine the speed of sound in air. To measure the speed of sound, I used two smartphones and an app called Phyphox This app uses the microphone of the smartphone to detect the time between two acoustic events The “acoustic stopwatch” tool on the app is used to measure the time between two sound signals These two signals are produced by hand clapping In this experiment, the speed of sound is determined using the time of flight method This method is based on measuring the time delay between the generation and the detection …

Minutes, Faculty Research And Development Committee Meeting, Thursday, December 2, 2021, Faculty Research And Development Committee

Faculty Research and Development Committee Minutes

No abstract provided.

Montana Kaimin, December 2, 2021, Students Of The University Of Montana, Missoula

Montana Kaimin, 1898-present

Student newspaper of the University of Montana, Missoula.

Section 24(2) In The Trial Courts: An Empirical Analysis Of The Legal And Non-Legal Determinants Of Excluding Unconstitutionally Obtained Evidence In Canada, Steven Penney, Moin Yahya

Osgoode Hall Law Journal

This empirical study explores the legal and non-legal factors influencing trial judges’ decisions to admit or exclude illegally obtained evidence under section 24(2) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Mining an original dataset of 1,472 reported decisions from 2013–2018, we found little evidence that they are affected by judges’ gender or partisan ideology. We did find, in contrast, that they are substantially influenced by judges’ previous professional backgrounds: Former criminal defence lawyers are more likely to exclude evidence than former non-criminal practitioners, who are in turn more likely to exclude evidence than former prosecutors. We also found significant …