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Image Hiding Using Qr Factorization And Discrete Wavelet Transform Techniques, Reham Ahmed El-Shahed, Maryam Al-Berry, Hala Ebied, Howida Shedeed

Future Computing and Informatics Journal

Steganography is one of the most important tools in the data security field as there is a huge amount of data transferred each moment over the internet. Hiding secret messages in an image has been widely used because the images are mostly used in social media applications. The proposed algorithm is a simple algorithm for hiding an image in another image. The proposed technique uses QR factorization to conceal the secret image. The technique successfully hid a gray and color image in another one and the performance of the algorithm was measured by PSNR, SSIM and NCC. The PSNR for …

Teaching English In Ukraine: An Educator’S Guide To Teaching Russian-Speaking Ukrainian Students, Gabrielle Hirschy

College of Arts and Cultural Studies

Seeking to make an impact on the world through teaching English overseas, soon-to-graduate college student Annica feels drawn to Eastern Europe as she peruses a world map hanging on her dorm room wall. Her pointed finger drifting from country to country, she stumbles upon an unfamiliar, yet fairly large, eastern European country and reads “Ukraine.” Joy fills her heart, as she believes she’s found her destination. Seeking to gain information about teaching in Ukraine, she takes to the internet and her university’s resources. Suddenly, however, she is bombarded with academic and non-academic search results alike that dive deep into Russian …

Cseas Weekly Bulletin (November 22, 2021), Center For Southeast Asian Studies

CSEAS Bulletin

No abstract provided.

Unh Receives Nearly $3 Million To Study Impact Of Youth Bystanders On Self-Directed Violence, Robbin Ray

Media Relations

No abstract provided.

Lanthorn, Vol. 56, No. 14, November 22, 2021, Grand Valley State University

Volume 56, August 2, 2021 - April 18, 2022

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

Counteracting Crime Or Wasting Time? Examining A Blight Abatement Cpted Project In Philadelphia, Mandolynn Mcclusky

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

This study examines the relationships between a blight abatement CPTED project and the total, violent, and property crime rate in Philadelphia from 2000-2019. After controlling for certain demographics (population, median household income, median age of population, poverty level, and unemployment rate) as well as the national crime rate, no statistically significant relationship was found between the CPTED project and the crime rates with the data and measurements available to the researcher.

The Scarlet - November 22, 2021, Scarlet Staff

The Scarlet (Student Newspaper) (2011-present)

The November 22, 2021 edition of The Scarlet (est. 1939), Clark University's student-run newspaper. The Scarlet is intellectually and editorially independent of the University.

Rotunda - Vol 100, No 9 - Nov 22, 2021, Longwood University

Rotunda

No abstract provided.

Ophthalmology Residency Virtual Interviews In The Setting Of The Covid-19 Pandemic: Perspectives Of Applicants, Selection Committee Members, And Current Residents, Abigail Jebaraj, Judith Warner, Jeff Pettey, Griffin Jardine, Sravanthi Vegunta

Journal of Academic Ophthalmology

Abstract

Background In the setting of the COVID-19 pandemic, residency programs implemented videoconferencing “virtual” interviews for the 2020 to 2021 match cycle. There is limited published information on virtual ophthalmology residency interviews.

Objective The study aimed (1) to assess applicant, selection committee member, and resident opinions of technical quality, communication quality, and ability to assess applicant or program “fit” during virtual interviews; (2) to determine which interview format—in-person or virtual—each party would prefer in the future; and (3) to survey which residency resources applicants found helpful.

Design Surveys were sent to applicants, selection committee members, and residents to assess the …

Barriers Teaching Environmental Justice Education, Jodi Devonshire

Dissertations

The idea of freedom in education has its roots in the social justice movements of the 1950s and 60s. Civil rights groups coalesced independently of other marginalized groups and movements of its time. While similar in nature, environmentalism and civil rights issues rarely crossed paths. As environmentalism made its way into science education and curriculum, social justice issues were restricted to historical perspectives in education. This research initially sought to create an understanding of purpose driven, social justice conscious, Environmental Education as it is related to marginalized learners and identify the barriers of creating and implementing culturally relevant environmental education …

The Utah Statesman, November 22, 2021, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.

Growth And Development Of Research Data Management In India: A Visual Analysis Of Published Literature Indexed In Scopus, Manu T R, Bhakti Gala

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The present paper identifies and presents a visual analysis of Research Data Management (RDM) literature published by Indian researchers and indexed in Scopus – the bibliographic and citation database. The researchers have used standard bibliometric methods of measurements to conduct the study such as Bradford’s law, Lotka’s law and Zipf’s Law among other parameters. The study findings indicate that India is rapidly focusing on RDM with its contribution of 136 publications to the global output of 4929 publications over a period of 1945 to 2021, ranking 12^th globally. Out of 136 publications, 35.29% (48) were published as open access …

2021-November-22-New Chair Leading Media And Communication At Etsu, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Nov. 22, 2021) – Years before Dr. Andrew Dunn arrived on the campus of East Tennessee State University in fall 2010, the Florida-born and Alabama-raised transplant had already carved out a successful career.

Serving as a reporter at the Florida-based Tallahassee Democrat and The Ledger in Lakeland, Florida, Dunn wrote important stories about education and legislative politics. 

Dunn, who earned a Ph.D. in communication from the University of Alabama, is now the chair of the Department of Media and Communication at ETSU, an appointment he received earlier this year. 

His professional achievements are helping guide the department …

Scaling A Community-Wide Campaign Intervention To Manage Hypertension And Weight Loss, Belinda M. Reininger, Lisa A. Mitchell-Bennett, Minjae Lee, Paul G. Yeh, Amanda C. Davé, Soo Kyung Park, Tianlin Xu, Alma G. Ochoa-Del Toro

Physician Assistant Studies Faculty Publications

Public health impacts can be achieved when evidence-based interventions are implemented to those most in need. Too often implementation never or slowly occurs. The community-wide campaign intervention Tu Salud ¡Si Cuenta! has evidence of improving health outcomes related to chronic disease among low-income, Latinos. Using the RE-AIM Framework, this study examined if the scaled-up version of the intervention is associated with improvements in hypertension and obesity in 12 locations. Each element of the RE-AIM framework was examined. For "Effectiveness," we examined outcomes overall and by implementing location. We used linear and logistic regression to assess if exposure in the intervention …

Situate: An Agent-Based System For Situation Recognition, Max Henry Quinn

Dissertations and Theses

Computer vision and machine learning systems have improved significantly in recent years, largely based on the development of deep learning systems, leading to impressive performance on object detection tasks. Understanding the content of images is considerably more difficult. Even simple situations, such as "a handshake", "walking the dog", "a game of ping-pong", or "people waiting for a bus", present significant challenges. Each consists of common objects, but are not reliably detectable as a single entity nor through the simple co-occurrence of their parts.

In this dissertation, toward the goal of developing machine learning systems that demonstrate properties associated with understanding, …

20211122_Zines Care, Colonialism, And Health Happening November 29th-December 3rd, Kelleen Maluski

HSLIC Blog Post

No abstract provided.

Influencer Celebrification: How Social Media Influencers Acquire Celebrity Capital, Gillian Brooks, Jenna M. Drenten, Mikolaj Jan Piskorski

School of Business: Faculty Publications and Other Works

The digital age has given rise to new pathways for everyday individuals to accrue media attention, which can be translated into promotional endeavors. Such sociocultural currency is referred to as celebrity capital, which can be exchanged within the field of advertising through celebrity endorsements. Traditional celebrities acquire celebrity capital through institutional intermediaries such as sport, television, music, and movies. Research is needed to understand the unique process by which social media influencers (SMIs) acquire celebrity capital. We draw on interviews with 40 global advertising industry practitioners and influencers to better understand how influencers acquire celebrity capital in a saturated media …

The Bg News November 22, 2021, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. November 22, 2021. Volume 101-Issue 14.

Atlantis: A Benchmark For Semantic Segmentation Of Waterbody Images, Mohammad H. Erfani, Zhenyao Wu, Xinyi Wu, Song Wang, Erfan Goharian

Faculty Publications

Vision-based semantic segmentation of waterbodies and nearby related objects provides important information for managing water resources and handling flooding emergency. However, the lack of large-scale labeled training and testing datasets for water-related categories prevents researchers from studying water-related issues in the computer vision field. To tackle this problem, we present ATLANTIS, a new benchmark for semantic segmentation of waterbodies and related objects. ATLANTIS consists of 5,195 images of waterbodies, as well as high quality pixel-level manual annotations of 56 classes of objects, including 17 classes of man-made objects, 18 classes of natural objects and 21 general classes. We analyze ATLANTIS …

The White Supremacist Penetration Of Western Security Forces: The Wider Implications, Kumar Ramakrishna

New England Journal of Public Policy

This article argues that recent instances of white supremacist penetration of Western security forces should not be regarded as isolated issues. They are related to the worrying wider phenomenon of the gradual societal and political mainstreaming of white supremacist ideas in Western countries. Drawing on the German and US cases as examples, the article unpacks the argument by first examining the core theories of white supremacism: the “great replacement” and “white genocide.” It then explores how these theories have been weaponized, before proceeding to analyze the structure and modalities of the white supremacist threat. The article then considers the wider …

Trauma, André Douglas Pond Cummings

Law Faculty Scholarship

Meek Mill’s life and career have been punctuated by trauma. From childhood through his current adulthood, Mill has experienced excruciating trauma even as a well-known hip hop artist. In 2018’s track of that name Trauma, Mill describes in illuminating prose just how these traumatic experiences harmed and impacted him personally describing the very same harms that impact so many similarly situated young black people in the United States. Meek Mill, as a child, witnessed violent death and experienced poverty while as a young man he was arrested and incarcerated (wrongly). Despite his star turn as a true hip hop icon, …

Vol. 61, No. 13 (November 22, 2021)

Indiana Law Annotated

No abstract provided.

Crow's Nest, November 22, 2021, Crow's Nest Staff

Crow's Nest

The November 22, 2021, issue of the Crow's Nest.

Oligomerization Of Mutant P53 R273h Is Not Required For Gain-Of-Function Chromatin Associated Activities, George K. Annor, Nour Elshabassy, Devon Lundine, Don-Gerard Conde, Gu Xiao, Viola Ellison, Jill Bargonetti

Publications and Research

The TP53 gene is often mutated in cancer, with missense mutations found in the central DNA binding domain, and less often in the C-terminal oligomerization domain (OD). These types of mutations are found in patients with the rare inherited cancer predisposition disorder called Li-Fraumeni syndrome. We previously found that mutant p53 (mtp53) R273H associates with replicating DNA and promotes the chromatin association of replication-associated proteins mini-chromosome maintenance 2 (MCM2), and poly ADP-ribose polymerase 1(PARP1). Herein, we created dual mutants in order to test if the oligomerization state of mtp53 R273H played a role in chromatin binding oncogenic gain-of-function (GOF) activities. …

The Echo: November 22, 2021, Taylor University

2021-2022 (Volume 109)

Downtown Upland bridge set to be replaced — Taylor esports grows to be largest club on campus — Prestigious honor awarded to Taylor PR campaign — Scavenger hunt promotes Writing Center services — From the Archives: The Brotherhood’s First Turkey Tackle — Riggleman creates social work project — Empty Bowls: Good soup promotes a good cause — Turkey day or ham day? — Chapel should offer a more diverse range of speakers — Worship encourages unity — Let’s change PAs to RAs — Taylor Chorale offers a call to awareness — Jenkins appreciation for music grows at Taylor — ‘Eternals’ …

Machine Learning Identifies Liquids Employing A Simple Fiber-Optic Tip Sensor, Wassana Naku, Chen Zhu, Anand K. Nambisan, Rex E. Gerald, Jie Huang

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

We proposed an extremely simple fiber-optic tip sensor system to identify liquids by combining their corresponding droplet evaporation events with analyses using machine learning techniques. Pendant liquid droplets were suspended from the cleaved endface of a single-mode fiber during the experiment. The optical fiber-droplet interface and the droplet-air interface served as two partial reflectors of an extrinsic Fabry-Perot interferometer (EFPI) with a liquid droplet cavity. As the liquid pendant droplet evaporated, its length diminished. A light source can be used to observe the effective change in the net reflectivity of the optical fiber sensor system by observing the resulting optical …

Completion And Initial Testing Of A Pressurized Oxy-Coal Reactor, Scott Hunsaker Gardner

Theses and Dissertations

Oxy-combustion is a process which removes nitrogen from air prior to combustion in order to produce a high concentration of CO2 in the exhaust. This enables CO2 liquefaction, transport, and storage to greatly reduce CO2 emissions to the atmosphere. Atmospheric oxy-coal combustion has been successfully demonstrated at industrial scales and could be retrofit in existing coal boilers, but thermodynamic efficiencies are low and therefore uneconomical. Pressurized oxy-coal combustion has the potential for higher efficiency and lower cost but requires new technologies related to the coal feed system, the burner, and ash management. This project describes work needed to complete the …

Dynamic Ph And Thermal Analysis Of Paper-Based Microchip Electrophoresis, Muhammad Noman Hasan, Ran An, Asya Akkus, Chirag Kharangate, Umut A. Gurkan

Faculty Scholarship

Paper-based microchip electrophoresis has the potential to bring laboratory electrophoresis tests to the point of need. However, high electric potential and current values induce pH and temperature shifts, which may affect biomolecule electrophoretic mobility thus decrease test reproducibility and accuracy of paper-based microfluidic electrophoresis. We have previously developed a microchip electrophoresis system, HemeChip, which has the capability of providing low-cost, rapid, reproducible, and accurate point-of-care (POC) electrophoresis tests for hemoglobin analysis. Here, we report the methodologies we implemented for characterizing HemeChip system pH and temperature during the development process, including utilizing commercially available universal pH indicator and digital camera pH …

From Conflict To Covid: How Shared Experiences Shape Our World And How They Could Improve It, Harvey Whitehouse

New England Journal of Public Policy

The human capacity for cooperation is at the root of many of the most impressive accomplishments of our species—from the evolution of language and tool use to the construction of pyramids and space stations. Although some forms of cooperation are motivated by self-interest or fear of punishment, the forms of cooperation that are most likely to succeed in the face of personal costs stem from love of the group. In this article, I consider one of the most intense forms of ingroup love known to psychology—identity fusion—resulting from shared suffering, from the battlefield and football pitch to the hospital ward …

Helping Teens Do No Harm, Robbin Ray

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.