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Lrrtm4 Is A Member Of The Transsynaptic Complex Between Rod Photoreceptors And Bipolar Cells, Melina A Agosto, Theodore G Wensel

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Leucine rich repeat transmembrane (LRRTM) proteins are synaptic adhesion molecules with roles in synapse formation and signaling. LRRTM4 transcripts were previously shown to be enriched in rod bipolar cells (BCs), secondary neurons of the retina that form synapses with rod photoreceptors. Using two different antibodies, LRRTM4 was found to reside primarily at rod BC dendritic tips, where it colocalized with the transduction channel protein, TRPM1. LRRTM4 was not detected at dendritic tips of ON-cone BCs. Following somatic knockout of LRRTM4 in BCs by subretinal injection and electroporation of CRISPR/Cas9, LRRTM4 was abolished or reduced in the dendritic tips of transfected …

Extending Critical Infrastructure Element Longevity Using Constellation-Based Id Verification, Christopher M. Rondeau, Michael A. Temple, J. Addison Betances, Christine M. Schubert Kabban

Faculty Publications

This work supports a technical cradle-to-grave protection strategy aimed at extending the useful lifespan of Critical Infrastructure (CI) elements. This is done by improving mid-life operational protection measures through integration of reliable physical (PHY) layer security mechanisms. The goal is to improve existing protection that is heavily reliant on higher-layer mechanisms that are commonly targeted by cyberattack. Relative to prior device ID discrimination works, results herein reinforce the exploitability of constellation-based PHY layer features and the ability for those features to be practically implemented to enhance CI security. Prior work is extended by formalizing a device ID verification process that …

Salt Marsh Hydrogeology: A Review, Julia Guimond, Joseph Tamborski

OES Faculty Publications

Groundwater–surface water exchange in salt marsh ecosystems mediates nearshore salt, nutrient, and carbon budgets with implications for biological productivity and global climate. Despite their importance, a synthesis of salt marsh groundwater studies is lacking. In this review, we summarize drivers mediating salt marsh hydrogeology, review field and modeling techniques, and discuss patterns of exchange. New data from a Delaware seepage meter study are reported which highlight small-scale spatial variability in exchange rates. A synthesis of the salt marsh hydrogeology literature reveals a positive relationship between tidal range and submarine groundwater discharge but not porewater exchange, highlighting the multidimensional drivers of …

Seasonal Dispersal Of Fjord Meltwaters As An Important Source Of Iron And Manganese To Coastal Antarctic Phytoplankton, Kiefer O. Forsch, Lisa Hahn-Woernle, Robert M. Sherrell, Vincent J. Roccanova, Kaixuan Bu, David Burdige, Maria Vernet, Katherine A. Barbeau

OES Faculty Publications

Glacial meltwater from the western Antarctic Ice Sheet is hypothesized to be an important source of cryospheric iron, fertilizing the Southern Ocean, yet its trace-metal composition and factors that control its dispersal remain poorly constrained. Here we characterize meltwater iron sources in a heavily glaciated western Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) fjord. Using dissolved and particulate ratios of manganese to iron in meltwaters, porewaters, and seawater, we show that surface glacial melt and subglacial plumes contribute to the seasonal cycle of iron and manganese within a fjord still relatively unaffected by climate-change-induced glacial retreat. Organic ligands derived from the phytoplankton bloom and …

Technology And Litigation: The 21st Century American Experience, Richard L. Marcus

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Impact Of Neutron Energy On Asteroid Deflection Performance, Lansing S. Horan Iv, Darren E. Holland, Megan Bruck Syal, James E. Bevins, Joseph W. Wasem

Faculty Publications

In the future, a hazardous asteroid will find itself on a collision course with Earth. For asteroids of moderate size or larger, a nuclear device is one of humanity's only technologies capable of mitigating this threat via deflection on a timescale of less than a decade. This work examined how the output neutron energy from a nuclear device standoff detonation affects the deflection of a notional asteroid that is 300 meters in diameter and composed of silicon dioxide at a bulk density of 1.855 g/cm³. 14.1 MeV and 1 MeV neutron energy sources were modeled in MCNP to …

Resilience For Multi-Filter All-Source Navigation Framework With Integrity, Jonathon S. Gipson, Robert C. Leishman

Faculty Publications

The Autonomous and Resilient Management of All-source Sensors (ARMAS) framework monitors residual-space test statistics across unique sensor-exclusion banks of filters, (known as subfilters) to provide a resilient, fault-resistant all-source navigation architecture with assurance. A critical assumption of this architecture, demonstrated in this paper, is fully overlapping state observability across all subfilters. All-source sensors, particularly those that only provide partial state information (altimeters, TDoA, AOB, etc.) do not intrinsically meet this requirement.
This paper presents a novel method to monitor real-time overlapping position state observability and introduces an "observability bank" within the ARMAS framework, known as Stable Observability Monitoring (SOM). SOM …

Private Facilitators Of Public Regulation: A Study Of The Environmental Consulting Industry, Dave Owen

Faculty Scholarship

Most accounts of businesses and regulators depict adversarial relationships. In these accounts, businesses typically seek to avoid or limit public regulation or, alternatively, to distort it so it serves private rather than public ends. This article uses a study of the environmental consulting industry to explore a different set of relationships between businesses and public regula- tion. These consultants generally work for for-profit companies, and they serve as regulatory intermediaries between busi- nesses and government. Those dual roles raise concerns that environmental consultants, like many other businesses, will seek to subvert regulatory schemes or will serve as instruments of regulatory …

Law, Land Use, And Groundwater Recharge, Dave Owen

Faculty Scholarship

Groundwater is one of the world’s most important natural resources, and its importance will increase as climate change continues and the human population grows. But groundwater management has traditionally been governed by lax and uneven legal regimes. To the extent those regimes exist, they tend to focus on the extraction of groundwater rather than the processes—referred to as groundwater recharge—through which water enters the subsurface. Yet groundwater recharge is crucially important to the maintenance of groundwater supplies, and it is also highly susceptible to human influences, particularly through our pervasive manipulation of land uses. This Article discusses the underdeveloped law …

Groundwater Recharge For A Regional Water Bank: Kern Water Bank, Kern County, California, Michael Kiparsky, Kathleen Miller, Phoebe Goulden, Anita Milman, Dave Owen

Faculty Scholarship

The Kern Water Bank is a semi-private groundwater bank operated by the Kern Water Bank Authority in Kern County, CA. The bank stores water from the State Water Project (SWP), Central Valley Project (CVP), and the Kern River. It is massive in scale, covering over 20,000 acres, with approximately 2.5 million acre feet diverted to the bank since 1995. The bank stores water on behalf of its member water agencies, which include both public and private water entities mainly focusing on agricultural use, along with a small number of municipal and residential customers. Water is withdrawn by the member agencies …

Brave New World: Technology And Tort Practice, Richard L. Marcus

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Examining The Relationship Between Inclusivity And Well-Being In The Gender, Sexual, And Romantic Minority Community, Sarah E. Weekes

Murray State Theses and Dissertations

Research has established that higher levels of inclusivity promote increased levels of well-being in GSRM populations (Yoder & Mattheis, 2016); however, there is a lack of research exploring a moderating effect of psychological flexibility on this relationship. Previous research has also demonstrated that psychological flexibility is related to increased quality of life (Walloch & Hill, 2016); however, the relationship between psychological flexibility and inclusivity remains largely unexplored in GSRM populations. The purpose of this study was to explore how inclusivity, psychological distress, and psychological flexibility correlate with well-being among a sample of 198 individuals who identify as GSRM. This study …

Collab-Hub: A System For Creating Collaborative Telematic Music Performances With Web-Based Instruments And Creative Development Platforms, Nick Hwang, Anthony T. Marasco, Eric Sheffield

School of Music Faculty Publications

Collab-Hub is a networking tool for sharing data across the internet for multimedia collaboration. Through CollabHub, web audio applications, custom hardware controllers/instruments, and digital instruments created for embedded and desktop computers can all be designed around a single framework, providing a unified approach to creating multi-modal networked experiences.

In this talk, we discuss the design of the Collab-Hub system and provide examples of using it to create interaction layouts between web-based instruments/interfaces and digital musical instruments designed in Max and Pure Data. We also showcase custom APIs for developing audiovisual software clients in Unity and hardware clients through Arduino. An …

A System For Resilience Learning: Developing A Community-Driven, Multi-Sector Research Approach For Greater Preparedness And Resilience To Long-Term Climate Stressors And Extreme Events In The Miami Metropolitan Region, Abigail L. Fleming, Tiffany G. Troxer, Amy C. Clement, Yoca Arditi-Rocha, Gretchen Beesing, Mahadev Bhat, Jessica Bolson, Carissa Cabán-Alemán, Karina Castillo, Olivia Collins, Mayra Cruz, Alan Dodd, Scotney D. Evans, Carlos Genatios, Jane Gilbert, Alyssa Hernandez, Cheryl Holder, Maria Ilcheva, Elizabeth Kelly, Arturo Leon, Joanna Lombard, Katharine J. March, Diana Moanga, James F. Murley, Amy Knowles, Jayantha Obeysekera, Loren Parra, Jennifer Posner, Arif Sarwat, Rachel Silverstein, John A. Stuart, Michael C. Sukop, Shimon Wdowinski, Elizabeth Wheaton

Articles

There is a growing need for integrated approaches that align community priorities with strategies that build resilience to climate hazards, societal shocks, and economic crises to ensure more equitable and sustainable outcomes. We anticipate that adaptive management and resilience learning are central elements for these approaches. In this paper, we describe an approach to build and test a Resilience Learning System to support research and implementation of a resilience strategy developed for the Greater Miami and the Beaches or the Resilient305 Strategy. Elements foundational to the design of this integrated research strategy and replicable Resilience Learning System are: (1) strong …

Social-Emotional Learning And Its Relationship To High School Student Academic Achievement In Stem Courses, Maurice Lavelle Mcdougald

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The purpose of this study was to determine the correlation of high school student social-emotional learning and its relationship to academic achievement in STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) courses as moderated by gender and racial groups and within a rural school in the Sandhills area of North Carolina. Using a quasi-experimental variable-centered design, 202 Junior Reserve Officer Corps students participated in this research. The researcher sought to answer: (1) Do individual high school students' self-perceptions of social-emotional learning skills influence academic achievement in traditional STEM courses? (2) Are there significant variations of individual high school students' self-perception of social-emotional learning …

E-Learning, Venkata Sivateja Tanneru

All Capstone Projects

In this Digital world, the traditional class-based learning system copes with many challenges to accommodate learners. The conventional platforms have major issues accommodating learners from every corner of the globe. It is impossible to accommodate every learner as per their requirements and feasibilities, such as time and pace of learning.

In this Digital world, the traditional class-based learning system copes with many challenges to accommodate learners. The conventional platforms have major issues accommodating learners from every corner of the globe. It is impossible to accommodate all learners as per their requirements and feasibilities, such as time and pace of learning. …

Elearning, Sumanth Sirimalla

All Capstone Projects

During the pandemic season, learning and teaching through offline is getting difficult for both teachers and students. Keeping this in mind, we want to design a web application which will be providing the services for both teachers and learners. If the services of E-learning want to be used by the students and trainers, then they need to register with the application. Every user will be having their own dash boards to do the operations. Learner will be having the courses, he can be able to select the courses, he can select the schedule i.e., live or self-pacing etc., he can …

Elearning, Soujanya Sabbineni

All Capstone Projects

Web based eLearning Management allow instructors and students to share instructional materials, make class announcements, submit and return course assignments, and communicate with each other online. Technology is evolving in every field, in which is one of the most important in the field of teaching is eLearning Management. We can monitor the individual performance of each student using eLearning Management because one person cannot accurately evaluate the performance of all students. eLearning Management will make it easier to increase individual competence using the student monitoring process. eLearning Management can easily bring in the best educated instructors in the world to …

Elearning, Geoffrey D. Metzger

All Capstone Projects

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic had a drastic impact on the education industry. With the sudden digital transformation, the education sector invested in eLearning, which surged to a $250 billion industry with incredible growth. Our goal is to create an eLearning website which provides the common functionality seen in the marketplace.

From a feature perspective, the website will have user logins and roles which align with the industry such as students, instructors, and administrator accounts. The available features are spilt out by roles. Instructors will be able to add their course materials to the site, interact with students via a discussion …

Elearning, Lokesh Vibhudi

All Capstone Projects

Web based eLearning Management allow instructors and students to share instructional materials, make class announcements, submit and return course assignments, and communicate with each other online. Technology is evolving in every field, in which is one of the most important in the field of teaching is eLearning Management. We can monitor the individual performance of each student using eLearning Management because one person cannot accurately evaluate the performance of all students. eLearning Management will make it easier to increase individual competence using the student monitoring process. eLearning Management can easily bring in the best educated instructors in the world to …

E-Learning, Sai Charan Konjarla

All Capstone Projects

In this Digital world, the traditional class-based learning system copes with many challenges to accommodate learners. The conventional platforms have major issues accommodating learners from every corner of the globe. It is impossible to accommodate every learner as per their requirements and feasibilities, such as time and pace of learning.

In this Digital world, the traditional class-based learning system copes with many challenges to accommodate learners. The conventional platforms have major issues accommodating learners from every corner of the globe. It is impossible to accommodate all learners as per their requirements and feasibilities, such as time and pace of learning. …

Elearning, Lakshmi Urjitha Dhadigam

All Capstone Projects

Web based eLearning Management allow instructors and students to share instructional materials, make class announcements, submit and return course assignments, and communicate with each other online. Technology is evolving in every field, in which is one of the most important in the field of teaching is eLearning Management. We can monitor the individual performance of each student using eLearning Management because one person cannot accurately evaluate the performance of all students. eLearning Management will make it easier to increase individual competence using the student monitoring process. eLearning Management can easily bring in the best educated instructors in the world to …

Elearning, Sailajaswini Gopathi

All Capstone Projects

Web based eLearning Management allow instructors and students to share instructional materials, make class announcements, submit and return course assignments, and communicate with each other online. Technology is evolving in every field, in which is one of the most important in the field of teaching is eLearning Management. We can monitor the individual performance of each student using eLearning Management because one person cannot accurately evaluate the performance of all students. eLearning Management will make it easier to increase individual competence using the student monitoring process. eLearning Management can easily bring in the best educated instructors in the world to …

E-Learning, Mohammed Abdul Rahman Asadi

All Capstone Projects

In this Digital world, the traditional class-based learning system copes with many challenges to accommodate learners. The conventional platforms have major issues accommodating learners from every corner of the globe. It is impossible to accommodate every learner as per their requirements and feasibilities, such as time and pace of learning.

In this Digital world, the traditional class-based learning system copes with many challenges to accommodate learners. The conventional platforms have major issues accommodating learners from every corner of the globe. It is impossible to accommodate all learners as per their requirements and feasibilities, such as time and pace of learning. …

On The (Im)Practicality Of Adversarial Perturbation For Image Privacy, Arezoo Rajabi, Rakesh B. Bobba, Mike Rosulek, Charles Wright, Wu-Chi Feng

Computer Science Faculty Publications and Presentations

Image hosting platforms are a popular way to store and share images with family members and friends. However, such platforms typically have full access to images raising privacy concerns. These concerns are further exacerbated with the advent of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) that can be trained on available images to automatically detect and recognize faces with high accuracy.

Recently, adversarial perturbations have been proposed as a potential defense against automated recognition and classification of images by CNNs. In this paper, we explore the practicality of adversarial perturbation based approaches as a privacy defense against automated face recognition. Specifically, we first …

Towards Formally Verified Compilation Of Tag-Based Policy Enforcement, Chr Chhak, Andrew Tolmach, Sean Anderson

Computer Science Faculty Publications and Presentations

Hardware-assisted reference monitoring is receiving increasing attention as a way to improve the security of existing software. One example is the PIPE architecture extension, which attaches metadata tags to register and memory values and executes tag-based rules at each machine instruction to enforce a software-defined security policy. To use PIPE effectively, engineers should be able to write security policies in terms of source-level concepts like functions, local variables, and structured control operators, which are not visible at machine level. It is the job of the compiler to generate PIPE-aware machine code that enforces these source-level policies. The compiler thus becomes …

William Leonard Culp Collection - Accession 1737, William Leonard Culp, Winthrop University, Winthrop Training School, Lee Miller, Leslee Elliott, Whitney Carter

Manuscript Collection

This collection is a series of transcriptions of interviews conducted of Bill Culp by one Lee Miller and students Whitney Carter and Leslee Elliott, dating from 8 Sept. 2003, through to the end of that Fall semester. The interviews themselves are primarily focused upon discussing the history of Winthrop, and in particular, the buildings at Winthrop, along with many of Mr. Culp’s own anecdotes. The interviews were conducted to “capture the history of Winthrop according to the 50+ years of Mr. Culp’s involvement with Winthrop.” These interviews offer a great glimpse of Winthrop’s history spanning from Winthrop Founder and first …

The Virtual Law School, 2.0, A. Michael Froomkin

Articles

Just over twenty years ago I gave a talk to the AALS called The Virtual Law School? Or, How the Internet Will De-skill the Professoriate, and Turn Your Law School Into a Conference Center. I came to the subject because I had been working on internet law, learning about virtual worlds and e-commerce, and about the power of one-to-many communications, and it struck me that a lot of what I had learned applied to education in general and to legal education in particular.
It didn't happen. Or at least, it has not happened yet. In this essay I want …

Aprendizaje Activo Y Pedagogía Culturalmente Relevante En Stem: Tres Lecciones Aprendidas Dentro Y Fuera Del Aula, Teresa Patricia Feria-Arroyo

School of Integrative Biological & Chemical Sciences (Formerly Dept. of Biology)

Uno de los mayores desafíos en la ciencia, la tecnología, la ingeniería y la educación matemática (STEM, por sus siglas en inglés) es mejorar el rendimiento y la retención de estudiantes de diversos orígenes. Existen grandes diferencias entre los logros académicos de los estudiantes de minorías subrepresentadas (EMS) con aquellos que no pertenecen a estas minorías. Las diferencias inician desde el kínder y continúan hasta los estudios de posgrado. El aprendizaje activo y la pedagogía culturalmente sensible/relevante han mostrado resultados exitosos minimizando estas diferencias educacionales. Desafortunadamente, el aprendizaje activo y la pedagogía culturalmente relevante no son métodos comunes de enseñanza …

Rivfishtime: A Global Database Of Fish Time-Series As A Currency For Global Change Ecology Research In Riverine Systems, Lise Comte, Juan Carvajal-Quintero, Pablo A. Tedesco, Ulrich Brose, Tibor Erős, Ana F. Filipe, Marie-Josée Fortin, Katie Irving, Claire Jacquet, Christopher M. Taylor

School of Integrative Biological & Chemical Sciences (Formerly Dept. of Biology)

Motivation

We compiled a global database of long-term riverine fish surveys from 46 regional and national monitoring programmes and from individual academic research efforts, with which numerous basic and applied questions in ecology and global change research can be explored. Such spatially and temporally extensive datasets have been lacking for freshwater systems in comparison to terrestrial ones.

Main types of variables contained

The database includes 11,386 time-series of riverine fish community catch data, including 646,270 species-specific abundance records, together with metadata related to the geographical location and sampling methodology of each time-series.

Spatial location and grain

The database contains 11,072 …