Trust, Privacy, And Adaptive Forwarding In Wireless Named-Data Networks, Muktadir Rahman Chowdhury

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Today’s Internet falls short in supporting robust data delivery and strong data security in a wireless mobile environment, due to its host-based communication model and container-based security model. Named Data Networking (NDN) is a data-centric network architecture that provides a stateful forwarding plane and built-in security support. This work proposes forwarding strategies for NDN-based mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs) and infrastructure-based wireless networks, and mechanisms for securing NDN-based vehicular networks. First, we propose Content Connectivity and Location-Aware Forwarding (CCLF), a forwarding strategy for MANETs. CCLF broadcasts NDN packets and lets each node make independent decisions on whether to forward packets based …

Dynamic Relationship Study Between The Observed Seismicity And Spatiotemporal Pattern Of Lineament Changes In Palghar, North Maharashtra (India), Biswajit Nath, Ramesh P. Singh, Vineet K. Gahalaut, Ajay P. Singh

Biology, Chemistry, and Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles and Research

The Palghar region (north Maharashtra, India), located in the northwestern part of the stable continental region of India, experienced a low magnitude earthquake swarm, which was initiated in September 2018 and is continuing to date (as of October 2021). From December 2018 to December 2020, ~5000 earthquakes with magnitudes from M1.2 to M3.8 occurred in a small region of 20 × 10 km². These earthquakes were probably triggered by fluid migration during seasonal rainfall. In this study, we have used multi-temporal Landsat satellite data of the year 2000, 2015, 2018, 2019, and 2020, extracted lineaments, and studied the …

Conceptualization, Implementation, And Management Of The New York City Mayor’S Action Plan For Neighborhood Safety, Wogod Alawlaqi, Nicole Alexander, Rebecca Balletto, Justice Banks, Jeffrey A. Butts, Patricia A. Cobar, Edda S. Fransdottir, Jason Szkola, Kathleen A. Tomberg, Anthony Vega

Publications and Research

This research report presents the findings from the implementation assessment of the NYC Mayor's Action Plan for Neighborhood Safety (MAP). Researchers from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice relied on an assortment of evaluation data to identify outcome differences between MAP communities and the matched set of comparison communities. Using administrative and survey data, researchers tested relationships between the various efforts of MAP and key outcomes expected to result from those efforts. Information obtained through interviews and observations provided context to understand the evolution and implementation of MAP. The investigation provided policymakers with important information about the possible effectiveness …

Use Of E-Resources By Researchers And Faculty Members In Select Universities Of Haryana: A Comparative Studyof Science And Social Science Faculties, Sandhya Rani, Navkiran Kaur

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

E-resources rose in significance throughout the world during COVID-19 pandemic as these were used extensively in teaching, learning and research. Present study was conducted to know about the awareness and use of e-resources by the researchers and faculty members of science and social science faculties in three universities of Haryana, their purpose of using e-resources, levels of satisfaction and problems faced by them. This study is based on primary data collected from the faculty members and researchers using a self-designed questionnaire. It was found that all respondents were aware about e-resources and majority of respondents were using e-resources. The respondents …

Water-Use Efficiency And Infiltration Under Different Rangeland Conditions And Cultivation In A Semi-Arid Climate Of South Africa, Hennie A. Snyman

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

The objective of this study was to determine the impact of rangeland in different botanical composition classes (good, moderate and poor), on water-use efficiency (WUE: crude protein produced per unit of evapotranspiration) and soilwater content. The same measurements were also made on an undisturbed bare soil surface and soil cultivated twice per annum. Evapotranspiration was determined by quantifying the soil-water balance equation with the aid of runoff plots and soil-water content measurements done by a neutron hydroprobe. Water-use efficiency declined significantly (P ≤ 0.01) with rangeland degradation. Rangeland in good condition averaged a WUE of 0.28 kg crude protein ha …

Community Structure Of Serrated Tussock (Nassella Trichotoma) Infested Grasslands, Warwick B. Badgery, David R. Kemp, D. L. Michalk, W. Mcg. King

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

Serrated tussock (Nassella trichotoma) is the most serious perennial grass weed in southeastern Australia, extending over more than a million hectares. Previous control techniques using herbicides and oversowing with competitive pastures are no longer feasible in many of the lower fertility, infested areas. New management solutions need to be found, based upon a better understanding of the ecology of this species. A survey was done to determine the community structure of serrated tussock infested grasslands. Winter growing C3 grasses were closely associated with serrated tussock, while C4 perennial grasses appeared not to be. It is not known if …

Valuing The Pasture Resource - Importance Of Perennials In Higher Rainfall Regions Of South Eastern Australia, P. M. Dowling, R. E. Jones, David R. Kemp, D. L. Michalk

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

The premature decline of perennial grass based pastures in southern temperate Australia results in poor productivity and unstable pastures that allow invasion by less desirable weedy species and the potential for soil degradation. The loss of perennial species is attributed to overgrazing arising from an undervaluation of the pasture resource. Resowing pastures is largely uneconomic so maintenance of, or increasing the perennial, is dependent on improved grazing and pasture management practices. A key to changing perceptions is valuing the true worth of the perennial component. Results are presented from a model that takes into account the seasonality of production of …

Using ‘Traps’ (Transect Recording And Processing System) In Woody Weed Control Studies In Australia, P. V. Back

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

The ‘TRAPS’ (Transect Recording And Processing System) methodology has proven to be a powerful and versatile tool for studying the effects of various woody weed control strategies in studies carried out in Queensland, Australia. ‘TRAPS’ allows the tracking of individual woody plants even when destructive control techniques such as bulldozing, ploughing and burning are used. This methodology also allows the investigator to discriminate between plants present before any treatment is imposed and plants recruited after the treatment.

Decomposable Model Spaces And A Topological Approach To Curvature, Kevin M. Tully

Rose-Hulman Undergraduate Mathematics Journal

This research investigates a model space invariant known as k-plane constant vector curvature, traditionally studied when k=2, and introduces a new invariant, (m,k)-plane constant vector curvature. We prove that the sets of k-plane and (m,k)-plane constant vector curvature values are connected, compact subsets of the real numbers and establish several relationships between the curvature values of a decomposable model space and its component spaces. We also prove that every decomposable model space with a positive-definite inner product has k-plane constant vector curvature for some integer k>1. In …

Winning Strategy For Multiplayer And Multialliance Geometric Game, Jingkai Ye

Rose-Hulman Undergraduate Mathematics Journal

The Geometric Sequence with common ratio 2 is one of the most well-known geometric sequences. Every term is a nonnegative power of 2. Using this popular sequence, we can create a Geometric Game which contains combining moves (combining two copies of the same terms into the one copy of next term) and splitting moves (splitting three copies of the same term into two copies of previous terms and one copy of the next term). For this Geometric Game, we are able to prove that the game is finite and the final game state is unique. Furthermore, we are able to …

Hurwitz Actions On Reflection Factorizations In Complex Reflection Group G₆, Gaurav Gawankar, Dounia Lazreq, Mehr Rai, Seth Sabar

Rose-Hulman Undergraduate Mathematics Journal

We show that in the complex reflection group G₆, reflection factorizations of a Coxeter element that have the same length and multiset of conjugacy classes are in the same Hurwitz orbit. This confirms one case of a conjecture of Lewis and Reiner.

Lie-Derivations Of Three-Dimensional Non-Lie Leibniz Algebras, Emily H. Belanger

Rose-Hulman Undergraduate Mathematics Journal

The concept of Lie-derivation was recently introduced as a generalization of the notion of derivations for non-Lie Leibniz algebras. In this project, we determine the Lie algebras of Lie-derivations of all three-dimensional non-Lie Leibniz algebras. As a result of our calculations, we make conjectures on the basis of the Lie algebra of derivations of Lie-solvable non-Lie Leibniz algebras.

The Optimal Double Bubble For Density 𝑟ᵖ, Jack Hirsch, Kevin Li, Jackson Petty, Christopher Xue

Rose-Hulman Undergraduate Mathematics Journal

In 2008 Reichardt proved that the optimal Euclidean double bubble---the least-perimeter way to enclose and separate two given volumes---is three spherical caps meeting along a sphere at 120 degrees. We consider Rⁿ with density r^p, joining the surge of research on manifolds with density after their appearance in Perelman's 2006 proof of the Poincaré Conjecture. Boyer et al. proved that the best single bubble is a sphere through the origin. We conjecture that the best double bubble is the Euclidean solution with the singular sphere passing through the origin, for which we have verified equilibrium (first variation …

تقدير الذات متغير وسيط في العلاقة بين خبرات الطفولة والثقة بالنفس لدى طلاب الصف التاسع, ماهر يوسف المجدلاوي أستاذ مشارك

Journal of Al-Azhar University – Gaza (Humanities)

الملخص:

هدفت الدراسة إلى معرفة هل يمكن اعتبار تقدير الذات متغيراً وسيطاً في العلاقة بين خبرات الطفولة والثقة بالنفس لدى طلاب الصف التاسع؟ وتكونت العينة من(421) طالباً، وتم استخدام مقياسي خبرات الطفولة، والثقة بالنفس إعداد الباحث، ومقياس تقدير الذات إعداد زورنبيج، وبيّنت النتائج أن مستوى خبرات الطفولة السلبية منخفض، وأن مستوى كل من خبرات الطفولة الإيجابية، وتقدير الذات والثقة بالنفس مرتفع ، كما بيّنت أن الخبرات الإيجابية منبئٌ إيجابيٌ بتقدير الذات والثقة بالنفس، بينما الخبرات السلبية منبئٌ سلباً بتقدير الذات والثقة بالنفس، وأن تقدير الذات متغير وسيط جزئي بين خبرات الطفولة الإيجابية والثقة بالنفس، وأنه وسيط كلي في العلاقة بين …

تأثير تدريبات القوة المميزة بالسرعة في المنحدرات على القدرة الهوائية القصوى والمستوى الرقمي للاعبي منتخب فلسطين لألعاب القوى, Hisham Ali Alaqra, تامر صالح العبسي ماجستير

Journal of Al-Azhar University – Gaza (Humanities)

ملخص الدراسة:

هدفت الدراسة للتعرف على تأثير القوة المميزة بالسرعة في المنحدرات على المستوى الرقمي، والقدرة الهوائية القصوى للاعبي منتخب فلسطين لألعاب القوى، وقد استخدم الباحثان المنهج التجريبي، وتم اختيار عينة البحث وهم: جميع لاعبي منتخب فلسطين تحت سن(18) سنة لسباق (3000) متر، وعددهم (3) لاعبين، وقام الباحثان باعتماد البرنامج التدريبي الخاص بالاتحاد الفلسطيني لألعاب القوى تحت سن(18) سنة للمسافات الطويلة، وكانت أهم النتائج: إنّ البرنامج التدريبي لتدريبات القوة المميزة بالسرعة ساعد على تحسن القدرة الهوائية القصوى، حيث بلغت نسبة التحسن(2,88%) بينما للمستوى الرقمي (0,82%).

الكلمات المفتاحية: القوة المميزة بالسرعة، المنحدرات، القدرة الهوائية القصوى، المستوى الرقمي.

Abstract:

The study aimed …

The Effect Of Organizational Culture On Institutional Excellence Through The Mediating Role Of Strategic Thinking (An Empirical Study On The Palestinian Universities In The Gaza-Strip), Belal Z. Albashiti أستاذ مشارك

Journal of Al-Azhar University – Gaza (Humanities)

Abstract:

This study aims to analyze and explain the role of organizational culture on the institutional excellence through the mediating role of strategic thinking. Cross sectional data was collected using simple random sample from the employees holding supervisory positions at the Palestinian universities in the Gaza-Strip. The structure equation model (SEM) is designed to explain the studied variables, the findings and analysis shows high level of relative weight for the studied variables and found indirect effect between; the independent variable "Organizational Culture" and the dependent variable "Institutional Excellence". Some important recommendations and some suggestions further studies in the line of …

الأهداف التعليمية الواردة في محتوى الوحدات الخاصة بالفيزياء في منهاج العلوم للصف الثامن في الأردن والولايات المتحدة الأمريكية دراسة تحليلية مقارنة, الهام حسن عبدالكريم ماجستير, حسين عبداللطيف بعارة أستاذ مساعد

Journal of Al-Azhar University – Gaza (Humanities)

الملخص:

هدفت الدراسة معرفة تصنيف الأهداف التعليمية الواردة في منهاج العلوم للصف الثامن في الأردن والولايات المتحدة الأمريكية, ولتحقيق أهداف الدراسة تم تحليل محتوى وحدات الفيزياء, وقد تكون مجتمع الدراسة وعينته من الوحدات الخاصة بالفيزياء وعددها ثلاث وحدات في الأردن ووحدتان في الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية, وتم تطوير أداة لتحليل محتوى منهاج العلوم من دراسة (Kim& Park,2009), وصنفت الأهداف إلى خمسة معايير: المعرفة العلمية، والاستقصاء العلمي، والاتجاهات العلمية، والعلم والتكنولوجيا والمجتمع، والفلسفة وتاريخ العلم, وتوصلت الدراسة إلى: احتواء منهاج العلوم في الأردن على معرفة علمية بنسبة (56.7%) يليها الاستقصاء العلمي(18.2%) ثم العلم والتكنولوجيا والمجتمع (11.7%), يليها الفلسفة وتاريخ العلم (9.8%), ثم …

Technology Of Physical Training Of Students Specializing In Sports Gymnastics, Anvar Kurganovich Eshtaev

Eurasian Journal of Sport Science

Purpose: To identify the most significant factors affecting the level of physical fitness of students in the course of training sessions of the course “Sports and pedagogical skills”.

Methods: Analysis of educational and methodological literature, pedagogical testing, pedagogical observation, pedagogical experiment, methods of mathematical statistics.

Results: Consist in the following: our proposed program for the development of motor qualities is confirmed by the progressive dynamics of the increase in the indicators of the “school” of movements and physical qualities, the means of preparation used and timely monitoring of the process of “utilization” of basic gymnastics exercises in the qualities studied …

Research Of Physical And Mechanical Properties Of Babbits Filled In Sliding Bearings, K G. Gaparov

Scientific-technical journal

The article presents the results of research of physical and mechanical properties of babbites prepared from scrap and wastes poured into sliding bearings. The development of the technology of recycling scrap and babbites waste is aimed at optimizing the parameters of the technology of cleaning and melting babbites for reuse of so-called secondary babbites.

Exploring The Relationships Among Stoichiometric Coefficients, Number Of Transferred Electrons, Mean Oxidation Number Of Carbons, And Oxidative Ratio In Organic Combustion Reactions, Pong Kau Yuen, Cheng Man Diana Lau

Faculty Publications

Combustion reactions, stoichiometry, and redox reactions are some of the basic contents in chemistry curriculum. Although the counting of transferred electrons is critical in redox reactions, assigning mean oxidation number of organic carbons (ONc) is not always easy. Even though the relationship between the oxidative ratio (OR) and ONc is known, the relationship between the number of transferred electrons (Te−) and OR has not been thoroughly studied. The H-atom method has already been developed to balance and deduct organic combustion reactions. It can be used further to help establish the relationships among the stoichiometric coefficients (SC), the number of transferred …

2021-12-28_Michiganoverview_Covidvaccinestats, Michigan Department Of Health & Human Services

Michigan COVID-19 Vaccine Data

The COVID Vaccine Dashboard page was obtained from Michigan's main COVID-19 page: https://www.michigan.gov/coronavirus/0,9753,7-406-98178_103214-547150--,00.html.

First-dose tracker above is for entire Michigan Population. Coverage maps below are for age 5+.

Previously reported numbers of administered vaccine doses may change as new data are received. A possible lag in reporting vaccine doses will result in increases in numbers previously reported.

This report is created by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Division of Immunization from data reported to the Michigan Care Improvement Registry (MCIR).

The dashboard contained the tabs Vaccines Delivered, Delivery Trend, Primary Series Doses Administered, …

2021-12-28_Michiganoverview_Covidschooloutbreak, Michigan Department Of Health & Human Services

Michigan COVID-19 Outbreak Reports

The School Outbreak Data page was obtained from Michigan's COVID-19 data page: https://www.michigan.gov/coronavirus/0,9753,7-406-98163_98173_102480---,00.html.

This report is created by the Michigan Department of Health & Human Services from data self-reported by local health departments. Data is updated every week.

K-12 School-Related Outbreak Reporting: In accordance with the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists' outbreak definition, a K-12 school-associated COVID-19 case (confirmed or probable) is defined as a student, teacher, or staff member physically present in the school setting or participated in a school sanctioned extracurricular activity within 14 days prior to illness onset (or a positive test result) OR …

Locally Dependent Natural Image Priors For Non-Blind And Blind Image Deconvolution., Kaustav Nandy Dr.

Doctoral Theses

Degradation of photographic images is a common phenomenon that can occur due to several reasons. Astronomical images may be degraded due to atmospheric factors or telescope optics. Photographs taken using standard digital cameras may be blurred due to lack of focus, due to motion of the subject, due to low resolution, or due to camera shake during relatively long exposures. Often one wishes to correct for the effect of such degradation and recover the original image, and this has been a long-standing research problem in digital imaging. Effective solutions depend critically on the context of the problem and the type …

Preparation Technology Optimization And Quality Analysis Of Sugarcane Molasses Cooking Wine, Wu De-Guang, Hu Zhi-Hui, Liu Guang-Xin, Shi Wei

Food and Machinery

Objective: A new cooking wine was developed using sugarcane molasses as raw material. Methods: The single factor experiment was used to investigate the optimal composition of yeast mash in the brewing process, and the molasses fermented wine was used as liquor base of cooking wine, prepared in a 5 L automated fermenter under the optimized process condition. The optimal decolorization conditions of activated carbon were screened by using orthogonal test, while the single factor experiment was used to determine the optimal added proportion of the flavoring agents. Results: The optimal composition of the yeast mash in the brewing process of …

Conatus, The Will To Persist: An Introduction, Jasmin Özel, Nikos Psarros

Philosophy Faculty Research

The papers collected in this issue address a variety of aspects of the concept of conatus ranging from the explorations of its roots in early ancient Greek thought to its application on modern theories of democratic education. The conatus is a special relation between the parts of a monad and their subparts and the subparts of the subparts to infinity, which ensures that each part and subpart is a part of this monad and not of any other. As a fundamental trait of monadic existence, the conatus is manifested in a multiplicity of facets that sustain the persistence of any …

A New Conatus For The New World: Dewey’S Response To Perfectionist Conceptions Of Democratic Education, Jasmin Özel, Dave Beisecker, Joe Ervin

Philosophy Faculty Research

We argue for a reconsideration of the claim that Spinoza’s perfectionist conception of education was ushering in a form of radical humanism distinctly favorable to democratic ideals. With the rise of democratic societies and the corresponding need to constitute educational institutions within those societies, a more thoroughgoing commitment to democratic social ideals arose, first and foremost in American educational thought. This commitment can be seen especially in Dewey’s philosophy of education. Specifically, Dewey and Spinoza had strikingly distinct conceptions of the overall aims of schooling. While Spinoza takes the aim of education to be the perfection of a student’s original …

The Calculating For An Adequate Systems Tool (Cast): A Low-Cost And Effective Tool To Improve A Community’S Substance Use Disorder Care Preparedness, Margarita Consing, Quinci Paine, Gabriela Balf

School of Medicine and Health Sciences Student Publications

Objective

In the context of an ongoing opioid crisis, the authors used The Calculating for an Adequate Systems Tool (CAST) to help quantify the rural community preparedness to care of people with substance use disorders (SUDs.)

Methods

CAST was developed by Green and associates in 2017. CAST uses demographics, social, and community indicators to produce a global risk score for hospitalization due to SUDs and highlights which SUD care system resource areas in the studied community are lacking or redundant. There are no human subjects involved; the majority of the required data for CAST is freely available on official national …

Topics In Analytic Number Theory And Consecutive Primitive Roots, Nelson Carella

Publications and Research

This monograph proves the existence of various configurations of $(k+1)$-tuples of consecutive and quasi consecutive primitive roots $n+a_0, n+a_1, n+a_2, ,,,, n+a_k$ in the finite field $\F_p$, where $a_0,a_1, \ldots, a_k$ is a fixed $(k+1)$-tuples of distinct integers.

Solution-Processed Flexible Broadband Zno Photodetector Modified By Ag Nanoparticles, N. P. Klochko, K. S. Klepikova, I. V. Khrypunova, V. R. Kopach, I. I. Tyukhov, S. I. Petrushenko, S. V. Dukarov, V. M. Sukhov, M. V. Kirichenko, A. L. Khrypunova

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

In this work, we present flexible broadband photodetectors (PDs) fabricated by a deposition of nanostructured zinc oxide (ZnO) films on polyimide (PI) substrates by using cheap and scalable aqueous method Successive Ionic Layer Adsorption and Reaction (SILAR). In order to increase the long-wavelength absorption of the nanostructured ZnO layer, we created its intrinsic defects, including oxygen vacancies by post-treatment at 300 °C in vacuum and thus the light-sensitive material ZnO/PI was obtained. Then we applied silver nanoparticles (Ag NPs) from a silver sol onto a nanostructured ZnO film, which were visualized using SEM in the form of spheres up to …

Trouble With Names: Commercial Speech And A New Approach To Food Product Label Regulation, William Cusack

Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy Sidebar

The Supreme Court has recognized First Amendment protection for “commercial speech” since 1975. Commercial speech doctrine seeks to balance advertiser interest in speech, consumer interest in information, and society’s interest that “economic decisions in the aggregate be intelligent and well-informed.” Regulations and compulsory disclosures of commercial speech play a part in ensuring consumers are well-informed. Yet, there continues to be consumer confusion surrounding the commercial speech doctrine’s application to food labeling. Lawmakers continue to pass regulations that are unnecessary or nonsensical. Regulators continue to enforce these regulations, even if the state interest in doing so is minimal or non-existent. There …