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Recent Technical Breakthroughs Enable Smart Manufacturing: A Review, Manish Kumar, Shanu Pandey, Kanchan Upadhyay, Pritibala Taunk, Raunak Kumar Tamrakar

Al-Bahir

In human culture, machine learning has long been used to address complicated issues. Machine learning is successful because of the help provided by computational power and sensing technology. Data-driven strategies and the development of artificial intelligence will soon have a significant impact on the industry. Common examples include search engines, picture recognition, biometrics, speech and handwriting recognition, natural language processing, as well as medical diagnostics and credit scores. It is obvious that when artificial intelligence permeates our globe and, more precisely, our lives, numerous challenges will become public. According to predictions, Industry 4.0 or Smart Manufacturing will be the next …

Reducing The Negative Effects Of Uncontrollable Factors When Designing New Courses, Nusser Raajpoot, Ran Liu

Atlantic Marketing Journal

This paper seeks to introduce a novel course design method in academic literature. It uses advanced experimental designs to capture student preferences. It also makes a distinction between controllable and uncontrollable design factors and seeks to minimize the negative impact of uncontrollable design factors, ensuring a successful course introduction. We propose and test a design method that combines Taguchi experimental designs with discrete choice estimation where choice probabilities are used as input data for Taguchi's inner and outer arrays. Design efficiency is measured by calculating signal to noise (S/N) ratio, which accounts for both mean and variance of choice probabilities. …

Gc-308 Heart Disease Prediction And Analysis By Machine Learning, Venkata Sabarinath Nekkalapu, Venkata Anusha Yammada, Mrinal Kapoor, Sai Sindhu Ponugoti, Suman Pudota

C-Day Computing Showcase

The heart is the most crucial part of the Human body. The organ circulates blood out of the circulatory system’s blood vessels. Any disease or failure of this organ causes death. Heart disease is one of the primary sources of death in the cutting-edge world. There are 2,380 deaths from heart disease each day, based on 2018 data. Also, heart disease causes the highest number of deaths globally, with approximately 18 million people dying yearly, meaning around 31This prediction can be made using Machine Learning techniques. With machine learning. Combining a prediction model with machine learning correctly classified results for …

Gr-283 Chatbot, Vamsi Krishna Dhulipalla

C-Day Computing Showcase

Mental health issue are the most common issue facing in human society. These issues are mostly in impact negatively on working peoples, on the individual, his/her family, workplace, community, and the economy. Our project is based on mental health chat bot of natural language processing with deep learning models .We have a structure data set of Mental Health. In the data set we have nine columns. We use neural networks to create our models .We use another method call scratch in which we create a model by our self and use it so our project we create a layer with …

Uc-247 Wild Fire: Friend Or Foe, Christian R. Henderson, Revian C. Jennings, Kwentin Shelton

C-Day Computing Showcase

The U.S. Army Corp of Engineers in Carters Lake required a game that attempts to educate on the principles of both prescribed and non-prescribed fires. They request that the game be playable on an android device housed in a HOLOFIL holographic display. Additionally, it needed to be created in the mirrored format as the projection flips everything. We decided to use Unity Real-Time Development Platform to complete the game’s development. Unity is a set of tools to give content creators an all-in-one development environment that helps content creators develop games and applications. “Unity is royalty-free and does not charge on …

Uc-249 Hemorrhage, Daniel M. Respess, Antonio S. Brewer, Kenny Tran, Sandy Li, Rick B. Watson

C-Day Computing Showcase

Hemorrhage is a fast-paced FPS action game with a focus on risky gameplay and dodging enemy attacks. Fight your way through hordes of grotesque creatures and make it to the end! The player starts with limited health but can steal more from killing enemies. Then, you can unleash this stored-up health to deal massive damage to your foes! Will you choose to be an unkillable tank? Or a brutal glass cannon?

Uc-270 Red Pepper It: It Web Management Application And Content Management System, Eun Kim, Bukky Adekunle, Caitlin Washington, Neha Dedani, Ivana George

C-Day Computing Showcase

Red Pepper IT is an application developed for Georgia Tech Research Institute. The conception of this project arose from the lack of IT management tools that can address all the needs of an IT department. Furthermore, with the currently available tools, they are either poorly designed or have a high licensing cost. This project seeks to solve the need for such applications by building an open-source application that can be deployed internally by any business seeking a management tool for its IT department.

Gc-243 - Analysis Of Alternatives Of Workstation Deployment Solutions, Mohammed S. Alam, Rahima Daino, Brittany Davis

C-Day Computing Showcase

Best suited for IT students who are able to use on-site (@ KSU) testing environment Perform a market survey of the best reviewed and used workstation deployment solutions Determine a set of requirements the business needs the solution to meet Determine metrics based off the requirements to measure the tools against each other Test the top 3 tools and provide a recommendation to the organization for which tool and its instructions for its basic initial setup

Gr-284 Automated Vulnerability Detection In Source Code Using Deep Neural Networks, Mst Shapna Akter

C-Day Computing Showcase

One of the most important challenges in the field of a software code audit is the presence of vulnerabilities in software source code. Every year, more and more software flaws are found, either internally in proprietary code or revealed publicly. These flaws are highly likely exploited and lead to system compromise, data leakage, or denial of service. C and C++ open-source code are now available in order to create a large-scale, machine-learning system for function-level vulnerability identification. We assembled a sizable dataset of millions of open-source functions that point to potential exploits. We created an efficient and scalable vulnerability detection …

Gr-287 Natural Disaster Prediction, Sravya Sabbu, Aishwarya Turlapati, Suryapraveen Adivi

C-Day Computing Showcase

Natural disasters are events that are difficult to avoid. There are several ways of reducing the risks of natural disasters. One of them is implementing disaster reduction programs. There are already several developed countries that apply the concept of disaster reduction. In addition to disaster reduction programs, there are several ways to predict or reducing the risks using artificial intelligence technology. One of them is machine learning. By utilizing this method at the moment, it facilitates tasks in visualizing, analysing, and predicting natural disaster. This project will focus on conducting a review process and understanding the purpose of Machine learning …

Gr-307 Eeg Classification Using Neural Network – An Application Of Machine Learning In Classification Of Attention Deficiency, To Measure The Effect Of Chakramarmakosha Meditation-Ii, Sreekanth Gopi

C-Day Computing Showcase

Stress reduces attention span and is a common problem that impacts students’ academic performance as well as their self-efficacy in handling challenging situations. Meditation techniques have been proven to help manage stress levels. In the previous research, the author used Heart Coherence as the metric to show the impact of ChakraMarmaKosha Meditation (CM), a meditation on human energy centers, on reducing the stress level. In this research we apply a new version of CM which is CM-II as a guided psychotherapy and cognitive therapy meditation, to analyze its impact on reducing attention deficiency among students. This study uses Electroencephalography (EEG) …

Uc-272 Defunct To Funct: Expanding The Functionality Of Forgotten Robots, Thomas E. Stockdale, Khoa Ho, Johnny Huynh, Marcel Youri Nguiagaing Seuga

C-Day Computing Showcase

The field of robotics is an expanding landscape, pushing the frontiers of engineering, machine vision, artificial intelligence and more. The robotics industry also has a foothold in many areas, such as consumer markets, scientific research, industrial and medical applications, and even exploration. With the growing interest in automated machines, individuals who can work with these machines are in demand, and providing a way to learn the skills to do so would be just as valuable. Kennesaw State University is currently in possession of two UXA-90 Humanoid robots; both of which have remained in storage for extended periods of time since …

Ur-280 Speech Recognition, Rachnicha Rojjhanarittikorn

C-Day Computing Showcase

This project makes use of speech recognition in Python libraries from Google, such as Google Speech-to-Text. The program first installs the dependencies that are required to run the program. The program then asks the user for their input. The user has the option of either exit the program, having the text read back to them, or responding to the conversation. If the user decides to have the text read back to them, the program will use the Google Text-to-Speech library to convert the text to speech. The purpose of this project is to understand how to implement speech recognition in …

Stochastic Approach To Hydrological Dam Safety In The Framework Of The New Dam Safety Standards In Spain, Iván Gabriel-Martin, Francisco J. Caballero, Álvaro Sordo-Ward, Luis Garrote

Protections Conference

The approval of the Technical Safety Standards for dams and reservoirs in Spain in 2021 increased the hydrological safety requirements, being necessary to check if measures have to be implemented in dams designed according to the prior standards. Some of these dams have scarce instrumentation and lack of hydrometeorological data. This work proposes a simple but sounded fully-stochastic methodology for assessing the hydrological safety of dams within this situation, potentially applicable outside academia. The methodology has been applied to a case study based on a real dam, and compared the results obtained to those of the standard deterministic procedure. We …

Assessment Of The Risk Of Failure Of Embankment Dams And Fluvial Levees By Overflowing: The Edf Practice And Research Needs, Jean-Robert Courivaud

Protections Conference

According to the French regulation, EDF (Electricité de France) must perform dam safety risk analysis for all dams which height is above 10 meters. Dam safety risk analysis includes a potential failure mode analysis, where overflowing erosion must be taken into account most of the time. In such cases, the dam owner must determine if the overflow will erode or not the dam or levee and form a breach and, if a breach forms, what is the breach outflow hydrograph. The criteria and methodologies used by EDF to answer these questions are presented. Research needs to fill the gaps and …

Wirewall A Follow Up: Labratory And Field Measurements Of Wave Overtopping, Tim Pullen, Jenny Brown, Margaret Yelland, Robin Pascal, Richard Pinnell, Chris Cardwell, David Jones

Protections Conference

At the Protections 2018 conference, the WireWall wave overtopping research project was introduced. WireWall uses recent advances in high frequency capacitance wire technology that can measure overtopping data. Wave overtopping has now been measured in the laboratory and in the field using the WireWall system. Here we provide an update on the validation of the system in flume tests and results from the first field measurement campaign.

Before deployment in the field, an extensive set of tests were carried out in one of the 2D wave flumes at HR Wallingford. These tests simulated known wave conditions from a buoy near …

Methodology For Calculating The Response Of Porous Media For Evaluating Grass Response To Overtopping Loads, Myron Von Damme, Dennis Den Ouden-Van Der Horst

Protections Conference

Grass covers offer a level of erosion protection against hydrodynamic loads induced by overtopping waves. The development of an accurate failure criterion for grass covers has been hampered by the lack of understanding of how grass fails. Methods have been developed to predict the hydrodynamic loads that act on the levee surface and consequently are transmitted to the porous grass cover and subsoil. However, it is unknown how these hydrodynamic surface loads on the soil are distributed amongst the pore water pressures and effective stresses, thereby offering a significant challenge for engineers to simulate the transmission of stresses into the …

Vol. 48 No. 11 - Whole No. 352, Jason Fisher

Mythprint

Mythprint is the monthly bulletin of the Mythopoeic Society, a nonprofit educational organization devoted to the study, discussion, and enjoyment of myth and fantasy literature, especially the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Charles Williams. To promote these interests, the Society publishes three magazines, maintains a World Wide Web site, and sponsors the annual Mythopoeic Conference and awards for fiction and scholarship, as well as local and written discussion groups.

Vol. 48 No. 7 - Whole No. 348, Jason Fisher

Mythprint

Mythprint is the monthly bulletin of the Mythopoeic Society, a nonprofit educational organization devoted to the study, discussion, and enjoyment of myth and fantasy literature, especially the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Charles Williams. To promote these interests, the Society publishes three magazines, maintains a World Wide Web site, and sponsors the annual Mythopoeic Conference and awards for fiction and scholarship, as well as local and written discussion groups.

Vol. 48 No. 2 - Whole No. 343, Jason Fisher

Mythprint

Mythprint is the monthly bulletin of the Mythopoeic Society, a nonprofit educational organization devoted to the study, discussion, and enjoyment of myth and fantasy literature, especially the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Charles Williams. To promote these interests, the Society publishes three magazines, maintains a World Wide Web site, and sponsors the annual Mythopoeic Conference and awards for fiction and scholarship, as well as local and written discussion groups.

Hydraulic Computations For Stepped Concrete Overlays Of Embankment Dams, Tony L. Wahl, Sherry L. Hunt, Kem C. Kadavy, Henry T. Falvey

Protections Conference

One method for rehabilitating and modernizing embankment dams is the addition of a concrete overlay that protects the embankment and allows floods to pass safely over the dam. Roller compacted concrete is commonly used, which makes it practical to use a stepped construction that also enhances energy dissipation. Analysis of flow conditions over such structures requires computation of aerated flow and its effects on flow depth, training wall design, and energy dissipation. This paper describes Spillway Pro, an energy-based water surface profile calculation tool for smooth spillway chutes (Wahl et al. 2019), recently improved to also analyze stepped chutes. The …

Quasi-Prototype Size Testing Of Wedge-Shaped Block For Armoring Embankment Dams And Levees, Francisco Javier Caballero, Miguel Ángel Toledo, Rafael Moran, Javier Peraita

Protections Conference

A series of tests of wedge-shaped blocks intended for armoring embankment dams and levees was carried out in a new experimental facility (‘Hydraulic Experimentation Facility—Luis Ruano’) under quasi-prototype conditions. This unique facility is located in the canal leading to the Laverné reservoir (Zaragoza, Spain) with a maximum vertical drop of 7 m and discharge up to 9 m³s ⁻¹. The aim was to conduct experimental research on technologies to protect embankment dams and dikes against overflowing erosion under quasi-prototype conditions. The results of the tests demonstrate the ability of the WSBs to withstand high unit …

Esp For Biotechnology Purposes In Serbian Higher Education: The Skills Required And Blended Learning Environment, Milevica Bojovic

Global Advances in Business Communication

Biotechnology engineering is a complex domain that explores the use of living systems and organisms to develop products or any technological application that uses biological systems and living organisms to make or modify products or processes for specific use in the production of raw food, feed, and food processing. English as a foreign language in biotechnology engineering reflects the complexity in terms of content knowledge, language skills, and strategies characteristic of biotechnology. The article focuses on the knowledge and skills a biotechnology engineer should acquire with the emphasis on communicative language ability in English as a foreign language for specific …

“Any Time, Any Place, Any Path, Any Pace:” A Curricular Design For The Teaching Of Languages For Specific Purposes In The Pandemic Era And Beyond, Steven J. Sacco, Martha Pereszlenyi-Pinter, Diana M. Ruggiero

Global Advances in Business Communication

As US universities face unprecedented financial challenges due to the Covid-19 pandemic, university officials have begun reducing and even eliminating foreign language programs. NYU marketing professor Scott Galloway is even predicting the demise of dozens of US colleges and universities as they depend almost exclusively on tuition (Galloway, 2020). Public health officials question whether pre-pandemic educational conditions will resume even after the end of the pandemic. Costly safety measures at schools and universities will have to be implemented. To safeguard the teaching of LSP courses, this essay proposes the adoption of a Center for LSP Studies, preferably anchored at a …

Special Issue: Global Advances In Business Communication - Wlsp World Languages For Specific Purposes: The Future Is Blended, Steven J. Sacco, Diana M. Ruggiero

Global Advances in Business Communication

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Riprap Protection Exposed To Overtopping Phenomena: A Review Of Laboratory Experimental Models, Théo Dezert, Geir Helge Kiplesund, Fjóla Guðrún Sigtryggsdóttir

Protections Conference

There are increasing demands from dam safety regulations and guidelines to upgrade the rockfill dams, especially in Norway where over 180 large rockfill dams are present. To protect the hydraulic structure against overtopping events or leakages, it is important to use defence mechanisms such as a protective layer of riprap on the downstream slope. In this article, we display 9 experimental setups of riprap, conducted at the hydraulic laboratory of NTNU (Trondheim) and subjected to overtopping phenomena with increasing water discharge, until the complete failure of the model. These tests were performed on models with dumped and placed riprap, with …

Vol. 47 No. 3 - Whole No. 332, Jason Fisher

Mythprint

Mythprint is the monthly bulletin of the Mythopoeic Society, a nonprofit educational organization devoted to the study, discussion, and enjoyment of myth and fantasy literature, especially the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Charles Williams. To promote these interests, the Society publishes three magazines, maintains a World Wide Web site, and sponsors the annual Mythopoeic Conference and awards for fiction and scholarship, as well as local and written discussion groups.

Vol. 47 No. 1 - Whole No. 330, Janet Croft

Mythprint

Mythprint is the monthly bulletin of the Mythopoeic Society, a nonprofit educational organization devoted to the study, discussion, and enjoyment of myth and fantasy literature, especially the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Charles Williams. To promote these interests, the Society publishes three magazines, maintains a World Wide Web site, and sponsors the annual Mythopoeic Conference and awards for fiction and scholarship, as well as local and written discussion groups.

Student Engagement In An Online Engineering Afterschool Program During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Virginia Snodgrass Rangel, Jerrod A. Henderson, Chelsea Martinez, Rick Greer

Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education Research (J-PEER)

The COVID-19 pandemic forced much of schooling online and limited students’ access to informal learning opportunities such as afterschool programs. The purpose of this study was to investigate how fourth- and fifth-grade students engaged in an online engineering program and what factors influenced their engagement. We drew on a four-dimensional model of student engagement to describe how students engaged in the afterschool engineering program and to identify the factors that enhanced or inhibited engagement. Using a case study design, we drew on interviews with six program mentors and ten students and observation data from weekly Zoom sessions throughout the 2020–2021 …

Overflow Tests On Grass-Covered Embankments At The Living Lab Hedwige-Prosperpolder: An Overview, André R. Koelewijn, Stephan J.H. Rikkert, Patrik Peeters, Davy Depreiter, Myron Van Damme, Wouter Zomer

Protections Conference

In regions with a temperate climate, a well-maintained grass sod on a clay layer is considered a reliable protection for dams and dikes. In the Living Lab Hedwige-Prosperpolder, on the left bank of the Scheldt river straddling the border between Belgium and the Netherlands, a series of 27 overflow tests with a purpose-built overflow generator has been executed to determine the strength of the protective layer against erosion at various conditions. The goal of this paper is to inform on the executed test program and the initial results. From the results, it was concluded that in general, a high-quality grass …