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A Unified Optimization Framework Of Ann-Snn Conversion: Towards Optimal Mapping From Activation Values To Firing Rates, Haiyan Jiang, Srinivas Anumasa, Giulia De Masi, Huan Xiong, Bin Gu

Machine Learning Faculty Publications

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have gained significant attention for their energy-efficient and fast-inference capabilities, but training SNNs from scratch can be challenging due to the discrete nature of spikes. One alternative method is to convert an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) into an SNN, known as ANN-SNN conversion. Currently, existing ANN-SNN conversion methods often involve redesigning the ANN with a new activation function, rather than utilizing the traditional ReLU, and converting it to an SNN. However, these methods do not take into account the potential performance loss between the regular ANN with ReLU and the tailored ANN. In this work, we …

Orgsp Quarterly: An Orgsp Newsletter From Lincoln Memorial University, Vol 8.2, Lincoln Memorial University, Office Of Research Grants And Sponsored Projects

ORGSP Quarterly

This quarter's issue focuses on summer research. Learn about the excellent work of LMU's faculty, staff, and students.

A Companion Guide For The Discipleship To Missional Community (D2mc) Program, Jedidiah T. Maschke

Doctor of Ministry Major Applied Project

This Doctor of Ministry (DMin.) Major Applied Project (MAP) offers a companion guide for the discipleship training program called D2MC (Discipleship to Missional Community) taught by PLI, a leadership development organization that works primarily with the LCMS. The D2MC program is based on the training pioneered by Mike Breen through 3DM. The companion guide shows how the methods and practices taught by PLI are soundly based in Scripture and confessional Lutheran theology and offers some personal insights and devotional thoughts. The companion guide was distributed and field tested with volunteer participants through and with the approval of PLI. Participants in …

Three’S A Crowd: Conflicts Of Interest In Third- Party Preparation Of Environmental Impact Statements And Evolving Agency Responsibility Under Nepa, Colleen Mcgrath

UC Law Environmental Journal

Although the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) is designed to promote accountability and transparency about the environmental impacts of large-scale government projects, the lack of oversight over the production of Environmental Impact Statements (EIS) can result in incomplete or biased reports, especially when the EIS is prepared by a third party that has financial or organizational ties to the project. As such, this paper investigates the inherent conflicts of interest that arise when third parties prepare EIS and how that lack of impartiality can undermine the credibility of environmental assessments, erode public trust, and diminish the effectiveness of NEPA as …

A Framework For Personal Respiratory Ethics, Ian W. Goddard

Journal of Health Ethics

The Covid-19 pandemic raises the need for an ethical framework that addresses the unique ethical challenges and questions arising from airborne infectious diseases. For example, are we ever ethically obliged to wear a face mask? If so, why and when? The Respiratory Ethics Framework (REF) herein proposes pathways to answers grounded in ethical norms and the moral principles of non-harm, beneficence and respect for personal autonomy. REF is a personal ethics wherein your ethical duty to increase your respiratory hygiene efforts—such as by donning a mask—is proportional to your estimation of an increase in the likelihood that your respiratory effluent …

A Companion Guide For The Discipleship To Missional Community (D2mc) Program, Jedidiah T. Maschke

Doctor of Ministry Major Applied Project

This Doctor of Ministry (DMin.) Major Applied Project (MAP) offers a companion guide for the discipleship training program called D2MC (Discipleship to Missional Community) taught by PLI, a leadership development organization that works primarily with the LCMS. The D2MC program is based on the training pioneered by Mike Breen through 3DM. The companion guide shows how the methods and practices taught by PLI are soundly based in Scripture and confessional Lutheran theology and offers some personal insights and devotional thoughts. The companion guide was distributed and field tested with volunteer participants through and with the approval of PLI. Participants in …

Arcadia: A Student Journal For Faith And Culture

Arcadia: A Student Journal for Faith and Culture

No abstract provided.

Longwood Magazine 2023 Summer, Longwood University

Alumni Newsletters & Bulletins

No abstract provided.

Olli Fall 2023 Catalog, Toniann Leavitt

Osher Lifelong Learning Institute

No abstract provided.

Urinary Glyphosate Concentrations Among Pregnant Participants In A Randomized, Crossover Trial Of Organic And Conventional Diets, Carly Hyland, Meredith Spivak, Lianne Sheppard, Bruce P. Lanphear, Michael Antoniou, Maria Ospina, Antonia M. Calafat, Cynthia L. Curl

Public and Population Health Faculty Publications and Presentations

Background: Consumption of an organic diet reduces exposure to a range of agricultural pesticides. Only three studies have examined the effect of an organic diet intervention on exposure to the herbicide glyphosate, the most heavily used agricultural chemical in the world. Despite its widespread use, the primary sources of glyphosate exposure in humans are poorly understood.

Objective: Our objective was to examine the effect of an organic diet intervention on urinary glyphosate concentrations among pregnant individuals.

Methods: We conducted a 2-wk randomized crossover trial in which 39 pregnant participants living near (≤ 0.5 km) or far (> 0.5 km) from …

Protecting Wa Crops Issue 31 - July 2023, Department Of Primary Industries And Regional Development, Western Australia

Protecting WA Crops

Protecting WA Crops Issue 31 - July 2023 contents:

• New project to reduce Rhizoctonia impact in low and medium rainfall zones
• Meet Crop Protection team member – Dr Ahmed Saad

The Art Of A Slugslayer: An Exploration Of The Process Of Extracting Radulae From Lehmannia Valentiana For The Purpose Of Viewing In The Scanning Electron Microscope, Elizabeth Gannon

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

A radula is an anatomical structure found exclusively in mollusks that acts as both tongue and teeth in feeding. Its structure has been studied for more than a century, yet published methods for identifying, dissecting, and cleaning radulae for microscopy are almost unintelligible to anyone not already familiar with molluscan anatomy. The purpose of this project was to identify the best method of garden slug radula isolation and present it in a manner that anyone could understand and successfully use.

After identifying the location of the radula in the slug, the easiest means of removal proved to be simply regurgitating …

The Impact Of Vitamin D On Cancer: A Mini Review., Gerbenn Seraphin, Sandra Rieger, Martin Hewison, Enrico Capobianco, Thomas S Lisse

Faculty Research 2023

In this review, we summarize the most recent advances in vitamin D cancer research to provide molecular clarity, as well as its translational trajectory across the cancer landscape. Vitamin D is well known for its role in regulating mineral homeostasis; however, vitamin D deficiency has also been linked to the development and progression of a number of cancer types. Recent epigenomic, transcriptomic, and proteomic studies have revealed novel vitamin D-mediated biological mechanisms that regulate cancer cell self-renewal, differentiation, proliferation, transformation, and death. Tumor microenvironmental studies have also revealed dynamic relationships between the immune system and vitamin D's anti-neoplastic properties. These …

Citizen Science Data Reveal Regional Heterogeneity In Phenological Response To Climate In The Large Milkweed Bug,, Alexis Garretson, Tedra Cuddy, Alexandra G Duffy, Inaturalist Citizen Scientists, Rebecca E Forkner

Faculty Research 2023

Regional populations of geographically widespread species may respond to differ- ent environmental factors across the species' range, generating divergent effects of climate change on life-history phenology. Using thousands of citizen science obser- vations extracted from iNaturalist and associated with corresponding temperature, precipitation, elevation, and daylength information, we examined the drivers of adult mating and of nymphal phenology, development, and group size for populations of the large milkweed bug, Oncopeltus fasciatus, in different ecoregions. Research-grade iNaturalist images were correctly identified 98.3% of the time and yielded more than 3000 observations of nymphal groups and 1000 observations of mating adults span- ning …

Autologous Humanized Pdx Modeling For Immuno-Oncology Recapitulates Features Of The Human Tumor Microenvironment., Michael Chiorazzi, Jan Martinek, Bradley Krasnick, Yunjiang Zheng, Keenan J Robbins, Rihao Qu, Gabriel Kaufmann, Zachary Skidmore, Melani Juric, Laura A Henze, Frederic Brösecke, Adam Adonyi, Jun Zhao, Liang Shan, Esen Sefik, Jacqueline Mudd, Ye Bi, S Peter Goedegebuure, Malachi Griffith, Obi Griffith, Abimbola Oyedeji, Sofia Fertuzinhos, Rolando Garcia-Milian, Daniel Boffa, Frank Detterbeck, Andrew Dhanasopon, Justin Blasberg, Benjamin Judson, Scott Gettinger, Katerina Politi, Yuval Kluger, Karolina Palucka, Ryan C Fields, Richard A Flavell

Faculty Research 2023

BACKGROUND: Interactions between immune and tumor cells are critical to determining cancer progression and response. In addition, preclinical prediction of immune-related drug efficacy is limited by interspecies differences between human and mouse, as well as inter-person germline and somatic variation. To address these gaps, we developed an autologous system that models the tumor microenvironment (TME) from individual patients with solid tumors.

METHOD: With patient-derived bone marrow hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs), we engrafted a patient's hematopoietic system in MISTRG6 mice, followed by transfer of patient-derived xenograft (PDX) tissue, providing a fully genetically matched model to recapitulate the individual's TME. …

Ua64/2 The Challenge: Magazine For The Center For Gifted Studies (No. 54, Summer 2023), Elizabeth Joyce Editor, Western Kentucky University

Gifted Studies Publications

Magazine created by and about the WKU Center for Gifted Studies.

Developing A Quality Control System For Biotechnological Device Inspection Improvement, Harsimran Hothi, Fatemeh Davoudi Kakhki

General Engineering

Incoming quality control (IQC) is integral to quality management system of manufacturing industries. IQC plays a significant role in ensuring delivery of high standard products to the target customers and, in turn, affects the company’s reputation and their competitiveness in the industry. Presenting a case from a biotechnology company, the purpose of this research is to develop a quality control system for inspection improvement of a biotechnological device. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the IQC Department encountered inconsistencies with output rate when providing inspected parts to the Manufacturing Department: an issue that could be mitigated with a documented process that addresses …

Ensemble Of Handcrafted Features Of Environment Sound Classification Using A Deep Convolutional Neural Network To Enhance Accuracy And Reduce Computational Complexity, Ibrahim Abdulrahman Aljubayri

Theses and Dissertations

Environmental sound classification (ESC) is an area of active research in signal and image processing that has made significant strides over the past several years. The goal of ESC is to classify environmental sounds by extracting and analyzing handcrafted and deep features from various acoustic events. The task is complex because environmental sounds are typically unstructured, nonstationary, and overlapping. Multiple deep learning (DL) approaches have successfully tackled the ESC problem and outperformed conventional classifiers like k-nearest neighbors (kNN) or support vector machine (SVM). However, most DL approaches have high computational costs, making them unsuitable for use in embedded systems applications. …

Smokejumper Magazine, July 2023, National Smokejumper Association

Smokejumper and Static Line Magazines

Message from the President; Denali, the Great One—An Early Ascent of North America's Highest Peak; The Jump List; Motorcycles Are Not Approved for Packouts; Randy Hurst; Small Town Connections; Lost Horizons; Odds and Ends; Whites OFF The Breaks; Moose Tracks in the Timber; Notes from the Ranks; Sounding Off from the Editor; Jack Demmons Remembered; Fighting Wildfire During Extreme Burning Conditions; "Too Steep and Too Rough"; Off the List; Not Forgotten; Public Involvement; So - Is There a Fee?; Fire Jumps in One Season; The Legend of Black Water Canyon;

Religious Liberty For Religious Child-Welfare Organizations: Promises And Perils, Asma T. Uddin

Notre Dame Law Review Reflection

In the 2015 case Obergefell v. Hodges, the U.S. Supreme Court held that states cannot deny same-sex couples access to marriage and its accompanying benefits. Some religious communities with traditional beliefs about marriage and sexuality responded to the ruling with strong concerns about its potential impact on their religious exercise.

One area of concern involved religious child-welfare organizations that work with the state to provide these services. In all states, there are two options for prospective parents seeking to adopt children. In the private system, birth parents voluntarily place their child up for adoption through a private organization. In …

Effects Of Low-Energy X-Rays And Uv Radiation On Fibroblast Cells, Michelle Gorodisky, Congyue Peng, Arianna Csiszer, Delphine Dean

Chemistry Summer Research Program

No abstract provided.

Understanding The Leaders Of Tomorrow: The Need To Study Leadership In Adolescence, Jennifer L. Tackett, Kathleen W. Reardon, Nathanael J. Fast, Lars Johnson

Psychology Faculty Publications

Leadership traits and behaviors are observed early in human development, and although an improved understanding of youth leadership would usefully inform many real-world contexts (e.g., education, parenting, policy), most empirical work on leadership has been limited to adult populations. The purpose of the current article is to add a developmental perspective to leadership research that has so far been absent. Here, we (a) highlight adolescence as a critical developmental period for leadership emergence and development, (b) argue that leadership among youths is poorly understood and critically understudied, (c) provide exemplars of synergy between research on leadership and adolescent development that …

2023-2024 Catalog, Governors State University

Catalogs

The 2023-2024 Governors State University Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog is a comprehensive listing of current information regarding:
Degree Requirements
Course Offerings
Undergraduate and Graduate Rules and Regulations

Detection Of Imipenem Resistant Hypervirulent Klebsiella Pneumonia In Uti Patients, Ismael Waadullah Ismael, Suhaib Khalid Ibrahim, Maitham Sabah Sadiq

Al-Nisour Journal for Medical Sciences

Klebsiella pneumonia is a very deleterious microbes that is essentially take gram dye staining & considered gram negative when stained by gram staining method and appear microscopically as bar or rod in shape which have very mucoid large specific colonies on blood agar medium due to potential ability to produce large glycocalyx and muco- polysaccharides that link together to secrete large biofilm and slime layer which in turn increase invasive ability of microbes to host and become resistant to several effective drugs , increase these ability being widely observed in highly evolutionary strains that have multi-virulent factors like muco-polysaccharide capsule …

Kg-Hub-Building And Exchanging Biological Knowledge Graphs., J Harry Caufield, Tim Putman, Kevin Schaper, Deepak R Unni, Harshad Hegde, Tiffany J Callahan, Luca Cappelletti, Sierra A T Moxon, Vida Ravanmehr, Seth Carbon, Lauren E Chan, Katherina Cortes, Kent A Shefchek, Glass Elsarboukh, Jim Balhoff, Tommaso Fontana, Nicolas Matentzoglu, Richard M Bruskiewich, Anne E Thessen, Nomi L Harris, Monica C Munoz-Torres, Melissa A Haendel, Peter N Robinson, Marcin P Joachimiak, Christopher J Mungall, Justin T Reese

Faculty Research 2023

MOTIVATION: Knowledge graphs (KGs) are a powerful approach for integrating heterogeneous data and making inferences in biology and many other domains, but a coherent solution for constructing, exchanging, and facilitating the downstream use of KGs is lacking.

RESULTS: Here we present KG-Hub, a platform that enables standardized construction, exchange, and reuse of KGs. Features include a simple, modular extract-transform-load pattern for producing graphs compliant with Biolink Model (a high-level data model for standardizing biological data), easy integration of any OBO (Open Biological and Biomedical Ontologies) ontology, cached downloads of upstream data sources, versioned and automatically updated builds with stable URLs, …

Grape For Fast And Scalable Graph Processing And Random-Walk-Based Embedding, Luca Cappelletti, Tommaso Fontana, Elena Casiraghi, Vida Ravanmehr, Tiffany J. Callahan, Carlos Cano, Marcin P. Joachimiak, Christopher J. Mungall, Peter N Robinson, Justin Reese, Giorgio Valentini

Faculty Research 2023

Graph representation learning methods opened new avenues for addressing complex, real-world problems represented by graphs. However, many graphs used in these applications comprise millions of nodes and billions of edges and are beyond the capabilities of current methods and software implementations. We present GRAPE (Graph Representation Learning, Prediction and Evaluation), a software resource for graph processing and embedding that is able to scale with big graphs by using specialized and smart data structures, algorithms, and a fast parallel implementation of random-walk-based methods. Compared with state-of-the-art software resources, GRAPE shows an improvement of orders of magnitude in empirical space and time …

New Mexico Teachers’ Perceptions Of Students Who Stutter, Kyla Evelyn Cook

Speech and Hearing Sciences ETDs

Although stuttering may have a negative impact on quality of life, social support can mediate this impact and result in better outcomes. Teachers can be an important support for children. However, studies have shown that teachers have similar biases and knowledge compared to the public, and therefore may hold harmful beliefs about their students who stutter. This online survey is part of the assessment phase that aims to investigate the local attitudes and beliefs of K-12 school teachers in New Mexico. The data showed that New Mexico teachers have similar knowledge and biases as teachers globally. Results indicate New Mexico …

Community Voices Magazine - Begin By Believing!, Office Of Equity And Inclusion, East Tennessee State University

Community Voices [magazine]

Walk through what freedom means with a local political historian.

Learn how to respectfully attend a Powwow this summer or fall.

Look at locals working tireless to end gender based violence.

Career Pathways Program Annual Report For Ay 2022/23, Wie Yusuf

Career Pathways

Career Pathways launched in August 2017 as the university-wide initiative to provide graduate student professional development. It encompasses both the Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) and the Preparing Future Professionals (PFP) Certificates. The Preparing Future Faculty Certificate was established in 2007, while the Preparing Future Professionals Certificate was launched in 2017 concurrently with Career Pathways. The Career Pathways program prepares graduate students for successful transition into thriving careers. With the PFP Certificate, specifically, the emphasize has been on filling the existing gap in career and professional development for master’s students and doctoral students with career plans outside of academia. Career Pathways …

Summer 2023, Augustana College, Rock Island Illinois

Augustana Magazine

No abstract provided.