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Exploring The Relationships Between Problem Features In The Humaneval Dataset And Pass@K, Austin Vornhagen

Computer Science Theses, Dissertations, and Student Creative Activity

This thesis investigates the performance of large language models (LLMs) from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google on the HumanEval benchmark. This freely available benchmark automates the model evaluation process, ensuring consistent and objective evaluation. The HumanEval benchmark contains a dataset, consisting of 164 programming problems. Our analysis examines correlations between problem features, such as cyclomatic complexity, Halstead metrics, problem emphasis, a self-reflection metric we developed, and the models’ problem-solving capabilities on this dataset. XGBoost was utilized to identify the significance of various features in predicting pass@1 outcomes, with inconclusive findings suggesting areas for further investigation, including potential model overfitting and data …

Lawyers’ And Law Professors’ Experience With Worker Governance, Brett Mcdonnell

Chicago-Kent Law Review

No abstract provided.

Codes From Incidence Matrices Of Hypergraphs, Sudipta Mallik, Bahattin Yildiz

Mathematics Faculty Research

Binary codes are constructed from incidence matrices of hypergraphs. A combinatorial description is given for the minimum distances of such codes via a combinatorial tool called “eonv”. This combinatorial approach provides a faster alternative method of finding the minimum distance, which is known to be a hard problem. This is demonstrated on several classes of codes from hypergraphs. In particular the “eonv” method is used to prove that the minimum distance of codes from incidence matrices of complete 3-partite 3-uniform hypergraphs with partite set size of n is n2. A lower bound on the minimum distances of codes from …

2024 - The Fifth Annual Fall Symposium Of Student Scholars

Symposium of Student Scholars Program Books

The full program book from the Fall 2024 Symposium of Student Scholars, held in November 2024. Includes abstracts from the presentations and posters.

Getting Through A Dual Pandemic: Hardship And Social Resiliency In A Cambodian American Community, Carolyn Wong, Sothea Chiemruom, Chrisna Khuon, Curtis Mai, Sokha Eng, Go Sasaki, Sochantrea Song, Sophia Sar, Sreang Heng, Chantha Thang, Nikola Kovacevic

Institute for Asian American Studies Publications

In cities and towns across the United States, Asian Americans experienced the early 2020s health crisis as a dual pandemic of COVID-19 and anti-Asian racism. In Lowell, a large proportion of Cambodian American residents live in multi-generational households and are employed in working-class occupations with a high risk of exposure to the coronavirus. For this and other reasons, the pandemic had especially serious health and financial consequences for many members of the Cambodian American community. These pandemic challenges in Lowell mounted when a nationwide surge of anti-Asian racism swept through the city and surrounding areas.

Little information has been reported …

Guide To Supplementary Feeding And Budgeting, Department Of Primary Industries And Regional Development, Western Australia

Animal production and livestock factsheets

Supplementary feeding of sheep, with grain, hay or silage is necessary when pastures or stubbles are deficient in energy and protein.

A good supplementary feeding program will ensure sheep utilise as much dry paddock feed as possible as well as provide sufficient supplementary feed for maintenance or growth.

The Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development recommends supplementary or confined paddock feeding to maintain livestock productivity and avoid animal welfare and soil erosion problems.

Fallow And Red Deer: Requirements To Keep, Department Of Primary Industries And Regional Development, Western Australia

Animal production and livestock factsheets

This factsheet provides information on the requirements for keeping fallow and red deer species in Western Australia.

Fallow (Dama dama) and red deer (Cervus elaphus) are declared pests under the Biosecurity and Agriculture Management (BAM) Act 2007 in Western Australia (WA).

The department assists in preventing the establishment of deer in the wild. This means a permit is required to keep fallow and red deer in WA. Animals that escape or become feral must be recaptured or destroyed.

Small populations of feral deer occur in WA from escaped captive stock and deliberate release. Deer damage native plants, crops and plantation …

Australians Support Multi-Pronged Action To Build Ecosystem Resilience In The Great Barrier Reef, Stewart Lockie, Henry Bartelet, Brent Ritchie, Csilla Demeter, Bruce Taylor, Lintje Sie

Quantitative Methods and Information Technology Faculty Publications

The scale and pace of global environmental change calls for a dramatic upscaling of ecosystem restoration and for actions that build the resilience of ecosystems to future environmental change. This research aimed to quantify public perceptions of threats to the health of the Great Barrier Reef (GBR), Australia, and their support for strategies to address those threats including large-scale restoration and resilience-building actions. We examine how these perceptions change over time and across social cohorts including people living closer to the Reef (n = 2621) and the general Australian population (n = 5825). Respondents were concerned about both …

Topography And Wildfire Jointly Mediate Postfire Ecosystem Multifunctionality In A Chinese Boreal Forest, Jianjian Kong, Zifan Ding, Wenhua Cai, Jiaxing Zu, Bo Liu, Jian Yang

Earth and Environmental Sciences Faculty Publications

Both topography and wildfire can exert significant influences on ecosystem processes and functions during boreal forest successions. However, their impacts on ecosystem multifunctionality (EMF) remain unclear. A mega-fire burned an area of 8700 hectares in the Great Xing’an Mountains in 2000, creating a wide range of fire severity levels across various topographic positions. This provided a unique opportunity to explore the impacts of mixed-severity fire disturbance in boreal forests. We evaluated the effect pathways of wildfire and topography on aboveground multifunctionality (AEMF), soil multifunctionality (SEMF), and overall multifunctionality (OEMF). We found that high-severity burning resulted in lower AEMF, SEMF, and …

Lawyering In The Age Of Artificial Intelligence, Jonathan H. Choi, Amy B. Monahan, Daniel Schwarcz

Minnesota Law Review Vols. 106:2 onward (2021-present)

We conducted the first randomized controlled trial to study the effect of AI assistance on human legal analysis. We randomly assigned law school students to complete realistic legal tasks either with or without the assistance of GPT-4, tracking how long the students took on each task and blind-grading the results.

We found that access to GPT-4 only slightly and inconsistently improved the quality of participants’ legal analysis but induced large and consistent increases in speed. AI assistance improved the quality of output unevenly—where it was useful at all, the lowest-skilled participants saw the largest improvements. On the other hand, AI …

Reconstruction, And The Unfulfilled Promise Of Antitrust, Bennett Capers

Minnesota Law Review Vols. 106:2 onward (2021-present)

Wealth inequality remains as wide, and as troubling, as it was a half-century ago. While scholars have offered various explanations, there is a contributor that has escaped serious scrutiny: state monopoly power. It is not just that there is a long history of states and municipalities using their monopoly power to protect dominant interests, from enacting Black Codes to shuttering Chinese laundries to barring women, immigrants, and minorities from certain professions. It is also that states continue to use their monopoly power in ways that entrench inequality, from zoning restrictions to eminent domain to regulations that, in effect, bar Black …

Elevating Automated Software Maintenance Tasks With Large Language Models, Xin Zhou

Dissertations and Theses Collection (Open Access)

Software engineering involves many tasks across different phases such as requirements, design, implementation, testing, and maintenance. Among them, software maintenance is a crucial phase, typically accounting for more than half of the software life cycle's duration.
To boost developer productivity, in recent years, numerous research endeavors in software engineering have sought to automate certain software maintenance tasks through the application of machine learning techniques.
Since 2020, the emergence of advanced Large Language Models (LLMs) of code has opened new avenues for enhancing automated solutions in software maintenance.
This dissertation presents a series of works aimed at advancing automated solutions for …

2024 November - Tennessee Monthly Climate Report, Tennessee Climate Office, East Tennessee State University

Tennessee Climate Office Monthly Reports

No abstract provided.

Wind Erosion Control After Fire In Western Australia, Department Of Primary Industries And Regional Development, Western Australia

Natural resources factsheets

First steps after a fire

Act to limit further erosion:

• Remove livestock and keep them off burnt paddocks: they can be put into a confinement feeding area, an unburnt paddock or agisted.

• Minimise vehicle traffic on burnt areas

• Protect highly susceptible and valuable areas, such as house, garden, sheds, yards, gateways and laneways with binding spray, clay, gravel, old hay, or straw to give a full cover. A dust-free living and working environment is particularly important after a fire.

Leave burnt residue on roadsides, revegetation and bush areas to decrease the risk of wind erosion.

Natural Revegetation And No Grazing, Department Of Primary Industries And Regional Development, Western Australia

Natural resources factsheets

The department recommends that any dryland salinity management is part of a whole farm, and preferably a whole catchment, water management plan.

Natural revegetation and no grazing are only recommended for sites that are too saline, waterlogged and/or inundated for other treatments to succeed in the south-west of Western Australia. It is also the preferred option for the lowest possible cost.

Saltland Pastures In Western Australia, Department Of Primary Industries And Regional Development, Western Australia

Natural resources factsheets

Saltland pastures are associations of salt and waterlogging-tolerant plants that produce fodder for grazing animals from saline and waterlogged soils. Saltland pastures can improve production from saltland sites, reduce salt movement from the site, and improve soil structure.

The Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development recommends that saltland management is part of a whole-farm, and preferably whole-catchment, plan.

Religious Pressure And Perceptions Of Sexual Intimacy, Madison A. Price, Lenny Perry, Olivia Farias, Emma Jay

Science University Research Symposium (SURS)

Religious beliefs and sexual inclinations have co-existed, correlated, and conflicted within individuals. For years, the religious pressure bestowed upon an individual has been known to impact one’s sexual decisions, including one’s timing of sexual activity, the number of sexual partners one has, and one’s attitude toward pre-marital sex (Armstrong et al., 2019). This study examines the impact of religious pressure on these beliefs regarding sexual intimacy. A sample of about 38 college students ranging from ages 18-23 were randomly assigned to 3 different groups ranging from low to high religious pressure. Religious pressure was distributed in the form of music, …

Refining Chlorosulfonation Methods For The Synthesis Of A Perfluoroalkyl Arylsulfonimide (Pfsi) Monomer, Ainsley P. Foster, Benjamin Varney, Hua Mei

Science University Research Symposium (SURS)

Proton-exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells are sources of energy that are clean, quiet, and highly responsive to changes in power needs, making them promising for use in automobiles and other portable power devices. The electrolyte of a PEM cell–the layer responsible for conductivity–is a polymer membrane, commonly consisting of perfluoroalkyl sulfonic acid (PFSA) polymers. Perfluoroalkyl arylsulfonimide (PFSI) polymers are expected to improve the efficiency of PEM fuel cells through optimal stability and proton conductivity. The trifluovinylether (TFVE) aryl perfluorosulfonamide monomer is a new PFSI monomer proposed to fulfill these benefits once polymerized. A six-step synthesis route was initially designed to …

Srebp Versus Nrf1 Behavior Based On Cholesterol Sensing In Niemann-Pick Type C Using A Cos-7 Model, Christine Tran, Jacob Mcintyre, Felicity Sterling Phd

Science University Research Symposium (SURS)

Niemann-Pick disease type C (NPC) is a rare genetic disorder where cholesterol and lipid transport are blocked leading to accumulation in the lysosomes (National Organization of Rare Diseases (NORD), 2024; Boston Children’s Hospital). This accumulation can lead to neurological issues, such as developmental delay, ataxia, seizures, and early onset of dementia (Patterson, 2000). To study this disease more in depth, scientists have identified a drug called U18666A that induces NPC in the cells it is administered to (Lu, et al., 2015) which allows for the study of other structures and biomolecules in the sterol sensing and transport pathways.

Cholesterol has …

November 2024 Library & Learning Newsletter, Minnesota State University, Mankato. Library & Learning Dean’S Office Communications Team

Library & Learning Newsletters

PDF version of the November 2024 (Volume 3, Issue 3) Library & Learning Newsletter.

Panopto Video Platform: Product Review, Claudia Vela, Raymundo Garza-Araujo

TxDLA Journal of Digital Learning

Educational videos enhance the learning experience for students regardless of the delivery mode. A video platform can enhance the instructor’s social, cognitive, and teaching presence in the online classroom. It is an effective way to connect with students, deliver content, and improve the educational experience. Panopto is a tool for on-demand video sharing that is successful in online education. Panopto can transform how students learn and study, making the educational experience more engaging, effective, and accessible.

A Complete Invariant For Shift Equivalence For Boolean Matrices And Finite Relations, Ethan Akin, Marian Mrozek, Mateusz Przybylski, Jim Wiseman

Mathematics and Statistics Faculty Research & Creative Works

We give a complete invariant for shift equivalence for Boolean matrices (equivalently finite relations), in terms of the period, the induced partial order on recurrent components, and the cohomology class of the relation on those components.

Draft Final 2022 Unreclaimed Sites Sampling Ur-13 Site Evaluation Summary Report, Pioneer Technical Services, Inc.

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

No abstract provided.

Expanding Horizons: From Information To Inspiration At The Aaas Annual Meeting, Stephanie Bennett, Aja Bettencourt-Mccarthy, Karen Burton, Shelby Carroll, Amber Gruszeczka, Haoyong Lan, Melanie Radik

Libraries Faculty & Staff Publications

The authors attended the 2024 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) as part of a cohort of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) librarians sponsored by the partnership between the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) and AAAS. We describe two sessions, one on combating misinformation and one on open science. For these topics especially, hearing the perspectives of scientists was particularly valuable and interesting to us as librarians. We share our reasoning for attending a science disciplinary conference rather than a library conference in these days when one must carefully weigh a …

Pushing The Boundaries Of Rare Disease Diagnostics With The Help Of The First Undiagnosed Hackathon, Angelica Maria Delgado-Vega, Helene Cederroth, Fulya Taylan, Katja Ekholm, Marlene Ek, Håkan Thonberg, Anders Jemt, Daniel Nilsson, Jesper Eisfeldt, Kristine Bilgrav Saether, Ida Höijer, Ozlem Akgun-Dogan, Yui Asano, Tahsin Stefan Barakat, Dominyka Batkovskyte, Gareth Baynam, Olaf Bodamer, Wanna Chetruengchai, Pádraic Corcoran, Madeline Couse, Daniel Danis, German Demidov, Eisuke Dohi, Mattias Erhardsson, Luis Fernandez-Luna, Toyofumi Fujiwara, Neha Garg, Roberto Giugliani, Claudia Gonzaga-Jauregui, Giedre Grigelioniene, Tudor Groza, Cecilia Gunnarsson, Anna Hammarsjö, Charles Kumi Hammond, Özden Hatirnaz Ng, Sirisha Hesketh, Dineshani Hettiarachchi, Maria Johansson Soller, Umn Ahmed Kirmani, Martin Kjellberg, Malin Kvarnung, Oleg Kvlividze, Kristina Lagerstedt-Robinson, Paul Lasko, Timo Lassmann, Lynette Y S Lau, Steven Laurie, Weng Khong Lim, Zhandong Liu, Mariya Lysenkova Wiklander, Prince Makay, Alassane Baneye Maiga, Carolina Maya-González, M Stephen Meyn, Ramprasad Neethiraj, Vincenzo Nigro, Felix Nordgren, Jessica Nordlund, Sara Orrsjö, Jesper Ottosson, Ugur Ozbek, Özkan Özdemir, Clyde Partin, David A Pearce, Raquel Peck, Annie Pedersen, Maria Pettersson, Monnat Pongpanich, Manuel Posada De La Paz, Arun Ramani, Juan Andres Romero, Vanessa I Romero, Richard Rosenquist, Aung Min Saw, Matthew Spencer, Eva-Lena Stattin, Chalurmpon Srichomthong, Isabel Tapia-Paez, Domenica Taruscio, Julie P Taylor, Tinatin Tkemaladze, Ian Tully, Zeynep Tümer, Wendy A G Van Zelst-Stams, Alain Verloes, Emma Västerviga, Sailan Wang, Rachel Yang, Shinya Yamamoto, Vicente A Yépez, Qing Zhang, Vorasuk Shotelersuk, Samuel Agyei Wiafe, Yasemin Alanay, Lorenzo D Botto, Salman Kirmani, Aimé Lumaka, Elizabeth Emma Palmer, Ratna Dua Puri, Valtteri Wirta, Anna Lindstrand, Orion J Buske, Mikk Cederroth, Ann Nordgren

Duncan NRI Faculty and Staff Publications

The first-ever Undiagnosed Hackathon was a groundbreaking event held by the Wilhelm Foundation, the Karolinska Undiagnosed Disease Program, and PhenoTips in collaboration with UDNI to solve medical mysteries and advance diagnostics for undiagnosed rare diseases. Nearly 100 healthcare professionals and researchers from 28 countries participated, working intensively for 48 hours to diagnose 10 families with undiagnosed rare diseases. This innovative approach to precision diagnostics highlighted the power of international, multidisciplinary collaboration and patient partnership, yielding promising results for patients seeking answers and benefiting the entire rare diseases community.

Genomic Analysis Of Intracranial And Subcortical Brain Volumes Yields Polygenic Scores Accounting For Variation Across Ancestries, Luis M. García-Marín, Adrian I. Campos, Santiago Diaz-Torres, Jill A. Rabinowitz, Zuriel Ceja, Brittany L. Mitchell, Katrina L. Grasby, Jackson G. Thorp, Ingrid Agartz, Saud Alhusaini, David Ames, Philippe Amouyel, Ole A. Andreassen, Konstantinos Arfanakis, Alejandro Arias-Vasquez, Nicola J. Armstrong, Lavinia Athanasiu, Mark E. Bastin, Alexa S. Beiser, David A. Bennett, Joshua C. Bis, Marco P.M. Boks, Dorret I. Boomsma, Henry Brodaty, Rachel M. Brouwer, Jan K. Buitelaar, Ralph Burkhardt, Wiepke Cahn, Vince D. Calhoun, Owen T. Carmichael, Mallar Chakravarty, Qiang Chen, Christopher R.K. Ching, Sven Cichon

Clinical Research Faculty Publications

Subcortical brain structures are involved in developmental, psychiatric and neurological disorders. Here we performed genome-wide association studies meta-analyses of intracranial and nine subcortical brain volumes (brainstem, caudate nucleus, putamen, hippocampus, globus pallidus, thalamus, nucleus accumbens, amygdala and the ventral diencephalon) in 74,898 participants of European ancestry. We identified 254 independent loci associated with these brain volumes, explaining up to 35% of phenotypic variance. We observed gene expression in specific neural cell types across differentiation time points, including genes involved in intracellular signaling and brain aging-related processes. Polygenic scores for brain volumes showed predictive ability when applied to individuals of diverse …

Probabilistic Well-Posedness For The Nonlinear Wave Equation On B2 × T, Aynur Bulut

Faculty Publications

We establish probabilistic well-posedness results for the subcubic nonlinear wave equation, posed on the domain B2 × T, with randomly chosen initial data having radial symmetry in the B2 variable, and with vanishing Dirichlet boundary conditions on ∂B2 × T.

Association Of Chronic Malnutrition, And Not Anemia, With Cognitive Development In Ethiopian Schoolchildren: A Cross-Sectional Study, Befikadu Tariku Gutema, Muluken Bekele Sorrie, Sifray Batire, Tadiwos Hailu Zewdie, Bruno Levecke, Amina Abubakar, Stefaan De Henauw, Souheila Abbeddou

Institute for Human Development, East Africa

This study assesses the associations between nutritional statusand cognitive development of schoolchildren. A unit increase inheight-for-age Z-score was associated with 0.12 SD, 0.08 SD and0.12 SD increase in standardized digit span, Raven’s coloredprogressive metrics, and performance index of visual searchtask, respectively. A unit increase in body-mass-index-for-ageZ-score was associated with 0.11 SD increase in standardizeddigit span. Hemoglobin concentration was not associated withany of the cognitive outcomes. Chronic malnutrition was asso-ciated with cognitive development in schoolchildren while thin-ness and hemoglobin concentrations were associated withselected or no cognitive outcomes, respectively.

From Biased Data Inputs To Your Discriminatory Diagnosis Outputs: A Review Of Legal Liability For Artificial Intelligence In Healthcare, Amber Bolden

Michigan Technology Law Review

While health disparities in America occur due to non-medical circumstances, certain protected classes experience healthcare disparities due to the biases of medical professionals. Biased diagnoses, both intentional or unintentional, have existed throughout the history of the medical profession. That those biases are becoming data for training algorithms raises concerns as the medical field increasingly incorporates and standardizes artificial and augmented intelligence in patient diagnosis and treatment. Currently unregulated but with lifedetermining potential, artificial intelligence (AI) when used in patient treatment leads to important questions: should the doctor, the provider, or the AI developers be liable, and for what? Section II …

Unl Emeriti And Retirees Association Newsletter, November 2024

UNL Emeriti and Retirees Association: Newsletters and Other Materials

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Emeriti and Retirees Association Newsletter, November 2024