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Lynkd Magazine 1, Lynn University Jan 2024

Lynkd Magazine 1, Lynn University

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The Road To Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions: Deinstitutionalization And Mass Incarceration Nation, Corinna Barrett Lain Jan 2024

The Road To Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions: Deinstitutionalization And Mass Incarceration Nation, Corinna Barrett Lain

Law Faculty Publications

They say that the road to hell is paved with good intentions, and our failed implementation of deinstitutionalization inthe 1970s is a prime example of the point. In this symposium contribution-a response to Jeffrey Bellin's book MassIncarceration Nation-I offer a historical account of deinstitutionalization of state mental hospi­ tals, tracing how severelymentally ill patients were discharged from state hospitals and eventually made their way back to secure beds, but in our nation's jails and prisons instead. Mental health and mass incarceration are not separate crises, I argue, but rather inter­ connected problems with an interconnected past that require an interconnected …


Coffee: Lighting Its Complex Ground Truth And Percolating Its Molecular Brew, Róża Paterek, Sive Geoghegan, Bernadette S. Creaven, Aoife Power Jan 2024

Coffee: Lighting Its Complex Ground Truth And Percolating Its Molecular Brew, Róża Paterek, Sive Geoghegan, Bernadette S. Creaven, Aoife Power

Articles

Coffee is one of the most widely traded commodities worldwide and its popularity is only increasing. The International Coffee Organisation (ICO) reported a 6% increase in global production in 2020 to 10.5 million tonnes. Coffee production is quite involved (from sowing to harvesting, processing, packaging, and storage); consequently, the industry faces major challenges in terms of the assessment of its quality, flavour, and the components which contribute to coffee's characterisation, as well as the sustainability of coffee production and global trade. This has prompted multiple studies on the nature of the aroma and taste of the many varieties of coffee …


Ict-Enabled Change In Healthcare Organisations: Examining Implementation Practice Of Healthcare Documentation Projects, Selma Judia Furtado Jan 2024

Ict-Enabled Change In Healthcare Organisations: Examining Implementation Practice Of Healthcare Documentation Projects, Selma Judia Furtado

Doctoral

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An Image Processing Approach For Real-Time Safety Assessment Of Autonomous Drone Delivery, Assem A. Abdelhak, Dan Moss, Alan Hicks, Susan Mckeever Jan 2024

An Image Processing Approach For Real-Time Safety Assessment Of Autonomous Drone Delivery, Assem A. Abdelhak, Dan Moss, Alan Hicks, Susan Mckeever

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The aim of producing self-driving drones has driven many researchers to automate various drone driving functions, such as take-off, navigation, and landing. However, despite the emergence of delivery as one of the most important uses of autonomous drones, there is still no automatic way to verify the safety of the delivery stage. One of the primary steps in the delivery operation is to ensure that the dropping zone is a safe area on arrival and during the dropping process. This paper proposes an image-processing-based classification approach for the delivery drone dropping process at a predefined destination. It employs live streaming …


Fractal Dimensions And Machine Learning For Detection Of Parkinson's Disease In Resting-State Electroencephalography, Utkarsh Lal, Arjun Vinayak Chikkankod, Luca Longo Jan 2024

Fractal Dimensions And Machine Learning For Detection Of Parkinson's Disease In Resting-State Electroencephalography, Utkarsh Lal, Arjun Vinayak Chikkankod, Luca Longo

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Parkinson's disease (PD) is an incurable neurological disorder that degenerates the cerebrospinal nervous system and hinders motor functions. Electroencephalography (EEG) signal analysis can provide reliable information regarding PD conditions. However, EEG is a complex, multichannel, and nonlinear signal with noise that problematizes identifying PD symptoms. A few studies have employed fractal dimension (FD) to extract distinguishing PD features from EEG signals. However, no exploratory study exists, as per our knowledge, on the efficiency of the different FD measures. We aim to conduct a comparative analysis of the various FDs that, as feature extraction measures, can discriminate PD patients who are …


A Global Model-Agnostic Rule-Based Xai Method Based On Parameterized Event Primitives For Time Series Classifiers, Ephrem Tibebe Mekonnen, Luca Longo, Pierpaolo Dondio Jan 2024

A Global Model-Agnostic Rule-Based Xai Method Based On Parameterized Event Primitives For Time Series Classifiers, Ephrem Tibebe Mekonnen, Luca Longo, Pierpaolo Dondio

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Time series classification is a challenging research area where machine learning and deep learning techniques have shown remarkable performance. However, often, these are seen as black boxes due to their minimal interpretability. On the one hand, there is a plethora of eXplainable AI (XAI) methods designed to elucidate the functioning of models trained on image and tabular data. On the other hand, adapting these methods to explain deep learning-based time series classifiers may not be straightforward due to the temporal nature of time series data. This research proposes a novel global post-hoc explainable method for unearthing the key time steps …


A Novel Integration Of Data-Driven Rule Generation And Computational Argumentation For Enhanced Explainable Ai, Lucas Rizzo, Damiano Verda, Serena Berretta, Luca Longo Jan 2024

A Novel Integration Of Data-Driven Rule Generation And Computational Argumentation For Enhanced Explainable Ai, Lucas Rizzo, Damiano Verda, Serena Berretta, Luca Longo

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Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) is a research area that clarifies AI decision-making processes to build user trust and promote responsible AI. Hence, a key scientific challenge in XAI is the development of methods that generate transparent and interpretable explanations while maintaining scalability and effectiveness in complex scenarios. Rule-based methods in XAI generate rules that can potentially explain AI inferences, yet they can also become convoluted in large scenarios, hindering their readability and scalability. Moreover, they often lack contrastive explanations, leaving users uncertain why specific predictions are preferred. To address this scientific problem, we explore the integration of computational argumentation—a sub-field …


Extending User Control For Image Stylization Using Hierarchical Style Transfer Networks, Sunder Ali Khowaja, Sultan Almakdi, Muhammad Ali Memon, Parus Khuwaja, Adel Sulaiman, Ali Alqahtani, Asadullah Shaikh, Abdullah Alghamdi Jan 2024

Extending User Control For Image Stylization Using Hierarchical Style Transfer Networks, Sunder Ali Khowaja, Sultan Almakdi, Muhammad Ali Memon, Parus Khuwaja, Adel Sulaiman, Ali Alqahtani, Asadullah Shaikh, Abdullah Alghamdi

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Explainable Artificial Intelligence (Xai) 2.0: A Manifesto Of Open Challenges And Interdisciplinary Research Directions, Luca Longo, Mario Brcic, Federico Cabitza, Jaesik Choi, Roberto Confalonieri, Javier Del Ser, Riccardo Guidotti, Yoichi Hayashi, Francisco Herrera, Andreas Holzinger, Richard Jiang, Hassan Khosravi, Freddy Lecue, Gianclaudio Malgieri, Andrés Páez, Wojciech Samek, Johannes Schneider, Timo Speith, Simone Stumpf, Artificial Intelligence And Cognitive Load Research Lab Jan 2024

Explainable Artificial Intelligence (Xai) 2.0: A Manifesto Of Open Challenges And Interdisciplinary Research Directions, Luca Longo, Mario Brcic, Federico Cabitza, Jaesik Choi, Roberto Confalonieri, Javier Del Ser, Riccardo Guidotti, Yoichi Hayashi, Francisco Herrera, Andreas Holzinger, Richard Jiang, Hassan Khosravi, Freddy Lecue, Gianclaudio Malgieri, Andrés Páez, Wojciech Samek, Johannes Schneider, Timo Speith, Simone Stumpf, Artificial Intelligence And Cognitive Load Research Lab

Articles

Understanding black box models has become paramount as systems based on opaque Artificial Intelligence (AI) continue to flourish in diverse real-world applications. In response, Explainable AI (XAI) has emerged as a field of research with practical and ethical benefits across various domains. This paper highlights the advancements in XAI and its application in real-world scenarios and addresses the ongoing challenges within XAI, emphasizing the need for broader perspectives and collaborative efforts. We bring together experts from diverse fields to identify open problems, striving to synchronize research agendas and accelerate XAI in practical applications. By fostering collaborative discussion and interdisciplinary cooperation, …


Classifying The Content Of Online Notepad Services Using Active Learning, Mhd Wesam Al-Nabki, Eduardo Fidalgo, Enrique Alegre, Sarah Jane Delany, Francisco Jáñez-Martino Jan 2024

Classifying The Content Of Online Notepad Services Using Active Learning, Mhd Wesam Al-Nabki, Eduardo Fidalgo, Enrique Alegre, Sarah Jane Delany, Francisco Jáñez-Martino

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Pastebin is an online notepad service to share text anonymously. However, it could be misused to propagate suspicious or even illegal activities, like leaking sensitive information or sharing hyperlinks to child sexual abuse material. Due to the high rate of daily upload pastes, manual inspection of this material is not feasible. Conversely, an automatic classifier could identify such activities with little or no human intervention. However, a supervised model may require a significant number of training samples and have to handle distinct text typologies presented in Pastebin. This paper presents a classification approach composed of three cascading supervised classifiers that …


A Study How Gender Equality Affect Financial Inclusion In Pakistan, Mehwish Javed Jan 2024

A Study How Gender Equality Affect Financial Inclusion In Pakistan, Mehwish Javed

MS Islamic Banking and Finance Research Projects/Theses

The study focused on the relationship of gender equality with financial stability and financial inclusion in Pakistan. Time-series balanced annual frequency data between 2007 and 2023 (17 consecutive years) was collected from World Development Indicator (WDI), Global Financial Development Index (GFDI), and Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) databases. The results demonstrated positive relationship between gender equality and financial inclusion. This manifested the fact that gender equality, macroeconomic policies optimizations, adequate operational procedures, and risk management are all top priority areas that require attention to generate sustainable development of the Pakistani banking sector and enhanced financial inclusion. The research proposes …


The Factorial Structure Of The Toronto Alexithymia Scale (Tas-20) Among A Sample Of Al-Quds Open University Students, Abed Alrhman Al-Tamoni, Mohammed A. Shaheen Jan 2024

The Factorial Structure Of The Toronto Alexithymia Scale (Tas-20) Among A Sample Of Al-Quds Open University Students, Abed Alrhman Al-Tamoni, Mohammed A. Shaheen

Journal of Educational and Psychological Studies

The study aimed to investigate the factor structure of the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20) among a Palestinian sample of students from Al-Quds Open University, using a descriptive approach. The study also aimed to test the fit of five competing models. To achieve these objectives, the TAS-20 scale, developed by Bagby et al. (1994), was administered to a cluster random sample of 381 university students, consisting of 145 males and 236 females. The (WLSMV) was used to examine the factor structure of the scale, using Mplus 8 software. Results indicated that the one-factor and two-factor models did not fit the data, …


Assessing The Psychological And Social Impacts Of The Refugee Crisis On Members Of The Refugees-Hosting Community: A Survey Study Of The Jordan Community, Mohammad Hammouri, Ahmad M. S. Bani-Khaled, Rami A. Y. Tashtoush Jan 2024

Assessing The Psychological And Social Impacts Of The Refugee Crisis On Members Of The Refugees-Hosting Community: A Survey Study Of The Jordan Community, Mohammad Hammouri, Ahmad M. S. Bani-Khaled, Rami A. Y. Tashtoush

Journal of Educational and Psychological Studies

Abstract: The current research aimed to assess the psychological and social impacts on Jordanian. The Convenience sample consisted of (3152)To achieve the aim of the study, measure were developed to the psychosocial and social impact scale, which consists of (42) items, The results shown that the psychological effects are low, and social effects are moderate. The results also shown a significance difference on psychological effects to gender and age and work, but there were no significance differences on education level. The results also shown a significance difference on social effects to gender and age, but there is no a significance …


Enhancing Writing Quality And Self-Efficacy Beliefs Through Process-Oriented Task-Based Instruction And Multiple Feedback Forms, Samira Moussaoui Jan 2024

Enhancing Writing Quality And Self-Efficacy Beliefs Through Process-Oriented Task-Based Instruction And Multiple Feedback Forms, Samira Moussaoui

Journal of Educational and Psychological Studies

Abstract:This article presents the research findings of a quasi-experimental study seeking to enhance the writing quality and self-efficacy beliefs of Algerian undergraduate learners. The study employed task-based writing instruction within the process approach framework, and various forms of formative feedback (self-, peer-, and teacher feedback). The sample comprised 24 English as a foreign language (EFL) undergraduate learners with an intermediate level in academic writing. Data were collected through pre- and post-intervention writing tests to assess the participants’ writing quality, as well as pre- and post-intervention surveys, along with post-hoc interviews, to measure their writing self-efficacy levels. The analysis of the …


The Prevalence And Characteristic Of Latent Tb In Patients On Immunosuppressant Agents And Biological Treatment, Tuqa Deia Khadhim, Basil Fawzi Jassar Jan 2024

The Prevalence And Characteristic Of Latent Tb In Patients On Immunosuppressant Agents And Biological Treatment, Tuqa Deia Khadhim, Basil Fawzi Jassar

Muthanna Medical Journal

LTTB is a common condition occurring in one fourth of those who were exposed to mycobacterial bacilli with Medically induced immunosuppression stands as a significant risk factor for having LTTB. Aim of the study: To assess the prevalence and characteristics of LTTB in patients on immunosuppressive agents and biological treatment. A cross-sectional research of 150 patients on immunosuppressants and biological therapy for diverse diseases at Baghdad teaching hospital outpatient rheumatology, dermatology, and TB clinics between 2023 and 2024 was done. All patients were examined with a detailed clinical history, physical exam, and chest x-ray or CT scan. IGRA testing was …


Using Information Technology For Comprehensive Analysis And Prediction In Forensic Evidence, Faris Kamil Hasan Mihna, Mustafa Abdulfattah Habeeb, Yahya Layth Khaleel, Yasir Hussein Ali, Yasir Hussein Ali Jan 2024

Using Information Technology For Comprehensive Analysis And Prediction In Forensic Evidence, Faris Kamil Hasan Mihna, Mustafa Abdulfattah Habeeb, Yahya Layth Khaleel, Yasir Hussein Ali, Yasir Hussein Ali

Mesopotamian Journal of CyberSecurity

With the escalation of cybercriminal activities, the demand for forensic investigations into these crimes has grown significantly. However, the concept of systematic pre-preparation for potential forensic examinations during the software design phase, known as forensic readiness, has only recently gained attention. Against the backdrop of surging urban crime rates, this study aims to conduct a rigorous and precise analysis and forecast of crime rates in Los Angeles, employing advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies. This research amalgamates diverse datasets encompassing crime history, various socio-economic indicators, and geographical locations to attain a comprehensive understanding of how crimes manifest within the city. Leveraging …