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Robust Learning With Probabilistic Relaxation Using Hypothesis-Test-Based Sampling, Zilin Wang

Dissertations and Theses Collection (Open Access)

In recent years, deep learning has been a vital tool in various tasks. The performance of a neural network is usually evaluated by empirical risk minimization. However, robustness issues have gained great concern which can be fatal in safety-critical applications. Adversarial training can mitigate the issue by minimizing the loss of worst-case perturbations of data. It is effective in improving the robustness of the model, but it is too conservative, and the plain performance of the model can be unsatisfying. Probabilistic Robust Learning (PRL) empirically balances the average- and worst-case performance while the robustness of the model is not provable …

Observation Of Dense Collisional Soliton Complexes In A Two-Component Bose-Einstein Condensate, Sean M. Mossman, Garyfallia C. Katsimiga, Simeon I. Mistakidis, Alejandro Romero-Ros, Thomas M. Bersano, Peter Schmelcher, Panayotis G. Kevrekidis, Peter Engels

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

Solitons Are Nonlinear Solitary Waves Which Maintain their Shape over Time and through Collisions, Occurring in a Variety of Nonlinear Media from Plasmas to Optics. We Present an Experimental and Theoretical Study of Hydrodynamic Phenomena in a Two-Component Atomic Bose-Einstein Condensate Where a Soliton Array Emerges from the Imprinting of a Periodic Spin Pattern by a Microwave Pulse-Based Winding Technique. We Observe the Ensuing Dynamics Which Include Shape Deformations, the Emergence of Dark-Antidark Solitons, Apparent Spatial Frequency Tripling, and Decay and Revival of Contrast Related to Soliton Collisions. for the Densest Arrays, We Obtain Soliton Complexes Where Solitons Undergo Continued …

Publisher Correction: Observation Of Dense Collisional Soliton Complexes In A Two-Component Bose-Einstein Condensate (Communications Physics, (2024), 7, 1, (163), 10.1038/S42005-024-01659-W), Sean M. Mossman, Garyfallia C. Katsimiga, Simeon I. Mistakidis, Alejandro Romero-Ros, Thomas M. Bersano, Peter Schmelcher, Panayotis G. Kevrekidis, Peter Engels

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

In the first paragraph of the Methods section, the sentence "We begin with an elongated BEC of approximately 9 x 10587Rb atoms…," has erroneously been written without a space between the two superscripts "5" and "87". This has now been corrected in both the HTML and PDF of the article, and the same expression reads: We begin with an elongated BEC of approximately 9 x 105 87Rb atoms…"

Author Correction: Dual Nature Of Magnetism Driven By Momentum Dependent F-D Kondo Hybridization (Communications Physics, (2024), 7, 1, (186), 10.1038/S42005-024-01631-8), Byungkyun Kang, Yongbin Lee, Liqin Ke, Hyunsoo Kim, Myoung Hwan Kim, Chul Hong Park

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

Correction to: Communications Physicshttps://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-024-01631-8, published online 12 June 2024 In this article the grant number DE-AC02-07CH11358 relating to Ames National Laboratory was omitted. The original article has been corrected.

Publisher Correction: Observation Of Dense Collisional Soliton Complexes In A Two-Component Bose-Einstein Condensate (Communications Physics, (2024), 7, 1, (163), 10.1038/S42005-024-01659-W), Sean M. Mossman, Garyfallia C. Katsimiga, Simeon I. Mistakidis, Alejandro Romero-Ros, Thomas M. Bersano, Peter Schmelcher, Panayotis G. Kevrekidis, Peter Engels

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

In the first paragraph of the Methods section, the sentence "We begin with an elongated BEC of approximately 9 x 10587Rb atoms…," has erroneously been written without a space between the two superscripts "5" and "87". This has now been corrected in both the HTML and PDF of the article, and the same expression reads: We begin with an elongated BEC of approximately 9 x 105 87Rb atoms…"

Nodal Superconductivity In Miassite Rh17s15, Hyunsoo Kim, Makariy A. Tanatar, Marcin Kończykowski, Romain Grasset, Udhara S. Kaluarachchi, Serafim Teknowijoyo, Kyuil Cho, Aashish Sapkota, John M. Wilde, Matthew J. Krogstad, Sergey L. Bud'ko, Philip M.R. Brydon, Paul C. Canfield, Ruslan Prozorov

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

Solid state chemistry has produced a plethora of materials with properties not found in nature. For example, high-temperature superconductivity in cuprates is drastically different from the superconductivity of naturally occurring metals and alloys and is frequently referred to as unconventional. Unconventional superconductivity is also found in other synthetic compounds, such as iron-based and heavy-fermion superconductors. Here, we report compelling evidence of unconventional nodal superconductivity in synthetic samples of Rh₁₇S₁₅ (Tc = 5.4 K), which is also found in nature as the mineral miassite. We investigated the temperature-dependent variation of the London penetration depth Δλ(T) and the disorder …

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Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education

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Faculty Constructions Of Internationalization: Practice And Perception In Omani Higher Education, Said Al Furqani, Sylvie Lomer

Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education

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Practice Unveils Weaknesses: Analysing The Implementation Of Regulations On Seafarers’ Work/Rest Hours, Bikram S. Bhatia

World Maritime University Ph.D. Dissertations

Seafarers’ fatigue risk management is rooted in regulations on manning and work/rest hours. These regulations establish a minimum fatigue management standard achieved through work/rest hours compliance. Seafarers must maintain daily records of their work/rest hours and report any non-compliance to their company. However, adjustments to these records have been reported in the literature. Such malpractice obscures instances of non- compliance and hinders the feedback necessary for resolving these issues, including flag State review and amendments to minimum safe manning documents. It compromises the integrity of fatigue risk management and underscores the need for further research.

This study examined the implementation …

Improving Communication Between Providers And Patients During Pediatric Cancer Care, Yuritza Arciga

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

The Listen First Survivorship project explores the communication barriers faced by young adults and their families during cancer treatment. The project focuses on identifying communication gaps and developing strategies to better support Jacob’s Heart's young adult cancer survivors. This project was implemented by Jacob’s Heart Children’s Cancer Support Services and Dr. Stephanie Smith of the Pediatric Oncology department at Stanford Children’s Hospital. The participants described feeling overwhelmed with too much information and not enough answers to their questions during their appointments. Through qualitative interviews and focus groups, key findings revealed that young adults experienced significant gaps in knowledge due to …

Active Transportation Term Guide, Kalonni Steib

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

The Monterey County Health Department, through its Planning, Evaluation, and Policy (PEP) Department, is dedicated to promoting health equity by implementing strategic plans, aligning performance standards with national accreditation, and addressing social and environmental policies. Serving underserved and unincorporated communities, PEP focuses on overcoming language barriers in Monterey County, which has a significant Hispanic and Latino population. This project aimed to develop a bilingual glossary of active transportation terms to enhance communication between the community and government agencies. Implemented over three to six months, the glossary was piloted for feedback and updates. The project successfully identified key transportation terms and …

Communicating Development For Adults With Developmental Disabilities, Ruby Mandujano

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

Adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDDs) often face significant communication barriers that hinder their ability to express needs, access essential services, and engage fully in social, vocational, and healthcare settings. This paper explores how American Sign Language (ASL) can effectively reduce these communication barriers and promote self-advocacy among adults with developmental disabilities. The Gateway Center of Monterey County, an agency serving adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities aged 18 and over, provides a model of communication support by incorporating ASL into its programs. Although Gateway serves only a tiny percentage of the larger population of adults with intellectual and …

Identifying Gaps: Mixtec Parents’ Experiences Within The Salinas Union High School District, Daniela Maldonado Prudencio

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

The Salinas Union High School District has identified low academic performance among Mixtec-speaking students as a significant issue. Since these students are learning English and Spanish simultaneously, they often face language barriers that affect their academic progress. The school system lacks culturally relevant systems and practices to support their unique needs. This gap also leads to limited parental engagement, as Mixtec-speaking parents struggle to navigate the school system further impacting student’s success. Low graduation rates, limited access to higher education, and limited career opportunities are some of the outcomes. In response, Salinas Union High School Pupil and Personnel Services worked …

Work-Stealing Scheduler For Parallel Cache-Adaptive Algorithms, Chuqi Jiang

McKelvey School of Engineering Graduate Student Theses & Dissertations

Modern computing systems with hierarchical memory structures, such as multiple cache levels, main memory, and external storage, pose significant challenges in optimizing memory usage for algorithm efficiency. Traditional models like the Disk Access Model (DAM) and advancements such as cache-oblivious algorithms have focused on minimizing memory transfers without requiring explicit knowledge of memory hierarchy parameters. However, these approaches assume fixed memory sizes and exclusive cache access, limiting their applicability in real-world, shared-memory environments where memory allocations fluctuate. To address these limitations, cache-adaptive algorithms were developed to dynamically adjust to changing memory profiles, enabling near-optimal performance even in multi-process systems. While …

Gtree: Gpu-Friendly Privacy-Preserving Decision Tree Training And Inference, Qifan Wang, Shujie Cui, Lei Zhou, Ye Dong, Jianli Bai, Yun Sing Koh, Giovanni Russello

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Outsourcing Decision tree (DT) training and inference to cloud platforms raises privacy concerns. Recent Secure Multi-Party Computation (MPC)-based methods are hindered by heavy overhead. Few recent studies explored GPUs to improve MPC-protected deep learning, yet integrating GPUs into MPC-protected DT with massive data-dependent operations remains challenging, raising question: can MPC-protected DT training and inference fully leverage GPUs for optimal performance?We present GTree, the first scheme that exploits GPU to accelerate MPC-protected secure DT training and inference. GTree is built across 3 parties who jointly perform DT training and inference with GPUs. GTree is secure against semi-honest adversaries, ensuring that no …

Benefits Of Teaching Pre-Literacy In Waldorf Education In Early Childhood, April Guerrero

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

This senior capstone research project examines the benefits of teaching pre-literacy in Waldorf education in early childhood. In Waldorf Education, literacy development incorporates differentiated instructions that fosters cognitive and social emotional learning of their students. Through the use of literature review and several teachers in various grades of Waldorf schools, the result findings revealed that pedagogical practices around literacy instructions promote critical thinking skills, nurtures children’s creative expression, and imagination. Literacy curriculum in Waldorf schools allows students to create tangible evidence of self-expressions and communication skills. Given its emphasis on holistic curriculum, it allows teachers to engage with their diverse …

Benefits Of After School Programs On The Academic Success On Lower Elementary School Students, Jessica Rodriguez Rodriguez

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

After School programs offer significant benefits to students. They support students by offering tutoring, homework assistance, enrichment activities that reinforce classroom learning, and helping young students develop essential skills in reading, math, and critical thinking. The purpose of my capstone project is to examine the benefits of afterschool programs on the academic success of lower elementary school students. Through literature review, interviews with teachers, a coordinator, an academic coordinator, an administrator, and anonymous student surveys, the result findings indicated that afterschool programs are important and have benefited students in meeting their needs to foster their success. It also highlights the …

Enhanced Care Management, James Love

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

Santa Cruz County’s Enhanced Care Management (ECM) program assists Medi-Cal recipients who are unhoused, have substance use disorders/serious mental illness, or are high utilizers of medical services, obtain and maintain medical care coordination services. This population faces many challenges living in Santa Cruz, and the ECM team needs additional resources to continue the supportive work the care management program provides.

The needs assessment documents the ECM team’s desired physical and emotional resources to support their health and identifies the current barriers to supporting clients. The ECM team responded to a Google form survey and the responses were analyzed for common …

Addressing The Lack Of Parental Involvement With Spanish-Speaking Parents In Education, Zaira Cortez-Zacarias

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

Student achievement and engagement at an independent studies school must be improved by the lack of parental involvement among Spanish-speaking parents. Learning for Life charter school provides an alternative, flexible learning environment for middle and high school students (grades 7-12) who require more individualized attention and they serve students in Monterey, Salinas, San Benito, and Santa Cruz school districts. Identifying obstacles to parental involvement in Spanish-speaking families and creating plans to improve engagement and communication were the goals of this project. The project's main objectives were to develop outreach strategies that are sensitive to cultural differences, provide language assistance, and …

Career Readiness, Jeanette Quezada

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

This project aimed to address the lack of job experience among adolescents, which often leaves them feeling unprepared for the job market or higher education. Career readiness workshops were conducted with 7th-12th grade students at Learning For Life Charter School to enhance their job preparation skills. It was hypothesized that the workshops would boost students’ confidence in tasks such as filling out job and college applications, creating resumes, and writing cover letters. Pre- and post-workshop surveys revealed significant improvements in self-assessed confidence levels. Based on these findings, the workshops were beneficial for students. To further leverage these results, it is …

Addressing The Needs Of Survivors In Domestic Violence Shelters, Diana Edith Hernandez Saldivar

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

Survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking often face significant barriers to accessing basic hygiene items when seeking shelter. Monarch Services, a nonprofit in Santa Cruz County, addresses these challenges at its Mariposa House. The agency offers various services for survivors, including advocacy, case management, and emergency shelter. This project involved organizing a donation drive, enhancing the intake process with a needs assessment, and gathering client feedback through surveys on hygiene items received. The expected outcomes were collecting hygiene products, integrating a needs assessment into the intake form, and client feedback. The shelter successfully received hygiene donations, updated …

Harvesting Hope: How La Casa De La Cultura Serves Migrant Families Through Health And Advocacy Programs, Ana Ruiz

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

This project aims to enhance community engagement in Pajaro through strategic outreach and marketing efforts for weekly meetings hosted at La Casa de la Cultura. By increasing awareness and participation, the initiative seeks to empower residents, especially those from marginalized backgrounds, to access vital resources and services. The project will collect data on attendance and community interests, leading to more tailored presentations that address pressing concerns. Ultimately, this outreach aims to foster a unified, informed community capable of advocating for its needs and accessing available support systems effectively.

Cultural Concepts Of Distress Education For Clinicians, Leilani Jolene Santos Cancio

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

The Adult System of Care (ASOC) program at Monterey County Behavioral Health supports adults with mental health and co-occurring substance use disorders. Despite serving a diverse population, there is limited training that addresses the complex intersection of culture and mental health. This project involved a workshop for ASOC clinicians focused on cultural concepts of distress, specifically "ataque de nervios," a syndrome common in Hispanic and Latino individuals. The workshop aimed to enhance clinicians' understanding of how cultural identity impacts mental health symptoms. Pre and post-workshop surveys assessed knowledge gains. The project yielded positive outcomes, with clinicians gaining valuable insights into …

Bridging The Gap Of Client Engagement With Mental Health Services, Megan Cuva

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

Within Monterey County there is a continuum of deterioration of mental health and substance use. The Monterey County Behavioral Health: Adult Post Hospital Team (APHT) provides acute care to clients who are being discharged from the Emergency Room or Mental Health Unit with a mental health or substance use disorder. The purpose of the project is to help bridge the gap of client engagement through different collaborative methods of post hospital care. By analyzing quantitative data from the APHT tracking sheet and gathering qualitative insights through case notes and interviews with two mental health professionals, the researcher aims to determine …

Art For The Heart; Elevating The Annual Gathering For Women Art Fair, Melanie Verga

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

Homelessness among women in Monterey County has many women facing mental health challenges, social isolation, and financial instability. Gathering for Women, a local nonprofit, serves homeless and at-risk women by providing essential services, including opportunities for creative expression. The project focused on expanding art media workshops and hosting an Art Fair and Artist Showcase to amplify the voices of marginalized populations. Workshops introduced diverse artistic mediums including jewelry making, painting, knitting and design. The Art Fair showcased participants' work online and at a local gallery, promoting community connection and support. The project successfully engaged nine participants, creating opportunities for artistic …

Language Tutors And Building Connections With Peer Students, Malia Balas

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

To fulfill general education requirements, many college students must study a language other than English for academic and professional development. However, at California State University–Monterey Bay, language tutors stated that students often feel overwhelmed and struggle to stay motivated while studying their target language. Based on Vygotsky's Sociocultural Theory, a workshop was conducted to explore common challenges students face and how tutors can address these issues. Findings show the importance of recognizing and managing emotional states and establishing SMART goals during tutoring sessions. An individualized approach based on the Zone of Proximal Development proved essential for fostering peer-student motivation and …

Bridging The Gap: Fostering Open Dialogue On Resource Access And Service Needs, Cameron Castillo

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

This project investigates whether there are additional resources desired by clients or are needed to better support said clients in their recovery at the Interim, Inc. organization. This agency is a nonprofit organization whose sole purpose is to build community connections through providing services to individuals facing mental health and substance use challenges. While there is a wide range of programs available, there may still be clients with unmet needs. The purpose of this project was to identify any service gaps by conducting separate surveys of clients and staff members. Through the use of open-ended questions, the expectation of receiving …

Stronger Together: Boys Of New School And Costanoa, Analupita Ramirez-Cortes

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

Monarch Services has been in Santa Cruz County since 1977, providing crucial support to survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault through a range of programs, including crisis intervention, youth support, and emergency shelter. The organization serves approximately 1,500 survivors annually, with a strong focus on Latino communities and bilingual services. In 2023, the Children and Youth Program served 118 individuals, offering case management, safety planning, and counseling. This capstone project aims to bridge the gap in education about healthy relationships, focusing on teen boys at CostaNoa High School and New School Community Day High School. By implementing The Mask …

Breaking Barriers: Bridging Resource Gaps In Low-Income Communities, Maria Fernanda Yanez Cabrera

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

Low-income individuals often struggle with access to resources. CHISPA, which serves low-income individuals in Monterey County and surrounding areas, aims to remove this barrier through its community services department. CHISPA worked to address the resource barrier by implementing a resource fair for its population of low-income individuals, families, and seniors. CHISPA’s residents were invited to come out, explore, and create connections with community resources during a resource fair. The expected outcome was for residents gaining new knowledge and the opportunity to use resources there or in the future. Results were measured through surveys which showed success and interest in the …

Empowering Minds: Navigating Mental Health Through Workshop Based Learning, Isabel E. Rocha-Fernandez

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

Luna Y Sol is an organization located in Santa Cruz county, specifically in Watsonville. The organization serves youth with the ages ranging from 12 to 17 and their families. Luna Y Sol supports youth with Mental Health, Trauma and those who are exposed or have direct involvement with violence. The program offers youth a safe place and community for them to visit when needed. The project implemented at Luna Y Sol consisted of a four part mental health workshop for youth. The purpose was for youth to become more aware and familiarized on the topic of mental health which included, …