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Tooth Position Determination By Automatic Cutting And Marking Of Dental Panoramic X-Ray Film In Medical Image Processing, Yen-Cheng Huang, Chiung-An Chen, Tsung-Yi Chen, He-Sheng Chou, Wei-Chi Lin, Tzu-Chien Li, Jia-Jun Yuan, Szu-Yin Lin, Chun-Wei Li, Shih-Lun Chen, Yi-Cheng Mao, Patricia Angela R. Abu, Wei-Yuan Chiang, Wen-Shen Lo

Department of Information Systems & Computer Science Faculty Publications

This paper presents a novel method for automatic segmentation of dental X-ray images into single tooth sections and for placing every segmented tooth onto a precise corresponding position table. Moreover, the proposed method automatically determines the tooth’s position in a panoramic X-ray film. The image-processing step incorporates a variety of image-enhancement techniques, including sharpening, histogram equalization, and flat-field correction. Moreover, image processing was implemented iteratively to achieve higher pixel value contrast between the teeth and cavity. The next image-enhancement step is aimed at detecting the teeth cavity and involves determining the segment and points separating the upper and lower jaw, …

Dietary Power And Self-Determination Among Female Farmers In Burkina Faso: A Proposal For A Food Consumption Agency Metric, Zoe Tkaczyk

Geography Honors Projects

While food security is traditionally defined with four pillars, there are increasing calls for an additional two (agency and sustainability) so that we may more comprehensively conceptualize all dimensions of food security. However, the challenge is that it is difficult to effectively measure agency, a person’s control over their food system. Measuring women’s agency is especially critical in Africa South of the Sahara where women play prominent roles in farming and food preparation. This honors thesis explores the feasibility of creating a metric to measure agency within food systems and gender relations using data related to food security and dietary …

Consultation/Liaison Psychiatry During Covid-19, Robert Frierson, Steven B Lippmann

The University of Louisville Journal of Respiratory Infections

Consultation/liaison psychiatrists care for people with co-existing medical and psychologic difficulties. The coronavirus pandemic is stressful for patients and their psychiatric caregivers. Patients have lost support systems and harbor fears about exposing family to the virus. COVID-19 sometimes exacerbates previous psychiatric conditions, while diminishing intimacy with physicians. Everyone is oversaturated with COVID-19-related news focusing on rising concerns about the illness and about jobs, school, and housing insecurities.

The psychiatrist maintains a hospital presence despite fear of contracting the disease. Challenges include addressing staff morale, evidencing empathy despite telecommunication devices, and treating anxiety, depression, sleep phobias, post intubation flashbacks, COVID-19-induced cognitive …

A Telecollaboration Project On Giving Online Peer Feedback: Implementing A Multilateral Virtual Exchange During A Pandemic, Michael Joseph Ennis, Massimo Verzella, Silvia Montanari, Agnieszka M. Sendur, Marieta S. Pissarro, Staci Kaiser, Andrew Wimhurst

Language Resource Center Faculty Research

Telecollaboration, also called virtual exchange or online intercultural exchange, is a form of collaborative learning whereby language learners in different locations engage in computer-mediated communication to complete tasks online. There is ample evidence that telecollaboration promotes the acquisition of language skills, intercultural competence, and digital literacies. Challenges faced implementing virtual exchanges include differences in time zones, learning objectives, academic calendars, and cultural attitudes. The present article describes a case of a multilateral telecollaboration project based on the facilitated dialogue model involving four institutions-two in Europe and two in the United States-that was designed to prepare students for the experience of …

Teaching The Information Literate Supply Chain, Wendy G. Pothier

Faculty Publications

The COVID-19 pandemic placed a spotlight on supply chain and logistics in business conversations and highly sought information about current events became an increased area of teaching and research support for business librarians. Over the summer of 2021, UNH Business & Economics Librarian Wendy Pothier designed a new credit course for the fall semester, “Disruption in the Supply Chain". Utilizing her background in international logistics management, this talks shares an approaching to integrating the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy in designing and teaching a new business course.

Vigilance Experiences: Cancer Patients, Families, And Nurses, Wendy C. Kooken

Dissertations

Cancer disease, treatment, and errors in health care put patients at increased risk for poor outcomes. To improve outcomes and protect patients, researchers recommend increased vigilance; yet, research on vigilance in health care is minimal. There are even fewer studies on patients, family members, and nurses' experiences of vigilance, although such studies could contribute to understanding mechanisms that foster vigilance within and across groups.

The purpose of this study was twofold: Aim 1 was to describe the experiences of vigilance as perceived at the individual levels of patients receiving treatment for cancer, family members of a patient with cancer, and …

Nanoparticles And Photochemistry For Native-Like Transmembrane Protein Footprinting, Jie Sun, Xiaoran Roger Liu, Shuang Li, Peng He, Weikai Li, Michael L Gross

Open Access Publications

Mass spectrometry-based footprinting can probe higher order structure of soluble proteins in their native states and serve as a complement to high-resolution approaches. Traditional footprinting approaches, however, are hampered for integral membrane proteins because their transmembrane regions are not accessible to solvent, and they contain hydrophobic residues that are generally unreactive with most chemical reagents. To address this limitation, we bond photocatalytic titanium dioxide (TiO

Current Progress And Future Directions For Theory And Research On Savoring, Fred Bryant

Psychology: Faculty Publications and Other Works

As research on savoring has increased dramatically since publication of the book Savoring: A New Model of Positive Experience (Bryant and Veroff, 2007), savoring has gradually become a core concept in positive psychology. I begin by reviewing the evolution of this concept, the development of instruments for assessing savoring ability and savoring strategies, and the wide range of applications of savoring in the psychosocial and health sciences. I then consider important directions for future theory and research. To advance our understanding of how naturalistic savoring unfolds over time, future work should integrate the perceptual judgments involved in not only the …

Stock Returns, Oil Prices, And Leverage: Evidence From U.S. Firms, Md Ruhul Amin, André Varella Mollick

School of Economics and Finance Faculty Publications

This paper examines how the relationship between stock returns of U.S. firms and WTI oil prices is affected by leverage (debt to total assets) from 1990 to 2020. Results from our fixed-effect regression models suggest that leverage effects on stock returns are pervasive both in aggregate and cross-industry levels, while the mining industry is more sensitive. In addition to the positive oil price effects attenuated by leverage at the aggregate level, we observe stronger marginal effects of leverage only for the mining sector. Being more exposed to commodity prices, the positive effects of oil prices on stock returns in the …

Pun Monster: How To Effectively Maintain Fitness And Improve Socialization, Yue Yuan

Theses

With the global outbreak of the COVID-19 in 2020, national governments have introduced policies of home quarantine and closing public places, and following social distances. As people spent more time at home, lifestyles changed dramatically, people spent more time looking at their phones and computers, and eating habits changed. This has brought about weight gain and increased anxiety and stress. People have started to do fitness activities at home, but have encountered various problems such as lack of motivation to exercise and lack of peers to supervise each other. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the key factors …

The G7 Summit 2021: Time For Our World Leaders To Step Up To The Challenge Of Anti-Microbial Resistance, Lt Joshi

Peninsula Dental School

In June 2021, I wrote a strongly worded opinion piece published in the New Statesman about the G7 Summit and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) [1]. The piece highlighted that AMR should be addressed in the G7 Summit agenda and that our world leaders must recognize that research and investment into feasible solutions are urgently needed. This personal view adds to that original article. The G7 Summit took place in Carbis Bay, Cornwall, UK on the 11–13 June 2021 and the UK took Presidency of the G7 group of nations [2]. The G7 comprises seven member countries, namely the UK, the USA, …

Sortie-Based Aircraft Component Demand Rate To Predict Requirements, Thomas R. O'Neal, John M. Dickens, Lance Champaign, Aaron V. Glassburner, Jason R. Anderson, Timothy W. Breitbach

Faculty Publications

Purpose — Forecasting techniques improve supply chain resilience by ensuring that the correct parts are available when required. In addition, accurate forecasts conserve precious resources and money by avoiding new start contracts to produce unforeseen part requests, reducing labor intensive cannibalization actions and ensuring consistent transportation modality streams where changes incur cost. This study explores the effectiveness of the United States Air Force’s current flying hour-based demand forecast by comparing it with a sortie-based demand forecast to predict future spare part needs. Design/methodology/approach — This study employs a correlation analysis to show that demand for reparable parts on certain aircraft …

Soil Erosion And Sediment Transport In Tanzania: Part I – Sediment Source Tracing In Three Neighbouring River Catchments, Maarten Wynants, Linus Munishi, Kelvin Mtei, Samuel Bodé, Aloyce Patrick, Alex Taylor, David Gilvear, Patrick Ndakidemi, William H. Blake, Pascal Boeckx

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

No abstract provided.

Knowledge Organization System Of Visual Art Resources In West Bengal:A Study, Sudipta Shee

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Abstract: Visual art resource collections specially art works like, painting, sculpture, installation art form are totally ignored for retrieving this kind of information sources. The main concept of visual art resource is visual form and esthetic value of non textual content. They kept in museums and art galleries. West Bengal is a cultural hub of visual art resources. There are many art museum and art gallery which preserves art resources. Transforming visual code into written code and visual information into textual description is very challenging work. Content of painting, sculpture or installation arts are significant challenges to concept-based indexing. The …

Opportunities For Ict Initiatives: The Biggest Challenge For Education During Covid 19 Pandemic, Anita Kumari

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

At present, not only India but the whole world is struggling with the COVID-19 pandemic. The entire educational system from the primary level to a higher level has deteriorated during the global crisis of COVID-19 lockdown. Schools, colleges, universities, and other educational institutions around the world were closed due to COVID-19. Due to the closure of all educational institutions during the lockdown, there has been a change in the form of education. During the pandemic, many types of ICT initiatives can be seen in the field of education. During the lockdown, the e-learning platform was promoted so that everyone can …

A Bibliography On The Impact Of Covid-19 Pandemic On Education And Libraries, Rejoice Ntombifuthi Mthembu, Simeon Ambrose Nwone (Phd)

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The study provides bibliographic reference sources on the impact of Covid-19 pandemic on education and libraries around the world. Paucity of reference materials on this contemporary topic prompted the compilation of the bibliography thereby fill a crucial gap in LIS bibliographic literature. This enumerative bibliography is the researcher’s effort to provide a single-point reference materials to aid researchers and information seekers to easily find relevant and current literature on the topic. The bibliography puts together sources retrieved from the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s library databases: EBSCOhost, Emerald Insight, Google Scholar, Sabinet, and WorldCat and Google.com To optimise the search results, Boolean …

Health, Productivity, And Engagement: Using Modular Product Design To Integrally Improve The Workplace Environment, Xinyue Guo

Theses

With the fast pace of city life and workplace stress, there are growing concerns in relation to well-being and staying healthy. As a space that has relatively undefined functions in a work environment, breakrooms are increasingly expected to contribute to reducing these concerns. However, the vast majority of workplace breakrooms that exist are insufficiently designed achieving only basic functions such as sitting and eating. This thesis questions why existing workplace breakrooms are so neglected, when they have great potential to play a much more important role in the workplace. Firstly, this thesis discusses current literature and qualitative research on the …

Two Moons, Chuhan Peng

Theses

People may think that they can better understand the world through convenient technology in this Internet age. The fact is that even though we can search almost everything on Google, we still live and are confined to a small world. What's worse, big smart data will provide you with "privately customized" information services based on your specific situation. People gradually become accustomed to a voice and are more inclined to think that the world is what they see. This has also led to the fact that people of different social classes and cultural environments may be very different, and they …

Suno ("Listen"), Kajal Kohli

Theses

Suno (“Listen” in Hindi) is a 3D Animated Short that revolves around our main character Sid’s day in his life where he decides to find someone who would listen to him about what he’s going through without passing judgement of their own. Sid is an 18-year-old boy living in a typical Indian household with his parents and grandmother. Sid has always been a brilliant student academically and has had accolades in sports rendering him in what one may call an astounding over-all achiever. Even so, he has started to feel burned out and depressed. He has gone into his own …

Three Flash Fictions, Delaney Otto

Floodwall Magazine

No abstract provided.

Summertime / Giraffe In A Jar / Waiting, Kylee Danks

Floodwall Magazine

No abstract provided.

Envisioning De Sica’S Documentary: A Proposal For Narrative Realist Documentary Filmmaking, Parker Stenseth

Floodwall Magazine

No abstract provided.

Survival Of A Frontier Presidio: St. Augustine And The Subsidy And Private Contract Systems, 1680-1702, William R. Gillaspie

Florida Historical Quarterly

The last two decades of the seventeenth century were critical years in determining the eighteenth-century destiny of the entire breadth of the Spanish borderlands in North America. Overshadowing the outcome of the international rivalry over the continent were three changing tenets in international law during the last third of the seventeenth century. The first was Spain’s acceptance of “freedom of the seas” in place of mare clausum (closed sea) whereby she had sought exclusivism of the waters adjacent to its territorial holdings. Another changing tenet, to Spain’s advantage, was the European abandonment of “no peace beyond the line” (of demarcation) …

A French Would-Be Settler On Lafayette's Florida Township, Lucretia Ramsey Bishko

Florida Historical Quarterly

Lewis A. Pellerin, thirty-seven years old, a native of Normandy, sailed up the Mississippi to New Orleans in late March 1833. After taking part in the July Revolution of 1830 in France, he had suffered severe financial losses and was emigrating, together with his wife and two children, to the New World in search of a better fortune.

John Ellis, Royal Agent For West Florida, Roy A. Rauschenberg

Florida Historical Quarterly

When Britain acquired West Florida in 1763, John Ellis was appointed royal agent for West Florida. Found only in Nova Scotia, Georgia, and East and West Florida, royal or crown agents were used in underdeveloped but strategically important colonies that lacked the revenue to finance their own government. In these cases the crown assumed the financial load, and the agent was the London-based fiscal officer— the comptroller— supervising the crown’s allocations to the colony. Though easily confused with the better known and more widely used colonial agent, the royal agent was an entirely different kind of office. The royal agent …

War Comes To San Marcos, Lawrence Kinnaird

Florida Historical Quarterly

Of all the military posts established by Spain in West Florida after the Revolutionary War, San Marcos de Apalache was the only one ever to come under enemy fire. When Spain signed the treaty of San Ildefonso on August 19, 1796, and joined France in the war against Britain, military posts on the Mississippi were prepared for possible attack from Canada. There were many alarms, but all proved false. Along the Gulf coast no Spanish post was besieged by the enemy until war was brought to San Marcos by William Augustus Bowles, a British half-pay officer, and his Indian supporters.

Director's Meeting, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Minutes of the Directors' Meeting of the Florida Historical Society

Notes On U. S. Arsenals, Depots, And Martial Firearms Of The Second Seminole War, M. L. Brown

Florida Historical Quarterly

Escalating complaints to the United States War Department about ineffectual ordnance management by the Corps of Artillery, coupled with the rapid technological evolution of innovative small arms systems and radical manufacturing techniques, prompted Congress to pass the act of April 5, 1832, which resurrected an independent Ordnance Department. Elevated a grade in rank and appointed Chief of Ordnance on May 30 was Lieutenant Colonel George Bomford, USA (1780-1848).

Palm Trees, Public Relations, And Promoters: Boosting Southeast Florida As A Motion Picture Empire, 1910-1930, Richard Alan Nelson

Florida Historical Quarterly

While the greater Miami area today is the nexus of Florida’s continuing motion picture industry, this was not always the case. Historically, Jacksonville, and to a lesser extent Tampa, were the leading film centers of the state prior to 1920. This reflected their early importance as commercial and transportation hubs, but these advantages began to be outweighed as other areas within Florida also began to develop as popular location sites.

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

MY WORK AMONG THE FLORIDA SEMINOLES, by James Lafayette Glenn, edited by Harry A. Kersey, Jr., reviewed by William C. Sturtevant; THE VISION OF A CONTEMPORARY UNIVERSITY, by Russell M. Cooper and Margaret B. Fisher, reviewed by Jack C. Lane; THE TRANSLANTIC SLAVE TRADE: A HISTORY, by James A. Rawley, reviewed by Jack P. Greene; LA MISION DE DON LUIS DE ONIS EN LOS ESTADO UNIDOS (1809-1819), by Angel del Rio, reviewed by Jack D. L. Holmes; THE PAPERS OF HENRY CLAY, VOLUME 6: SECRETARY OF STATE, 1827, edited by Mary W. M. Hargreaves and James F. Hopkins, reviewed by …