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Pemetaan Terumbu Karang Dengan Citra Satelit Sentinel-2 Dan Analisis Kondisi Karang Di Kawasan Pantai Pasir Putih, Situbondo Jawa Timur, M. Arif Zainul Fuad, M. Fadilah Nur Ramadhani, Citra Satrya U. Dewi, M. Anwar Fikri, Edo Bagus Herdikusuma

Jurnal Pendidikan Geografi: Kajian, Teori, dan Praktek dalam Bidang Pendidikan dan Ilmu Geografi

Penelitian ini dilakukan di Pasir Putih kabupaten Situbondo, Jawa Timur dengan tujuan untuk memetakan ekosistem terumbu karang dan menganalisis kondisi keanekaragaman karang guna mendukung pembelajaran Geografi pada matakuliah penginderaan jauh. Peta terumbu karang di ekstraksi dari Citra satelit Sentinel-2 dengan menerapkan algoritma koreksi kolom air. Pemetaan area terumbu karang menghasilkan 3 kategori yaitu karang hidup dengan luas 32.860 Ha, karang mati 31.690 Ha, dan pasir 42.670 Ha dengan tingkat sebesar 72,2 persen yang termasuk dalam kategori baik. Pengujian akurasi peta hasil ekstraksi ini menggunakan metode confusion matrix berdasarkan 90 data survei lapangan. Akurasi peta yang dihasilkan ini telah memenuhi standar …

Energy Communities In Eu Energy Regulation, Jakub M. Kmieć

Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies

EU Directives included in the ‘Clean Energy for All Europeans’ package introduced Renewable Energy Communities ECs (RECs) and Citizen ECs (CECs) into the legal framework, sharing commonalities, but with distinctions. The aim of this paper is to examine whether EU law provides for a single model of ECs or, in fact, two distinct models, and to characterize ECs as new participants in the energy market. The publication focuses on the field of legal studies and includes a literature review, an interpretation of EU provisions defining ECs, a characterization of ECs as new market participants, and a case study. The paper …

Still Searching For (Education For) Sustainable Development – Reflections On The Need, Challenges, And Chances Of Transforming Education In The 21st Century, Lars Keller

Jurnal Pendidikan Geografi: Kajian, Teori, dan Praktek dalam Bidang Pendidikan dan Ilmu Geografi

Scientific evidence has been put forward over and over again in the past decades that, during the Anthropocene, human impact on the various spheres of the Earth has grown to an extent that actually threatens the overall resilience of the Earth system and thus the basis for the existence of future societies. New concepts to tackle the problems ahead and to regain control about positive future development are urgently needed. Education – or rather the transformation of education – and the possible role of education as a key instrument to reach the Sustainable Development Goals could play a prominent role …

Section Iii.A The Employment Situation, Bureau Of Labor Statistics

Documentary Appendix to Table 1-B of Professor Thompson’s Book <em>The Trump v. Harris Voter’s Guide to Their Economic Debate</em> (2024)

No abstract provided.

Unpacking The Science Of Reading Research, Greta Rollo, Kellie Picker

Literacy and numeracy

The science of reading (SoR) is a term used for a body of evidence encompassing multi-disciplinary research from education, cognitive psychology, linguistics, and neuroscience. This evidence points to six key constructs that contribute to proficient reading: oral language, phonological awareness including phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary and reading comprehension. Research around these constructs provides researchers and teachers with an evidence base of the knowledge, skills and strategies involved in competent reading and describes how reading develops in both typical and atypical readers. This paper synthesises evidence reviews conducted by ACER researchers that unpack the science of reading. The aim of …

Bayesian Optimization Based Extreme Gradient Boosting And Gpr Time-Frequency Features For The Recognition Of Moisture Damage In Asphalt Pavement, Hongwei Li, Jun Zhang, Xiaokun Yang, Min Ye, Wentao Jiang, Jing Gong, Yaogang Tian, Liang Zhao, Weitian Wang, Zhi Xu

School of Computing Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Moisture damage is one of the major defects in asphalt pavement, and will evolve into potholes in a short time which will affect traffic safety. Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) is an effective non-destructive testing (NDT) method for detecting moisture damage but its data explanation replies on human experience and subjects to labor intensive. To address this issue, an automatic detection method based on extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost) combined with Bayesian hyper-parameter optimization (BHPO) was proposed to detect moisture damage area from GPR traces. High frequency GPR antenna with 2.3 GHz was used to detect the moisture damage area from simulation, …

Investigation Of Various Mimo Antenna For 5g Mobile Phone Applications, Rajesh Kumar D

Theses and Dissertations

The rapid progress of wireless communication systems has been driven by the persistent demand for higher data rates, improved connectivity, and seamless user experiences. The introduction of fifth-generation (5G) wireless technology introduces fresh challenges and possibilities within the domain of antenna design, particularly concerning Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) systems operating in the sub-6 GHz frequency range. This thesis conducts a comprehensive exploration and conceptualization of MIMO antennas expressly crafted for smooth integration into mobile phones, with a particular emphasis on addressing the distinctive requisites of sub-6 GHz 5G communication.

The proposed antenna designs effectively harnesses the advantages inherent in multiple-input multiple-output …

Drop Dynamics And Heat Transfer During Dropwise Condensation On Superhydrophobic Surfaces, Shaur Humayun

Theses and Dissertations

As we seek to address the escalating demand for energy and water, superhydrophobic surfaces have gained the attention of researchers due to their potential to boost condensation heat transfer rates and improve efficiency across various applications. One way to significantly improve dropwise condensation heat transfer rate is to improve drop mobility. Water-repelling properties of superhydrophobic surfaces can help in reducing the size of condensed drops as they depart the surface, thus increasing drop refresh rates by increasing drop mobility. Accurate models of retention forces between drops and superhydrophobic surfaces are needed for predicting drop dynamics including drop mobility. Once drop …

Game Changer: Exploring The Role Of Board Games In The Lives Of Autistic People, Gray Atherton, Liam Cross, Francesca Belshaw, Andrea Piovesan

School of Psychology

This mixed methods paper reports findings from three studies examining the overlap between autism and hobbyist board gaming. The first was a quantitative survey of over 1600 board gamers, showing that autistic individuals are overrepresented in this hobby compared to the general population and that autistic traits measured by the AQ are significantly elevated amongst board gamers. Study 1 also assessed gamers’ motivations and preferences and reported key differences as well as similarities between autistic and non-autistic gamers. The second was a qualitative study that reported the results of 13 interviews with autistic individuals who are hobbyist board gamers. Using …

Resolving The Term "Offshore Aquaculture" By Decoupling "Exposed" And "Distance From The Coast", Bela H. Buck, Hans V. Bjelland, Abigail Bockus, Michael Chambers, Barry Antonio Costa-Pierce, Tobias Dewhurst, Joao G. Ferreira, Heidi Moe Føre, David W. Fredriksson, Nils Goseberg, John Holmyard, Wolf Isbert, Gesche Krause, Till Markus, Nikos Papandroulakis, Tyler Sclodnick, Bill Silkes, Åsa Strand, Max Troell, Daniel Wieczorek, Sander W K Van Den Burg, Kevin G. Heasman

Faculty Publications

The terms “offshore” and “open ocean” have been used to describe aquaculture sites that are further from the coast or in higher energy environments. Neither term has been clearly defined in the scientific literature nor in a legal context, and the terms are often used interchangeably. These and other related terms (for example “exposed”, “high-energy”) variously refer to aspects of a site such as the geographic distance from shore or infrastructure, the level of exposure to large waves and strong currents, the geographic fetch, the water depth, or some combination of these parameters. The ICES Working Group (ICES, 2024) on …

Resolving The Term "Offshore Aquaculture" By Decoupling "Exposed" And "Distance From The Coast", Bela H. Buck, Hans V. Bjelland, Abigail Bockus, Michael Chambers, Barry Antonio Costa-Pierce, Tobias Dewhurst, Joao G. Ferreira, Heidi Moe Føre, David W. Fredriksson, Nils Goseberg, John Holmyard, Wolf Isbert, Gesche Krause, Till Markus, Nikos Papandroulakis, Tyler Sclodnick, Bill Silkes, Åsa Strand, Max Troell, Daniel Wieczorek, Sander W K Van Den Burg, Kevin G. Heasman

Faculty Publications

The terms “offshore” and “open ocean” have been used to describe aquaculture sites that are further from the coast or in higher energy environments. Neither term has been clearly defined in the scientific literature nor in a legal context, and the terms are often used interchangeably. These and other related terms (for example “exposed”, “high-energy”) variously refer to aspects of a site such as the geographic distance from shore or infrastructure, the level of exposure to large waves and strong currents, the geographic fetch, the water depth, or some combination of these parameters. The ICES Working Group (ICES, 2024) on …

Social Media Presence And Innovation In Minority-Owned Small- And Medium-Sized Enterprises, Lionel Alexander Edlam Jr

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Minority-owned (e.g., Asian, Black/African American, Hispanic, and women) small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) account for a small percentage of U.S. businesses in this sector. In this context, owners and managers of these businesses need to capitalize on social media to increase their marketplace survivability within the first 18 months of operation. The purpose of this quantitative correlation study, which was based on the technology acceptance model and absorptive capacity theory, was to examine whether the number of social media platforms presences predicts social strategy, customer involvement in innovation, and knowledge gained from customers for innovation in the United States. The …

Dissociation Of Reading And Naming In Ventral Occipitotemporal Cortex, Oscar Woolnough, Nitin Tandon

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Lesions in the language-dominant ventral occipitotemporal cortex (vOTC) can result in selective impairment of either reading or naming, resulting in alexia or anomia. Yet, functional imaging studies that show differential activation for naming and reading do not reveal activity exclusively tuned to one of these inputs. To resolve this dissonance in the functional architecture of the vOTC, we used focused stimulation to the vOTC in 49 adult patients during reading and naming, and generated a population-level, probabilistic map to evaluate if reading and naming are clearly dissociable within individuals. Language mapping (50 Hz, 2829 stimulations) was performed during passage reading …

Successful Rhinophyma Treatment Utilizing The Versajet Ii Hydrosurgery System: A Case Report And Systematic Review Of The Literature, Rafael Gottenger

All Publications

Rhinophyma, characterized by hypertrophy of sebaceous glands, often necessitates surgical intervention. This is the second case report of the off-label use of the Versajet II Hydrosurgery System (VJHS) (Smith & Nephew, London, UK) in the United States for the treatment of rhinophyma and the first systematic review of the literature, emphasizing its efficacy and safety for this indication. A surgical debulking and resurfacing was performed on a patient with rhinophyma. The patient underwent general anesthesia along with bilateral infraorbital blocks and local infiltration of lidocaine 1% with epinephrine. The VJHS was utilized for progressive debulking followed by debridement using sharp …

Malposition Of Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy (Peg) Tube Through The Transverse Colon: A Novel Approach To Conservative Management, Joel Calafell

All Publications

Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) is a common technique for enteral nutrition support. Complications range from skin injuries and leakage to more severe intraabdominal pathologies. This case report describes a patient with invasive right lateral pharyngeal wall squamous cell carcinoma who developed a gastrocolocutaneous fistula following PEG tube malpositioning in the transverse colon performed at an outside institution. Based on the patient's comorbidities and the associated high-risk nature of the surgery, a transverse colectomy and partial gastrectomy to resect the malpositioned tube followed by a new PEG tube was deemed invasive and would likely have a poor clinical outcome. Instead, the …

Reverse Phase Proteomic Array Profiling Of Asparagine Synthetase Expression In Newly Diagnosed Acute Myeloid Leukemia, Nisha Narayanan, Jennifer Marvin-Peek, Mohamad K Abouelnaaj, Dhabya Majid, Bofei Wang, Brandon D Brown, Yihua Qiu, Steven M Kornblau, Hussein A Abbas

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Asparaginase-based therapy is a cornerstone in acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) treatment, capitalizing on the methylation status of the asparagine synthetase (ASNS) gene, which renders ALL cells reliant on extracellular asparagine. Contrastingly, ASNS expression in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) has not been thoroughly investigated, despite studies suggesting that AML with chromosome 7/7q deletions might have reduced ASNS levels. Here, we leverage reverse phase protein arrays to measure ASNS expression in 810 AML patients and assess its impact on outcomes. We find that AML with inv(16) has the lowest overall ASNS expression. While AML with deletion 7/7q had ASNS levels slightly lower …

Ai Driven Analysis Of Mri To Measure Health And Disease Progression In Fshd, Lara Riem, Olivia Ducharme, Matthew Cousins, Xue Feng, Allison Kenney, Jacob Morris, Stephen J Tapscott, Rabi Tawil, Jeff Statland, Dennis Shaw, Leo Wang, Michaela Walker, Leann Lewis, Michael A Jacobs, Doris G Leung, Seth D Friedman, Silvia S Blemker

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) affects roughly 1 in 7500 individuals. While at the population level there is a general pattern of affected muscles, there is substantial heterogeneity in muscle expression across- and within-patients. There can also be substantial variation in the pattern of fat and water signal intensity within a single muscle. While quantifying individual muscles across their full length using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) represents the optimal approach to follow disease progression and evaluate therapeutic response, the ability to automate this process has been limited. The goal of this work was to develop and optimize an artificial intelligence-based image …

Resettled Reproduction: A History And Analysis Of Family Planning Opportunities Among Refugees In Tennessee., Nicholas Lee Rummell

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Refugee women face a myriad of barriers to health after resettlement, including access to family planning services. They often have little knowledge of available family planning or contraception options, or where to obtain them after resettlement. As a result, refugee women in Tennessee suffer from high rates of unintended pregnancies, stemming from limited access to family planning services, and unmet family planning needs after resettlement. This dissertation combines the disciplines of history, public health, and public administration/policy to better understand why refugee women in Tennessee have had limited access to family planning services. To achieve this, it was necessary to …

Dnaforge: A Design Tool For Nucleic Acid Wireframe Nanostructures, Antti Elonen, Leon Wimbes, Abdulmelik Mohammed, Pekka Orponen

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

DNAforge is an online tool that provides a unified, user-friendly interface to several recent design methods for DNA and RNA wireframe nanostructures, with the possibility of integrating additional methods into the same framework. Currently, DNAforge supports three design methods for DNA nanostructures and two for RNA nanostructures. The tool enables the design, visualisation and sequence generation for highly complex wireframe nanostructures with a simple fully automated process. DNAforge is freely accessible at https://dnaforge.org/.

Impact Of Sociodemographic Status And Sex On Chronic Rhinosinusitis And Olfaction In People With Cystic Fibrosis., Ethan J. Han, Christine M. Liu, Jakob L. Fischer, Jess C. Mace, Karolin Markarian, Jeremiah A. Alt, Todd E. Bodner, Naweed I. Chowdhury, Patricia H. Eshaghian, Yuqing A. Gao, Multiple Additional Authors

Psychology Faculty Publications and Presentations

Sociodemographic status (SDS) including race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status as approximated by education, income, and insurance status impact pulmonary disease in people with cystic fibrosis (PwCF). The relationship between SDS and chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) remains understudied.

Genetic Diversity Of 1,845 Rhesus Macaques Improves Genetic Variation Interpretation And Identifies Disease Models, Jun Wang, Meng Wang, Ala Moshiri, R Alan Harris, Muthuswamy Raveendran, Tracy Nguyen, Soohyun Kim, Laura Young, Keqing Wang, Roger Wiseman, David H O'Connor, Zach Johnson, Melween Martinez, Michael J Montague, Ken Sayers, Martha Lyke, Eric Vallender, Tim Stout, Yumei Li, Sara M Thomasy, Jeffrey Rogers, Rui Chen

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Understanding and treating human diseases require valid animal models. Leveraging the genetic diversity in rhesus macaque populations across eight primate centers in the United States, we conduct targeted-sequencing on 1845 individuals for 374 genes linked to inherited human retinal and neurodevelopmental diseases. We identify over 47,000 single nucleotide variants, a substantial proportion of which are shared with human populations. By combining rhesus and human allele frequencies with established variant prediction methods, we develop a machine learning-based score that outperforms established methods in predicting missense variant pathogenicity. Remarkably, we find a marked number of loss-of-function variants and putative deleterious variants, which …

Cell-Specific Single Viral Vector Crispr/Cas9 Editing And Genetically Encoded Tool Delivery In The Central And Peripheral Nervous Systems, Jamie C Moffa, India N Bland, Jessica R Tooley, Vani Kalyanaraman, Monique Heitmeier, Meaghan C Creed, Bryan A Copits

2020-Current year OA Pubs

CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing represents an exciting avenue to study genes of unknown function and can be combined with genetically encoded tools such as fluorescent proteins, channelrhodopsins, DREADDs, and various biosensors to more deeply probe the function of these genes in different cell types. However, current strategies to also manipulate or visualize edited cells are challenging due to the large size of Cas9 proteins and the limited packaging capacity of adeno-associated viruses (AAVs). To overcome these constraints, we developed an alternative gene editing strategy using a single AAV vector and mouse lines that express Cre-dependent Cas9 to achieve efficient cell-type specific …

Indonesia’S Maritime Strategy Facing The Kra Isthmus Canal Agenda, Fika Monika, M. Baiquni, M. Pramono Hadi

Jurnal Pendidikan Geografi: Kajian, Teori, dan Praktek dalam Bidang Pendidikan dan Ilmu Geografi

This research will comprehensively analyze the Kra Isthmus Canal’s agenda and its possible impacts on Thailand and also to some other countries in ASEAN, specifically for Indonesia. By employing descriptive and qualitative methods, this study will investigate two types of paradigm through documentation and literature review from several studies in the past. The results are expected to encourage Indonesia to be more agile in adjusting steps to become the world's maritime fulcrum and also to sharpen the state sovereignty in sea policy.

Factors Affecting Land Transfer Function And Its Impact On Farmers' Income In Srigading Village, Sanden Sub-District, Bantul Regency, Wenang Anurogo, Muhammad Zainuddin Lubis, Hanah Khoirunnisa

Jurnal Pendidikan Geografi: Kajian, Teori, dan Praktek dalam Bidang Pendidikan dan Ilmu Geografi

Coastal area is a specific area where the region can be used as a tourist area, settlements, and agriculture. Some forms of utilization in the field of agriculture, among others, is farming of paddy fields or fishery ponds. As is the case along the southern coast of the Special Territory of Yogyakarta. Coastal residents of Bantul and Kulon Progo districts utilize coastal land as dryland farming and fishery ponds. This study aims to determine the effect of land use change in the Srigading Village (especially for the conversion of shrimp ponds) to the farmers' income in the Village. This research …

Back To The Future? How The Global Powers And The Local Militias Hindered Un Multi-Dimensional Mediation In The Libyan And Syrian Civil Wars After 2011, Ahmed S. Mahdi, Melissia Shapib, Noura Gamie

Future Journal of Social Science

UN mediation efforts in the Libyan and Syrian civil wars, which followed the Arab Revolutions of 2011, were hampered by the great power intervention, and by the belligerents' insistence on solving the problem through military victory instead of negotiation. There is a shortage in the literature which examines an alternative, or how UN mediation can be improved. One of the few models to assess, and improve, UN mediation in civil wars is the so-called Kane Model (2022). Using the model presented by Kane to assess the procedures of a powerful UN mediation process in internationalized civil wars, this paper argues …

Approaches And Tools Of Peace And Conflict Management Between Two Perspectives, Yasmine Z. Radwan

Future Journal of Social Science

This study aims at pointing out the tools of peace and the approaches to conflict management and resolution presented in the Islamic and Western perspectives. It also searches for clarifying the convergent and divergent zones that could help in finding, analyzing and criticizing the basic concepts on which arguments and debates are constructed. This study concluded that the differences between the Islamic and the Western perspective are a human requirement for acquainting and integrating based on a crucial notion, which is identity. Identity is treated in details in many discourses and occupies a large place in the Western literature on …

Selection Of 5g Akma Authentication Policy And Application Function Based On A Tenant Identifier Obtained From A User Equipment Esim, Ram Mohan R, Rajesh I V

Defensive Publications Series

AKMA (Authentication and Key Management for Applications) is an authentication mechanism introduced in Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Technical Specification (TS) 33.535, Release 16 (and further enhanced in later releases) that can be used to leverage an operator authentication infrastructure to secure communications between a user equipment (UE) and an Application Function (AF). Proposed herein are techniques to facilitate UE authentication for multi-tenant cloud environments. Broadly, techniques proposed herein provide for using a tenant identifier (ID) associated with the eSIM (electronic or embedded Subscriber Identity Module) of a UE in order to determine/obtain the correct policy that corresponds to a …

Vol.51 N.50 July 4th 2024, Voice Media Ventures

Black Voice News

No abstract provided.

Development And Validation Of A Measure For Seeking Health Information In The Diabetes Online Community: Mixed Methods Study, Allyson S. Hughes, Sarah Beach, Spruhaa Vasistha, Nazanin M. Heydarian, Osvaldo F. Morera

School of Social Work Faculty Publications

Background

Individuals with chronic diseases often search for health information online. The Diabetes Online Community (DOC) is an active community with members who exchange health information; however, few studies have examined health information brokering in the DOC.

Objective

The aim of this study was to develop and validate the Attitudes Toward Seeking Health Information Online (ATSHIO) scale in a sample of adults with type 1 diabetes (T1D).

Methods

People with T1D were recruited through the DOC, specifically Facebook and Twitter. They were provided with a Qualtrics link to complete the survey. This was a mixed methods study that used thematic …

Label-Free Visualization Of Unfolding And Crosslinking Mediated Protein Aggregation In Nonenzymatically Glycated Proteins, Darshan Chikkanayakanahalli Mukunda, Shaik Basha, Meagan Gail D'Souza, Subhash Chandra

Open Access archive

Nonenzymatic glycation (NEG) unfolds and crosslinks proteins, resulting in aggregation. Label-free evaluation of such structural changes, without disturbing molecular integrity, would be beneficial for understanding the fundamental mechanisms of protein aggregation. The current study demonstrates the assessment of NEG-induced protein aggregation by combining autofluorescence (AF) spectroscopy and imaging. The methylglyoxal (MG) induced protein unfolding and the formation of cross-linking advanced glycation end-products (AGEs) leading to aggregation were evaluated using deep-UV-induced-autofluorescence (dUV-AF) spectroscopy in proteins with distinct structural characteristics. Since the AGEs formed on proteins are fluorescent, the study demonstrated the possibility of autofluorescence imaging of NEG-induced protein aggregates. Autofluorescence spectroscopy …