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Ode Models Of Wealth Concentration And Taxation, Bruce Boghosian, Christoph Borgers

CODEE Journal

We refer to an individual holding a non-negligible fraction of the country’s total wealth as an oligarch. We explain how a model due to Boghosian et al. can be used to explore the effects of taxation on the emergence of oligarchs. The model suggests that oligarchs will emerge when wealth taxation is below a certain threshold, not when it is above the threshold. The underlying mechanism is a transcritical bifurcation. The model also suggests that taxation of income and capital gains alone cannot prevent the emergence of oligarchs. We suggest several opportunities for students to explore modifications of the model.

On Progress In Exploring Controlled Viscous Limit-Cycle Oscillations In Modified Glauert Airfoil, Ethan Deweese, Lap Nguyen, Erik Vataker, William Mackunis, Vladimir Golubev, Ron Efrati, Oksana Stalnov

Publications

The paper reports on the progress in the development of a novel robust, nonlinear flow control technology that employs an array of synthetic-jet actuators (SJAs) embedded in 2-DOF, elastically mounted, optimized Modified Glauert (MG) airfoil design in order to control limit cycle oscillations (LCO) at low subsonic flow regimes. The focus here is on the conceptual design of the wind energy harvesting system that employs, e.g., a piezoelectric device to extract energy from plunging LCO, with the closed-loop controller being capable to sustain the required LCO amplitudes over a wide range of wind speeds. The current high-fidelity studies first include …

2024 January 4 - Tennessee Weekly Drought Summary, Tennessee Climate Office, East Tennessee State University

Tennessee Climate Office Weekly Drought Summaries

No abstract provided.

Approved Butte Priority Soils Operable Unit (Bpsou) Unreclaimed And Insufficiently Reclaimed Sites Request For Information 2022-01, Mike Mcanulty

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

No abstract provided.

Fluid Flow, Mineralization And Deformation In An Oceanic Detachment Fault: Microtextural, Geochemical And Isotopic Evidence From Pyrite At 13°30′N On The Mid-Atlantic Ridge, Andrew J. Martin, John W. Jamieson, Sven Petersen, Mostafa Fayek, Javier Escartin

Geoscience Faculty Research

Hydrothermal fluids in ultramafic-hosted hydrothermal systems associated with oceanic detachment faults can be more oxidizing compared to mafic-hosted vent sites. These fluids form a mineral assemblage of pyrite, magnetite and hematite. At 13°30′N on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, chlorite-quartz breccias recovered from an exposed fault scarp contain pyrite, with abundant magnetite and hematite, indicating that the redox of the fluids was variable. In primary micron-scale zonations in pyrite, Ni, Co, and Se have a decoupled relationship, recording fluctuations in the chemical composition and temperature of hydrothermal fluid as the grains grew. Secondary zonations that erase and overprint primary zonations are limited …

Experimental Environmental Profiles And Sloshing Dynamics Aboard Zero-G Aircraft, Pedro J. Llanos, Sathya Gangadharan, Kevin Crosby

Publications

This study presents the results of a parabolic flight experiment to study the sloshing dynamics of the magneto-active propellant management device experiment. This device utilizes a magnetoactive membrane and magnets located external to the tank to effectively damp the liquid free surface motion. This research work establishes a benchmark with sloshing analytical formulation and sensor calibration methods that can be used to characterize future research parabolic flights while providing important environmental profiles measured during flight, such as accelerations, pitch angle, velocity, temperature, total volatile content, carbon dioxide, relative humidity, magnetic field, and radiation. Correlation between these flight variables and the …

Priority Skills For Engineers On The Island Of Ireland: Key Stakeholder Perceptions, Rosalind M Henry, Margaret Morgan, Una Beagon, Ruchita Jani, Janet Mckennedy, Brian Bowe

Reports

Executive Summary

Life on a shared island, in particular the island of Ireland (comprising Ireland and Northern Ireland), presents both challenges and opportunities, including for engineers tasked with addressing problems to help solve the SDGs that are indifferent to boundaries. Research demonstrates that (relative to current engineers) the engineer of the future will require a more diverse range of skills to navigate an increasingly complex work environment. Given this context, identification of relevant priority skills would therefore prove useful in focusing engineering educational initiatives.

Building on a European study (Beagon et al, 2022a) which identified at a European level the …

Smartgrid-Ng: Blockchain Protocol For Secure Transaction Processing In Next Generation Smart Grid, Lokendra Vishwakarma, Debasis Das, Sajal K. Das, Christian Becker

Computer Science Faculty Research & Creative Works

With the advent of Blockchain and the Internet of Things (IoT), the Smart Grid is a rapidly growing technology in decentralized energy distribution and trading. However, this advancement came with some serious cyber security challenges and attacks, such as single-point failure due to a centralized architecture of smart grids, slow transaction processing, emerging cybersecurity threats, double-spending, fork, and fault tolerance. We propose a comprehensive framework for the smart grid called SmartGrid-NG to solve all these issues. Instead of using blockchain as a blackbox plugin tool, we also propose a reputation-based blockchain protocol called GridChain to increase the performance of blockchain-based …

Aftdc 2024 Session I English.- Decoding Complexity: Visualizing The Trans-Disciplinary Communication (Tdc) Logarithmic Spiral, Jasmin Cowin

Trans-Disciplinary Communication

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Aftdc 2024 Session Ii Español.- Open Science Framework (Osf) Como Herramienta Para La Colaboración Transdisciplinaria, Cristo Leon

Trans-Disciplinary Communication

No abstract provided.

Aftdc 2024 Open Discussion On The Association's Vision: An Opportunity For All Members To Share And Shape The Future Direction Of Aftdc, Cristo Leon

Trans-Disciplinary Communication

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Aftdc 2024 Keynote.- The Significance And Vital Role Of Student Participation In Peer Review For Transdisciplinary Communication, Nagib Callaos

Trans-Disciplinary Communication

Join Dr. Nagib Callaos at the inaugural AFTDC meeting for a groundbreaking keynote on the transformative role of student participation in peer review for transdisciplinary communication. Delve into the intellectual, educational, and pragmatic benefits as Dr. Callaos explores the impact on personal and societal good. Discover how this practice enhances critical thinking, intellectual diversity, and adaptability in the face of rapid technological and societal changes. Learn about the significant role of educational systems in fostering intellectual diversification and skill development. The keynote will highlight the unique value of engaging students in peer review processes, especially in transdisciplinary settings, underlining its …

Revisiting Robert Pagès: Documents And Culture, Michael K. Buckland

Proceedings from the Document Academy

An introduction to the life and work of Robert Pagès (1919–2007), French social psychology researcher and theorist of documentation. From 1946 to 1948 Pagès was a student in the program in documentation directed by Suzanne Briet that later became the Institut National des Techniques de Documentation (INTD). A 1947 thesis was published in 1948 as an article entitled “Transformations documentaires et milieu culturel” (Documentary transformations and cultural context). It received little attention until recently. The article, now reprinted and translated, examines the rise of new media and how they have largely displaced lived experience and bookish knowledge in a society …

Exploring Artifacts And Documents In Collective Creativity Workshops Applied To Future Studies, Mathilde Sarré-Charrier

Proceedings from the Document Academy

In a context of uncertainty, organizations use creativity methods to anticipate future challenges in relations with the long-term evolutions of the society. These approaches consist in bringing together people with complementary points of view to multiply the diversity of ideas. This paper focuses on the process of transformation and selection of ideas and artifacts from a collective perspective in the unprecedented circumstances that occurred during the pandemic.

We question how ideas are grounded in the documents and artifacts produced at the key moments of the creative process from the perspective of the facilitators and the participants.

In this paper we …

Making-To-Be: Documents, Facta, And Material-Discursive Agency, Elliott Hauser

Proceedings from the Document Academy

This paper presents the performative analysis of agency within and surrounding documents as a path towards uniting the otherwise incompatible insights of both meaningcentric and materialcentric approaches. I contrast the terms agentical, providing agency, and agentic, possessing agency, to help clarify the apparent incompatibilities of prior approaches. I argue that a relational conception of agency, wherein the agentical/agentic distinction is blurred, preserves important virtues of both meaning and materialcentric approaches to documents. This paves the way for a unified materialdiscursive account of documents and a cure for document studies’ inherited duality malady. Extending prior work on capta (Drucker, 2011) and …

Aftdc 2024 Welcome And Opening Remarks, Cristo Leon, James Lipuma Dr.

Trans-Disciplinary Communication

Our primary focus is to discuss the effective establishment, nurturing, and expansion of chapters within the American Association for Trans-Disciplinary Communication (AFTDC).

Grove Scholars Promotes Equity In Critical Stem Fields, Tina H. Hahn

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – The University of Mississippi Grove Scholars program – which helps Mississippians from underrepresented groups earn degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics or health care – is growing as it enriches lives and makes the state's workforce more competitive.

Integrating External Controls By Regression Calibration For Genome-Wide Association Study, Lirong Zhu, Shijia Yan, Xuewei Cao, Shuanglin Zhang, Qiuying Sha

Michigan Tech Publications

Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have successfully revealed many disease-associated genetic variants. For a case-control study, the adequate power of an association test can be achieved with a large sample size, although genotyping large samples is expensive. A cost-effective strategy to boost power is to integrate external control samples with publicly available genotyped data. However, the naive integration of external controls may inflate the type I error rates if ignoring the systematic differences (batch effect) between studies, such as the differences in sequencing platforms, genotype-calling procedures, population stratification, and so forth. To account for the batch effect, we propose an approach …

Face Detection Performance Using Cnns And Bug Bonutyprogram (Bbp), Yasmin Makki Mohialden, Saba Abdulbaqi Salman, Nadia Mahmood Hussien

Iraqi Journal for Computer Science and Mathematics

Bug bounty schemes make use of outside ethical hackers to find and fix a variety of security flaws, guaranteeing quicker and more affordable problem solving. Better confidence in and image of the company in the cybersecurity space, faster solving issues, and increased community collaboration are some of its results. Computer vision relies on face detection, which has several uses. This article uses convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and an error reward algorithm in the facial recognition simulation library to enhance face detection.Trainers trained CNNs to detect faces from other visual components and extract human facial traits, making them powerful facial identification …

Enrichment Of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Metabolizing Microorganisms On The Oral Mucosa Of Tobacco Users, James V. Defrancesco, Lin Tao, M Paul Chiarelli, Sylvia Pavlova, Antonia Kolokythas, Joel Schwartz, Benjamin Salameh, Stefan J. Green, Guy Adami

Chemistry: Faculty Publications and Other Works

Certain soil microbes resist and metabolize polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). The same is true for a subset of skin microbes. In the human mouth, oral microbes have the potential to oxidize tobacco PAHs, thereby increasing these chemicals' ability to cause cancer of adjacent epithelium. We hypothesized that we could identify, in smokers, the oral mucosal microbes that can metabolize PAH. We isolated bacteria and fungi that survived long-term in minimal media with PAHs as the sole carbon source, under aerobic conditions, from the oral mucosa in 17 of 26 smokers and two of 14 nonsmokers. Of bacteria genera that survived …

Essential Fluids With Matlab And Octave - Part 1 (Theory), Panchapakesan Venkataraman

Open Access Books by RIT Staff and Faculty

This book covers the requisite theory for the basic study of fluid mechanics at low speeds. This book is unique in that it integrates engineering computation using the popular technical software MATLAB, and the free counterpart Octave. Programming is by example throughout the book. Prior knowledge of programming is not necessary. This book reviews prerequisite topics prior to teaching the subject matter. This book introduces the physics of fluid mechanics based on first principles. It develops the mathematical relations and model of fluid flow so that problems can be defined and solved.

Integrating Intelligent Systems In Manet-Iot Environment Based On Subjective Context, Qahtan M. Yas, Abdulbasi Alazzawi

Iraqi Journal for Computer Science and Mathematics

The Internet of Things (IoT) has cultivated a promising environment, pivotal across diverse sectors via MANET protocols within the w.w.w. This technology significantly contributes to advanced services for mobile devices in the MANET-IoT domain. However, MANET encounters security challenges, notably malicious attacks as a prime concern. To counter these threats, preventive measures like subjective-context evaluation and node protection are employed, ensuring data packet integrity before delivery. This study aims to enhance the performance of a novel reactive protocol, integrated with a fuzzy system within the MANET-IoT environment. The methodology is implemented in two directions: 1) Establishing a secure network founded …

Parametersestimation Of A Proposed Non-Homogeneous Poisson Process And Estimation Of The Reliability Function Using The Gompertz Process: A Comparative Analysis Of Artificially Intelligent And Traditional Methods, Adel Sufyan Hussain, Yaseen Adel Oraibi, Muthanna Subhi Sulaiman, Ahmed Sami Abdulghafour

Iraqi Journal for Computer Science and Mathematics

This work presents a novel approach to enhancing the rate of occurrence of non-homogeneous Poisson processes (NHPP) by utilizing the Gompertz distribution as the rate of occurrence. The primary objective of this study is to determine the parametersof the new process using both traditional methods andintelligent technology, specifically particleswarm optimization (PSO). Additionally, the study aims to estimate the reliability function ofthe process. The suggested model is simulatedto achieve these goals, and theresults are compared among various estimation techniques to identify the most accurate estimator. The study demonstrates that when predicting the time rate of occurrence oftheproposed Gompertz process and its …

Real-Timelie-Speech Determination Using Voice-Stress Technology, Fadi K. Al-Dhaher, Duraid Y. Mohammed, Mohammed Khalaf, Khamis A. Al-Karawi, Mohammad Sarfraz, Muhammad Mazin Al Maathidi

Iraqi Journal for Computer Science and Mathematics

Lie detection has gained importance and is now extremely significant in a variety of fields. It plays an important role in several domains, including law enforcement, criminal investigations, national security,workplace ethics, and personal relationships. As advances in lie detection continue to develop, real-time approaches such asvoice stress technology have emerged as a feasible alternative to traditional methods such as polygraph testing. Polygraph testing, ahistorical and generally established approach, may be enhanced or replaced bythese revolutionary real-time techniques. Traditional lie detection procedures, such aspolygraph testing, have been challenged for their lack of reliability and validity. Newertechniques, such as brain imaging and …

Constant-Stress Partially Accelerated Life Testing For Weibull Inverted Exponential Distribution With Censored Data, Samah M. Ahmed

Iraqi Journal for Computer Science and Mathematics

The novelty of this article is estimating the parameters ofWeibull inverted exponential (WIE) distribution with a constant stress partially accelerated life test (PALT) under adaptive type-II progressively censored samples. Moreover, the maximum likelihood estimators (MLEs), their asymptotic variances confidence intervals, and Bayes estimators (BEs) of the model parameters and the acceleration factor are obtained. Furthermore, the approximate bootstrap and credible confidence intervals of the estimators are acquired. The accuracy of the MLEs and BEs for the model parameters and the acceleration factor is investigated through the simulation studies.

Fish Assemblage Structure In Great Lakes Coastal Wetlands Over Ten Years, Matthew S. Silverhart

Masters Theses

Coastal wetlands in the Laurentian Great Lakes are important habitats for many fish species. The geographic scale of the watershed and the diversity of land uses in the region result in substantial environmental variation among coastal wetlands. During 2011-2020, annual surveys were conducted as part of the Great Lakes Coastal Wetland Monitoring Program (GLCWMP) to better understand the status and trends of coastal wetlands. Fish sampling consisted of fyke netting in monodominant vegetation zones. During this time, 1225 unique monodominant plant zones in coastal wetlands were sampled, resulting in 584,125 fishes captured that consisted of 113 different species. Yellow Perch …

Addressing Challenges In Hate Speech Detection Using Bert-Based Models: A Review, Jinan Ali Aljawazeri, Mahdi Nsaif Jasim

Iraqi Journal for Computer Science and Mathematics

The rapid growth of social media platforms has led toanincrease in hate speech. This haspromptedthe development of effective detection mechanisms that aimtomitigate the potential hazards and threats it poses to society.BERT(Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers)hasproduced cutting-edge results in this field. This review paperaims toidentify and analyzethe whole process of using the BERT model totacklethe challengesassociated with the hate speech detection problem. This academic discussion will begin by addressing the training datasets and the preprocessing methods involved. Subsequently, the use of the BERT model will be explored, followed by an examination of the contributions made to address theissuesencountered. Finally, we will …

Identification Of Faulty Sensor Nodes In Wban Using Genetically Linked Artificial Neural Network, Haider Rasheed Abdulshaheed, Mayasa M. Abdulrahman, Israa Ibraheem Al_Barazanchi, Jamal Fadhil Tawfeq

Iraqi Journal for Computer Science and Mathematics

Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) have risen as a promising innovation for checking human physiological parameters in real time. Be that as it may, the unwavering quality and precision of WBANs depend on the right working of sensor hubs. The distinguishing proof of defective sensor hubs is vital for guaranteeing the quality of information collected by WBANs. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to recognizing faulty sensor hubs in WBAN employing a hereditarily linked artificial neural organize (GLANN). The GLANN is preparedto employa crossbreedfuzzy-genetic calculation to optimize its execution in distinguishing defective sensor hubs. The proposed approach is …

Approximation Of An Inertial Iteration Method For A Set-Valuedquasi Variational Inequality, Mohammad Akram

Iraqi Journal for Computer Science and Mathematics

In this article, a projection type two step inertial iterative scheme for investigating set-valued quasivariational inequality in real Banach spaces is designed. We manifest the existence result and verified by an illustrativeexample. Also, we estimate the approximate solution of a set-valued quasi variational inequality by analyzing theconvergence of the proposed inertial iterative algorithm. Further, an extended Weiner-Hopf equation is consideredand substantiated that it is analogous to the extended set-valued quasi variational inequality. Finally, we investigatethe extended Weiner-Hopf equation by analyzing the convergence of the composed iterative scheme

Experimental Research On Contests, Subhashish M. Chowdhury, Dan Kovenock, Anwesha Mukherjee

ESI Working Papers

Contests are situations in which agents compete by irreversibly expending costly resources in an attempt to win a prize. Due to their applications in conflict, rent-seeking, organizational incentives, sports, litigation, and political campaigns, contests are widely applied in the social sciences. In this survey we summarize some main results and recent developments of experimental studies in contest theory. We also point out their broader applications in the social sciences.