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Evaluating The Feasibility And Potential Impacts Of A Recovery-Oriented Psychosocial Rehabilitation Toolkit In A Health Care Setting In Kenya: A Mixed-Methods Study, Regina Casey, Joshua C. Wiener, Terry Krupa, Rosemary Lysaght, Marlene Janzen Le Ber, Ruth Ruhara, Elizabeth Price, Romaisa Pervez, Sean Kidd, Victoria Mutiso, David M Ndetei, Arlene G Macdougall

Epidemiology and Biostatistics Publications

OBJECTIVES: This pilot study evaluated the feasibility and potential impacts of delivering the Psychosocial Rehabilitation (PSR) Toolkit for people with serious mental illness within a health care setting in Kenya.

METHOD: This study used a convergent mixed-methods design. Participants were people with serious mental illness (n = 23), each with an accompanying family member, who were outpatients of a hospital or satellite clinic in semirural Kenya. The intervention consisted of 14 weekly group sessions of PSR cofacilitated by health care professionals and peers with mental illness. Quantitative data were collected from patients and family members using validated outcome measures before …

Design, Determination, And Evaluation Of Gender-Based Bias Mitigation Techniques For Music Recommender Systems, Sunny Shrestha

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The majority of smartphone users engage with a recommender system on a daily basis. Many rely on these recommendations to make their next purchase, download the next game, listen to the new music or find the next healthcare provider. Although there are plenty of evidence backed research that demonstrates presence of gender bias in Machine Learning (ML) models like recommender systems, the issue is viewed as a frivolous cause that doesn’t merit much action. However, gender bias poses to effect more than half of the population as by default ML systems are designed to cater to a cisgender man. This …

Linfeld Digest, Linfield Magazine Staff

Linfield Magazine

Brief articles and photos of events and news about Linfield University

Simulation Of Monthly Mean And Monthly Base Flow Of Streamflow Using Random Forests For The Mississippi River Alluvial Plain, 1901 To 2018, Benjamin J. Dietsch, William H. Asquith, Brian K. Breaker, Stephen M. Westenbroek, Wade H. Kress

United States Geological Survey: Water Reports and Publications

Improved simulations of streamflow and base flow for selected sites within and adjacent to the Mississippi River Alluvial Plain area are important for modeling groundwater flow because surface-water flows have a substantial effect on groundwater levels. One method for simulating streamflow and base flow, random forest (RF) models, was developed from the data at gaged sites and, in turn, was used to make monthly mean streamflow and base-flow predictions at 162 ungaged sites in the study area. Daily streamflow observations and computed base flow from 247 streamgages were used as the basis for the development of these RF models. RF …

2023 Presentation To The Illinois House And Senate Appropriations, Raven Mckelvin '24

Exemplary Student Work

IMSA student, Raven McKelvin, '24, shared her IMSA experience with both the Illinois House and Senate Appropriations Committees, relaying how important IMSA can be for students across the State of Illinois.

Addressing Plastic Pollution Through Green Consumption: Predicting Intentions To Use Menstrual Cups In The Philippines, Alvin Patrick M. Valentin, Ma. Regina Hechanova-Alampay

Quantitative Methods and Information Technology Faculty Publications

Plastic pollution is a global environmental crisis that poses a huge threat to the health of people and marine ecosystems worldwide. A significant source of plastic pollution is menstrual hygiene management, and an approach that can help address this crisis is the usage of washable and reusable menstrual cups. Using an extended theory of planned behavior model that includes self-identity and perceived quality, the study predicted intentions to use menstrual cups in the Philippines. Structural equation modeling results showed that perceived quality predicted attitudes towards menstrual cup usage. Moreover, attitudes, perceived behavioral control, and self-identity predicted intentions to use menstrual …

Why Gliding Symmetry Used To Be Prevalent In Biology But Practically Disappeared, Julio C. Urenda, Vladik Kreinovich

Departmental Technical Reports (CS)

At present, many living creatures have symmetries; in particular, the left-right symmetry is ubiquitous. Interestingly, 600 million years ago, very fee living creatures had the left-right symmetry: most of them had a gliding symmetry, symmetry with respect to shift along a line followed by reflection in this line. This symmetry is really seen in living creatures today. In this paper, we provide a physical-based geometric explanation for this symmetry change: we explain both why gliding symmetry was ubiquitous, and why at present, it is rarely observed, while the left-right symmetry is prevalent.

College Of Natural Sciences Newsletter, February 2023, College Of Natural Sciences

College of Natural Sciences Newsletters and Reports

Volume 4, Issue 1

Page 1 Dean's Message
Page 2 Awards and Recognition
Page 3-4 Nobel Recipient Visits Campus
Page 4 Adopting the Pantry
Page 5 Growing a Recruitment Mindset
Page 6 February Outreach Events
Page 7 Media Coverage of CNS
Page 8 Open PRAIRIE Data
Page 9 54th Geography Convention, and Tom Loveland EROS Geography Scholarship
Page 10 Photos of Dr. Carolyn Bertozzi's Visit

Foreign Direct Investment (Fdi) Role On The Economic Growth In The United Arab Emirates, Dr.Abdullah Abdelkrim Hassan

Faculty Peer-Reviewed Papers | بحوث هيئة التدريس المحكمة

Due to the recent deterioration of the global economy, economic growth (EG) has become a worldwide interest; thus, scholars must focus on this issue. Hence, this study examines the effect of FDI on the EG of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The researchers also employed inflation, employment rate, exchange rate, and industrialization as control variables. Using the secondary data gathering approach, the researchers used the World Development Indicators (WDI) database to extract data from 1986 to 2021. The researchers additionally examine the association between variables using the Non-linear Autoregressive Distributed Lag (NARDL) technique. Results indicated that FDI, inflation, employment rate, …

Development Of A Biaxial Apparatus For Jamming Profiles Of Photoelastic Granular Media, H. Zheng, G. Dai, Cacey Stevens Bester, M. Wang, D. Wang

Physics & Astronomy Faculty Works

We describe a two-dimensional biaxial apparatus that is used to conduct the experimental study of the jamming of granular media. The setup is designed based on the photoelastic imaging technique, which allows us to detect force-bearing contacts among particles, calculate the pressure on each particle according to the mean squared intensity gradient method, and compute contact forces on each particle [T. S. Majmudar and R. P. Behringer, Nature 435, 1079–1082 (2005)]. Particles float in a density-matched solution to avoid basal friction during experiments. We can compress (uniaxially or biaxially) or shear the granular system by an entangled comb geometry by …

Prediction Of Strawberry Yield Based On Receptacle Detection And Bayesian Inference, Sunghyun Yoon, Jung Su Jo, Steven B. Kim, Ha Seon Sim, Sung Kyeom Kim, Dong Sub Kim

Mathematics and Statistics Faculty Publications and Presentations

The receptacle of strawberry is a more direct part than the flower for predicting yield as they eventually become fruits. Thus, we tried to predict the yield by combining an AI technique for receptacle detection in images and statistical analysis on the relationship between the number of receptacles detected and the strawberry yield over a period of time. Five major cultivars were cultivated to consider the cultivar characteristics and environmental factors for two years were collected to consider the climate difference. Faster R–CNN based object detector was used to estimate the number of receptacles per strawberry plant in given two-dimensional …

The Role Of State Courts In Constraining Partisan Gerrymandering In Congressional Elections

The University of New Hampshire Law Review

Federal courts were once seen as the place for partisan gerrymandering challenges to be lodged, but after thirty-plus years of failing to find any redistricting plan to be a partisan gerrymander, even while holding partisan gerrymandering to be justiciable, the Supreme Court announced in Rucho v. Common Cause, 139 S.Ct. 2484, that partisan gerrymandering is not justiciable in federal courts. State courts are now seen as the only place where a remedy for egregious partisan gerrymandering might be sought (except, of course, for taking redistricting out of the hands of the state legislature and moving responsibility into a bipartisan …

Critical Workforce Skills For Bachelor-Level Geoscientists: An Analysis Of Geoscience Job Advertisements, Gregory W. Shafer, K. Viskupic, Anne E. Egger

Geological Sciences Faculty Scholarship

Understanding the skills bachelor-level geoscientists need to enter the workforce is critical to their success. The goal of this study was to identify the workforce skills that are most requested from a broad range of geoscience employers. We collected 3668 job advertisements for bachelor-level geoscientists and used a case-insensitive, code-matching function in Matlab to determine the skills geoscience employers seek. Written communication (67%), field skills (63%), planning (53%), and driving (51%) were most frequently requested. Field skills and data collection were frequently found together in the ads. Written communication skills were common regardless of occupation. Quantitative skills were requested less …

Constructing A Shariah Document Screening Prototype Based On Serverless Architecture, Marhanum Che Mohd Salleh, Rizal Mohd Nor, Faizal Yusof, Md Amiruzzaman

Computer Science Faculty Publications

The aim of this research is to discuss the groundwork of building an Islamic Banking Document Screening Prototype based on a serverless architecture framework. This research first forms an algorithm for document matching based Vector Space Model (VCM) and adopts Levenshtein Distance for similarity setting. Product proposals will become a query, and policy documents by the central bank will be a corpus or database for document matching. Both the query and corpus went through preprocessing stage prior to similarity analysis. One set of queries with two sets of corpora is tested in this research to compare similarity values. Finally, a …

Evaluation Of A Local Adult General Educational Development (Ged) Program, Dérnecia A. Phillips

Educational Leadership Theses, Dissertations, and Student Creative Activity

The General Educational Development (GED) is a high school equivalency credential sought after by millions of Americans who do not hold a traditional high school diploma. This program evaluation offers insight to a local adult GED program as it seeks to increase the retention and GED completion rates of the students in their program. The evaluation utilized a participatory approach and qualitative design, with document review and semi-structured interviews as the primary data sources. Thematic analysis was utilized to organize evaluation results into themes representing areas of effectiveness and improvement. The recommendations include addressing learner barriers through individualized education plans, …

Math Course Taking Patterns Of Nebraska High School Students, Jennifer Coltvet

Educational Leadership Theses, Dissertations, and Student Creative Activity

This study explored the math course taking patterns of Nebraska’s secondary students from 2014-2020 using statewide data. Three course taking patterns were identified and examined. There are nuanced differences through these pathways based and race and gender. Student success through the pathways is dependent on course placement in the first year of high school.

Multi-Agent Optimal Control For Central Chiller Plants Using Reinforcement Learning And Game Theory, Shunian Qiu, Zhenhai Li, Zhihong Pang, Zhengwei Li, Yinying Tao

Faculty Publications

To conserve building energy, optimal operation of a building’s energy systems, especially heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems, is important. This study focuses on the optimization of the central chiller plant, which accounts for a large portion of the HVAC system’s energy consumption. Classic optimal control methods for central chiller plants are mostly based on system performance models which takes much effort and cost to establish. In addition, inevitable model error could cause control risk to the applied system. To mitigate the model dependency of HVAC optimal control, reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms have been drawing attention in the HVAC control …

Twitch Trivia Battle Royale: Interactive Entertainment Engineering Game, Noah Tyler Ravetch

Computer Science and Software Engineering

As the world of digital media evolves, so too does the way producers and consumers of entertainment content interact with each other. Live streaming is one such evolution. In this format, one person broadcasts their camera and/or their computer screen to a large audience of viewers in real time. People tuning in can communicate with other viewers and the streamer using the chat feature built-in to the streaming platform.

A new type of entertainment has recently entered the marketplace: interactive entertainment. Concerts are being held virtually in games like Fortnite (Epic Games 2021). TV Shows on Netflix are beginning to …

Solving Fjssp With A Genetic Algorithm, Michael John Srouji

Computer Science and Software Engineering

The Flexible Job Shop Scheduling Problem is an NP-Hard combinatorial problem. This paper aims to find a solution to this problem using genetic algorithms, and discuss the effectiveness of this. Initially, I did exploratory work on whether neural networks would be effective or not, and found a lot of trade offs between using neural networks and chromosome sequencing. In the end, I decided to use chromosome sequencing over neural networks, due to the scope of my problem being on a small scale rather than on a large scale.

Therefore, the genetic algorithm was implemented using chromosome sequencing. My chromosomes were …

Mb4t (Mathematics By And For Teachers): A Bucket Of Integers, Jennifer Holm

Education Faculty Publications

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Tess Discovery Of Twin Planets Near 2:1 Resonance Around Early M Dwarf Toi 4342, E. Tey, C. X. Huang, M. Kunimoto, A. Vanderburg, A. Shporer, S. N. Quinn, G. Zhou, K. A. Collins, K. I. Collins, Eric L.N. Jensen, R. P. Schwarz, R. Sefako, T. Gan, E. Furlan, C. L. Gnilka, S. B. Howell, K. V. Lester, C. Ziegler, C. Briceño, N. Law, A. W. Mann, G. R. Ricker, R. K. Vanderspek, D. W. Latham, S. Seager, J. M. Jenkins, J. N. Winn, D. A. Caldwell, D. Charbonneau, C. J. Burke, Z. Essack

Physics & Astronomy Faculty Works

With data from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), we showcase improvements to the MIT Quick Look Pipeline (QLP) through the discovery and validation of a multiplanet system around M dwarf TOI 4342 (T_mag = 11.032, M⋆ = 0.63 M_{⊙, R⋆ = 0.60 R⊙, Teff = 3900 K, d = 61.54 pc). With updates to QLP, including a new multiplanet search, as well as faster cadence data from TESS's First Extended Mission, we discovered two sub-Neptunes (Rb = 2.266 (+0.038)/(-0.038) R⊕ and Rc = 2.415 (+0.043)/(-0.040) R …}

Mining For Equitable Health: Assessing The Impact Of Missing Data In Electronic Health Records, Emily Getzen, Lyle Ungar, Danielle Mowery, Xiaoqian Jiang, Qi Long

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Electronic health records (EHR) are collected as a routine part of healthcare delivery, and have great potential to be utilized to improve patient health outcomes. They contain multiple years of health information to be leveraged for risk prediction, disease detection, and treatment evaluation. However, they do not have a consistent, standardized format across institutions, particularly in the United States, and can present significant analytical challenges- they contain multi-scale data from heterogeneous domains and include both structured and unstructured data. Data for individual patients are collected at irregular time intervals and with varying frequencies. In addition to the analytical challenges, EHR …

Cwu Faculty Senate Minutes 3/01/23, Janet Shields

Faculty Senate Minutes

These are the official Central Washington University Faculty Senate minutes for the March 1, 2023, regular meeting.

First Look At Z > 1 Bars In The Rest-Frame Near-Infrared With Jwst Early Ceers Imaging, Yuchen Guo, Shardha Jogee, Steven L. Finkelstein, Zilei Chen, Eden Wise, Micaela B. Bagley, Guillermo Barro, Stijn Wuyts, Dale D. Kocevski, Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe, Elizabeth J. Mcgrath, Henry C. Ferguson, Bahram Mobasher, Mauro Giavalisco, Ray A. Lucas, Jorge A. Zavala, Jennifer M. Lotz, Norman A. Grogin, Marc Huertas-Company, Jesús Vega-Ferrero, Nimish P. Hathi, Pablo Arrabal Haro

Pacific Faculty Work

Stellar bars are key drivers of secular evolution in galaxies and can be effectively studied using rest-frame near-infrared (NIR) images, which trace the underlying stellar mass and are less impacted by dust and star formation than rest-frame UV or optical images. We leverage the power of JWST CEERS NIRCam images to present the first quantitative identification and characterization of stellar bars at z > 1 based on rest-frame NIR F444W images of high resolution (∼1.3 kpc at z ∼ 1-3). We identify stellar bars in these images using quantitative criteria based on ellipse fits. For this pilot study, we present six …

Periodic And Antiperiodic Boundary Value Problems For The Sturm-Liouville Equation With The Discontinuous Coefficient, Suleyman Demirel University, K. D. Çoşkun, A. A. Nabiev, S. Saltan

Baku Mathematical Journal

The present paper studies the boundary-value problem in a finite segment generating with the discontinuous Sturm-Liouville equation and periodic(antiperiodic) boundary conditions. We prove completeness of the system of eigenfunctions and generalized eigenfunctions in the space L2(0, π; ρ), obtain the asymptotic formulas for the solution and prove the asymptotic formulas for the eigenvalues of the periodic and antiperiodic boundary value problems

Elastic-Plastic Problem For A Perforated Plate Under Transversal Shear, Azerbaijan State Oil And Industry University, A. K. Mekhdiev, R. K. Mekhtiev

Baku Mathematical Journal

The problem of solving the problem of the transverse shear of a plate along the edges of the holes and weakened by a two-periodic system of rectilinear through cracks with plastic end zones, collinear to the abscissa and ordinate axes of unequal length, is considered. General representations of solutions are constructed that describe a class of problems with a doubly periodic distribution of moments outside circular holes and straight-line cracks with end zones of plastic deformations. Satisfying the boundary conditions, the solution of the problem of the plate shear theory is reduced to two infinite systems of algebraic equations and …

Two-Weighted Inequalities Of Maximal Commutators In The Modified Morrey Spaces, Associated With The Laplace-Bessel Differential Operator, Azerbaijan State Oil And Industry University, R. G. Azizova, Z. V. Safarov

Baku Mathematical Journal

We consider the generalized shift operator, associated with the LaplaceBessel differential operator ∆B =∑ni=1∂2∂x2i+∑ki=1γixi∂∂xi. The maximal commutators Mb,γ, associated with the generalized shift operator are investigated. At first, we prove that the maximal commutators is bounded from the modified Morrey space Lep,λ,φ1,γ(Rnk,+) to Lep,λ,φ1,γ(R n k,+) for all 1 < p < ∞, b ∈ BMOγ(Rnk,+), (φ1, φ2) ∈ Aep,γ(Rnk,+).

Boundedness Of The Discrete Hilbert Transform In Discrete Hölder Spaces, Baku State University, R. A. Aliev, L. G. Samadova

Baku Mathematical Journal

The Hilbert transform plays an important role in the theory and practice of signal processing operations in continuous system theory. The Hilbert transform was the motivation for the development of modern harmonic analysis. Its discrete version is also widely used in many areas of science and technology and plays an important role in digital signal processing. The essential motivation behind thinking about discrete transforms is that experimental data are most frequently not taken in a continuous manner but sampled at discrete time values. Since much of the data collected in both the physical sciences and engineering are discrete, the discrete …

On Some Properties Of Functions Of The Grand Hardy Classes, Nakhcivan State University, I. F. Aliyarova, C. Karacam, M. I. Ismailov, Baku State University, Yildiz Technical University

Baku Mathematical Journal

Grand Hardy class H+p), p > 1, is defined and some properties of functions belonging to this class are studied in this work. Namely, the analogs of the Riesz and Smirnov theorems as well as the Cauchy’s formula for representation of function are proved. Necessary and sufficient condition for the validity of Riesz theorem in grand Hardy spaces H+p), p > 1, is found. Subspace GH+p)of the grand Hardy space H+p)generated by this condition is defined.

Phase Transformations In Pipeline Gas Transportation And Methods To Prevent Emerging Complications, E. M. Abbasov, G. M. Salmanova, G. M. Panahov

Baku Mathematical Journal

The current methods for prevention of problems in gas gathering, field preparation and transportation systems, as a rule, do not consider the joint effect of such processes as gas flow in the pipeline in case of phase transitions, accumulation of liquid in the pipeline cavity, heat exchange of the pipeline with the surrounding environment. The studies assessed the barodynamic factors and the component composition of gas, affecting hydrate formation, taking into account the complex effect of the processes involved in the operation of gas pipelines. The technological solution for gas pipeline cleaning by specially developed polymeric gel composition is proposed.