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Pias: Privacy-Preserving Incentive Announcement System Based On Blockchain For Internet Of Vehicles, Yonghua Zhan, Yang Yang, Hongju Cheng, Xiangyang Luo, Zhuangshuang Guan, Robert H. Deng Sep 2024

Pias: Privacy-Preserving Incentive Announcement System Based On Blockchain For Internet Of Vehicles, Yonghua Zhan, Yang Yang, Hongju Cheng, Xiangyang Luo, Zhuangshuang Guan, Robert H. Deng

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

More vehicles are connecting to the Internet of Things (IoT), transforming Vehicle Ad hoc Networks (VANETs) into the Internet of Vehicles (IoV), providing a more environmentally friendly and safer driving experience. Vehicular announcement networks show promise in vehicular communication applications. However, two major issues arise when establishing such a system. Firstly, user privacy cannot be guaranteed when messages are forwarded anonymously, thus the reliability of these messages is in question. Secondly, users often lack interest in responding to announcements. To address these problems, we introduce a Blockchain-based incentive announcement system called PIAS. This system enables anonymous message commitment in a …


Putting Gpt-4o To The Sword: A Comprehensive Evaluation Of Language, Vision, Speech, And Multimodal Proficiency, Sakib Shahriar, Brady D. Lund, Nishith Reddy Mannuru, Muhammad Arbab Arshad, Kadhim Hayawi, Ravi Varma Kumar Bevara, Aashrith Mannuru, Laiba Batool Sep 2024

Putting Gpt-4o To The Sword: A Comprehensive Evaluation Of Language, Vision, Speech, And Multimodal Proficiency, Sakib Shahriar, Brady D. Lund, Nishith Reddy Mannuru, Muhammad Arbab Arshad, Kadhim Hayawi, Ravi Varma Kumar Bevara, Aashrith Mannuru, Laiba Batool

All Works

As large language models (LLMs) continue to advance, evaluating their comprehensive capabilities becomes significant for their application in various fields. This research study comprehensively evaluates the language, vision, speech, and multimodal capabilities of GPT-4o. The study employs standardized exam questions, reasoning tasks, and translation assessments to assess the model’s language capability. Additionally, GPT-4o’s vision and speech capabilities are tested through image classification and object-recognition tasks, as well as accent classification. The multimodal evaluation assesses the model’s performance in integrating visual and linguistic data. Our findings reveal that GPT-4o demonstrates high accuracy and efficiency across multiple domains in language and reasoning …


Stacked Energyscapes: Conceptualizing Fossil Fuel And Renewable Energy Entanglements In Low-Carbon Transitions, Tyler Harlan, Jennifer Baka Sep 2024

Stacked Energyscapes: Conceptualizing Fossil Fuel And Renewable Energy Entanglements In Low-Carbon Transitions, Tyler Harlan, Jennifer Baka

Urban and Environmental Studies Faculty Works

Energy transitions are often characterized as discrete progressions away from fossil fuels to renewable energy, typically in different geographic spaces, which result in “winning” and “losing” communities. Policies have been enacted to encourage renewable energy investment in “losing” fossil fuel extractive communities. Such conceptualizations do not sufficiently consider how fossil fuel extraction and renewable energy intersect with and shape each other in these spaces. We introduce the term “stacked energyscapes” to better characterize these interactions. Rather than replacing a fossil fuel-based energy system, we argue that renewable energy is “stacked” atop it, entangling their sociotechnical “energyscapes” together in ways that …


Paper-Recorded Ecg Digitization Method With Automatic Reference Voltage Selection For Telemonitoring And Diagnosis, Liang Hung Wang, Chao Xin Xie, Tao Yang, Hong Xin Tan, Ming Hui Fan, I. Chun Kuo, Zne Jung Lee, Tsung Yi Chen, Pao Cheng Huang, Shih Lun Chen, Patricia Angela R. Abu Sep 2024

Paper-Recorded Ecg Digitization Method With Automatic Reference Voltage Selection For Telemonitoring And Diagnosis, Liang Hung Wang, Chao Xin Xie, Tao Yang, Hong Xin Tan, Ming Hui Fan, I. Chun Kuo, Zne Jung Lee, Tsung Yi Chen, Pao Cheng Huang, Shih Lun Chen, Patricia Angela R. Abu

Department of Information Systems & Computer Science Faculty Publications

In electrocardiograms (ECGs), multiple forms of encryption and preservation formats create difficulties for data sharing and retrospective disease analysis. Additionally, photography and storage using mobile devices are convenient, but the images acquired contain different noise interferences. To address this problem, a suite of novel methodologies was proposed for converting paper-recorded ECGs into digital data. Firstly, this study ingeniously removed gridlines by utilizing the Hue Saturation Value (HSV) spatial properties of ECGs. Moreover, this study introduced an innovative adaptive local thresholding method with high robustness for foreground–background separation. Subsequently, an algorithm for the automatic recognition of calibration square waves was proposed …


Individual And Cultural Differences In Compassion, Noticing Suffering, And Well-Being: Consequences Of Wanting To Avoid Feeling Negative, Birgit Koopmann-Holm, Alexandra Beccari, Monet Oosthuizen Sep 2024

Individual And Cultural Differences In Compassion, Noticing Suffering, And Well-Being: Consequences Of Wanting To Avoid Feeling Negative, Birgit Koopmann-Holm, Alexandra Beccari, Monet Oosthuizen

Psychology

Although people across the globe experience suffering, some individuals find it difficult to respond to others' distress because they might not know what would be most helpful to that person in that particular situation. For instance, would a response that focuses on the silver lining or one that acknowledges the suffering of the other person be more compassionate and helpful? In this paper, we demonstrate that the construct of avoided negative affect (ANA), the degree to which people want to avoid feeling negative, can predict individual differences and explain cultural variations in several aspects of compassion. Because ANA is a …


Transportation, Providence - Special Pathogens Program Sep 2024

Transportation, Providence - Special Pathogens Program

Additional Resources

No abstract provided.


Table Of Contents, Editorial Board, Law School Faculty And Administration, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School Of Law Sep 2024

Table Of Contents, Editorial Board, Law School Faculty And Administration, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School Of Law

Nevada Law Journal

No abstract provided.


The Evolution Of International Communications Technology And Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Regulation, Shaun B. Spencer Sep 2024

The Evolution Of International Communications Technology And Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Regulation, Shaun B. Spencer

Nevada Law Journal

In October 2022, the Biden administration issued an Executive Order imposing limits on its interception of foreign citizens’ communications. This self-imposed limitation came nearly a decade after the Snowden disclosures and the resulting European Union opposition to transferring EU data to the United States. But prior disclosures of U.S. surveillance practices in the 1970s and 1980s had not produced enough international pressure to prompt the United States to impose restrictions on itself. This Article examines why the outcome was different after the Snowden disclosures. The Article returns to the origins of modern U.S. surveillance law in the 1970s and traces …


Will Federal Compassionate Release Survive The Death Of Chevron?, Jaden M. Lessnick Sep 2024

Will Federal Compassionate Release Survive The Death Of Chevron?, Jaden M. Lessnick

Nevada Law Journal

In early 2023, the United States Sentencing Commission promulgated a compassionate release policy statement that will reverberate throughout the federal sentencing system for decades to come. In resolving an issue that had sharply divided the circuits, the Commission determined that certain nonretroactive changes in sentencing law could constitute “extraordinary and compelling reasons” for a sentence reduction under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A). For the hundreds of people serving astronomical sentences that could not be imposed after the First Step Act of 2018, this amended policy statement holds much promise. Under Chevron and its progeny, the Commission’s policy statement should supersede prior, …


No Really, What Should We Do? An Employer’S Guide To Groff V. Dejoy And Juggling Religious Accommodations In The Workplace, Keegan K. Davis Sep 2024

No Really, What Should We Do? An Employer’S Guide To Groff V. Dejoy And Juggling Religious Accommodations In The Workplace, Keegan K. Davis

Nevada Law Journal

On June 29, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an opinion expanding its Title VII workplace religious accommodation jurisprudence with Groff v. DeJoy. For nearly fifty years leading up to Groff, the Court was set on a “more than de minimis” standard for determining when a religious accommodation was too costly for an employer, and therefore did not need to be accommodated as a matter of law. In Groff, the Court raised the bar effectively ending de minimis as employers knew it. Instead of showing that a religious accommodation bears any cost on the business, Groff requires evidence of substantial …


The Insufficiency Of Battered Women’S Syndrome Evidence And The Need For Resentencing Legislation For Criminalized Survivors Of Domestic Violence, Alice Samberg Sep 2024

The Insufficiency Of Battered Women’S Syndrome Evidence And The Need For Resentencing Legislation For Criminalized Survivors Of Domestic Violence, Alice Samberg

Nevada Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Securing Real-Time Data Transfer In Healthcare Iot Environments With Blockchain Technology, Safa Hussein Oleiwi, Saraswathy Shamini Gunasekaran, Karrar Ibrahim Abdulameer, Mazin Abed Mohammed, Mazin Abed Mohammed Sep 2024

Securing Real-Time Data Transfer In Healthcare Iot Environments With Blockchain Technology, Safa Hussein Oleiwi, Saraswathy Shamini Gunasekaran, Karrar Ibrahim Abdulameer, Mazin Abed Mohammed, Mazin Abed Mohammed

Mesopotamian Journal of CyberSecurity

The increasing number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices in healthcare applications, particularly during emergencies, necessitates safe protocols for transmitting real-time data. Medical data are essential for healthcare applications, and reliance on IoT devices to control information flow necessitates the consideration of five critical areas. This work addresses the security challenges associated with the transmission and storage of copyrighted healthcare data, as well as the inadequacy of the present methods in facilitating real-time data transfer given the volume of data and network conditions. This research provides a theoretical framework for the secure and immediate offloading of computations in IoT healthcare …


Cbp One Mobile Application: Violating Migrants’ Rights To Privacy And Freedom From Discrimination, Sarah Dávila, Alejandra Palacios, Brad Thompson Sep 2024

Cbp One Mobile Application: Violating Migrants’ Rights To Privacy And Freedom From Discrimination, Sarah Dávila, Alejandra Palacios, Brad Thompson

Faculty White Papers

No abstract provided.


Major Questions, Common Sense?, Kevin Tobia, Daniel E. Walters, Brian Slocum Sep 2024

Major Questions, Common Sense?, Kevin Tobia, Daniel E. Walters, Brian Slocum

Faculty Scholarship

The Major Questions Doctrine (“MQD”) is the newest textualist interpretive canon, and it has driven consequential Supreme Court decisions concerning vaccine mandates, environmental regulation, and student loan relief. But the new MQD is a canon in search of legitimization. Critics allege that the MQD displaces the Court’s conventional textual analysis with judicial policymaking. Textualists have now responded that the MQD is a linguistic canon, consistent with textualism. Justice Barrett recently argued in Biden v. Nebraska that the MQD is grounded in ordinary people’s understanding of language and law, and scholarship contends that the MQD reflects ordinary people’s understanding of textual …


Law-And-Literature Studies As A Basis For High-Quality Ethics Cle Programs, David S. Caudill Sep 2024

Law-And-Literature Studies As A Basis For High-Quality Ethics Cle Programs, David S. Caudill

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.


Who Director-General Declares Mpox Outbreak A Public Health Emergency Of International Concern Sep 2024

Who Director-General Declares Mpox Outbreak A Public Health Emergency Of International Concern

Saudi Medical Journal

No abstract provided.


Achieving Access And Equity In Education: An Analysis Of Higher Education Reforms In Pakistan Sep 2024

Achieving Access And Equity In Education: An Analysis Of Higher Education Reforms In Pakistan

Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education

No abstract provided.


Judicial Integrity Under Scrutiny: Analyzing Misconduct Allegations During Times Of Turmoil, Nicholas Gigliotti Sep 2024

Judicial Integrity Under Scrutiny: Analyzing Misconduct Allegations During Times Of Turmoil, Nicholas Gigliotti

Master's Theses and Capstones

Judicial ethics, grounded in principles of impartiality and integrity, face threats when public perceptions are compromised by instances of misconduct and the actions of those who fail to adhere to these core standards. Since 1980, the Judicial Conduct and Disability Act has provided a mechanism for reporting and addressing allegations of misconduct that do not reach the level of impeachment. This process offers complainants a means to hold judges accountable for their actions and often serves as a forum for addressing grievances that might otherwise go unheard. While the federal judiciary is typically insulated from external pressures due to lifetime …


Mechanical Properties Of Composite Fiberglass Rods Used For Ocean Structure Tethers To Mitigate North Atlantic Right Whale Entanglement, Louis Gitelman Sep 2024

Mechanical Properties Of Composite Fiberglass Rods Used For Ocean Structure Tethers To Mitigate North Atlantic Right Whale Entanglement, Louis Gitelman

Master's Theses and Capstones

Entanglements in rope fishing gear significantly threaten the critically endangered North Atlantic Right Whale’s health and population (Knowlton, 2022; Brooker & Matthias, 2020). This thesis investigates the potential to mitigate the risk of whale entanglements in ocean structure tether components by using stiff fiberglass composite rods instead of rope. This potential was investigated through five main avenues:1. A survey was conducted of the availability, cost, and material properties of available composite rods and their operability in marine structures. 2. Four-point flexure testing was conducted to measure the degradation of the material properties of fiberglass composite rod samples as a function …


How Mineral Fertilizer Affects Soil Nitrogen Pools And Microbial Activity, Lee Hildebrand Sep 2024

How Mineral Fertilizer Affects Soil Nitrogen Pools And Microbial Activity, Lee Hildebrand

Master's Theses and Capstones

Nitrogen fertilizer is an essential aspect of modern agriculture; however, a substantial amount of applied nitrogen does not reach the crops it is intended for and leaches out of the soil. Soil organic matter and microbial activity are key regulators of the soil nitrogen cycle and the fate of nitrogen fertilizer. Understanding how fertilizer type impacts soil organic matter, nitrogen pools, and microbial activity will greatly improve our understanding regarding sustainable fertilizer application. To investigate this, I conducted an experiment using incubation with several fertilizer treatments and two soil types. I measured various soil nitrogen pools, soil respiration rates, and …


From Seed To Sourdough And Barley To Beer: Values-Based Grain Supply Chain Models To Support Mid-Scale Farm Viability In The Upper Northeast, Elise Neidecker Sep 2024

From Seed To Sourdough And Barley To Beer: Values-Based Grain Supply Chain Models To Support Mid-Scale Farm Viability In The Upper Northeast, Elise Neidecker

Master's Theses and Capstones

The industrialization and commodification of grains has had major environmental, health, and economic implications. Pushing back against this commodity system, alternative grain networks are emerging in the form of collaborations between farmers, millers, bakers, maltsters, and brewers creating localized grain supply chains. These grain chains are part of a broader movement toward the development of values-based supply chains in the food system, in which business partners form long-term, strategic partnerships based on shared extra-economic values like sustainability and equity and deliver value-added and differentiated products that allow farmers to capture a price premium. Despite the presence of localized grain chains …


Mitigation Of Road Mortality Of Freshwater Turtles In New Hampshire With An Emphasis On Blanding's Turtles (Emydoidea Blandingii), Lauren White Sep 2024

Mitigation Of Road Mortality Of Freshwater Turtles In New Hampshire With An Emphasis On Blanding's Turtles (Emydoidea Blandingii), Lauren White

Master's Theses and Capstones

The Blanding’s turtle (Emydoidea blandingii) is a state-endangered species in New Hampshire that is particularly vulnerable to road mortality due to reproductive life history traits, habitat use, and migration patterns. Successful conservation techniques to mitigate wildlife road mortality include building fences and wildlife crossing structures (eco-passages) at roadkill hot spots. A collaborative research group designed a road mortality risk model to understand turtles' relative road mortality risk at existing wetland crossing sites in New Hampshire and to assess whether culverts at these sites may function as eco-passages. To ground-truth this model, roadkill surveys and wildlife camera monitoring techniques were used …


The Positive Behavioral Management Strategies Program (Pbms) For Parents, Teachers, And Caregivers: Impacts And Outcomes, Victor Harris, Brian Visconti, Ginny Hinton, Riley Curie, Shyama Hausner Sep 2024

The Positive Behavioral Management Strategies Program (Pbms) For Parents, Teachers, And Caregivers: Impacts And Outcomes, Victor Harris, Brian Visconti, Ginny Hinton, Riley Curie, Shyama Hausner

Journal of Human Sciences and Extension

This study examined the impact of the Positive Behavioral Management Strategies (PBMS) online educational program on 624 participants in the southeastern region of the United States. The PBMS program incorporates established behavioral management principles with new research-based practices to promote healthy, positive relationships between adults and children while constructively managing and preventing problematic behavior. Additionally, the PBMS program helps parents and teachers to recognize the motivations behind misbehaviors and to avoid some common mistakes in child behavioral management. It also describes how to recognize and capitalize on “teachable moments,” which are indispensable in the developmental process. A retrospective-pre-test-then-post-test design was …


Un-Erasing Race: Introducing Social Network Discrimination To The Law, Chika O. Okafor Sep 2024

Un-Erasing Race: Introducing Social Network Discrimination To The Law, Chika O. Okafor

North Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.


Lawmaking For Leverage, Rebecca Aviel Sep 2024

Lawmaking For Leverage, Rebecca Aviel

North Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Lawyer’S Quandary: Client-Centered Lawyering In The Treatment Paradigm, Marisol Orihuela Sep 2024

The Lawyer’S Quandary: Client-Centered Lawyering In The Treatment Paradigm, Marisol Orihuela

North Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.


Musi 102a.27: Performance Study - Trumpet, Brendan K. Mcglynn Sep 2024

Musi 102a.27: Performance Study - Trumpet, Brendan K. Mcglynn

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2021-2025

No abstract provided.


Musi 162a.16: Trumpet Masterclass, Brendan K. Mcglynn, James J. Driscoll Sep 2024

Musi 162a.16: Trumpet Masterclass, Brendan K. Mcglynn, James J. Driscoll

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2021-2025

No abstract provided.


Musi 281.01: Diction - English, Italian And Spanish, Stephen Kalm Sep 2024

Musi 281.01: Diction - English, Italian And Spanish, Stephen Kalm

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2021-2025

No abstract provided.


Musi 295.27: Applied Study Ii - Trombone, Robert D. Tapper Sep 2024

Musi 295.27: Applied Study Ii - Trombone, Robert D. Tapper

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2021-2025

No abstract provided.