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Modeling Psychological And Demographic Predictors Of Analog Astronaut Mission Participation, Christian Yeara Herrero, Frányerson R. López Ochoa, Mackenzie Thomas, Phoebe Fleshman

Student Research Symposium (SRS)

As plans accelerate to send humans into orbit and to other celestial bodies, whether to lunar outposts, Mars bases, or commercial space stations, it becomes increasingly important to understand how to maintain healthy, cohesive, and productive crews in confined, isolated environments. A practical way to study human adaptation to these conditions is through analog astronaut missions on Earth. Although imperfect, these facilities provide the closest Earth-based simulation of space mission conditions. Currently, over ten analog research centers are operating worldwide, including NASA’s Human Exploration Research Analog (HERA) and the Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog (CHAPEA) habitats. Selecting and recruiting …

Carving A Niche, Anthony R. Peluso Dds

Virginia Dental Journal

No abstract provided.

2015 Science Talent Awards Program, Brenda J. Young Dds

Virginia Dental Journal

No abstract provided.

How To Respond To A Negative Review, Lance Mccollough

Virginia Dental Journal

No abstract provided.

Dr. Thomas Upshur Turns 100, Stephanie N. Vlahos Dds

Virginia Dental Journal

No abstract provided.

Silver Diamine Fluoride- A New Weapon For Caries Arrest Is Now Fda Approved In Us, Harmeet Kaur Chiang Dds

Virginia Dental Journal

No abstract provided.

An Interview With Dr. Cheryl Billingsley, Cheryl B. Billingsley Dds

Virginia Dental Journal

No abstract provided.

Ada Trustee’S Corner December 2014 Board Meeting, Julian Hal Fair Iii, Dmd

Virginia Dental Journal

No abstract provided.

Va Dent J July, August And September 2015

Virginia Dental Journal

No abstract provided.

Letter To Lloyd And Jean, James D. Spaniolo

Lloyd Clark Papers

Letter to Lloyd and Jean Clark from James D. Spaniolo, President of The University of Texas at Arlington, with a page from an issue featuring UTA, published on Texas Monthly, and a copy of a column published on the Star-Telegram.

Letter To Mark, Lloyd C. Clark

Lloyd Clark Papers

Letter to Mark Permenter, Editor of the UTA Magazine, from Lloyd C. Clark, with a copy of a published feature and copies of pages from the UTA Magazine, with some suggested edits and a completed survey.

Letter To Lloyd And Jean, Gary M. Cole

Lloyd Clark Papers

Letter to Mr. and Mrs. Clark from Gary M. Cole, Vice President for Development at The University of Texas at Arlington, discussing the Taylor Family Scholarship Fund, and an attached reservation form for the new event.

Card To Lloyd And Jean, Gwen Notestine

Lloyd Clark Papers

Card to Lloyd and Jean Clark from Gwen Notestine, Director of Development at The University of Texas at Arlington, thanking them for their support of the university.

Invitation

Lloyd Clark Papers

Invitation card to the 2004 Distinguished Alumni Gala, from the UTA Alumni Association.

Letter And Documents, Tamela Herczeg

Lloyd Clark Papers

Letter to Lloyd and Jean Clark from Tamela Herczeg, Interim Executive Director for Development at The University of Texas at Arlington, with an enclosed draft of the Century II Society Donor List for review.

Letters To James, Lloyd C. Clark

Lloyd Clark Papers

Letters to James D. Spaniolo, President of The University of Texas at Arlington, from Lloyd C. Clark, one regarding the Taylor Family UTA President's Scholarship, and the other complimenting his feature on the UTA Magazine. Attached copy of one of Lloyd C. Clarks columns, published on the Daily News-Sun, and copies of pages from the UTA Magazine, featuring James D. Spaniolo.

Letters, Mark D. Martin

Lloyd Clark Papers

Letter to Lloyd C. Clark from Mark D. Martin, Vice President of Development at The University of Texas at Arlington, regarding a possible future student. Letter to Alice Arnold, from Mark D. Martin, regarding her sons consideration of attending UTA .

Dream-State Consolidation Transformers For Long-Horizon Artificial Intelligence, Johny Manuel-Devadoss, Joanna Johnson, Jayden Jack Johnson

Defensive Publications Series

Contemporary transformer architectures achieve strong performance through large-scale parameterization, retrieval augmentation, and extended context windows. However, persistent token-level retention scales poorly for lifelong or long-horizon cognition due to increasing computational cost, retrieval interference, context fragmentation, and memory saturation. This paper proposes a speculative but computationally grounded framework termed Dream-State Consolidation Transformers (DSCT), in which artificial systems alternate between online inference phases and offline consolidation phases. During online operation, systems process high-resolution episodic information from external environments. During offline consolidation, episodic traces are replayed under stochastic perturbation and compressed into semantically stable latent representations.

Unlike conventional persistent-memory systems, DSCT prioritizes abstraction …

Learning‑Based Framework For Secondary Power Grid Effective Resistance Prediction, Prateek Pendyala, Sandeep Gajbhare

Defensive Publications Series

Secondary power grid resistance verification in integrated circuit design may be hindered by the iterative nature of traditional sign‑off extraction tools. These tools may require compute time for each iteration, creating a bottleneck during the identification of resistance violations in low‑power architectures. A hierarchical machine learning framework is disclosed for the early estimation of effective resistance. In the framework, spatial tile‑based partitioning is combined with adaptive piecewise linear regression to analyze instance‑specific and spatial‑neighborhood attributes. Additionally, resistance is categorized into data‑driven zones, and zone‑specific regressors are employed to provide continuous resistance predictions. For design modifications, an incremental update scheme allows …

Deep Learning-Based Detection Of Juniperus Procera Dieback In Uav Imagery Using An Ensemble Approach, Halima Alzubaidi

UB Journal for Humanities

Juniper trees are essential in many ecosystems, and any changes in the vegetation cover of juniper trees must be detected. Deep learning models were used in this study for detecting dieback in Juniperus procera in natural forests in the southern region of Saudi Arabia was examined. The goal in this study was to develop a reliable method for automated tree cover detection for large-scale environmental monitoring. Various deep learning models, including DenseNet121, InceptionResNetV2, custom convolutional neural network, Xception, ResNet50, and EfficientNetB2, were applied to classify images of juniper trees. The performance of each model was evaluated using metrics including accuracy, …

Simulation Of Post-Tensioned Clt Rocking Wall And Platform Structure Response Under Earthquake Lateral Loads With Simplified Equivalent Model, Yunxiang Ma, Qingli Dai, Da Huang, Miaomiao Li, Xiang Zhao

Michigan Tech Publications

The post-tensioned cross-laminated timber (CLT) rocking wall is a recently developed resilient CLT lateral force-resisting system with a self-centering feature. The structural responses of the systems with different designs need to be determined and evaluated efficiently to promote the development and standardization of industrial applications. This study developed a computationally efficient, component-assembled numerical model for post-tensioned cross-laminated timber (PT CLT) rocking walls that captures decompression, post-tension self-centering, and energy dissipation within a framework. The single wall model was assembled using nonlinear zero-length springs for the compression at the CLT bottom, truss bar element for the PT tendon, and elastic shell …

A Novel Machine-Learning Based Method For Resolving Secondary Structure Topology In Medium-Resolution Cryo-Em Density Maps, Bahareh Behkamal, Mohammad Parsa Etemadheravi, Ali Mahmoodjanloo, Amin Mansoori, Mahmoud Naghibzadeh, Kamal Al Nasr, Mohammad Reza Saberi

Computer Science Faculty Research

Medium-resolution cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) density maps preserve substantial information about protein secondary-structure organization; however, accurately recovering the topology and connectivity of α-helices and β-strands remains challenging due to noise, structural heterogeneity, and the intrinsic resolution limitations that obscure residue-level detail. Topology determination is a key intermediate step toward building atomic protein models from medium-resolution cryo-EM density maps. It requires identifying the correct correspondence and orientation between secondary-structure elements (SSEs), i.e., α-helices and β-strands, predicted from the amino-acid sequence and those detected in the three dimensional (3D) density map. Despite significant advances in cryo-EM reconstruction and molecular modelling, this correspondence problem …

Automating The Precision Measurements Of Higgs Boson Couplings In The H → Zz* → 4l Decay Channel, Sully Billingsley

Physics Theses and Dissertations

As a way to test the Standard Model of Physics, the couplings of the Higgs boson to other particles is studied by measuring the production cross-sections of the Higgs boson using the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The cross-sections are measured in the \HZZ  decay channel, where $\ell = e, \mu$. Two sets of measurements were performed on increasing amounts of data collected from proton-proton collisions and a center-of-mass energy of 13.6 TeV. The first set of measurements was collected between 2022 and 2023 corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 56 fb$^{-1}$ while the second set adds data …

Investigating Affordable Indoor Mobile Lidar Sensing For Bim-Based Facility Management: A Usability And Condition Sensitivity Study, Amr Mousa, Ahmed Elyamany, Mohamed Nabawy

Civil Engineering

This paper analyzes how capture parameters affect indoor mobile LiDAR scan fitness for-purpose for BIM-based facilities management. Despite extensive research on geometric accuracy and automated modelling performance, limited work has systematically examined how acquisition conditions influence the practical usability of raw scans for BIM/FM applications. A controlled experimental investigation used an Apple iPhone 16 Pro's integrated LiDAR sensor to capture 36 indoor scans under twelve factorial combinations of scan speed, illumination level, and motion pattern. Each condition was repeated three times. Usability was assessed using several components,Fco a gate-based pass/fail criterion, enclosure geometry, openings, ceiling services, and geometric clarity using …

Building Strength: A Systematized Review Of Resilience Intervention Programs For Students, Rachel Christian

Educational Specialist, 2020-current

School-based resilience programs have emerged as a promising vehicle for promoting social-emotional development and buffering the effects of adversity among students. However, a systematic understanding of common program components, associated student outcomes, and implementation factors remains limited. This systematized review examined peer-reviewed research on resilience-building interventions for students in preschool through 12th-grade school settings. Following a structured search across four databases, nine studies met inclusion criteria and were analyzed using structured narrative synthesis. Findings were organized by four research questions addressing program components, student outcomes, implementation factors, and implementation–outcome relationships. Results indicated that resilience interventions consistently strengthened protective competencies, including …

Black Maternal Mental Health: Counseling Considerations For Prenatal Depression And Anxiety, Morgan Renee Williams

Educational Specialist, 2020-current

The maternal mortality rate of Black women in the United States is four times higher than white women (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2020). The CDC defines a maternal death as “the death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy… but not from accidental or incidental causes” (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2024, para. 1). This statistic is a consequence of the inequality within and outside of the American healthcare system (National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, 2020). For the purposes of this research, Black women are defined as any women …

Engineering Professor Developing National Guide For Safer Roadways, Jordan Karnbach

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – A University of Mississippi researcher is working to make intersections and interchanges safer and more efficient through a project funded by the National Cooperative Highway Research Program.

Keeping Families Together: Companion Animals As A Public Health Imperative, Lori R. Kogan, Rebecca Niemiec

Journal of One Health Systems

Contemporary US public health frameworks emphasize social, economic, and environmental determinants of health, yet largely overlook the reality that most households include companion animals regarded as family members. This omission has tangible consequences during crises such as housing instability, illness, domestic violence, or disasters, when families are often forced to choose between their own safety and the safety of their animals. We argue that this represents a significant public health failure. Drawing on interdisciplinary evidence, we propose that companion animals function as a social determinant of health, that forced separation constitutes a public health harm, and that Human-Animal Support Services …

Signs Of Belonging: Community Identities Of Deaf Elders In Central And Coastal Massachusetts, Nelia Eaddy

Undergraduate University Honors Capstones

This study focuses on shared experiences and themes of community identities within the elder Deaf community of central and coastal Massachusetts. Lived experiences and linguistic journeys shape our overall senses of belonging and identities; subsequently, they profoundly affect our relationship to our communities (Eastaugh, 2019). This research study discusses how concepts of belonging shift as individuals age within their community and how that impacts their sense of belonging and experiences with language. Communities where individuals feel a sense of belonging encourage identity development. The experiences of elders who identify as “Deaf” (due to their language preference and cultural influences) within …

2026 Commencement Program For The School Of Nursing And Health Sciences And The School Of Engineering And Computational Sciences, Merrimack College

Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.