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Driven By Passion For Technology, Computer Science Student Lands Internship At Amazon, Tehreem Khan Aug 2023

Driven By Passion For Technology, Computer Science Student Lands Internship At Amazon, Tehreem Khan

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Toward Understanding The Environmental Risks Of Combined Microplastics/Nanomaterials Exposures: Unveiling Zno Transformations After Adsorption Onto Polystyrene Microplastics In Environmental Solutions, Ma Gomez‐Gonzalez, Silva‐Ferreira T Da, Nathaniel Clark, Robert Clough, Paul D. Quinn, Julia E. Parker Aug 2023

Toward Understanding The Environmental Risks Of Combined Microplastics/Nanomaterials Exposures: Unveiling Zno Transformations After Adsorption Onto Polystyrene Microplastics In Environmental Solutions, Ma Gomez‐Gonzalez, Silva‐Ferreira T Da, Nathaniel Clark, Robert Clough, Paul D. Quinn, Julia E. Parker

School of Health Professions

AbstractOver recent decades, there has been a dramatic increase in the manufacture of engineered nanomaterials, which has inevitably led to their environmental release. Zinc oxide (ZnO) is among the more abundant nanomaterial manufactured due to its advantageous properties, used for piezoelectric, semiconducting, and antibacterial purposes. Plastic waste is ubiquitous and may break down or delaminate into smaller microplastics, leaving open the question of whether these small polymers may alter the fate of ZnO through adsorption within aquatic media (tap‐water and seawater). Here, scanning electron microscopy analysis confirms the effective Zn nano/microstructures adsorption onto polystyrene surfaces after only 24‐h incubation in …

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2023 Cash Lease Adjustments For Irrigation Equipment On Cropland Rental Arrangements In Nebraska, Jim Jansen, Jeffrey Stokes Aug 2023

2023 Cash Lease Adjustments For Irrigation Equipment On Cropland Rental Arrangements In Nebraska, Jim Jansen, Jeffrey Stokes

Cornhusker Economics

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Nebraska Farm Real Estate Market Survey and Report 2022-2023 provides insight into recent trends in the market value of agricultural land and cash rental rates across the state. Each year, the special feature section covers topics on new or emerging issues related to the agricultural land industry in Nebraska. These topics reflect the interest expressed by panel members and readership of the Nebraska Farm Real Estate Market Highlights Reports. The 2023 special feature section focuses on cash lease adjustments on irrigation equipment for cropland rental arrangements across Nebraska when the tenant provides a component of the …

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Intelligent Driver Sleep Detection And Alerting System, Athukoralage Awarjana Madubhani Perera, Nimesh N. Pollwaththage, Dhishan Dhammearatchi Aug 2023

Intelligent Driver Sleep Detection And Alerting System, Athukoralage Awarjana Madubhani Perera, Nimesh N. Pollwaththage, Dhishan Dhammearatchi

Journal of Innovation in Science, Engineering and Technology

Transportation has already become a vital part of the daily routine of people all around the world. With the increasing demand for transportation, road traffic accidents have also been increasing exponentially. Further, road traffic accidents are found to be one of the critical causes of annual deaths, injuries, and damages worldwide. Among the minor and fatal crashes, distracted driving has been identified as one of the leading causes. Sleepiness/drowsiness or fatigue in drivers can be stated as the most common reasons, and as an unavoidable and unintentional cause for distraction, because most of the time the driver would not be …

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Monodisperse Sub-100 Nm Au Nanoshells For Low-Fluence Deep-Tissue Photoacoustic Imaging, Luis D.B. Manuel, Vinoin Devpaul Vincely, Carolyn L. Bayer, Kevin M. Mcpeak Aug 2023

Monodisperse Sub-100 Nm Au Nanoshells For Low-Fluence Deep-Tissue Photoacoustic Imaging, Luis D.B. Manuel, Vinoin Devpaul Vincely, Carolyn L. Bayer, Kevin M. Mcpeak

Faculty Publications

Nanoparticles with high absorption cross sections will advance therapeutic and bioimaging nanomedicine technologies. While Au nanoshells have shown great promise in nanomedicine, state-of-the-art synthesis methods result in scattering-dominant particles, mitigating their efficacy in absorption-based techniques that leverage the photothermal effect, such as photoacoustic (PA) imaging. We introduce a highly reproducible synthesis route to monodisperse sub-100 nm Au nanoshells with an absorption-dominant optical response. Au nanoshells with 48 nm SiO2 cores and 7 nm Au shells show a 14-fold increase in their volumetric absorption coefficient compared to commercial Au nanoshells with dimensions commonly used in nanomedicine. PA imaging with Au nanoshell …

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Comparing Polytechnic And Liberal Arts Institutions: Leaks In The System, Ryan Drew Baldwin Aug 2023

Comparing Polytechnic And Liberal Arts Institutions: Leaks In The System, Ryan Drew Baldwin

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

The United States has long been a pioneer in higher education, yet the last few decades have proven challenging in maintaining its lead in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields (STEM). Students entering postsecondary education and participating in a STEM degree face increased academic rigor and this study’s goal is to better understand factors that influence their retention. There are many psychosocial, environmental, and academic variables that may impact a student’s retention and this study aims to investigate how those variables inform a students likelihood of being retained and if there are meaningful differences between polytechnic and non-polytechnic institutions.

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Sediment Sorting Within A Relatively Wave-Exposed And Sandy Subtidal Seagrass (Zostera Marina) Meadow, Gerd Masselink Aug 2023

Sediment Sorting Within A Relatively Wave-Exposed And Sandy Subtidal Seagrass (Zostera Marina) Meadow, Gerd Masselink

Faculty of Science and Engineering Datasets

The sediment data set consists of a single spreadsheet with self-explanatory sheets. Sediments were collected from 64 sample locations. The samples were analysed in the laboratory by MSc student Tom Brown and his PhD thesis is included as it contains an extensive description of the analysis methods. Dataset Description: This is the full sediment data set collected in august 2020 from the Great Ganinick seagrass meadow in the isles of Scilly

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August 23, 2023, Faculty, Illinois Wesleyan University Aug 2023

August 23, 2023, Faculty, Illinois Wesleyan University

2023-2024

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Characteristics And Source-Specific Health Risks Of Ambient Pm2.5-Bound Pahs In An Urban City Of Northern Taiwan, Yu-Chieh Ting, Chun-Hung Ku, Yu-Xuan Zou, Kai-Hsien Chi, Jhy-Charm Soo, Chin-Yu Hsu, Yu-Cheng Chen Aug 2023

Characteristics And Source-Specific Health Risks Of Ambient Pm2.5-Bound Pahs In An Urban City Of Northern Taiwan, Yu-Chieh Ting, Chun-Hung Ku, Yu-Xuan Zou, Kai-Hsien Chi, Jhy-Charm Soo, Chin-Yu Hsu, Yu-Cheng Chen

Biostatistics, Epidemiology & Environmental Health Sciences: Faculty Publications

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) with highly toxic compounds mainly exist in small-sized particles and can induce considerable human health risks. Studies on PM2.5-bound PAHs and their source-specific human health risks still remain scarce. Daily PM2.5 samples (n = 119) were collected every three days from 2016 to 2017 in Taipei city, Taiwan. Fifteen PAHs in PM2.5 were analyzed via gas chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (GC/MS-MS). We utilized a positive matrix factorization (PMF) model, diagnostic ratios, and potential source contribution function (PSCF) to identify the origins of PM2.5-bound PAHs. The annual concentration of total PAHs (TPAH) was 0.79 ± 0.67 ng …

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Hierarchical Based Classifcation Method Based On Fusion Ofgaussian Map Descriptors Foralzheimer Diagnosis Using T1‑Weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Nourhan Zayed, Shereen E. Morsy, Inas A. Yassine Aug 2023

Hierarchical Based Classifcation Method Based On Fusion Ofgaussian Map Descriptors Foralzheimer Diagnosis Using T1‑Weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Nourhan Zayed, Shereen E. Morsy, Inas A. Yassine

Mechanical Engineering

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is considered one of the most spouting elderly diseases. In 2015, AD is reported the US’s sixth cause of death. Substantially, non-invasive imaging is widely employed to provide biomarkers supporting AD screening, diagnosis, and progression. In this study, Gaussian descriptors-based features are proposed to be efcient new biomarkers using Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) T1-weighted images to diferentiate between Alzheimer’s disease (AD), Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), and Normal controls (NC). Several Gaussian map-based features are extracted such as Gaussian shape operator, Gaussian curvature, and mean curvature. The aforementioned features are then introduced to the Support Vector Machine (SVM). …

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Ph Gradients In Spatially Non-Uniform Ac Electric Fields Around The Charging Frequency; A Study Of Two Different Geometries And Electrode Passivation, Azade Tahmasebi, Sanaz Habibi, Jeana Collins, Ran An, Esmaeil Dehdashti, Adrienne Minerick Aug 2023

Ph Gradients In Spatially Non-Uniform Ac Electric Fields Around The Charging Frequency; A Study Of Two Different Geometries And Electrode Passivation, Azade Tahmasebi, Sanaz Habibi, Jeana Collins, Ran An, Esmaeil Dehdashti, Adrienne Minerick

Michigan Tech Publications

Dielectrophoresis (DEP), a precision nonlinear electrokinetic tool utilized within microfluidic devices, can induce bioparticle polarization that manifests as motion in the electric field; this phenomenon has been leveraged for phenotypic cellular and biomolecular detection, making DEP invaluable for diagnostic applications. As device operation times lengthen, reproducibility and precision decrease, which has been postulated to be caused by ion gradients within the supporting electrolyte medium. This research focuses on characterizing pH gradients above, at, and below the electrode charging frequency (0.2–1.4 times charging frequency) in an aqueous electrolyte solution in order to extend the parameter space for which microdevice-imposed artifacts on …

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Design And Implementation Of Environmental Management System (Ems) Using Iso 14001:2015 Standard In A Medical/Healthcare Organization, Mohammed Rizwan Mirajkar Aug 2023

Design And Implementation Of Environmental Management System (Ems) Using Iso 14001:2015 Standard In A Medical/Healthcare Organization, Mohammed Rizwan Mirajkar

Theses

Environmental Management Systems (EMS) have been widely implemented by organizations across various industries since late 1980s. The system comprises of policies, procedures, processes, and various documents and formats that are essential not only to attain governance within organizations but also establish a robust management system. In the last decade, the need to enhance environmental performance and achieve sustainability objectives has become a business imperative for organizations across the world. Organizations are mandated to comply with environmental requirements and regulations through contractual agreements between customers and their business partners. Globally, the ISO 14001:2015 standard in its current version is the most …

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Euler Archive Spotlight: Translations Of Euler's Works To Languages Other Than English, Michael P. Saclolo Aug 2023

Euler Archive Spotlight: Translations Of Euler's Works To Languages Other Than English, Michael P. Saclolo

Euleriana

The Euler Archive is home to almost all of Euler’s original publications and roughly a quarter of them have accompanying translations to English. A small number of Euler’s works also have translations to a handful of other languages, namely, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Turkish that are available in the archive. We put a spotlight on these non-English translations in this issue.

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Euler’S Variational Approach To The Elastica, Sylvio R. Bistafa Aug 2023

Euler’S Variational Approach To The Elastica, Sylvio R. Bistafa

Euleriana

The history of the elastica is examined through the works of various contributors, including those of Jacob and Daniel Bernoulli, since its first appearance in a 1690 contest on finding the profile of a hanging flexible cord. Emphasis will be given to Leonhard Euler’s variational approach to the elastica, laid out in his landmark 1744 book on variational techniques. Euler’s variational approach based on the concept of differential value is highlighted, including the derivation of the general equation for the elastica from the differential value of the first kind, from which nine shapes adopted by a flexed lamina under different …

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Leaning Into Chaos (Child’S Health And Online Safety Act): Revision To Ftc’S Enforcement Of Coppa & New Model Rule For Child Advertising, Gabrielle N. Schwartz Aug 2023

Leaning Into Chaos (Child’S Health And Online Safety Act): Revision To Ftc’S Enforcement Of Coppa & New Model Rule For Child Advertising, Gabrielle N. Schwartz

Student Journal of Information Privacy Law

A wise author once wrote, “I know, up top you are seeing great sights, but down here at the bottom we, too, should have rights.”1 Dr. Suess not only understood the importance of inspiring children, but believed it was essential to teach children valuable life lessons. As more children continue to stray away from reading as their source of entertainment, children are more likely to become fascinated by the beauty of the internet. Although the internet’s capabilities may positively impact children, there are also adverse effects through the use of the internet’s products, services, and content. Many companies, individuals (such …

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Predictive Model Of Seismic Vibrations’ Peak Value Induced By Multi-Face Blasting, Krzysztof Fuławka, Lech Stolecki, Piotr Mertuszka, Marcin Szumny, Arkadiusz Anderko Aug 2023

Predictive Model Of Seismic Vibrations’ Peak Value Induced By Multi-Face Blasting, Krzysztof Fuławka, Lech Stolecki, Piotr Mertuszka, Marcin Szumny, Arkadiusz Anderko

Journal of Sustainable Mining

The seismicity level induced by blasting in the Polish copper mines is very important inlight of the efficiency of active rockburst prevention and safe conduct of blasting operations in the vicinity of the mining infrastructure such as shafts, workings, or function chambers (e.g., workshops, storages, etc.). Knowledge of the seismic vibrations’ peak value might be the basis for designing blasting works in a way that ensures desired seismic effect. However, current experiences show that Peak Particle Velocity prediction models developed so far do not apply to multi-face blasting, where there are many vibrations’ sources at the same time dotted across …

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Biogenesis Synthesis Of Zno Nps: Its Adsorption And Photocatalytic Activity For Removal Of Acid Black 210 Dye, Zahraa A. Najm, Mohammed A. Atiya, Ahmed K. Hassan Aug 2023

Biogenesis Synthesis Of Zno Nps: Its Adsorption And Photocatalytic Activity For Removal Of Acid Black 210 Dye, Zahraa A. Najm, Mohammed A. Atiya, Ahmed K. Hassan

Karbala International Journal of Modern Science

This study investigated the treatment of textile wastewater contaminated with Acid Black 210 dye (AB210) using zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnO NPs) through adsorption and photocatalytic techniques. ZnO NPs were synthesized using a green synthesis process involving eucalyptus leaves as reducing and capping agents. The synthesized ZnO NPs were characterized using UV-Vis spectroscopy, SEM, EDAX, XRD, BET, Zeta potential, and FTIR techniques. The BET analysis revealed a specific surface area and total pore volume of 26.318 m2/g. SEM images confirmed the crystalline and spherical nature of the particles, with a particle size of 73.4 nm. A photoreactor was designed …

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Ifseg: Image-Free Semantic Segmentation Via Vision-Language Model, Sukmin Yun, Seong Hyeon Park, Paul Hongsuck Seo, Jinwoo Shin Aug 2023

Ifseg: Image-Free Semantic Segmentation Via Vision-Language Model, Sukmin Yun, Seong Hyeon Park, Paul Hongsuck Seo, Jinwoo Shin

Machine Learning Faculty Publications

Vision-language (VL) pre-training has recently gained much attention for its transferability and flexibility in novel concepts (e.g., cross-modality transfer) across various visual tasks. However, VL-driven segmentation has been under-explored, and the existing approaches still have the burden of acquiring additional training images or even segmentation annotations to adapt a VL model to downstream segmentation tasks. In this paper, we introduce a novel image-free segmentation task where the goal is to perform semantic segmentation given only a set of the target semantic categories, but without any task-specific images and annotations. To tackle this challenging task, our proposed method, coined IFSeg, generates …

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Hines, James Richard, 1903-1995 (Mss 765), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2023

Hines, James Richard, 1903-1995 (Mss 765), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans of selected items (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 765. Primarily letters and statements of James R. Hines, an Evansville, Indiana, native who was owner and legal counsel to several bargeline businesses, advocating for improved navigation and flood control on the Green River in Kentucky. Also includes historical data and narratives on Hines’s steamboating family, especially his grandfather Richard T. Williams.

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Focused Ultrasound-Mediated Brain Genome Editing., Yeh-Hsing Lao, Robin Ji, Joyce K Zhou, Kathy J. Snow, Nancy Kwon, Ethan Saville, Siyu He, Shradha Chauhan, Chun-Wei Chi, Malika S Datta, Hairong Zhang, Chai Hoon Quek, S Sarah Cai, Mingqiang Li, Yaned Gaitan, Lawrence Bechtel, Shih-Ying Wu, Cathleen Lutz, Raju Tomer, Stephen A Murray, Alejandro Chavez, Elisa E Konofagou, Kam W Leong Aug 2023

Focused Ultrasound-Mediated Brain Genome Editing., Yeh-Hsing Lao, Robin Ji, Joyce K Zhou, Kathy J. Snow, Nancy Kwon, Ethan Saville, Siyu He, Shradha Chauhan, Chun-Wei Chi, Malika S Datta, Hairong Zhang, Chai Hoon Quek, S Sarah Cai, Mingqiang Li, Yaned Gaitan, Lawrence Bechtel, Shih-Ying Wu, Cathleen Lutz, Raju Tomer, Stephen A Murray, Alejandro Chavez, Elisa E Konofagou, Kam W Leong

Faculty Research 2023

Gene editing in the brain has been challenging because of the restricted transport imposed by the blood-brain barrier (BBB). Current approaches mainly rely on local injection to bypass the BBB. However, such administration is highly invasive and not amenable to treating certain delicate regions of the brain. We demonstrate a safe and effective gene editing technique by using focused ultrasound (FUS) to transiently open the BBB for the transport of intravenously delivered CRISPR/Cas9 machinery to the brain.

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Anticoagulation Options For Cranial Procedures: A Comparative Review Of Aspirin, Plavix, And Aggrastat., Harendra Kumar, Aishwarya Boini, Mpuekela Tshibangu, Bikona Ghosh, Fatima Shaheen, Andrew M Joseph, Juliana Cazzaniga, Monica Karas, Cesar E Jara Silva, Jonathan Quinonez, Samir Ruxmohan Aug 2023

Anticoagulation Options For Cranial Procedures: A Comparative Review Of Aspirin, Plavix, And Aggrastat., Harendra Kumar, Aishwarya Boini, Mpuekela Tshibangu, Bikona Ghosh, Fatima Shaheen, Andrew M Joseph, Juliana Cazzaniga, Monica Karas, Cesar E Jara Silva, Jonathan Quinonez, Samir Ruxmohan

HPD Articles

Anticoagulation therapy is critical to avoiding thrombotic events in patients following cranial surgery. Although Aspirin, Plavix, and Aggrastat are used as anticoagulants for this purpose, there is no consensus on which agent is the most effective and safe. In this comparative study, we analyze the current evidence on the efficacy and safety of these three anticoagulants in the context of cranial surgeries. This review focuses on the advantages and disadvantages of each anticoagulant, such as its pharmacokinetics, indications, contraindications, and possible consequences. The outcomes of this study will help physicians choose the best anticoagulant for their patients based on individual …

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Final 2023 Rmap Stodden Park Soil Remedial Action Work Plan (Rawp), Pioneer Technical Services, Inc. Aug 2023

Final 2023 Rmap Stodden Park Soil Remedial Action Work Plan (Rawp), Pioneer Technical Services, Inc.

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

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Automated And Assisted Identification Of Stroke Using Feature-Based Brain Imaging, Karl A. Kasischke, William Scott Burgin Aug 2023

Automated And Assisted Identification Of Stroke Using Feature-Based Brain Imaging, Karl A. Kasischke, William Scott Burgin

USF Patents

Provided herein are systems and methods for automated identification of volumes of interest in volumetric brain images using artificial intelligence (AI) enhanced imaging to diagnose and treat acute stroke. The methods can include receiving image data of a brain having header data and voxel values that represent an interruption in blood supply of the brain when imaged, extracting the header data from the image data, populating an array of cells with the voxel values, applying a segmenting analysis to the array to generate a segmented array, applying a morphological neighborhood analysis to the segmented array to generate a features relationship …

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Determining Electronic Component Authenticity Via Electronic Signal Signature Measurement, Yunghsiao Chung, Feng Yu, Stephen Edward Saddow Aug 2023

Determining Electronic Component Authenticity Via Electronic Signal Signature Measurement, Yunghsiao Chung, Feng Yu, Stephen Edward Saddow

USF Patents

Examples of determining electronic component authenticity via electronic signal signature measurement are discussed. Reference pin identifiers corresponding to pins of a known authentic electronic component are determined. Measurement values corresponding to characteristics of pins of an electronic component are obtained, and pin identifiers based on the measurement values are generated. Accordingly, an indication that the electronic component is authentic can be provided based at least in part on a comparison of the pin identifiers and the reference pin identifiers.

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About Premedical Programs At Ud, Udayton Aug 2023

About Premedical Programs At Ud, Udayton

Pre-Health Resource Center Campus Communications

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Undergraduate Students' Conceptions Of Ngss Science And Engineering Practices, Jessie Webb Aug 2023

Undergraduate Students' Conceptions Of Ngss Science And Engineering Practices, Jessie Webb

Theses and Dissertations

In 2013, a new set of science standards was introduced for K-12 science education, called the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), which focused on three dimensions of science learning that work together: disciplinary core ideas, crosscutting concepts, and science and engineering practices. These standards are novel in their emphasis on students needing more than only content knowledge to learn science and engineering. The NGSS science and engineering practices (SEPs) stress the importance of students engaging in the authentic practices of scientists and engineers to help them think like a scientist, practice science themselves, and overcome the misconception that science is …

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How I Read An Article That Uses Machine Learning Methods, Aziz Nazha, Olivier Elemento, Shannon Mcweeney, Moses Miles, Torsten Haferlach Aug 2023

How I Read An Article That Uses Machine Learning Methods, Aziz Nazha, Olivier Elemento, Shannon Mcweeney, Moses Miles, Torsten Haferlach

Kimmel Cancer Center Faculty Papers

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Performance Of Siso And Mimo Antenna Systems In Suburban And Urban Scenarios For V2i Communications At 5.9 Ghz And 28 Ghz, Oluwaseun Falade Aug 2023

Performance Of Siso And Mimo Antenna Systems In Suburban And Urban Scenarios For V2i Communications At 5.9 Ghz And 28 Ghz, Oluwaseun Falade

Theses and Dissertations

As the need for Vehicle to Infrastructure (V2I) innovations increases, further research is needed to test the performance of antennas installed on vehicles in realistic scenarios including their radiation patterns and optimal location. This thesis considers realistic suburban and urban scenarios with SISO and MIMO antennas for V2I systems at 5.9 GHz and 28 GHz. The simulation is based on Ray tracing (RT) channel models to accurately model the effects of obstacles such as buildings and vehicles on the communication signals. Time-varying vehicular environments are simulated using a 3-D RT tool involving a vehicle and a base station. This research …

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Interpreting The Mechanism Of Synergism For Drug Combinations Using Attention-Based Hierarchical Graph Pooling, Zehao Dong, Heming Zhang, Yixin Chen, Philip R O Payne, Fuhai Li Aug 2023

Interpreting The Mechanism Of Synergism For Drug Combinations Using Attention-Based Hierarchical Graph Pooling, Zehao Dong, Heming Zhang, Yixin Chen, Philip R O Payne, Fuhai Li

2020-Current year OA Pubs

Synergistic drug combinations provide huge potentials to enhance therapeutic efficacy and to reduce adverse reactions. However, effective and synergistic drug combination prediction remains an open question because of the unknown causal disease signaling pathways. Though various deep learning (AI) models have been proposed to quantitatively predict the synergism of drug combinations, the major limitation of existing deep learning methods is that they are inherently not interpretable, which makes the conclusions of AI models untransparent to human experts, henceforth limiting the robustness of the model conclusion and the implementation ability of these models in real-world human-AI healthcare. In this paper, we …

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Simultaneous Multistep Transformer Architecture For Model Predictive Control, Junho Park, Mohammad Reza Babaei, Samuel Arce Munoz, Ashwin N. Venkat, John Hedengren Aug 2023

Simultaneous Multistep Transformer Architecture For Model Predictive Control, Junho Park, Mohammad Reza Babaei, Samuel Arce Munoz, Ashwin N. Venkat, John Hedengren

Faculty Publications

Transformer neural networks have revolutionized natural language processing by effectively addressing the vanishing gradient problem. This study focuses on applying Transformer models to time-series forecasting and customizing them for a simultaneous multistep-ahead prediction model in surrogate model predictive control (MPC). The proposed method showcases improved control performance and computational efficiency compared to LSTM-based MPC and one-step-ahead prediction models using both LSTM and Transformer networks. The study introduces three key contributions: (1) a new MPC system based on a Transformer time-series architecture, (2) a training method enabling multistep-ahead prediction for time-series machine learning models, and (3) validation of the enhanced time …

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