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Polygonal Faults In The Austin Chalk: Invariance Of Scale From Mud Cracks To Polygons With Implications Of Structural, Geomorphic And Isotopic Data On Polygonal Fault Geometry And Origin., Kun Shang

Earth Sciences Theses and Dissertations

The Cretaceous Austin Chalk contains large numbers of fractures and normal faults whose orientations have been attributed to either regional stresses (e.g., the Balcones fault trend) or, by analogy with the mudrocks, to polygonal faulting resulting from compaction. In this study, we present geomorphic data, field study, and stable isotope data to support that the majority of these faults in North Texas are polygonal. Field-measured fault orientations suggest randomly distributed fault strikes, indicating a polygonal fault structure. Using geomorphologic data (topographic and DEM data) on stream orientations suggests that the polygonal fault patterns are best reflected in the headwater (1st …

The University Of Texas At Arlington: Green Infrastructure Report, Center For Metropolitan Density, Uta Office Of Facilities Management, Uta Office Of Sustainability, City Of Arlington, Us Epa, One Architecture & Urbanism, Climate Resilience Consulting, Sherwood Design Engineers, Taner R. Ozdil

Center for Metropolitan Density Publications - Archive

On the University of Texas at Arlington campus, investing in green infrastructure is critical for managing stormwater and heat stress today and addressing the emerging challenges caused by a changing climate: shifting precipitation patterns, “cloudbursts” or flash floods, and more frequent and severe extreme heat events. In 2022, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency provided technical assistance to UTA as part of the tenth anniversary of the Campus RainWorks Challenge, a national design competition that advances green infrastructure design on college and university campuses across the country. This report builds on UTA’s extensive engagement with the competition and envisions the campus …

Predicting Corrosion Damage In The Human Body Using Artificial Intelligence: In Vitro Progress And Future Applications Applications, Michael A. Kurtz, Ruoyu Yang, Mohan S. R. Elapolu, Audrey C. Wessinger, William Nelson, Kazzandra Alaniz, Rahul Rai, Jeremy L. Gilbert

Publications

Artificial intelligence (AI) is used in the clinic to improve patient care. While the successes illustrate the impact AI can have, few studies have led to improved clinical outcomes. A gap in translational studies, beginning at the basic science level, exists. In this review, we focus on how AI models implemented in non-orthopedic fields of corrosion science may apply to the study of orthopedic alloys. We first define and introduce fundamental AI concepts and models, as well as physiologically relevant corrosion damage modes. We then systematically review the corrosion/AI literature. Finally, we identify several AI models that may be Preprint …

Freeman Honors Newsletter, Spring/Summer 2023 Issue, Texas Southern University, Thomas F. Freeman Honors College

Honor's College Newsletters

Spring/Summer 2023 Newsletter

S-Kmn: Integrating Semantic Features Learning And Knowledge Mapping Network For Automatic Quiz Question Annotation, Jing Wang, Hao Li, Xu Du, Jui-Long Hung, Shuoqiu Yang

Educational Technology Faculty Publications and Presentations

Quiz question annotation aims to assign the most relevant knowledge point to a question, which is a key technology to support intelligent education applications. However, the existing methods only extract the explicit semantic information that reveals the literal meaning of a question, and ignore the implicit knowledge information that highlights the knowledge intention. To this end, an innovative dual-channel model, the Semantic-Knowledge Mapping Network (S-KMN) is proposed to enrich the question representation from two perspectives, semantic and knowledge, simultaneously. It integrates semantic features learning and knowledge mapping network (KMN) to extract explicit semantic features and implicit knowledge features of questions,respectively. …

Making Manufacturing Strategic For The 21st Century, Arnoud De Meyer, Kasra Ferdows, Ann Vereecke

Asian Management Insights

The role of the manufacturing executive must be upgraded too.

Beyond A Single Quadrant, Vijaya Saunder M, Rithica Mamidi

Asian Management Insights

Rethinking platform businesses in the digital era.

Institute Of Public Health Newsletter- Volume 5, Issue 2, Institute Of Public Health (Iph)

Institute of Public Health Newsletter (IPHNL) and Other Publications

No abstract provided.

The Jwst Early Release Science Program For Direct Observations Of Exoplanetary Systems I: High-Contrast Imaging Of The Exoplanet Hip 65426 B From 2 To 16 Μm, Aarynn L. Carter, Sasha Hinkley, Jens Kammerer, Andrew Skemer, Beth A. Biller, Jarron M. Leisenring, Maxwell A. Millar-Blanchaer, Simon Petrus, Jordan M. Stone, Kimberly Ward-Duong, Jason J. Wang, Julien H. Girard, Dean C. Hines, Marshall D. Perrin, Laurent Pueyo, William O. Balmer, Mariangela Bonavita, Mickael Bonnefoy, Gael Chauvin, Elodie Choquet, Valentin Christiaens, Camilla Danielski, Grant M. Kennedy, Elisabeth C. Matthews, Brittany E. Miles, Polychronis Patapis, Shrishmoy Ray, Emily Rickman, Steph Sallum, Karl R. Stapelfeldt, Niall Whiteford, Yifan Zhou

Astronomy: Faculty Publications

We present JWST Early Release Science coronagraphic observations of the super-Jupiter exoplanet, HIP 65426b, with the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) from 2 to 5 μm, and with the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) from 11 to 16 μm. At a separation of ∼0.″82 (87 − 31 + 108 au), HIP 65426b is clearly detected in all seven of our observational filters, representing the first images of an exoplanet to be obtained by JWST, and the first-ever direct detection of an exoplanet beyond 5 μm. These observations demonstrate that JWST is exceeding its nominal predicted performance by up to a factor of 10, depending …

Research On The Influence Of Policy Factors On The Development Of Science And Technology Innovation In Chinese Cities Based On Text Analysis And Regression Analysis, Shujin Cao, Libao Sun, Ruye Cao

Journal of Scientific Information Research

[Purpose/significance]Exploring the policy factors those influence the development of scientific and technological innovation is of great significance to constantly improve the scientific and technological innovation policy system, stimulate innovation vitality and promote economic and social development.[Method/process]Based on the theory of scientific and technological innovation environment and innovation ecosystem, a model of policy factors influencing the development of scientific and technological innovation is constructed. Then, 300 domestic cities at prefecture level and above are selected as samples, and the external characteristics of policy texts, such as the number of policies and publishing institutions, as well as the content characteristics of policy …

Northrop Grumman Collaboration Project, Nikkia Psomas-Sheridan, Santiago Robles, Ben Elkayam, Benjamin Ulfhake

Mechanical Engineering

The Northrop Grumman Collaboration Project (NGCP) is a collaborative club project sponsored by Northrop Grumman for the students of Cal Poly San Luis Obispo (CPSLO) and Cal Poly Pomona (CPP) to create a fleet of vehicles to aid in the simulated rescue of stranded hiker. The CPSLO club is responsible for delivering an autonomous flight vehicle that can suppress a fire and retrieve a payload. Mechanical Design Team of the CPSLO team was responsible for the design of the frame, electronics housing, and payload and fire suppression systems.

The Role Of Faculty In Durable Skills Development In Higher Education, James Hutson, Mark Valenzuela, Shannon Wright, Elizabeth Melick

Faculty Scholarship

Although Emsi and other market researchers have found that employers desire durable skills (formerly known as “soft skills”) in new hires, there have been few studies dedicated to identifying how faculty perceptions of skill development differ in degree and by area, and how that might impact how such skills are embedded in classroom instruction. This study proposes to investigate the perceptions of faculty from different academic backgrounds and how their disciplines and experiences may contribute to their perceived role in curricular, cocurricular or extracurricular offerings that support durable skill development. Results from the study demonstrate the differing perspectives and expectations …

Non-Invasive Measurement Of Trust In Group Interactions, Lee A. Spitzley, Xinran Wang, Xunyu Chen, Steven J. Pentland, Jay F. Nunamaker, Judee K. Burgoon, Norah E. Dunbar

IT and Supply Chain Management Faculty Publications and Presentations

Trust between group members has many implications for how well a group performs. In this study, we predict perceived trustworthiness of group members when there are subversive group members. We collected multimodal verbal and nonverbal data from a group interaction experiment. During the interaction, we periodically surveyed the group members about their perceptions of trustworthiness of other group members. We used this data to model the relationship between observable behavior and perceptions of trustworthiness. We report the most predictive features and describe them in the context of existing literature on verbal and nonverbal correlates of trust. This research advances the …

Undergraduate And Graduate Course Descriptions, 2023 Summer, Wright State University

Course Descriptions

Wright State University undergraduate and graduate course descriptions from Summer 2023.

Street Smarts: The Race To Patent Rights In Athletic Footwear, Sara Desai

Jeffrey S. Moorad Sports Law Journal (1994 - )

No abstract provided.

Introduction To Health Sciences, Karinne A. Osumi

Occupational Therapy Student Capstones

No abstract provided.

Drug-Induced Pseudoallergy Reaction Through Mas-Related G-Protein-Coupled Receptor X2: A Narrative Review, Zulfi Azizah, Ika Puspitasari, Muhammad Novrizal Abdi Sahid

The Thai Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Pseudoallergy is a hypersensitivity condition not triggered by immunoglobulin E (IgE). These conditions can cause various health problems with symptoms identical to IgE-mediated allergic. The symptoms range from mild such as hives, to severe symptoms, such as anaphylactoid. Several drugs are known to activate mast cells directly through the mas-related G protein-coupled receptor X2 (MRGPRX2). MRGPRX2 is a receptor expressed on mast cells and responsible for their activation without being mediated by IgE. This review focuses on the types and methods of drugs that can induce pseudoallergy through MRGPRX2. The literature was collected with keywords in the form of “pseudo …

An Effective Heuristic To Reduce Total Flowtime For Randomly-Structured Flowshop Problems, Arun John Abraham

Theses

We propose a heuristic to reduce total flowtime in a six-job, four-machine permutation flowshop scheduling problem. This work contributes to the prolific research efforts reported in the permutation flowshop scheduling problem (PFSP).

The heuristic was applied to 102 randomly structured flowshop scheduling problems, with job processing times generated using an integer uniform distribution in the interval [1,100]. The results of computational experiments were deemed satisfactory after being evaluated by using the ordinal and percentile ranks of the resulting total flowtime for the six jobs.

2023/2024 University Of The Pacific Graduate Catalog, University Of The Pacific

Catalogue, Bulletin, Catalog

No abstract provided.

Development And Reliability Analysis Of A Split-Administration Test Of The Math Epistemic Games Survey, Stephen Hackler, E. Elliott, M. Eichenlaub, Alison M. Sweeney

Physics & Astronomy Faculty Works

The increasing and diversifying student enrollments in introductory physics courses make reliable, valid, and usable instruments for measuring student skills and gains ever more important. In introductory physics, in addition to teaching facts about mechanics, we also seek to teach our students the skills of “thinking like a physicist,” or expertise in and intuition for physical problem solving. How and when these expert, intuitive problem-solving skills emerge during a STEM education, or what the most effective teaching methods might be, are not certain. A facile survey to measure students’ “physics-thinking” skills in a pretest and post-test format is therefore desirable …

Summer 2023, Echoes Staff

Rose Echoes

No abstract provided.

Studying The Topological Sector Of Quantum Gravity With Branched Covering Spaces, Christopher L. Duston

Physics Faculty Publications

Spatial topology change is generally expected to be prohibited classically, being present only at the quantum scale. However, including topology change into many of the current approaches to quantum gravity (such as Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG) and Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT)) has proven difficult for technical reasons. In this work we explore this sector numerically using branched covering spaces (in LQG this corresponds to the utilization of Topspin Networks). To this end, we have implemented a group-theoretic algorithm coming from knot theory to measure the topology of arbitrary spatial sections in a systematic way, and have constructed a statistical ensemble …

Distributed Deep Learning Optimization Of Heat Equation Inverse Problem Solvers, Zhuowei Wang, Le Yang, Haoran Lin, Genping Zhao, Zixuan Liu, Xiaoyu Song

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

The inversion problem of partial differential equation plays a crucial role in cyber-physical systems applications. This paper presents a novel deep learning optimization approach to constructing a solver of heat equation inversion. To improve the computational efficiency in large-scale industrial applications, data and model parallelisms are incorporated on a platform of multiple GPUs. The advanced Ring-AllReduce architecture is harnessed to achieve an acceleration ratio of 3.46. Then a new multi-GPUs distributed optimization method GradReduce is proposed based on Ring-AllReduce architecture. This method optimizes the original data communication mechanism based on mechanical time and frequency by introducing the gradient transmission scheme …

Search, The Jackson Laboratory

Search Magazine

No abstract provided.

Likelihood-Based Tests Of Species Tree Hypotheses, Richard Adams, Michael Degiorgio

Entomology and Plant Pathology Faculty Publications and Presentations

Likelihood-based tests of phylogenetic trees are a foundation of modern systematics. Over the past decade, an enormous wealth and diversity of model-based approaches have been developed for phylogenetic inference of both gene trees and species trees. However, while many techniques exist for conducting formal likelihood-based tests of gene trees, such frameworks are comparatively underdeveloped and underutilized for testing species tree hypotheses. To date, widely used tests of tree topology are designed to assess the fit of classical models of molecular sequence data and individual gene trees and thus are not readily applicable to the problem of species tree inference. To …

The Right To (Human) Counsel: Real Responsibility For Artificial Intelligence, Keith Swisher

South Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

Effect Of Surface Fluid Entrapment In A Laminar Flat Plate Boundary Layer, Abigail Hays

Mechanical Engineering Research Theses and Dissertations

For streamlined objects in laminar flow, the drag is dominated by friction drag. To counteract this, the boundary condition of the object can be changed to introduce an apparent slip on the surface. A number of approaches have been proposed for introducing surface slip to reduce drag and viscous resistance in fluid flows. This work investigates a novel approach to providing slip via fluid entrapment in a perforated domain embedded in the surface. The fluid entrapment system uses a cavity underneath the domain to allow entrapment of fluid of the same type, or supply air to the surface perforations in …

City Of Concord, Fy 2023 Annual Report, Concord Town Representatives

Concord, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

I Am Made Of..., Chris Latray

CutBank

No abstract provided.

Online But Unlawful Sales Of Unapproved And Misbranded Prescription Drugs: Internet Pharmacy Compliance With Food And Drug Administration Warning Letters, Yam B. Limbu, Bruce A. Huhmann

Department of Marketing Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Consumers increasingly use online pharmacies. However, illicit online pharmacies endanger consumer welfare with unapproved and counterfeit drugs. By linking Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warning letter content with observations of the 1108 websites cited in those letters, we identify factors associated with FDA-requested compliance and active/inactive website status. One in five online pharmacies failed to comply with FDA recommendations. Findings support the cost/benefit, social norm, and instrumental theories of compliance. Compliance declines with cost (e.g., when the FDA requests changes to more drug categories). Organized crime's social norms encourage law breaking; thus, illicit pharmacies comply less than other online pharmacies. …