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Transformative Agreements: Six Myths, Busted, Ashley Farley, Allison Langham-Putrow, Elisabeth Shook, Leila Belle Sterman, Megan Wacha

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

Transformative agreement (TA) is an umbrella term used to describe contracts between institutions and publishers intended to transform the current, primarily subscription-based, journal publishing model to a fully open access (OA) model. The idea originated in a 2015 white paper from the Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL), which posited that the current level of investment ($10 billion worldwide) is sufficient to fund the transformation to OA within existing publishing structures: a system in which 60% of the market is controlled by five publishers who maintain excessive profit margins.

Certis: Digital Transformation Of A Physical Security Company, Singapore Management University

Perspectives@SMU

How a company synonymous with auxiliary police injected sensors and artificial intelligence into its 21st century operations

We Are Partners! Connecting Through Collaboration And Engagement With Communities At Smu Libraries, Wei Xia

Research Collection Library

No abstract provided.

Tools For Wellbeing, Barbara Knezevic, Michael O'Hara, Claire Louise Bennett, Marysia Wieckiewicz-Carroll, Linda Quinlan, Suzanne Walsh, Maja Ćiric, Maeve Connolly, Sue Rainsford, Peter Maybury

Books/Book Chapters

No abstract provided.

The Ecology Of Rural Roads: Effects, Management, And Research, Alisa W. Coffin, Douglas S. Ouren, Neil D. Bettez, Luís Borda-De-Água, Amy E. Daniels, Clara Grilo, Jochen A.G. Jaeger, Laetitia M. Navarro, Haiganoush K. Preisler, Emily Rauschert

Biological, Geological, and Environmental Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Brainstem Quadruple Aberrant Hyperphosphorylated Tau, Beta-Amyloid, Alpha-Synuclein And Tdp-43 Pathology, Stress And Sleep Behavior Disorders, Lilian Calderón-Garcidueñas, Ravi Philip Rajkumar, Elijah W. Stommel, Randy Kulesza, Yusra Mansour, Adriana Rico-Villanueva, Jorge Orlando Flores-Vázquez, Rafael Brito-Aguilar, Silvia Ramírez-Sánchez, Griselda García-Alonso, Diana A. Chávez-Franco, Samuel C. Luévano-Castro, Edgar García-Rojas, Paula Revueltas-Ficachi, Rodolfo Villarreal-Ríos, Partha S. Mukherjee

ISI Best Publications

Quadruple aberrant hyperphosphorylated tau (p-τ), amyloid-β peptide, alpha-synuclein and TDP-43 brainstem and supratentorial pathology are documented in forensic ≤40y autopsies in Metropolitan Mexico City (MMC), and p-τ is the major aberrant protein. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is associated with an elevated risk of subsequent dementia, and rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder (RBD) is documented in PD, AD, Lewy body dementia and ALS. This study aimed to identify an association between PTSD and potential pRBD in Mexico. An anonymous online survey of 4502 urban college-educated adults, 29.3 ± 10.3 years; MMC, n = 1865; non-MMC, n = 2637, measured PTSD …

Development Of Attachments For The Quanser Qube, Diane Peters, Aaron Joseph Michael Jones

Mechanical Engineering Presentations And Conference Materials

The Quanser Qube is an integrated servomotor lab hardware platform [1], shown in Figure 1. This platform includes not only the direct-drive brushed DC motor, but also two encoders as well as the data acquisition system. One encoder is used to measure the rotation of the DC motor’s shaft itself. It is supplied with two standard items, an inertia disk and an inverted pendulum. The inertia disk is a small aluminum part, which mounts to the equipment using magnets. The inverted pendulum also mounts to the equipment with magnets, with an encoder that plugs into the equipment to provide an …

Student Perceptions Of Connections Between An Introductory Dynamic Systems Class And Co-Op Work Experience, Diane Peters

Mechanical Engineering Presentations And Conference Materials

This work focuses on connections that students see between co-op work assignments and a specific class in their mechanical engineering curriculum, typically taken in the second half of their junior year or the first half of their senior year. Students in the course wrote an essay, as a required assignment, in which they reflected on the links between their co-op work and the course, and were asked for permission to use those essays in the professor’s research on this topic. Analysis of the essays shows that students typically did see connections; in many cases, these were connected to the course …

Performance Of Openbci Eeg Binary Intent Classification With Laryngeal Imagery, Nathan George, Samuel Kuhn

Regis University Faculty Publications (comprehensive list)

One of the greatest goals of neuroscience in recent decades has been to rehabilitate individuals who no longer have a functional relationship between their mind and their body. Although neuroscience has produced technologies which allow the brains of paralyzed patients to accomplish tasks such as spell words or control a motorized wheelchair, these technologies utilize parts of the brain which may not be optimal for simultaneous use. For example, if you needed to look at flashing lights to spell words for communication, it would be difficult to simultaneously look at where you are moving. To improve upon this issue, this …

Capturing Quarantine: Student Pandemic Experience Journal, Bri Johnson

Public History Journals

Journal entries submitted by the Public History 2021 summer session class at Columbia College Chicago reflecting on aspects of the global pandemic from the student perspective commenting on their personal pandemic timeline and the other is an essay about what each student learned so far from the pandemic.

Faculty Policy And Governance Handbook, 2021, University Of Dayton

Faculty Handbooks

No abstract provided.

Numerical And Asymptotic Study Of Non-Stationary Mass Transport Of Binary Salt Ions In The Diffusion Layer Near The Cation Exchange Membrane At Prelimiting Currents, Gudza V. A, Chubyr N. O, Kirillova E. V, Urtenov M. Kh

Applied Mathematics & Information Sciences

In this paper, we consider a depleted stationary diffusion layer adjacent to the ion-exchange membrane. The main goal is to study the structure of the diffusion layer over time. A one-dimensional non-stationary mathematical model of the transport of a binary electrolyte in a diffusion layer in a potentiostatic mode is investigated using the Nernst-Planck and Poisson equations. For the first time, it is shown that the left boundary of the space charge region is established quickly, approaching a certain straight line xc =const asymptotically. Using this fact, a new asymptotic solution is constructed. The original feature of the proposed asymptotic …

Some New Inequalities For Lr-Log-H-Convex Interval-Valued Functions By Means Of Pseudo Order Relation, M. B. Khan, M. Aslam Noor, Hilal M. Y. Al-Bayatti, Khalida Inayat Noor

Applied Mathematics & Information Sciences

In this paper, we introduce the concept of LR-log-h-convex interval-valued functions. Under the new concept, we present new versions of Hermite-Hadamard inequalities (i.e. LR-interval Hermite-Hadamard type inequalities) by means of pseudo order relation. This order relation is defined on interval space. Some Jensen type inequalities are also derived for LR-log-h-convex interval-valued functions. Moreover, we have shown that our results include a wide class of new and known inequalities for LR-log-h-convex interval-valued functions and their variant forms as special cases. Useful examples that verify the applicability of the theory developed in this study are presented. The concepts and techniques of this …

On Solutions Of Fully Fuzzy Linear Fractional Programming Problems Using Close Interval Approximation For Normalized Heptagonal Fuzzy Numbers, Majed G. Alharbi, Hamiden Abd El- Wahed Khalifa

Applied Mathematics & Information Sciences

This paper attempts to solve the linear fractional programming problem with fully fuzzy normalized heptagonal fuzzy numbers using the close interval approximation of normalized heptagonal fuzzy number, which is one of the best interval approximations. The maximization (minimization) problem with interval objective function is converted into multi- objective based on order relations introduced by the decision makers’ preference between interval profits (costs). Finally, an example is presented to illustrate the proposed method.

A New Direction To The Maximal Flow Problem: A Route Merging Approach, Elias Munapo, Santosh Kumar, Kolentino Mpeta

Applied Mathematics & Information Sciences

The paper presents a new direction to the maximal flow problem. A maximal-flow problem involves finding the largest flow rate a network supply can have from the source to sink. The proposed algorithm solves the flow problem by merging flow routes iteratively until there is only one route left. It has the strength that the problem reduces in size at every iteration. The route merging algorithm belongs to a family of algorithms that solves by reducing the complexity of the flow problem. The flow problem has applications in the networking of pipes and road transportation networks.

Estimation On Kumaraswamy-Inverse Weibull Distribution With Constant Stress Partially Accelerated Life Tests, Nagwa M. Mohamed

Applied Mathematics & Information Sciences

This paper presents a method of estimation parameters and acceleration factor of Kumaraswamy-Inverse Weibull Distribution based on constant stress partially accelerated life tests. Depending on progrssive type-II censoring, we present the maximum likelihood, Bayes, and two parametric bootstrap methods. In addition, we use the asymptotic variance covariance matrix of the estimators to construct the approximate confidence intervals, bootstrap and credible confidence intervals. Furthermore, we apply Markov Chain Monte Carlo method to compute the Bayes estimators. Also, generating Markov Chain Monte Carlo samples from the posterior density functions using Gibbs within the Metropolis-Hasting algorithm is studied. Finally, a numerical example is …

High School Students’ Learning During The Covid Pandemic: Perspectives From Health Sciences And Technology Academy Participants, Sherron Benson Mckendall, Alan Mckendall, Ann Chester, Catherine Morton, Sean Freeland, Summer Kuhn, Mary Mcmillion

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

This paper examines the perspectives of Health Sciences and Technology Academy (HSTA) participants as they navigate through their West Virginia (WV) high school learning environments (i.e., in-person, blended/hybrid, complete virtual) during the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-19 (COVID-19) pandemic. In March of 2020, the participants in this out-of-school-time (OST) academic enrichment program for exceptionally driven, yet underprivileged, at-risk students, with over 70% living in rural areas, started receiving remote learning instruction through learning management systems or via paper packets. In August of 2020, school systems provided parents and caregivers alternative learning environments for their student(s). In order to understand the learning experiences …

Taylor: A Magazine For Taylor University Alumni, Parents And Friends (Special Edition 2021), Taylor University

The Taylor Magazine (1963-Present)

The special 2021 edition of Taylor Magazine, published by Taylor University in Upland, Indiana.

3d-Printing Habitable Structures On Mars, Addison Johnson, John Pugsley, Andrew Scherer

Faculty-Mentored Undergraduate Scholarship

This project developed technology to 3D-print habitable structures on Mars from in-situ materials, as part of the push to create a self-sustaining colony on Mars. The team designed a next generation sulfur concrete printhead capable of extruding with greater efficiency and better quality than the previous design.

The New Editors: Refining First Amendment Protections For Internet Platforms, Mailyn Fidler

Notre Dame Journal on Emerging Technologies

This Article envisions what it would look like to tailor the First Amendment editorial privilege to the multifaceted nature of the internet, just as courts have done with media in the offline world. It reviews the law of editorial judgment offline, where protections for editorial judgment are strong but not absolute, and its nascent application online. It then analyzes whether the diversity of internet platforms and their functions alter how the Constitution should be applied in this new setting. First Amendment editorial privilege, as applied to internet platforms, is often treated by courts and platforms themselves as monolithic and equally …

Charting The Skies: Where Does Facial Recognition Technology "Fit" In The Data Privacy Cosmos?, Steven D. Zansberg

Notre Dame Journal on Emerging Technologies

What I offer below is a theoretical framework for evaluating competing societal interests: the value our society assigns to the free-flow of information to the public, including highly sophisticated computergenerated analyses of gargantuan data sets—information that helps inform better individual and collective decision-making; and on the other hand, the value we place on privacy even in the context of technological advances. One’s most personal actions and thoughts—what we type into search engines, which videos we watch, for how long or how often, which books or articles we read, with whom we communicate and the contents of those communications—should not be …

On Non Conformable Fractional Laplace Transform, Miguel Vivas-Cortez, Juan E. Na ́Poles Valde ́S, Jorge Eliecer Herna ́Ndez Herna ́Ndez, Jeaneth Velasco Velasco, Oswaldo Larreal

Applied Mathematics & Information Sciences

In the present paper, the main theorems of the classical Laplace transform are generalized in the non-conforming Laplace transform with nucleus et−α . We calculate the Laplace transform of non-conforming agreement of this kernel from some elementary functions and establish the non-conforming version of the transform of the successive derivative, the integral of a function and the convolution of fractional functions. In addition, the bounded and the existence of the non-conforming Laplace transform is presented. Finally, we show the application of N1− Transform to solving fractional differential equations.

Quantum Approach To Starlike Functions, Khalida Inayat Noor, Muhammad Aslam Noor, Hamdy M. Mohamed

Applied Mathematics & Information Sciences

A new class R∗q(β),q∈(0,1),β∈(0,1], of functions of analytic in E = {z : |z| < 1} with f(0) = f′(0)−1 = 0, is defined using the concept of q-difference operator Dq. as: f ∈ R∗q(β), if and only if, z Dq f (z) is subordinate to 􏰀 1+z 􏰁β , q ∈ (0, 1) for z ∈ E . Several properties of this class which include a distortion result, an integral f (z) 1−qz operator and rate of growth of coefficients. Some interesting special cases are deduced from main results as applications.

Project-Based Online Learning Of Practical Engineering Course Throughout Covid-19 Pandemic: A Case Study Analysis Of Mep Electrical Systems Design Using Revit, Osama Yaseen M. Al-Rawi, Hend Elzefzafy, Hadeel Alkurdi, Ammarah Saddiq

Applied Mathematics & Information Sciences

In this paper, we will present our experiences and results in delivering and developing the course assessments of the engineering practical course. Moreover, we will compare and discuss the course assessment type of the engineering practical courses between the physical classes and the online classes, because we suffer in our distance learning during Covid-19 pandemic since we transferred to distance learning in February 2020 in the kingdom of Bahrain. In my last class in spring semester, I used to change my course assessments by adding the project-based assessment with 55% grade, keeping the rest of the grades for assignment, quiz, …

Interpolation Of Surfaces With Asymptotic Curves In Euclidean 3-Space, Mustafa Altın, Inan Unal, Fatemah Mofarreh

Applied Mathematics & Information Sciences

In this paper, we investigate the interpolation of surfaces which are obtained from an isoasymptotic curve in 3D-Euclidean space. We prove that there exists a unique C0-Hermite surface interpolation related to an isoasymptotic curve under some special conditions on the marching scale functions. Finally, we present some examples and plot their graphs.

Privacy's "Three Mile Island" And The Need To Protect Political Privacy In Private-Law Contexts, Raymond H. Brescia

Florida State University Law Review

When it was revealed that Cambridge Analytica obtained the personal and private information of eighty-seven million Facebook users to aid the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign of Donald J. Trump, it was described as privacy's "Three Mile Island": an event, like the famed nuclear accident from which the term comes, that would shake and shape an industry and its approach to digital privacy and the underlying political information such privacy protects. In the intervening four years, despite these revelations, while some social media companies took voluntary measures to prevent a repeat of the types of abuses that plagued the 2016 election, …

Iba Newsletter [July-September 2021], Communications Department, Office Of The Registrar

IBA News

No abstract provided.

Wall Detection Via Imu Data Classification In Autonomous Quadcopters, Jason Hughes, Damian Lyons

Faculty Publications

Abstract—An autonomous drone flying near obstacles needs to be able to detect and avoid the obstacles or it will collide with them. In prior work, drones can detect and avoid walls using data from camera, ultrasonic or laser sensors mounted either on the drone or in the environment. It is not always possible to instrument the environment, and sensors added to the drone consume payload and power - both of which are constrained for drones. This paper studies how data mining classification techniques can be used to predict where an obstacle is in relation to the drone based only on …

U.S. Securities Crowdfunding, Joan Macleod Heminway

Book Chapters

In May 2016, a U.S. federal registration exemption for crowdfunded securities offerings came into existence (under the earlier adopted CROWDFUND Act) as a means of helping startups and small businesses obtain funding. In theory, this exemptive regime was an attempt to fill gaps in U.S. securities law that handicapped entrepreneurs and their promoters from obtaining equity, debt, and other financing through the sale of financial investment instruments using digital offering platforms. The use of the internet for business finance is particularly important to U.S. entrepreneurs who may not have access to traditional, institutionalized sources of funding because of their own …

Large-Scale Solar Pv And Battery Energy Storage Model Study On A Proposed Benchmark Transmission System, Gerald W. Bankes Ii, Oluwaseun M. Akeyo, Dan M. Ionel

Power and Energy Institute of Kentucky Presentations

Problem Formulation

• The move toward renewable energy sources has led to an increase in the penetration of inverter-based resources onto the transmission system
• Most literature discusses two types of models of IBRs, time-average models, which do not capture high-frequency switching effects, and detailed switching models, which are computationally expensive
• The IEEE 12-Bus test system was modified in PSCADTM/EMTDCTM to include a 100 MW PV facility and 100 MW battery energy storage system (BESS) connected at bus 2
• The PV facility and BESS are modelled using a proposed dynamic inverter-based resource module
• A demonstration of the module was performed using two …