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Dynamic Llm Agent Metadata Manifest-Based Discovery Of Agents In An Llm Agentic Application Platform, Akram Sheriff

Defensive Publications Series

Within Large Language Models (LLM) environments, agents can be provided to perform a variety of complex tasks. However, with many agents being developed, it can sometimes be difficult to discover or select an appropriate agent to perform a desired task. Techniques presented herein can be used to aid a developer in identifying the best artificial intelligence (AI) agent to utilize for a given set of criteria. Based on the proposed techniques, a low code / no code agentic infra platform can be provided that may facilitate the efficient discovery of agents in an agnostic manner regardless of the underlying framework …

Performance Evaluation Of Geopolymer Concrete Masonry Units And Geopolymer Masonry Mortars Incorporating Recycled Aggregates, Elen Abuowda

Thesis/ Dissertation Defenses

Sustainable construction materials have been commonly adopted to replace primary components in concrete, namely cement and natural aggregates. Yet, the combined effect of utilizing geopolymers and recycled aggregates in masonry, one of the oldest construction products and methods in the world, has not been widely investigated. Therefore, this thesis evaluates the feasibility of utilizing recycled aggregates in slag-fly ash blended geopolymer concrete masonry units and mortars for masonry wall construction applications. A blend of slag and fly ash served as the precursor binding material. A sodium-based alkaline solution was employed to activate the blended binder. Natural aggregates were substituted with …

Championing Open Research: Lessons From The Lab, Guillaume Thibault

Singapore Open Research Conference 2024

Lightning talk “Championing Open Research: Lessons from the Lab” by Winner of the Singapore Open Research Awards 2024, Associate Professor Guillaume THIBAULT from Nanyang Technological University. Abstract: As a strong advocate for open research, my motivation stems from the belief that transparency and accessibility are fundamental to advancing biological sciences. By making all data, methods, and code related to my research publicly available, I ensure that my work is reproducible, reusable, and accessible to the global research community. While these practices may take additional time, they are essential for ensuring the integrity and long-term value of my findings. My laboratory …

Citizen Science In A Small World Of Singlish Words, Cynthia S. Q. Siew, Jin Jye Wong

Singapore Open Research Conference 2024

Lightning talk “Citizen Science in A Small World of Singlish Words: A Word Association Study” by Winner of the Singapore Open Research Awards 2024, Assistant Professor Cynthia S. Q. SIEW from National University of Singapore. Abstract: Motivated by the lack of representation of non-dominant English dialects in existing psycholinguistic word norms, our project aims to create a database of semantic, affective, and word association norms for Singapore English words. Our research lab prioritises making all of our collected datasets and analysis scripts openly available through online repositories, such as Open Science Framework (OSF), ensuring reproducibility and reusability of research findings. …

Vol. 39, No. 12 - Whole No. 249, Eleanor M. Farrell

Mythprint

Mythprint is the monthly bulletin of the Mythopoeic Society, a nonprofit educational organization devoted to the study, discussion, and enjoyment of myth and fantasy literature, especially the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Charles Williams. To promote these interests, the Society publishes three magazines, maintains a World Wide Web site, and sponsors the annual Mythopoeic Conference and awards for fiction and scholarship, as well as local and written discussion groups.

Vol. 39, No. 11 - Whole No. 248, Eleanor M. Farrell

Mythprint

Mythprint is the monthly bulletin of the Mythopoeic Society, a nonprofit educational organization devoted to the study, discussion, and enjoyment of myth and fantasy literature, especially the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Charles Williams. To promote these interests, the Society publishes three magazines, maintains a World Wide Web site, and sponsors the annual Mythopoeic Conference and awards for fiction and scholarship, as well as local and written discussion groups.

Vol. 39, No. 10 - Whole No. 247, Eleanor M. Farrell

Mythprint

Mythprint is the monthly bulletin of the Mythopoeic Society, a nonprofit educational organization devoted to the study, discussion, and enjoyment of myth and fantasy literature, especially the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Charles Williams. To promote these interests, the Society publishes three magazines, maintains a World Wide Web site, and sponsors the annual Mythopoeic Conference and awards for fiction and scholarship, as well as local and written discussion groups.

Vol. 39, No. 9 - Whole No. 246, Eleanor M. Farrell

Mythprint

Mythprint is the monthly bulletin of the Mythopoeic Society, a nonprofit educational organization devoted to the study, discussion, and enjoyment of myth and fantasy literature, especially the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Charles Williams. To promote these interests, the Society publishes three magazines, maintains a World Wide Web site, and sponsors the annual Mythopoeic Conference and awards for fiction and scholarship, as well as local and written discussion groups.

Vol. 39, No. 8 - Whole No. 245, Eleanor M. Farrell

Mythprint

Mythprint is the monthly bulletin of the Mythopoeic Society, a nonprofit educational organization devoted to the study, discussion, and enjoyment of myth and fantasy literature, especially the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Charles Williams. To promote these interests, the Society publishes three magazines, maintains a World Wide Web site, and sponsors the annual Mythopoeic Conference and awards for fiction and scholarship, as well as local and written discussion groups.

Vol. 39, No. 7 - Whole No. 244, Eleanor M. Farrell

Mythprint

Mythprint is the monthly bulletin of the Mythopoeic Society, a nonprofit educational organization devoted to the study, discussion, and enjoyment of myth and fantasy literature, especially the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Charles Williams. To promote these interests, the Society publishes three magazines, maintains a World Wide Web site, and sponsors the annual Mythopoeic Conference and awards for fiction and scholarship, as well as local and written discussion groups.

Vol. 39, No. 6 - Whole No. 243, Eleanor M. Farrell

Mythprint

Mythprint is the monthly bulletin of the Mythopoeic Society, a nonprofit educational organization devoted to the study, discussion, and enjoyment of myth and fantasy literature, especially the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Charles Williams. To promote these interests, the Society publishes three magazines, maintains a World Wide Web site, and sponsors the annual Mythopoeic Conference and awards for fiction and scholarship, as well as local and written discussion groups.

Vol. 39, No. 5 - Whole No. 242, Eleanor M. Farrell

Mythprint

Mythprint is the monthly bulletin of the Mythopoeic Society, a nonprofit educational organization devoted to the study, discussion, and enjoyment of myth and fantasy literature, especially the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Charles Williams. To promote these interests, the Society publishes three magazines, maintains a World Wide Web site, and sponsors the annual Mythopoeic Conference and awards for fiction and scholarship, as well as local and written discussion groups.

Vol. 39, No. 4 - Whole No. 241, Eleanor M. Farrell

Mythprint

Mythprint is the monthly bulletin of the Mythopoeic Society, a nonprofit educational organization devoted to the study, discussion, and enjoyment of myth and fantasy literature, especially the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Charles Williams. To promote these interests, the Society publishes three magazines, maintains a World Wide Web site, and sponsors the annual Mythopoeic Conference and awards for fiction and scholarship, as well as local and written discussion groups.

Vol. 39, No. 3 - Whole No. 240, Eleanor M. Farrell

Mythprint

Mythprint is the monthly bulletin of the Mythopoeic Society, a nonprofit educational organization devoted to the study, discussion, and enjoyment of myth and fantasy literature, especially the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Charles Williams. To promote these interests, the Society publishes three magazines, maintains a World Wide Web site, and sponsors the annual Mythopoeic Conference and awards for fiction and scholarship, as well as local and written discussion groups.

Vol. 39, No. 2 - Whole No. 239, Eleanor M. Farrell

Mythprint

Mythprint is the monthly bulletin of the Mythopoeic Society, a nonprofit educational organization devoted to the study, discussion, and enjoyment of myth and fantasy literature, especially the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Charles Williams. To promote these interests, the Society publishes three magazines, maintains a World Wide Web site, and sponsors the annual Mythopoeic Conference and awards for fiction and scholarship, as well as local and written discussion groups.

Vol. 39, No. 1 - Whole No. 238, Eleanor M. Farrell

Mythprint

Mythprint is the monthly bulletin of the Mythopoeic Society, a nonprofit educational organization devoted to the study, discussion, and enjoyment of myth and fantasy literature, especially the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Charles Williams. To promote these interests, the Society publishes three magazines, maintains a World Wide Web site, and sponsors the annual Mythopoeic Conference and awards for fiction and scholarship, as well as local and written discussion groups.

Open Research For Robustifying Data-Centric Systems, Manuel Rigger, Jinsheng Ba, Wenjing Deng, Rajdeep Singh Hundal, Nathee Jaywaree, Yuancheng Jiang, Yuxi Ling, Shuxin Li, Qiuyang Mang, Jovyn Tan, Ming Wei Tan, Chi Zhang, Tongjun Zhang, Suyang Zhong

Singapore Open Research Conference 2024

Lightning talk “Open Research for Robustifying Data-Centric Systems” by Winner of the Singapore Open Research Awards 2024, Assistant Professor Manuel RIGGER from National University of Singapore. Abstract: The NUS TEST lab has actively promoted and conducted open research in programming languages and software engineering. We provide publicly available artifacts for all our research projects, chair or participate in artifact-evaluation processes, and actively engage with companies and researchers based on our open-source tools. One focus area is increasing the reliability of data-centric systems. We have developed impactful tools such as SQLancer, in which we have realised multiple novel approaches, which allowed …

Optimizing Open Research: Data And Code Sharing At S-Lab, Chen Change Loy, Geong Sen Poh, Chee Guan Koh, Moi Moi Siew, Jin Boon Ng

Singapore Open Research Conference 2024

Lightning talk “Optimizing Open Research - Data and Code Sharing at S-Lab” by Winner of the Singapore Open Research Awards 2024, Professor Chen Change LOY from Nanyang Technological University.

S-Lab for Advanced Intelligence (S-Lab) is committed to advancing transparency, reproducibility, and collaboration within the scientific community. By sharing data, demos, and codes on publicly discoverable platforms such as DR-NTU (Data), OpenMMLab, OpenXLab, GitHub, and Hugging Face, we make our codes and datasets open and reusable. We believe that by making open data and code FAIR - Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable, they can be scrutinised, and reused by fellow researchers …

Rediscovering Publicly Available Single-Cell Data With The Disco Platform, Jinmiao Chen

Singapore Open Research Conference 2024

Since its inception in 2009, single-cell RNA-seq techniques have evolved, increasing throughput and reducing costs. With a growing number of published studies, efficient data retrieval is crucial. DISCO was created as a comprehensive database of single-cell RNA-seq data, enabling exploration of cell types and gene expressions in various tissues. Now, DISCO hosts over 100 million single-cell profiles from 16,734 samples, reflecting a fivefold increase since its first version. We have curated metadata, categorized samples, and refined cell type annotations using a harmonized reference. DISCO platform provides online tools for data integration, cell type annotation, projecting query dataset to atlases, and …

Questionable Research Practices And Open Science: A Scientometric Perspective Of 50 Years Of Research, Michelle Neoh

Singapore Open Research Conference 2024

Questionable research practises (QRPs) have been the focus of the scientific community amid greater scrutiny and evidence highlighting issues with replicability across many fields of science. To capture the most impactful publications and the main thematic domains in the literature on QRPs, this study uses a document co-citation analysis. The analysis was conducted on a sample of 341 documents that covered the past 50 years of research in QRPs. Nine major thematic clusters emerged. Statistical reporting and statistical power emerged as key areas of research, where systemic-level factors in how research is conducted are consistently raised as the precipitating factors …

Introduction To Sas: Basic Programming And Procedures, John Connolly, Varun Joshi

Day Family Research Lab Workshop Series

This will cover basic SAS syntax, programming, procedures, data management and formatting, and the SAS windowing environment. As a bonus, we will cover the basics of using SAS Enterprise Miner for data mining.

Characterizing Unconserved Shallow Wetlands In Lamoure County, North Dakota, Nathan Watson

Scholars Week

Prior to modern agriculture, the plains of North and South Dakota were once a mixed grass prairie with millions of small ponds and wetlands. These wetlands provide summer breeding habitat for countless numbers of migrating bird species. Through the work of conservation organizations and Federal agencies, many of these wetlands have been restored across the Dakotas, Prairie Minnesota, and Iowa. This project focused on locating a county in an area of critical breeding habitat that has had, thus far, limited restoration of these small wetlands and determing their extent and quality using a Geographic Information System (GIS).

The study area …

Vitamin D Clinical Relevance In The Recovery From Traumatic Brain Injury Among The Military Population, Yuisa Mariceli Colón

Theses

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) still remains a difficult disorder to treat. TBI has been associated to chronic neuroinflammation and a high risk for neurodegenerative disorders. Since 2001 between ten to twenty percent of all deployed military members have suffered a combat-related TBI. Nearly twenty to thirty percent of those will experience chronic cognitive, behavioral and somatic symptoms after suffering a TBI. This review found compelling evidence to support that the pathology of TBI is closely associated with neuroprotective mechanisms of vitamin D.

A Secure And Effective Framework For Key Concept Mining From Educational Content Using Large Language Models, Ashika Sameem Abdul Rasheed

Thesis/ Dissertation Defenses

This thesis examines the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) in education, with a focus on improving performance and implementing strong security measures. The research has two main goals, namely, the development of an effective lecture summarization technique using LLMs and identifying and addressing security vulnerabilities in LLM applications according to OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) guidelines. For the former goal, we have proposed an effective framework for fine-tuning LLMs using real lecture datasets and compared the performance of different LLMs. For the latter goal, we conducted a thorough review of the application dataflow of the proposed framework and …

Mouse Mammary Tumor Virus (Mmtv) Genomic Rna (Grna) Packaging: Selective Grna Encapsidation Is Facilitated By Long-Range Interactions (Lris) That Facilitate Specific Gag Binding, Suresha G. Prabhu

Thesis/ Dissertation Defenses

Mouse mammary tumor virus (MMTV) is a betaretrovirus that induces breast cancer and sporadically, T-cell lymphomas in mice. MMTV serves as a pertinent model for elucidating the mechanism(s) of oncogenesis and the genetics associated with the development of mammary tumors. Being a rodent retrovirus, MMTV is phylogenetically distant from human and other primate retroviruses; thus, positioning it ideally as a potential vector of choice for human gene therapy. This may circumvent safety concerns such as recombination with other related endogenous human retroviruses. In addition, MMTV is distinct from most other retroviruses, but similar to lentiviruses, in that it has the …

The Feasibility And Acceptability Of A Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing A Companion Dog-Walking Intervention To An Attention Control Education Intervention On Depression, Anxiety, Serum Cortisol, And Quality Of Life In Adult Intensive Care Unit Survivors, Lindsey Nelson

Sigma Foundation for Nursing Research Grant Reports

ICU survivors are at risk for persistent anxiety and depression after hospital discharge. Quality evidence supporting innovative home and community-based interventions that improve psychological health in ICU survivors is needed. The use of companion dogs to improve health and wellbeing is an innovative strategy not previously explored in the ICU survivor population. The purpose of this RCT was to evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of a companion dog walking intervention compared to an attention control education intervention for adult ICU survivors and to compare exploratory outcome trends related to depression, anxiety, serum cortisol, and quality of life.

Rules For Camouflage [Book Review], Lauren Melissa Ellzey

Disability in LIS (DisLIS)

Author Kirstin Cronn-Mills explores the experiences of neurodivergent high school students, teachers, and parents through the eyes of Evvie, a neurodivergent high school senior, as they all seek to cultivate friendships, romantic relationships, and a neurodiversity-affirming school environment against the odds of systemic oppression, stigmatizing attitudes, and everyday pressures.

The Mediating Role Of Religious Coping And Psychological Inflexibility In The Relationship Between Perceived Life Stress And Depression In An Arab Muslim Sample, Mariam Kashakesh

Thesis/ Dissertation Defenses

This study examines the association between depression and perceived stress, with a particular focus on the mediating function of psychological rigidity and religious coping strategies in a sample of 18–30-year-old Arab Muslims. Online questionnaires measuring psychological flexibility, perceived stress, depression, religious coping, and demographics were filled out by participants. Higher stress levels were expected to be associated with higher levels of depression (H1), and the study postulated that both negative and positive psychological inflexibility and religious coping would mitigate this association (H2a and H2b, respectively). Significant positive relationships were found between religious coping qualities, depression, and perceived stress. A mediation …

The Rate Of Adoption Of Good Data Practices In Singapore, Mark Hahnel

Singapore Open Research Conference 2024

The rate of research data publishing is increasing globally. In partnership with Springer Nature, Digital Science has been attempting to look at the motivations for researchers to share their data since 2016, through our State of Open Data report.

We also want to investigate what researchers are actually doing. Using data from Dimensions.ai and the DataCite Chan Zuckerberg “Data Citation Corpus’, we have investigated research data publishing frequency based on country and funding body.

This presentation will show the global trends and differences, as well as shining a light on the practices of Singaporean researchers.

Assorted Non-Shaikh 4, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes:

• Arthur, W. B. (1989). Competing technologies, increasing returns, and lock-in by historical events. The Economic Journal, 99(394), 116–131.

• Hamlin, A. P., & Heathfield, D. F. (n.d.). Working capital credit rationing and markets. [Manuscript].

• Kim, M. K., & Wu, C. (1987). Macro-economic factors and stock returns. Journal of Financial Research, 10(2), 87–98.

• Dickens, W. T., & Katz, L. F. (1987). Inter-industry wage differences and theories of wage determination. Social Science Research Network.

• Heilbroner, R. L. (n.d.). Analysis and vision in the history of modern economic thought. Journal of Economic Literature, 28(3), 1097.

• Jorgenson, D., Gollop, F. M., & …

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