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S100b As A Protein Marker For Intracranial Hemorrhages, Anthony Phan

Student Research Symposium

This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of S100B as a protein marker for patients that are clinically diagnosed with an Intracranial Hemorrhage (ICH). This study enrolled patients that present to the hospital as a trauma activation consistent with a traumatic brain injury (either a blunt or penetrating traumatic mechanism) who are 15 or older, GCS of 12 or lower, and received the placebo arm of the TXA drug. The S100B level of patients will be measured through an Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA). After the data collection, a statistical test will be conducted to determine the level of significance for …

Differences In Ninth Graders’ Attitudes Towards Math Depending On Immigrant-Generation Status, Karla V. Santana Martinez, Dara Shifrer

Student Research Symposium

Introduction

Math is a subject that is often perceived as challenging and sometimes referred to as a universal language because the symbols and organization are the same from country to country. However, immigrant students can face obstacles such as language barriers that can make math even more challenging regardless of the universal language belief.

Methods

This research integrates the data from the High School Longitudinal Study of 2009 on 20,000 ninth graders. The ninth graders were asked questions about math and their feelings on the subject.

Results

Among students with the highest scores on the standardized math test, the math …

Activism And Stress, Ashanti Laine T. Peredo, Taylor Gayton, Lalaine Sevillano

Student Research Symposium

Black women often shoulder a heavier burden of financial, social, and physical responsibilities within their families compared to non-Black individuals who do not identify as women. This increased load contributes significantly to mental health disorders and psychological distress and well as physical disparities. When compounded with experiences of racism and sexism, these responsibilities can lead to a sense of social invisibility and foster a tendency towards stoicism. This study is a mixed method study as it aims to quantitatively examine the relationship between activism, physical wellbeing measured by the Conserved Transcriptional Response to Adversity (CTRA), and psychological wellbeing among Black …

Recovery Of Black Carbon Concentrations In Burned Forests, Monica V. Zapata Villegas, Kelly E. Gleason

Student Research Symposium

Forest fires shed light absorbing particles (LAP), such as black carbon and burned woody debris, into snowpacks, darkening snow surface albedo, and advancing snowmelt timing and snow disappearance patterns for decades following fire. Although the role of LAPs in seasonal snow has been extensively studied in recent years, the spatiotemporal variability of LAPs and contributions to snowmelt relative to years since fire and burn severity is still unknown. In the Triple Divide region of western Wyoming, the headwaters of the Colorado, Columbia, and Missouri rivers, we quantified the spatiotemporal variability of forest fire effects on snow albedo, using geochemical analysis …

Construction And Mutagenesis Of Ssv1 Mutants In Extreme Viruses, Lou Ann F. O'Connor, Jono Abshier, Kenneth M. Stedman

Student Research Symposium

Archaeal viruses with unique structures such as spindle-shaped virions are found abundantly in extreme environments like geothermal hot springs around the world. Among all spindle-shaped viruses, the model Sulfolobus Spindle-shaped Virus 1 (SSV1) is best studied. Creating the lemon-shaped or spindle-shaped virion structure are two proteins, VP1 as the major capsid protein, and VP3 as the minor capsid protein. The primary structure of VP1 consists of a proteolytic cleavage site at position 66 that is believed to be necessary for virus evolution. Recent studies showed that genetic mutation of the amino acid, glutamate (E) at position 66 in VP1 which …

Dna Barcoding Of Deep Sea Fishes From The Oxygen Minimum Zone, Yamini Singh

Student Research Symposium

The enormous and complex web of interrelated species that makes up the coastal ecosystem is essential to preserving the equilibrium of marine life. Many fish families flourish in the Oregonian Oxygen Minimum Zone (OMZ), a special and dynamic habitat where they have adapted to the difficulties caused by low oxygen levels. Several major fish families in the OMZ are the subject of this lab report: the Myctophidae (Lanternfish), the Sternoptychidae (Hatchetfish), and the Stomiidae (Pacific Viperfish, Dragonfish, Tactostoma macropus, and Pacific Black Dragon)

Inside Mount Sinai, 1987 June, Advocate Health - Midwest

Historical Documents - Combined

Mount Sinai Medical Center, Milwaukee, WI: Issue of an internal publication called, "Inside Mount Sinai". Includes information on the opening of the Coleman-Soref Breast Diagnostic Center, staffing updates, and hospital events.

This is the only issue of this publication the library currently has.

Realtime Imu Based Gesture Recognition For Assistive Robots, Elias Karner, Brian Butka, Christopher Hockley

Florida Conference on Recent Advances in Robotics

This paper presents a motion capture system designed to enhance the control of assistive robots, with a particular focus on improving the lives of individuals with disabilities. Utilizing lowcost Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) to accurately capture and translate human motions into robotic actions, this system bridges the gap between human intent and robot execution. Through application of machine learning algorithms for real-time gesture recognition, the research demonstrates a significant advancement in intuitive human-robot interaction.

Key findings from the study include the motion capture system, which achieved an accuracy rate of 93.8% in gesture recognition. The integration of IMU technology facilitated …

Robotic Accessibility Assistant (Raa), Tais Mota, Ohad Nataf, Faith El Massari, Morgan Walkinshaw, Redwan Alqasemi, Rajiv V. Dubey

Florida Conference on Recent Advances in Robotics

Individuals with muscular dystrophy and spinal cord injuries often experience upper-limb disabilities and rely on Power wheelchairs for their mobility. While these wheelchairs enhance their quality of life, they do not fully address challenges in activities of daily living (ADL). Specifically, the stiffening of tendons and ligaments in hand joints makes it difficult for individuals to perform accessibility tasks such as pressing elevator buttons and scanning access cards. This paper presents an affordable, simple, and convenient solution to these challenges.

The proposed robotic arm offers several unique features. Equipped with a 4-DOF system (3 revolute joints and 1 prismatic joint), …

New Modular Castellated Pcb Design Strategy For Mixed Signal And Power Circuits, Hp Inc

Defensive Publications Series

The objective of this idea is to describe a new solution using castellated PCB technology to manage small signal and power requirements in a single module at the same time, minimizing the module PCB size by adjusting each path to its power requirements. This module will act like a PCB class changer reducing the costs and complexity on the big PCB areas where those kinds of modules are going to be used.

This new design reduces the PCB size when power management pins are required together with large amount of GPIO control pins on the same castellated module. Using all …

Clat (464xlat Client) Mobility In An Ethernet Virtual Private Network, Pascal Thubert, Patrick Wetterwald, Patrice Brissette, Eric Levy-Abegnoli

Defensive Publications Series

Current network environments are only beginning the migration to native version 6 (v6) and then Internet Protocol (IP) version 6 (IPv6) support, with IP version 4 (IPv4) offered as-a-service (v4aaS). Proposed herein are techniques to leverage 4646XLAT, which offers a simple IPv4-in-IPv6 translation in a flat IPv6 network, to enable v4aaS and IPv4 mobility in a flat v6 network or cloud leveraging Ethernet Virtual Private Network (EVPN) communications.

Filtering Model Driven Telemetry Data Of Network Devices To Optimize Full Stack Observability, Sudha Sankar, Debashree Jena Barat, Shivani Palaniappan, Pranothi N, Dmitry Goloubew

Defensive Publications Series

Full Stack Observability brings together data from multiple operational domains to provide unified visibility, derive real-time insights and recommend actions to improve application performance, application security and resource optimization. The volume and scale of telemetry data from various domains is extremely large. This can eventually strain the platform and result in processing delays. A filtering mechanism at the data source, such as at the network devices, can help propagate only the crucial model driven telemetry data to the platform. This solution would help address the issue of telemetry data volume by efficiently reducing it at the source.

3d Printed Subject Models For Measurement Of Head-Related Transfer Function (Hrtf), Mengfan Zhang, Sinan Hersek, Sean Yuan, Robert Dalton, Rajeev Nongpiur

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure describes techniques to determine individual head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) using a large number of three-dimensional (3D) printed human subject models. Per techniques of this disclosure, 3D printing technology is utilized to generate multiple head model structures, ear model structure, and neck and torso structures of different sizes and shapes to mimic heads and ears observed in human subjects. The head models and ear models are combined in different ways with different neck and torso structures and accessories to create hundreds to thousands customized subject models. The created subject models are used to measure HRTFs. In some examples, the …

Delivering Live Q&A In Videos Via Synthetic Content Generation Using Generative Artificial Intelligence, Daniel V. Klein, Paul Mccartney

Defensive Publications Series

Pre-recorded videos provide a non-interactive viewing experience that is suboptimal for learning or engagement. This disclosure describes techniques that leverage large language models (LLMs) and generative video models to enable viewers of an informational/educational video to pause the video and ask questions to the presenter (the person in the video). The question is analyzed, and an answer is generated using an LLM. The LLM may be fine-tuned to the persona of the presenter of the video such that the generated answer matches their style. The answer is delivered with the face and the voice of the presenter in the original …

Large Language Model As A Dual-Purpose Conversational Agent And Compressed Multimedia Storage Tool, D Shin

Defensive Publications Series

Large language models (LLMs) and other types of generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) models are used in conversational agents and other applications. LLMs can receive any serialized data and are capable of next-word prediction learned from web-scale datasets. This disclosure describes a framework that utilizes the transformer decoder backbone of large language models (LLMs) as a generic data storage system for multimedia assets (audio/video) that can be byte-serialized. The described approach exploits the autoregressive aspect of transformer decoders. When trained on audio/ video datasets, the described approach uses the language model to complete the remaining X% of the data from …

Patch-Based Encoding And Streaming For Real-Time Visual Transformer Inference, D Shin

Defensive Publications Series

On-server vision transformer (ViT) models can suffer from substantial send-to-inference latency because the entire image is encoded at the client at once before transmission. Server-side ViT inference does not begin until the entire image is uploaded. This disclosure describes techniques that leverage the patch-based token structure of transformer decoders to stream encoded patches of an image (rather than the fully encoded image) from a client to a server. Effectively, patching and encoding are pipelined such that the delay at the client for compressing full images for a single send to the server is saved. Early stopping can be used to …

Multi-User Language Model Resource Allocation Using Contextual Pause Token Aware Transformers, D Shin

Defensive Publications Series

Server-based large language model (LLM) interfaces that support a large user base need efficient allocation of computational resources is important to deliver responses in a timely manner. FIFO allocation of queries to the LLM can result in unpredictable and/or long median wait times, depending on the arrival rate of queries and query processing time. This disclosure describes techniques that improve resource allocation for a large language model (LLM) by detecting a contextual pause and enabling next query processing during the pause. A transformer design and allocation scheme is presented that retrains the transformer decoder with a contextual pause token that …

Integrated Key Management Block, Jeff Andersen, Charles Kunzman, Chris Sabol, Andrés Lagar-Cavilla, Amber Huffman

Defensive Publications Series

Encrypted data on a storage device (e.g., flash memory, hard disk drives, etc.) that is stolen or accessed by an attacker can be read by the attacker by using the onboard media encryption keys (MEK) to decrypt it. This disclosure describes a component, referred to as a key management block (KMB), that can be integrated into a storage device controller. The KMB provides services for generating and encrypting MEKs. The KMB enables a cloud service provider to have both host entropy and customer entropy for customer MEKs, such that decryption of a given section of customer data requires both the …

Qr Code Adapted To Complex Surface, Hp Inc

Defensive Publications Series

QR codes are commonly used on products for many purposes. In these applications the QR code may be placed on a complex (non-flat) surface, such as a small bottle of ink or toner refill kit. Mobile devices often have difficulty recognizing the QR code when it is not on a flat surface.

Intelligently Power Role Change To Cut Off Power Of Legacy Usb Device On S4/S5, Hp Inc

Defensive Publications Series

Dynamic, weight base enable/disable USBC port charging to balance battery life and USBC charging usage.

Monitor Smarthome Integration, Hp Inc

Defensive Publications Series

This article will describe how to enhance a monitor by having it operate as a conventional monitor and, in parallel, expose it’s functionality as a smart dimmable lamp. In this way the monitor can be queried just as for any other light “Is the monitor in my office still on”? And the monitor can also be controlled just as a light “Turn off monitor”, “Set monitor brightness to 60%”

In addition, multiple monitors may be exposed and controlled as multiple lights without additional complexity: “Dim all the monitors in my office”. “When motion is detected in the office turn on …

Research And Creative Achievement Conference 2024 Program, Mcquade Library

RCAC 2024 Posters

No abstract provided.

My Father's Story: An Ethnography About Language Loss, Ariel Wilsey-Gopp

Student Research Symposium

War disrupts everything, including a child’s developing language and cultural identity. My father grew up in both Serbia and Germany during the post-WWII political upheaval. By the time he was an adult, he knew five languages, yet lacked his own language and languaculture (Agar, 1994).

It benefits us to understand more completely the effects of language loss as political borders continue to shift and human migration increases. Research in social sciences, psychology, and biology all examine the effects of trauma, the brain, and child development. Applied linguistics examines language loss in relation to Second Language Acquisition (Altarriba & Heredia, …

Community Resilience In Portland Parkland Soils, Jason W. Triefenbach

Student Research Symposium

Proposing soil nutrient testing as a model for community research and ecology education, this presentation considers pathways to raising public engagement with sustainability issues while enhancing community resilience and social capital. "Community Resilience in Portland Parkland Soils" represents my research thus far on the conjoined topics of urban soils and community efficacy, in which I have attempted to synthesize biogeophysical processes in city parklands with strategies for raising public awareness about urban ecosystems.

I measured and compared soil nitrogen levels at 8 iconic Portland area parks using commercially- available garden test kits, while concurrently researching the historical and contemporary land …

Development Of A Fast-Neutron Source Localization System, Abdulsalam F. Al Mutairi

Student Research Symposium

Power generation by nuclear fusion is a continuing ambition that has been the focus of nuclear fusion research for nearly a hundred years. However, small-scale fusion reactors have further propulsion and neutron imaging applications that don’t require greater than breakeven efficiencies that a fusion energy source needs. Inertial Electrostatic Confinement (IEC) fusion devices have the potential for miniaturization, making them a strong candidate for such applications. Yet the contributions of different interactions within an IEC fusion device are still not fully understood. Imaging an IEC device and investigating each interaction's Neutron Production Rate (NPR) can enhance design efficiency. Neutron imaging …

Community Responses To Us Regional Clean Hydrogen Hubs, Bethani Turley

Student Research Symposium

In 2023, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law designated 7 billion dollars to fund regional hydrogen hubs across the US with the goal of kickstarting a utility scale hydrogen economy for the US electric grid. A promising technology in the renewable energy transition, hydrogen can be made from a multitude of energy sources, often designated by colors: green hydrogen is made from solar and wind, pink hydrogen from nuclear, and blue hydrogen from natural gas. This presentation examines this new hydrogen economy through the case study of the Appalachian Regional Clean Hydrogen Hub (ARCH2). ARCH2 is a blue hydrogen hub proposal by …

“Fruit From A Poisonous Tree”? Constituting Logics Of Law Enforcement Phlebotomy, Anne Johnson

Student Research Symposium

In at least 17 states in the United States, police are drawing blood from drivers they suspect of impairment. Despite concerns about civil rights, ethics of consent in custody, and use of force, law enforcement phlebotomy (LEP) remains critically understudied. Through 27 in-depth, semi-structured interviews with police phlebotomists and LEP program officials from 10 states, this study begins to fill that gap, asking: What are the logics of law enforcement phlebotomy? Constituting these logics–as articulated by police–are beliefs about both policing and phlebotomy, and officers’ motivations in the fight against impaired driving. This article assesses how the logics of law …

Improving Elder’S Overall Well-Being., Samantha-Garcia Sanchez-Garcia

2024 Symposium

Identifying risk factors for social isolation is essential to determine the potential solutions to improve older adults’ overall well-being. Therefore, implementing an intervention (e.g., befriending services) that supports the development of social skills, increases access to social interactions and social support, and helps people change unhelpful thoughts about social situations through Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, is an evidence-based psychotherapy that is successful in assisting people to change unhelpful social cognitions; all these components can contribute in increasing the likelihood that it will lessen social isolation and loneliness within this demographic. Until recently, there is no reliable information on the …

Power & Planning: A Critical Comparison Of Tribal And Non-Tribal Wildfire Protection Plans, Christian J. Heisler

Student Research Symposium

In 2003, the US government passed the Healthy Forest Restoration Act, which urged wildfire-prone communities to develop Community Wildfire Protection Plans (CWPPs). These plans allow local groups to contextualize risk, practice social learning, and develop social capital while addressing wildfire risk. Within planning realms, however, decision-making power is usually concentrated unequally between social groups which can limit the influence of marginalized communities. Tribal nations, specifically, have been excluded from wildfire planning since European contact, signaling that CWPPs may not reflect Indigenous worldviews and priorities. Given the recent push from the federal government to increase land management collaboration with tribes, it …

Behavioral Intention For Ai Usage In Higher Education, Isaac A. Odai, Elliot Wiley

Student Research Symposium

This study sought to further understand the cognitive factors that influence undergraduate students' behavioral intention to use generative AI. Generative AI's presence in academic spaces opens the door for ethical and pedagogical questions. This study surveyed 51 undergraduate communication students to measure their attitudes, subjective norms, self efficacy and their behavioral intention to use GenAI for school work. The results of this study showed behavioral intent had a positive relationship with attitudes and subjective norms. The implications of these findings show that personal beliefs and the perceived beliefs of others are correlated to undergraduate students’ intent to use GenAI for …