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The U.S. Military Does Not Adequately Prepare Members For Transition From Service, Emily Graham

Population Health Research Brief Series

Nearly 250,000 U.S. military members transition out of service each year. The Transition Assistance Program (TAP) provides information, tools, and training to prepare service members for their transition to civilian life. However, nearly half of veterans say the military did not adequately prepare them for their transition from service. This issue brief highlights the shortcomings of veteran transition programs, like TAP, and provides recommendations for improving transition outcomes through more holistic programs.

The George-Anne Daily, Georgia Southern University

George-Anne Media Group: Newsletters & Magazines

No abstract provided.

For Dairy, Focusing On The Essentials, Maeve Gifford

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

Um Director Joins Board Of International Education Association, Clara Turnage

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – The membership of the Association of International Education Administrators has elected Blair McElroy, senior international officer and director of study abroad at the University of Mississippi, to its board.

Library Faculty To Help Researchers Access Massive Biomedical Database, Benita Whitehorn

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – The University of Mississippi Libraries can help researchers with unprecedented access to a massive trove of medical data, thanks to an award from the National Institutes of Health.

Reducing Glass Loss During Transportation And Storage, Abdulaziz Muzafarovich Qurbanov, Mirzaabdullayev Jaxongir Baxtiyorovich

Technical science and innovation

The article discusses the processes of transportation and storage of sheet glass in the production of protective glass for cars. The experience of organizing the transportation and storage of glass in developed countries of the world was analyzed in order to study the problems of losses of raw materials during the transportation and storage of laminated glass, as well as to develop and approve a regulatory and technical document. in this field. The supplies of various brands of polished laminated glass used in the production of protective glass for cars to Avtooina LLC from different addresses, from different manufacturers were …

A Guidebook To Unh, Written By A Senior, Aimee Rothman

Digital Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire.

Memory In Literature: Power & The Literary Canon, Chloe Alice Rattee

The Hugemanities Project Big Contest

In my project I explored how cultural memory applied to literature can open up the discussion to talk about how power is wielded by those that create a canon, literary or religious. I used William Blake's work to discuss how few educated, powerful people's interpretation of something so difficult and massive at The Bible can cut out perspectives or opinions that they don't want included in their teachings.

Collaborating For Growth, Ishrat Husain Dr.

Faculty Research - Talks, Speeches, & Discourse

Honorable Sayyid Yousaf Raza Gilani, Chairman of the Senate; International Delegates; Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen, It's always a great pleasure for me to be here at these summits organized by Nutshell. . The topic under discussion is of particular interest to me, as I have been actively writing, speaking, and advocating for Collaboration. In contrast to many other countries that have progressed, I believe that Pakistan needs a unified, agreed-upon goal as a starting point for collaboration. Without a shared vision or mandate, our efforts risk being scattered in various directions. My belief is that Pakistan requires inclusive, sustainable, and …

Concert Band And Symphonic Winds , April 23, Arkansas State University Department Of Music

Performance Programs

No abstract provided.

Drone-Based Bug Detection In Orchards With Nets: A Novel Orienteering Approach, Francesco Betti Sorbelli, Federico Coró, Sajal K. Das, Lorenzo Palazzetti, Cristina M. Pinotti

Computer Science Faculty Research & Creative Works

The Use of Drones for Collecting Information and Detecting Bugs in Orchards Covered by Nets is a Challenging Problem. the Nets Help in Reducing Pest Damage, But They Also Constrain the Drone's Flight Path, Making It Longer and More Complex. to Address This Issue, We Model the Orchard as an Aisle-Graph, a Regular Data Structure that Represents Consecutive Aisles Where Trees Are Arranged in Straight Lines. the Drone Flies Close to the Trees and Takes Pictures at Specific Positions for Monitoring the Presence of Bugs, But its Energy is Limited, So It Can Only Visit a Subset of Positions. to …

Executive Committee - Agenda 4/23/2024, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Agendas

No abstract provided.

Applications, Challenges, And Research Issues For Enabling A Uav Swarm, Jennifer Hahner

Senior Honors Theses

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms have the potential to be useful in numerous applications due to their versatility and ability to operate without human intervention. However, this promising technology still requires further investigation, research, and testing before UAV swarms can be implemented extensively. The level of human intervention needed to control the system determines the differing levels of autonomy for UAV swarms. For swarms to become more independent, efficient algorithms for task and path planning are essential. In addition, accurate communication is essential for swarms to be able to coordinate and accomplish tasks successfully. This paper seeks to provide a …

The Church And Sexual Socialization: A Practical Guide Equipping Youth Ministers To Aid Lgbtq+ Students, Connor Kennedy

Senior Honors Theses

Sexual socialization is the process by which people learn about their sexual desires and identity. This paper displays the process of sexual socialization as it specifically relates to the youth in the United States. The need for authority on the matter of LGBTQ+ beliefs is established through a biblical worldview. The gap between the church and gender and sexual minority youth is wide, and the problem must be addressed. The author then provides a process and set of beliefs that any youth minister should hold if they desire to aid LGBTQ+ students.

Final Project Report - Buoyancy Glider Team, Beck Ratcliff, Gabe Alford, Rees Allison

Engineering Senior Design Reports

This report covers everything the team has accomplished over the Fall and Spring semesters, including math models, prototypes, tests, and test results. This report also includes an overview of the design’s subsystems, a section highlighting issues the team faced, an evaluation of the final design against the constraints, and a listing of recommendations for future work.

RoboNation, one of the project sponsors, provided the team with a SeaGlide model as an initial prototype. The SeaGlide is a water-bottle-sized buoyancy glider that the team used for basic testing and to develop ideas about creating a larger-scale buoyancy glider. The team completed …

Final Project Report For Plastic Wall-E, John Hawes, Spencer Olejniczak, Carmine Villarreal, Mary Whaley

Engineering Senior Design Reports

The “Plastic Wall-E” team has worked diligently to design a processing and construction method that allows plastic waste to be incorporated into a structural wall with a minimal environmental impact. The project sponsors of the Samadhi Yoga retreat recognized a critical issue with the accumulation of plastic waste in remote locations requiring transportation to recycling facilities and in countries with major plastic pollution problems where there is typically a lack of proper recycling facilities. The project aims to address the plastic waste crisis by maximizing the density of plastic waste that can be contained in a masonry wall while minimizing …

Desktop Injection Molding Machine Final Project Report, Glory Burgin, Camille Heidelbaugh, Alex Garcia, Robert Furuya

Engineering Senior Design Reports

This report outlines the process, tests, and research conducted to develop a desktop plastic injection molding machine for use in K-12 classrooms as an educational tool to introduce engineering topics earlier in children's education. The key objectives were to create a functional prototype that is safe for classroom use, is easily integrated into curricula, weighs under 80 lbs for portability, and can produce an 8 inch3 molded piece in a reasonable timeframe.

The final design features a single-screw extruder coupled with a hand-cranked planetary gear system for interactivity. A 2x2x2 inch maximum mold volume was chosen to reduce the pressure …

Final Project Report Pace-It Team (2023-24), Reece Colson, Frank De Luna, Erin Flynn

Engineering Senior Design Reports

The Pace-It team aims to design a prototype that tracks runners along a course to assist our sponsor with timekeeping. Our main objectives for this project include designing a device that satisfies our requirements, constructing and testing the device, correcting and revising, and finally, testing our prototype to fit our objectives. This report will include an overview of our design and its five subsystems and an evaluation of the final design against the team’s requirements and constraints. The main subsystems of our design are the timing software, receiver and RFID coding, storage/user interface (UI), power source or battery, and the …

Final Project Report Autonomous Planetary Rover, Dennis Butts, Zachary Moyer, Levi Schaider

Engineering Senior Design Reports

The Autonomous Rover Team (ART) was tasked with installing an autonomous navigation system onto an inherited rover frame. The navigation system must be able to plan a course between waypoints in a mapped area while avoiding unmapped obstacles. The final deliverables for this project are a rover with limited movement capabilities that can be autonomously or manually controlled and a simulated rover which has complete movement capabilities. Both rovers should be able to complete a 1600 ft2 course by traveling between three waypoints in a mapped area. The camera systems should detect and avoid all obstacles in its path in …

Final Project Report Will Power Africa, Year 2, Collin Adams, Maya Leonard, Charlotte Warrick, Adrian Herrera

Engineering Senior Design Reports

This report outlines the process that the Will Power Africa Year 2 team used to design and evaluate a backup power generator for a remote village in Tsholotsho, Zimbabwe. Year 1 of this project focused on the design of an electric fence to repel elephants. The original prototype is designed around the use of solar panels for power; however, due to the inconsistencies of solar power, the Year 2 team was tasked with creating a secondary power system to connect to the previous year’s system. We completed four tests that evaluated the major functionality and safety of our sub-systems. Due …

String Studio Recital, Arkansas State University Department Of Music

Performance Programs

No abstract provided.

Sparse Ensemble Networks For Hypserspectral Image Classification, Rakesh Kumar Iyer, Okan Ersoy

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technical Reports

We explore the efficacy of sparsity and ensemble model in the classification of hyperspectral images, a pivotal task in remote sensing applications. While Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Transformer models have shown promise in this domain, each exhibits distinct limitations; CNNs excel in capturing the spatial/local features but falter to capture spectral features, whereas Transformers captures the spectral features at the expense of spatial features. Furthermore, the computational cost associated with training several independent CNN and Transformer networks becomes expensive. To address these limitations, we propose a novel ensemble framework comprising pruned CNNs and Transformers, optimizing both spatial and spectral …

Data Flow Design For A Gamma-Ray Telescope, Ben Cook

Electrical and Systems Engineering Undergraduate Student Research

The ADAPT telescope is a gamma ray telescope to be flown over Antarctica to demonstrate many key technologies for the APT gamma ray astronomy mission. The detector captures incoming radiation with a grid of scintillating fibers, which are then fed through SiPMs and into detectors. The detectors output a bit rate that is too high for the main CPU to process, so FPGAs are utilized to preprocess the data. These FPGAs are designed using High-Level Synthesis, a design technology that removes the need for VHDL and allows C++ or other languages to be used in its place. In this project, …

Human Trajectory Prediction In The Interaction Between Human And Unmanned Vehicles, Haoyi Wang

Electrical and Systems Engineering Undergraduate Student Research

This study presents a data-driven trajectory prediction method that enhances robot action planning by integrating human danger awareness, promoting both safety and operational efficiency in human-robot environments.

Li2mp2s6: Building-Block Approach To A Family Of 2d Non-Van Der Waals-Layered Materials And Their Water, Ammonia, And Ion Intercalation Properties, Santhoshkumar Sundaramoorthy, Nikolay Gerasimchuk, Kartik Ghosh, Steven P. Kelley, Amitava Choudhury

Chemistry Faculty Research & Creative Works

A Series of Non-Van Der Waals 2D Quaternary Thiophosphates with Nominal Composition, Li2MP2S6 (M = V, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, and Zn), Has Been Successfully Synthesized through Solid-State Metathesis Reactions by a Building Block Approach as Well as Starting with a Stoichiometric Combination of Elements. Li4-NxMxn+P2S6 (M = V, Fe, Ni, Co, and Zn; X = 0.5-1, N = 2 or 3) Crystallize in the P3̅1m Space Group, While Li2MnP2S6 Crystallizes in R3̅. All the Compounds Form a 2D Layered Structure through Edge Sharing MS6 Octahedra and P2S6 Units with Li Atoms Occupying the Interlayer Spaces. X-Ray Diffraction and Thermogravimetric …

User-Centered Design Of Compliant Mechanism And Origami-Based Products, Bethany Maria Parkinson

Theses and Dissertations

In user-centered design, the way users feel when interacting with products is taken under consideration in the design process. In this research, the user-centered design of compliant mechanism and origami-based products is explored. Examples of user-centered compliant mechanism and origami-based design projects are presented: first, for novel furniture designs, in which the safety, comfort, and visual aesthetics are important; and second, for compliant handheld dart launchers, where the feel of blaster actuation is taken into consideration. The feel of a product and a person's emotional response to it are important to products meant to be interacted with, but especially in …

The Rise Of Merope, Emily Czerniak

Honors Theses

As a performer, I can explore the full range of my artistic abilities through dance. My background in ballet and musical theatre allows me to express myself through movement and bring characters to life. My aesthetic draws from my intensive ballet training paired with a passion for grounded, circular phrases that help me fully embody choreography. Through dedication and work ethic, I constantly strive to be adaptable and best represent the choreographer's vision. On stage, I aim to perform with detail, energy, and authentic expression.

As a choreographer, my life experiences influence how I explore andconvey relatable themes to audiences …

Deaf And Hard Of Hearing Children’S Resources In K-12 Mainstream American Schools, Ashley Green

Honors Theses

The purpose of this thesis is to find out what mainstream schools have to offer for Deaf and Hard of Hearing children’s education. This thesis includes a survey given to a few school districts in Michigan as well as literature review. To take this survey, participants must be qualified staff members who work in a school with Deaf and Hard of Hearing children. The survey was sent out via email to school principals in the district, to be distributed to qualified staff. Once the staff members agreed to the study, they were given access to a twelve-question anonymous survey regarding …

An Investigation Of Bone Preservation As A Result Of Environmental And Cultural Variables In Mortuary Contexts, Adyn Hallahan

Honors Theses

Stable isotope analysis in bioarchaeology of human bone is generally used to reconstruct diet or migratory patterns of certain populations. Although this type of analysis is now standard practice, little research has been done regarding how cultural and mortuary practices may affect chemical composition of bone. This study aims to determine whether different simulated mortuary contexts have an effect on stable isotope levels in bone, using seven pig rib bone samples as proxy for human bone. In addition, macroscopic and microscopic observations are used to assess preservation and taphonomic processes. One of the samples served as a control, not being …

Xpo1 Blockade With Kpt-330 Promotes Apoptosis In Cutaneous T-Cell Lymphoma By Activating The P53-P21 And P27 Pathways, Nitin Chakravarti, Amy Boles, Rachel Burzinski, Paola Sindaco, Colleen Isabelle, Kathleen Mcconnell, Anjali Mishra, Pierluigi Porcu

Kimmel Cancer Center Faculty Papers

Dysregulated nuclear-cytoplasmic trafficking has been shown to play a role in oncogenesis in several types of solid tumors and hematological malignancies. Exportin 1 (XPO1) is responsible for the nuclear export of several proteins and RNA species, mainly tumor suppressors. KPT-330, a small molecule inhibitor of XPO1, is approved for treating relapsed multiple myeloma and diffuse large B-cell lymphoma. Cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL) is an extranodal non-Hodgkin lymphoma with an adverse prognosis and limited treatment options in advanced stages. The effect of therapeutically targeting XPO1 with KPT-330 in CTCL has not been established. We report that XPO1 expression is upregulated in …