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A Computational Kinetics Model To Quantify Radiation Induced Chemical Products Of Atmospheric Gas Mixtures, Patrick Ables

Dissertations

This research is focused on the development of a computational model which will calculate the effects of radiation on the chemical composition of the atmosphere. The approach utilizes the open-source chemical kinetics toolkit Cantera to model the creation of radiation-induced reactant species within irradiated air mixtures. Chemical solutions are iteratively stepped toward chemical equilibrium within a ‘constantly stirred’ (homogeneous) reactor of fixed volume. Three different radiation chemistry models are implemented in several different pulsed and continuous radiation schemes. The first model includes the mechanisms and rates of a pulse radiation model from the literature to test the validity of the …

E-Dsge Model With Endogenous Capital Utilization Rate, Ying Tung Chan, Maria Teresa Punzi

Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics

Environmental policy research has increased due to stricter policies aligned with climate goals. However, to achieve the goal of net-zero emissions, the adoption of even stronger policies and increased carbon taxes is necessary, with transition risk becoming a major concern for companies. Even though governments worldwide have been employing a range of methods such as carbon tax, cap-and-trade, and intensity targets to mitigate the impact of climate change, a pivotal debate around determining the optimal policy that reduces emissions without harming the economy continues. Our paper delves into the environmental policy assessment emphasizing the role of endogenous capital utilization rates, …

Schedule: Pre-Health Seminar Series 2023-24, University Of Dayton

Pre-Health Resource Center Campus Communications

No abstract provided.

Review Of Thorne, Benjamin, The Figure Of The Witness In International Criminal Tribunals: Memory, Atrocities And Transitional Justice, Art Blaser, Trinity Huynh

Political Science Faculty Articles and Research

A review of Benjamin Thorne's The Figure of the Witness in International Criminal Tribunals: Memory, Atrocities and Transitional Justice.

A Consensus Panel Approach To Estimating The Start-Up And Annual Service Costs For Rural Ambulance Agencies, Yvonne Jonk Phd, Gary Wingrove Facpe, Cp-C, Nikiah Nudell Ms, Mphil, Nrp, Facpe, Kevin Mcginnis Mps

Emergency Medical Services (EMS)

This brief serves to fill the information void on the costs of running ambulance services for three population-based service tiers and establishes a minimum access standard for ambulances servicing a 25-minute travel time radius from the ambulance station. The model enables policymakers and community stakeholders to develop strategic plans for the financing and provision of ambulance services. Key Highlights: An expert panel established that ambulances could reasonably serve a maximum 25-minute travel time from the ambulance station that accounts for road conditions. A minimum access standard was defined as a single resource consisting of one full-time staffed ambulance, with a …

Revenue Collections, August 2023, Tennessee. Department Of Revenue

2023 Revenue Collection Reports

No abstract provided.

The Ballard Center For Social Impact, Jess Anderson

BYU Research Development Office Research Networking Conference

We develop the faith and skills to solve social problems

Overcoming Ethical Obstacles, Mckenzie Rees

BYU Research Development Office Research Networking Conference

Ethical decision-making, negotiations, gender issues at work

Soft And Wearable "Robots", Nathan Usevitch

BYU Research Development Office Research Networking Conference

Soft robotics, wearable devices, devices that provide physical assistance

Census Tree, Joe Price

BYU Research Development Office Research Networking Conference

Economic history, record linking, computer vision

Data Mining On Human Diseases, Brett E. Pickett

BYU Research Development Office Research Networking Conference

Transcriptomics, RNA-sequencing, data mining, machine learning, biomarker identification, comparative genomics, Oxford Nanopore sequencing, genome assembly

Ctl Impact Report (Fy23), Center For Teaching & Learning

CTL Publications

The Sacred Heart University CTL was founded in 2022 as an integrated scaffold of teaching and learning support. Its founding brought together instructional development for SHU faculty with academic support services for SHU undergraduate and graduate students. In this report, we share our center’s reach and impact during FY23 (July 1, 2022 – June 30, 2023), marking the first full academic year in which the CTL has operated in its current model.

How Students Make Educational And Occupational Decisions, Anthony Yim

BYU Research Development Office Research Networking Conference

Labor economics, economics of education, gender economics

United States Of America V. Donald J. Trump, Defendant, Jack Smith

United States Department of Justice: Publications

Violations: Count 1: 18 U.S.C. § 371 (Conspiracy to Defraud the United States) Count 2: 18 U.S.C. § 1512(k) (Conspiracy to Obstruct an Official Proceeding) Count 3: 18 U.S.C. §§ 1512(c)(2), 2 (Obstruction of and Attempt to Obstruct an Official Proceeding) Count 4: 18 U.S.C. § 241 (Conspiracy Against Rights)

The Grand Jury charges that, at all times material to this Indictment, on or about the dates and at the approximate times stated below:

1. The Defendant, DONALD J. TRUMP, was the forty-fifth President of the United States and a candidate for re-election in 2020. The Defendant lost the 2020 …

Rapidill Experience Sharing: The Smu Libraries Story, Kai Leong Heng, Vincent Ong

Research Collection Library

No abstract provided.

Charter School Funding: Little Progress Towards Equity In The City, Alison Heape Johnson, Josh B. Mcgee, Patrick J. Wolf, Jay F. May, Larry D. Maloney

School Choice Demonstration Project

Charter schooling has grown in popularity since the first charter school opened in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1992. Nearly 3.5 million students in the United States attended a public charter school in 2019-20. Our team has studied charter school funding equity since 2002-03 and most recently found that, in 2017-18, charter schools received, on average, 33 percent less funding than traditional public schools (TPS) in 18 cities, including Atlanta, Boston, Camden, Chicago, Denver, Detroit, Indianapolis, Houston, Little Rock, Los Angeles, Memphis, New Orleans, New York City, Oakland, Phoenix, San Antonio, Tulsa, and Washington, DC. Each of these cities either has …

Cybersecurity Safeguards: What Cybersecurity Safeguards Could Have Prevented The Intelligence/Data Breach By A Member Of The Air National Guard, Christopher Curtis Royal

Cyber Operations and Resilience Program Graduate Projects

Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old IT specialist Air National Guard found himself on the wrong side of the US law after sharing what is considered classified and extremely sensitive information about USA's operations and role in Ukraine and Russia war. Like other previous cases of leakage of classified intelligence, the case of Teixeira raises concerns about the weaknesses and vulnerability of federal agencies' IT systems and security protocols governing accessibility to classified documents. Internal leakages of such classified documents hurt national security and can harm the country, especially when such secretive intelligence finds its way into the hands of enemies. Unauthorized …

Identifying The Geography Of Opportunities For Historically Black Colleges And Universities, Nekya Jenise Young

Dissertations (2016-Present)

Most historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are in metropolitan areas and operate as anchor institutions in predominantly minority-occupied neighborhoods (Wright, 2021). Because HBCUs are in the heart of diverse communities, their level of responsibility is automatically heightened solely because residents look to these cultural institutions to analyze and provide solutions for their neighborhoods’ unprioritized or neglected problems (Lowe & Shipp, 2014). In efforts to apply quantitative methods to assess social opportunity for HBCU neighborhood residents, I selected U.S. Census datasets to analyze as policy-relevant factors in R and use QGIS to investigate the geography of opportunities between 1990–2019 within …

Simulation And Analysis Of Self-Assembling Slat-Based Dna Ribbons, Lukas Vaughan, Hunter J. Fleming

Computer Science and Computer Engineering Undergraduate Honors Theses

Though still in its infancy, the design of DNA crisscross slats presents great potential in the algorithmic self-assembly of DNA. The provision for higher levels of cooperativity allows for fewer errors through the natural proofreading of slat placement, leading to more robust assembly. Highly accurate simulations of self-assembling DNA squares have been achieved by following the kinetic Tile Assembly Model. Building on that foundation, this study seeks to calibrate the system parameters of a kinetic simulator for self-assembling DNA slats to match experimental results and to use those ranges of parameters to perform exploratory simulations of systems not yet tested …

Life Sciences Research, Stephen Piccolo

BYU Research Development Office Research Networking Conference

•Analyzing high-throughput, gene-expression data (RNA-Seq, microarrays) •Curating and reusing publicly available ”omics” data •Gene Expression Omnibus •The Cancer Genome Atlas •Creating software and algorithms for analyzing biological and medical data •Also CodeBuddy – a feature-rich, programming-assignment management system •Applying machine-learning techniques to biological and medical data

Using and evaluating large language models for educational research

The Astronomy Animated Gif Lab, Darin Ragozzine

BYU Research Development Office Research Networking Conference

Astrophysics, Education

Effects Of Vascular Risk Factors On Risk For Dementia And Stroke After Late-Onset Epilepsy, Evan Thacker

BYU Research Development Office Research Networking Conference

Brain health, neuroepidemiology, cardiovascular epidemiology

The Scoop, Vol. 10 Issue 5, August 2023, Health Sciences Library

Volume 10

Latest news and updates from the Health Sciences Library in our monthly newsletter for August 2023.

Skeletal Age During Hurricane Impacts Fluctuating Asymmetry In Cayo Santiago Rhesus Macaques, Ashly N. Romero, Edwin Dickinson, Cassandra M. Turcotte, Claire E. Terhune

Anthropology Faculty Publications and Presentations

As natural disasters become more frequent due to climate change, understanding the biological impact of these ecological catastrophes on wild populations becomes increasingly pertinent. Fluctuating asymmetry (FA), or random deviations from bilateral symmetry, is reflective of developmental instability and has long been positively associated with increases in environmental stress. This study investigates craniofacial FA in a population of free-ranging rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) that has experienced multiple Category 3 hurricanes since the colony's inception on Cayo Santiago, including 275 individuals from ages 9 months to 31 years (F = 154; M = 121). Using geometric morphometrics to quantify …

Smart Cities-A Structured Literature Review, Jose Sanchez Gracias, Gregory S. Parnell, Eric Specking, Edward A. Pohl, Randy Buchanan

Industrial Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

Smart cities are rapidly evolving concept-transforming urban developments in the 21st century. Smart cities use advanced technologies and data analytics to improve the quality of life for their citizens, increase the efficiency of infrastructure and services, and promote sustainable economic growth. Smart cities integrate multiple domains, including transportation, energy, health, education, and governance, to create an interconnected and intelligent urban environment. Our research study methodology was a structured literature review using Web of Science and Google Scholar and ten smart city research questions. The research questions included smart city definitions, advantages, disadvantages, implementation challenges, funding, types of applications, quantitative techniques …

Nymc Synapse Issue 39, School Of Medicine Student Senate, New York Medical College

The Synapse

No abstract provided.

Arabic Dysarthric Speech Recognition Using Adversarial And Signal-Based Augmentation, Massa Baali, Ibrahim Almakky, Shady Shehata, Fakhri Karray

Machine Learning Faculty Publications

Despite major advancements in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), the state-of-the-art ASR systems struggle to deal with impaired speech even with high-resource languages. In Arabic, this challenge gets amplified, with added complexities in collecting data from dysarthric speakers. In this paper, we aim to improve the performance of Arabic dysarthric automatic speech recognition through a multi-stage augmentation approach. To this effect, we first propose a signal-based approach to generate dysarthric Arabic speech from healthy Arabic speech by modifying its speed and tempo. We also propose a second stage Parallel Wave Generative (PWG) adversarial model that is trained on an English dysarthric …

S2cd: Self-Heuristic Speaker Content Disentanglement For Any-To-Any Voice Conversion, Pengfei Wei, Xiang Yin, Chunfeng Wang, Zhonghao Li, Xinghua Qu, Zhiqiang Xu, Zejun Ma

Machine Learning Faculty Publications

In this paper, we propose a Self-heuristic Speaker Content Disentanglement (S2CD) model for any to any voice conversion without using any external resources, e.g., speaker labels or vectors, linguistic models, and transcriptions. S2CD is built on the disentanglement sequential variational autoencoder (DSVAE), but improves DSVAE structure at the model architecture level from three perspectives. Specifically, we develop different structures for speaker and content encoders based on their underlying static/dynamic property. We further propose a generative graph, modelled by S2CD, so as to make S2CD well mimic the multi-speaker speech generation process. Finally, we propose a self-heuristic way to introduce bias …

Raman Spectroscopic Applications For Food Safety & Quality, Shintaro Pang

BYU Research Development Office Research Networking Conference

Micro- and nano-plastics analysis, food protein detection and characterization, rapid detection of lactose and other sugar-related compounds, probiotics and pathogenic bacteria analysis in complex matrices, other food, agriculture and environment related analytes of concern

Interdisciplinary Research Origination Awards, Larry Howell

BYU Research Development Office Research Networking Conference

Ensure alignment with the university mission, enhance the educational experience of students, enlarge the influence of a BYU education