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Svar: A Virtual Machine For Portable Code On Reconfigurable Accelerators, Nathaniel Fredricks

Computer Science and Computer Engineering Undergraduate Honors Theses

The SPAR-2 array processor was designed as an overlay architecture for implementation on Xilinx Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). As an overlay, the SPAR-2 array processor can be configured to take advantage of the specific resources available on different FPGAs. However once configured, the SPAR-2 requires programmer’s to have knowledge of the low level architecture, and write platform-specific code. In this thesis SVAR, a hardware/software co-designed virtual machine, is proposed that runs on the SPAR-2. SVAR allows programmers to write portable, platform-independent code once and have it interpreted for any specific configuration. Results are presented that verify the virtual machine …

Analysis Of A Federated Learning Framework For Heterogeneous Medical Image Data: Privacy And Performance Perspective, Julia Brixey

Computer Science and Computer Engineering Undergraduate Honors Theses

The massive amount of data available in our modern world and the increase of computational efficiency and power have allowed for great advancements in several fields such as computer vision, image processing, and natural languages. At the center of these advancements lies a data-centric learning approach termed deep learning. However, in the medical field, the application of deep learning comes with many challenges. Some of the fundamental challenges are the lack of massive training datasets, unbalanced and heterogenous data between health applications and health centers, security and privacy concerns, and the high cost of wrong inference and prediction. One of …

A Survey And Comparative Study On Vulnerability Scanning Tools, Cassidy Khounborine

Computer Science and Computer Engineering Undergraduate Honors Theses

Vulnerability scanners are a tool used by many organizations and developers as part of their vulnerability management. These scanners aid in the security of applications, databases, networks, etc. There are many different options available for vulnerability scanners that vary in the analysis method they encompass or target for which they scan, among many other features. This thesis explores the different types of scanners available and aims to ease the burden of selecting the ideal vulnerability scanner for one’s needs by conducting a survey and comparative analysis of vulnerability scanners. Before diving into the vulnerability scanners available, background information is provided …

Characterization Of 2d Quantum Materials Using Ai And Large-Scale Quantum Data Collection, Apoorva Bisht

Computer Science and Computer Engineering Undergraduate Honors Theses

2D materials like hexagonal boron nitride, graphene, and tungsten diselenide are widely utilized for studying their unique mechanical and opto-electronic properties to exploit them to make transistors and fabricating a variety of other devices. All these applications require that the 2D materials used be of specific uniform thickness. Until very recently, this process has been largely manual and tedious. However, few applications exploit the characteristic color-to-thickness correspondence of these near-transparent materials. To continue this effort, in this work we create a large-scale dataset for three different materials (hBN, graphene, and WSe$_2$) to train and test an image segmentation model along …

Towards A Just Transition Impact Assessment Framework, Adebayo Gbenga Majekolagbe

PhD Dissertations

Just transition is a contested notion. Its definitions range from status quo enforcing to transformation engendering. Traditionally, just transition focuses on local jobs and workers. Its application within the climate change context retains this traditional focus. From its recognition in the Paris Agreement to its incorporation in domestic transition laws and policies, just transition is essentially interpreted as jobs transition. Further, the scholarship and law of just transition are primarily normatively built on the distributive and procedural conceptualizations of justice. Also, although planning is construed as central to a just transition, there is no clarity on how abstract proposals on …

Reflections On The Ohiolink Luminaries Experience, Campbell Pratt

Michael Schwartz Library Student Works

CSU’s Michael Schwartz Library continued its participation in the OhioLINK Luminaries Program for the 2022-2023 school year.

CSU's second OhioLINK Luminaries student was Campbell Pratt, English major, who made significant contributions to multiple projects. They designed an email "challenge" campaign to raise sustainability awareness and promote the library's collections, creating a research guide that will continue to benefit students, staff, and faculty. Additionally, Campbell organized a film showing for LGBTQ+ History month, facilitating a lively post-film discussion and assisted with planning programs for international students.

In addition to these accomplishments, Campbell conducted a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) audit of …

The Effects Of Lecture Capture Design On Student Performance In An Online, Asynchronous Nonmajors Biology Course, Melissa Ann Gutierrez

Dissertations

Lecture capture technology, the ability to provide multimedia recordings of instructional content, has become an essential technology for online learning. One of the ways online courses have tried to appeal to the digital lifestyle of today’s students is providing different lecture capture styles, such as audio (podcasts), video, or interactive videos, due to the popularity of mobile media players providing anytime and anywhere learning. Although lecture capture technology provides educators with a diverse set of tools on how content is delivered, studies have shown mixed results on the impact of lecture capture styles on learning.

For this study, the main …

The Nigerian Tiv Concept Of Ya Na Angbian As A Corrective To The Misinterpretation Of Subdue And Have Dominion In Genesis 1:26, Christopher Terhemen Bologo

Jesuit School of Theology Dissertations

The Tiv people of Nigeria have a social-political philosophy, Ya na angbian, which they have been practicing since the pre-colonial period. The social-political philosophy promotes justice, fairness, harmony, and peace through a fair and equitable distribution of what belongs to the Tiv people. This thesis argues that the Ya na angbian concept of the Tiv people can be applied to the relationship between human and non-human beings. This work maintains that it can lead to human beings’ care for non-human nature.

The first outstanding conclusion of this research is that the Ya na angbian social-political philosophy can correct misunderstanding …

Early Milk Feeding Impacts Health And Immunity In Later Life, Rebecca Mclennan, Eric S. Geanes, Angela Dickerson, Todd Bradley

Research at Children's Mercy Month 2023

Infants born premature have increased susceptibility to infection and other immune complications. Human milk feeding has been associated with fewer infections and reduced intestinal inflammation leading to improved health outcomes. The composition of milk is variable between mothers and changes over the course of lactation to meet the needs of the growing infant. There is an urgent need to define the components of milk that are critical for protecting against infection and improving infant health. Premature infants often receive combinations of feeding that includes donor milk that is derived from mature milk. Thus, premature infants could receive milk that lacks …

2023 Manifest Program, Columbia College Chicago

Manifest Urban Arts Festival Programs

A program for the Manifest Urban-Arts Festival held by Columbia College Chicago on May 12, 2023.

An Examination Of Legal Responses By United States To Technological Advances In Organized Drug Smuggling, Abdulwahab Aldossary

Symposium Projects

Recent advances in technology have aided terrorists in their ability to smuggle drugs in order to finance their operations. Drug trading routes have changed and so have methods of transportation and financial transaction. This study investigates the improved technology utilized by transnational organized crime groups and how the present laws and policies address the use of the improved technology for drug smuggling. The study will first look into the current models, such as the Counter-Terrorist Funding and Money Laundering model, and understand its weaknesses regarding drug smuggling within the United States. Moreover, the paper will focus on the current laws …

Effect Of Temperature On The Microbiome Of A Laboratory Reared Colony Of Haemaphysalis Longicornis Ticks, Brianna Mitchell

Poster Presentations

Honors research poster.

Haemaphysalis longicornis is a species of tick native to eastern Asia, including eastern China, Japan, eastern Russia, and Korea. To date, it has invaded and has now established its existence in Australia, New Zealand, and several of the Pacific Islands. This species of tick has recently been introduced to the United States, having a confirmed sighting in November 2017 on a sheep farm in New Jersey and since establishing populations in 18 states along the east coast and Appalachia. Based on the existing locations of H. longicornis in its native regions, as well as in the United …

Tender And Taint: Money And Complicity In Entanglement Jurisprudence, Amy J. Sepinwall

Notre Dame Law Review

Because liberalism is concerned with individual freedom, it finds that one person is responsible for the conduct of another only under very narrow circumstances. To a large extent, the law reflects this narrow conception of complicity. There is however one glaring exception to the law’s general resistance to complicity claims: where one actor becomes connected to another’s act through a pecuniary contribution, the law’s liberalism falls away. Money forges a cognizable association no matter how tenuous the causal connection and no matter the subsidizer’s attitudes toward the subsidized act. For example, in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, the Supreme Court recognized …

Heart Rhythm And Related Cardiac Conditions, Lucas Joseph Asadorian

Honors Capstone Projects and Theses

No abstract provided.

Modular Articulating Rover System Handbook, Paul Yong Lim

Honors Capstone Projects and Theses

No abstract provided.

Poo Matters! A Scoping Review Of The Impact Of Constipation On Epilepsy, Alexandra Gabrielsson, Samuel Tromans, Lance Watkins, Lisa Burrows, Richard Laugharne, Rohit Shankar

More Faculty of Health Research

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Detecting Retinal Damage With Image Analysis Using Machine Learning Algorithm, Anitha. E, A. Antonidoss

Applied Mathematics & Information Sciences

Retina is an important layer of tissue in the back of the eye. The retina’s primary job is to gather light that the lens has focused, convert the light into neural signals, and send those signals to the brain for optical compensation. This crucial tissue may appear damaged due to retinal detachment (RD). Such conditions can impair vision and undoubtedly have the potential to be severe enough to cause blindness. It can be challenging to identify the damage since the layers and the nerve connections are too delicate and thin, and they may be mistaken for another illness. IMRCNN, an …

Fuzzy Time Series Inference For Stationary Linear Processes: Features And Algorithms With Simulation, Khaled M. Alqahtani, Mohammed H. El-Menshawy, Mohamed S. Eliwa, Mahmoud El-Morshedy, Rashad M. El-Sagheer

Applied Mathematics & Information Sciences

The primary objective of this article is to estimate the unknown parameters of stationary linear processes based on a fuzzy time series approach to observations that follow AR (1) processes. Predicted observations are obtained using fuzzy time series. Both actual and forecasted observations are utilized to study various classic method’s estimators for the autoregressive parameter. The comparisons between actual and forecasted observations in all estimating processes are discussed based on the mean squared errors. Furthermore, to investigate the extent to which fuzzy time series can enhance estimates produced by traditional estimating techniques. Based on these comparisons, it is possible to …

On Generalized Harmonically Ψ-Mt-Convex Functions Via Local Fractional Integrals And Some Applications, Miguel Vivas-Cortez, Muhammad Shoaib Saleem, Ahsan Fareed Shah, Waqas Nazeer, Jorge Eliecer Herna ́Ndez Herna ́Ndez

Applied Mathematics & Information Sciences

In this work, we introduce a new class of harmonically convex functions, namely, generalized harmonically ψ-MT-convex functions established on fractal set techniques, for establishing inequalities of Hermite-Hadamard type and certain related variants with respect to the Raina’s function. With the help of an auxiliary identity associated with Raina’s function, by generalized Holder inequality and generalized power mean, generalized midpoint type, Ostrowski type, and trapezoid type inequalities via local fractional integral for generalized harmonically ψ-MT-convex functions are given. The introduced technique gives the results by establishing some special values for the parameters or applying restrictive suppositions and is entirely practicable for …

Approach To Cryptography From The Lieb-Liniger Model, Mukhayo Rasulova

Applied Mathematics & Information Sciences

In this paper, using the method of statistical physics, a new encryption method is proposed that provides its own transformation for each cell of information, i.e., the perfect secrecy of information. This new method is based on the Lieb-Liniger model, which describes a gas of bosons in one-dimensional space.

Legendre Polynomials’ Second Derivative Tau Method For Solving Lane-Emden And Ricatti Equations, M. Abdelhakem, Mona Fawzy, M. El-Kady, Hanaa Moussa

Applied Mathematics & Information Sciences

This paper investigates a highly efficient method that depends on the Tau method for solving initial and boundary value problems. The second derivatives of Legendre polynomials (SDLPs) have been used as novel basis functions. A linearization relation for the presented basis functions has been introduced and proved to avoid any issues arising during tau’s integration, especially for the nonlinear problems. Consequently, some essential integrations have been determined. Moreover, we used those relations to construct explicit forms for approximating the solutions of Lane-Emden and the Recatti equations. In addition, the presented strategy’s converge and error analysis are discussed carefully and in-depth. …

Numerical Solutions Of A Three-Dimensional Schro ̈Dinger Equation For A Non–Relativistic Quark Model, M. Allosh, M. S. Abdelaal, F. Alshowaikh, A. Ismail

Applied Mathematics & Information Sciences

An accurate bound state eigenvalues are evaluated and plotted utilizing the non–relativistic quark model by using three different methods. The methods are employed perfectly within the three-dimensional time–independent Schro ̈dinger equation. Therefore, developing an effective technique to manipulate this well–known equation is the main reason for publishing this study. In this regard, an extensive comparison of the calculated numerical approaches with experimental data was conducted. In most cases, the three considered methods reflected optimal results for heavy mesonic family members by satisfying the minimization condition of χ2 values for each.

A New Iterative Approach For Designing Passive Harmonic Filters For Variable Frequency Drives, Tareq Foqha, Samer Alsadi, Osama Omari, Mohammad Rasmi Al-Mousa, Salem Aljazzar, Mohammad Kanan

Applied Mathematics & Information Sciences

The extensive usage of variable frequency drives (VFDs) in industrial applications has caused significant concern regarding the quality of power in electrical distribution systems. VFDs are nonlinear loads that cause harmonic voltages across system impedance by injecting harmonic currents into the power system. The performance of other sensitive loads in the system may be harmed as a result of this harmonic distortion. This study presents a new method for designing and specifying low-voltage harmonic filters for 6-pulse VFDs. An electrical distribution system feeding a group of variable frequency drives was analyzed using the proposed methodology. MATLAB software was used to …

Ruled Surfaces With Stationary Width In Euclidean 3-Space E3, Maryam T. Aldossary, Rashad A. Abdel-Baky

Applied Mathematics & Information Sciences

In this paper, we define and study pairs of ruled surfaces in Euclidean 3-space E3, which have the following properties: Their bases curves are stationary width curves, and the corresponding rulings are parallels. Then, we find the condition of general helix as stationary width curve and construct ruled surfaces with stationary width.

Relationship Between Illicit Drug Users And Bandits In A Population: Mathematical Modelling Approach, John O. Akanni, Afeez Abidemi

Applied Mathematics & Information Sciences

Among the major global health and social problems facing the world today is the use of illicit drugs and the act of banditry. The two problems have resulted in the loss of precious lives and possessions and even devastating effects on the economy of some countries where such acts were being practised. Of interest in this work is to study the global stability of illicit drug use spread dynamics with banditry compartments using a dynamical system theory approach. Illicit drug use and banditry reproduction number, which measures the potential spread of illicit drug use and banditry in the population, is …

Improving Numerical Solutions For The Generalized Huxley Equation: The New Iterative Method (Nim), Belal Batiha, Areen Al-Khateeb, Hamzeh Zureigat

Applied Mathematics & Information Sciences

The focus of our research was to address the generalized Huxley equation using the recently developed iterative method called the new iterative method (NIM). Our study entailed a comprehensive investigation of the convergence characteristics of the NIM. Additionally, we compared the outcomes obtained from the NIM with other established iterative techniques, including the variational iteration method (VIM) and Adomian decomposition method (ADM), as well as the exact solution.

Some Properties Of Incomplete First Appell Hypergeometric Matrix Functions, Ayed Al E’Damat, Ashish Verma, Jihad Younis, Hassen Aydi

Applied Mathematics & Information Sciences

The aim of this paper to introduce two incomplete first Appell hypergeometric matrix functions (IFAHMFs) γ1 and Γ1 by means of the incomplete Pochhammer matrix symbols. Furthermore, there is a derivation of some results such as integral formula, recursion formula, differentiation formula and finite summation formula of the IFAHMFs γ1 and Γ1.

Application Of Effective Semi-Analytical Algorithms For Neutral And Retarded Volterra Integrodifferential Equations, Mohamed S. M. Bahgat, Mofida Zaki

Applied Mathematics & Information Sciences

This study developed three semi-analytical algorithms to solve functional integrodifferential equations with variable delays under initial conditions. These algorithms embrace the Laplace Adomian decomposition method (LADM), the modified Laplace Adomian decomposition method (MLADM), and the Laplace variational iteration method (LVIM). Using the suggested approaches, we find the solutions without discretization, transformation, or limiting traditions while considering suitable initial conditions. In addition, the solutions are generated in fast-converging series with easily calculable terms. The proposed methodologies are tested numerically on three numerical applications to prove their efficacy and dependability as well as to compare their computational efficiency. Based on the numerical …

Polar Convex Programming: A New Paradigm For Nonlinear Optimization, Lilia Benakkouche, Blake Whitman, Baha Alzalg

Applied Mathematics & Information Sciences

In this paper, our central notions of analysis are convexity and betweenness. These concepts are given from the viewpoint of conceptual spaces and are specified in relation to the coordinates of a polar system. We introduce and study a problem that seeks to optimize a polar convex objective subject to polar convex constraints, which we refer to as the polar convex programming problem. We utilize a geometric methodology to solve the two-dimensional version of this optimization problem. Our interpretation of the approach is inspired by the classical graphical method for linear optimization problems. To the best of our knowledge, this …

Solitary Wave Solution For Fractional-Order General Equal-Width Equation Via Semi Analytical Technique, Khalid K. Ali, F. E. Abd Elbary, Mohamed S. Abdel-Wahed, M. A. Elsisy, Mourad S. Semary

Applied Mathematics & Information Sciences

This paper presents an innovative approach to solve equal-width time-fractional-order equations that describe the behavior of waves in a certain physical system, using the Caputo operator to express the fractional derivative by improving the Taylor series expansion.Its convergence theorem is proven, and the error between the exact and approximate solutions is estimated; the resulting solutions are illustrated using graphs for different values of the fractional derivative order and time.The primary objective of this study is to demonstrate the effectiveness of the method in reducing computational effort for solving nonlinear fractional partial differential equations (NFPDEs).