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Climate Model Evaluation Of Atmospheric Rivers Over The Contiguous United States, Ilan González-Hirshfeld

Dissertations and Theses

Atmospheric rivers (ARs)--long corridors of intense atmospheric water vapor transport--significantly influence the hydrologic cycle and regional hydrometeorological extremes across the contiguous United States (CONUS). Ongoing and future climate change may alter AR characteristics and impacts, making confident climate model projections of future change, especially at regional scales, of critical importance. In order to better constrain uncertainty in such projections of future change, we perform a comprehensive climate model evaluation of AR climatology over the CONUS. Using an established AR detection algorithm, we evaluate the representation of ARs in historical simulations (1984-2013) from a suite of models participating in the sixth …

Relationship Between Image Spectroscopy Spatial Resolution And Crown Level Tree Species Classification Accuracy, Andrew Richard Fritter

Dissertations and Theses

Hyperspectral imagery has become a common remote sensing data type used in tree species classifications because of its rich spectral signals that allow the detection of the variations in canopy reflectance. While high spatial resolution hyperspectral imagery provides fine spatial resolution for discerning surface objects, it has the inherent drawbacks of expensive acquisition costs, large data sizes, and can be computationally taxing to use. This study attempts to determine a relationship between crown level tree species classification accuracy and hyperspectral spatial resolution. Future tree species classification projects can make use of this relationship by targeting a spatial resolution that best …

Drug Conviction And Employment Restriction: Experiences Of Employees With Drug-Related Criminal Histories, Liana Bernard

Dissertations and Theses

It has been established that there are numerous barriers to obtaining and maintaining employment following a criminal conviction, including background checks, which occur as part of most selection processes. Barriers to obtaining and maintaining employment may be higher for individuals with drug-related criminal histories as they may face particularly severe negative stereotypes. This study examines the experiences of individuals with drug-related criminal histories' integration into the workplace and society. Additionally, because stereotypes about individuals with drug-related criminal histories are contradictory to those of individuals with stable employment, I examine how these individuals are impacted by reductions in the stigma that …

Hummingbird, Sheala J. Dunlap

Toyon: Multilingual Literary Magazine

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How Scopus Is Shaping The Research Publications Of Feature Fusion-Based Image Retrieval, Jaya H. Dewan, Sudeep D. Thepade

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Research trends have shown an increase in the preferences for feature fusion-based image retrieval. The primary objective of this study is to show the current state of research regarding image retrieval and feature fusion. The research papers indexed in the Scopus database are considered here for quantitative analysis. A bibliometric analysis of the research publications indexed in Scopus is presented in this study. During this study, 461 documents from 276 different sources are obtained. The important keywords, sources, authors, countries, and funding agencies are presented, which will help future researchers in research directions.

Integration Management: A Bibliometric Study Of Research Trends, Shabir Hussain Khahro, Ayaz Babar, Fida Hussain Siddiqui, Tauha Hussain Ali, Ali Raza Khoso

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Integration management has always been a topic of interest for researchers. It plays a significant role in the success of the projects. Integration management effectively incorporates all the aspects of projects and provides a roadmap towards their success. Based on the significance of the term, this paper assesses the research output of integration management since 1970 in different fields of the application using the Scopus database. The data was collected and analyzed through Microsoft Excel to analyze the research publications trend line, publication types and their access to the audience, organizations and countries involved, languages of publications, authors participating, and …

Ambedo: Immersive Storytelling Through Augmented Reality, Dr. Diane Derr, Law Alsobrook, Sadia Mir

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The territory of locative media, coupled with augmented reality, offers unique opportunities to excavate and unpack rich historic events, in immersive storytelling. In September of 1943, during World War II, approximately 5,200 Italian soldiers were massacred on the Greek island of Kefalonia by Nazi troops. This massacre is credited as one of the largest ever prisoner-of-war massacres in recent history (Lamb, 1996) and left an indelible mark on the island of Kefalonia. In 2019, Configuring Kommos: Narrative, Event, Place and Memory, an interdisciplinary research project, began an investigation into the triangulation of narrative within the complexity of this tragic …

Projection-Based Ar For Hearing Parent-Deaf Child Communication, Victor N. Antony, Adira Blumenthal, Ziyue Qiu, Ashely Tenesaca, Wanyin Hu, Zhen Bai

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Deaf infants born to hearing parents are at risk of language deprivation due to lack of sign language fluency and subpar parent-child communication. We present a projection-based Augmented Reality (AR) prototype designed to improve parent-child communication and American Sign Language (ASL) acquisition. Our system aims to non-intrusively augment play episodes by projecting just-in-time and context-aware ASL equivalents extracted from nursery rhymes being sung by parents. This paper presents the initial implementation of the prototype .

The Challenge Of Preserving Captured Sign Language Data In Human Avatar Models, Youmee Lee, Joseph Hill, Andrew Smith

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No abstract provided.

Using Virtual Reality For Peace Building In Refugee Camps Of Northern Uganda, Barnabas Samuel John, Sebit Martin

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Ikkuma: An Artistic Vr Storytelling Experience, Yangli Liu

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Ikkuma is an interactive storytelling experience utilizing Tilt Brush and Unity. It is about a land being swallowed by the sea, where conflict cracks ice and fire tears families apart. Ikkuma is the Inuvialuit word for fire, a central element to the work. The fundamental theme of Ikkuma is global warming and its impact on the Arctic ecosystem. The players must learn to tame the fire in their hearts and the Inuit traditional knowledge if they hope to survive the harsh yet fragile Arctic tundra.

Designing Blended Experiences: Laugh Traders Design Fiction, Brian J. Okeefe

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The increasing ubiquity of interactions that involve complementary digital content, physical objects, and spaces, brings about new challenges for designers. There is a need to embed designs in legacy systems, whether those are existing physical structures or existing digital platforms. Traditional approaches to product design, interaction design, and user experience design often do not take this new context into account. Many systems do not consider how designers produce new digital and physical experiences that work harmoniously, while supporting new interactions and relationships with people (Imaz and Benyon 2007; Jetter, Geyer, Schwarz & Reiterer 2012). To address this, we propose the …

Embodimap Vr. A Tangible And Immersive Body-Mapping Experience., Volker Kuchelmeister, Jill Bennett, Gail Kenning, Natasha Ginnivan, Lydia Gitau, Sophie Burgess

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EmbodiMap is a creative research and therapeutic tool that enables users to connect with and explore how thoughts, sensationsand emotions are experienced in the body. It extends existing body-mapping research and protocols by facilitating a tangible immersive experience.

How Mixed Reality Will Impact Product Design, Wyatt Coe

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Mixed reality technology promises to merge our digital and physical worlds, unlocking new realms of experience and design. Designers must consider how this will impact future products and experiences now, to identify the most desirable solutions and applications of this technology. The capability of software to simulate reality could fundamentally shift the way we produce and experience physical and digital products, allowing for simplified physical products that support digital experiences.

Aware: Eliminating Implicit Bias Using Ar, Shagun Bose, Emma Strauch

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Implicit Bias is something that happens to real people in real spaces all the time. But we can’t see it. Since, AR allows us to overlay virtual objects in real environments, we tried to leverage AR to make more salient the various ways in which people experience bias.

Perceptions Of Violence In Justice-Involved Youth, Keely Reidelberger, Ashley Ann Raposo-Hadley, Jermaine Greenaway, Ashley Farrens, Jenny Burt, Lindsey Wylie, Gaylene Armstrong, Mark Foxall, Zachary M. Bauman, Charity H. Evans

Criminology and Criminal Justice Faculty Publications

Background

Youth are tragically affected by violence. Justice-involved youth are at elevated risk for the effects of violence, as incarceration serves as a risk factor. The objective of this study is to explore the risks and needs of justice-involved youth and identify channels for future hospital-based programming.

Methods

Four weekly focus groups were conducted by a credible messenger at the Douglas County Youth Center with former participants of Dusk 2 Dawn, a youth violence prevention program delivered at the Douglas County Youth Center. Eight participants were prompted with preset interview questions. All focus groups were recorded and transcribed by a …

Prison Rape Elimination Act, 2003: Individual Factors For Victimization And Offending, Bailey Saldana

Theses

The Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 was passed in order to provide a set of guidelines for reporting and reacting to prison rapes (PREA, 2020). This project uses secondary data from the Survey of Inmates in State and Federal Correctional Facilities to identify factors associated with prison rape victimization. Rates of institutional violence have not decreased as have the rates of violence outside of institutions (Wooldredge, 2020; Morgan & Truman, 2020). One area of institutional violence research that is lacking is prison rape research. As more research is done on prison rape victimization, this project extends on this body …

The Relationship Experiences Of Male Survivors Of Sexual Abuse: A Qualitative Analysis, Jordan Grant Gibby

Theses and Dissertations

Although the experience of sexual abuse is quite common among men, particularly among those in clinical populations, relatively little research has been done specifically with male survivors and the impact of abuse in their lives. More specifically, the impact of sexual abuse on male survivors' relationship dynamics has been underdeveloped in the research literature. Untapped online data can help illuminate these relationship dynamics, providing insight to clinicians for improved couple and family treatment. Through qualitative analysis of data from online discussion boards at MaleSurvivor.org, the present study examined the ways in which male survivors of sexual abuse described dynamics of …

No Soldier Left Behind? Breaking The Silence On Military Service, Values And Identity In Israel, Lina Tuschling

Doctor of International Conflict Management Dissertations

This dissertation explores the relationship between observed incidents and perceptions of value violation or confirmation among Israeli soldiers. Through content analysis of 900 testimonies, the work explores the intersection of social identity, military ethics and nonviolent movements. The data show that many soldiers do not see their tasks as supporting the overall mission of keeping their country and nation safe, leading to a decline in motivation and sense of purpose. Further, deeper reflections on whether actions on the ground are in line with proposed national values result in incidents of role conflict, individual cognitive dissonance and vicarious dissonance.

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Quantifying Surplus And Sustainability In The Archaeological Record At The Carthaginian-Roman Urban Mound Of Zita, Tripolitania, Brett Kaufman, Hans Barnard, Ali Drine, Rayed Khedher, Alan Farahani, Sami Ben Tahar, Elyssa Jerray, Brian N. Damiata, Megan Daniels, Jessica Cerezo-Román, Thomas Fenn, Victoria Moses

Anthropology Faculty Research

Cultural ecological theory is applied to a spatially and temporally bounded archaeological data set to document long-term paleoeco-logical processes and associated sociopolitical behaviors. Volumetric excavations, treating the material culture of an archaeological matrix similar to an ecological core, can yield quantifiable frequencies of surplus goods that provide a multiproxy empirical lens into incremental changes in land use practices, natural resource consumption, and, in this case, likely overexploitation. Archaeological methods are employed to quantify cultural ecological processes of natural resource exploitation, industrial intensification, sustainability and scarcity, and settlement collapse during the colonial transition between Carthaginian and Roman North Africa. The data …

Flood Risk Is Higher In Rural And Disadvantaged Communities, Danielle Rhubart, Yue Sun

Population Health Research Brief Series

Flooding has become more common in the U.S. and poses health risks to individuals, families, and communities. However, not all places face the same risk of flooding. This brief describes how flood risk varies across places with different demographic and social characteristics. It shows that rural Census tracts and tracts with larger shares of socioeconomically vulnerable populations have larger relative shares of properties at risk of flooding.

Preface: Develop And Innovate Science Education, Cultivate Innovative Talents, Yuliang Yang

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

No abstract provided.

Rational Examination Of Cultivation Of Talent Reserve For Scientific And Technological Innovation In China, Yonghe Zhang, Jingying Wang, Xinying Li, Xuanyang Yang, Yong Xie

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

It is an important guarantee for China to win the first chance in the future international competition to vigorously cultivate the talent reserve of scientific and technological innovation. This study first proposes that China urgently needs to pay attention to the early training of scientific and technological innovation talents from the international situation, existing policies, and the current educational situation. Then it dynamically examines the training theory and practical experience of scientific and technological innovation talent reserve from an international perspective, and further considers the critical understanding and key issues of early training. Finally, some suggestions are given on the …

Science Education In Post-Covid-19 Era, Su Wang, Yeliija Yuan

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

It is a consensus worldwide that COVID-19 has made far-reaching impact on education. As one of the essential topics of discussion for Education 4.0, science education has been paid lots of attention focusing on its further development especially under the background of the fourth industrial revolution and Post-COVID-19 era. This research proposes developing strategies of science education in the Post-COVID-19 era with a globalized vision. The strategies, proposed on the basis of worldwide research outcome of science education and the analysis of China's actual conditions, include developing the top layer design for science education from national security perspectives, establishing a …

Comparative Study On Development Of Science Education Worldwide: Advance In Ideas, Themes And Practice, Xinning Pei, Tainian Zheng

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

The importance of science education lies not in delivering factual knowledge to learners, but in using knowledge as a way for them to know the world and cope with the uncertainty. The development of science education worldwide in the 21st century presents the following themes:the sustainable development of human beings as the main context, cultivating scientific literacy as the goal, paying attention to understanding the nature of science, building a "common foundation" for science learning through in-depth and coherent curriculum, using information technology to stimulate and integrate science education innovation, emphasizing the unity of science and humanities, giving full play …

Construct New Pattern Of Evaluating And Training Youngsters’ Creativity, Dongmei Zhang, Xiaoming Liu, Yu Liu, Yanlong Xu

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

The core talents who support China's innovative development and participate in international competition, on which the realization of the two centennial goals depends, are currently receiving basic education. Therefore, there is an urgent need to accelerate the innovation quality education for adolescents, and establish a scientific model of innovation quality training for cultivation and selection of talents. Through the analysis of the current situation of innovation quality cultivation and assessment both in China and in the world, this study proposes a new model of innovation quality assessment and training based on the cognitive theory of brain science, combined with the …

Evolution Of China’S Poverty Alleviation Policy And Multidimensional Changes Of Rural Society: Analysis And Enlightenment, Huangang Wang, Cheng Zhang, Changhong Nie

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

In 2020, China has historically eliminated absolute poverty. While improving the well-being of the people, it has also accumulated valuable experience in poverty governance. Standing at a new historical starting point, it is necessary to analysis the practice of poverty alleviation in China, and at the same time review the multi-dimensional social changes in the poverty-stricken rural areas of our country. In order to tap the important experience in the practice of poverty alleviation in China, this study first combs the evolution characteristics of China's poverty alleviation policies from both horizontal and vertical levels, quantitatively analyzes poverty alleviation policies from …

From Strategy Consulting Research To Science Of Think Tank, Xin Wang, Huiqin Zhang, Changpu Sun

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

Think tank researches are the main element to advance the modernization of China's capacity for governance, and they are multidisciplinary related to many research areas. The suggestions of think tank researches may have massive influences as long as they are adapted. In this study, we recommend that the think tank researches should be advanced to the science of think tank. The think tank researches should follow the widely recognized scientific research character-falsifiability. Based on solid data and evidences, think tank researches build objective models, develop qualitative methods and quantitative tools, and generate objective strategic consulting proposals with predictive ability. By …

Focus On Three Major Scientific Issues In Field Of Life And Construct Holographic Human Digital Model—Taking Medicine As Example, Bin Cong, Shiming Zhang, Zhiyu Ni

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

By analyzing the dilemma faced by the field of medical science, we can find that the nature and evolutionary laws of life have not been systematically revealed; and the microscopic dynamic processes of life cannot be understood by only visualizing the microscopic static structures at the subcellular or molecular levels. Therefore, there is a need to establish a new scientific paradigm to study three fundamental scientific problems in the field of life:to analyze the microstructure of the human body; to reveal the correlations between structures; and to explore the temporal changes of structures and the functions they perform. The human …

Promoting Construction Of Zero-Direct Discharge Engineering For Agricultural Wastewater From Paddy Fields In Yangtze River Delta Region, Xinqiang Liang, Jiao Yang, Shuang He, Boyi Liu, Jianye Li, Xiangyang Xu, Bojie Fu

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

The Yangtze River Delta region is an important commodity grain production area in China, but has been suffering from agricultural non-point source pollution issues in recent years. This study puts forward a suggestion on promoting the construction of zero-direct discharge (ZDD) engineering for agricultural wastewater from paddy fields in the region. This suggestion is based on the field investigation, policy analysis, engineering design, and economical evaluation, which clarifies the policy adaptability and the construction importance of the ZDD engineering. At the same time, this suggestion shows the basic principles, design requirements, mode selections, investment cost, and expected ecological economic benefits …