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A Global Survey Of Volcanic So2 Emissions And Heat Flux Measured From Space, Nelmary Rodríguez-Sepúlveda

Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports

Over the past two decades, the availability of satellite measurements of volcanic gas emissions and heat flux has driven the development of new methodologies to improve global-scale volcano monitoring. In this work we explored the relationship between volcanic sulfur dioxide (SO₂) emissions and radiant heat flux (RHF) measurements from NASA’s Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) and Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), respectively, to gain insight into how it associates to volcanic processes and eruption styles. The OMI SO₂ emissions data are derived from existing databases developed by using the methodology in Fioletov et al. (2016), which contain global, …

Defining The Endmember System Of Us Soils And Quantifying Relationships, And A Hyperspectral Approach To The Alteration Strength Index, Rachel Rulison

Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports

Soils form a complex part of the environment, providing important functions in systems such as food production, groundwater movement, and ecosystem health. There have been numerous studies on soil geochemistry and the origin of elements within soils, but few studies into quantifying the relationships between elements and geographical data on a national scale. Using geochemical data obtained by the USGS, the surficial soils of the US were defined by a 13-endmember system using Polytopic Vector Analysis and mapped in GIS. Correlation matrices provided Pearson’s correlation coefficients for elements in the Top 5 cm soil profile, the A horizon, and the …

Structure And Mechanics Of Biomembrane Mimics In The Presence Of Vitamin E, Mitchell Dipasquale

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Over the course of this dissertation, the fundamental behaviours and interactions between various analogs of vitamin E and biologically-relevant membranes will be explored. These analogs include the biologically active form, α-tocopherol; the most naturally abundant form γ-tocopherol; an oxidized product, α-tocopheryl quinone; and the synthetic stabile form, vitamin E acetate.

Beginning in Chapter 1, a foundation in membrane biophysics is established from a historical progression of the field. The importance of biomembranes is argued and a deep connection is established between structure and function. Key structural features of lipid assemblies, and role of lipid composition is defined, and with the …

Analyzing Marriage Statistics As Recorded In The Journal Of The American Statistical Association From 1889 To 2012, Annalee Soohoo

CMC Senior Theses

The United States has been tracking American marriage statistics since its founding. According to the United States Census Bureau, “marital status and marital history data help federal agencies understand marriage trends, forecast future needs of programs that have spousal benefits, and measure the effects of policies and programs that focus on the well-being of families, including tax policies and financial assistance programs.”[1] With such a wide scope of applications, it is understandable why marriage statistics are so highly studied and well-documented.

This thesis will analyze American marriage patterns over the past 100 years as documented in the Journal of …

Advanced Full-Text Search Based On Synonyms In Postgres, Joey Bodoia

CMC Senior Theses

This paper discusses the advanced full-text search queries based on synonyms that are supported in Chajda, which is a postgres extension and corresponding python library for highly multi-lingual full-text search in postgres. This discussion will include the motivations for using advanced queries based on synonyms, examples of how to use these advanced queries in Chajda, current limitiations of the advanced queries, and performance testing of the advanced queries.

Gc/Ms And Lc/Ms Approaches To Chemical Communication In Plants And Marine Cyanobacteria, Carolyn Keim

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Natural products are small organic compounds synthesized by living organisms including plants, animals, and microbes. These fall into one of two categories, primary metabolites are required for survival, but secondary metabolites usually play a more accessory role. Extracts from organisms have proven to be useful to humans throughout history. Prior to evidence-based western medicine practices, natural products were the only source of medicine and remain as a treatment source for underdeveloped nations. Today, natural products have either been approved by or have served as the template for many FDA approved drugs. Based on a survey of all FDA approved drugs …

Attitudes About Cybersecurity Articulation Agreements And Transfer Students: A Statewide Survey Of Faculty Members And Advisors, Brian K. Payne, Tracy Vandecar-Burdin, Daniela Cigularova

Sociology & Criminal Justice Faculty Publications

In this study, cybersecurity faculty and academic advisors from community colleges and 4-year universities in the southeast region of the United States completed a survey assessing attitudes about and support for articulation agreements and related transfer policies. Hypothesizing that professional structures shape attitudes and experiences, the researchers conducted an exploratory quantitative study with primarily descriptive analyses. The results reveal differences in attitudes between community college and 4-year stakeholders and between faculty and academic advisors. The results of this study are discussed in relation to faculty and advisor training and communication.

Online Deep Learning From Doubly-Streaming Data, Heng Lian, John S. Atwood, Bo-Jian Hou, Jian Wu, Yi He

Computer Science Faculty Publications

This paper investigates a new online learning problem with doubly-streaming data, where the data streams are described by feature spaces that constantly evolve, with new features emerging and old features fading away. A plausible idea to deal with such data streams is to establish a relationship between the old and new feature spaces, so that an online learner can leverage the knowledge learned from the old features to better the learning performance on the new features. Unfortunately, this idea does not scale up to high-dimensional multimedia data with complex feature interplay, which suffers a tradeoff between onlineness, which biases shallow …

A Synthetic Prediction Market For Estimating Confidence In Published Work, Sarah Rajtmajer, Christopher Griffin, Jian Wu, Robert Fraleigh, Laxmann Balaji, Anna Squicciarini, Anthony Kwasnica, David Pennock, Michael Mclaughlin, Timothy Fritton, Nishanth Nakshatri, Arjun Menon, Sai Ajay Modukuri, Rajal Nivargi, Xin Wei, Lee Giles

Computer Science Faculty Publications

[First paragraph] Concerns about the replicability, robustness and reproducibility of findings in scientific literature have gained widespread attention over the last decade in the social sciences and beyond. This attention has been catalyzed by and has likewise motivated a number of large-scale replication projects which have reported successful replication rates between 36% and 78%. Given the challenges and resources required to run high-powered replication studies, researchers have sought other approaches to assess confidence in published claims. Initial evidence has supported the promise of prediction markets in this context. However, they require the coordinated, sustained effort of collections of human experts …

Predicting League Of Legends Ranked Games Outcome, Ngoc Linh Chi Nguyen

Senior Projects Spring 2022

League of Legends (LoL) is the one of most popular multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) games in the world. For LoL, the most competitive way to evaluate a player’s skill level, below the professional Esports level, is competitive ranked games. These ranked games utilize a matchmaking system based on the player’s ranks to form a fair team for each game. However, a rank game's outcome cannot necessarily be predicted using just players’ ranks, there are a significant number of different variables impacting a rank game depending on how well each team plays. In this paper, I propose a method to …

A Tale Of Two Lakes: An Analysis Of Lake Optics And Their Effects On Turbulence, Guillermo Rode Viesca

Senior Projects Spring 2022

This paper aims to analyze and compare the optic properties which regulate turbulence in Lake Lacawac and Lake Giles and how these conditions change as the lakes warm and darken. Lake Giles and Lake Lacawac are both strongly stratified and have very differ- ent compositions and sizes. Despite their differences, Lake Giles is evolving to resemble Lacawac’s structure and behavior. After analyzing how our two subject lakes change in response to warming and darkening, we asses what such changes are likely to follow in a whole range of lakes represented by Lacawac and Giles in terms of composition and inner …

Fourth-Dimensional Education In Virtual Reality, Jesse P. Hamlin-Navias

Senior Projects Spring 2022

This project was driven by an interest in mathematics, visualization, and the budding field of virtual reality. The project aimed to create virtual reality software to allow users to interact and play with three-dimensional representations of four-dimensional objects. The chosen representation was a perspective projection. Much like three-dimensional shapes cast two-dimensional shadows, four-dimensional shapes cast three-dimensional shadows. Users of the software developed in this project could interact and experiment with these three-dimensional shadows using hand controlled inputs. The hypothesis put forward is that virtual reality is currently the best medium to teach three-dimensional and four-dimensional geometry.

Diffeomorphisms Of Time, Talia Willcott

Senior Projects Spring 2022

According to Newton, time is a consistent and reliable tool used to measure various physical quantities. According to Einstein, time is subjective and dependent on a number of external factors. There are many ways to analyze and bridge the gab between the two theories, one being mathematically. In this project, I examine three specific notions of time by representing time as a line, using projecive geometry to relate the line to a circle, transforming the circle, and analyzing the physical implications of these transformations.

An Analysis Of Long-Term Financial Feasibility Of Higher Education, Jacqueline Boyd Lerman

Senior Projects Spring 2022

This project explores the long-term financial feasibility of higher education. With rising costs of higher education and so many choices surrounding a degree such as degree type, sector of institution one attends, student loans one takes out, and field of study, it can be hard to discover which path will be most profitable long-term. This project analyzes data from the National Center of Education Statistics to see if there are existing relationships between these variables that contribute to different experiences in higher education and financial outcomes, specifically relating to future income and student loan payments. To do this I use …

Metal Nanoparticle Synthesis Via Laser-Induced Photochemical Reduction Of Metal Salts, Laysa M. Frias Batista

Theses and Dissertations

Significant attention has been focused on metal nanoparticles (MNPs) due to their unique optical, catalytic, and electronic properties. In the last two decades, laser synthesis techniques have emerged as versatile routes to MNPs that enable control over particle size, shape, and surface chemistry without the use of chemical reducing agents or surface-blocking capping ligands. A method gaining increasing attention is the direct laser-driven reduction of metal salts, called Laser Reduction in Liquid (LRL). LRL typically involves the use of intense laser pulses of picosecond or femtosecond duration to ionize and dissociate solvent molecules, generating plasmas with reactive chemical species such …

Framework For Sustainable Pastoral Management - Revised Edition, R Fletcher

Natural resources published reports

This Framework for sustainable pastoral management, revised edition (the Framework) describes the contemporary risk-based approach that is now being used within Western Australia (WA) to ensure management of the State’s pastoral estate meets the principles of ecologically sustainable development (ESD). Development of the Framework was undertaken as part of the Pastoral Lands Reform project initiated by the WA Government in response to the Office of the Auditor General’s (OAG 2017) report, Management of pastoral lands in Western Australia. The Framework was developed by DPIRD with input from the Interagency Steering Committee (ISC – which included senior representatives of the WA …

Future Climate Streamflow Estimation In The Donnelly River Catchment, Justin Hughes, Bill Wang

Natural resources commissioned reports

The Donnelly River is located in the south-west of Western Australia. An irrigation development has been proposed in the catchment that would extract water from the Donnelly River and store this in an off stream reservoir for irrigation use. Given the known issues related to non-stationarity and hydrological prediction, the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) contracted CSIRO to review the hydrological model that was used to estimate future climate streamflow in the Donnelly River. This model was owned and operated by the Department of Water and Environmental Regulation (DWER). The CSIRO review of the model, which also …

Analyzing Cough Sounds For The Evidence Of Covid-19 Using Deep Learning Models, Muntasir Mamun

Dissertations and Theses

Early detection of infectious disease is the must to prevent/avoid multiple infections, and Covid-19 is an example. When dealing with Covid-19 pandemic, Cough is still ubiquitously presented as one of the key symptoms in both severe and non-severe Covid-19 infections, even though symptoms appear differently in different sociodemographic categories. By realizing the importance of clinical studies, analyzing cough sounds using AI-driven tools could help add more values when it comes to decision-making. Moreover, for mass screening and to serve resource constrained regions, AI-driven tools are the must. In this thesis, Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) tailored deep learning models are studied …

Continuation Value Computation Using Malliavin Calculus Under General Volatility Stochastic Process For American Option Pricing, Mohamed Kharrat, Fabian Bastin

Turkish Journal of Mathematics

American options represent an important financial instrument but are notoriously difficult to price, especially when the volatility is not constant. We explore the conditions required to apply Malliavin calculus to price American options when the volatility follows a general stochastic differential process, and develop the expressions to compute the continuation value at any time before the expiration date, given the current asset price and volatility. The developed methodology can then be applied to price American options.

Upper And Lower Bounds Of The $A$-Berezin Number Of Operators, Mualla Bi̇rgül Huban

Turkish Journal of Mathematics

Let $A$ be a positive bounded linear operator acting on a complex Hilbert space $\mathcal{H}$. Any positive operator $A$ induces a semiinner product on $\mathcal{H}$ defined by $\left\langle x,y\right\rangle _{A}:=\left\langle Ax,y\right\rangle _{\mathcal{H}},$ $\forall x,y\in\mathcal{H}.$ For any $T\in\mathcal{B}\left( \mathcal{H}\left( \Omega\right) \right) $, its $A$-Berezin symbol $\widetilde{T}^{_{A}}$ is defined on $\Omega$ by $\widetilde{T}^{_{A}% }:=\left\langle T\widehat{K}_{\lambda},\widehat{K}_{\lambda}\right\rangle _{A},$ $\lambda\in\Omega,$where $\widehat{K}_{\lambda}$ is the normalized reproducing kernel of $\mathcal{H}$. In this paper, we introduce the notions $\left( A,r\right) $-adjoint of operators and $A$-Berezin number of operators on the reproducing kernel Hilbert space and prove some upper and lower bounds of the $A$-Berezin numbers of operators. In …

New Extension Of Alexander And Libera Integral Operators, Hatun Özlem Güney, Shigeyoshi Owa

Turkish Journal of Mathematics

Let $T$ be the class of analytic functions in the open unit disc $\mathbb{U}$ with $f(0)=0$ and $f'(0)=1.$ For $f(z)\in T,$ the Alexander integral operator $A_{-1}f(z),$ the Libera integral operator $L_{-1}f(z)$ and the Bernardi integral operator $B_{-1}f(z)$ were considered before. Using $A_{-1}f(z)$ and $L_{-1}f(z),$ a new integral operator $F_{\lambda}f(z)$ is considered. After discuss some properties of dominant for $F_{\lambda}f(z),$ another new integral operator $O_{-1}f(z)$ of $f(z)\in T$ is discussed. The object of the present paper is to discuss the dominant of new integral operators $F_{\lambda}f(z)$ and $O_{-1}f(z)$ concerning with some starlike functions and convex functions in $\mathbb{U}.$

Multivariate Approximation In $\Varphi$-Variation For Nonlinear Integral Operators Via Summability Methods, İsmai̇l Aslan

Turkish Journal of Mathematics

We consider convolution-type nonlinear integral operators endowed with Musielak-Orlicz $\varphi$-variation. Our aim is to get more powerful approximation results with the help of summability methods. In this study, we use $\varphi$-absolutely continuous functions for our convergence results. Moreover, we study the order of approximation using suitable Lipschitz class of continuous functions. A general characterization theorem for $\varphi $-absolutely continuous functions is also obtained. We also give some examples of kernels in order to verify our approximations. At the end, we indicate our approximations in figures together with some numerical computations.

Commutativity Degree Of Crossed Modules, Zekeri̇ya Arvasi̇, Eli̇f Ilgaz Çağlayan, Alper Odabaş

Turkish Journal of Mathematics

In this work, we define the notion of commutativity degree of crossed modules and find some bounds on commutativity degree for special types of crossed modules. Also, we give a function for finding commutativity degree of crossed modules in GAP and classify crossed modules by using this function.

Infinitely Many Positive Solutions For An Iterative System Of Conformable Fractional Order Dynamic Boundary Value Problems On Time Scales, Mahammad Khuddush, Kapula Rajendra Prasad

Turkish Journal of Mathematics

In this paper, we establish infinitely many positive solutions for the iterative system of conformable fractional order dynamic equations on time scales $$ \begin{aligned} &\mathcal{T}_α^{\Delta}\big[\mathcal{T}_β^{\Delta}\big(\vartheta_\mathtt{n}(t)\big)\big]=\varphi(t)\mathtt{f}_\mathtt{n}\left(\vartheta_{\mathtt{n}+1}(t)\right),~t\in(0,1)_\mathbb{T},~1

Limited Frequency Band Diffusive Representation For Nabla Fractional Order Transfer Functions, Yiheng Wei, Yingdong Wei, Yuqing Hou, Xuan Zhao

Turkish Journal of Mathematics

Though infinite-dimensional characteristic is the natural property of nabla fractional order systems and it is the foundation of stability analysis, controller synthesis and numerical realization, there are few research focusing on this topic. Under this background, this paper concerns the diffusive representation of nabla fractional order systems. Firstly, several variants are developed for the elementary equality in frequency domain, i.e. $\frac{1}{s^\alpha} = \int_0^{ + \infty } {\frac{{{\mu _\alpha }( \omega )}}{{s + \omega }}{\rm{d}}\omega }$. Afterwards, the limited frequency band diffusive representation and the unit impulse response are derived for a series of nabla fractional order transfer functions. Finally, an …

Mathematical Analysis Of Local And Global Dynamics Of A New Epidemic Model, Sümeyye Çakan

Turkish Journal of Mathematics

In this paper, we construct a new $SEIR$ epidemic model reflecting the spread of infectious diseases. After calculating basic reproduction number $% \mathcal{R}_{0}$ by the next generation matrix method, we examine the stability of the model. The model exhibits threshold behavior according to whether the basic reproduction number $\mathcal{R}_{0}$ is greater than unity or not. By using well-known Routh-Hurwitz criteria, we deal with local asymptotic stability of equilibrium points of the model according to $% \mathcal{R}_{0}.$ Also, we present a mathematical analysis for the global dynamics in the equilibrium points of this model using LaSalle's Invariance Principle associated with Lyapunov …

A Sequential Fractional Differential Problem Of Pantograph Type:Existence Uniqueness And Illustrations, Soumia Belarbi, Zoubir Dahmani, Mehmet Zeki̇ Sarikaya

Turkish Journal of Mathematics

In this study, a new class of sequential fractional differential problems of pantograph type is introduced. New existence and uniqueness criteria for the existence and uniqueness of solutions are discussed. Some existence results using Darbo's fixed point and measure of noncompactness are also studied. At the end, two illustrative examples are discussed.

On Stability And Oscillation Of Fractional Differential Equations With A Distributed Delay, Limei Feng, Shurong Sun

Turkish Journal of Mathematics

In this paper, we study the stability and oscillation of fractional differential equations \begin{equation*} ^cD^\alpha x(t)+ax(t)+\int_0^1x(s+[t-1])dR(s)=0. \end{equation*} We discretize the fractional differential equation by variation of constant formula and semigroup property of Mittag-Leffler function, and get the difference equation corresponding to the integer points. From the equivalence analogy of qualitative properties between the difference equations and the original fractional differential equations, the necessary and sufficient conditions of oscillation, stability and exponential stability of the equations are obtained.

The Complex Error Functions And Various Extensive Results Together With Implications Pertaining To Certain Special Functions, Hüseyi̇n Irmak, Praveen Agarwal, Ravi P. Agarwal

Turkish Journal of Mathematics

The error functions play very important roles in science and technology. In this investigation, the error functions in the complex plane will be introduced, then comprehensive results together with several nonlinear implications in relation to the related complex functions will be indicated, and some possible special results of them will be next presented. Furthermore, various interesting or important suggestions will be also made for the scientific researchers who are interested in this topic.

On The Blow-Up Of Solutions To A Fourth-Order Pseudoparabolic Equation, Mustafa Polat

Turkish Journal of Mathematics

In this note, we consider a fourth-order semilinear pseudoparabolic differential equation including a strong damping term together with a nonlocal source term. The problem is considered under the periodic boundary conditions and a finite time blow-up result is established. Also a lower bound estimate for the blow-up time is obtained.