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Characterizing The Performance And Behaviors Of Runners Using Twitter, Qian He, Emmanuel Agu, Diane Strong, Bengisu Tulu, Peder Pedersen
Characterizing The Performance And Behaviors Of Runners Using Twitter, Qian He, Emmanuel Agu, Diane Strong, Bengisu Tulu, Peder Pedersen
Emmanuel O. Agu
Running is a popular physical activity that improves physical and mental wellbeing. Unfortunately, up-to- date information about runners’ performance and psychological wellbeing is limited. Many questions remain unanswered, such as how far and how fast runners typically run, their preferred running times and frequencies, how long new runners persist before dropping out, and what factors cause runners to quit. Without hard data, establishing patterns of runner behavior and mitigating the challenges they face are difficult. Collecting data manually from large numbers of runners for research studies is costly and time consuming. Emerging Social Networking Services (SNS) and fitness tracking devices …
How Should Power Quality Be Reported?, Victor Gosbell, D Robinson, Victor Smith, Robert Barr
How Should Power Quality Be Reported?, Victor Gosbell, D Robinson, Victor Smith, Robert Barr
Robert Barr
Regulators are increasingly asking utilities to conduct 'quality control' surveys on selected parts of their power system to establish the level of power quality. This activity leads can lead to a vast amount of data and its reporting needs to be carefully thought out if desired insights are to be achieved. Three styles are identified as serving most purposes - Site, Network and Utility reporting. These are designed to give respectively all the data of one site, summary data for each monitored site in the network, and average values across the utility's system. The data analysis to be used in …
Mutagenesis Studies To Investigate Ligand Binding To The Carbon Monoxide-Sensing Heme Protein, Cooa, From Carboxydothermus Hydrogenoformans, Laura Wagoner, Josh Wagoner, Thomas Goyne, Robert Clark
Mutagenesis Studies To Investigate Ligand Binding To The Carbon Monoxide-Sensing Heme Protein, Cooa, From Carboxydothermus Hydrogenoformans, Laura Wagoner, Josh Wagoner, Thomas Goyne, Robert Clark
Robert Clark
The work reported here is part of a larger effort to determine how amino acid residues that compose the heme pockets of gas-sensing heme proteins impact the proteins’ regulation mechanisms and gas specificity. In the present study, we have employed site-directed mutagenesis to prepare protein variants of the carbon monoxide (CO)-sensing heme protein, CooA, from Carboxydothermus hydrogenoformans. These mutants have been designed in an attempt to rationally alter CooA’s effector specificity. We have prepared, isolated, and purified several protein variants to date, including C80T CooA. The C80T substitution is expected to increase the steric bulk on the proximal face of …
Coastal Training Market Analysis: Final Report, Kevin O'Brien, Claudette Robey, Daniel Barasckay, Wendy Kellogg, Michael Tevesz
Coastal Training Market Analysis: Final Report, Kevin O'Brien, Claudette Robey, Daniel Barasckay, Wendy Kellogg, Michael Tevesz
Michael J. Tevesz
A market is emerging for policy makers in the area of coastal resources management. Individuals, as professionals or private citizens, are frequently called upon to make decisions regarding coastal environmental issues. The context in which they do so varies considerably; thus education and training in this topic area serves to heighten and expand the knowledge base of the coastal decision-maker.
Mapping Nominal Values To Numbers For Effective Visualization, Geraldine Rosario, Elke Rundensteiner, David Brown, Matthew Ward
Mapping Nominal Values To Numbers For Effective Visualization, Geraldine Rosario, Elke Rundensteiner, David Brown, Matthew Ward
David C. Brown
Data sets with a large number of nominal variables, some with high cardinality, are becoming increasingly common and need to be explored. Unfortunately, most existing visual exploration displays are designed to handle numeric variables only. When importing data sets with nominal values into such visualization tools, most solutions to date are rather simplistic. Often, techniques that map nominal values to numbers do not assign order or spacing among the values in a manner that conveys semantic relationships. Moreover, displays designed for nominal variables usually cannot handle high cardinality variables well. This paper addresses the problem of how to display nominal …
Gravitational Slingshot , John Dykla, Robert Cacioppo, Asim Gangopadhyaya
Gravitational Slingshot , John Dykla, Robert Cacioppo, Asim Gangopadhyaya
Asim Gangopadhyaya
The slingshot effect is an intriguing phenomenon that has been used effectively by NASA to send spacecraft to outer edges of the solar system. This phenomenon can be satisfactorily explained by Newtonian physics. However, if it is presented as a problem involving four-momentum conservation, the methods of relativistic kinematics easily lead to the conditions necessary for an accelerating as well as a retarding scenario. This problem provides an example that showcases the frequent utility of relativistic methods to analyze problems of Newtonian mechanics.
Magnetic Transitions In Disordered Gdal2, D. Williams, Paul Shand, Thomas Pekarek, Ralph Skomski, Valeri Petkov, Diandra Leslie-Pelecky
Magnetic Transitions In Disordered Gdal2, D. Williams, Paul Shand, Thomas Pekarek, Ralph Skomski, Valeri Petkov, Diandra Leslie-Pelecky
Thomas M. Pekarek
The role of disorder in magnetic ordering transitions is investigated using mechanically milled GdAl2. Crystalline GdAl2 is a ferromagnet while amorphous GdAl2 is a spin glass. Nanostructured GdAl2 shows a paramagnetic-to-ferromagnetic transition and glassy behavior, with the temperature and magnitude of each transition dependent on the degree and type of disorder. Disorder is parametrized by a Gaussian distribution of Curie temperatures TC with mean TC and breadth Δ TC. A nonzero coercivity is observed at temperatures more than 20 K above the highest TC of any known Gd-Al phase; however, the coercivity decreases with decreasing temperature over the same temperature …
New Solvable Singular Potentials , R. Dutt, Asim Gangopadhyaya, C. Rasinariu, Uday Sukhatne
New Solvable Singular Potentials , R. Dutt, Asim Gangopadhyaya, C. Rasinariu, Uday Sukhatne
Asim Gangopadhyaya
We obtain three new solvable, real, shape invariant potentials starting from the harmonic oscillator, Pöschl-Teller I and Pöschl-Teller II potentials on the half-axis and extending their domain to the full line, while taking special care to regularize the inverse square singularity at the origin. The regularization procedure gives rise to a delta-function behavior at the origin. Our new systems possess underlying non-linear potential algebras, which can also be used to determine their spectra analytically.
Inter-Relations Of Solvable Potentials, Asim Gangopadhyaya, Prasanta Panigrahi, Uday Sukhatne
Inter-Relations Of Solvable Potentials, Asim Gangopadhyaya, Prasanta Panigrahi, Uday Sukhatne
Asim Gangopadhyaya
Solvable Natanzon potentials in nonrelativistic quantum mechanics are known to group into two disjoint classes depending on whether the Schrödinger equation can be reduced to a hypergeometric or a confluent hypergeometric equation. All the potentials within each class are connected via point canonical transformations. We establish a connection between the two classes with appropriate limiting procedures and redefinition of parameters, thereby inter-relating all known solvable potentials.
Alcohol Reduction Of Enamines, A. Cook
Alcohol Reduction Of Enamines, A. Cook
A. Gilbert Cook
Primary or secondary alcohols will reduce enamines to their corresponding saturated amines when heated in a microwave apparatus at a temperature of 160 degrees C for a period of one hour.
Making Walkable Communities, Katie Zuehlke
Making Walkable Communities, Katie Zuehlke
Op-Eds from ENSC230 Energy and the Environment: Economics and Policies
There is no doubt that global warming is happening. With all the rage about climate change and global warming people should be doing more about it than just reading about it in the news. We should be making efforts towards making changes on a local level. This in turn could grow to a national level with more and more people participating in the movement and actually make global changes, instead of just talking about it. When the scale of participants grows the scale of the changes made will grow as well and this will be the beginning of the changes …
Gpu Accelerated On-The-Fly Reachability Checking, Zhimin Wu, Yang Liu, Jun Sun, Jianqi Shi, Shengchao Qin
Gpu Accelerated On-The-Fly Reachability Checking, Zhimin Wu, Yang Liu, Jun Sun, Jianqi Shi, Shengchao Qin
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Model checking suffers from the infamous state space explosion problem. In this paper, we propose an approach, named GPURC, to utilize the Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) to speed up the reachability verification. The key idea is to achieve a dynamic load balancing so that the many cores in GPUs are fully utilized during the state space exploration.To this end, we firstly construct a compact data encoding of the input transition systems to reduce the memory cost and fit the calculation in GPUs. To support a large number of concurrent components, we propose a multi-integer encoding with conflict-release accessing approach. We …
All Your Sessions Are Belong To Us: Investigating Authenticator Leakage Through Backup Channels On Android, Guangdong Bai, Jun Sun, Jianliang Wu, Quanqi Ye, Li Li, Jin Song Dong, Shanqing Guo
All Your Sessions Are Belong To Us: Investigating Authenticator Leakage Through Backup Channels On Android, Guangdong Bai, Jun Sun, Jianliang Wu, Quanqi Ye, Li Li, Jin Song Dong, Shanqing Guo
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Security of authentication protocols heavily relies on the confidentiality of credentials (or authenticators) like passwords and session IDs. However, unlike browser-based web applications for which highly evolved browsers manage the authenticators, Android apps have to construct their own management. We find that most apps simply locate their authenticators into the persistent storage and entrust underlying Android OS for mediation. Consequently, these authenticators can be leaked through compromised backup channels. In this work, we conduct the first systematic investigation on this previously overlooked attack vector. We find that nearly all backup apps on Google Play inadvertently expose backup data to any …
Impact Of Nitric Oxide (No) Treatment On The Spectroscopic Properties And Dna Binding Activity Of The Carbon Monoxide-Sensing Heme Transcription Factor, Cooa, Edra Jani, Robert Clark
Impact Of Nitric Oxide (No) Treatment On The Spectroscopic Properties And Dna Binding Activity Of The Carbon Monoxide-Sensing Heme Transcription Factor, Cooa, Edra Jani, Robert Clark
Robert Clark
CooA is a carbon monoxide (CO)-sensing heme transcription factor that regulates CO metabolism in several bacteria including Carboxydothermus hydrogenoformans (Ch). The goal of this research was to investigate the spectroscopic properties and DNA binding activity of Fe(III) Ch CooA that was reacted with NO. Based on electronic absorbance spectra, addition of NO to Fe(III) CooA resulted in the formation of a 6-coordinate (6-C) Fe(III)-NO intermediate species, which slowly converted to a 5-coordinate (5-C) Fe(II)-NO complex. A fluorescence anisotropy assay revealed appreciable DNA binding activity by the 6-C Fe(III)-NO form and lesser activity by the 5-C adduct. DNA binding by 5-C …
Implicit Interest Indicators, Mark Claypool, Phong Le, Makoto Waseda, David Brown
Implicit Interest Indicators, Mark Claypool, Phong Le, Makoto Waseda, David Brown
David C. Brown
Recommender systems provide personalized suggestions about items that users will find interesting. Typically, recommender systems require a user interface that can "intelligently" determine the interest of a user and use this information to make suggestions. The common solution, "explicit ratings", where users tell the system what they think about a piece of information, is well-understood and fairly precise. However, having to stop to enter explicit ratings can alter normal patterns of browsing and reading. A more "intelligent" method is to use implicit ratings, where a rating is obtained by a method other than obtaining it directly from the users. These …
Trends Analysis Of Coastal Training Programs In The National Estuarine Research Reserve System, Claudette Robey, Kevin O'Brien, Kirstin Toth, Daniel Baracksay, Michael Mcgoun, Wendy Kellogg, Michael Tevesz
Trends Analysis Of Coastal Training Programs In The National Estuarine Research Reserve System, Claudette Robey, Kevin O'Brien, Kirstin Toth, Daniel Baracksay, Michael Mcgoun, Wendy Kellogg, Michael Tevesz
Michael J. Tevesz
The National Estuarine Research Reserves (NERRS) Coastal Training Program (CTP) is a system-wide training program that aims to increase informed decision-making related to coastal resource management at local and regional levels. The CTP serves as the NERRS flagship program for knowledge and information transfer, and provides an effective vehicle to ensure that science-based knowledge and skills get into the hands and minds of those individuals making decisions about the coast on a regular basis in a professional or volunteer capacity. At the local level, Reserve staff conducts intensive planning to develop targeted training programs that complement other training efforts within …
Knowledge Is Free (And Statistics Should Be Too): An Introduction To Using “R” In The Classroom, Brendan Morse
Knowledge Is Free (And Statistics Should Be Too): An Introduction To Using “R” In The Classroom, Brendan Morse
Brendan J. Morse
This workshop will give attendees a hands-on introduction to using R, a freely available statistics software package. The focus of the discussion will be on using R in the classroom for basic mathematical and statistical operations that would be covered in an introductory or intermediate statistics course. The benefit of using R in the classroom is that students can download and install the program (and any add-on package) on their personal computers (Mac or PC) for free and work on statistics projects outside of class. Additionally, we will explore an add-on package that creates a point-and-click interface similar to SPSS …
Forbidden Subgraph Characterization Of Bipartite Unit Probe Interval Graphs, David Brown, L. Langley
Forbidden Subgraph Characterization Of Bipartite Unit Probe Interval Graphs, David Brown, L. Langley
David C. Brown
No abstract provided.
A New Approach To Harmonic Allocation For Mv Installations, Victor Gosbell, Robert Barr
A New Approach To Harmonic Allocation For Mv Installations, Victor Gosbell, Robert Barr
Robert Barr
Distributors need to allocate a maximum allowed level of harmonic current to MV customers to keep voltage distortion acceptable. The paper describes a new approach, based on the concept of voltage droop, requiring much less calculation and data than required by the present approach based on an IEC technical report. The discrepancy between the new method and the present is studied by comparing some carefully selected scenarios. It is shown that the proposed method gives results within 20% of the standards-based approach which makes it a very attractive alternative for harmonic allocation.
On Some Aspects Of The Arens-Hoffman Extension Of Banach Algebras, David Brown
On Some Aspects Of The Arens-Hoffman Extension Of Banach Algebras, David Brown
David C. Brown
In this dissertation, we will refer to any commutative algebra over the complex field which possesses an identity e simply as an algebra... This dissertaion deals primarily with algebraic aspects of the Arens-Hoffman extension of a Banach Algebra A and thus builds upon the work of G. A. Heuer, J.A. Lindberg, and Heuer and Lidberg...
An Assessment Of The Coastal Training Program Needs Of The Anerr Region, Claudette Robey, Kevin O'Brien, Kevin O'Brien, Michael Mcgoun, Michael Tevesz
An Assessment Of The Coastal Training Program Needs Of The Anerr Region, Claudette Robey, Kevin O'Brien, Kevin O'Brien, Michael Mcgoun, Michael Tevesz
Michael J. Tevesz
A series of focus groups were conducted throughout northwest Florida to obtain input from coastal decision-makers into the design and development of a coastal resources management training program for the Apalachicola National Estuarine Research Reserve (ANERR). The focus groups were comprised of a cross section of coastal and environmental professionals who make decisions affecting coastal and watershed areas. The focus group decision-makers were primarily employed in the public sector (federal, state, local, governmental, nonprofit, or academic), with nearly half of the participants having between six and 15 years of professional experience.
Expectation Formation In Multi-Agent Design Systems, Dan Grecu, David Brown
Expectation Formation In Multi-Agent Design Systems, Dan Grecu, David Brown
David C. Brown
No abstract provided.
A Knoevenagel Initiated Annulation Reaction Using Room Temperature Or Microwave Conditions, A. Cook
A Knoevenagel Initiated Annulation Reaction Using Room Temperature Or Microwave Conditions, A. Cook
A. Gilbert Cook
An experiment is presented that has the student execute a Knoevenagel initiated annulation reaction. The reaction can be carried out either through use of a microwave reactor or by allowing the mixture to stand at room temperature for two days. The student is then challenged to identify the reaction product through a guided prelab exercise of the synthesis of the Hagemann ester, and then through GC–MS, NMR, and IR spectra of the product. The stereochemistry of the product is determined through the NMR spectrum and the Karplus curve. The student is required to write a mechanism for the reaction.
Some Reactions To Presentations At The 2007 Computational Creativity Workshop, David Brown
Some Reactions To Presentations At The 2007 Computational Creativity Workshop, David Brown
David C. Brown
No abstract provided.
The Klein Water Treatment Facility: Model For The New Superfund Management Strategy – Or- The Importance Of Being In The Wrong Place At The Right Time???, David Brown
David C. Brown
12 pages.
Spectroscopic Study Of Host-Guest Inclusion Complexes, Jenessa Lucas, Jennifer Holt
Spectroscopic Study Of Host-Guest Inclusion Complexes, Jenessa Lucas, Jennifer Holt
Jennifer Holt
A host-guest complex is formed by a host molecule encapsulating a guest molecule within it. The host materials in this study are basket-shaped structures, known as cyclodextrins, which can easily incorporate a variety of guests, such as drug molecules. These inclusion complexes made with cyclodextrins and drugs can be developed to have different release rates within the body. The cyclodextrin can be used to protect the drug until it reaches its destination within the body. This study focuses on Brooker’s merocyanine (BM) as the guest molecule, since it has a similar structure to stilbene-related drugs. UV/Vis and fluorometer spectroscopic studies …
Disorder-Induced Depression Of The Curie Temperature In Mechanically Milled Gdal2, Marco Morales Torres, D. Williams, Paul Shand, C. Stark, Thomas Pekarek, L. Yue, Valeri Petkov, Diandra Leslie-Pelecky
Disorder-Induced Depression Of The Curie Temperature In Mechanically Milled Gdal2, Marco Morales Torres, D. Williams, Paul Shand, C. Stark, Thomas Pekarek, L. Yue, Valeri Petkov, Diandra Leslie-Pelecky
Thomas M. Pekarek
The effect of disorder on the ferromagnetic transition is investigated in mechanically milled GdAl2. GdAl2is a ferromagnet when crystalline and a spin glass when amorphous. Mechanical milling progressively disorders the alloy, allowing observation of the change from ferromagnetic to a disordered magnetic state. X-ray diffraction and pair-distribution-function analysis are used to determine the grain size, lattice parameter, and mean-squared atomic displacements. The magnetization as a function of temperature is described by a Gaussian distribution of Curie temperatures. The mean Curie temperature decreases with decreasing lattice parameter, where lattice parameter serves as a measure of defect concentration. Two different rates of …
An Analysis Of The Anerr Coastal Resources Management Training Market, Claudette Robey, Kevin O'Brien, Daniel Baracskay, Michael Mcgoun, Michael Tevesz
An Analysis Of The Anerr Coastal Resources Management Training Market, Claudette Robey, Kevin O'Brien, Daniel Baracskay, Michael Mcgoun, Michael Tevesz
Michael J. Tevesz
The market analysis for the Apalachicola National Estuarine Research Reserve revealed that there is a diverse body of coastal resources management training providers who offer training in the Florida Panhandle. These organizations are primarily either governmental agencies, or institutions of higher education. Most of them offer this training to various audiences as part of their missions, although a select few offer it as the sole purpose of their organizations.
Detection Of Diabetic Foot Ulcers Using Svm Based Classification, Lei Wang, Peder Pedersen, Diane Strong, Bengisu Tulu, Emmanuel Agu, Qian He, Ronald Ignotz, Raymond Dunn, David Harlan, Sherry Pagoto
Detection Of Diabetic Foot Ulcers Using Svm Based Classification, Lei Wang, Peder Pedersen, Diane Strong, Bengisu Tulu, Emmanuel Agu, Qian He, Ronald Ignotz, Raymond Dunn, David Harlan, Sherry Pagoto
Emmanuel O. Agu
Diabetic foot ulcers represent a significant health issue, for both patients’ quality of life and healthcare system costs. Currently, wound care is mainly based on visual assessment of wound size, which suffers from lack of accuracy and consistency. Hence, a more quantitative and computer-based method is needed. Supervised machine learning based object recognition is an attractive option, using training sample images with boundaries labeled by experienced clinicians. We use forty sample images collected from the UMASS Wound Clinic by tracking 8 subjects over 6 months with a smartphone camera. To maintain a consistent imaging environment and facilitate the capture process …
A Context-Aware Activity Recommendation Smartphone Application To Mitigate Sedentary Lifestyles, Qian He, Emmanuel Agu
A Context-Aware Activity Recommendation Smartphone Application To Mitigate Sedentary Lifestyles, Qian He, Emmanuel Agu
Emmanuel O. Agu
A sedentary lifestyle involves irregular or no physical activity. In this kind of lifestyle, people’s activities do not increase their energy expenditure substantially above resting levels. Long periods of sitting, lying, watching television, playing video games, and using the computer are typical examples. Energy expenditures at 1.0-1.5 Metabolic Equivalent Units (METs) are considered sedentary behaviors. A recent study of sedentary lifestyles found that the length of sedentary times is associated with an increased risk of diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and cardiovascular and all-cause mortality. In this study, we developed a smartphone application called “On11”, which continuously tracks and informs the user …