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Communication-Efficient Federated Learning For Leo Constellations Integrated With Haps Using Hybrid Noma-Ofdm, Mohamed Elmahallawy, Tony T. Luo, Khaled Ramadan
Communication-Efficient Federated Learning For Leo Constellations Integrated With Haps Using Hybrid Noma-Ofdm, Mohamed Elmahallawy, Tony T. Luo, Khaled Ramadan
Computer Science Faculty Research & Creative Works
Space AI has become increasingly important and sometimes even necessary for government, businesses, and society. An active research topic under this mission is integrating federated learning (FL) with satellite communications (SatCom) so that numerous low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites can collaboratively train a machine learning model. However, the special communication environment of SatCom leads to a very slow FL training process up to days and weeks. This paper proposes NomaFedHAP, a novel FL-SatCom approach tailored to LEO satellites, that (1) utilizes high-altitude platforms (HAPs) as distributed parameter servers (PSs) to enhance satellite visibility, and (2) introduces non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) …
Towards Fine-Gained Services: Nfv-Assisted Tracking And Positioning Using Micro-Services For Multi-Robot Cooperation, Bo Yi, Lin Qiu, Jianhui Lv, Yingpu Nian, Xingwei Wang, Sajal K. Das
Towards Fine-Gained Services: Nfv-Assisted Tracking And Positioning Using Micro-Services For Multi-Robot Cooperation, Bo Yi, Lin Qiu, Jianhui Lv, Yingpu Nian, Xingwei Wang, Sajal K. Das
Computer Science Faculty Research & Creative Works
Robotics as a Service (RaaS) emerges as a new paradigm to motivate diversified potential of the "remote-controlled economy" for flexible and efficient service provision with the help of cloud computing. The multi-robot cooperation (MRC) technology has been widely used in various intelligent logistics scenarios, such as warehouses, factories, airports and subway stations, benefiting from the advantages of high operational efficiency and low labor cost. While promising, the corresponding challenge is that the service functions deployed on logistics robots (LRs) are more prone to failures such as resource exhaustion and error configuration in the multi-robot system (MRS). In this way, it …
Resource Aware Clustering For Tackling The Heterogeneity Of Participants In Federated Learning, Rahul Mishra, Hari Prabhat Gupta, Garvit Banga, Sajal K. Das
Resource Aware Clustering For Tackling The Heterogeneity Of Participants In Federated Learning, Rahul Mishra, Hari Prabhat Gupta, Garvit Banga, Sajal K. Das
Computer Science Faculty Research & Creative Works
Federated Learning Is A Training Framework That Enables Multiple Participants To Collaboratively Train A Shared Model While Preserving Data Privacy. The Heterogeneity Of Devices And Networking Resources Of The Participants Delay The Training And Aggregation. The Paper Introduces A Novel Approach To Federated Learning By Incorporating Resource-Aware Clustering. This Method Addresses The Challenges Posed By The Diverse Devices And Networking Resources Among Participants. Unlike Static Clustering Approaches, This Paper Proposes A Dynamic Method To Determine The Optimal Number Of Clusters Using Dunn Indices. It Enables Adaptability To The Varying Heterogeneity Levels Among Participants, Ensuring A Responsive And Customized Approach To …
Personalized Federated Graph Learning On Non-Iid Electronic Health Records, Tao Tang, Zhuoyang Han, Zhen Cai, Shuo Yu, Xiaokang Zhou, Taiwo Oseni, Sajal K. Das
Personalized Federated Graph Learning On Non-Iid Electronic Health Records, Tao Tang, Zhuoyang Han, Zhen Cai, Shuo Yu, Xiaokang Zhou, Taiwo Oseni, Sajal K. Das
Computer Science Faculty Research & Creative Works
Understanding The Latent Disease Patterns Embedded In Electronic Health Records (EHRs) Is Crucial For Making Precise And Proactive Healthcare Decisions. Federated Graph Learning-Based Methods Are Commonly Employed To Extract Complex Disease Patterns From The Distributed EHRs Without Sharing The Client-Side Raw Data. However, The Intrinsic Characteristics Of The Distributed EHRs Are Typically Non-Independent And Identically Distributed (Non-IID), Significantly Bringing Challenges Related To Data Imbalance And Leading To A Notable Decrease In The Effectiveness Of Making Healthcare Decisions Derived From The Global Model. To Address These Challenges, We Introduce A Novel Personalized Federated Learning Framework Named PEARL, Which Is Designed For …
Lease: Leveraging Energy-Awareness In Serverless Edge For Latency-Sensitive Iot Services, Aastik Verma, Anurag Satpathy, Sajal K. Das, Sourav Kanti Addya
Lease: Leveraging Energy-Awareness In Serverless Edge For Latency-Sensitive Iot Services, Aastik Verma, Anurag Satpathy, Sajal K. Das, Sourav Kanti Addya
Computer Science Faculty Research & Creative Works
Resource Scheduling Catering to Real-Time IoT Services in a Serverless-Enabled Edge Network is Particularly Challenging Owing to the Workload Variability, Strict Constraints on Tolerable Latency, and Unpredictability in the Energy Sources Powering the Edge Devices. This Paper Proposes a Framework LEASE that Dynamically Schedules Resources in Serverless Functions Catering to Different Microservices and Adhering to their Deadline Constraint. to Assist the Scheduler in Making Effective Scheduling Decisions, We Introduce a Priority-Based Approach that Offloads Functions from over-Provisioned Edge Nodes to Under-Provisioned Peer Nodes, Considering the Expended Energy in the Process Without Compromising the Completion Time of Microservices. for Real-World Implementations, …
Early Detection Of Driving Maneuvers For Proactive Congestion Prevention, Debasree Das, Shameek Bhattacharjee, Sandip Chakraborty, Bivas Mitra, Sajal K. Das
Early Detection Of Driving Maneuvers For Proactive Congestion Prevention, Debasree Das, Shameek Bhattacharjee, Sandip Chakraborty, Bivas Mitra, Sajal K. Das
Computer Science Faculty Research & Creative Works
Road Traffic Congestion Affects Not Only the Commute Delay but Also a city's overall Social, Economic, and Environmental Growth. Existing Approaches for Road Congestion Mitigation Primarily Adopt a Reactive Approach by Detecting Congestion after It Occurs and Recommending Alternate Routes to the Vehicles, Which Fails to Prevent Congestion Cascading. in Contrast, We Propose a Pervasive Platform Called ProCon that Proactively Infers the Driving Micro-Behaviors that Can Contribute to Congestion Formation and Assist the Drivers in Avoiding Such Maneuvers in Real-Time during the Navigation. Thorough Evaluations over Multiple Real-Life and Simulated Datasets Indicate that ProCon Can Reduce Congestion for More Than …
Uncovering The Causes Of Emotions In Software Developer Communication Using Zero-Shot Llms, Mia Mohammad Imran, Preetha Chatterjee, Kostadin Damevski
Uncovering The Causes Of Emotions In Software Developer Communication Using Zero-Shot Llms, Mia Mohammad Imran, Preetha Chatterjee, Kostadin Damevski
Computer Science Faculty Research & Creative Works
Understanding and identifying the causes behind developers' emotions (e.g., Frustration caused by 'delays in merging pull requests') can be crucial towards finding solutions to problems and fostering collaboration in open-source communities. Effectively identifying such information in the high volume of communications across the different project channels, such as chats, emails, and issue comments, requires automated recognition of emotions and their causes. To enable this automation, large-scale software engineering-specific datasets that can be used to train accurate machine learning models are required. However, such datasets are expensive to create with the variety and informal nature of software projects' communication channels. In …
On The K-Weak Coverage Of Random Mobile Sensors, Sajal K. Das, Rafal Kapelko
On The K-Weak Coverage Of Random Mobile Sensors, Sajal K. Das, Rafal Kapelko
Computer Science Faculty Research & Creative Works
This paper studies the fundamental problem of energy consumption in the movement of mobile random sensors ensuring k-weak coverage on the domain. In particular, we analyze two notions of k-weak coverage on the unit square, namely (1) (k, x)-weak coverage in which every straight-line path across the width of the unit square passes through the sensing range of at least k sensors; and (2) (k, x, y)-weak coverage in which every straight-line path across the width and the length of the unit square passes through the sensing range of at least k sensors. The number of reliable and p-reliable sensors …
Tailored (La0.2pr0.2nd0.2tb0.2dy0.2)2ce2o7 As A Highly Active And Stable Nanocatalyst For The Oxygen Evolution Reaction, Sreya Paladugu, Ibrahim Munkaila Abdullahi, Palani Raja Jothi, Bo Jiang, Manashi Nath, Katharine Page
Tailored (La0.2pr0.2nd0.2tb0.2dy0.2)2ce2o7 As A Highly Active And Stable Nanocatalyst For The Oxygen Evolution Reaction, Sreya Paladugu, Ibrahim Munkaila Abdullahi, Palani Raja Jothi, Bo Jiang, Manashi Nath, Katharine Page
Chemistry Faculty Research & Creative Works
Designing highly active and robust catalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction is key to improving the overall efficiency of the water splitting reaction. It has been previously demonstrated that evaporation induced self-assembly (EISA) can be used to synthesize highly porous and high surface area cerate-based fluorite nano catalysts, and that substitution of Ce with 50% rare earth (RE) cations significantly improves electrocatalyst activity. Herein, the defect structure of the best performing nano catalyst in the series are further explored, Nd2Ce2O7, with a combination of neutron diffraction and neutron pair distribution function analysis. It is …
Perfect Polar Alignment Of Parallel Beloamphiphile Layers: Improved Structural Design Bias Realized In Ferroelectric Crystals Of The Novel “Methoxyphenyl Series Of Acetophenone Azines”, Harmeet Bhoday, Nathan Knotts, Rainer Glaser
Perfect Polar Alignment Of Parallel Beloamphiphile Layers: Improved Structural Design Bias Realized In Ferroelectric Crystals Of The Novel “Methoxyphenyl Series Of Acetophenone Azines”, Harmeet Bhoday, Nathan Knotts, Rainer Glaser
Chemistry Faculty Research & Creative Works
An Improved Design Is Described For Ferroelectric Crystals And Implemented With The "Methoxyphenyl Series" Of Acetophenone Azines, (MeO−Ph, Y)-Azines With Y=F (1), Cl (2), Br (3), Or I (4). The Crystal Structures Of These Azines Exhibit Polar Stacking Of Parallel Beloamphiphile Monolayers (PBAMs). Azines 1, 3, And 4 Form True Racemates Whereas Chloroazine 2 Crystallizes As A Kryptoracemate. Azines 1–4 Are Helical Because Of The N−N Bond Conformation. In True Racemates The Molecules Of Opposite Helicity (M And P) Are Enantiomers A(M) And A*(P) While In Kryptoracemates They Are Diastereomers A(M) And B*(P). The Stacking Mode Of PBAMs Is Influenced …
Does Innovation Facilitate Meeting The Co2 Emission Reduction Targets Of China: A Non-Linear Approach, Yifan Wang, Nadia Doytch, Mohammed Elheddad, Wei Li, Mengna Chi
Does Innovation Facilitate Meeting The Co2 Emission Reduction Targets Of China: A Non-Linear Approach, Yifan Wang, Nadia Doytch, Mohammed Elheddad, Wei Li, Mengna Chi
Ateneo School of Government Publications
China has been implementing energy efficiency and CO2 emission reduction schemes at the provincial level that have been embedded in the National Five Year Plans of the country. We set out to investigate the relationship between R&D expenditures and CO2 emissions in China at the province level in the context of the planned emissions reduction targets. We explore the possibility of the existence of a non-linear relationship between R&D expenditures and CO2 emissions with a non-parametric methodology, a fixed effect panel data quantile (FEQR) regression estimator applied to a panel of 30 provinces. We stratify the sample according to the …
Solar Enhanced Oxygen Evolution Reaction With Transition Metal Telluride, Harish Singh, Taishi Higuchi-Roos, Fabrice Roncoroni, David Prendergast, Manashi Nath
Solar Enhanced Oxygen Evolution Reaction With Transition Metal Telluride, Harish Singh, Taishi Higuchi-Roos, Fabrice Roncoroni, David Prendergast, Manashi Nath
Chemistry Faculty Research & Creative Works
The Photo-Enhanced Electrocatalytic Method of Oxygen Evolution Reaction (OER) Shows Promise for Enhancing the Effectiveness of Clear Energy Generation through Water Splitting by using Renewable and Sustainable Source of Energy. However, Despite Benefits of Photo electrocatalytic (PEC) Water Splitting, its Uses Are Constrained by its Low Efficiency as a Result of Charge Carrier Recombination, a Large overpotential, and Sluggish Reaction Kinetics. Here, We Illustrate that Nickel Telluride (NiTe) Synthesized by Hydrothermal Methods Can Function as an Extremely Effective Photo-Coupled Electrochemical Oxygen Evolution Reaction (POER) Catalyst. in This Study, NiTe Was Synthesized by Hydrothermal Method at 145°C within Just an Hour …
Selected Trace Element Uptake By Rice Grain As Affected By Soil Arsenic, Water Management And Cultivar -A Field Investigation, Eric M. Farrow, Jianmin Wang, Honglan Shi, John Yang, Bin Hua, Baolin Deng
Selected Trace Element Uptake By Rice Grain As Affected By Soil Arsenic, Water Management And Cultivar -A Field Investigation, Eric M. Farrow, Jianmin Wang, Honglan Shi, John Yang, Bin Hua, Baolin Deng
Chemistry Faculty Research & Creative Works
Accumulation of arsenic (As) in rice grain was reported in many regions of the world, including the United States, which has been a threat to human health. This field research investigated the grain As accumulation and its relationship with the uptake of selenium (Se), molybdenum (Mo), and cadmium (Cd) in soils with and without monosodium methane arsonate (MSMA) amended, as effects of selected rice cultivars and water management. Results indicated that MSMA increased the accumulation of As and Se but decreased Mo for all six cultivars under four irrigation management. MSMA also increased grain-Cd in some cultivars. In no MSMA-amended …
Utilizing Suas-Based Remote Sensing For Sustainable Outdoor Recreational Trail Design And Monitoring, Isaac C. Kinder
Utilizing Suas-Based Remote Sensing For Sustainable Outdoor Recreational Trail Design And Monitoring, Isaac C. Kinder
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports
This study utilizes sUAS-based remote sensing and hydrologic models to analyze and predict locations susceptible to water-based trail erosion. Erosion is frequently cited as the most significant environmental impact of trails and often requires costly design and management considerations. A professionally designed trail totaling 4 km in length was segmented based on presence or absence of water-based erosion for analyses and then flown with sUAS technology. Three Logistic regression (LR) models were generated utilizing several hydrologic terrain models of varying resolutions to determine the effects of spatial resolution on the models’ predictive accuracies. Receiver operator characteristics, kappa, and overall accuracy …
Introducing Flexible Assessment Into A Computer Networks Course: A Case Study, Joe Meehean
Introducing Flexible Assessment Into A Computer Networks Course: A Case Study, Joe Meehean
Journal of Mathematics and Science: Collaborative Explorations
With overall positive results and limited drawbacks, I have adapted modern pedagogical techniques to address a common difficulty encountered when teaching a computer networks course. Due to the tiered nature of the skills taught in the course, students often fail unnecessarily. Using mastery learning, competency-based education, and specifications grading as a foundation, I have developed a course that allows students with varied skills and abilities to pass. The heart of this approach is the flexible assessment of programming assignments which eliminates due dates and allows students to have their work graded and regraded without penalty. Flexible assessment also defines an …
Collaborative Leadership For Research Investigating Stem Teacher Preparation Across Many Institutions, Dana P. Franz, Keith Hubbard, Devon Brenner
Collaborative Leadership For Research Investigating Stem Teacher Preparation Across Many Institutions, Dana P. Franz, Keith Hubbard, Devon Brenner
Journal of Mathematics and Science: Collaborative Explorations
This paper describes the creation of a collaborative research team investigating the impacts of education preparation on the recruitment and retention of science and mathematics teacher candidates in rural settings. Our collaborative research includes a core leadership team across 3 institutions and with collaboration across 14 total universities. We discuss the process from the inception through year two of this program, including the structure of leadership, communication techniques with the large group, and efforts to translate this research into scalable action. Using a framework for transdisciplinary research (Hall et al., 2012), we describe the processes and challenges that we encountered …
Mathematical Model For The Role Of Multiple Pericentromeric Repeats On Heterochromatin Assembly, Puranjan Ghimire, Mo Motamedi, Richard Joh
Mathematical Model For The Role Of Multiple Pericentromeric Repeats On Heterochromatin Assembly, Puranjan Ghimire, Mo Motamedi, Richard Joh
Physics Publications
Although the length and constituting sequences for pericentromeric repeats are highly variable across eukaryotes, the presence of multiple pericentromeric repeats is one of the conserved features of the eukaryotic chromosomes. Pericentromeric heterochromatin is often misregulated in human diseases, with the expansion of pericentromeric repeats in human solid cancers. In this article, we have developed a mathematical model of the RNAi-dependent methylation of H3K9 in the pericentromeric region of fission yeast. Our model, which takes copy number as an explicit parameter, predicts that the pericentromere is silenced only if there are many copies of repeats. It becomes bistable or desilenced if …
Light Curve And Hardness Tests For Millilensing In Grb 950830, Grb 090717a, And Grb 200716c, Oindabi Mukherjee, Robert J. Nemiroff
Light Curve And Hardness Tests For Millilensing In Grb 950830, Grb 090717a, And Grb 200716c, Oindabi Mukherjee, Robert J. Nemiroff
Michigan Tech Publications, Part 2
Two different temporal sections of a single gamma-ray burst (GRB) must be statistically similar to show an internal gravitational lensing signature. Here, two straightforward gravitational lensing tests are defined and applied: a light curve similarity test and a hardness similarity test. Gravitational millilensing has been claimed to be detected within several individual GRBs that contain two emission episodes separated by a time-delay. However, our analyses indicate that none of those claims satisfy both tests. The hardness similarity test performed on GRB 950830 and GRB 090717A found that the ratio between the second and the first emission episodes in each energy …
Proof Of The Kresch-Tamvakis Conjecture, John Caughman, Taiyo S. Terada
Proof Of The Kresch-Tamvakis Conjecture, John Caughman, Taiyo S. Terada
Mathematics and Statistics Faculty Publications and Presentations
In this paper we resolve a conjecture of Kresch and Tamvakis.
Open Diameter Maps On Suspensions, Hussam Abobaker, Włodzimierz J. Charatonik, Robert Paul Roe
Open Diameter Maps On Suspensions, Hussam Abobaker, Włodzimierz J. Charatonik, Robert Paul Roe
Mathematics and Statistics Faculty Research & Creative Works
It is shown that if X is a metric continuum, which admits an open diameter map, then the suspension of X, admits an open diameter map. As a corollary, we have that all spheres admit open diameter maps.
Lead Bioaccessibility And Commonly Measured Soil Characteristics (Detroit, Mi, Usa) – Phase 1, Sabrina R. Good, Allison R. Harris, Patrick Crouch, Conor T. Gowan, William D. Shuster, Shawn P. Mcelmurry
Lead Bioaccessibility And Commonly Measured Soil Characteristics (Detroit, Mi, Usa) – Phase 1, Sabrina R. Good, Allison R. Harris, Patrick Crouch, Conor T. Gowan, William D. Shuster, Shawn P. Mcelmurry
Open Data at Wayne State
Contaminated urban soil is one of the major contributors to child Pb exposure. To gain a better understanding of Pb risk in urban areas, composite samples were collected from 142 residential, privately owned, parcels in Detroit, Hamtramck, and Highland Park, Michigan, with approval from the property owners. The proximity of soil sampling and former smelter locations were also reported. Sample were collected from areas covered with turf grass. Four samples were collected, one from each cardinal direction (north, south, east, and west), 20 cm from an aluminum tent stake driven into the center of the sampling site. Soils were collected …
Educators’ Beliefs About Using Academic Acceleration With Gifted Math Students And Others: Barriers And Opportunities, Jason Gorgia
Educators’ Beliefs About Using Academic Acceleration With Gifted Math Students And Others: Barriers And Opportunities, Jason Gorgia
Theses, Dissertations and Capstones
This study examined the perceptions of educators (i.e., math teachers, administrators, and others) for insight into the absence of acceleration as a common pedagogical strategy in mathematics, despite longstanding research supporting the practice for students gifted in math and the interest frequently articulated by policymakers and educators in boosting American K-12 students’ math achievement. Educators from 48 states responded to scale-based and open-ended questions about math acceleration through an online survey where 713 of 818 respondents were teachers, balanced almost evenly among elementary, middle, and high schools, and among urban, suburban, and rural settings. The responses of teachers and non-teaching …
Persistent Relative Homology For Topological Data Analysis, Christian J. Lentz
Persistent Relative Homology For Topological Data Analysis, Christian J. Lentz
Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science Honors Projects
A central problem in data-driven scientific inquiry is how to interpret structure in noisy, high-dimensional data. Topological data analysis (TDA) provides a solution via the language of persistent homology, which encodes features of interest as holes within a filtration of the data. The recently presented U-Match Decomposition places the standard persistence computation in a flexible form, allowing for straight-forward extensions of the algorithm to variations of persistent homology. We describe U-Match Decomposition in the context of persistent homology, and extend it to an algorithm for persistent relative homology, providing proofs for the correctness and stability of the presented algorithm.
Species Distribution Modelling Using Bioclimatic Variables On Critically Endangered Endemic Species (Macrocephalon Maleo) In Sulawesi, Septianto Aldiansyah, Khalil Abdul Wahid
Species Distribution Modelling Using Bioclimatic Variables On Critically Endangered Endemic Species (Macrocephalon Maleo) In Sulawesi, Septianto Aldiansyah, Khalil Abdul Wahid
ASEAN Journal on Science and Technology for Development
The island of Sulawesi isolates migratory fauna from Asia and Australia and creates animal combinations such as the Maleo (Macrocephalon Maleo). The Maleo population is experiencing a downward trend due to habitat fragmentation, deforestation and threats by humans. This study aims to model the potential distribution of Maleo using several famous current and future models as a result of climate change throughout the island of Sulawesi, not only in its natural habitat, but beyond its natural habitat. Bioclimatic variables and in situ attendance data were used in this study. The method used is Maximum Entropy by evaluating the GLM, SVM …
Environmental Impact Assessment Of The Horseshoe Bend Trail Reconstruction, Ian Caldwell, Kathleen Castleberry, Julia Grams, Sascha Knight, Emily Panteleeff
Environmental Impact Assessment Of The Horseshoe Bend Trail Reconstruction, Ian Caldwell, Kathleen Castleberry, Julia Grams, Sascha Knight, Emily Panteleeff
College of the Environment Graduate and Undergraduate Publications
This is an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) on the proposed action of constructing a new section of the Horseshoe Bend Trail along the State Route 542 corridor to Mt. Baker in Whatcom County, Washington. The construction of a new section of trail will renew access to the popular trail, which was washed out in 2021. Impacts to elements of the natural and built environment are examined, with emphasis on riparian and water quality impacts. The proposed action, alternative action, and no action are all considered, along with positives, negatives, and no impacts of each.
Assisted Regeneration Of Threatened Whitebark Pine After Wildfires In North Cascades National Park, Dylan Braund, Clara Magsarili, Ben Molenhouse, Bridget Miller, Zalan Szanyi
Assisted Regeneration Of Threatened Whitebark Pine After Wildfires In North Cascades National Park, Dylan Braund, Clara Magsarili, Ben Molenhouse, Bridget Miller, Zalan Szanyi
College of the Environment Graduate and Undergraduate Publications
This assessment evaluates the environmental effects of seeding whitebark pine seed caches in two burn sites located within the North Cascades National Park Service Complex (NOCA) in Washington State. The goal of these efforts would be to reestablish stands of whitebark pines lost to wildfire.
Environmental Impact Assessment Of Mcglinn-Goat Island Jetty, Sydney Freeman, Sarah Granard, Joey Lane, Ava O’Neill, Malia Thatcher
Environmental Impact Assessment Of Mcglinn-Goat Island Jetty, Sydney Freeman, Sarah Granard, Joey Lane, Ava O’Neill, Malia Thatcher
College of the Environment Graduate and Undergraduate Publications
This environmental impact assessment examines the potential effects of two major fish restoration actions regarding the McGlinn-Goat Island Jetty and the no-action alternative. The goals of these actions are to improve fish passage to/from the N. Fork Skagit River and the Swinomish Channel, important migratory habitat for many salmonid species. This report also investigates potential sedimentation issues arising from alterations to the jetty infrastructure and the potentially deleterious effect of such alterations on maintenance of the Swinomish Channel as a navigable marine passage. This report focuses on analyzing the effects on earth, plants and animals, water, and Transportation. This assessment …
Environmental Impact Assessment Of The Abc Recycling Metal Shredder, Amanda Hogue, Ellysen Mcfarland, Julian Medina-Schroeder, Nico Fotes, Anna Newberry
Environmental Impact Assessment Of The Abc Recycling Metal Shredder, Amanda Hogue, Ellysen Mcfarland, Julian Medina-Schroeder, Nico Fotes, Anna Newberry
College of the Environment Graduate and Undergraduate Publications
The purpose of this Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is to determine the likely effects of ABC Recycling’s proposed metal shredder facility on the natural and built environment. This assessment summarizes negative and positive effects associated with both the proposed and alternative actions. Where appropriate, this assessment provides additional mitigation measures that could be applied to either the proposed or alternative actions. The impacts of ABC Recycling’s proposed action to build a metal shredder facility were investigated with emphasis on the adverse effects on air and water quality, soil and geological conditions, plant and animal habitat, energy and natural resources, and …
Environmental Impact Assessment For Reforestation Of Douglas Fir After The 2023 Sourdough Mountain Fire, Samantha Burgh, Brandon Lankford, Spencer Natario, Mikaela Silva, Maggie Strecker
Environmental Impact Assessment For Reforestation Of Douglas Fir After The 2023 Sourdough Mountain Fire, Samantha Burgh, Brandon Lankford, Spencer Natario, Mikaela Silva, Maggie Strecker
College of the Environment Graduate and Undergraduate Publications
This Environmental Impact Assessment was conducted on account of the extensive damage to site conditions at Sourdough Mountain. The proposed areas of action would focus on National Park lands, within the parameters of Sourdough, that withstood severe, extensive degradation as a result of a wildfire outbreak in Summer of 2023. Deforestation throughout the Skagit basin, with particular focus surrounding Sourdough Mountain, was investigated in relation to critical assessments and analyses of natural and built environmental factors throughout the mountain.
Garbage In ≠ Garbage Out: Exploring Gan Resilience To Image Training Set Degradations, Nicholas Crino, Bruce A. Cox, Nathan B. Gaw
Garbage In ≠ Garbage Out: Exploring Gan Resilience To Image Training Set Degradations, Nicholas Crino, Bruce A. Cox, Nathan B. Gaw
Faculty Publications
Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have received immense attention in recent years due to their ability to capture complex, high-dimensional data distributions without the need for extensive labeling. Since their conception in 2014, a wide array of GAN variants have been proposed featuring alternative architectures, optimizers, and loss functions with the goal of improving performance and training stability. This manuscript focuses on quantifying the resilience of a GAN architecture to specific modes of image degradation. We conduct systematic experimentation to empirically determine the effects of 10 fundamental image degradation modes, applied to the training image dataset, on the Fréchet inception distance …