19 research outputs found
Easterner, Vol. 67, No. 23, April 13, 2016
This issue of the Easterner contains articles about president Mary Cullinan, Code Blue Stations on campus, changes to the masters program in English, Get Lit!, the Greek system at Eastern, a collaboration between Eastern and ParaSport Spokane on the Wheelchair Relay Challenge Fundraiser, a Club Vegas event during family weekend, football player Kendrick Bourne, a remodel of Reese Court, standout performances by track athletes Sarah Reiter and Kaytlyn Coleman, and men\u27s track victory over the University of Montana.https://dc.ewu.edu/student_newspapers/1916/thumbnail.jp
PromOTing Healthcare Diversity: a diversity initiative for occupational therapy
Occupational therapy (OT) is an allied health profession that works with a diverse population, but the ethnic and racial make-up of OT practitioners does not reflect this diversity. The lack of diversity among healthcare providers has been found to exacerbate healthcare disparities in minority communities. Increasing the number of minority OT practitioners helps decrease bias and improve trust and comfort of minority clients improving health outcomes. Minority students have poor awareness of OT as a viable career option and are limited by social, academic, and financial barriers. PromOTing Health Diversity is an evidence-based pipeline and mentorship program designed to help increase minority student enrollment in OT programs by addressing these barriers. PromOTing Healthcare Diversity utilizes a one-day seminar to educate students on OT, the process of becoming an OT, and resources available, and provides students with hands on community-based OT experiences. Students with increased interest in OT can participate in a mentorship program where they will work with minority OT practitioners to grow personally and professionally as they progress towards admission requirements. Participants of PromOTing Healthcare Diversity will share their knowledge of OT with their social network, which will help to increase awareness of OT as a healthcare resource in the minority community. PromOTing Healthcare Diversity helps to increase minority student enrollment into OT programs and increased minority communities’ awareness of the profession
The B-G News December 8, 1959
The BGSU campus student newspaper December 8, 1959. Volume 44 - Issue 20https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/2509/thumbnail.jp
Superstructure Optimization of Petroleum Refinary Design : Processing Alternatives for Vacuum GaS Oil Produced from Distillation Unit
The objective of this research project is to develop an optimization-based
mathematical model in the form of a mixed-integer linear program (MILP) for
determining the optimal configuration of a petroleum refinery. The optimization
model serves as a decision support system taking into consideration the relevant
engineering knowledge and the past design experience. The scope of work of this
project focuses on the strategies and approaches for the optimal design of a petroleum
refinery configuration for vacuum gas oil processing using mathematical
programming in order to select the most economical and cost-efficient process route.
The approach involves the development of a superstructure representation in which all
feasible processing alternatives and routes for vacuum gas oil are considered.
Subsequently, the associated constraints and a suitable cost minimization objective
function are formulated to arrive at the optimal solution in terms of the optimal
process units to be selected and the corresponding optimal flowrates of the material
streams. Linear yield-based material balances are considered in the model constraints
by obtaining representative yield values from the literature. Logical constraints in the
form of logic cuts for stipulating the selection or no-selection of the process units
(tasks) and material streams (states) are included in the optimization model
formulation to further define the feasible region of solutions based on the relevant
design specifications and the interconnectivity relationships among the nodes of states
and tasks in the superstructure. Computational experiments are carried out by
implementing the model on GAMS. A numerical example with a hypothetical set of
product demands is illustrated, which is solved to optimality using GAMS, resulting
in a practically-viable optimal refinery configuration that agrees well with real-world
scenari
The Archive of Unrealised Devices
Google Patents is an eight-year-old virtual searchable database containing the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the European Patent Office (EPO) patents, with US patent applications dating back to 1790. This searchable online archive of invention, novelty and innovation is a valuable tool for designers and researchers. As a point of departure for recent art-based research, Google Patents online database is mined by me as a creative practitioner. As an artist-hacker, the found material used in my research arises from patent searches for fantastical machines and devices developed to assist with swimming, dating from the 1870s to the early twentieth century. The retrieved patent, etched drawings and information evidence an understanding of a new sport at particular moments in time. However, almost all of these patents remained ‘unrealized’, only contained within the drawing and text of the patent itself. These patents are used as the visual and conceptual basis for The Swimming Machine Archive (2014), a growing body of collages featuring fictional devices for moving through water
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Enhanced root extraction and document classification algorithm for Arabic text
This thesis was submitted for the award of Doctor of Philosophy and was awarded by Brunel University LondonMany text extraction and classification systems have been developed for English and other international languages; most of the languages are based on Roman letters. However, Arabic language is one of the difficult languages which have special rules and morphology. Not many systems have been developed for Arabic text categorization. Arabic language is one of the Semitic languages with morphology that is more complicated than English. Due to its complex morphology, there is a need for pre-processing routines to extract the roots of the words then classify them according to the group of acts or meaning. In this thesis, a system has been developed and tested for text classification. The system is based on two stages, the first is to extract the roots from text and the second is to classify the text according to predefined categories. The linguistic root extraction stage is composed of two main phases. The first phase is to handle removal of affixes including prefixes, suffixes and infixes. Prefixes and suffixes are removed depending on the length of the word, while checking its morphological pattern after each deduction to remove infixes. In the second phase, the root extraction algorithm is formulated to handle weak, defined, eliminated-long-vowel and two-letter geminated words, as there is a substantial great amount of irregular Arabic words in texts. Once the roots are extracted, they are checked against a predefined list of 3800 triliteral and 900 quad literal roots. Series of experiments has been conducted to improve and test the performance of the proposed algorithm. The obtained results revealed that the developed algorithm has better accuracy than the existing stemming algorithm. The second stage is the document classification stage. In this stage two non-parametric classifiers are tested, namely Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) and Support Vector Machine (SVM). The system is trained on 6 categories: culture, economy, international, local, religion and sports. The system is trained on 80% of the available data. From each category, the 10 top frequent terms are selected as features. Testing the classification algorithms has been done on the remaining 20% of the documents. The results of ANN and SVM are compared to the standard method used for text classification, the terms frequency-based method. Results show that ANN and SVM have better accuracy (80-90%) compared to the standard method (60-70%). The proposed method proves the ability to categorize the Arabic text documents into the appropriate categories with a high precision rate
KOMO - KOV
OnLine Card Catalogue drawer 0228 (KOMO - KOV). 1286 cards
Annual Report of the University, 1976-1977, Volumes 1-4
The University of New Mexico again fielded intercollegiate teams in 13 sports in 197&-77 school year. Two individuals won national championships. One athlete won an NCAA Postgraduate scholarship and seven Lobo athletes were accorded All America status. The total of all varsity athletics at UNM drew 411,906 spectators to home events. The basketball team ranked second in the nation in home attendance. Football attendance increased 18 per cent and season ticket sales for football jumped almost 50 per cent. The Lobo football team generated additional revenue by appearing on an ABC telecast against Brigham Young in Albuquerque in November
Annual Report of the University, 1979-1980, Volumes 1-5
Athletics at the University of New Mexico sunk to the lowest of depths in 1979-80, but the turbulent year will also be remembered as the renaissance a rebirth\u27 for the department. Scandal of national magnitude struck the trumpeted Lobo basketball program from all angles. First the NCAA handed down several accusations, followed shortly by an FBI investigation into the altering of player transcripts. Head Coach Norm Ellenberger was terminated and his assistant Manny Goldstein resigned under pressure. Ellenberger is scheduled to go before federal court June 16 on charges of mail fraud, wire fraud and interstate racketeering. UNM attorney Peter Johnstone has compiled an 800-page response to the 92 violations handed down by the NCAA infractions committee and UNM officials are scheduled to meet with the committee in Chicago in July.\u2