Perceptions of Bicycle-Friendly Policy Impacts on Accessibility to Transit Services: The First and Last Mile Bridge, MTI Report 12-10

The coordination of bicycle and transit modes has received close attention from public transit planners and researchers in recent years, as transit agencies around the world have installed bicycle racks on transit vehicles, implemented bicycles-on-trains policies, and made other efforts to facilitate bicycle-transit integration. Many planners presume that the catchment area for transit is enlarged by these efforts, but geographic changes in the size of catchment areas have not been effectively documented. This research project was designed to assess the distances travelled on bicycle by cycle-transit users (CTUs), both those who use bicycles as a means of access to transit stops and stations and those who bicycle to and travel on transit with their bicycles. A mixed-methods approach was employed, using a literature review, a survey of cyclist-transit users in Philadelphia and San Francisco, and telephone interviews with a subset of survey respondents. Responses provided by CTUs in the two cities allow us to define their characteristics and behaviors in detail. What is more, they highlight two intriguing conclusions: that transit catchment areas can be much larger for cycle-transit users than for traditional transit users who access transit buses and rail on foot, and that the very concept of a cycle-transit catchment area is quite complex because of the variety of travel opportunities that cycle-transit coordination policies present transit riders. CTUs take advantage of larger catchment areas to reduce their travel costs, and they use those catchment areas in curious, less predictable and more varied ways

A qualitative inquiry into a child's perspective on parent(s) attending university.

Adult learners return to and participate in post-secondary education, many of whom are parents. Student-parents question the impact of their participation in higher education on their children. To address this issue, an interpretative inquiry explored the shared perceptions of 19 children between the ages of 10 and 13. A free-association, clustering exercise as well as one-on-one interviews allowed the researcher to hear the voice of the children. The study suggested that although the children largely supported their parents' endeavors, did not necessarily "like" their parents attending college. Periodical absences, inattentiveness of parents, and stress in the home contributed to this dissatisfaction. The study suggested several factors that impacted the children. It appeared as if the primary factor was the connection the child felt with the university. The connection to the university was closely associated with the distance the family resided from the university. Children whose parents commuted had little knowledge of the university culture and the individuals involved in that aspect of their parents lives. However, children who were familiar with the university felt as if they were a partner in their parent's education. The study suggested that children also tended to blame the university for stress and other negative factors that occur in the home. When the university is in session, home life is somewhat chaotic, resulting in a stressful environment. When school is not in session, however, home life is more relaxed, with parents using this opportunity to be more in tune with their child's needs. Each of the children interviewed were involved in extra-curricular activities. The study seemed to suggest that extra-curricular activities were used to not only provide the children with adult-supervised activities, but also to provide an opportunity for children to be occupied while parents used their time to study or take care of other tasks. Children further appeared to feel as if there would be an immediate change in their life after their parents' graduation due to implied or promises of more money, new home, and vacations to their children. Various strategies were discussed to better prepare both child and parent for college

Cheating Detection in Online Examinations

In this research, we develop and analyze a tool that monitor student browsing activity during online examination. Our goal is to detect cheating in real time. In our design, a server capture packets using KISMET and detects cheating based on either a whitelist or blacklist of URLs. We provide implementation details and give experimental results, and we analyze various attack strategies. Finally, we show that the system is practical and lightweight in comparison to other available tools

Spartan Daily, October 7, 1994

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Mobile Wound Assessment and 3D Modeling from a Single Image

The prevalence of camera-enabled mobile phones have made mobile wound assessment a viable treatment option for millions of previously difficult to reach patients. We have designed a complete mobile wound assessment platform to ameliorate the many challenges related to chronic wound care. Chronic wounds and infections are the most severe, costly and fatal types of wounds, placing them at the center of mobile wound assessment. Wound physicians assess thousands of single-view wound images from all over the world, and it may be difficult to determine the location of the wound on the body, for example, if the wound is taken at close range. In our solution, end-users capture an image of the wound by taking a picture with their mobile camera. The wound image is segmented and classified using modern convolution neural networks, and is stored securely in the cloud for remote tracking. We use an interactive semi-automated approach to allow users to specify the location of the wound on the body. To accomplish this we have created, to the best our knowledge, the first 3D human surface anatomy labeling system, based off the current NYU and Anatomy Mapper labeling systems. To interactively view wounds in 3D, we have presented an efficient projective texture mapping algorithm for texturing wounds onto a 3D human anatomy model. In so doing, we have demonstrated an approach to 3D wound reconstruction that works even for a single wound image