Some security issues for web based frameworks

This report investigates whether a vulnerability found in one web framework may be used to find a vulnerability in a different web framework. To test this hypothesis, several open source applications were installed in a secure test environment together with security analysis tools. Each one of the applications were developed using a different software framework. The results show that a vulnerability identified in one framework can often be used to find similar vulnerabilities in other frameworks. Crosssite scripting security issues are the most likely to succeed when being applied to more than one framework

Exploration of Student Success Programs for Freshmen Students on Academic Warning/Academic Probation at The University of Mississippi

Nearly ten percent of the first-year class at the University of Mississippi go on Academic Warning or Academic Probation each semester after their first-full semester at the University. During this time, the student\u27s GPA is below a 2.0, which requires them to take the EDHE 101: Academic Skills for College course, if they plan to return to the University that following Spring or Fall semester (depending on which was their first-full semester). Academic Support Programs, under the Center for Student Success and First-Year Experience oversees this course and several other programs to assist students as they look to return to Good Standing, academically. Another program Academic Support provides for students to use is Academic Consultations, which are one-on-one, 30-minute meetings with a staff member to go over time management, organization, and study skills; with the hope that the student will use this information in their other classes as they study and prepare for exams or other assignments. These two programs have never been paired together and examined to see how effective and efficient they are for assisting students while looking for changes in their GPA during the same semester, with the hopes of bringing them back to Good Standing. This DiP will lay out the plan to do that, as well as look at the future of the program, and the leadership styles of those involved

Transitioning the Local Church from a Rural to Suburban Context

A review of current literature demonstrates that very little material is available to assist pastors and church leaders in transitioning their churches from a rural to suburban context. This project will serve as a tool to assist pastors in leading their churches to transition from a rural to suburban context. Based on demographic studies, an historical analysis, the development of a plan to move the church forward, analyzing potential disruptions, and seeing the end result of the rural to suburban transition, the goal of the project will be fulfilled

The Populist Radical Right in the US: New Media and the 2018 Arizona Senate Primary

This article analyzes the appeal of populist radical right (PRR) politics in the US after the election of Donald Trump. Specifically, I seek to explain how new media helps politicians representing the PRR secure support in Republican primaries. Using an online survey of 1052 Arizona Republicans in the lead-up to the August 2018 Senate primary, I evaluate support for three candidates: Rep. Martha McSally, former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, and Kelli Ward, a physician. The findings highlight a bifurcation in the drivers for support of PRR candidacies: Skepticism of immigration drives the Arpaio vote, while use of social media news and belief in party convergence mobilize Ward’s support. The results demonstrate that support for PRR politicians in the Arizona primary is concentrated in two groups, anti-immigrant and anti-establishment, and that the anti-establishment voters are more likely to access news on social media. These findings indicate that social media news consumption does shape voter perceptions about mainstream parties favorably for the PRR

A Linear, Exponential-Discontinuous Scheme for Discrete-Ordinates Calculations in Slab Geometry

Presented here is a preliminary study of a strictly linear, discontinuous-Petrov-Galerkin scheme for the discrete-ordinates method in slab geometry. By ``linear'', we mean the discretization does not depend on the solution itself as is the case in classical ``fix-up'' schemes and other nonlinear schemes that have been explored to maintain positive solutions with improved accuracy. By discontinuous, we mean the angular flux $\psi$ and scalar flux $\phi$ are piecewise continuous functions that may exhibit discontinuities at cell boundaries. Finally, by ``Petrov-Galerkin,'' we mean a finite-element scheme in which the ``trial'' and ``test'' functions differ. In particular, we find that a trial basis consisting of a constant and exponential function that exactly represents the step-characteristic solution with a constant and linear test basis produces a scheme (1) with slightly better local errors than the linear-discontinuous (LD) scheme (for thin cells), (2) accuracy that approaches the linear-characteristic (LC) scheme (when the LC solution is positive), and (3) is positive as long as the first two source Legendre moments satisfy $|s_1| < 3 s_0$.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures, submitted to 2024 ANS Annual Meetin

Using Supercomputers to Control Multiple Robots

Supercomputers have been a key enabler to many technological advancements. The pipeline to develop capable supercomputer users is years long. Getting started with a supercomputer can be difficult. As a part of the XSEDE EMPOWER Learner program, this research focuses super-computer user development. SWOSU students do not have working code for many of the training modules available for learning supercomputing. This research details the development of these codes based on materials provided by the Nation-al Science Foundation, Shodor Foundation, and National Center for Supercomputing Applications. The result of this research is a better understand-ing of supercomputing training and more tools available to SWOSU students

Pairing OER with Adaptive Learning to Support Non-traditional Learners: Promises, Unicorns, and Barriers

High access institutions face a double challenge in needing to control prices while maintaining high quality learning opportunities. Pairing OER with an adaptive learning system serve both outcomes, but presents its own challenges. This session will describe the efforts at The American Women’s College to leverage the benefits of each technology at scale by eliminating barriers to adoption. This session will introduce the mission, vision, and student demographics of The American Women’s College (TAWC) in order to provide context for a description of the college’s adoption of OER and adaptive technology. Benefits – lower prices for students, personalized learning experiences at scale, improved learning outcomes – will be weighed against challenges – lack of technical standards, need for new business models to evaluate the current return on investment. These challenges compound the baseline barriers to adoption for each technology on its own. The presentation will then turn to describing a variety of methods for overcoming these challenges – strategic partnerships, investigation of OER technical structure, etc. – that have facilitated the successful integration of OER and adaptive learning at TAWC. Future directions will also be shared with the hopes of eliciting cross-institutional collaboration. Attendees will be engaged in a variety of ways. The session will begin with live polls to learn about the attendees and their prior knowledge/experience with OER and adaptive. A back-channel Twitter feed will be used to collect open-ended questions throughout. Time will be devoted at the midpoint and end of the presentation to address these questions. Attendees with an intermediate or advanced knowledge of OER and adaptive will benefit most from this session

Prevalence and correlates of psychopathic traits in the household population of Great Britain

There are no previous surveys of psychopathy and psychopathic traits in representative general population samples using standardized instruments. This study aimed to measure prevalence and correlates of psychopathic traits, based on a two-phase survey using the Psychopathy Checklist: Screening Version (PCL: SV) in 638 individuals, 16-74 years, in households in England, Wales and Scotland. The weighted prevalence of psychopathy was 0.6% (95% CI: 0.2-1.6) at a cut score of 13, similar to the noncriminal/nonpsychiatric sample described in the manual of the PCL: SV. Psychopathy scores correlated with: younger age, male gender; suicide attempts, violent behaviour, imprisonment and homelessness; drug dependence; histrionic, borderline and adult antisocial personality disorders; panic and obsessive-compulsive disorders. This survey demonstrated that, as measured by the PCL: SV, psychopathy is rare, affecting less than 1% of the household population, although it is prevalent among prisoners, homeless persons, and psychiatric admissions. There is a half-normal distribution of psychopathic traits in the general population, with the majority having no traits, a significant proportion with non-zero values, and a severe subgroup of persons with multiple associated social and behavioral problems. This distribution has implications for research into the etiology of psychopathy and its implications for society