Frayser Transformation Center: Compassionate Architecture Designed to Foster Community and Family by Strengthening Relationships Between Each

This project explored the use of Compassionate Architecture and its ability to inspire social change within a community. A Transformation Center, which would teach the skills needed to become a sucessful adult, was designed to respond to the lack of transitional and social space for young adults. The Center is a public facility that contains multiple spaces for learning the necessary life skills needed to transition into adulthood. These included many of the skills that are not taught in high school: household skills, family techniques, and community involvement, which are all taught and learned in a communal, hands-on manner. The design of the Center places the communal spaces at its heart and support spaces around them. This arrangement allows the social ties to be created while learning takes place. The end goal of this design allows the transformed teen the opportunity to share their learning with others in the community, therefore helping to create a new, stronger, transformed community with well-prepared adults

Allocating harmonic emission to MV customers in long feeder systems

Previous work has attempted to find satisfactory methods for the allocation of harmonic current emission MV subsystems containing long feeders. It has been proposed that best use of the network\u27s harmonic absorption capacity is made if the allocated current varies with the inverse square root of the harmonic impedance at the point of connection. It has been shown that an exact solution following this principle requires an impracticably large amount of data. Here it is assumed that each feeder supplied from a given substation has its load distributed uniformly and continuously along it, giving equations requiring only a modest amount of data. It is demonstrated by means of a suitable example that the method is sufficiently accurate for practical situations where loads are lumped non-uniformly

Video surveillance for monitoring driver's fatigue and distraction

Fatigue and distraction effects in drivers represent a great risk for road safety. For both types of driver behavior problems, image analysis of eyes, mouth and head movements gives valuable information. We present in this paper a system for monitoring fatigue and distraction in drivers by evaluating their performance using image processing. We extract visual features related to nod, yawn, eye closure and opening, and mouth movements to detect fatigue as well as to identify diversion of attention from the road. We achieve an average of 98.3% and 98.8% in terms of sensitivity and specificity for detection of driver's fatigue, and 97.3% and 99.2% for detection of driver's distraction when evaluating four video sequences with different drivers

Improved conceptual generation and selection with transcranial direct current stimulation in older adults

Normal aging is associated with deficits in various aspects of spoken language production, including idea generation and selection, and involves activity in frontal brain areas including left inferior frontal cortex (LIFG). These conceptual preparation processes, largely involving executive control, precede formulation and articulation stages and are critical for language production. Noninvasive brain stimulation (e.g., transcranial direct current stimulation, tDCS) has proven beneficial for age-related fluency and naming deficits, but this has not been extended to conceptual preparation mechanisms.We investigated whether tDCS could facilitate idea generation and selection in 24 older adults aged 60-80\ua0years. In the first phase, participants completed an idea generation test and a selection test with no stimulation. In the second phase they completed an alternate version of the tests in conjunction with either active or sham stimulation. Active stimulation applied 1-mA anodal tDCS over LIFG for the test duration (10\ua0min).\ua0 Responses were faster following active stimulation than following sham. Furthermore, improvements were specific to test conditions involving novel generation (p\ua0=\ua0.030) and selection (p\ua0=\ua0.001) and were not observed in control conditions for which these mechanisms were minimally involved.\ua0 We concluded that tDCS benefits conceptual preparation mechanisms. This preliminary evidence is an important step for addressing age-related decline in propositional language generation, which is integral to conversational speech. This approach could also be extended toward rehabilitation in neurological patients with deficits in these processes

One-Sided Resonance Problems for Quasilinear Elliptic Operators

AbstractWe present some new existence results for a quasilinear elliptic problem with an unbounded driving force. The quasilinear elliptic operator is assumed to be variational and is such that 0 acts like an isolated eigenvalue with a corresponding eigenfunction which does not change sign. The driving force is further assumed to be in one-sided resonance around the eigenvalue 0, and a solvability condition of potential type is imposed. Variational methods are used to obtain existence. Our results significantly improve earlier results of the authors

Triple Helix, Fall 2018

Table of Contents: Science Agenda: The Politics of Grant Writing / by Kavya Rajesh (p. 4) -- From the Experts / by Katherine Bruner (p. 5) -- 3D Printed Drugs: The Future of Pharmaceuticals / by Ethan Wang (p. 6) -- Computerized Markets: Wall Street Takeover / by James Kiraly (p. 10) -- The Evolution of Fear / by Alisha Ahmed (p. 14) -- ADDing Up / by Victor Liaw (p. 18) -- The Clone Wars / by Jina Zhou (p. 22) -- Physician-Assisted Suicide: Drawing the Line / by Haley Wolf (p. 26) -- Supervised Injection Sites / by Alex Gajewski (p. 30) -- On Emerging Medicalization and Health Care / by Patrick Lee (p. 33) -- The Future of Human Gene Modifications / by Elizabeth Robinson (p. 36)College of Natural SciencesUT LibrariesLiberal Art