cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Augmenting Coastal Georgia’s Fresh-Water Supply while Reducing Local Salt-Water Intrusion into Groundwater Reservoirs
Creators: name: Strickland, Forrest
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2019

description: Fresh water is not a guaranteed resource. Most of Georgia’s fresh-water sources are refilled by rainwater, and any form of drought or decrease in rainfall levels would result in Georgia’s fresh-water supply becoming vulnerable to over-extraction. This would potentially lead to serious issues including monetary losses in industries which require the use of water in their operations. However, another issue with fresh-water loss is that when fresh water does not flow at expected levels towards the Georgia coast, salt-water begins to intrude into the major available fresh-water reservoirs of the coastal region, particularly the Upper Floridian aquifer. This salt-water intrusion is already contaminating the fresh-water supply in the aquifer that the cities of Savannah and Brunswick depend on for fresh-water. While progressive water conservation and reuse methods are already being planned and implemented, production of freshwater, particularly from desalinated seawater and brackish water, should be reconsidered. If the state waits any longer to install such infrastructure, the process could become more difficult and costlier. This capstone project will discuss the need for new freshwater sources, the dangers of saltwater intrusion, and how seawater and brackish water desalination could potentially fulfill this need.
THE STUDY AND DEVELOPMENTAL STAGES OF LINGUISTIC TERMINOLOGY
Creators: name: Tilovova, Guzal
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This article explores the historical development and theoretical foundations of linguistic terminology, highlighting its evolution across different civilizations and intellectual traditions. From ancient Greek and Roman thinkers to Indian, Arabic, and Western European scholars, each cultural context has significantly shaped the systematization and conceptualization of linguistic terms By analyzing these stages, the article emphasizes the importance of linguistic terms not only in theoretical linguistics but also in practical applications like education, translation, and language policy. The comprehensive approach demonstrates that the study of linguistic terminology is both a historical inquiry and a forward-looking scientific endeavor essential for modern linguistics.
A Cross-Sectional Study to Identify Factors Associated with Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis Among Foreign-Born In DeKalb County Georgia During 2008-2018
Creators: name: Egbuonu, Chinedu
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2019

description: Purpose
Tuberculosis (TB) is a significant health problem in foreign-born and accounted for 57% of all tuberculosis cases in the United States in 2006. Almost 20% of American tuberculosis cases are classified as extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB). Epidemiologic evidence suggests that the prevalence of EPTB in the US is declining at a much slower rate than pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB). This study is designed to examine the factors that are associated with the risk of EPTB in foreign-born residents of DeKalb county.
Methods
In this study, data from the Public Health Information Portal (PHIP), an online system from the Georgia Department of Public Health, was used. A cross-sectional study was conducted on US tuberculosis cases reported in DeKalb county from 2008 to 2018, classified as EPTB and PTB. EPTB encompassed lymphatic, pleural, bone and/or joint, genitourinary, meningeal, peritoneal, and unclassified EPTB cases. The data include demographic information, lifestyle variables, and clinical characteristics of the study subjects. Demographic characteristics and risk factors, including human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) status, were compared across TB status (EPTB vs. PTB).
Results
Foreign-born participants with HIV positive status, homelessness and IV drug users had a much higher chance of developing EPTB.
Conclusion
Awareness of the risk of extrapulmonary tuberculosis may help in developing a prevention strategy among foreign-born.
Brown tumours (ECR 2016 Case of the Day)
Creators: name: Snoj, Ziga
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Musculoskeletal bone
subject: CT
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: MR
subject: PET-CT
subject: Plain radiographic studies
subject: Comparative studies
subject: Endocrine disorders

description: Clinical History Image Findings Discussion Find Diagnosis Differential Diagnosis
description: female, 58 years
description: Clinical History: A 58-year-old female patient felt a bulge on the right lingual side of her lower jaw interfering for the past 6 months with a dental prosthesis position. Shortly after, she noted a moderately painful lump at the distal part of her right lower leg. She was... Final Diagnosis: Multiple brown tumours in primary hyperparathyroidism
Strategies in Maintaining Financial Sustainability of National Health Insurance Under A Single-payer System in Indonesia, Taiwan, and Canada: A Comparative Study
Creators: name: Budiman, Arif
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2020

description: Health care is one of the basic human needs and also human rights, which relate directly to determining ones’ quality of life. In the past decades, health care advances, demographic shifting, and health-related lifestyle have been influencing the demand and supply of healthcare in every country. Some people have been struggling and sometimes became poor because they should pay for their health care services. Thus, most countries have been developing universal health coverage, which design to protect peoples’ financial burden as well as furnishing a better quality of care for its population.
Designing and maintaining a single-payer public healthcare system is complicated and requires multiple cooperation from stakeholders. Indonesia, Taiwan, and Canada are among countries that implemented this particular system. One of the fundamental elements in administering this type of scheme is financial sustainability, which frequently tends to be a problem since it requires commitment from the government as the payer, healthcare facilities as the provider, and also the population as the user.
Lesson learned from the three countries has shown that there are at least three components that ensure the financial sustainability of social health insurance under a single-payer system. First, a sufficient amount of revenue collected to finance health expenditure. Particularly for Indonesia, premium structure and calculation possibly become a significant concern when compared to Taiwan National Health Insurance (NHI). Second, the implementation of adequate prospective payments such as global health and the arrangement of co-payment. Third, designed and supporting systems such as innovation through a health information system and the strong commitment from boards or committees explicitly designed to support the performance of NHI.
Cardiac sarcoidosis (ECR 2016 Case of the Day)
Creators: name: Buckley, Orla
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Cardiovascular system
subject: Lung
subject: Lymph nodes
subject: CT
subject: MR
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Haemodynamics / Flow dynamics
subject: Pathology

description: Clinical History Image Findings Discussion Find Diagnosis Differential Diagnosis
description: male, 33 years
description: Clinical History: A 33-year-old male patient presented with syncopal episode. Final Diagnosis: Cardiac Sarcoidosis
Youth Vaping: An Analysis of an Epidemic
Creators: name: Kilpatrick, Tina
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2020

description: 


Youth use of e-cigarettes has reached epidemic proportions. In 2019, 5.4 million youth and young adults were current e-cigarette users. This represents 27.5% of high school youth and 10.5% of middle school youth reporting current e-cigarette use. Comparatively, only 3.2% of US adults were current e-cigarette users in 2018.
Many factors have contributed to the rise in prevalence of youth vaping, including: marketing tactics employed by e-cigarette companies; e-cigarette product design; and the generational values of youth and young adults themselves. In this paper, these specific factors are addressed and their influence on the youth vaping epidemic is explored. The Social Cognitive Theory is used as a theoretical framework to elaborate on the relationship between youth tobacco use and social constructs. Current data are presented on e-cigarette use and used to inform recommendations to combat rising youth and young adult prevalence rates.
Findings suggest that national tobacco prevention and education campaigns are successful in changing tobacco use attitudes and behavior among youth and young adults. Campaigns should address deceitful tobacco company marketing tactics that have misguided the public as well as the technological appeal of e-cigarettes. Additionally, policies that address flavors and restrict use of e-cigarettes in schools and other locations are also discussed.
Supplementary document for Data transmission with up to 100 orbital angular momentum modes via commercial multi-mode fiber and parallel neural networks - 5872210.pdf
Creators: name: Feng, Fu
name: Gan, Jia-An
name: Nong, Jinpeng
name: Chen, Peng-Fei
name: Chen, Guangyong
name: Min, Changjun
name: Yuan, Xiaocong
name: Somekh, Michael
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: revised supplementary
Fiscalité de Transmission d'entreprise : Quel impact sur la valeur de l'entreprise ?
Creators: name: EL KHAMLICHI, Bouchra
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Fiscalité ; Evaluation de l'entreprise ; Transmission d'entreprise ; Valeur de l'entreprise.

description: L’évaluation de l’entreprise est un exercice complexe et obligatoire, dans des contextes différents de la vie de l’entreprise, et notamment dans le cadre des opérations de transmission. En effet, tout transfert de propriété nécessite de disposer d’une valeur, qui va servir de base pour la détermination du prix de cession,  et qui permet de justifier des positions comptables, et fiscales qui découlent de ces opérations. Dans ce sens de très nombreuses recherches dans la littérature financière, montrent qu’il existe des effets de la fiscalité sur la valeur de l’entreprise. L’objectif de cette recherche, est de présenter sur le plan théorique la relation entre la fiscalité et la valeur de l’entreprise. Ensuite, sur le plan empirique, une étude a été faite sur un échantillon de cinquante entreprises marocaines, pour montrer l’impact de la fiscalité de transmission, sur l’évaluation de la valeur des entreprises.
Georgia’s Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation Prevention Technical Assistance Resource Guide (TARG) Evaluation Report
Creators: name: Oginga, Maureen
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2020

description: Georgia is the 35th state to pass a version of Erin’s Law, a law that requires all public schools to implement a prevention-oriented child sexual abuse program that is directed at students, school personnel, parents, and guardians. Critical components of Erin’s Law were used to revise Georgia’s Quality Basic Education Act (Code Section 20-2-143), which relates to student sex education and AIDS prevention instruction. Currently, the most comprehensive tool educators have available to them to implement this law is the Georgia Child Sexual Abuse Technical Assistance Resource Guide (TARG), which was published by the Georgia Statewide Human Trafficking Task Force Workgroup titled Youth Aware and Safe. Through this capstone project, the TARG was evaluated. The purpose of this evaluation was two-fold: (1) to provide the Human Trafficking Task Force with recommendations to update the TARG and (2) to provide best practices for the implementation of Georgia’s sexual abuse mandate related to providing annual, age-appropriate sexual abuse and assault awareness and prevention education to students in kindergarten through grades 9.
A NEW HYPERCHAOTIC SYSTEM WITH COEXISTING ATTRACTORS: ITS CONTROL, SYNCHRONIZATION AND SECURE COMMUNICATION
Creators: name: IJCCMS
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: A new hyperchaotic system with coexisting attractors based on Sprott B chaotic system is proposed in thiswork. A novel feature of this new hyperchaotic system under investigation is that it has two-wing and fourwing coexisting attractors for two sets of different initial conditions. Thus, the new hyperchaotic system hashidden attractors. Interestingly, the proposed designed control functionu (t)iusing adaptive controlmethod was able to control and globally synchronizes two identical new hyperchaotic systems evolvingfrom different initial conditions with uncertain parameters. The adaptive synchronization scheme wasapplied to secure communication. Finally, the numerical simulation results presented demonstrated theeffectiveness of the analytical results of the designed scheme.
Aligning the Georgia Child Abuse & Neglect Prevention Plan with Governor Kemp's Priorities and Initiatives
Creators: name: Jennings, Taylor
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2020

description: This work is a comprehensive issue brief outlines the causes and consequences of child abuse and neglect, how the Georgia Child Abuse & Neglect Plan provides guidance to address those problems, and how child- and family-serving providers and community leaders can operationalize the plan. The purpose of the brief is to align objectives of the Child Abuse & Neglect Plan with the Governor’s Priorities to implement prevention in all sectors throughout the state to create safe, stable, nurturing relationships and environments.
The Role of Policy in Preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and Childhood Trauma in Georgia
Creators: name: Andrews, Hallie
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2020

description: Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are potentially traumatic events that occur during childhood including experiencing abuse, household disfunction, and neglect. ACEs are exacerbated by social inequities and have an intergenerational impact. Conversations around ACEs are shifting from data collection to prevention strategies. This capstone will focus on policy strategies for preventing ACEs using the World Health Organization’s “Conceptual Framework for Action on the Social Determinants of Health” and the Center for Disease Control’s “Essentials for Childhood” framework. Policy strategies for preventing ACEs in Georgia include (1) ensuring housing stability for families and (2) expanding healthcare access.
AN ORGANIC NEURAL CIRCUIT: TOWARDS FLEXIBLE AND BIOCOMPATIBLE ORGANIC NEUROMORPHIC PROCESSING
Creators: name: Hosseini, Mohammad Javad Mirshojaeian
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 400901
subject: Analog electronics and interfaces
classificationCode: 400908
subject: Microelectronics
classificationCode: 400802
subject: Electrical circuits and systems
classificationCode: 401806
subject: Nanomanufacturing
classificationCode: 401802
subject: Molecular and organic electronics

description: Neuromorphic computing endeavors to develop computational systems capable of emulating the brain’s capacity to execute intricate tasks concurrently and with remarkable energy efficiency. By utilizing new bioinspired computing architectures, these systems have the potential to revolutionize high-performance computing and enable local, low-energy computing for sensors and robots. Organic and soft materials are particularly attractive for neuromorphic computing as they offer biocompatibility, low-energy switching, and excellent tunability at a relatively low cost. Additionally, organic materials provide physical flexibility, large-area fabrication, and printability.This doctoral dissertation showcases the research conducted in fabricating a comprehensive spiking organic neuron, which serves as the fundamental constituent of a circuit system for neuromorphic computing. The major contribution of this dissertation is the development of the organic, flexible neuron composed of spiking synapses and somas utilizing ultra-low voltage organic field-effect transistors (OFETs) for information processing. The synaptic and somatic circuits are implemented using physically flexible and biocompatible organic electronics necessary to realize the Polymer Neuromorphic Circuitry. An Axon-Hillock (AH) somatic circuit was fabricated and analyzed, followed by the adaptation of a log-domain integrator (LDI) synaptic circuit and the fabrication and analysis of a differential-pair integrator (DPI). Finally, a spiking organic neuron was formed by combining two LDI synaptic circuits and one AH synaptic circuit, and its characteristics were thoroughly examined. This is the first demonstration of the fabrication of an entire neuron using solid-state organic materials over a flexible substrate with integrated complementary OFETs and capacitors.
SZTU-CMU at MER2024: Improving Emotion-LLaMA with Conv-Attention for Multimodal Emotion Recognition
Creators: name: Cheng, Zebang
name: Tu, Shuyuan
name: Huang, Dawei
name: Li, Minghan
name: Peng, Xiaojiang
name: Cheng, Zhi-Qi
name: Hauptmann, Alexander G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Multimedia (cs.MM)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: This paper presents our winning approach for the MER-NOISE and MER-OV tracks of the MER2024 Challenge on multimodal emotion recognition. Our system leverages the advanced emotional understanding capabilities of Emotion-LLaMA to generate high-quality annotations for unlabeled samples, addressing the challenge of limited labeled data. To enhance multimodal fusion while mitigating modality-specific noise, we introduce Conv-Attention, a lightweight and efficient hybrid framework. Extensive experimentation vali-dates the effectiveness of our approach. In the MER-NOISE track, our system achieves a state-of-the-art weighted average F-score of 85.30%, surpassing the second and third-place teams by 1.47% and 1.65%, respectively. For the MER-OV track, our utilization of Emotion-LLaMA for open-vocabulary annotation yields an 8.52% improvement in average accuracy and recall compared to GPT-4V, securing the highest score among all participating large multimodal models. The code and model for Emotion-LLaMA are available at https://github.com/ZebangCheng/Emotion-LLaMA.
description: Ranked 1st in MER24@IJCAI and MRAC24@ACM MM (MER-NOISE & MER-OV (self-evaluated))
title: Twenty-Fifth Annual Commencement of the State Normal School
title: Annual Commencement
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: State Normal School
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 1928
Subjects: subject: State Normal School
subject: Commencement ceremonies

description: Commencement program for June 11, 1928, which may include written corrections and annotations. While every effort is made to ensure accuracy in  commencement programs, printing deadlines sometimes prevent inclusion of candidates' names or may result in the use of names of persons not completing graduation requirements.
StayNeighbor: Community Platform for Essential Supplies and Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Creators: name: Archbold, Samuel
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2020

description: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (Covid-19) is a novel coronavirus that first emerged in December of 2019 in Wuhan, China. Since its emergence it has rapidly spread across the world and has left nations struggling to develop containment and prevention strategies. A chief strategy in fighting this pandemic has been the implementation of shelter in place orders aimed at lowering the incidence of COVID-19 to reduce strain on medical infrastructure. As COVID-19 continues to spread, people with non-severe cases will be quarantined in their homes, high risk individuals must practice extreme social distancing and isolation measure, and many will be out of work. People will inevitably run out of food and supplies and may find themselves without the means or resources to acquire what they need. In order to identify these needs and connect them to resources, StayNeighbor was created in conjunction with Crisis Cleanup to provide a logistical support tool for organizations and individuals so that they may divert resources where they are needed most. This is accomplished through a fully functional browser-based web app that allows anyone to request goods and services. This creates a centralized location of aggregated needs that is accessible to community organizations and agencies with the capacity to fulfill those needs, as well as coordinate the delivery of the required goods/services. StayNeighbor is an entirely volunteer made, open source tool that is available to any organization, agency and/or individual.
Healthcare for All: Achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC) through the Strengthening of Health Systems
Creators: name: Kaba, Diene
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2020

description: 
The Sustainable Development Goal (SDGs) number three aims to achieve good health and well-being. In order to achieve SDG3, WHO has identified many health targets including the achievement of Universal Healthcare Coverage (UHC). National Public Health Institutes (NPHIs) serve as the focal point for a country’s public health activities.  Without an NPHI, public health activities can be fragmented with responsibility spread across multiple entities. This can lead to inefficiency, a lack of leadership and accountability, and ultimately, a reduced impact of programs. NPHI coordination of public health functions strengthens health systems and public health infrastructure overall.  The goal of this capstone is to discuss the link between NPHIs, health system strengthening efforts, and UHC, and specifically, how having a strong NPHI contributes to UHC.
Research Proposal: COVID-19 Pandemic and Birth Experiences: Describing the Relationship Between Policies and the Birth Experiences of Georgia Mothers
Creators: name: Thornburgh, Katherine
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2021

description: INTRODUCTION: A pandemic such as COVID-19 increases stress during pregnancy or early development that can have an adverse effect on the health of an individual. Additionally, COVID-19 affects pregnancy and birth experiences by reducing the number of support personnel and the number of in-person appointments, and possibly potentially separating mother and newborn in the case of a suspected or confirmed COVID-19 status.
The purpose of this capstone is to present a compelling research proposal titled, “COVID-19 Pandemic and Birth Experiences: Describing the Relationship Between Policies and the Birth Experiences of Georgia Mothers” with the following aims:
Specific Aim 1: Describe mothers’ perspectives of COVID-19 policies on their birth experiences and birth plans. To meet this aim, a semi-structured interview will be conducted that inquires on the changes made to mothers’ intended birth plan and how COVID-19 policies affected mothers’ birth experiences—both negatively and positively.
Specific Aim 2: Describe mothers’ perceptions of fair and equitable treatment during pregnancy. To meet this aim, a semi-structured interview will be given to respondents that inquires on personal perceptions of fair and equitable treatment. To meet this aim, respondents will be asked if they felt that all of their questions regarding their pregnancy were being answered, if they felt adequately prepared for labor and post-partum care, and whether they felt their birth experiences met their expectations.
This qualitative data will describe general themes in perception of quality of care and equitable care for various racial, socioeconomic, and insurance coverage status groups.
METHODS: A descriptive, cross-sectional study will be conducted in Georgia, statewide, to describe mothers’ perspectives of COVID-19 policies on their birth experiences, birth plans, and their perceptions of fair and equitable treatment during pregnancy, labor and delivery and post-partum. The study sample will be acquired via an adapted State Electronic Notifiable Disease Surveillance System (SENDSS) case investigation form. Semi-structured interviews will be conducted.
Policy Recommendations to Address Disproportionate Health Outcomes Caused by Healthy Food Access in Relation to Housing Districts Segregated by Class and Race
Creators: name: Quarcoo, Roselyn
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2021

description: Negative health outcomes among low-income racial and ethnic minorities are related to geographic location, socioeconomic status (SES), and a lack of resources. Areas mostly composed of racial and ethnic minorities are disproportionately affected by a lack of food access in surrounding areas. Districts that house low-income populations are commonly surrounded by convenient and snack stores, which facilitates access to unhealthy food, and subsequently to the prevalence of obesity and cardiovascular disease. Understanding the significance of this relationship is essential for efforts in prevention, as well as the alleviation of health disparities. The report displays the relevant resources and data involved in creating prevention programs and detail several policy interventions that employ evidence-based methods for improving the health outcomes of low-income and/or racial and ethnic minorities living in food deserts.
THE IMPACT OF THE ENRICHMENT IN ARABIC LANGUAGE ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS AMONG 5TH GRADE POTENTIALLY GIFTED ARABIC STUDENTS
Creators: name: YASMEEN NZAM ABU MUKH
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: EPoC, Potential Creativity, Critical Thinking Skills, Enrichment Program.

description: Abstract

This study aimed to examine the extent of the contribution of the enrichment program in the subject of the Arabic language to enabling 5th grade students with potentiality creative to possess thinking skills within the framework of critical thinking in the city of Nazareth. The study sample was a convenience sample consisted of 56 male and female students with potentiality creative from the 5th grade from Bir Al-Amir School in the city of Nazareth. The sample was divided into two equal groups, an experimental group that studied the Arabic language using the enrichment program, and a control group that used the traditional approach. The study tools consisted of an Evaluation of Potential Creativity Test (EPoC), and a test that measures thinking skills within the critical thinking framework. The validity and reliability of both tools were verified. The researcher used the associated one-way analysis of variance (ANCOVA) to answer the study questions. Findings indicated the existence of a significant statistical difference at the significance level (α≤0.05) between the means of the two study groups of students regarding the thinking skills test in the framework of critical thinking. This difference was in favor of the experimental group and is due to the enrichment program that was employed in the study. The results also showed that there were statistically significant gender differences in favor of females in terms of the contribution of the Arabic language enrichment program to enabling students with potential creativity in the experimental group to acquire thinking skills within the critical thinking framework. The study recommends the necessity of employing the (EPoC) diagnosis  as a globally approved approach in the rapid survey and accurate diagnosis of potential creativity of students, in addition to using scales for rating the behavioral characteristics of superior students (SRBCSS), and academic achievement of gifted students in addition to qualifying teachers to use the (EPoC) diagnosis  to accurately identify the characteristics of gifted students so as to better understand and nurture gifted students.
Supplementary document for Data transmission with up to 100 orbital angular momentum modes via commercial multi-mode fiber and parallel neural networks - 5872210.pdf
Creators: name: Feng, Fu
name: Gan, Jia-An
name: Nong, Jinpeng
name: Chen, Peng-Fei
name: Chen, Guangyong
name: Min, Changjun
name: Yuan, Xiaocong
name: Somekh, Michael
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: revised supplementary
Photonics Systems for High Performance – CPO, Towards Photonics Chiplets Slides
Creators: Tolga Tekin
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2024

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Abstract: A major hurdle in developing next-generation systems for high-performance applications and industries that require handling large, secure data - such as System-in-Package (SiP) and System-on-Chip (SoC) - is the absence of low-latency, high-bandwidth, and high-density off-chip/chiplet/core interconnects. Achieving high-bandwidth chip-to-chip (or chiplet-to-chiplet) communication using electrical interconnects faces challenges like high substrate dielectric losses, reflections, impedance discontinuities, and susceptibility to crosstalk. This underscores the motivation to adopt photonics to address these challenges and enable low-latency, high-bandwidth communication. The objective is to develop a CMOS-compatible technology to support the next-generation photonic layer within 3D SiP/SoC, moving towards converged microsystems.
Georgia Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC) Resource and Protocol Guide
Creators: name: Williams, Sanon
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2021

description: The commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) is a heinous and illegal act against children that negatively impacts youth across the world. It robs them of their innocence and increases their risk for psychological, developmental, and physical issues later in life. CSEC is a significant issue in the State of Georgia. Georgia has been identified as having one of the highest CSEC rates and economies in the United States. Many risk factors put youth at risk for commercial sexual exploitation. Child and family support agencies, law enforcement, schools, and the general public must be aware of them to combat CSEC. This paper aimed to create a comprehensive document to help those who work closely with children and families understand CSEC's complexities and address it in Georgia. This capstone paper provides an overview of what CSEC is, the prevalence of the issue, pathways to CSEC, recruiting tactics, information on Georgia’s new CSEC response team, responses from professionals within the field, and policy recommendations for next steps as the state moves forward in addressing this issue.
Analysis of Loss of Work during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States
Creators: name: Shah, Mira
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2021

description: A multiple logistic regression was performed to predict the likelihood of work loss due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States based on predictors from the 2020 U.S. Census Bureau Household Pulse Survey. The nine predictors included week (time period), birth year, number of children, number of adults, sex, race, Hispanic origin, educational attainment, and marital status. The purpose of the study is to estimate if there is a difference in work loss status at the beginning of the pandemic and at the end of 2020. The results of the model showed that an increase in time since the start of the pandemic has led to increased odds of job loss. This makes sense because the unemployment rate has remained high. All predictors in the model were significant. Females, Hispanics, and Blacks have higher odds of job loss (0.7%, 29.9%, and 30.3%, respectively). Those who are younger and who have not graduated high school have higher odds for loss of work. Certain demographic groups are more likely to have a loss of work, and measures need to be taken to prevent this disparity. Also, because there was missing data in the survey results, multiple imputation was used to analyze 10% of the original sample. These results were not entirely comparable to the estimates using the entire original sample, but the multiple imputation procedure did show that the estimates were different.
Comparing Water Quality Data of Atlanta's Sewage Overflows and Spills
Creators: name: Pirlot, Bonnie
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2021

description: 



The city of Atlanta, Georgia has experienced high-volume and reoccurring sewer spills over the past ten years; these spills are documented, and the locations made publicly available. With Atlanta’s sewer system aging and large sections both undergoing and still in need of repair, it is likely that sewer spills may continue to occur and have the potential to go undetected if finding them depends on being visible. These spills jeopardize the quality of water, human health, recreational waterways, nature, and aquatic life. We have ongoing research attempting to proactively identify sewage spills by monitoring urban surface waters for spikes in numbers of E. coli. To help determine if E. coli spikes are indicators of sewage traveling from infrastructure points (pipes, manholes, pump stations) to surface water, this study directly observed terrain where past sewage spills occurred. It examined the relationship between sites of sewage spills, their documented location in city records, the contaminated waterway documented in city records, their sewer system sources, and their proximity to neighboring creeks. In this study, public data from the City of Atlanta was gathered and sorted based on date, time, volume of sewage in gallons, and impacted waterways. This project collected detailed data on a subset of sites that had documented sewage spills, including spill source, terrain type, proximity to surface water, and other characteristics. The results of this study suggest that Peachtree Creek and neighboring residents and wildlife may be at high risk for sewer spill related contamination. Although the City of Atlanta has funded billions of dollars towards addressing the aging and complex city sewer system, methods are still needed to proactively identify and prevent spills that affect the health of city residents, wildlife, and aquatic life.
Examining United States Drug Policy from 2010-2021: A Qualitative Summation Using PEST Framework Model
Creators: name: Nunes, Izadora
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2021

description: INTRODUCTION:  The war on drugs, initially started in 1971, has caused long-lasting effects on the criminal justice system and public health. Despite these effects and calls for reform, forces in charge have resisted changing current drug policies.
AIM: As the conversation surrounding United States drug policies has changed to be more tolerant among the general population, policymakers have been resistive to change, and ineffective policies continue. The aim of this capstone is to synthesize scientific drug policy literature and provide a summative perspective on the impacts and challenges to improve them.
METHODS: A qualitative summation using PEST (political, economic, social, and technological/types) framework criteria of peer-reviewed articles that describes current drug policies within the United States and other countries of relevance, the impact that these policies have on health and inequalities, political/historical context on drug control, usage, and prevalence rates, and the economic impact of these policies from 2010 to 2021.
RESULTS:  Twenty articles were included in the literature review to determine influential factors based on the PEST framework. Six articles were on tech/types of current drug policies, six on the social impact that drug policies have on health and inequities, four were on the political context of drug control and usage rates, and another four on the economic impact of current drug policies. An analysis of current drug policies substantiated the claim that the war on drugs has failed, as supply and usage of drugs did not decrease. The impact on population health and inequities were significant and prevalent within minority groups, where incarceration rates have increased exponentially within the past few decades due in large part to mandatory minimum sentencing and racial bias in law enforcement. Usage and prevalence rates within the political context in the United States have also remained markedly high. The economic impact of the drug market and the war on drugs provided some of the most condemning arguments; an increase in the price for a drug caused by a disruption in supply led to greater crime associated with its distribution.
RECOMMENDATIONS: Study findings suggest that an overhaul of the current system is necessary to ensure more equitable and socially just drug enforcement policies in the US. A comprehensive public health approach to drug policy, one which is focused on harm reduction, correcting racial bias, and decreasing mass incarceration, is recommended as an alternative to the current policies.
The Need for Speed: Broadband Access as a Social Determinant of Health
Creators: name: Habib, Mwoddah
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2021

description: The COVID-19 pandemic amplified existing socioeconomic inequities in the United States while often requiring access to broadband in all aspects of life. Currently, there are significant broadband coverage gaps in the United States, widening a digital divide and leaving many individuals at a disadvantage during a critical public health crisis and beyond. Given its widespread use, broadband access intersects with all the social determinants of health (SDOH), as either a bridge or a barrier. Thereby, barriers to broadband access are a major factor contributing to socioeconomic inequities. The goal of this capstone is to discuss the link between broadband access and SDOH, policies to increase broadband coverage, and the need to add broadband access as an all-encompassing element in the SDOH model.
title:  Il lessicografo come mediatore linguistico-culturale
Creators: name: Nied Curcio, Martina
Publisher: name: Roma Tre University
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/05vf0dg29
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2025

description: Parole legate alla cultura sono spesso omesse nelle risorse lessicografiche e, quando sono presenti, raramente sono descritte in modo appropriato, soprattutto nei dizionari bilingui: gli equivalenti elencati spesso non riflettono accuratamente il significato del culturema. Spesso sono omesse importanti informazioni a livello culturale. Tra parlanti di lingue e culture diverse possono sorgere problemi di comunicazione e incomprensioni che non derivano da divergenze a livello linguistico, ma a un livello culturale. Nel contributo, l’autrice si concentra sul concetto di mediazione così come definito nel Volume complementare del Quadro Comune Europeo di Riferimento per le Lingue (2020), mostra i parallelismi nei requisiti di competenza tra mediatori e lessicografi e invoca l’uso di strategie di mediazione da parte dei lessicografi per garantire che le informazioni culturali siano adeguatamente rappresentate nel dizionario.

Culture-bound items are often omitted in lexicographic resources, and when they are present, they are rarely described in an appropriate way, especially in bilingual dictionaries: the listed equivalents often do not reflect the meaning on a cultural level precisely. Communication problems and misunderstandings which are triggered not by divergences on the linguistic level, but on the cultural level, can arise between speakers of different languages and cultures. In the article, the author focuses on the concept of mediation as defined in the Companion Volume of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (2020), shows parallels in the requirements of skills between mediators and lexicographers, and makes the case for the use of mediation strategies by lexicographers to ensure that cultural information is adequately represented in the dictionary.
description: ἀγλαὰ δῶρα. Studi miscellanei in onore di Dora Faraci
Evaluating Funding Structures of Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) in Metropolitan Atlanta: A Basis for Public Policy
Creators: name: Chaudhary, Mamta
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2021

description: Health care costs in the United States are generally unaffordable; however, Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) have the prime mission to offer affordable services to the communities they serve. This paper evaluates the funding structures over a two-year period of an FQHC in Metropolitan-Atlanta which the Atlanta Regional Commission Agency determines to have the following eleven counties: Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Douglas, Fayette, Fulton, Gwinnett, Henry, Rockdale, and the City of Atlanta. After a comparative review of the clinical and non-clinical aspects, recommendations will be made on how the specific Atlanta FQHC studied could increase their revenue or other performance measures such as best practices.
title: Twenty-Sixth Annual Commencement of the State Normal School
title: Annual Commencement
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: State Normal School
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 1929
Subjects: subject: State Normal School
subject: Commencement ceremonies

description: Commencement program for June 12, 1929, which may include written corrections and annotations. While every effort is made to ensure accuracy in  commencement programs, printing deadlines sometimes prevent inclusion of candidates' names or may result in the use of names of persons not completing graduation requirements.
Power-Domain Interference Graph Estimation for Multi-hop BLE Networks
Creators: name: Jia, Haifeng
name: Wei, Yichen
name: Pi, Yibo
name: Chen, Cailian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Traditional wisdom for network management allocates network resources separately for the measurement and communication tasks. Heavy measurement tasks may compete limited resources with communication tasks and significantly degrade overall network performance. It is therefore challenging for the interference graph, deemed as incurring heavy measurement overhead, to be used in practice in wireless networks. To address this challenge in wireless sensor networks, our core insight is to use power as a new dimension for interference graph estimation (IGE) such that IGE can be done simultaneously with the communication tasks using the same frequency-time resources. We propose to marry power-domain IGE with concurrent flooding to achieve simultaneous measurement and communication in BLE networks, where the power linearity prerequisite for power-domain IGE holds naturally true in concurrent flooding. With extensive experiments, we conclude the necessary conditions for the power linearity to hold and analyze several nonlinearity issues of power related to hardware imperfections. We design and implement network protocols and power control algorithms for IGE in multi-hop BLE networks and conduct experiments to show that the marriage is mutually beneficial for both IGE and concurrent flooding. Furthermore, we demonstrate the potential of IGE in improving channel map convergence and convergecast in BLE networks.
description: This paper is accepted for publication in the ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN), and is an extension of our conference paper accepted at EWSN'23 (arXiv:2312.16807)
Straight outta photosphere: Open solar flux without coronal modeling
Creators: name: Tähtinen, Ismo
name: Asikainen, Timo
name: Mursula, Kalevi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The open solar flux, that is, the total magnetic flux escaping the Sun, is one of the most important parameters connecting solar activity to the Earth. The open solar flux is commonly estimated from photospheric magnetic field measurements by making model assumptions about the solar corona. However, the question in which way the open solar flux is directly related to the distribution of the photospheric magnetic field is still partly unknown. We aim to reconstruct the open solar flux directly from the photospheric magnetic fields without making any assumptions about the corona and without using coronal hole observations, for instance. We modified an earlier vector sum method by taking magnetic field polarities into account and applied the method to the synoptic magnetograms of six instruments to determine the open solar flux from solar cycles 21-24. Results. The modified vector sum method produces a vector of the global solar magnetic field whose magnitude closely matches the open solar flux from the potential field source surface (PFSS) model both by the absolute scale and the overall time evolution for each of the six magnetograms. The latitude of this vector follows the Hale cycle by always pointing toward the dominantly positive-polarity hemisphere, and its longitude coincides with the location of the main coronal holes of the McIntosh Archive. We find multi-year periods during which the longitude of the vector slowly drifts or stays rather stationary in the Carrington frame. These periods are punctuated by times when the longitude moves rapidly in the Carrington frame. By comparing the magnitude of this vector to the open solar flux calculated from the PFSS model with different source surface heights, we find that the best match is produced with a source surface height $R_{ss} = 2.4 - 2.5R_\odot$.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures, Accepted for publication in A&A
U.S. Rural Healthcare Shortage: A Review of Strategies in the U.S., Canada, and Colombia.
Creators: name: Perez, Carlos
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2021

description: This paper intends to provide a critical review and assessment of the rural health care workforce shortage in the US. In addition, it evaluates policy and programmatic approaches in the US and other countries (Canada, Colombia) to analyze which policies and programs might offer the most promising solutions.
A STUDY ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN CUSTOMER SERVICE
Creators: name: Dr. TEJAS B. VYAS
name: Dr. NUZHAT SADRIWALA
name: Dr. VISHAL DATTANA
name: Dr. RANDOLF SALINDO
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Content, SEO, Customer Experience, Customer Service, Virtual.

description: Abstract

How the AI is redefining retail customer Service-Artificial intelligence, or AI, is slowly becoming a part of our daily lives. Siri and Alexa are now household names, and their users have grown accustomed to how easy they make it to access information. And while these types of virtual assistants are primarily for personal use, AI also presents huge opportunities for businesses, particularly for customer service. Some companies are already using AI to provide better, more efficient service, and this technology will likely play an increasingly significant role over the next few years. Artificial intelligence is still a relatively new concept for most businesses, but interest has increased dramatically over the past few years and shows no sign of slowing down. At this point, that interest has mostly been centered on marketing — and has proven to be a valuable addition for many of the companies who’ve added it to their strategies. In fact, 80% of marketing executives believe that AI technology will revolutionize the marketing industry by 2020. Automation already plays a role in many companies’ customer service processes, and many on the forefront of adopting new forms of technology are also incorporating AI. This shift has the potential to help all types of businesses better serve their customers but holds a few unique advantages for those within the retail industry.