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Title: Using population-level data to examine between-group health differences among transgender and cisgender United States military veterans
Creator: Woodward, Honor
Date: 2021
Description: Some subgroups of military veterans, including those with marginalized identities, may be especially vulnerable to poor health. This...
Show moreSome subgroups of military veterans, including those with marginalized identities, may be especially vulnerable to poor health. This hypothesis is supported by the Minority Stress Theory framework, which posits that disparities in health can be attributed to the stress that minority individuals experience as a result of discrimination, prejudice, and oppression (Meyer, 1995; Meyer, 2003). A specific, potentially marginalized group of veterans that is under-explored regarding health is transgender veterans. Using data from the 2019 U.S. Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), the current study hypothesized that transgender U.S. military veterans will report worse health than cisgender U.S. military veterans. Using case control matching, groups of transgender veterans (n = 124) and cisgender veterans (n = 104) were compared on several population-relevant health outcome measures. Chi-square tests of independence were conducted to test for significant differences between transgender and cisgender military veterans on the likelihood of experiencing certain health conditions, engaging in certain health behaviors, and utilizing health care services. Independent samples t-tests were used to test continuous health outcomes, such as self-reported mental health, physical health, and access to health care services. Gender identity was significantly associated with only one health outcome variable, with transgender veterans being more likely than cisgender veterans to have received a formal depression diagnosis (p = .01, phi = .17). No significant differences emerged between transgender and cisgender veterans on continuous health outcome variables. This suggests that previous literature on health disparities between transgender and cisgender individuals may not be generalizable to transgender veterans.
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Title: MACHINE VISION NAVIGATION SYSTEM FOR VISUALLY IMPAIRED PEOPLE
Creator: Yang, Guojun
Date: 2021
Description: Visually impaired people are often challenged in the efficient navigation of complex environments. Moreover, helping them navigate intuitively...
Show moreVisually impaired people are often challenged in the efficient navigation of complex environments. Moreover, helping them navigate intuitively is not a trivial task. Cognitive maps derived from visual cues play a pivotal role in navigation. In this dissertation, we present a sight-to-sound human–machine interface (STS-HMI), a novel machine vision guidance system that enables visually impaired people to navigate with instantaneous and intuitive responses. This proposed system extracts visual context from scenes and converts them into binaural acoustic cues for users to establish cognitive maps. The development of the proposed STS-HMI system encompasses four major components: (i) a machine vision–based indoor localization system that uses augmented reality (AR) markers to locate the user in GPS-denied environments (e.g., indoor); (ii) a feature-based object detection and localization system called the simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) algorithm, which tracks the mobility of users when AR markers are not visible; (iii) a path-planning system that creates a course towards a destination while avoiding obstacles; and (iv) an acoustic human–machine interface to navigate users in complex navigation courses. Throughout the research and development of this dissertation, each component is analyzed for optimal performance. The navigation algorithms are used to evaluate the performance of the STS-HMI system in a complicated environment with difficult navigation paths. The experimental results confirm that the STS-HMI system advances the mobility of visually impaired people with minimal effort and high accuracy.
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Title: Frictional behavior of bronze-graphite composite as sliding element in the base isolation system
Creator: You, Da
Date: 2021
Description: There are many calamities around the world, one of the most dangerous disasters is earthquake which threatens the safety of people and the...
Show moreThere are many calamities around the world, one of the most dangerous disasters is earthquake which threatens the safety of people and the structures. Almost every year, there are a lot of property losses and casualties caused by earthquakes. To mitigate the bad effect of the earthquake, the base isolation system was proposed by previous researchers. With the contribution of many researchers, several seismic isolations have been developed. Until now, many structures have installed seismic isolations to resist seismic energy and vibration. The seismic isolation system works well during the earthquake period, and it does help reduce the casualty and property loss induced by earthquakes. There are two main types of bearings used in the seismic isolation system. One is the elastomeric bearings and the other is the sliding bearings. The mechanics of the seismic isolation system preventing the influence of the earthquake and reducing the horizontal acceleration of the structure is to elongate the natural frequency of structure. As for the sliding bearings, the simplest way to increase the period is to reduce the friction coefficient of the two sliding elements. In conventional, two stainless steel plates are commonly used in the pure flat sliding bearing. This study tries to use bronze-graphite composite in the sliding bearing to decrease the friction coefficient.Consequently, the testing results suggest that the bronze-graphite composite has a lower friction coefficient, especially the graphite acting as a lubricant. The friction coefficient of the bronze-graphite plate is in the range of 0.12 to 0.23 under the load of 160 kg - 800kg. With a higher ratio of graphite to bronze at the sliding surface, the effect of reducing the friction coefficient more obviously. And the friction coefficient changes during the increasing loads period. It decreases at the beginning, and starts to increase at a certain load applied on it. Finally, it is reasonable to bronze-graphite composite in a low rise structure which has a relatively low weight. Because the load applied in the test is not high enough, the consequence may not work for high or heavy structure. Taken together, the use of new material with similar properties in the seismic isolation system can help improve the performance of resisting the earthquake. It should be accounted for further research in this field.
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Title: EVENT-BASED NONINTRUSIVE LOAD MONITORING
Creator: Yan, Lei
Date: 2021
Description: Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) is an important application to monitor household appliance activities and provide related information to...
Show moreNon-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) is an important application to monitor household appliance activities and provide related information to house owner or/and utility company via a single sensor installed at the electrical entry of the house. With this information, utilities can perform many tasks such as energy conservation, planning gen-eration more wisely, and demand response (DR) study. For house owners, they can un-derstand their bill more clearly and make better budget plan. For researchers, NILM sys-tem is a good foundation for energy management in buildings and can provide valuable power information for smart homes design. This dissertation aims to develop and demon-strate a complete and accurate event-based NILM system, which includes (1) an edge-cloud framework for event-based NILM, (2) an adaptive event detection method, (3) a two-stage event-based load disaggregation method; and (4) a high-resolution (50Hz) NILM dataset. Event detection is the first step in event-based NILM and it can provide deter-ministic transient information to identify appliances. However, existing methods with fixed parameters suffer from unpredictable and complicated changes in smart meter data such as long transition, high fluctuation and near-simultaneous events in both power and time domains. This dissertation presents an adaptive method to detect events based on home appliance load data with high sampling rate (>1Hz) by flexibly tuning the parame-ters according to the data being processed. The proposed method runs fast over the data stream and captures the transient process by multi-timescales searching as well. The mi-cro-timescale and macro-timescale window could deal with near-simultaneous events and long-transition events, respectively. Transient load signatures are extracted from detected events and stored in a sequential tree struct that can be used for NILM and load recon-struction, etc. Case studies on a 20Hz dataset, the LIFTED dataset of 50Hz, and the BLUED dataset of 60Hz demonstrate that the proposed method is able to work on data of different sampling rates and outperforms other methods in event detection. The ex-tracted load signatures could also improve the efficiency of NILM and help develop oth-er applications. This dissertation presents an online transient-based electrical appliance state track-ing method for NILM. The proposed Factorial Particle based Hidden Markov Model (FPHMM) method takes advantage of transient features in high-resolution data to infer states in the transient process and conducts steady state verification to rectify falsely identified appliances. The FPHMM method can overcome the common feature similarity problem in NILM by combining particle filter method and Markov Chain Monte Carlo sampling method, and by mining the intra-relationship of states inside a single appliance and the inter-relationship of states among multiple appliances. The FPHMM method is tested on the LIFTED dataset with appliance-level details and high sampling rates. Test-ing results demonstrate that the FPHMM method is effective in resolving the feature similarity issue. A modified mean shift algorithm with different levels of bandwidth is proposed as well to cluster the extracted features from event detection. Based on the clustered fea-tures, another solution is proposed to decode the states of appliance in two stages. The first stage uses Bayesian Inference Factorial HMM (BI-FHMM) solver to accelerate com-putational speed and improve accuracy by integrating the load signatures and statistical inference. The second stage then verifies and rectifies the results obtained from the first stage. Test results demonstrate that the proposed approach achieves good performance and can be applied to existing smart meters.
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Title: 'Sportsvision' Behind the Plate……Where Are Harry & Jimmy?....
Creator: Gordon, Robert Philip
Date: 1982-08-15
Description: Hand-colored laser print of the stands and broadcasting booths behind home plate at Comiskey Park in Chicago.
Collection: Robert Philip Gordon papers, 1963-2010

Title: 'The Green Monster'... Fenway Park, Boston 'First Strike'…Ends…Fisk Returns Home
Creator: Gordon, Robert Philip
Date: 1981-08-10
Description: Hand-colored laser print of a baseball game at Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts, including the stadium's famous Green Monster wall in left...
Show moreHand-colored laser print of a baseball game at Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts, including the stadium's famous Green Monster wall in left field .
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Collection: Robert Philip Gordon papers, 1963-2010

Title: 'View From the Cheap Seats'…...(In Old "Kymyski"..)
Creator: Gordon, Robert Philip
Date: 1982-04
Description: Hand-colored laser print of a view from the upper deck in right field at Comiskey Park in Chicago.
Collection: Robert Philip Gordon papers, 1963-2010

Title: Home Run!! (Bill's Blast-Off)...
Creator: Gordon, Robert Philip
Date: 1997-09
Description: Hand-colored laser print of the outfield fence, bleachers, and scoreboard at Comiskey Park in Chicago. Drawn originally in August 1982, hand...
Show moreHand-colored laser print of the outfield fence, bleachers, and scoreboard at Comiskey Park in Chicago. Drawn originally in August 1982, hand colored in September 1997.
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Collection: Robert Philip Gordon papers, 1963-2010

Title: Civic Stadium Portland Oregon…The Portland Rockies
Creator: Gordon, Robert Philip
Date: 1997-08-15
Description: Hand-colored laser print of right field and stands at what was then known as Civic Stadium in Portland, Oregon, erstwhile home of the now...
Show moreHand-colored laser print of right field and stands at what was then known as Civic Stadium in Portland, Oregon, erstwhile home of the now-defunct Portland Rockies minor league baseball team.
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Collection: Robert Philip Gordon papers, 1963-2010

Title: They Play Baseball in Gardens Out Here…
Creator: Gordon, Robert Philip
Date: 1987-08-20
Description: Hand-colored laser print of the outfield and grandstand at what was then known as the Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum, home of the Oakland...
Show moreHand-colored laser print of the outfield and grandstand at what was then known as the Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum, home of the Oakland Athletics.
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Collection: Robert Philip Gordon papers, 1963-2010

Title: Mt. Rainier + The Kingdome…….Overlooking Seattle Harbor From Pike St. Market (Eating a Canteloupe)
Creator: Gordon, Robert Philip
Date: 1996-08-06
Description: Hand-colored laser print of a view from Pike Place Market in Seattle, including the Seattle Harbor, Mount Rainier, and King County Stadium ...
Show moreHand-colored laser print of a view from Pike Place Market in Seattle, including the Seattle Harbor, Mount Rainier, and King County Stadium (more familiarly known as the Kingdome).
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Collection: Robert Philip Gordon papers, 1963-2010

Title: Wrigley Field Scoreboard..As it is!
Creator: Gordon, Robert Philip
Date: 1982-09-08
Description: Hand-colored laser print of the Wrigley Field scoreboard in Chicago.
Collection: Robert Philip Gordon papers, 1963-2010

Title: 'Madison Muskies……View From the Press Box'
Creator: Gordon, Robert Philip
Date: 1982-08-23
Description: Hand-colored laser print of the press box and playing field at a minor league baseball stadium (likely Breese Stevens Field) in Madison,...
Show moreHand-colored laser print of the press box and playing field at a minor league baseball stadium (likely Breese Stevens Field) in Madison, Wisconsin.
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Collection: Robert Philip Gordon papers, 1963-2010

Title: Farr Hall, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, ca. 1948
Creator: Lucas, Joseph J., Jr.
Date: 1948
Description: From attached caption: "Farr Hall, four-story residence hall, on the [campus] of Illinois Institute of Technology. Located on the ...
Show moreFrom attached caption: "Farr Hall, four-story residence hall, on the [campus] of Illinois Institute of Technology. Located on the [southwestern] corner of 33rd and Michigan." Date of photograph is unknown. Date range listed is approximate.
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Collection: Office of Communications and Marketing photographs, 1905-1999

Title: Unidentified building (possibly part of the Institute of Gas Technology), Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, 1948
Date: 1948
Description: Photograph pf an unidentified brick building, possible adjacent to or part of the Institute of Gas Technology. Photographer unknown....
Show morePhotograph pf an unidentified brick building, possible adjacent to or part of the Institute of Gas Technology. Photographer unknown. Photograph is possibly dated April 13, 1948.
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Collection: Office of Communications and Marketing photographs, 1905-1999

Title: Groundbreaking for Engineering building, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, August 29, 1966
Date: 1966-08-29
Description: Photograph of the groundbreaking ceremony for the Engineering building known as Engineering 1 from its construction until 2015, now known as...
Show morePhotograph of the groundbreaking ceremony for the Engineering building known as Engineering 1 from its construction until 2015, now known as John T. Rettaliata Engineering Center. Pictured are Dr. John T. Rettaliata, Maynard P. Venema, Dr. Ralph G. Owens, and Axel A. Hofgren. Photographer unknown.
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Collection: Office of Communications and Marketing photographs, 1905-1999

Title: Carman Hall under construction, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, ca. 1951
Creator: Lucas, Joseph J., Jr.
Date: 1951
Description: Photograph of Carman Hall under construction. Date of photograph is unknown. Date range listed is approximate.
Collection: Office of Communications and Marketing photographs, 1905-1999

Title: Lobby of Cunningham Hall, Illinois Institute of Technology, ca. 1960s
Creator: Illinois Institute of Technology
Date: 1960-1969
Description: Photograph of the lobby of Cunningham Hall. Photographer unknown. Date of photograph is unknown. Date range listed is approximate.
Collection: Office of Communications and Marketing photographs, 1905-1999

Title: Armour Research Foundation Chemistry Research Building under construction, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, 1959-1960
Date: 1959-1960
Description: Photograph of the Armour Research Foundation Chemistry Research Building (now Technology Business Center) during construction. Date of...
Show morePhotograph of the Armour Research Foundation Chemistry Research Building (now Technology Business Center) during construction. Date of photograph is unknown. Date range listed is approximate. Photographer unknown.
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Collection: Office of Communications and Marketing photographs, 1905-1999

Title: Armour Research Foundation Chemistry Research Building, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, ca. 1960
Date: 1960
Description: Photograph of the Armour Research Foundation Chemistry Research Building (now Technology Business Center). Date of photograph is unknown. Date...
Show morePhotograph of the Armour Research Foundation Chemistry Research Building (now Technology Business Center). Date of photograph is unknown. Date range listed is approximate. Photographer unknown.
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Collection: Office of Communications and Marketing photographs, 1905-1999

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