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Title: Jockey's Ridge Research + Education Center: thesis_boards
Creator: Landon, Paul
Date: 2012, 2012-05
Description: Recent litigation related to offshore oil drilling has threatened North Carolina’s beautiful shoreline and biodiversity. Furthermore, the...
Show moreRecent litigation related to offshore oil drilling has threatened North Carolina’s beautiful shoreline and biodiversity. Furthermore, the Outer Banks have seen a drop in tourism over the past few seasons. With a research and education center, regional alternatives to environmentally costly drilling can be developed, while culturally providing a destination that celebrates and elucidates the fragility and splendor of the OBX.
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Title: Jockey's Ridge Research + Education Center: thesis_book
Creator: Landon, Paul
Date: 2012, 2012-05
Description: Recent litigation related to offshore oil drilling has threatened North Carolina’s beautiful shoreline and biodiversity. Furthermore, the...
Show moreRecent litigation related to offshore oil drilling has threatened North Carolina’s beautiful shoreline and biodiversity. Furthermore, the Outer Banks have seen a drop in tourism over the past few seasons. With a research and education center, regional alternatives to environmentally costly drilling can be developed, while culturally providing a destination that celebrates and elucidates the fragility and splendor of the OBX.
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Title: Terminal 3, Gunazhou Baiyun International Airport , China
Creator: Shen, Hua
Date: 2012-05, 2012-05

Title: Terminal 3, Gunazhou Baiyun International Airport , China: HuaShen Master Project Arch 593 (11x17)
Creator: Shen, Hua
Date: 2012-05, 2012-05

Title: Terminal 3, Gunazhou Baiyun International Airport , China: HuaShen Master Project Arch 593 (30X40)
Creator: Shen, Hua
Date: 2012-05, 2012-05

Title: Performance Addendum: Filing the Void
Creator: Edwards, David
Date: 2012-04-24, 2012-05
Description: This project was done as a response to the thriving public performance community at the northern side of Grant park in Chicago, IL. As a...
Show moreThis project was done as a response to the thriving public performance community at the northern side of Grant park in Chicago, IL. As a former resident of the South Loop a rift was readily perceived between the North and South ends of the park in both venues for entertainment as well as general amenities. This project looked to fill a void on the south end of the park to create both a more welcoming outdoor space for the public but also to create a performance venue that could help bring business and pedestrian traffic to the southern end of the loop.
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Title: Performance Addendum: Filing the Void: FINAL STUDIO BOARDS
Creator: Edwards, David
Date: 2012-04-24, 2012-05
Description: This project was done as a response to the thriving public performance community at the northern side of Grant park in Chicago, IL. As a...
Show moreThis project was done as a response to the thriving public performance community at the northern side of Grant park in Chicago, IL. As a former resident of the South Loop a rift was readily perceived between the North and South ends of the park in both venues for entertainment as well as general amenities. This project looked to fill a void on the south end of the park to create both a more welcoming outdoor space for the public but also to create a performance venue that could help bring business and pedestrian traffic to the southern end of the loop.
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Title: Redevelopment of Traditional Market: Redevelopment of Traditional Market_Market
Creator: Joongkyu, Park
Date: 2012-05-01, 2012-05
Description: The old market is medical herbs and dried fish market. Those stores have started with street stalls from 1900. This market was one of the...
Show moreThe old market is medical herbs and dried fish market. Those stores have started with street stalls from 1900. This market was one of the Busan's attractions. However, as department store, big mart and hotels comes around the market. It has lost its competitiveness And this place will be developed as tourist complex area. My goal is to redevelop its original role as market and provide public space for customers and tourist.
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Title: Jockey's Ridge Research + Education Center: section_2
Creator: Landon, Paul
Date: 2012, 2012-05
Description: Recent litigation related to offshore oil drilling has threatened North Carolina’s beautiful shoreline and biodiversity. Furthermore, the...
Show moreRecent litigation related to offshore oil drilling has threatened North Carolina’s beautiful shoreline and biodiversity. Furthermore, the Outer Banks have seen a drop in tourism over the past few seasons. With a research and education center, regional alternatives to environmentally costly drilling can be developed, while culturally providing a destination that celebrates and elucidates the fragility and splendor of the OBX.
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Title: A Soccer Stadium for the Community of Phoenix
Creator: Smith, Victor
Date: 2012, 2012-05
Description: This project is a Major League Soccer stadium in Phoenix, AZ. It is built with the intention to provide both a place for sports entertainment...
Show moreThis project is a Major League Soccer stadium in Phoenix, AZ. It is built with the intention to provide both a place for sports entertainment and a landmark unique to a neighborhood of Pheonix. It incoporates local architectural practices, cultural references, and Olympic stadium design standards in order to create a site-specific architecture for sport.
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Title: All Season Recreation Center: ERIC GREBLIUNAS FINAL THESIS
Creator: Grebliunas, Eric
Date: 2012-04-30, 2012-05
Description: The center is a celebration of Chicago's unique seasonal opportunities and will encourage the inherent entertainment nature provides. This is...
Show moreThe center is a celebration of Chicago's unique seasonal opportunities and will encourage the inherent entertainment nature provides. This is a structurally determinate project.
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Title: Characterization of Novel Concrete Formulations: High-Volume Fly Ash for Precast Industry Use and Non-Proprietary UHPC
Creator: Ordillas, Kurt Andrew
Date: 2024
Description: The use of high-volume fly ash concretes can be challenging for high-early strength applications, such as in precast construction, largely due...
Show moreThe use of high-volume fly ash concretes can be challenging for high-early strength applications, such as in precast construction, largely due to potential delays in strength gain resulting from relatively lower heats of hydration of the underlying binder formulations. Considering that the use of higher levels of available fresh or landfilled fly ash as a replacement for traditional ordinary Portland cement (OPC) could result in more sustainable mix designs, a framework to develop novel, high-volume fly ash mixes with optimized dosages of commercial grade gypsum and accelerating admixtures to enhance early-age strength performance. Early-age mechanical properties such as compressive strength, modulus of rupture, and modulus of elasticity were evaluated starting within 24 hours of specimen preparation. Experimental test results were then characterized and subsequently analyzed relative to current design provisions to highlight the best performing trial mixes (with respect to the early-age strength target) and cases where current design provisions are either unconservative or overly-conservative with respect to the test data. Additionally, thermal properties of concrete produced with fly ash were tested with two different curing environments, along with using code equations to determine if high volume fly ash provides a higher thermal resistance compared to OPC concrete. Wrapping up cementitious replacement with non-proprietary ultra high-performance concrete (UHPC) for transportation structures. Then reproducing mixtures to ensure target compressive strength values could be reached. Followed by increasing batch size to a larger quantity using a large mixer to create full-size specimens.
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Title: Gender Stereotype Biases Within Law Enforcement Clinical Psychological Evaluation
Creator: Porter, Maxwell G.
Date: 2023
Description: Female representation in law enforcement, despite significant improvements in past decades, remains markedly low at approximately 12%. One...
Show moreFemale representation in law enforcement, despite significant improvements in past decades, remains markedly low at approximately 12%. One possible barrier is the clinical psychological evaluation (CPE), a type of individualized assessment used to evaluate the mental or emotional fitness for duty of applicants. The present study examines the presence of potential gender bias in CPE for law enforcement positions by examining self-report personality assessment scores as well as narrative CPE recommendation reports generated by evaluating psychologists. Archival CPE data collected between 2014 through 2019 was obtained from a personnel selection consulting firm for entry-level law enforcement candidates (n = 390). Data included candidate scores on self-report psychological assessments (16PF, IPI-2), candidate background information, and psychologist-generated evaluation reports. A computer-aided text analysis using LIWC-22 was used to measure gender related inferences in the narrative report. Results indicated that (a) women received significantly lower assessor recommendation ratings than men, (b) significant differences in self-report personality scores were observed, however these were limited to a narrow subsection of traits, (c) gender was no longer a significant predictor of CPE outcome after controlling for applicant personality trait scores, and (d) meaningful differences in agency-related inferences in the narrative reports were observed, but it is unclear whether gender stereotypes influenced the reports. Practical implications, study limitations, and directions for future research are discussed.
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Title: Intraoperative Assessment of Surgical Margins in Head And Neck Cancer Resection Using Time-Domain Fluorescence Imaging
Creator: Cleary, Brandon M.
Date: 2023
Description: Rapid and accurate determination of surgical margin depth in fluorescence guided surgery has been a difficult issue to overcome, leading to...
Show moreRapid and accurate determination of surgical margin depth in fluorescence guided surgery has been a difficult issue to overcome, leading to over- or under-resection of cancerous tissues and follow-up treatments such as ‘call-back’ surgery and chemotherapy. Current techniques utilizing direct measurement of tumor margins in frozen section pathology are slow, which can prevent surgeons from acting on information before a patient is sent home. Other fluorescence techniques require the measurement of margins via captured images that are overlayed with fluorescent data. This method is flawed, as measuring depth from captured images loses spatial information. Intensity-based fluorescence techniques utilizing tumor-to-background ratios do not decouple the effects of concentration from the depth information acquired. Thus, it is necessary to perform an objective measurement to determine depths of surgical margins. This thesis focuses on the theory, device design, simulation development, and overall viability of time-domain fluorescence imaging as an alternative method of determining surgical margin depths. Characteristic regressions were generated using a thresholding method on acquired time-domain fluorescence signals, which were used to convert time-domain data to a depth value. These were applied to an image space to generate a depth map of a modelled tissue sample. All modeling was performed on homogeneous media using Monte Carlo simulations, providing high accuracy at the cost of increased computational time. In practice, the imaging process should be completed within a span of under 20 minutes for a full tissue sample, rather than 20 minutes for a single slice of the sample. This thesis also explores the effects of different thresholding levels on the accuracy of depth determination, as well as the precautions to be taken regarding hardware limitations and signal noise.
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Title: Adaptive Learning Approach of a Domain-Aware CNN-Based Model Observer
Creator: Bogdanovic, Nebojsa
Date: 2023
Description: Application of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for performing defect detection tasks and their use as model observers (MO) has become...
Show moreApplication of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for performing defect detection tasks and their use as model observers (MO) has become increasingly popular in the medical imaging field. Building upon this use of CNN MOs, we have trained the CNNs to discern between the data it was trained on, and the previously unseen images. We termed this ability domain awareness. To achieve domain awareness, we are simultaneously training a new variation of U-Net CNN to perform defect detection task, as well as to reconstruct a noisy input image. We have shown that the values of the reconstruction mean squared error can be used as a good indicator of how well the algorithm performs in the defect localization task, making a big step towards developing a domain aware CNN MO. Additionally, we have proposed an adaptive learning approach for training these algorithms, and compared them to the non-adaptive learning approach. The main results that we achieved were for the ideal observers, but we also extended these results to human observer data. We have compared different architectures of CNNs with different numbers and sizes of layers, as well as introduced data augmentation to further improve upon our results. Finally, our results show that the proposed adaptive learning approach with introduced data augmentation drastically improves upon the results of a non-adaptive approach in both human and ideal observer cases.
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Title: Integrating Deep Learning And Innovative Feature Selection For Improved Short-Term Price Prediction In Futures Markets
Creator: Tian, Tian
Date: 2024
Description: This study presents a novel approach for predicting short-term price movements in futures markets using advanced deep-learning models, namely...
Show moreThis study presents a novel approach for predicting short-term price movements in futures markets using advanced deep-learning models, namely LSTM, CNN_LSTM, and GRU_LSTM. By incorporating cophenetic correlation in feature preparation, the study addresses the challenges posed by sudden fluctuations and price spikes while maintaining diversification and utilizing a limited number of variables derived from daily public data. However, the effectiveness of adding features relies on appropriate feature selection, even when employing powerful deep-learning models. To overcome this limitation, an innovative feature selection method is proposed, which combines cophenetic correlation-based hierarchical linkage clustering with the XGBoost importance listing function. This method efficiently identifies and integrates the most relevant features, significantly improving price prediction accuracy. The empirical findings contribute valuable insights into price prediction accuracy and the potential integration of algorithmic and intuitive approaches in futures markets. Moreover, the developed feature preparation method enhances the performance of all deep learning models, including LSTM, CNN_LSTM, and GRU_LSTM. This study contributes to the advancement of price prediction techniques by demonstrating the potential of integrating deep learning models with innovative feature selection methods. Traders and investors can leverage this approach to enhance their decision-making processes and optimize trading strategies in dynamic and complex futures markets.
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Title: In situ EXAFS studies of novel Palladium-based anode catalysts for direct ethanol and formic acid fuel cells
Creator: Su, Ning
Date: 2024
Description: In this work we made nanoscale uniform deposition of Pd based anode catalyst on the transition metal Au (with atomic ratio Pd:Au=1:10) support...
Show moreIn this work we made nanoscale uniform deposition of Pd based anode catalyst on the transition metal Au (with atomic ratio Pd:Au=1:10) support of direct liquid ethanol fuel cells (DLEFCs) and direct liquid formic acid fuel cells (DLFAFCs). Synthesizing with uniform dispersion and catalyst nanoparticle dimensions understand the role of Pd reaction on its support in the direct EOR (ethanol oxidation reaction) and FOR (formic acid reaction) pathways, we performed in situ Pd K-edge X-ray absorption spectroscopy measurements as a function of potential using a custom-designed flow cell with the catalyst deposited on the glassy carbon window. We did in-situ EXAFS to better understand the reaction mechanism of Pd1@Au10 anode catalyst with EOR and AOR in nanoscale. Compared EOR with FOR electrochemical performance showed Pd@Au&C played better in ethanol than HCOOH and more stable which the the current density can reach up to 1216.25 mA·mg-1 Pd of EOR with Pd1@Au10&C in 1M KOH+1M EtOH (CH3CH2OH) on the ethanol fuel cells (DLEFCs), and 3.56 times higher of the EOR current compared with commercial Pd@C
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Title: INVESTIGATION ON THE INTERACTION BETWEEN NATURAL ORGANIC MATTER AND CALCITE
Creator: Zhu, Junjie
Date: 2012-07-12, 2012-07
Description: Fox River water was supersaturated with respect to calcite; natural organic matter (NOM) might play a key role in this phenomenon. Fox River...
Show moreFox River water was supersaturated with respect to calcite; natural organic matter (NOM) might play a key role in this phenomenon. Fox River NOM (FRNOM) adsorption on the calcite surface is probably an important mechanism to explain this condition. Fox River water contained moderate ultraviolet absorbance (UVA) of NOM (0.19 1/cm), high concentration of calcium (70 mg/L), suspended solids with relatively high specific surface area (SSA) (6.9 m2/g), and moderate pH value (8.4) based on historical data. To test whether the phenomenon was caused by NOM adsorption, a series of experiments was conducted to explore the interaction between NOM and calcite in conditions similar to those of the Fox River. Suwannee River NOM (SRNOM) and Nordic Reservoir NOM (NRNOM) were used as surrogate NOM. The results show that SRNOM inhibited calcite dissolution significantly after 10 min based on measuring of the decrease in the free calcium concentration. The decrease in the free calcium was not solely due to formation of NOM-calcium complexes, because these complexes made up only about 3% of the total free calcium concentration. Therefore, NOM adsorption onto calcite was probably largely responsible for the inhibited calcite activity. Experimental results also showed that NOM adsorption increased with increasing NOM concentration in the range from 2 to 14 mg NOM/L, which is a common range for river water. Higher charge density also seems to promote sorption onto calcite; relative to NRNOM, SRNOM has a higher charge density and SRNOM has a higher affinity for calcite. Other factors that promoted NOM adsorption onto calcite included higher concentration of calcium and larger SSA of calcite seed. Based on water quality characteristics, the Fox River provides a suitable environment for NOM adsorption on calcite, and it seems likely that Fox River NOM (FRNOM) adsorption on calcite can inhibit calcite precipitation. This understanding of interaction between NOM and calcite could be used by WTPs along the Fox River for better optimization and improvement in treatment and operation.
M.S. in Environmental Engineering, July 2012
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Title: AN OPERATING PERFORMANCE STUDY TO ADAPT RETScreen METHODOLOGY TO TREATED WASTEWATER SOURCE HEAT PUMP SYSTEM
Creator: Xu, Limeimei
Date: 2013, 2013-07
Description: A ground source heat pump system (GSHP) is a heating and air-conditioning system where a ground source is used as a heat source and sink....
Show moreA ground source heat pump system (GSHP) is a heating and air-conditioning system where a ground source is used as a heat source and sink. Potential ground sources include groundwater, surface water, and ground. A GSHP has several advantages over other heat pump systems, such as an air-source heat pump, because it has higher heating and cooling efficiency, more energy savings, and lower CO2 emissions. A treated wastewater source heat pump (TWSHP) system is similar to a GSHP system, but the TWSHP system relies on a treated wastewater source, which means that the source temperature is variable. A TWSHP is more convenient and offers greater cost savings; the TWSHP system avoids the costs associated with pumping, grouting, and drilling because the treated wastewater is already available at the surface. RETScreen is a software product that provides a methodology to study the feasibility of installing a constant-temperature source GSHP system. Advantages of using RETScreen include it is tested, valuable, readily available, and free. If design of a variable-temperature source TWSHP system can take advantage of RETSceen methodology, it would bring a tremendous help for TWSHP applications. This paper presents a case study to test whether a TWSHP system can take advantage of RETSceen methodology. The approach involves an assessment of TWSHP system operating performance under variable source temperatures. Results show that a TWSHP system can take advantage of RETSceen methodology for a variable source temperatures span over a certain range. In this study the heating temperature ranged from 9 to 16 ℃ and the cooling temperature ranged from 11 to 22℃. Keywords: treated wastewater source heat pump; RETScreen methodology
M.S. in Environmental Engineering, July 2013
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Title: KINETIC PARAMETERS SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS OF THE CALUMET WATER RECLAMATION PLANT USING GPS-X
Creator: Mao, Xiangzhou
Date: 2015, 2015-07
Description: It is an important objective to find equilibrium between cost and effluent water quality at the Calumet water reclamation plants (WRP)....
Show moreIt is an important objective to find equilibrium between cost and effluent water quality at the Calumet water reclamation plants (WRP). Kinetic parameters of activated sludge process have significant influence on effluent water quality. In this study, based on a simulation model, sensitivity analysis methods were used to assess the effects of six kinetic parameters on dissolved oxygen, carbonaceous biochemical oxygen demand (CBOD5), and effluent ammonia concentration. According to the values of kinetic parameter, two cases: ±10% perturbation of the typical default value and full parameter range were studied. Results presented that main effects have important effects on the output variables. Heterotrophic maximum specific growth rate, heterotrophic decay rate, autotrophic maximum specific growth rate, autotrophic decay rate, and maximum specific hydrolysis rate have relatively significant sensitivity. In addition, the influences of the interactions among kinetic parameters are discussed. Keys words: Kinetic parameters; sensitivity analysis; water reclamation plants; dissolved oxygen; CBOD5; ammonia
M.S. in Environmental Engineering, July 2015
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