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Annie Laurie Evans Hall Women\u27s Dormitory - 1928
No full textOriginally built as a residence hall for women, this facility was built with federal funds and a grant provided by the General Education Board. Named in honor of former Dean of Women and Professor Annie Laurie Evans, the hall currently houses career and student services and Veteran Affairs. Evans Hall is on the National Register of Historic Places (Date Issued: June 3, 1999). Constructed 1928; Renovated 1975-76 (designed by alumnus Louis E. Fry, class of 1922).https://digitalcommons.pvamu.edu/preservation-week-2018/1013/thumbnail.jp
Bank Hall Women’s Dormitory - 1965
No full textBank Hall women’s dormitory opened in 1966. Mrs. Glovina Viginia Banks was born in 1890, married to W. R Banks in 1911. Founded the Faculty women\u27s club. Banks hall was renamed “The Place” (The panther Learning and Academic Community Experience).https://digitalcommons.pvamu.edu/preservation-week-2018/1003/thumbnail.jp
Impact of furniture layout on indoor daylighting performance in existing residential buildings in Malaysia
No full textCurrently, home-based computing workspaces have developed substantially all over the world, especially in Malaysia. This growing trend attracts computer workers to run a business from their residential units. Hence, visual comfort needs to be considered in addition to thermal comfort for home workers in their residential working rooms. While such rooms are always occupied with furniture, the layout of the furniture may influence the indoor daylighting distribution. Several various furniture layouts can be arranged in a residential working room. However, to have better generalisation, this study focused on the impacts of mostly-used-furniture-layouts (MUFLs) on indoor daylighting performance in residential working rooms. The field measurement was conducted in a typically furnished room under a tropical sky to validate the results of the simulation software under different sky conditions. Then, daylight ratio (DR), as a quantitative daylighting variable, and the illuminance uniformity ratio (IUR), CIE glare index (CGI), and Guth visual comfort probability (GVCP), as qualitative daylighting variables, were analysed through simulation experiments. In conclusion, by changing the furniture layout, daylight uniformity recorded the highest fluctuations in the case room among all variables. While various furniture layouts, in a residential working room in the tropics, may even slightly reduce the extreme indoor daylight quantity, they can worsen the indoor daylight quality compared to an unfurnished space. The paper shows that furniture as an interior design parameter cannot help to improve tropical daylighting performance in a building
Modeling regional landslide susceptibility using dynamic soil moisture profiles
No full textA landslide susceptibility mapping study was performed using dynamic hillslope hydrology. The modified infinite slope stability model that directly includes vadose zone soil moisture (SM) was applied at Cleveland Corral, California, US and Krishnabhir, Dhading, Nepal. The variable infiltration capacity (VIC-3L) model simulated vadose zone soil moisture and the wetness index hydrologic model simulated groundwater (GW). The GW model predictions had a 75% NASH-Sutcliffe efficiency when compared to California’s in-situ GW measurements. The model performed best during the wet season. Using predicted GW and VIC-3L vadose zone SM, the developed landslide susceptibility maps showed very good agreement with mapped landslides at each study region. Previous quasi-dynamic model predictions of Nepal’s hazardous areas during extreme rainfall events were enhanced to improve the spatial characterization and provide the timing of hazardous conditions
Sequential Therapeutic Response Modeling for Tumor Treatment Using Computational Hybrid Control Systems Approach
No full textObjective: Tumorigenesis is due to uncontrolled cell division arising from mutations and alterations in the proliferative controls of the cell population. The fight against tumor growth and development has often relied on combination therapy that has been acclaimed as one of the main standards of care in cancer therapeutics and prevention of drug-related resistances. The toxicity of the combinatorial drugs raises a significant concern whenever patients take two or more drugs concurrently at the maximum tolerated dose. A promising solution in tumor treatment involves the administration of the drugs in an alternating or sequential fashion rather than a simultaneous manner. In this paper, we investigate how feasible such an approach is from a mathematical perspective and propose a switched hybrid control systems framework. Methods: We explore the response of tumor cells dynamics to sequential drugs administration with the aid of a time-dependent switching strategy. A transit compartmentalized model is employed to describe the tumor cells progression to death. Results: The design of the time-based drug switching logic ensures the proliferating tumor cells are repressed. Conclusions: Simulation results are provided using the tumor growth dynamics with sequential drugs intake to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method in reducing the tumor size. Significance: This paper is the first attempt to provide a switched hybrid control systems framework on sequential drug administration to biomedical researchers and clinicians
Estimation of the Burr XII-exponential Distribution Parameters
Get PDFThe Burr XII distribution is one of the most important distributions in Survival analysis. In this article, we introduce the new wider Burr XII-G family of distributions. A special model in the new family called Burr XII-exponential distribution that has constant, decreasing and unimodal hazard rate functions is investigated. We discuss the estimation of this distribution parameters by maximum likelihood, three modifications of maximum likelihood and Bayes methods. In Bayes method, we use the uniform, triangular and Burr XII-uniform priors for posterior analysis and obtain Bayes estimations under two different loss functions. We obtain two approximations of the Bayes estimations, the first one is by importance sampling and the second is based on Lindley’s approximation. Monte Carlo simulated data are used to evaluate these methods. Finally, we fit this distribution to a set of real data set by estimation procedures
The Finite Spectrum of Sturm-Liouville Operator With δ-Interactions
Get PDFThe goal of this paper is to study the finite spectrum of Sturm-Liouville operator with δ- interactions. Such an equation gives us a Sturm-Liouville boundary value problem which has n transmission conditions. We show that for any positive numbers mj (j = 0; 1; :::; n) that are related to number of partition of the intervals between two successive interaction points, we can construct a Sturm-Liouville equations with δ-interactions, which have exactly d eigenvalues. Where d is the sum of mj’s
Approximation to Multivariate Normal Higher Dimensional Probabilities in Mixed - Data Model with Missing Responses
Get PDFMultivariate data with mixed ordinal and continuous responses with the possibility of nonignorable missingness are often common in follow up social studies and their analysis need to be promoted. One of the standard methods of analysis is based on joint modelling. In this method, we use that simultaneously allow modelling non-ignorable mechanism and a full likelihood-based approach is used to obtain maximum likelihood estimates of parameters of joint modelling. In this approach, when the dimension of the vector responses are increased, includes somehow troubling computations which are often time-consuming. Another alternative is an approximation for multivariate normal probabilities for higher dimensional regions, based conditional expectations in joint modelling. A comparison between approximation method and full likelihood-based approach is used to obtain maximum likelihood estimates of parameters of joint modelling. To illustrate the utility of the proposed model, a large data set excerpted from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) is analyzed. For these data, the simultaneous effects of some covariates on life satisfaction, income and the amount of money spent on leisure activities per month as three mixed correlated responses are explored
System reliability using generalized intuitionistic fuzzy Rayleigh lifetime distribution
Get PDFReliability analysis as one of the important research topics in engineering has been researched by a number of authors. Reliability in classical distributions is based on precise parameters. It is usually assumed that parameters of distributions are precise real numbers. However, in the real world, the data sometimes cannot be measured and recorded precisely. In this paper, the concept of fuzzy reliability is extended by the idea of generalized intuitionistic fuzzy reliability. We investigate the reliability characteristics of systems using Rayleigh lifetime distribution, in which the lifetime parameter is assumed to be generalized intuitionistic fuzzy number. Generalized intuitionistic fuzzy reliability, generalized intuitionistic fuzzy hazard function, generalized intuitionistic fuzzy mean time to failure and their cut sets are discussed when the systems follow generalized intuitionistic fuzzy Rayleigh lifetime distribution. In this approach, for every special cut set, reliability curve and hazard curve are like a band with upper and lower bound. A numerical example is given to illustrate the proposed approach. Further, reliability analysis of the series and parallel systems are done