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2023 Evaluation of Pumpkin Cultivars in West Virginia
Get PDFPumpkins are a popular, commercial vegetable crop in West Virginia. Each year, many new hybrid cultivars are released by commercial seed companies. In 2023, we trialed 16 cultivars. Pumpkins were grown using conventional tillage, and each cultivar was replicated 4 times. ‘Griffin’ ‘Justify’, ‘Hawk’, ‘Bellatrix’ and ‘Hermes’ produced high yields with both fruit count and average weight per pumpkin
Euclidean Coordinates are the Wrong Prior for Models of Primate Vision
Get PDFConvolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are currently the best models we have of the ventral temporal lobe – the part of cortex engaged in recognizing objects. They have been effective at predicting the firing rates of neurons in monkey cortex, as well as fMRI and MEG responses in human subjects. They are based on several observations concerning the visual world: 1) pixels are most correlated with nearby pixels, leading to local receptive fields; 2) stationary statistics – the statistics of image pixels are relatively invariant across the visual field, leading to replicated features 3) objects do not change identity depending on their location in the image, leading to pooling of responses, making CNNs relatively translation invariant; and 4) objects are made of parts, leading to increasing receptive field sizes in deeper layers, so smaller parts are recognized in shallower layers, and larger composites in later layers. However, compared to the primate visual system, there are a couple of striking differences. CNNs have high resolution everywhere, whereas primates have a foveated retina, with high resolution for humans only about the size of your thumbnail at arm’s length, and steep dropoff in resolution towards the periphery. The mapping from the visual field to V1 is a log-polar transform. This has two main advantages: scale is just a left-right translation, and rotation in the image plane is a vertical translation. When these are given as input to a standard CNN, scale and rotation invariance is obtained. However, translation invariance is lost, which we make up for by moving our eyes about 3 times a second. We present results from a model with these constraints, and show that, despite rotation invariance, the model is able to capture the inverted face effect, while standard CNNs do not
Deriving a Purdue Probe Diagram from Connected Vehicle Waypoint Data
No full textThe provided video shows the transition from raw connected vehicle (CV) geospatial trajectory data to a Purdue Probe Diagram (PPD). PPDs allow for the estimation of delay and operational traffic signal performance measures, such as arrivals on green, split failures, and downstream blockage. These performance measures can be used to identify locations where retiming or capital investment could improve operations
One possible solution to the ENDO Challenge for earlier, low cost, non-invasive diagnosis of endometriosis
Get PDFThis short paper outlines a potential solution to the ENDO Challenge posed by the US National Institutes of Health to spur development of painless, noninvasive diagnostic tools for early diagnosis in women suffering needlessly from endometriosis. Endometriosis is a common condition caused by regurgitation of menses backwards through the Fallopian tubes from the uterine cavity into the abdominal cavity during menstruation. A few still viable endometrial cells then implant widely and unpredictably throughout the abdominal cavity and become established on the surfaces of internal organs and the abdominal wall. There they live and remain responsive to cyclic hormones. The resulting patches of endometrial tissue bleed into the abdominal cavity with successive menstrual periods, causing pain. Because the endometrial implants can be scattered widely throughout the peritoneal cavity and can also spread to new locations therein, endoscopic or even open surgical methods rarely discover and eliminate all of them. The more that endometriosis spreads, the more difficult it is to diagnose and treat. Sadly, diagnosis may be delayed many years, with continued spread, due to normalization of intense menstrual pain by patients and their healthcare providers. Simple, noninvasive, low-cost screening methods, applicable to large numbers of women worldwide, are needed. The present proposed solution is a smart phone application that prompts the patient to track and record symptoms day-by-day, and later to compare the detailed patient record both with data for known populations of healthy women versus data for women with recently diagnosed endometriosis. The foundational principle for success is asking the best questions, based upon understanding of the abnormal physiology and anatomy of the endometriosis and published studies. Day to day tracking should reveal more abundant, accurate, and precise data than one-time history taking in a provider’s office. Use of artificial intelligence and modern technology promises identification of key features in the data that allow more accurate classification. Such a tool can be used at little expense from the comfort of the patient’s home, and it may be able to spot suspicious trends much earlier through artificial intelligence
Scaffolding Success: Jumpstarting Freshmen into Business Research
Get PDFA short presentation covering the ongoing goals for reintroducing business library instruction to incoming freshman
Optimizing Your Instruction Sessions: Considerations for Creating Effective Handouts and Other Supplementary Materials
Get PDFThis session is designed to quickly showcase some ideas and suggestions for deciding how to go about creating supplementary materials for your class sessions. This may either serve to reinforce the ideas discussed in the class session or to cover material traditionally done in a database demonstration so that you can use your class time more for more effective purposes. The session will cover the importance of supplementary materials in adding to your session as well as displaying some different resources and how each contributed to a different type of class session
Financial Fitness Month: an example of multi-library programming
Get PDFA lightning talk for the 2024 Midwestern Business Librarians Summit
Field Handbook for Maintenance and Preservation Treatments of Concrete Pavements
Get PDFInformation related to maintenance and preservation (M&P) treatments of Portland cement concrete pavement (PCCP) has not been uniformly presented across various Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) maintenance-related documents, including INDOT Standard Specifications and the INDOT Design Manual. Since this data is scattered across different documents and frequently incomplete, it is often challenging for field personnel to obtain consistent information which can assist in making decisions related to selection of treatments that can benefit the service life of concrete pavements. To address this gap, the SPR-4601 guidebook was developed to provide succinct descriptions of common distresses and failures observed in concrete pavements, and guidance related to routine maintenance and preservation (M&P) practices. Having consistent and comprehensive information should aid in implementing more uniform M&P practices and help to ensure the quality of the concrete pavement assets over their service life
Can an Equine-Assisted Learning Course Improve Emotional Intelligence in Undergraduate Students?
Get PDFBackground: Emotional intelligence, a construct that many experts consider an essential component of life success, is moving in a concerning direction among American college students. Equine-assisted interventions may be an innovative modality for influencing these skills. Purpose: This study explores the effectiveness of a 15-week equine-assisted experiential learning course on emotional intelligence among undergraduate college students. Methodology/Approach: The intervention group consisted of 18 students who participated in a three-credit psychology course entitled Horses for Interpersonal Skills, which involved classroom instruction and an equine-assisted learning (EAL) component. This group was compared to a no intervention sample of 26 students enrolled in a three-credit lecture-based introductory psychology course. Findings/Conclusions: Emotional intelligence scores were compared at baseline and post intervention for both groups. While results were not significant, this study found that trait emotional intelligence scores as measured by the Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire, Short Form (TEIQue-SF) increased by 10 points among students enrolled in the EAL course, compared to the control group whose emotional intelligence increased by a half point over a 15-week period. Implications: Results of this small study suggest that emotional intelligence can be changed and enhanced in the short term. The EAL course may serve as an early template for future programs interested in more critical exploration of EAL as a unique intervention for college students to develop and refine essential interpersonal skills
Principles and procedures for revising the hierarchical taxonomy of psychopathology
Get PDFQuantitative, empirical approaches to establishing the structure of psychopathology hold promise to improve on traditional psychiatric classification systems. The Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) is a framework that summarizes the substantial and growing body of quantitative evidence on the structure of psychopathology. To achieve its aims, HiTOP must incorporate emerging research in a systematic, ongoing fashion. In this article, we describe the historical context and grounding of the principles and procedures for revising the HiTOP framework. Informed by strengths and shortcomings of previous classification systems, the proposed revisions protocol is a formalized system focused around three pillars: (a) prioritizing systematic evaluation of quantitative evidence by a set of transparent criteria and processes, (b) balancing stability with flexibility, and (c) promoting inclusion over gatekeeping in all aspects of the process. We detail how the revisions protocol will be applied in practice, including the scientific and administrative aspects of the process. Additionally, we describe areas of the HiTOP structure that will be a focus of early revisions and outline challenges for the revisions protocol moving forward. The proposed revisions protocol is designed to ensure that the HiTOP framework reflects the current state of scientific knowledge on the structure of psychopathology and fulfils its potential to advance clinical research and practice