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Energy Storage Systems for Wind Power
No full textUB Rise 2025
Department of Computer Science/EngineeringEnergy demand is increasing rapidly due to many factors, the population growing, transportation across different countries increasing, energy consumption rising due to the use of new technology in people's daily activities, and the need to offer energy for the various economic projects that cover the countries' growing need. All these factors increased the consumption of the different types of fuel needed to produce this energy. In addition, the growing use of fossil fuels is harmful to the environment and people's health. The world found an alternative way to produce energy, this energy is produced from renewable resources like wind, sunlight, hydro energy, and other types. One of the main problems facing the use of renewable energy resources to be highly efficient is the storage of this energy during the low energy demand, and then use of this stored energy during the peak energy usage time
Preparing for UB's Centennial Celebration
No full textProvost Office
Advancement Office
UB Rise 2025The mission of the University of Bridgeport Centennial Committee is to promote the university's proud legacy while emphasizing the role of that history in shaping a bright and promising future. By organizing events, initiatives, and celebrations, we will honor the university's 100 years of academic excellence, tradition, and contributions to society. We aim to foster a sense of pride, unity, and anticipation among students, faculty, staff, alumni, and the broader community
The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi at UB: Chapter 216
No full textCollege of Health Sciences
Provost Office
UB Rise 2025The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi (PKP) is the nation's oldest and most selective all-discipline collegiate honor society. PKP was founded in 1897. UB reinstituted its chapter in Fall 2024 with the induction of 44 students and 10 faculty/staff/alum. PKP offers benefits and resources to assist members in their academic and professional lives
Resistin Accelerates Cardiac Fibroblast Differentiation into Myofibroblasts and Causes Heart Fibrosis
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Department of Chemistry
College of Science and SocietyCardiac fibrosis (CF) is a major cause of heart failure in patients with ischemic injury, obesity, and diabetes. CF is characterized by excessive deposition of extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins and myofibroblast differentiation, leading to profound changes in ventricular architecture and geometry that ultimately reduce cardiac function. Various cell types, including fibroblasts and myofibroblasts, are responsible for ECM protein synthesis. Resistin, an adipokine, has been associated with obesity, insulin resistance, and diabetes. Previous findings have implicated resistin in the development of cardiac fibrosis; however, the molecular mechanisms underlying this process remain unclear. In this study, we investigated whether resistin regulates the transdifferentiation of fibroblasts into myofibroblasts and examined the molecular pathways responsible for the resistin-induced fibrotic response
Advancing Inclusive Education in China: Addressing Disparities in Special Education
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Department of EducationChina has made significant progress in promoting inclusive education for children with disabilities, particularly since the 1990s, through legislative measures like the Compulsory Education Law and Regulations of the Education of Disabled Persons (Deng & Poon-McBrayer, 2004; Wang & Abery, 2019). Despite these efforts, disparities remain. The most prevalent disparities are found between urban and rural regions, especially in the availability of specialized support services, such as speech therapy, occupational therapy, and behavioral interventions (Li et al., 2018; Lie & Hong, 2018). These gaps magnify the urgent need to address systemic inequities to ensure all children with disabilities have access to the resources they need to thrive and succeed. This poster explores the evolution of special education in China, focusing on disparities in service provision, the influence of international frameworks, and implications for educational policy and practice and seeks to make actionable recommendations for educators and policymakers committed to fostering equitable and inclusive education systems
Mitigating Quantum Decoherence Risk for Scalable Communication
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Engineering & Technology DepartmentQuantum communication leverages qubits’ superposition and entanglement to enable unprecedented security; however, environmental interactions often collapse qubits into classical bits through decoherence, severely limiting transmission distances. This work proposes a dual framework that integrates low-attenuation fiber optic channels with automated cloud backups to reduce data loss from qubit corruption. By evaluating qubit integrity over extended fiber links and using cloud backups as a repeater-like redundancy mechanism, the framework enhances scalability and reliability. Simulation and experimental analyses in a multi-hospital Smart Connected Health scenario demonstrate reduced decoherence impact, stable throughput under heavy traffic, and improved continuity for real-time telemedicine and remote patient monitoring, enabling secure and resilient quantum-safe healthcare data transmission
Salvation from the Skies: Convergent Analyses of Flying Saucers in American Cinema and Post-Freudian Psychohistory
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College of Science and SocietyThe Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) is commonly recognized as one of the twentieth century's most influential science fiction films. Carl Gustav Jung is commonly recognized as one of the twentieth century's most influential theorists of human consciousness. Despite representing very different cultural discourses, the film and the psychologist both articulate a remarkably similar interpretation of the cultural phenomenon of alleged UFO sightings in the post-war period throughout Europe and the United States. Both texts represent the appearance of UFOs as a response to human anxiety about the precarity of planetary existence in the post-war period. The UFOs, both film and psychologist postulate, hold the promise of salvation from the aggressive instincts that had recently led to World War II and that threatened to imminently spark World War Ill. More than simply allowing an opportunity to read The Day the Earth
Stood Still from a Jungian perspective, the correspondence between these two texts suggests the extent to which one profile of flying saucer mythology is its identity as a symptom of existential planetary dread
Live Forensic on Real Quantum Device Using Quantum Gates
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Department of Computer Science & EngineeringExamines the limitation of research in quantum forensics. Proposes a methodology for performing live digital forensics on a real quantum computer. Utilizes Pauli-X and Hadamard gates to manipulate qubit state without measuring the data
We All Belong: A Descriptive Analysis of Gender and Sexuality Discourse in Music Education Professional Development
No full textUB Rise 2025, Department of Music, College of Science and Society, University of BridgeportThe purpose of this study was to understand the discourse surrounding discussions of gender and sexuality in music education professional development in the United States.
Research questions that guide this study included the extent gender and sexuality discourse in the field of music education professional development has occurred nationally and regionally across years in frequency or content by state, region, or discipline
Private Security Companies and Crime Prevention: A Study of Selected Security Companies in Ikeja L.G.A. Lagos
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College of Science and SocietyThis study investigates the role of private security providers in Nigerian policing and crime prevention. It examines the collaboration between private security firms and law enforcement agencies in Lagos State, their contributions to crime prevention, and the operational challenges they encounter. The study is justified by increasing security concerns in Nigeria and the growing need to assess the actions of private security firms and their overall contribution to crime control