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Social User Mining: User Profiling of Social Media Network Based on Multimedia Data Mining
No full textIn recent years, the pervasive use of social media has generated extraordinary amounts of data that has started to gain an increasing amount of attention. Each social media source utilizes different data types such as textual and visual. For example, Twitter is used to transmit short text messages, whereas Flickr is used to convey images and videos. Moreover, Facebook uses all of these data types. From the social media users’ standpoint, it is highly desirable to find patterns from different data formats. The result of the huge amount of data from different sources or types has provided many opportunities for researchers in the fields of data mining and data analytics. Not only the methods and tools to organize and manage such data have become extremely important, but also methods and tools to discover hidden knowledge from such data, which can be used for a variety of applications. For example, the mining of a user's profile on social media could help to discover any missing information, including the user's location or gender information. However, the task of developing such methods and tools is very challenging. Social media data is unstructured and different from traditional data because of its privacy settings, data noise, and large capacity of data. Moreover, combining image features and text information annotated by users reveals interesting properties of social user mining, and serves as a useful tool for discovering unknown information about the users. Minimal research has been conducted on the combination of image and text data for social user mining. To address these challenges and to discover unknown information about users, we proposed a novel mining framework for social user mining that includes: 1) a data assemble module for different media source, 2) a data integration module, and 3) mining applications. First, we introduced a data assemble module in order to process both the textual and the visual information from different media sources, and evaluated the appropriate multimedia features for social user mining. Then, we proposed a new data integration method in order to integrate the textual and the visual data. Unlike the previous approaches that used a content based approach to merge multiple types of features, our main approach is based on image semantics through a semi-automatic image tagging system. Lastly, we presented two different application as an example of social user mining, gender classification and user location
The Overdue Death of a Dinosaur or It’s Time to End “Tax Bracket” GPA Grading
No full textThis paper presents a continuous alternative to the discrete grading system currently used by virtually all schools and colleges throughout the country. In order to most accurately reflect the nuances of academic achievement of a student, a continuous grading policy is superior to a discrete policy. Such a scheme is presented here. The ubiquity of computational aids, particularly Excel, makes such an alternative both viable and trivial
Fertility Awareness Method as a Naturopathic Tool
No full textThis thesis is being archived as a Digitized Shelf Copy for campus access to current students and staff only. We currently cannot provide this open access without the author's permission. If you are the author of this work and desire to provide it open access or wish access removed, please contact the Wahlstrom Library to discuss permission.Objective – The purpose of this literature review was to evaluate the scientific validity and application of symptothermal fertility awareness method as a form of contraceptive. This paper briefly examines the physiology of fertility of both male and females and respective hormones, as well as how to monitor and interpret symptoms of the female body which directly correlate to these hormonal shifts. Basic Procedures – The primary resource used was the book entitled Taking Charge of your Fertility by Toni Weschler MPH. Supplemental research was found through PubMed, UptoDate.com and Ebsco online databases. Papers primarily focused on human physiology of fertility as well as monitoring symptoms of fertility. Papers chosen were published within the last twenty years. Main Findings – The fertility awareness method is scientifically sound as the hormones in the body which promote fertility are directly correlated with symptoms of the female body throughout the biphasic fertility cycle. Thus by becoming aware of the symptom thermal methods of fertility awareness a couple can prevent conception by applying this knowledge alone. Principal Conclusions – The Fertility Awareness Method of contraception is aligned with naturopathic principles and thus naturopathic physicians should be well informed of this effective and scientifically sound method
Research Methods: Designing and Conducting Research with a Real-World Focus
No full textThe evolution of the textbook, Research Methods: Designing and Conducting Research with a Real-World Focus, began with the authors’ desire to provide students with the knowledge of scientific methodology and practical tools required to conduct relevant, high-quality research in both academic and professional field settings. Carrie A. Picardi and her co-author, Kevin D. Masick, are organizational psychologists with expertise in both teaching research methods and applying methods to diverse field settings and offer a unique perspective by integrating current research articles with field-specific scenarios. They draw from research methodology tactics, strategy, and constraints from practitioners across the business and social science domains. This textbook is designed to effectively bridge the gap between theory and practice by demonstrating how research is realistically conducted within an organizational setting, and providing readers with relevant, applicable examples from which to learn
Gujarati: Script of Western India
No full textGary Munch's poster on the Gujarati script of western India
Managing Consumer Fairness Perceptions to Increase Lifetime Customer Value
No full textNikki Lee-Wingate's poster discussing consumer perceptions of fairness and how to use that to increase lifetime customer value
A Novel Use of Electrospining for Nanopatterning of Bio-Sequestered Iron Oxide Nanoparticles
No full textIn this research on creating controlled nanopatterns, a novel technique using electrospinning of iron oxide nanoparticles is being investigated, where nanopatterns of biologically sequestered magnetite are proposed. This is because electrospinning is normally used in the fabrication of nanofibers governed by the electrical forces on the surface of the precursor organic fluids thereby producing polymer filaments using an electrostatic force. This electrospinning technique can serve various purposes such as the fine control of the fiber diameters, the production of a defect-free or defect-controllable fiber surface, and the formation of continuous single nanofibers. The electrospinning products are currently being used in applications such as fabrication of scaffolds in tissue engineering, substrates for culturing numerous biological cellular structures and various biosensing applications
Beijing’s Formidable Strategy in the South China Sea
No full textChunjuan Nancy Wei's article on China's strategy for the South China Sea