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Aluminum: Its Toxicity and Use in Modern Medicine
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.This paper examines the relationship of aluminum toxicity and modern medicine through a review of the current literature using PubMed and Cochrane Library databases. This review describes the effects of both acute and chronic aluminum toxicity in addition to the general pharmacokinetics of aluminum. The question of Alzheimer’s disease, autism spectrum disorder and neurodegenerative conditions and their relation to aluminum is explored as well as the implication of aluminum toxicity on the future of medicine
UB Knightlines Fall 2014
No full textThe UB Knightlines newsletter for the Fall of 2014. This issue contains articles discussing UB student Dale Shepard's fellowship with D'Wayne Edwards, professor Miad Faezipour's use of smartphone technology to help lung cancer patients, UB's distance learning with its Global Learning Initiative, UBs new residence hall, UB's new therapy dog, state funding to help professor Prabit Patra to fight Lynch Syndrome, Dominick Pereira winning the Alumni Association Scholarship, the experience of UB Melissa Salguero who's school band's instruments were stolen and vandalized, the ribbon cutting ceremony for the Ernest C. Trefz School of Business, the UB partnering with the Peace Corps, a focus on the UB alum Larry Jasinski, faculty news, books published by alums and faculty, alumni news, the athletic and academic success of UB swimmer Ruben Gimenez, the 18th annual gold fundraiser, the addition of Gary Mullin as head coach of UB's volleyball team and Sean Raffle as the head coach for men and women's swimming, and other campus and sports news
Design and Implementation of Metallic Waste Collection Robot
Get PDFThe accumulation of waste has become a problem in urban city dumps. There are different kinds of waste that affect our environment, for example metallic and plastic waste. Developing metallic waste collection robotic system is a big challenge. There is limited research available about robotic systems that specialize in the collection and processing of waste. In this paper we propose robotic system that can be used for metallic waste collection and processing. This robot is equipped with a metal detector, ultrasonic sensor, control and power unit, and actuators. This autonomous robot can perform tasks such as obstacle avoidance and metal detection
UB Robot Swarm System: Design and Implementation
Get PDFIn this poster we described the hardware architecture of an inexpensive, heterogeneous, mobile robot swarm, designed and developed at RISC lab, University of Bridgeport. Each UB robot swarm is equipped with sensors, actuators, control and communication units, power supply, and interconnection mechanism. Robot swarms have become a new research paradigm in the last ten years offering novel approaches, such as self-reconfigurabity, self-assembly, self-replication and self-learning. Developing a multi-agent robot system with heterogeneity and larger behavioral repertoire is a great challenge. This robot swarm is capable of performing user defined tasks such as wall painting, mapping, human rescue operations, task allocation, obstacle avoidance, and object transportation
Privacy Preserving HIPAA-Compliant Access Control Model for Web Services
No full textMost of the modern health-related information is collected, maintained, and accessed through computerized systems. However, the interaction with this information needs to comply with the US federal regulations such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). Due to the complexity of healthcare regulations, it’s not easy to deploy a complaint system, especially for heterogeneous systems designed to allow data transfer and communication. Web services can be used to solve the problem of incompatible systems intercommunication; however, a generic model for HIPAA enforcement is required. In this paper we propose a generic HIPAA complaint privacy access control model for web services that can be easily applied to any existing covered entity web services
Social User Mining
No full textIn recent years, the pervasive use of social media has generated huge amounts of data that starts to gain a lot of attentions. Each social media source utilizes different data types such as textual and visual. For example, Twitter is for a short text message, Flickr is for images and videos, and Facebook allows all of these data types. With the use of data mining techniques, the social media data opens a lot of opportunities for researchers. To address these challenges and to discover unknown information about users, we first introducing data assemble module to handle both textual and visual information from different media sources. After that, we Introducing data integration module to integrate textual and visual data. In addition, we proposed two different applications for social user mining
TERP: A Trusted and Energy Efficient Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs)
No full textRecently, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have got researchers attention due to its various useful and helpful applications in the real world with low cost sensors. The task of the sensors is to collect data from the environment and send it to the central node (sink node). However, the power is limited in these sensors and therefore it has a limited lifetime which is a big deal in WSNs. Another important issue in WSNs is the level of security. Since these sensor nodes exchange and transmit data among the network, the security of the data can be at risk. Hence, In this poster, we propose a novel trusted and energy efficient routing protocol (TERP), which is based on the Destination Sequenced Distance Vector Protocol (DSDV). TERP can avoid any malicious nodes (untrusted nodes) and thus increase the security level in the network, and decrease the power consumption level
Comparative Study on Natural and Synthetic 5alpha Reductase Inhibitors-Treating Male Pattern Baldness Using ADMET Predictor
No full textThe author desires this thesis not to be shared open access and is only available to current students and staff.The main objective of this paper is to compare the Natural 5 alpha Reductase inhibitors with the Synesthetic drugs like Minoxidil and Finasteride, which are used in treating Male Pattern Baldness [MPB]. This is a hair loss disorder which leads to baldness. When the androgen like testosterone in the body start to circulate after puberty, the presence of the enzyme 5 alpha Reductase initiates the conversion of Testosterone to Dihydrotestostron [DHT][ 1]. DHT is site specific and has high affinity for androgen receptors especially, to the once found near to the hair follicles. Using the advanced software version ADMET Predictor 6.2 developed by Simulation plus-Inc. a drug comparison is carried out between Minoxidil, Finasteride and the chemical constituents found in Saw palmetto berries-Beta Sitosterol taking the referral drugs as testosterone and DHT