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Characteristics of chronic musculoskeletal pain sufferers treated in a university-affiliated complementary and integrative health care clinic
No full textThis study was approved by the University of Bridgeport’s Institutional Review Board ID# 2017-11-01, and made possible through a University of Bridgeport Seed Money Grant awarded to Cheryl L. Lyon, N.D.Chronic pain is a substantial driver of high health care costs and disability, and disparities in the experience and treatment of pain based on age, sex and race are significant. Patients seeking complementary and integrative health (CIH) approaches for chronic pain are dramatically under-studied, therefore we assessed the role of nutritional, genetic and other factors in a sample of chronic musculoskeletal (MSK) pain sufferers from a unique patient population seeking complementary and integrative health (CIH) care at an urban university-affiliated clinic
Expectations of Parent Involvement for First-Year Students: Comparing Parent and University Expectations of Communication in a Consumer Market
No full textThe Issue: Parents expect communication, Universities falsely claim that FERPA restricts them from doing so. Goal: Analyze if there is a gap between parental expectations of communication and university communication practices. Identify the role that a misinterpretation of FERPA plays in that gap
Vibrations of a Single Degree Freedom System
No full textThe purpose of the present experiment is to analyse the effect of damping, mass and spring on a system The objectives of the presented experiment are as follows
- To determine the natural frequency of the single-degree of freedom (SDOF) system.
- To determine the damping parameters of the dashpot.
- To determine the effects of damping, mass, and stiffness on the system response.
- To compare the measured results with simulated results in Simulink
DEVELOPING STRATEGIES TO DISPOSE OF THE DEPENDENCY OF USING FOSSIL FUELS OVER RENEWABLE ENERGY
No full textThis paper aims to develop and improve the use of renewable energy by finding and studying the barriers that stop the implementation of renewable energy in our world and the impact of renewable energy on the climate and the cost. Discussing and using a case study of one of the developing countries and build a strategy to predict and improve the impact of using renewable energy on the cost and the climate
Block Chain-Based Remittance Service
No full textRemittance is a primary resource that involves cross border transactions between immigrant and to their home country. Remittance involves transfer-wise, western union and many other applications to transfer money from one country to other country. In general, remittance is liked to be centralized financial institutions like banks and currency exchanges, but Blockchain Remittance can be a game changer for all financial solutions. Block chain means service providers can use encrypted block to send and receive money two individual located in two different countries. Blockchain remittance never depends on any centralized banking institutions like banks or foreign exchanges. For blockchain network a wallet/bank app are the only mediators. This technology offers low transaction fees and improved speed. Also, this is considered an ideal solution to facilitate international money transfers and uses core principles of cryptography for verification and security. Most often people need alternative to the remittance for three different reasons such as the time for transactions are too slow which might take up to 5 business days for each transaction and no one have that much patience to wait to receive money from overseas, expensive because of the transaction fee that varies from 4% to 7% and this occurs when multiple vendors are involved and lack of standards could be the biggest concern cause in few cases it might involve multiple vendors for one transaction and this increases transaction fee and lack of transparency. With Blockchain technology all these problems can be eliminated, and it can be adaptable and scalable with in next few years. A mobile app can be used to process any transaction using this technology and this can be good example, even ATMs can facilitate blockchain, but remote areas can face lot of issues because of internet connectivity
The Effect of Light Intensity and Color on Above and Below Ground Development in Arabidopsis thaliana
No full textLight is one of the essential factors for photosynthesis and plant growth. In addition, light regulates patterning in the root and shoot system. Light signals are recognized at the shoot and then translocate through the phloem to the root for root development. In this experiment, Arabidopsis thaliana, Colg1 (Columbia) was grown under different treatments such as high light, medium light, red light, and blue light. For purpose of this experiment both vegetative and reproductive development were considered
UB Knightlines Summer 2022
No full textThe UB Knightlines newsletter for Summer 2022. This issue contains articles discussing Graduation for the class of 2022, the visit of actor Danny Glover to the University of Bridgeport as commencement speaker. Additional articles included 2022 Faculty Research Day, health science students and business students work in Costa Rica, the Bauer Hall Innovation Center, the on campus Veterans Oasis center, an article on the ELI (English Language Institute) and interview with Prof. James Novoa. Articles on UB sports teams include an article on UB joining the CACC and UB Gymnastics coach Lorraine Galow
Pose Variance, Illuminations and Occlusions involved Driver Emotion Detection System
No full textMonitoring the emotions of drivers are the key aspects while designing the advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) in vehicles. To ensure the safety and track the possibility of the accidents, the emotion monitoring will play a key role in justifying the mental status of the driver. Recent developments in face expression recognition have brought the tremendous attention across the world due to its intellectual capabilities to track the facial expressions. Machine learning and deep learning technologies have helped a lot in developing an efficient face expression recognition systems. Two novel approaches using machine learning, deep learning algorithms and residual neural networks are proposed to monitor six class of expressions of the driver in different pose variations and occlusions. We obtained the better accuracies with these two novel approaches when compared to the state of art methods
Renewable Energy based Solar desalinator
No full textThe availability of safe drinking water is the most fundamental requirement for human survival on Earth, according to a number of scientific research. Fossil energy prices may be prohibitively expensive in many regions where freshwater resources or water delivery infrastructure are insufficient, whereas solar energy is abundant everywhere. Furthermore, as government rules in the developed world increasingly emphasise the replacement of fossil energy with renewable, low-carbon energy, water-stressed countries are considering the use of solar-powered electricity to generate electricity. Desalination technology, when used in conjunction with present freshwater supplies, can assist in resolving both the water supply and the energy crises.
Water covers around 80 percent of the earth's surface, according to estimates:
• 97.5 percent of the solution is saline.
• Underground deposits containing 2.5 percent of the country's total reserves and frozen as ice
• Fresh water is accessible in the amount of 0.25 percent
Impact of Pandemic on the U.S. Economy
No full textAs the Covid-19 Global Pandemic wreaked havoc in the health systems of the world especially in the developed nations of the world, the economy has suffered an equivalent damage if not more. With the economy going through the third wave of the pandemic, little is known about what the pandemic has in store for the future. Hence, in this paper we strive to analyses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the economic aspects of the nation and the financial markets by analyzing various elements such as unemployment, tourism activities, monetary policy, and other policy responses. It is concluded that all the activities have had a severe negative impact on the economy and have led to greater uncertainty in the nation during the first two waves of the pandemic