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Quantitative Easing and U.S. Financial Markets
No full textThis paper is a comprehensive study of the unconventional monetary policy taken by the Federal Reserve since the financial crisis of 2008, specifically on the purchases of different assets by the Fed to change medium and long-term rates. Included in this study are the three rounds of quantitative easing, and the two rounds of Operation Twist. A study as such is needed in order to examine if the Fed’s purchases of these various long-term assets had any effect on the financial markets in the longer term perspective since the first announcement of the first round of purchase in November 2008. While there exists a variety of literature on the effects of quantitative easing on Treasuries and mortgage backed securities, there is no single study comprising of all the large scale asset purchases by the Fed, covering their effects on all major financial assets. This study is an attempt to fill this void in current literature on quantitative easing
A Sense of Purpose, Place, and Community at Sacred Heart University
No full textInstitutions of higher education are created with purpose and place in mind: the complexities of collegiate environments influence student learning, success, behavior, and attitudes, and in turn students shape the environments which they inhabit (Renn & Patton, 2011). Certain aspects of colleges are more functional, welcoming, and inclusive than others, and in turn facilitate learning and nurture student development to a greater degree. Strange and Banning (2015) address the nature and assessment of academic environments, examining the process of person-environment interaction through the physical, human aggregate, organizational, and socially constructed forces contained therein. This project describes how this integrated framework of campus environments relates to Sacred Heart University (SHU)
Sinology Education & Traditional Chinese Cultural Heritage: Lotus Pond Sinology Society of Hebei University (HBU), China
No full textShirley Yang's poster about Hebei University, Baoding Lotus Pond Academy, and Lotus Pond Sinology Society
Distortion in Heat Treated Tube: A Materials Engineering Approach
No full textProblem: A tube heat treater was making heavily distorted tubes with “hooked” ends on their induction heat treating line. The first and last meter of every tube was more than 1cm out of straightness. Hypothesis: Non-uniform phase transformation can occur from asymmetric heating and cooling, and the observed distortion is due to asymmetric heating and cooling during heat treatment of the tube
SSK Initiated by Third Party and Superposition Submissions
No full textThe Quantum Key Distribution QKD Protocol is a technical tool that helps to create a shared secret key (SSK) between communicated users. Moreover, to guarantee any connection over the internet, users should share an encrypted information as well as a decrypted cipher-text by a secret key. Furthermore, the QKD is a mechanism that creates a secret key into a secure mode. This poster shows an improvement of QKD protocol that is created by a connection with a trusted third party as well as the sender and receiver
Soft Power of Korean Culture
No full textDaphnee Nazon's poster on the soft power of Korean culture on the global stage
Online Education: What works! What doesn’t! A Program Evaluation of a Community College Online Database for Web Applications Class
No full textPaul Gruhn's poster discussing a program evaluation of a community college online database for a web applications class
A Novel Vision-Based Classification System for Explosion Phenomena
No full textThe need for a proper design and implementation of adequate surveillance system for detecting and categorizing explosion phenomena is nowadays rising as a part of the development planning for risk reduction processes including mitigation and preparedness. In this context, we introduce state-of-the-art explosions classification using pattern recognition techniques. Consequently, we define seven patterns for some of explosion and non-explosion phenomena including: pyroclastic density currents, lava fountains, lava and tephra fallout, nuclear explosions, wildfires, fireworks, and sky clouds. Towards the classification goal, we collected a new dataset of 5327 2D RGB images that are used for training the classifier. Furthermore, in order to achieve high reliability in the proposed explosion classification system and to provide multiple analysis for the monitored phenomena, we propose employing multiple approaches for feature extraction on images including texture features, features in the spatial domain, and features in the transform domain. Texture features are measured on intensity levels using the Principal Component Analysis (PCA) algorithm to obtain the highest 100 eigenvectors and eigenvalues. Moreover, features in the spatial domain are calculated using amplitude features such as the YCbCr color model; then, PCA is used to reduce vectors’ dimensionality to 100 features. Lastly, features in the transform domain are calculated using Radix-2 Fast Fourier Transform (Radix-2 FFT), and PCA is then employed to extract the highest 100 eigenvectors. In addition, these textures, amplitude and frequency features are combined in an input vector of length 300 which provides a valuable insight into the images under consideration. Accordingly, these features are fed into a combiner to map the input frames to the desired outputs and divide the space into regions or categories. Thus, we propose to employ one-against-one multi-class degree-3 polynomial kernel Support Vector Machine (SVM). The efficiency of the proposed research methodology was evaluated on a totality of 980 frames that were retrieved from multiple YouTube videos. These videos were taken in real outdoor environments for the seven scenarios of the respective defined classes. As a result, we obtained an accuracy of 94.08%, and the total time for categorizing one frame was approximately 0.12 s.https://doi.org/10.3390/jimaging302001
Review of Low Temperature Air Generation from Vehicle Suspension System
No full textThe idea is to harvest the kinetic energy generated in the suspension by to and fro motion of suspension and use it to generate the cold air which can be used for Air-Conditioning system as back-up unit. This will allow to reduce the fuel usage and create environment friendly system
The Comfort Women Controversy (cont.) Korea vs. Taiwan
No full textThomas Ward and William Lay's poster on why the Taiwanese experience of Japanese enforced comfort women in World War II differed from the Korean experience