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The Hurricane and Losses Prediction (HLP) project
No full textNatural disasters like hurricanes are one of the greatest threats to insurance. For insurers, forecasting is necessary for both risk assessment and keeping customer reliability and financial stability. The Hurricane and Losses Prediction (HLP) project will analyze and predict hurricanes’ trends and impact on losses and insured value. The model will consider variables like location coordinates, wind and pressures, losses, and total insured value in its predictive model using two datasets gathered by Natural Hurricane Center (NHC) and Casualty Actuary Society (CAS). The project will provide the hurricane losses analysis and divide them into different risk levels. This analysis could help insurance companies make decisions in products and underwriting. This is also helpful for people who need to find safe residential areas
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Get PDFKyle is from Western Springs, Illinois and is currently a sophomore studying political science. His poetry is inspired by nature and the beauty of the mundane
When Time Runs Out
Get PDFAbby McArthur-Self is a senior English writing and German major. They enjoy dabbling in science fiction, fantasy, and any other genre heavy on world-building and concept generation
PortConnect
No full textVirtual private networking offers a great deal of security and privacy for users. However, it can be challenging to configure and set up. This project presents a solution to the everyday need for a virtual private network client. Port Connect is an android VPN application that allows users to connect to different private networks from any Internet-enabled location by creating an encrypted connection between two individuals or devices. This encryption makes it difficult for anyone to intercept the data in transit and makes the connection more secure. This app is a great tool for those who are looking for a way to get around geo-restrictions, government censorship, and stay secure while browsing online. With its simple interface and intuitive design, users will find Port Connect to be an excellent choice for their internet protection needs
Serious Play: Campus Humor in Precarious Times
Get PDFThe article explores the use of campus humor as a crisis intervention approach in higher education as of 2023. Topics discussed include the production of campus humor as a subversive form of play within the corporatized university, and three case studies of humorous media that examine discrete but highly intertextual forms of mediated humor to address campus crises before and during the pandemic. Also noted are these studies\u27 transmedia adaptation to the university in crisis
Emotional fundamentalism and education of the body
No full textThis article examines the productive capacity of emotion through the concept of emotional fundamentalism. Emotional fundamentalism combines several key concepts—fundamentalism, affective labor, biopolitics, and capitalism’s contradictions—developed by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri in Empire (2000), Multitude (2004), and Commonwealth (2009) to describe the intensified attention to the body in education. I investigate the implications of the increased organizational and corporate interest in emotion using an ongoing socio-emotional learning study and the introduction of artificial intelligence aggression detectors in schools. Doing so demonstrates the tendency of Empire to manage emotions in order to ensure viable production by educating the body as data and human capital. However, though Empire depends on emotions as a resource, these same emotions display a creative unruliness that exposes potential avenues to reproduce the common and enact multitude
A chromosome-scale genome sequence of sudangrass (Sorghum sudanense) highlights the genome evolution and regulation of dhurrin biosynthesis
Get PDFSudangrass [ Sorghum sudanense (Piper) Stapf] is a hybrid between grain sorghum and its wild relative S. bicolor ssp. verticilliflorum and is grown as a forage crop due to its high biomass production and low dhurrin content compared to sorghum. In this study, we sequenced the sudangrass genome and showed that the assembled genome was 715.95 Mb with 35,243 protein-coding genes. Phylogenetic analysis with whole genome proteomes demonstrated that the sudangrass genome was more similar to US commercial sorghums than to its wild relatives and cultivated sorghums from Africa. We confirmed that at seedling stage, sudangrass accessions contained significantly lower dhurrin as measured by hydrocyanic acid potential (HCN-p) than cultivated sorghum accessions. Genome-wide association study identified a QTL most tightly associated with HCN-p and the linked SNPs were located in the 3’ UTR of Sobic.001G012300 which encodes CYP79A1, the enzyme that catalyzes the first step of dhurrin biosynthesis. As in other grasses such as maize and rice, we also found that copia/gypsy long terminal repeat retrotransposons were more abundant in cultivated than in wild sorghums, implying that crop domestication in the grasses was accompanied by increased copia/gypsy LTR retrotransposon insertions in the genomes
We Love Having You Here: Expressions of Identity in DePauw’s Art Collection
No full textZoe Strauss We Love Having You Here, 2001- 2008 photograph 2008.2.1.10 Purchased by DePauw Universityhttps://scholarship.depauw.edu/peeler_exhibit/1006/thumbnail.jp
