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Market Leader - Exploring Static Recommendation Techniques for the Real Estate Market
No full textThe UP Market Leader Next Gen capstone team implemented a recommendation system to increase engagement of users browsing real estate agents’ websites. The system can provide recommendations in a variety of use cases, including recommendation of similar properties, personalized recommendation for a user, and recommendation for users new to an agent’s site. The Next Gen system also provides a validation component to quantitatively determine the quality of a recommendation. Functioning without additional user feedback, this system provides Market Leader with a comprehensive solution for basic recommendation that they can integrate into their existing platform.https://pilotscholars.up.edu/egr_project/1033/thumbnail.jp
City of Portland, BES - Feel the Berm
No full textThe City of Portland tasked the UP Capstone team, Team Feel the Berm, to explore alternatives to optimize the cleanings handling process and further develop one alternative for the Columbia Boulevard Wastewater Treatment Plant. The selected design dries cleanings by promoting drainage and applying low heat. In addition, the team\u27s design adds overhead covering, odor control , and a pushing berm to simplify and improve facility operations and maintenance.https://pilotscholars.up.edu/egr_project/1060/thumbnail.jp
OHSU - Helping Hands Muscle Sensing 3D Printed Prosthetic
No full textThe multidisciplinary Helping Hands capstone team partnered with OHSU to create a powered, 3D-printed, transradial prosthesis with thumb and wrist movement that is controlled by muscle activity. Existing solutions can cost more than 500, has the potential to positively impact thousands of people currently living in the US with limb deficiencies below the elbow, as well as the growing population of individuals with limb deficiencies that is projected to double by 2050.https://pilotscholars.up.edu/egr_project/1055/thumbnail.jp
What themes emerge in narratives for participants of Air Force ROTC programs? Are there shared incentives to join this organization?
Get PDFThis study uses qualitative research methods and narrative style interviews to collect data. Data is analyzed using Structuration Theory to answer the questions: What themes emerge in participants of Air Force ROTC programs? Are there shared incentives to join this organization? Three themes emerged from the data. The first theme, Play to get Paid, highlights members motivation to utilize this program for the financial benefits. The second theme, Career Aspirations, show how some members are drawn to specific career paths offered by the Air Force ROTC programs. Many agreed that the ROTC program was the most beneficial way to enter the United States Air Force. The final theme is Finding your Wingmen. This theme emerged as participants reflected on the relationships they formed in the program to be one of the most rewarding aspects. An analysis of interview transcripts reveals the value of the comradery established is a significant incentive to participants initial motivations
Crystalized Politics: An Analysis of Personal and Political Identity
Get PDFIn this day and age questions of identity and questions of politics seem to become more and more intertwined. Accordingly, the interrogation of these interrelated concepts deserves investigation. This study seeks to understand how people through communication are able to negotiate between personal and political identities. Through qualitative methods of analysis and using the lens of facework theory, it was discovered that people go through a three-part process of identification, performance and justification of their personal and political identities which have significance for both Tracy and Trethewey’s model of crystalized identity but also for facework theory. Though this theory does have significant theoretical significance, data collection was conducted during a pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, its practical theory is very limited
Clark Library Annual Report 2019-2020
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Heart of Salzburg
No full textMedium: Pen and watercolors on paper.
Description: Salzburg old town and cathedral with Fortress Hohensalzburg in the background. Salzburg, Austria.https://pilotscholars.up.edu/thaynecovert_exhibit/1005/thumbnail.jp
The Gifts of Giving: Positive Outcomes for Volunteers Who Bring Trauma-Informed Practices to Foster Healing and Resilience
Get PDFEffect of Task Related Self-Efficacy on Performance and Self-Evaluation
No full textThe present study utilized an experimental design to test whether experiential or vicarious self-efficacy experiences had different influences on a subsequent task (unscrambling anagrams). Though no differences emerged, positive correlations were observed between self-efficacy, task performance, and self-evaluation while depression was found to have negative relationships with these variables