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Measuring the Contributions of Perceptual and Attentional Processes in the Complete Composite Face Paradigm
Get PDFTheories of holistic face processing vary widely with respect to conceptualizations, paradigms, and stimuli. These divergences have left several theoretical questions unresolved. Namely, the role of attention in face perception is understudied. To rectify this gap in the literature, we combined the complete composite face task (allowing for predictions of multiple theoretical conceptualizations and connecting with a large body of research) with a secondary auditory discrimination task at encoding (to avoid a visual perceptual bottleneck). Participants studied upright, intact faces within a continuous recognition paradigm, which intermixes study and test trials at multiple retention intervals. Within subjects, participants studied faces under full or divided attention. Test faces varied with respect to alignment, congruence, and retention intervals. Overall, we observed the predicted beneficial outcomes of holistic processing (e.g., higher discriminability for Congruent, Aligned faces relative to Congruent, Misaligned faces) that persisted across retention intervals and attention. However, we did not observe the predicted detrimental outcomes of holistic processing (e.g., higher discriminability for Incongruent, Misaligned faces relative to Incongruent, Aligned faces). Because the continuous recognition paradigm exerts particularly strong demands on attention, we interpret these findings through the lens of resource dependency and domain specificity
U2-Net: A Very-Deep Convolutional Neural Network for Detecting Distracted Drivers
Get PDFIn recent years, the number of deaths and injuries resulting from traffic accidents has been increasing dramatically all over the world due to distracted drivers. Thus, a key element in developing intelligent vehicles and safe roads is monitoring driver behaviors. In this paper, we modify and extend the U-net convolutional neural network so that it provides deep layers to represent image features and yields more precise classification results. It is the basis of a very deep convolution neural network, called U2-net, to detect distracted drivers. The U2-net model has two paths (contracting and expanding) in addition to a fully-connected dense layer. The contracting path is used to extract the context around the objects to provide better object representation while the symmetric expanding path enables precise localization. The motivation behind this model is that it provides precise object features to provide a better object representation and classification. We used two public datasets: MI-AUC and State Farm, to evaluate the U2 model in detecting distracted driving. The accuracy of U2-net on MI-AUC and State Farm is 98.34 % and 99.64%, respectively. These evaluation results show higher accuracy than achieved by many other state-of-the-art methods
Water Resources Science and Technology Fall Seminar Series: Leamon Anderson (San Antonio River Authority)
No full textMr. Leamon Anderson is presently the Deputy Director of Utilities Operations with the San Antonio River Authority (SARA). He shared with the class about his background and how he found his way professionally, ultimately ended up becoming a unconventional wastewater treatment facility manager. Rather than focusing on the operational side of the job, he is responsible for allocating resources and working with stakeholders in the communities to ensure the treatment capacity of SARA\u27s service area keeps up with the rapid population growth and land development
“MY JOB IS TO TEACH”: HOW TEACHERS APPROACH STATE LAWS IN A CULTURALLY RELEVANT CLASSROOM
Get PDFThe murders of James Bryd. Jr, Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, and Sandra Bland led to the Black Lives Matter movement. Following these deaths, schools across the country that were named after Confederates and statues of them were taken down, causing backlash against more substantial steps to address white supremacy in the curriculum. This qualitative study investigates how social studies teachers are reacting to laws that restrict the teaching of history and deny Texas students the right to be represented in their education. The findings demonstrate a link between teachers’ understanding of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy and their solidarity with students of color. Through this lack of understanding, teachers in turn have a fear to teach students histories. This has little to do with a law stopping them, and more with a lack of understanding a key methodological approach to helping students gain agency in their learning
How do staff and families perceive the effects of after school programs on the overall school experience?
Get PDFEnhanced Convolutional Neural Network for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Classification
Get PDFLung cancer is a common type of cancer that causes death if not detectedearly enough. Doctors use computed tomography (CT) images to diagnoselung cancer. The accuracy of the diagnosis relies highly on the doctor\u27sexpertise. Recently, clinical decision support systems based on deep learningvaluable recommendations to doctors in their diagnoses. In this paper, wepresent several deep learning models to detect non-small cell lung cancer inCT images and differentiate its main subtypes namely adenocarcinoma,large cell carcinoma, and squamous cell carcinoma. We adopted standardconvolutional neural networks (CNN), visual geometry group-16 (VGG16),and VGG19. Besides, we introduce a variant of the CNN that is augmentedwith convolutional block attention modules (CBAM). CBAM aims to extractinformative features by combining cross-channel and spatial information.We also propose variants of VGG16 and VGG19 that utilize a supportvector machine (SVM) at the classification layer instead of SoftMax. Wevalidated all models in this study through extensive experiments on a CTlung cancer dataset. Experimental results show that supplementing CNNwith CBAM leads to consistent improvements over vanilla CNN. Resultsalso show that the VGG variants that use the SVM classifier outperform theoriginal VGGs by a significant margin
The Bard in the Borderlands: An Anthology of Shakespeare Appropriations en La Frontera, Volume 1
No full textFor several decades, Chicanx and Indigenous theatermakers have been repurposing Shakespeare’s plays to reflect the histories and lived realities of the US–Mexico Borderlands and to create space to tell stories of and for La Frontera. Celebrating this rich tradition, The Bard in the Borderlands: An Anthology of Shakespeare Appropriations en La Frontera brings a wide range of Borderlands Shakespeare plays together for the first time in a multi-volume open-access scholarly edition.
This anthology celebrates the dynamic, multilingual reworking of canon and place that defines Borderlands Shakespeare, and it situates these geographically and temporally diverse plays within the robust study of Shakespeare’s global afterlives. The editors offer a critical framework for understanding the artistic and political traditions that shape these plays and the place of Shakespeare within the multilayered colonial histories of the region. Borderlands Shakespeare plays, they contend, do not simply reproduce Shakespeare in new contexts but rather use his work in innovative ways to negotiate colonial power and to envision socially just futures.https://digitalcommons.tamusa.edu/engl_books/1005/thumbnail.jp
Student Research Symposium Schedule 2023
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Stranger Things Psychology: Life Upside-Down
No full textMonsters of the Upside Down, beware!Travis Langley (author of the acclaimed Batman and Psychology) returns with a group of expert contributors to explore these and other questions to shine a light on true human nature through the Netflix series and cultural phenomenon, Stranger Things.When do feelings of grief, guilt, depression, fear, and isolation tear us down, and how do we transform them into hope, inspiration, forgiveness, acceptance, and motivation to do what\u27s right? Growing up is hard enough without metaphors for the dangers that lurk in life\u27s shadows springing to life in the form of monsters, villains, conspiracies, and enemy soldiers. How do we navigate friendships to unite against bullying and its many forms? What happens to missing persons\u27 families or those once lost upon their return? Can games and fantasy help us connect with others and make sense of real life?
Stranger Things Psychology: Life Upside Down descends into the dark side of adolescence to find the light on the other side of the ultimate coming-of-age story.Contributors: Travis Adams * Jenna Busch * Shelly Clevenger * Erin Currie * Victor Dandridge Jr. * William Blake Erickson * Andrea Frantz * Larisa A. Garski * Wind Goodfriend * Vanessa Hintz * J. Scott Jordan * Greta Kaluzeviciute * Alex Langley * Kevin Lu * Harpreet Malla * Justine Mastin * Brittani Oliver Sillas-Navarro * Leandra Parris * Billy San Juan * Janina Scarlet * William Sharp * Benjamin A. Stover * Dawn Weatherford * Eric D. Wesselmannhttps://digitalcommons.tamusa.edu/psyc_books/1006/thumbnail.jp
Benched Justice: How Judges Decide Asylum Claims and Asylum Rights of Unaccompanied Minors
No full textThis book delves into the complex and often politicized world of asylum claims and asylum rights of children seeking sanctuary in the United States. This eye-opening book asks two vital questions: do immigration judges base their asylum decisions on more than just the law, and how have federal courts responded to executive policies and programs that significantly affect the rights of these minors? With over 12,000 immigration court decisions and 200 federal court cases as its backbone, this book uncovers how both legal and political factors shape the fate of children seeking asylum. The findings reveal that while political factors do influence the decision-making process, courts still strive to protect the legal rights of unaccompanied minors, pushing back against some of the more harmful and legally dubious immigration policies pursued by various Presidential administration This book is a must-read for anyone seeking to understand the intricacies of asylum claims and asylum rights of unaccompanied minors in the United States.-From Publisherhttps://digitalcommons.tamusa.edu/crim_books/1000/thumbnail.jp