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CCS is proud to announce that the winning team’s video for the inaugural Smart Cities Miami Design Your Coral Gables Competition has been featured on the Vyond animation program’s website. Kudos to “The Laboratory of Everyday Things -N.O.T.” Team! Read more “Smart Cities Competition Winners featured on Vyond”
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Kinases are firmly established drug targets in cancer. There are currently 44 FDA-approved kinase drugs and hundreds of compounds are in clinical development. However, less than 10% of the Kinome is currently targeted and a large proportion is considered understudied by the NIH Illuminating the Druggable Genome Program (https://druggablegenome.net/). Read more “Abstract 5103: The Dark Cancer Kinome—Untapped Opportunities for the Development of Novel Drugs”
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Happiness and joy involve feelings of positive engagement which are prototypically expressed through the face, voice, and body. Joyful smiles tend to be strong and involve both eye constriction (the Duchenne marker) and mouth opening. Through approximately 2 months of age, joyful expressions are primarily rooted in physiological arousal. Read more “Happiness and Joy Chapter-Handbook of Emotional Development”
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Atypical head movement pattern characterization is a potentially important cue for identifying children with autism spectrum disorder. In this paper, we implemented a computational framework for extracting the temporal patterns of head movement and utilizing the imbalance of temporal pattern distribution between diagnostic categories (e.g., children with or without autism spectrum disorder) as potential diagnostic cues. Read more “Categorical Timeline Allocation and Alignment for Diagnostic Head Movement Tracking Feature Analysis”
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Modeling of large-scale oil transport and fate resulting from deep-sea oil spills is highly complex due to a number of bio-chemo-geophysical interactions, which are often empirically based. Predicting mass-conserved total petroleum hydrocarbon concentrations is thus still a challenge for most oil spill models. Read more “Far-Field Modeling of a Deep-Sea Blowout; Sensitivity Studies of Initial Conditions . . .”
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Data Intersections is an annual symposium featuring speakers from the fields of data science, statistics, data journalism, and the digital humanities. The 2020 session theme is “Conversations About the Ethics of Data, Technology, and Design”.
Read more “Data Intersections: Conversations on Ethics 2/13/2020”
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Mitsunori Ogihara (Director) and Gang Ren (Postdoctoral Associate) of Big Data Analytics and Data Mining program, and Daniel Messinger, Program Director of Social Systems Informatics, presented an interdisciplinary paper (TITLE: “Categorical Timeline Allocation and Alignment for Diagnostic Head Movement Tracking Feature Analysis”) together at the workshop on Face and Gesture Analysis for Health Informatics (FGAHI) at CVPR 2019 (Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, part of IEEE CVF) 2019, on June 16-21, 2019 in Long Beach, California. Read more “Data Mining & SSI Present Paper at CVPR”
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As more datasets, tools, workflows, APIs, and other digital resources are produced by the research community, it is becoming increasingly difficult to harmonize and organize these efforts for maximal synergistic integrated utilization. The Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR) guiding principles have prompted many stakeholders to consider strategies for tackling this challenge by making these digital resources follow common standards and best practices so that they can become more integrated and organized. Read more “FAIRshake: Toolkit to Evaluate the Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reusability of Research Digital Resources”
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Sandwiched between two national parks, Miami-Dade County has a shortage of developable land, an intractable problem that puts affordable housing out of the reach of low- and moderate-income residents who already spend more than 70% of their income on housing and transportation. Or so the thinking goes. Read more “LAND Affordable Housing Shortage Tool”
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A minimum-wage worker would have to hold three full-time jobs to afford an average market-rate apartment in Miami, a city with the nation’s highest share of severely cost-burdened renters—individuals and families who spend at least 50 percent of their income on housing. With Miami remaining one of the least affordable cities in the world, the UM Office of Civic and Community Engagement (CCE) unveiled its new Miami Housing Solutions Lab to help address Miami’s affordable housing shortage. Read more “Miami Affordability Project version 2 Launched”