Richard Alo

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Head of Faculty at Florida A & M University

Introduction:Few robust studies have analyzed association between cognitive tests and the marital status of Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) group with ADNI dataset. To test the hypothesis that Rey Auditory Verbal Learning test (RAVLT) cognition performance with marital status is associated with greater odds of MCI group than either RAVLT independen...

The use of technologies at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University allows faculty to create interactive learning materials. This model of instruction has proven to be very successful, especially with online instructors reporting an increase in independent thinking, improved integration of information, and an increase in students' ability to...

Breast cancer continues to be the most frequent cancer in females, affecting about one in 8 women and causing the highest number of cancer-related deaths in females worldwide despite remarkable progress in early diagnosis, screening, and patient management. All breast lesions are not malignant, and all the benign lesions do not progress to cancer....

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2). It is a serious disease that has caused multiple deaths in various countries in the world. Globally, as of May 23, 2021, the total confirmed cases of COVID-19 have reach 166,346,635 with a total of 3,449,117 deaths. Several recent...

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a new disease caused by the novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). It is a global pandemic that has claimed the death of 1,536,957 human beings worldwide including 287,842 deaths in the United States as of December 3, 2020. It has become a major threat to the medical community and...

This research provides a thorough analysis of health disparities in the US based on multiple COVID-19 datasets. We examine the structural, social, and constructural determinants of health in the US to assist in ascertaining why disparities occur in infection and death rates due to COVID-19 pandemic. Extensive experimental results show the effective...

Our challenge is gaining insight, analyzing and understanding implicit behavior behind text. Useful tools are machine learning and sentiment analysis. Text classification copes with content mass to extract actionable knowledge. We evaluate relative performance of four well-known lexicons implemented through Nave Bayes and bigram analysis. Results s...

Breast cancer is the most common noncutaneous malignancy and the second most lethal form of cancer among women in the United States. It currently affects more than one in ten women worldwide. The chance for a female to be diagnosed with breast cancer during her lifetime has significantly increased from 1 in 11 women in 1975 to 1 in 8 women (Altekru...

The purpose of this project is to create a prototype of a smart parking system by tracking and managing the occupancy of the parking lots at Jackson State University (JSU). The parking lots currently operate without any computerized system. The university management & police department have concerns about inefficiencies of optimal usage of parking...

Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer related deaths among women aged 40–55 in the United States and currently affects more than one in ten women worldwide. It is also one of the most diagnosed cancers in women both in wealthy and poor countries. Fortunately, the mortality rate from breast cancer has decreased in recent years due to i...

Analysis of structural properties and dynamics of networks is currently a central topic in many disciplines including Social Sciences, Biology and Business. CINET, a cyberinfras-tructure for such studies, introduced the concept of supporting network analysis as a service. The basic idea is to allow experts in various disciplines to focus on obtaini...

Networks are an effective abstraction for representing real systems. Consequently, network science is increasingly used in academia and industry to solve problems in many fields. Computations that determine structure properties and dynamical behaviors of networks are useful because they give insights into the characteristics of real systems. We int...

Many Minority Serving Institutions (MSI) in the United States lack sufficient resources and knowledge to take significant advantage of the national and international computational resources available to advance computational science research and education. National challenges have focused US government attention on the critical yet untapped human r...

Hispanics have the highest growth rates among all groups in the U.S., yet they remain considerably underrepresented in computing careers and in the numbers who obtain advanced degrees. Hispanics constituted about 7% of undergraduate computer science and computer engineering graduates and 1% of doctoral graduates in 2007--2008. The sma...

Many Minority Serving Institutions (MSI) in the United States lack sufficient resources and knowledge to take significant advantage of the national and international computational resources available to advance computational science research and education. National challenges raised for Homeland Security (HS) have focused US government attention on...

The Computing Alliance of Hispanic Serving Institutions (http://cahsi.fiu.edu), a consortium of 7 institutions focused on the recruitment, retention, and advancement of Hispanics in computing, is implementing and promoting the development of recruitment mechanisms to attract other majors to the field of computer science. CS has lost roughly 50% of...

The Computing Alliance of Hispanic Serving Institutions (CA-HSI) is a consortium of eight institutions that is committed to increasing the number of Hispanics who earn baccalaureate and advanced degrees in computing. CA-HSI is implementing and promoting the development of peer-led team learning (PLTL) in the computing curriculum as one of its inter...

This panel presents the Computing Alliance of Hispanic-Serving Institutions. The Alliance, developed by eight HSIs with funding from the NSF's Broadening Participation Program, seeks to increase the numbers of Hispanics in all areas of computing, including increasing the number of Hispanic students who enter the professoriate, retaining and advanci...

The existing successful automated computerized systems more or less simulate the way successful human teachers teach. However, computerized systems provide more individualized options that traditional classroom education, and it is desirable to use this additional freedom to further improve the education success rate. In this papers, we briefly ove...

To check whether a new algorithm is better, re- searchers use traditional statistical techniques for hypotheses testing. In particular, when the results are inconclusive, they run more and more simulations (n2 > n1, n3 > n2, . . . , nm > nm¡1) until the results become conclusive. In this paper, we point out that these results may be misleading: in...

In many real-life situations, we are interested in the value of a physical quantity y that is difficult or impossible to measure directly. To estimate y, we find some easier-to-measure quantities x1 ; : : : ; xn which are related to y by a known relation y = f(x1 ; : : : ; xn). Measurements are never 100% accurate; hence, the measured values e x i...

Robust and resilient interconnected structures rely on decision procedures, both under uncertainty and multicriteria. In decision under uncertainty, we aim at finding a scoring procedure to determine an optimal decision without prior knowledge on the actual state of the world. In multicriteria decision making, the state of the world is known but we...

A team of Bulgarian and U.S. researchers (*) collaborated to study the problem of economic transition, using an operational Bulgarian winery as the focus of their research. System dynamics modeling was selected as a tool to allow Bulgarian management to simulate the impact of decisions within key functional processes such as 1) market selection, 2)...

Targeting behavior of vehicles in the battlefield (target analysis) is one of the most critical tasks in computer generated force (CGF) systems. This is simply because of many complex and ambiguous factors that can affect the targeting behavior of such systems in the real world. There have been many approaches including using fuzzy set theory for t...

For large aerospace structures, it is extremely important to detect faults, and nondestructive testing is the only practical way to do it. Based on measurements of ultrasonic waves, Eddy currents, magnetic resonance, etc., we reconstruct the locations of the faults. The best (most efficient) known statistical methods for fault reconstruction are no...

In decision under uncertainty, we aim at finding a scoring procedure to determine an optimal decision without prior knowledge on the actual state of the world. It is well known that the probability approach to this problem leads to paradoxes, that are related to independence properties required on the preferences. This naturally leads us to drop ad...

The more complex the problem, the more complex the system necessary for solving this problem. For very complex problems, it is no longer possible to design the corresponding system on a single resolution level, it becomes necessary to have multi-level, multiresolutional systems, with multi-level granulation. When analyzing such systems – e.g., when...

Current computer security systems are based on the premise that once a user presents valid credentials to the authentication system (e.g. valid ID and password), they are granted access permission to all resources assigned to the user that they claim to be. However, numerous studies have shown that most security breaches are done by unauthorized us...

Sugeno integral was invented a few decades ago as a natural fuzzy-number analogue of the classical integral. Sugeno integral has many interesting applications. It is reasonable to expect that it can be used in all application areas where classical integrals are used, and in many such areas it is indeed useful. Surprisingly, however, it has never be...

Chronic pain is a serious health problem affecting millions of people worldwide. Currently, spinal cord simulation is one of the most effective methods of easing the chronic pain. For most patients, a careful selection of weak electric currents enables to drastically decrease the pain level. The first devices offered only a few possible regimes, an...

A decision maker is confronted with a finite set of possible courses of action, each of which can generate one of several possible outcomes. The decision maker must make a (possibly infinite) sequence of such decisions, the consequence of each decision being fed back to him so that the estimated averages can be updated before the next course of act...

A mechanism for a decision maker ethically bound to pursue the best available course of action is studied. The model allows for feedback information to be input for each cycle of decision making. This type of information-feedback loop is relevant to many real decision making situations. Equations describing the updated expected utility in terms of...

In this article we obtain two closely related theorems that essentially say that, no matter what information metric is used, on the average the value of the accumulated information at stopping time is bounded by a multiple of the expected stopping time. These results are also independent of the particular stopping strategy employed, although they d...

In this paper we obtain two closely related theorems that essentially say that no matter what information metric is used, on the average the value of the accumulated information at stopping time is bounded by a multiple of the expected stopping time. These results are also independent of the particular stopping strategy employed although they do re...

The authors considered the problem of writing a curriculum for the first two years of college mathematics that would consist of a year of calculus and a year of discrete mathematics. They imposed the further constraint that it should be possible to take either year alone, and therefore to take both in either order. It was recognized that this const...

As we have been discussing what should constitute a new sequence of courses for the first two-year curriculum, several questions arise as to the placing of topics from the areas of Introductory Probability/Statistics. 1. Should some topics from these areas be included in this new curriculum? 2. if so, the effectiveness as to how well they are taugh...

This chapter discusses a bang–bang type theorem for measures. In systems theory, a very important result is the bang–bang principle. Many forms of this theorem are available. The chapter presents a theoretical framework where bang–bang type theorems may be phrased. In this framework, measures are allowed to be controls. This setting includes point...

Summary We give an intrinsic (set theoretical) method to obtain all realcompletions of a Tychonoff space X. It is based on the concept of a spectral structure. Every realcompletion of the space can be obtained as a space of terminal clusters relative to an appropriate spectral structure on X. Various applications of this concept are then given. For...

This chapter describes a nonlinear integral and a bang–bang theorem. In systems theory, the bang–bang theorem plays a very important role. The Lyapunov theorem asserts that the range of an Rn valued vector measure is compact convex is an immediate consequence of the theorem. The bang–bang theorem for finite-dimensional linear systems is stated as a...

The present work is a study of multivalued functions and measures which have many applications to mathematical economics and control problems. Both have received considerable attention in recent years. We study the set of selectors of the space of all p- integrable, X- valued additive set functions. This space contains an isometrically imbedded cop...

Under investigation are measures m defined on a σ-algebraA with range in a Banach space X having a Schauder basis {xn}. Utilizing the corresponding coefficient functionals and coefficient measures, we study the interaction between properties for these measures and properties for the existing measure m. For the spaceCA(A, X) of all countably additiv...

For a Banach space E and for 1 ⩽ p < ∞ let ⩽p<∞ let LEp(μ) = LEp(S,B,μ) denote all Bochner p-integrable E-valued functions on a measure space (S,B,μ). Under study are convergence theorems for integrals of functions in LEp(μ) with respect to Nemytskii measures. Weak integrals are then denoted to Hammerstein operators, and a study of topologies gener...

Under study is the existence of averaging operators determined by measurable maps φ from a measure space (S, Σ, μ) into an arbitrary Hausdorff topological space T. The map φ induces a continuous map φe from the space Cb(T) into the normed (Banach) function space Lϱ = Lϱ(S, Σ, μ) defined by φe(f)=foφ for all f ε Cb(T). An integral representation for...

We develop in this article a strong nonlinear integral and obtain a Riesz-type theorem (utilizing this integral) for the class of (nonlinear) Hammerstein operators. The integral is extended to the class E() of E-valued totally -measurable functions and convergence theorems are studied. Then an exchange of information is carried out between the oper...

If M[ℬ, U(C, C)] is the collection of U(C, C)-valued (non-linear) set functions defined on the Borel subsetsℬ of the compact Hausdorff space S, one may define operators on M[ℬ, U(C, C)] which are « of the Hammerstein type ». We initiate a study of a concept analogous to the second dual of a space of continuous functions by inquiring as to what repr...

Let T be a locally compact Hausdorff space and E a Banach space. Let K(T, E) be the set of all continuous E-valued functions on T with compact support. We consider the representation of the second dual of K(T, E) when K(T, E) is normed with the usual sup norm. We demonstrate that an operator in the second dual of K(T, E) is, in a certain sense, app...

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In this paper we obtain a Radon-Nikodym theorem for positive linear functionals on a B*-algebra M. Some corollaries analogous to those obtained in the classical case are also obtained here. It is known that if X is a Banach space, then the space L1(Ω, X) of Bochner integrable functions on a probability space Ω with values in X is the completion (in...

In this paper the concept of vector valued, absolutely continuous functions on an idempotent semigroup is studied. For F a function of bounded variation on the semigroup S of semicharacters with values of F in the Banach space X, let A = AC(S, Xt F) be all those functions of bounded variation which are absolutely continuous with respect to F. A rep...

As the title states, we are concerned with the extension from a subspace to the whole space of continuous functions whose functional values lie in a linear topological vector space. We relate this concept to that of extending a continuous pseudometric from the subspace. The latter concept has been shown to be useful in many spaces, expecially colle...