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UMD Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP)  [132]

This collection contains works by students participating in the UMD Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP).

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Impact Resilience and Force Dissipation of Fiberglass Composite Panels versus a Steel Panel

Mamer, Alex P (2021-05-03)

This UROP research compared force dissipation and resiliency to impact loads between three fiberglass composite panels and an equivalent 1 in. thick steel plate of equivalent size to determine the composite specimens' ...

Exploring Mechanisms for the Evolution of One-Pixel-Attacks on Deep Neural Networks

Hnatek, Joseph (2021-05)

Recent studies from Su et al., (2019, and Nguyen, et al., 2015) have shown that Deep Neural Networks may have a weakness when it classifies an image. They have shown that when perturbing a single pixel in an image of size ...

Sunflower Evolution and Adaption to Climate Change

Levi, Sophie J; Spear, Marissa M; Etterson, Julie R; Gross, Briana L (2021-04-30)

Temperatures in Minnesota will rise drastically in the next several decades, and it is important to understand how plants will react to this climate change. Some researchers have studied these reactions with resurrection ...

Comparative Study on Elder Care in Fredrikstad, Duluth, and Sefrou: Reality for Elders Living in Three Small Urban Cultural Contexts

Myrah, Stine (2021-04-29)

As the world population ages, the need for elder care continues to increase. Current systems are struggling to keep up with the demand, and those providing care to the elderly are often overworked and overstressed. In ...

Understand the Workload Interference of Cloud Virtualizations

Sharma, Manjul (2021-04-28)

Cloud computing has grown in popularity and has become a go to solution for the computing needs of people and businesses. This introduces virtual machines to a variety of increased workloads and understanding their workloads ...

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