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Item Effectiveness of a Mediterranean Diet on Wound Healing(2021) Tran, Tommy; Chung, Elizabeth; Nguyen, DannyNutrition is often overlooked when it comes to wound healing. We examine the positive impact of implementing a Mediterranean diet plan for patients that suffer from thermal wounds on the rate of skin healing.Item Predicting High-Performance Concrete Compressive Strength with Machine Learning(2019) Tran, TommyRecent technological advances in computer hardware and software enable complex computations and allow handling intensive data sets. In particular, the development of machine learning tools has enabled us to extract science and patterns from larger heterogeneous data. Herein, we utilize machine learning to address problems in civil engineering—predict the compressive strength of high-performance concrete based on the composition of the ingredients. Although there are prior efforts on using Artificial Neural Networks to predict the compressive strength, herein we employ more advanced and modern machine learning techniques and algorithms—Keras, Tensorflow, and scikit-learn Python libraries—to make predictions. Specifically, we will use supervised machine learning methods—deep neural networks and support vector machines—for modeling the performance of HPC. The dataset used contains 1,030 batches of HPC and was obtained from the University of California, Irvine Machine Learning Repository. Using numerical experiments, we show that machine learning is an effective tool for predicting concrete properties, and neural networks of the multilayer perceptron type giving higher predictability than support vector machines for this particular dataset.