Our program design is the combining structure of Golang and Python. There are three main files in our tool, which are portfolio.go, stockHandler.go, and web_interface.py. Additionally, out test cases are in portfolio_test.go. While portfolio.go and stockHandler.go are served as the back-end of the program, web_interface.py is the front-end. The motivation behind this project is to facilitate tracking and organizing an investment portfolio to equip the user with the most up to date information in order to make the best investment decisions. We were in need of tools like this since we started making investments and we thought it would be great to make one ourselves. The overall goal of this tool is to track a set of stock market positions for multiple portfolios, store the data, and display it using meaningful graphs and charts. In this tool, there are numbers of packages that are installed to support the program. For Golang, piquette/finance-go package is used to get access to the latest stock data.

An automated text-mining tool written in Python to measure the technical responsibility of students in computer science courses, being used to analyze students' markdown reflection documents and five questions survey based on Natural Language Processing in the Department of Computer Science at Allegheny College.

My motivation for doing this research project was to possibly discover a new treatment for diseases. I wanted to see how regenerative genes in jellyfish interacted with human proteins. This type of research could potentially lead to ways that gene therapy could treat diseases. Studying regenerative genes could potentially help with degenerative diseases. Huntington’s disease and other degenerative diseases could be fixed with a breakthrough in this field of bioinformatics. I first wanted to see what similar work was already being done in the field. I looked at studies that talked about how jellyfish could regenerate structures in its body. I wanted to look for genes that were responsible for this function. I found one study, The Sine oculis/Six class family of homeobox genes in jellyfish with and without eyes, development and eye regeneration, which talked about how different gene expressions can cause different types of cell growth. I decided that I would be focusing on the findings of the one study, Regenerative Capacity of the Upside-down Jellyfish Cassiopea xamachana. (NCBI) This research article found the gene they found responsible for regeneration in the cells in one type of jellyfish. A couple of types of genes were identified in the study to be linked to the different types of cell regeneration in jellyfish. A link to Genbank was provided in the study to the protein sequence.

My interest area of research is studying crypto currency market transactions. I would like to see the different factors that contribute to market volatility. Using the Cardano Plutus playground, you are able to write applications that interact with the blockchain. My goal is to create an application that will help me understand how the Cardano blockchain works. I would like to know more about how the blockchain functions and how the hash is identified. Cardano has a large variety of builder tools on their development website. I want to look into using some of these tools to study the transactions more closely. I want to take a look at the different processes that take place behind the scenes. I believe that doing so will help me gain a better understanding of how the Cardano blockchain interacts with each other. Using the transaction’s metadata I can look at how Cardano stores information and authenticates the data. This will also help me in studying the market trends Cardano. I will be able to see when the market is trading and high trading volume times. Taking a look at these different factors helps me better understand when the market goes up and down. I would also like to possibly create my own cryptocurrency to use and test. Cardano allows you to create your own coin using the ADA blockchain. Daedalus wallet is also something that I will have to look into because the ADA coin uses that wallet. I hope to learn more about how crypto works and how transactions affect the market.

During my research I found a extreme lack of knowledge on how to use the blockchain sustainably. Many people have tried to address the energy issues the cryptocurrencies have but it have proven not successful. I took a look at multiple different studies. I found four that talked about ways that have already been attempted. There was also a study talking about how the different crypto currencies use different amounts of energy based on how their blockchain network is set up. I would like to take a look at how others have failed in the past and work to find better approaches. I believe that studying this will help to develop a new way to use the blockchain. With my research, I would like to create a way to use the blockchain consuming the least amount of energy. Something that would be great to find is a way to cost effectively use the blockchain by consuming the least amount of electricity. Attempts in the past have not been able to overcome the challenge of accumulating large amounts of transactions fees. I would like to find a way around this in my research and continue on looking for new ways to do this.

To conduct my research, many factors need to be considered for its feasibility. Creating a cryptocurrency requires the use of software and hardware. Some of the hardware equipment that would be necessary would be a server. This could be something that I would have to build on my own. This would be rather expensive to do. There is also the option of paying people to host the server. While less expensive, I would have less access to the blockchain ledgers. This is something that I would have to weigh the pros and cons for. A software tool that I will have to familiarize my self with is the plutus playground tool. With this tool I will be able to interact with the blockchain. I will also be able to create policies that the blockchain will operate on. Another tool is learning how the cardano node tool works. Installing it is nessasary for creating a node. The final tool that I will need to look into is the Marlowe tool that allows me to create contracts on the blockchain. This will be what I conduct my research with. Hopefully if everything goes well I will have a fully functioning blockchain that I created through the cardano network. If I do get it working, I would be able to test it by sending and receiving transactions. This would be the bench mark for it working. Another thing thing would be if I am able to mint and burn tokens.

For this project, I created a prototype for a cryptocurrency on the Ethereum blockchain. I was able to accomplish this by learning a little bit about a language called Solidity. Using this language I was able to write a token that is able to mint, burn, and conduct transactions. I based my token on the ERC20 standard for crypto since this was just a basic test to see how hard it was to create a token. With ERC20, this allowed me to see the total supply, balance of, transfer, and transfer from. I was able to import the basic library for the standard. From there I had to write the token script and tweak some other code for it to work. After I was done creating the prototype, I had something that worked like a basic cryptocurrency. I was able to mint coins for wallets and burn them. I also was able to send coins between wallets. Creating this made me learn and understand how the blockchain works on a lower level. In the future, I would like to keep exploring the different ways to set up a blockchain. This is a good starting point however, I would like to still keep my options open and possible change networks.

For my experiment, I wanted to take a look at making a unique token on the blockchain. I wanted to do this through a proof of history system. I originally had my prototype crypto through Etherium. After learning more about the different pros and cons of each system, I eventually decided to switch networks. I switched to Solana because it allowed me to more easily create a POH contract on their blockchain. It also has the added benefit of handing transactions faster and cheaper due to the lattice network configuration. Creating the smart contract for my token required me to set up a dedicated server to run my contract from. While most of the code for the token is stored there, Solana also conducts the transaction through their network. This can then be tracked through the white pages of Solana. With this, I am able to see how much each wallet has stored in it and what percentage of the market they hold. Currently, my crypto is fully operational and transactions can be conducted using it like any other token. The policy that I minted allows me to mint more tokens at any given time.

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