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  • Correlated level shifting as a power-saving method to reduce the effects of finite DC gain and signal swing in opamps

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    Gregoire, B. Robert
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    This thesis presents methods to reduce the effects of finite opamp DC gain, output voltage swing limitations in opamps, and component mismatches. The primary contribution of this thesis is a new switched-capacitor method named correlated level shifting (CLS). CLS enables true rail-to-rail operation by storing an estimate of the desired...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF B. Robert Gregoire for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in

  • Adaptive, wideband analog-to-digital conversion for convergent communication systems

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    Batten, Robert D., 1973-
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    The exponential rate of advances in modern communication devices in the last several years have brought us higher levels of functionality and performance as well as reductions in physical size and power consumption. To continue this rate of advancement, next generation systems require wider bandwidth and higher resolution ADCs. Additionally,...
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    C:/Users/Robert Batten/Documents/School/PhdThesis

  • On the study of WEC prototype advancement with consideration of real-time life extending control

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    Stillinger, Chad J.
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    Renewable energy is a topic of significant interest and importance in the world today. Ocean wave energy, particularly in areas such as the Oregon Coast, has considerable potential as a renewable resource. However, to rightly evaluate the overall cost of energy for wave energy converters, survivability and maintenance issues must...
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    :________________________________________________ Ted K. A. Brekken / Robert Paasch Renewable energy is a topic of significant

  • Machine Learning Methods for Computational Sustainability

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    Liu, Liping
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    Maintaining the sustainability of the earth’s ecosystems has attracted much attention as these ecosystems are facing more and more pressure from human activities. Machine learning can play an important role in promoting sustainability as a large amount of data is being collected from ecosystems. There are at least three important...
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  • Multi-instance multi-label learning : algorithms and applications to bird bioacoustics

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    Briggs, Forrest
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    We consider the problem of supervised classification of bird species from audio recordings in a real-world acoustic monitoring scenario (i.e. audio data is collected in the field with an omnidirectional microphone, without human supervision). Obtaining better data about bird activity can assist conservation efforts, and improve our understanding of their...
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  • Behavior graphs for data-driven animation of 3d characters

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    Srinivasan, Madhusudhanan
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    In this dissertation, we present a user-in-the-loop method for the design of an interactive motion data structure that benefits from the advantages of both motion graphs and blend-based techniques. Our novel approach automatically analyzes a traditional motion graph built from labeled motion clips. The result is a more condensed, coarser...
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    (Figure 2.4). Wiley and Hahn were among the earliest to introduce the notion of interpolated motion

  • Development of high efficiency solar absorbers

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    Ravichandran, Ram
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    Current cadmium telluride and copper indium gallium diselenide thin-film solar cells (TFSCs) utilize thick absorbers (2 - 4 μm). For efficient carrier extraction in these TFSCs, the absorber layer requires high carrier mobilities and a long minority carrier lifetime, which necessitates the use of a high purity, defect-free thin film....
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    group, including Dr. Robert Kokenyesi, Dr. Jaeseok Heo, Dr. Brian Pelatt, and Greg Angelos, has been

  • Interpretable Machine Learning: Applications in Biology and Genomics

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    Danaee, Padideh
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    Machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) models impact our daily lives with applications in natural language modeling, image analysis, healthcare, genomics, and bioinformatics. The exponential growth of biological sequence data necessitates accompanying advances in computational methods. Although deep learning is highly effective for detecting and classifying biological sequences, challenges...
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    graduate studies. CONTRIBUTION OF AUTHORS Mason Rouches, Michelle Wiley, Dezhong Deng, and Liang Huang

  • 3D Voronoi Subdivision for Simulating Destructible and Granular Materials

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    Clothier, Matthew M.
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    In many traditional computer graphics applications, rendered scenes typically utilize 3D meshes to represent objects within an environment. As the demand to further improve the realism of graphics applications increases, such as for movies and games, it is becoming more important to represent the inner volumes of object meshes. In...
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  • Computing Resource Usage as a Factor of Student Success

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    Moissinac, Béatrice
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    Learning Analytics and other branches of Educational Research such as Computing Education Research (CER) implicitly assume that students, especially college students, have no barriers to access learning platforms or software packages. This assumption may be attributed to such pervasive beliefs such as "everyone has a device", or "everyone can access...
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