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  • Fluid flow on interacting, deformable surfaces

    Creator:
    Neill, Patrick
    Abstract:
    Fluid simulation is an interesting research problem with a wide range of applications including mechanical engineering, special effects in movies and games, and scientific simulation. Due to the complex nature of typical fluid flow equations, there are circumstances where a full volumetric fluid simulation may not be necessary to generate...
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    Masters Thesis
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    represents the center of mass of particle set x. The goal is to find a rotation matrix R and translation

  • Application of Cosmogenic Nuclides and Argon Geochronology to Paleoclimate, Paleomagnetism, and Paleohydrology

    Creator:
    Balbas, Andrea M.
    Abstract:
    This dissertation uses argon geochronology and cosmogenic nuclide surface exposure dating methods to address three research questions. The first question concerns a geomagnetic instability recorded in lava flows on the island of Floreana in the Galapagos Archipelago. Changes in the Earth’s magnetic field (intensity and orientation) occur frequently throughout geologic...
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    Dissertation
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    assisted with project design and data interpretation. Brendan T. Reilly and Joseph Stoner assisted with

  • Applying Deep Learning in Street View Imagery for Environmental Health Research

    Creator:
    Zhang, Yifang
    Abstract:
    Urban green space is associated with multiple physical and mental health outcomes. Several benefits of green space, such as stress reduction and attention restoration, are dependent on visual perception of green space exposures. However, traditional green space exposure measures do not capture street-level exposures. In this project, we apply deep...
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    Capstone Project
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    to measure green space in street view imagery. We train Faster R-CNN model on PasadenaUrbanTree

  • Machine Learning for Precision Medicine: Application to Cancer Chemotherapy Response Prediction and Wound Healing Status Assessment

    Creator:
    Wei, Qi
    Abstract:
    Ph.D. candidate Qi Wei's thesis consists of two projects: Chemotherapy Project: a study based on the research paper "Predicting chemotherapy response of various cancer types using a variational auto-encoder approach" submitted to the bioRxiv preprint archive and accepted by the BMC bioinformatics; and Wound Monitor Project: implementing and assessing analytics...
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    Dissertation

  • Understanding the Similarities and Differences Between Academia and the Engineering Workplace through Barriers to Adoption, Epistemic Beliefs, and Problem-Solving Behavior

    Creator:
    Gestson, Sean Lyle
    Abstract:
    Engineering education research has led to a greater understanding of the gap in preparedness of students for the engineering industry. Multiple studies comparing the workplace and academic contexts and the participants in those contexts (i.e., students, faculty, and engineering practitioners) have emphasized similarities and differences between the two contexts by...
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    Dissertation
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    ; Kohl and Finkelstein 2008; Jarodzka et al. 2010; Rosengrant, Thomson, and Mzoughi 2009; R. B. Kozma

  • Computing Bounded Chains and Surfaces in a Simplicial Complex with Bounded-treewidth 1-skeleton

    Creator:
    Black, Mitchell
    Abstract:
    We consider three problems on simplicial complexes: the Optimal Bounded Chain Problem, the Optimal Homologous Chain Problem, and 2-Dim-Bounded-Surface. The Optimal Bounded Chain Problem asks to find the minimum weight d-chain in a simplicial complex K bounded by a given (d−1)-chain, if such a d-chain exists. The Optimal Homologous Chain...
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    Masters Thesis
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    for their guidance. I would also like to thank my collaborators Will Maxwell and Eli Winkelman for

  • How do Programmers Forage through Variants? Modeling Hierarchical Foraging and Changelogs

    Creator:
    Pandya, Bhargav Chandravadan
    Abstract:
    Complex information environments are often organized as hierarchies. However, computational models of Information Foraging Theory (IFT) have almost entirely ignored this fact. Models and tools for predicting programmer navigations have ignored people’s foraging behavior across hierarchies —called hierarchical foraging. Without modeling hierarchical foraging, our ability to build tools to support...
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    Masters Thesis
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    r, assign rank = r+(t-1)/2 to all t patch nodes. • Return the rank for the node representing the (k

  • Communication-Efficient Secure Two-Party Computation From Minicrypt and OT

    Creator:
    Roy, Lawrence
    Abstract:
    Secure two-party computation (2PC) is the task of performing arbitrary calculations on secret inputs provided by two parties, while maintaining secrecy if at least one party is honest. 2PC has been applied to privacy-preserving record linkage and machine learning, in areas such as medicine where maintaining privacy is crucial. One...
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    Dissertation
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    ∆ is split into two halves ∆ = ∆L∥∆R, and we require terms like H(X⊕∆)⊕∆L, H(X ⊕∆)⊕∆L ⊕∆R, etc. to be

  • Rigorous 3D Point Cloud Quality Assessment

    Creator:
    O'Banion, Matthew S.
    Abstract:
    The capabilities of modern three-dimensional (3D) capture technology such as laser scanning and image-based 3D reconstruction are well suited to enhance the practice and research of civil engineering. However, given the often-overwhelming focus placed on the incredible capabilities of these tools and techniques, it is important to investigate the limitations...
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    Dissertation
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    understanding and execution of the work presented in Chapter 5. Dr. Joseph Wartman contributed to the

  • A numerical study of inertial flow features in moderate Reynolds number flow through packed beds of spheres

    Creator:
    Finn, Justin Richard
    Abstract:
    In this work, flow through synthetic arrangements of contacting spheres is studied as a model problem for porous media and packed bed type flows. Direct numerical simulations are performed for moderate pore Reynolds numbers in the range, 10 ≤ Re ≤ 600, where non-linear porescale flow features are known to...
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    Dissertation
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    Body Fitted and Fictitious Domain Simulations of Flow Through Packed Beds Justin R. Finn and Sourabh