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  • Mechanical design under changing customer requirements case study : BugID

    Creator:
    Fagan, Chris R.
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    Customer requirements and engineering specifications will influence the direction of the design in any product, so it is crucial to make the requirements as stable as possible so quality designs can be produced on time within a budget. It would be optimal for requirements and specifications to remain constant but...
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    Masters Thesis
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    ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Chris R. Fagan for the degree of Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering

  • Nanoparticle-assisted diffusion brazing of metal microchannel arrays : nanoparticle synthesis, deposition, and characterization

    Creator:
    Eluri, Ravindranadh T.
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    Microchannel process technology (MPT) offers several advantages to the field of nanomanufacturing: 1) improved process control over very short time intervals owing to shorter diffusional distances; and 2) reduced reactor size due to high surface area to volume ratios and enhanced heat and mass transfer. The objective of this thesis...
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    Dissertation
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    and encouraging advices. My appreciation is extended to Mr. Steve Etringer and Mr. Jack Rundel

  • Improving automated email tagging with implicit feedback

    Creator:
    Sorower, Mohammad Shahed
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    Machine learning systems are generally trained offline using ground truth data that has been labeled by experts. However, these batch training methods are not a good fit for many applications, especially in the cases where complete ground truth data is not available for offline training. In addition, batch methods do...
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    Dissertation
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    . `Message R/O' indicates the total number of times a message was opened in Outlook Explorer or in Outlook

  • Variational Typing and Its Applications

    Creator:
    Chen, Sheng
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    The study of variational typing originated from the problem of type inference for variational programs, which encode numerous different but related plain programs. In this dissertation, I present a sound and complete type inference algorithm for inferring types of all plain programs encoded in variational programs. The proposed algorithm runs...
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    Dissertation
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    verify that for the unification problems (2.1) and (2.2), UR returns θ2 23 UR : (τL,τR) → ξ UR(a

  • Machine learning for improving the quality of citizen science data

    Creator:
    Yu, Jun
    Abstract:
    Citizen Science is a paradigm in which volunteers from the general public participate in scientific studies, often by performing data collection. This paradigm is especially useful if the scope of the study is too broad to be performed by a limited number of trained scientists. Although citizen scientists can contribute...
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    Dissertation
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    , Brian Sullivan, Chris Wood, Jeff Gerbracht and Steve Kelling. Thanks to their supports in my research

  • Learning and Improving Policies for Probabilistic Planning Problems

    Creator:
    Issakkimuthu, Murugeswari
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    In this work, we study the problem of learning and improving policies for probabilistic planning problems. In the first part, we train neural network policies for probabilistic planning problems modeled as factored Markov decision problems. The objective is to train problem-specific neural networks via supervised learning to imitate the action...
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    Dissertation
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    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 2.4 FC-DRP vs S-DRP vs R-DRP Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 3.1 Game-of-Life

  • Improving the Effectiveness of Answering Keyword Queries Using Effective Subsets

    Creator:
    Khodadadi, Abtin
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    Most database users do not know formal query languages, such as SQL, and prefer to express their information needs using usable query languages, such as keyword queries. Keyword queries, however, are inherently ambiguous and challenging for the database systems to understand and answer effectively. We propose a novel approach to...
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    Capstone Project
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    Environment We run the experiments on a Linux server with 30 Intel(R) Xeon(R) 2.30GHz cores, 500GB of memory

  • Evaluation functions in aerial image segmentation

    Creator:
    Langford, William T.
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    Remote sensing is the most practical way to acquire large amounts of land cover data for monitoring and understanding environmental change, so it is important to be able to map land cover from imagery. Maps defining land cover patches as polygons rather than pixels greatly improve processing efficiency in models...
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    Dissertation
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    a good person. Many other professors helped me along the way, but Chaur-Fong Chen, Steve Giovannoni

  • The density signature

    Creator:
    Migler-VonDollen, Theresa
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    In real networks, identifying dense regions is of great importance. For example, in a network that represents academic collaboration, authors within the densest component of the graph tend to be the most prolific. Dense subgraphs often identify communities in social networks. And dense subgraphs can be used to discover regulatory...
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    Dissertation
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    δlex(u) ≤ δP R(u) (2.1) u∈U u∈U This is because u∈U δlex(u) is the number of edges in G[U

  • Inclusive Software Design and Its Methods for Beyond-WIMP User Interfaces

    Creator:
    Fallatah, Abrar
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    While digital inclusivity researchers and software practitioners have been trying to address exclusion biases in Windows, Icons, Menus, and Pointers (WIMP) user interfaces (UIs) for a long time, little has been done to investigate if and how inclusive software design and its methods that have been devised for WIMP UIs...
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    Dissertation
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    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 5.1 Excerpts from personas that Team Intersect-R created to represent (a) Low- SES Immigrant