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  • Pattern recognition of speech using hybrid computer feature extraction

    Creator:
    Herr, Alan Jack
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    Most technological problems associated with man-machine conversations have been solved and are well documented in both the contemporary technical and lay literature. The major remaining technological problem is the real time conversion of a human's vocal uterances into a "written" phoneme sequence representing the information content of speech. The work...
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    Feature Extractor 44 Definitions of Phonetic Features 46 Secondary Feature Extraction 49 Pattern

  • Patterns in coastal marsh vegetation of the Juneau area, Alaska

    Creator:
    Stone, Catherine S.
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    A vegetation study was made of four coastal marshes near Juneau, Alaska. Results confirmed earlier studies' findings in southeast Alaska that communities or assemblages of species can be identified but from marsh to marsh these assemblages appear to have no consistent relationship to each other or to environmental "factors" such...
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    , Alaska AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Catherine S. Stone for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the

  • DNA recovery and identification from stone tool microcracks

    Creator:
    Shanks, Orin C.
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    The studies described here introduce a model for residue preservation on stone tools. They simulate stone tool manufacture in order to define parameters important for the study of DNA residues. Microscopic examination of stone tools has identified microcracks that trap DNA and protein from animal blood cells. Thorough investigation of...
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    . Spatial distribution of features and samples(chipped stone, bones, and sediments) tested for DNA

  • A contribution to the development of wide band-gap nonlinear optical and laser materials

    Creator:
    Stone-Sundberg, Jennifer L.
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    The primary focus of this work is on examining structure-property relationships of interest for high-power nonlinear optical and laser crystals. An intuitive and simply illustrated method for assessing the nonlinear optical potential of structurally characterized noncentrosymmetric materials is introduced. This method is applied to materials including common quartz and tourmaline...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Jennifer L. Stone-Sundberg for the

  • Gathering information rich customer needs for inclusive product design

    Creator:
    Armstrong, Jessica
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    This work explores a framework for the gathering and analysis of information rich customer needs, with the goal of informing inclusive product design practice. The goal is to be able to provide information and experience to designers so that they can better understand the needs of exceptional users and include...
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    . Abstract approved: ______________________________________________________ Robert B. Stone This

  • A computer control algorithm for a nuclear reactor support system

    Creator:
    Kosorok, John Roger
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    The High Temperature Lattice Test Reactor (HTLTR) at Richland, Washington, operates at temperatures up to 1000°C. Its low nuclear power requires a 384 kilowatt electrical heating system, that is divided into four circuits, to attain the high temperatures in the ten-foot cube of moderating graphite. This thesis describes the design...
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    to compensate for the interactions between circuits of the heating system. Important features of

  • Automated feature extraction for orientation and slicing in microlamination

    Creator:
    Ariastuti, Retna
    Abstract:
    The research is about developing a computerized design system for microtechnology-based energy, and chemical systems (MECS). MECS devices are a part of microfabrication, which primarily focuses on taking advantage of the extremely high rates of heat and mass transfer available in microstructures. It typically consists of intricate arrays of components...
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    , the feature definition can be limited to through-type features. This will allow the feature

  • Efficient training and feature induction in sequential supervised learning

    Creator:
    Hao, Guohua
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    Sequential supervised learning problems arise in many real applications. This dissertation focuses on two important research directions in sequential supervised learning: efficient training and feature induction. In the direction of efficient training, we study the training of conditional random fields (CRFs), which provide a flexible and powerful model for sequential...
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    CRFs are slow, particularly in problems with large numbers of potential input features and feature

  • Radar and Optical Remote Sensing of Submesoscale Frontal Features

    Creator:
    Simpson, Alexandra J.
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    The coastal region is home to many types of surface fronts that exist on a submesoscale (1-10 $km$). While in situ observations capture point or transect observations of frontal behavior subsurface, their complex spatial patterns can be well-captured using remote sensing techniques, which provide synoptic views of the ocean surface...
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    : Radar and Optical Remote Sensing of Submesoscale Frontal Features Abstract approved: Merrick C. Haller

  • Dynamic simulation model of transpiration process with stomatal control mechanism

    Creator:
    Woo, Kwang Bang
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    Because the life processes of the plant are related in a complex way to the balance between the water demand of the atmosphere and the water availability to the plant root, an exploration of the dynamic status of water in the plant is very important. The stomata constitute the main...
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    for the encouragement and advice given by Professor Louis N. Stone for this research. His final