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  • Ocean electric energy extraction opportunities

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    Zhang, Heng
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    The world's oceans contain tremendous renewable energy potentials. It is estimated that if 0.2% of the ocean's untapped energy could be harnessed, it could provide power sufficient for the entire world [1]. This thesis provides a comprehensive description of the state-of-the-art of ocean energy extraction technologies and lessons learned from...
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    Masters Thesis
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Heng Zhang for

  • Applied color processing

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    Zhang, Heng
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    The quality of a digital image pipeline relies greatly on its color reproduction which should at a minimum handle the color constancy, and the final judgment of the excellence of the pipeline is made through subjective observations by humans. This dissertation addresses a few topics surrounding the color processing of...
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    Dissertation
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    THE DISSERTATION OF Heng Zhang for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer

  • Transition Metal Oxides for Aqueous Electrochemical Energy Storage

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    Jiang, Heng
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    In the 21st century, environmental deterioration is now an indisputable fact. Reliable and economically viable electricity systems based on renewable sources are urgently needed to replace the environmentally detrimental fossil fuels. The feasibility of incorporating renewable-but-intermittent solar and wind energy heavily depends on the development of cost-effective and safe technologies,...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Heng

  • Sources of flow maldistribution in microreactor-assisted synthesis of ceria nanoparticles

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    Tseng, Chih-Heng
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    Recent efforts show that microchannel technologies have much to offer the field of nanomanufacturing: the structuring of matter on the order of one billionth of a meter. During the synthesis of nanomaterials, microchannel reactors take advantage of large surface-to-volume ratios to accelerate heat and mass transport. This accelerated transport allows...
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                          AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Chih-Heng Tseng for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in

  • Painterly rendering using space-time varying style parameters

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    Kagaya, Mizuki
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    Automatic painterly rendering systems have been proposed but they opted for selecting a single style to generate paintings from images, which lacks the ability of creatively using multiple styles to focus important objects and deemphasize unimportant part of the scenes. We provide a multi-style painting framework to address this issue...
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    Masters Thesis
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    -Time Varying Style Parameters Abstract approved: Eugene Zhang Automatic painterly rendering systems

  • Technology in college classrooms : an action research examining the use of PowerPoint in ELL classrooms

    Creator:
    Zhang, Weiwei
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    This research looks at the use of PowerPoint as an instructional tool for teaching English language learners (ELL) who studied in a language program at a state university in the Pacific Northwest. The purpose of the research was to discover and to explore the perceptions of PowerPoint supported teaching and...
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    ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Weiwei Zhang for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Education

  • Interactive 3D line integral convolution on the GPU

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    Lakshmanan, Vasumathi
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    The Line Integral Convolution (LIC) is a mainstay of flow visualization. It is, however, computationally intensive, which limits its interactivity. Also, when used to view three-dimensional (3D) vector fields, the resulting images are dense and cluttered, making it difficult to perceive the flow on the interior parts of the field....
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    Masters Thesis
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    . I thank Dr. Ron Metoyer and Dr. Eugene Zhang, whose courses have helped me in gaining

  • Action Segmentation with Limited Supervision

    Creator:
    Li, Jun
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    In this dissertation, we address action segmentation in videos under limited supervision. The goal of action segmentation is to predict an action class for each frame of a video. The limited supervision means ground truth labels of video frames are not available in training. We focus on three types of...
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    , Professor Fuxin Li, Professor Alan Fern and Professor Yue Zhang. I thank Professor Fuxin Li for his insight

  • Robust and Efficient Classification of Videos in the Wild

    Creator:
    Mahasseni, Behrooz
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    Recognizing human actions in videos is a long-standing problem in computer vision with a wide range of applications including video surveillance, content retrieval, and sports analysis. This thesis focuses on addressing efficiency and robustness of video classification in unconstrained real-world settings. The thesis work can be broadly divided into four...
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    Dissertation

  • Investigation of Thermal Degradation in Structural Alloys for Nuclear Power Systems

    Creator:
    Teng, Fei
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    The thermal degradation of structural materials is considered to be a key factor for evaluating the lifetime of current nuclear power plants. Ni-based and Fe-based alloys, such as 690, 625, 304, and 316, are widely used in nuclear industry as structural components due to the extraordinary corrosion resistance and mechanical...
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    . McMurtrey performed part of the EDS and X-ray CT characterization of AM316L. Mr. Ching-Heng Shiau assisted

  • A local perturbation problem of the 3D Navier-Stokes equations

    Creator:
    Zeng, Jhih-Jyun
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    This dissertation explores mathematical theory of the 3 dimensional incompressible Navier-Stokes equations that consists a set of partial differential equations which govern the motion of Newtonian fluids and can be seen as Newton's second law of motion for fluids. The main interest of this work focuses on how local perturbation...
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    for their kind support. I also would like to thank Dr. Yue Zhang for serving on my committee as a GCR

  • Towards Annotation-Efficient Video Representation Learning

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    Patravali, Jay Sanjay
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    Labeling videos is costly, time-consuming and tedious. These costs can escalate in applications such as medical diagnosis or autonomous driving where we need domain expertise for annotation. Few-shot action recognition aims to solve this problem by annotation-efficient learning mechanisms. This thesis presents MetaUVFS as the first Unsupervised Meta-learning algorithm for...
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    Masters Thesis

  • Genome Resource Development for Advancement of Corylus avellana Breeding

    Creator:
    Talbot, Samuel Corcoran
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    The European hazelnut (Corylus avellana L.) is a tree nut crop that is important in Oregon, which produces 99% of the United States’ hazelnuts but only 5% of the world’s supply. In order to maintain this market share, farmers in Oregon need cultivars that produce high quality nuts, mature early,...
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    Masters Thesis

  • The Development and Application of a Systems Biology Approach to Mapping Monocyte Gene Regulatory Networks.

    Creator:
    Choudhury, Mudra
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    While monocytes are vital for host defense against pathogens, in cases of non-resolving inflammation, monocytes and their differentiated progeny can secrete tissue-damaging factors, present auto-antigens, and promote the inflammatory response. In this study, a systems biology approach was used to map human monocyte gene regulatory regions by integrating expression quantitative...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    , GATA1, GATA2, HNF4A, RARA, RB1, RUNX1, RUNX3, SOX2, STAT3, VDR [18] 2004 C. Shi, X. Zhang, Z

  • The Development and Application of a Systems Biology Approach to Mapping Monocyte Gene Regulatory Networks

    Creator:
    Choudhury, Mudra
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    While monocytes are vital for host defense against pathogens, in cases of non-resolving inflammation, monocytes and their differentiated progeny can secrete tissue-damaging factors, present auto-antigens, and promote the inflammatory response. In this study, a systems biology approach was used to map human monocyte gene regulatory regions by integrating expression quantitative...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    , GATA1, GATA2, HNF4A, RARA, RB1, RUNX1, RUNX3, SOX2, STAT3, VDR [18] 2004 C. Shi, X. Zhang, Z

  • Automated Monitoring of Modular Construction Factories using Computer Vision

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    Panahi, Roshan
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    Modular construction is increasingly seen as an efficient construction method in terms of time, cost, and energy. The full realization of these advantages partly relies on the efficiency of the production process inside the modular factories, which currently rely on tedious manual monitoring methods or expensive automated techniques. As a...
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    physical progress of work (Zhang et al. 2009). Researchers have proposed methods to monitor the workers

  • Oxygenate Reactions over PdCu and PdAg Catalysts: Influence of Electronic and Geometric Effects

    Creator:
    Bathena, Tanmayi
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    Bimetallic catalysis is a promising way to tune the catalytic properties of heterogeneous catalysts. In particular, bimetallic catalysts are extensively used to enhance the selectivity of monometallic catalysts in a variety of contexts, from oxidation catalysis to oxygenate coupling. In this work, we investigate PdxCuy/SiO2 and PdxAgy/SiO2 catalysts in the...
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    Masters Thesis

  • New Techniques for Multi-Channel Biosignal Acquisition and Low-Power, Low-Resistance-Measurement Systems

    Creator:
    Kim, Jinyong
    Abstract:
    Dense electrical recording of biosignals has been developed to provide spatial resolution and precise temporal information for health monitoring, diagnostics, and clinical research. However, more electrodes require more wires, and wiring density quickly becomes a limiting factor. To break this bottleneck, we proposed a frequency-division multiplexing (FDM) based architecture for...
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    Dissertation

  • Learning with Limited Labeled Data in Natural Language Processing

    Creator:
    Obeidat, Rasha
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    The advent of deep learning models leads to a substantial improvement in a wide range of NLP tasks, achieving state-of-art performances without any hand-crafted features. However, training deep models requires a massive amount of labeled data. Labeling new data as a new task or domain emerges consumes time and efforts...
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    Dissertation

  • Knowledge Base Completion Leveraging Natural Language Data

    Creator:
    Shahbazi, Hamed
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    Information about named entities (real-world objects) is usually harvested from different sources and organized as a multiple relational directed graph in Knowledge Bases (KBs). KBs play essential roles in many NLP modules including question answering, fact-checking, search engines, etc. KBs are big but still incomplete: relational information among entities is...
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    Dissertation

  • Movement Pattern Detection Through IMU and Barometer

    Creator:
    Qian, Yang
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    Movement pattern detection can be applied in a variety of applications such as assisting independent living of seniors at home, behaviour understanding in surveillance systems, sports analytics, and robotics. This project develops a scheme that fuses information from different sensors to detect movement patterns. This report contains three main parts:...
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    Capstone Project
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    Cybernetics, volume 7, pages 4220–4225 Vol. 7, Aug 2005. [3] Cai Guowei and Chen, Ben M andLee, Tong Heng

  • Towards Narrative Understanding with Deep Neural Networks and Hidden Markov Models

    Creator:
    Orr, J. Walker
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    Narratives are central to communication and the human experience. For a computer system to understand a narrative, it must be able to identify the key facts or plot elements that describe what happened or how the world has changed. These element are called events;establishing a document’s events and the relationships...
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    Dissertation

  • Engineering an Ex-Vivo System to Study Transport Phenomena in the Human Intervertebral Disc

    Creator:
    Shalash, Ward
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    Back pain is the leading cause of disability worldwide, entailing a significant socioeconomic impact. A primary source of back pain can be attributed to intervertebral disc (IVD) degeneration allowing nerve ingrowth, facet joint arthritis, disc bulging, and osteophyte formations that press on nearby nerve roots or the spinal cord. While...
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    Dissertation

  • Electrochemical Reactions in Aqueous Batteries with Anionic Charge Carriers

    Creator:
    Gallagher, Trenton C.
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    In this dissertation, the primary objective is to discover more sustainable electrode materials and study new reaction mechanisms using aqueous electrolytes. The first study conducted reveals a reversible conversion reaction from copper to Cu2CO3(OH)2. The reaction mechanism uses OH- and CO32- as charge carriers at the cathode. The results open...
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    Dissertation
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    Ji Group that have helped me find success over the years: Sean K Sandstrom, Jeff Wu, Dr. Heng Jiang

  • Adaptive Wing Loss for Robust Face Alignment via Heatmap Regression

    Creator:
    Wang, Xinyao
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    Heatmap regression has became one of the mainstream approaches to localize facial landmarks. As Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) are becoming popular in solving computer vision tasks, extensive research has been done on these architectures. However, the loss function for heatmap regression is rarely studied. In...
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    Masters Thesis

  • Non-enzymatic electrochemical sensors based on functionalized nanomaterials

    Creator:
    Wu, Bo
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    Unlike other biosensing, electrochemical biosensor has the advantages of robustness, easy miniaturization, excellent detection limits, and capability in handling small analyte volumes. The detection selectivity of the electrochemical biosensors is mainly supported by bioreceptors. However, these receptors always suffer from the performance variation caused by the environment and the thermal-...
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    Dissertation
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    and Boxin Zhang), Dr. Guangxi Feng and Dr. Sivashanmugan Kundan for their academic support and

  • Exploring Indoor Navigation Based on 9-dof Kalman Filter and SLAM Algorithm

    Creator:
    Qin, Shuxian
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    Traditional localization techniques rely on triangulation or trilateration, where in a set of three or more stationary known locations is used to estimate a “client” position. For inertial navigation, these techniques can estimate client positions merely using the measured data from tri-axial accelerometers and gyroscopes. However, the use of double...
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    Capstone Project
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    they separately share the same roll and pitch angles [Zhang]. This is also the drawback of 6-dof

  • Novel Charge Carriers for Aqueous Electrochemical Energy Storage

    Creator:
    Sandstrom, Sean K.
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    The continued long-term use of fossil fuels as a primary energy source has resulted in dramatic increases in greenhouse gas emissions and the associated concerns of climate change and environmental pollution. A key strategy to circumvent these issues is a global shift away from fossil fuels toward renewable energy sources....
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    Dissertation
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    . I would especially like to thank Dr. Heng Jiang and Dr. Yunkai Xu for their mentorship and help in

  • Storage Battery Chemistries with Earth Abundant Charge Carriers

    Creator:
    Hong, Jessica Junghwa
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    The demand for the development of sustainable energy is an all time high as we burn through limited fossil fuel reserves and as environmental concerns rise every year. Renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power have limitations due to inconsistent power supply that cannot meet the regular needs...
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    Dissertation
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    am especially grateful to Dr. Woochul Shin and Dr. Heng Jiang who came in to the Ji group with me

  • Integrating learning and search for structured prediction

    Creator:
    Doppa, Janardhan Rao
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    We are witnessing the rise of the data-driven science paradigm, in which massive amounts of data - much of it collected as a side-effect of ordinary human activity - can be analyzed to make sense of the data and to make useful predictions. To fully realize the promise of this...
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    Dissertation
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    starting from that state. Zhang and Dietterich (1995) use Reinforcement Learning (RL) methods to learn

  • Low-voltage data converters

    Creator:
    Meng, Qingdong
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    With the growing demand for portable/consumer electronics, such as digital audio/video (AV), the downscaling of device dimensions, which enables the integration of an increasing number of transistors in a single chip, is mandatory. This trend also continuously pushes the power supply voltage down to reduce the power consumption and improve...
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    Dissertation
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    Xuefeng Chen, Kyehyung Lee, Zhengyong Zhang, Jie Fang, Heng Zhang, Lin Wei, Xuesheng Wang, Yue Zhang

  • In silico screening of nanoporous materials for gas sensing and separation

    Creator:
    Gantzler, Nickolas
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    The utility of high-throughput, computational screening has become an invaluable asset to the field of materials science. In the hierarchy of computational methods, the most accurate methods are often the most computationally expensive. However, as both the efficiency and fidelity of numerical techniques advance, high-quality screening of large materials datasets...
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    Dissertation

  • Noise and Blocker Cancellation Techniques for Power and Area Efficient Wireless Receivers

    Creator:
    Pourbagheri, Saeed
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    The design of mobile wireless devices has always focused on reducing power, area, and cost. This dissertation proposes two techniques that are leveraged to save power and area and therefore cost. The first techniques reduces the noise in the receiver and results in a relaxed power requirement. The second technique...
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    Dissertation

  • Flavin-containing monooxygenase : metabolism and toxicity of anti-tuberculosis drug ethionamide in lung

    Creator:
    Singh, Priti B.
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    Multiple drug resistance (MDR) Tuberculosis (TB), leads to increased use of “second-line” drugs; one of the most effective is ethionamide (ETA). ETA is a prodrug metabolized by a mycobacterial flavin-containing monooxygenase (EtaA) as well human flavin-containing monooxygenases (FMOs). Of the five functional FMOs of humans, FMOs 1, 2, and 3...
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    Masters Thesis
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    2004; Cashman and Zhang 2002). FMO expression is developmentally 6 regulated, tissue-specific

  • Deep Segmentation in Plant Phenomics

    Creator:
    Kaur, Damanpreet
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    The abilities of plant biologists to characterize the genetic basis of physiological traits are limited by their abilities to obtain quantitative data representing precise details of trait variation and mainly to collect this data on a high-throughput scale at low cost. Deep learning-based methods have demonstrated unprecedented potential to automate...
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    Masters Thesis

  • Cross-Laminated Timber-Concrete Composite Floor Systems for Tall Building Design

    Creator:
    Morrell, Ian
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    With growing interest in mass timber, especially mass timber panels (MTP), there has been a need to better understand their structural properties. One of the most versatile uses for MTP are as floor systems. Under new code provisions, these floors can be utilized in new and taller building types, but...
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    Dissertation

  • Monte Carlo Radiation Transfer Simulations of Gamma Ray Burst Prompt Emission

    Creator:
    Parsotan, Tyler M.
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    Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) are the most energetic explosions in the Universe, producing up to $\sim10^{53}$ ergs of energy in the first few seconds of their emission -- the so-called prompt phase that is dominated by high energy X-ray and $\gamma$-ray photons. The very large luminosities released in these events...
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    magnetar (Usov, 1992; Zhang and Mészáros, 2001; Bucciantini et al., 2008) or a BH (Blandford and Znajek

  • Fundamental Studies of the Structure-Property Correlations of Na-ion and K-ion Storage in Non-Graphitic Carbon

    Creator:
    Li, Zhifei
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    Grid-scale energy storage systems are urgently needed to increase the flexibility and rigidity of the grid for modern society and take full advantage of the renewable green energy resources such as solar energy and wind energy. Na-ion batteries (NIBs) and K-ion batteries (KIBs) have been emerged as one of the...
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    Dissertation
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    . Xianyong Wu, Heng Jiang, Jessica Hong, and Woochul Shin, Shengyang Dong, Zhixuan Wei, Chong Zhang

  • Fine-Grained Object Recognition Under Limited Training Data

    Creator:
    Lam, Michael Q.
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    This dissertation addresses object recognition in challenging settings, where distinct object classes are visually very similar (e.g., species of birds and insects) and/or access to training examples of object classes is limited (e.g., due to the associated high costs of data annotation). In this dissertation, we present a variety of...
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    Dissertation

  • A Trend Analysis of Nitrate in the Southern Willamette Valley Groundwater Management Area (GWMA)

    Creator:
    Piscitelli, Cody M.
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    The shallow aquifer in Southern Willamette Valley (SWV) has high levels of nitrate, and we are exploring the time trends in nitrate, and the hydrologic and land management factors that contribute to this problem. Nitrogen (N) inputs to farmland from fertilizer is thought to be the primary source of nitrogen...
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    Masters Thesis
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    combustion 7 engines, oxidized nitrogenous compounds can be formed in these reactions (Zhang

  • New chemistry for electrochemical energy storage applications

    Creator:
    Wang, Xingfeng
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    Electrochemical capacitors and batteries are two major electrochemical energy storage technologies, which have been investigated extensively to meet the rapidly-growing demand for higher energy, higher power, lower cost and enhanced safety in the past few decades. With the charge storage mechanism of electrostatic charge adsorption desorption via electrical double layers,...
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    Dissertation
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    . Zhenyu Xing, Dr. Clement Bommier, Zhifei Li, Daniel Leonard, Ismael Rodriguez Perez, Heng Jiang

  • Object Tracking-by-Segmentation in Videos

    Creator:
    Chen, Sheng
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    This thesis focuses on the problem of object tracking. Given a video, the general objective of tracking is to track the location over time of one or more targets in the image sequence. This is a very challenging task as algorithms need to deal with problems such as appearance variations,...
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    Dissertation

  • Deep Learning for Human and Biological Languages

    Creator:
    Hong, Junki
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    We explore the application of deep learning to the disparate fields of natural language processing and computational biology. Both the sentences uttered by humans as well as the RNA and protein sequences found within the cells of their bodies can be considered formal languages in computer science, as sets of...
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    Dissertation
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    Miraç, He Zhang, Liang Zhang, Kai Zhao, and Renjie Zheng. I hope to see you all in the future. TABLE

  • Understanding Software-2.0: A Study of Machine Learning library usage and evolution

    Creator:
    Dilhara, Malinda, Ketkar, Ameya, and Dig, Danny
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    Enabled by a rich ecosystem of Machine Learning (ML) libraries, programming using learned models, i.e., Software-2.0, has gained substantial adoption. However, we do not know what challenges developers encounter when they use ML libraries. With this knowledge gap, researchers miss opportunities to contribute to new research directions, tool builders do...
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    Research Paper

  • A peer-to-peer communication system based on Walsh-Hadamard codes for fading environments

    Creator:
    Moranvil, William
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    High data rate transmission has become an important challenge in today digital communication systems. One of the most difficult problems faced by engineers is to transmit data at sufficiently high rates through fading channels. This is the main motivation for the research presented herein. In this thesis, we investigate a...
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    Masters Thesis
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    onto me. I also would like to thank my officemates Aruna Venkatasubramanyam, David Ohm, Heng Zhang

  • High-Energy Lithium-Sulfur Batteries and Non-Metallic Ion Aqueous Batteries: Integrating Experiment and Theoretical Modeling

    Creator:
    Shin, Woochul
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    Humanities have been craving more freedom and conveniences in whatever form. Carriages evolved to cars and ultimately to aircraft so that one can reach any place in the globe within a day. The mobile phone has enabled people to make a phone call without a need to find a phone...
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    . Taewu Kim for your useful advice. I here present my gratitude to Dr. Heng Jiang, Ms. Junghwa Hong

  • Towards Resolving Functional and Evolutionary Mysteries of the Large and Heterozygous Genome of Hop (Humulus lupulus) and the Cannabaceae Family Using Genomic Data Science

    Creator:
    Padgitt-Cobb, Lillian K.
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    Hop (Humulus lupulus L. var. lupulus) is a diploid, dioecious plant with an extensive history of cultivation and use in brewing, as a textile, and for its therapeutic properties. Hop is prized for its ability to produce a variety of aromatic and flavor compounds, as well as compounds with anti-microbial...
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    Dissertation

  • Optimization of cryoprotectant addition and removal procedures for vitrification of adherent mammalian cells

    Creator:
    Fry Davidson, Allyson
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    Cryopreservation of adherent cells may be advantageous for cell types that are difficult to preserve in suspension or when it is necessary to preserve characteristics of the adherent cultured cells. Vitrification is a promising procedure for the preservation of adherent cells that prevents ice crystal formation and the resulting dissociation...
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    Dissertation

  • The effects of enhanced expression of the GluN2B (NR2B) subunit of the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor on memory in aged animals

    Creator:
    Brim, Brenna L.
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    As the aging population continues to grow worldwide, age-related complications are becoming more apparent within the aging population. One of the first age-related complications to become apparent is age-associated memory impairment and it can make the elderly more dependent on caregivers early on. The N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor is important to...
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    Dissertation

  • Roadmap for BIM Adoption and Implementation by Small-Sized Construction Companies

    Creator:
    Ferron, Wyile J.
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    Building Information Modeling (BIM) offers a variety of tools to help a wide range of stakeholders in the construction industry. There has been substantial research on the advantages and challenges of implementing BIM for large and medium-sized construction companies; however, there is a dearth of research on the benefits and...
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    Masters Thesis
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    collaboration and better-quality projects. According to Zhang and Wang (2009), one of IPD’s characteristics is