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  • Patient Compliance Effects on Simulated Ebola Medical Care Delivery with a Telepresence Robot

    Creator:
    Brian, Makenzie M.
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    When treating highly infectious diseases, patient compliance with caregiver recommendations is crucial. Many patients who contract Ebola Virus Disease have symptoms including vomiting and severe diarrhea and die from the resulting dehydration if they do not drink enough fluids. Telepresence robots are useful in the context of Ebola treatment for...
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    Simulated Ebola Medical Care Delivery with a Telepresence Robot Abstract approved: William D. Smart When

  • Destabilization of a Stratified Shear Layer by Ambient Turbulence

    Creator:
    Li, Lin
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    A small eddy viscosity or mass diffusivity that varies with height has been found to have unexpected effects on the Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) instability of a stably stratified shear layer near the neutral stability boundary. In particular, varying viscosity can increase the growth rate of the instability in contrast to the...
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    : ______________________________________________________ William D. Smyth ABSTRACT A small eddy viscosity or mass diffusivity that varies with

  • Privacy-Sensitive Robotics

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    Rueben, Matthew R.
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    This dissertation focuses on personal privacy in human-robot interaction, which we call "privacy-sensitive robotics." Our understanding of "privacy" is very broad, including not just information privacy but also physical, psychological, and social privacy. We begin by surveying the scholarly literature on privacy and talking about why it applies to interactions...
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    Robotics Abstract approved: William D. Smart This dissertation focuses on personal privacy in human

  • Robots Against Infectious Diseases : A Technologically Grounded, Human-Centered Exploration

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    Kraft, Kory
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    Robots have the potential to protect health care workers, provide patient care, and ultimately save lives in infectious disease outbreaks. Nevertheless, infectious disease outbreak scenarios present unique technological and social challenges for robotics. This work explores what robots can and should do in the fight against infectious diseases. We present...
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    Technologically Grounded, Human-Centered Exploration Abstract approved: William D. Smart Robots have the

  • Making the Unconscious Unconscious : Reclaiming Microinteractions for People with Motor Disabilities

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    Lazewatsky, Daniel A.
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    Numerous diseases and injuries can limit a person's ability to perform everyday tasks -- things like getting dressed, bathing, and eating. Anything that requires physical activity can be affected; even simple things like turning on the lights can become difficult or impossible. Until recently, the only way for a person...
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    Abstract approved: William D. Smart Numerous diseases and injuries can limit a person’s ability to

  • A shared-autonomy heavy-lift assistive robot for manufacturing

    Creator:
    Finley, Taylor M.
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    Automating pick-and-place operations for large steel castings in a foundry is challenging, particularly from a perception point of view. Accurately estimating the identity and orientation of a given part is an open and complex problem, especially if that part sits in a bin of very similar parts. The problem is...
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    : ______________________________________________________ William D. Smart Automating pick-and-place operations for large steel castings in a

  • On-farm inquiry and assessment of tillage and cover cropping for white mold control in snap bean production

    Creator:
    Harrison, Elizabeth Langham.
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    Cultural practices in snap bean production were evaluated at the Oregon State University Vegetable Research Farm Corvallis, Oregon. In addition, decision-making in snap bean production was assessed on five farms in the Coburg-Junction City-Harrisburg regions of the Willamette Valley, Oregon. A field experiment with cover crop and tillage techniques was...
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    : S7 Ray D. William Cultural practices in snap bean production were evaluated at the Oregon State

  • Description and analysis of dietary preference of lingcod in the nearshore zone, Oregon

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    Tinus, Craig A.
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    The lingcod (Ophiodon elongatus) is an important groundfish species in both recreational and commercial fisheries of the Northeastern Pacific. It is a large, fast-growing, generalist predator of invertebrates and fishes. In response to concerns that lingcod may limit populations of rockfishes (Sebastes spp.), I compared the diets of 375 adult...
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    . Abstract approved: __________________________________________________________ William D. Edge The

  • Shear and convective turbulence in a model of thermohaline intrusions

    Creator:
    Mueller, Rachael
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    Thermohaline interleaving is an important mechanism for laterally fluxing salt, heat, and nutrients between oceanic water masses. Interleaving is driven by a release of potential energy resulting from the vastly differing diffusivities of heat and salt in seawater. The flows are composed of stacked intrusions that flux more buoyant and...
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    Turbulence in a Model of Thermohaline Intrusions Abstract approved: William D. Smyth Thermohaline

  • High-Dimensional Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback

    Creator:
    Curran, William
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    State-of-the-art personal robots need to perform complex manipulation tasks to be viable in complex scenarios. However, many of these robots, like the PR2, use manipulators with high degrees of freedom. High degrees of freedom are desirable from a functionality standpoint, but make the learning task more difficult by adding a...
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    -Dimensional Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback Abstract approved: William D. Smart Prasad Tadepalli