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  • Development of temporary wet strength resins from wheat gluten

    Creator:
    Ren, Dakai
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    Many paper products like towel and tissue cannot serve their purposes without temporary wet strength Glyoxal-polyacrylamide (GPA) resin is one of the widely used commercial wet strength additives that impart the temporary wet strength to paper and paperboard products However, GPA resin is derived from petrochemicals and contributes to contaminants...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis

  • Towards Annotation-Efficient Video Representation Learning

    Creator:
    Patravali, Jay Sanjay
    Abstract:
    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...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    work utilizing both 2D and 3D CNNs [85, 7, 19, 79, 6, 82] to achieve strong results on few-shot

  • Limiting Behavior of Stochastic Processes Involving Martingale Structures

    Creator:
    Mukherjee, Arpita
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    A stochastic process is given by a family of random variables indexed by elements of a set. We have considered stochastic processes of three different types, each involving an associated martingale structure. Martingale is a sequence of random variables for which the conditional expectation at a certain time point given...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
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    below. • An evolutionary urn scheme based on the rock-paper-scissors game • The random multiplicative

  • Demonstration of an Alginate Valve in a Paper Microfluidic Device

    Creator:
    Cornwell, David Q.
    Abstract:
    Paper microfluidic devices are capable of processing fluids using capillary flow in materials that are lower cost than the standard materials used in microfluidics. Due to the low cost of their fabrication and minimal requirements for instrumentation, paper microfluidic devices are ideal for use in low-resource settings. They have the...
    Resource Type:
    Honors College Thesis
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    . “Dissolvable Bridges for Manipulating Fluid Volumes in Paper Networks.” Analytical Chemistry, vol. 85, no. 23

  • Live-tree carbon in the Pacific Northwest : estimates and uncertainties

    Creator:
    Melson, Susanna L.
    Abstract:
    Concentration of carbon dioxide (CO₂) in the atmosphere has increased over the past 150 years. Because CO₂ is one of a number of radiatively active gases, there is concern that global temperatures will rise and climatic conditions will change. Recent research indicates northern hemisphere forests may currently be accumulating carbon...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis

  • Rhetorical Arrangement and the Digital Archive : Finding Women’s Voices in the Linus Pauling Papers

    Creator:
    Boardman, Colleen
    Abstract:
    The common imagining of archives characterizes these spaces as monolithic, hallowed sites of preserved truths, carefully catalogued and stored, static and frozen in history and waiting to be uncovered. My thesis works to dispel this myth and identify rhetorical elements of the archive’s structure in order to assess how the...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis

  • The Maturest Deliberation : Colonial Pennsylvania Currency in Depression and War

    Creator:
    Borden, John F.
    Abstract:
    The purpose of this study is to review Pennsylvania's use of paper money through two distinct periods: the first seven years of currency issues starting in 1723 and concluding in 1730, and the second period encompassed by the French and Indian War in 1755-63. They represent two significant periods affecting...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    . Abstract approved: The purpose of this study is to review Pennsylvania's use of paper money through two

  • Public Participation in Urban Policy – Solution Papers Founded on Objectivity and Mutual Respectfulness

    Creator:
    Zarins, Eriks
    Abstract:
    In recent times, public policy debates in the United States have been very contentious and dysfunctional. To help improve this situation, a multi-discipline research effort was conducted to look at "solution papers" as a form of public participation. Specifically, the roles of objectivity and mutual respectfulness were under consideration. Foundational...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    cases of participation was done. Finally, a new solution paper entitled Conventional Neighborhoods

  • A usability comparison of PDA-based quizzes and paper-and-pencil quizzes

    Creator:
    Segall, Noa
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    In the last few years, many schools and universities have incorporated personal digital assistants (PDAs) into their teaching curricula, in an attempt to enhance students' learning experience and reduce instructors' workload. One of the most common uses of PDAs in the classroom is as a test administrator. This study compared...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    of PDA-Based Quizzes and Paper-and-Pencil Quizzes. Abstract approve J. David Pi In the last few

  • Quantification of Copper Speciation in Pulp and Paper Wastewater and Implications for the Biotic Ligand Model

    Creator:
    Mitzel, Joseph M.
    Abstract:
    The purpose of this research was to measure the copper-binding behavior of Dissolved Organic Matter (DOM) contained in Pulp and Paper (P&P) wastewater effluent and evaluate the Biotic Ligand Model’s (BLM) ability to quantify copper speciation in P&P influenced waters. A copper ion selective electrode was used to measure copper...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    : Quantification of Copper Speciation in Pulp and Paper Wastewater and Implications for the Biotic Ligand Model