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  • Planning in multi-agent partially observable domains using sparse sampling

    Creator:
    Donneau-Golencer, Thierry D.
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    A large number of sequential decision-making problems in uncertain environments can be modeled as Markov Decision Processes (MDPs). In such settings, an agent can observe at each time step the state of the environment and then executes an action, causing a stochastic transition to a new state of the environment...
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  • Toward Automated Decision-Making in Power Systems Wide-Area Protection

    Creator:
    Meier, Richard John
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    In recent years there have been many improvements in the reliability of critical infrastructure systems. Despite these improvements and despite targeted efforts to improve the operation and control of the electric grid, the power systems industry has seen relatively small advances in this regard. For instance, today's power system is...
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    Wide-Area Protection AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Richard John Meier for the degree of Master of

  • Projecting White Pine Blister Rust Hazard Ratings Under Climate Change in Southwestern Oregon

    Creator:
    Cicekli, Zeynep
    Abstract:
    Sugar pine and western white pine are widely distributed, economically valuable, and ecologically important native tree species in North America. However, white pine blister rust (WPBR), caused by a non-native fungal pathogen, Cronartium ribicola J.C. Fisch. in Rabh., has substantially affected populations of these species. Cronartium is an obligate parasite,...
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    support throughout this research; my committee, Dr. Richard A. Sniezko, Dr. Steven Strauss, and Dr

  • Development of a radial microlamination architecture for cylindrical microchannel arrays

    Creator:
    Vlieg, James H.
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    Microchannel arrays are being developed across a wide spectrum of microfluidic applications including blood processing, fuel cells and thermal management among many others. Typical arrays are based on a flat laminated architecture produced in a vacuum hot press (VHP) through solid-state diffusion bonding. Due to the cylindrical nature of certain...
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    thanks are further extended to my minor professor, Dr. Richard Peterson, for his considerable support

  • Literacy narratives across the curriculum

    Creator:
    Coffey, Marjorie D.
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    This thesis proposes expanding the locations where literacy narratives are currently used as readings and as writing assignments and considering broad conceptions of the types and uses of literacy narratives read in classrooms. In particular, this thesis asserts the value of expanding the literacy narratives read beyond the current canonical...
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    Kearns Goodwin…………………………. 111 Deep Blue Home: An Intimate Ecology of Our Wild Ocean by Julia

  • Impacts of Range Management Decisions on Native Pollinators: Innovative Grazing Practices and Riparian Restoration

    Creator:
    Mitchell, Scott R.
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    Animal pollination is critical to plant reproduction in agricultural and wildland ecosystems. Much of the production of seeds and fruits in natural areas, which underlie many food webs, depends on pollination services by insects. The taxon responsible for delivering the bulk of these services in most temperate systems is bees....
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    ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Scott Richard Mitchell for the degree of Master of Science in Wildlife

  • Native bee diversity and floral resource availability in two Willamette Valley Oregon ecosystems

    Creator:
    Bergh, Jennifer E.
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    The importance of pollinators in native and managed landscapes is well known, and recent interest is directed towards investigating the role of native bees as providers of pollination ecosystem services. Uncertainty about bee populations at global and local scales has prompted research and general interest in conservation of bee diversity....
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    transitional ecosystems provide permeable habitat matrix where native plants and wildlife live (Kearns et al

  • 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

  • UCT for tactical assault battles in real-time strategy games

    Creator:
    Balla, Radha-Krishna
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    We consider the problem of tactical assault planning in real-time strategy games where a team of friendly agents must launch an assault on an enemy. This problem offers many challenges including a highly dynamic and uncertain environment, multiple agents, durative actions, numeric attributes, and different optimization objectives. While the dynamics...
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  • A Feminist Celebrates the Rediscovery of Immanence

    Creator:
    Lockhart, Janet L.
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    I offer a personal and prehistoric exploration of the concept of immanence, the principle of a divine force living, remaining, and operating within living creatures, inherent in the human, including the female; a unifying force that connects humans to each other, to nature, and to the earth. I examine the...
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    1976; Streep 1994). As Kell Kearns, the narrator of the tape, phrased it, "She has at last added a