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  • Computer vision for geometrical analysis of bridge gusset plates

    Creator:
    Varakantham, Shravya
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    Gusset plates are an important component of bridges. They are thick sheets of steel that join steel members together using fasteners and also strengthen their joint. Transportation agencies regularly evaluate and rate their inventories of gusset plate connections using visual inspection, which is very costly. To address this issue, we...
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    costly. To address this issue, we have developed a new interactive software tool, called Gusset Plate

  • Managing bug reports in free/open source software (FOSS) communities

    Creator:
    Mohan, Nitin
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    Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) communities often use open bug reporting to allow users to participate by reporting bugs. This practice can lead to more duplicate reports, as inexperienced users can be less rigorous about researching existing bug reports. The purpose of this research is to determine the extent of this...
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    studies of individual large projects like Mozilla and Eclipse, duplicate bug reports are a problem for

  • Topological analysis, visualization, and design of vector fields on surfaces

    Creator:
    Chen, Guoning
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    Analysis, visualization, and design of vector fields on surfaces have a wide variety of major applications in both scientific visualization and computer graphics. On the one hand, analysis and visualization of vector fields provide critical insights to the flow data produced from simulation or experiments of various engineering processes. On...
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    Mike Bailey and Professor Ronald A. Metoyer. From them I have learned not only cutting-edge graphics

  • Using provenance to aid document re-finding

    Creator:
    Lonsdale, Heather
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    In the field of Human-Computer Interaction, provenance refers to the complete history and genealogy of a document. Provenance can be useful in identifying related resources, such as different versions of the same document or resources used in the creation of a new document. Though methods of provenance collection and applications...
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    history and genealogy of a document. Provenance can be useful in identifying related resources, such as

  • Classification of motion capture sequences

    Creator:
    Maniar, Dharin Haresh
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    Motion capture data is a digital representation of the complex temporal structure of human motion. Motion capture is widely used for data-driven animation in sports,medicine and entertainment, because of its ability to capture complex and realistic motions. Due to its efficiency and cost, methods for reusing collections of motion capture...
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    capture data is a digital representation of the complex temporal structure of human motion. Motion

  • Investigating the Potential of Slow Release Nitrogen Fertilizer to Increase Agricultural Nitrogen Management Efficiency for Tall Fescue in the Southern Willamette Valley

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    Derksen, Jacob Z.
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    Nitrogen (N) fertilizer application can promote nitrate leaching below the rooting zone and into groundwater drinking water sources in many agricultural settings. The proper management of N application can minimize non-point source nitrate pollution to groundwater. This study examines the potential for enhanced efficiency fertilizers, specifically urea treated with a...
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    treated with a slow release coating, to improve agricultural N management in tall fescue fields in the

  • The choice calculus : a formal language of variation

    Creator:
    Walkingshaw, Eric
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    In this thesis I present the choice calculus, a formal language for representing variation in software and other structured artifacts. The choice calculus is intended to support variation research in a way similar to the lambda calculus in programming language research. Specifically, it provides a simple formal basis for presenting,...
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    Calculus: A Formal Language of Variation Abstract approved: Martin Erwig In this thesis I present the

  • The dynamic speculation and performance prediction of parallel loops

    Creator:
    Zier, David A.
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    General purpose computer systems have seen increased performance potential through the parallel processing capabilities of multicore processors. Yet this potential performance can only be attained through parallel applications, thus forcing software developers to rethink how everyday applications are designed. The most readily form of Thread Level Parallelism (TLP) within any...
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    Bose, Prof. Thinh Nguyen, Prof. Ronald A. Metoyer, Prof. Luca Lucchesse, and Prof. Keith Levien for

  • Volume analysis and visualization

    Creator:
    Khare, Ankit
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    3D datasets acquire great importance in the context of medical imaging. In this thesis we survey and enhance solutions to problems inherently associated with 3D datasets-processing time,noise and visualization. Efforts include development of a tool kit to provide a multi-threaded processing platform to cut processing time, produce real time visualization...
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    datasets-processing time,noise and visualization. Efforts include development of a tool kit to provide a

  • Optimizing map projection selection for world maps and web maps

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    Šavrič, Bojan
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    The selection process for map projections is a mystery to many mapmakers and GIS users. Map projections ought to be selected based on the map’s geographic extent and the required distortion properties, with the goal of minimizing the distortion of the mapped area. Despite some available selection guidelines, the selection...
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            The   selection   process   for  map   projections   is   a  mystery   to  many