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Theses and Dissertations
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Items in this Collection
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Back2Future-SIM: Creating Real-Time Interactable Immersive Virtual World For Robot Teleoperation
DownloadSpring 2024
In the context of human-robot interaction (HRI), robot autonomy addresses how environmental input influences a robot’s actions, spanning a spectrum from full human control to independent robot motion. The quality of HRI relies on information exchange, evaluated through factors like interaction...
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Backcountry snowmobilers’ risk perceptions, avalanche related information seeking behaviours, preparedness and decision-making processes
DownloadFall 2013
Although there has been substantial research on the avoidance of risk, much less has been completed on voluntary risk. This study examined backcountry snowmobilers’ risk perceptions, avalanche related information seeking behaviours, and decision-making processes when dealing with avalanches and...
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Fall 2009
Given a set of images from the same viewpoint, in which occlusions are present, background estimation is to output an image with stationary objects in the scene only. Background estimation is an important step in many computer vision problems such as object detection and recognition. With the...
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Spring 2020
Bacterial taxonomy is an integral part of all disciplines within the field of microbiology, as it allows researchers to communicate results efficiently, streamlining global collaboration. The ultimate goal of bacterial taxonomy is to create groups of organisms based not only on shared phenotypic...
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Spring 2016
The Arctic Ocean sea ice is shifting from a system dominated by thick perennial ice (multiyear ice –MYI) to one dominated by thinner, seasonal ice (first year ice – FYI). The effects of this shift on the bacterial constituents of the Arctic sea ice have been grossly under studied, although it is...