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Fall 2015
Understanding how an artificial agent may represent, acquire, update, and use large amounts of knowledge has long been an important research challenge in artificial intelligence. The quantity of knowledge, or knowing a lot, may be nicely thought of as making and updat- ing many predictions about...
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Disability Management of Injured Workers: A Best Practices Resource Guide for Physical Therapists
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Lowe, Audrey, LaRoque, Donna, Muir, Iain, Gross, Douglas P.
This project is a collaborative venture between four stakeholder groups in the physical therapy profession. Representatives from education, regulation, practice and a payer organization came together to develop a resource guide intended to support physical therapists in the treatment of injured...
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Fall 2011
Employing disturbance observers is an effective way of enhancing the stability and performance of the control systems subject to disturbances. Disturbance observers have been extensively used for control of mechatronic systems since their introduction in the 1980s. This thesis studies the...
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EASE-BE-FIT: Elder-Friendly Approaches to the Surgical Environment Bedside Reconditioning for Functional Improvements An Innovative Reconditioning Program for Elderly Emergency Abdominal Surgery Patients
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Introduction: Elderly individuals who are hospitalized due to emergency abdominal surgery spend on average over 80% of their recovery time in bed, resulting in early and rapid muscle loss. As these elderly individuals have a lower physiological reserve, the impact of muscle wasting on function...
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Spring 2024
Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH), a devastating stroke caused by the rupture of vasculature in the brain, is responsible for <20% of all strokes, yet accounts for a disproportionately high burden of stroke related death and disability. The formation and degradation of the hematoma (blood clot)...
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Fall 2015
Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) in an unknown environment is a prerequisite to have a truly autonomous mobile robot. In this thesis, we focus on appearance-based visual SLAM, for which we develop a graph-based nearest-neighbor search algorithm to speed up bag-of-words (BoW) image...
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Establishing Translational Research Pipelines for Smart Devices
2012-09-05
The development of a translational research path has traditionally been a haphazard approach, filtering technologies so that the ‘best of breed’ may ultimately succeed. The conversion ratio of brilliant ideas to useful devices remains suboptimal, as many ‘fail to progress’. The reality of...