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Spring 2017

Hallson, Jennifer I

Promontory Cave 1 on Great Salt Lake, Utah exhibits an incredible level of preservation rarely seen at archaeological sites. The high proportion of perishable materials provides a unique opportunity to study cultural remains that are usually lost to taphonomic processes. Extensive radiocarbon...

Spring 2016

Buckley, Lisa G

Data used in the systematic paleontology of extinct vertebrates is limited to what can be collected from detailed comparisons of preserved anatomy. This restricts vertebrate paleontologists to those characters preserved on osteological specimens. Furthermore, parataxonomies such as ichnotaxonomy...

1995

Leighton, Jacqueline P.

Fall 2012

Sidhu, Gagan

Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) measures the dynamic activity of each voxel of a brain. This dissertation addresses the challenge of learning a diagnostic classifier that uses a subject’s fMRI data to distinguish subjects with neuropsychiatric disorders from healthy controls. fMRI...

Fall 2018

Dong Yang

With the development of modern technology, researchers in various fields are equipped with powerful tools to collect ultrahigh dimensional data, where the number of features p could grow exponentially with the sample size n. It is challenging to extract useful information due to the huge number...

Spring 2021

Wei Tu

Envelopes, introduced by Cook et al. (2007), encompass a class of methods for increasing efficiency in multivariate analyses without altering traditional objectives. Envelopes have been successfully incorporated to a variety of regression models from generalized linear models to quantile...

Fall 2013

Forcino, Frank L

Paleoecology researchers have employed an array of methods for collecting, counting, and identifying fossil data; no standard protocol exists for conducting community paleoecological research. The lack of a standard protocol could lead to inaccurate conclusions. In addition, paleocommunity...

Fall 2019

Sajed, Touqir

We present two provably optimal differentially private algorithms for the stochastic multi-arm bandit problem, as opposed to the private analogue of the UCB-algorithm (Mishra and Thakurta 2015; Tossou and Dimitrakakis 2016) which doesn’t meet the recently discovered lower-bound of Ω( K log(T) /...

Fall 2014

Zhai, Zhichun

We study robust sampling designs for model-based stratification, when the assumed distribution F0 (·) of an auxiliary variable x, and the variance function g0 (·) in the associated regression model, are only approximately specified. We first maximize the scaled prediction mean squared error...

Spring 2011

Kukukova, Alena

Although a number of definitions of mixing have been proposed in the literature, no single definition accurately and clearly describes the full range of problems in the field of industrial mixing. Based on the review of mixing and segregation characterization techniques in chemical engineering,...