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Spring 2012
Nadadoor Srinivasan, Venkat R.
Biological engineering is a domain of study that involves applying known engineering principles to biological systems. Qualitative studies in the field of biology have undergone tremendous advancements in the last two decades but quantitation is still in its early stages due to various...
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Fall 2018
Understanding where and when populations occur is the first step to conservation and maintenance of biodiversity. Where human land-use overlaps with populations of conservation concern, population loss may occur, potentially reducing long-term persistence of species, particularly for those that...
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Fall 2009
Systems of classifications are socially created and historically contingent. New classifications lead to the creation of new categories, new objects and new kinds of people. Over the last thirty years, some of the most successful categories have emerged from the study of seriality. This thesis...
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Social Participation and its Classification for Preschool Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
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Background. Social participation is considered the ultimate aim of rehabilitation, particularly for preschool children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Given the inherent social difficulties of preschool children with ASD, social participation is a relevant and meaningful construct to explore...
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Synchronisation and Wavelet Compression for Background Interference Classification in Wireless Environments
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Dense wireless deployment environments are increasingly facing Radio Frequency (RF) spectrum congestion and increased levels of interference. Addressing the interference will require a distributed decision-making application on wireless nodes, that characterize the state of the channel with...
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Fall 2015
Pipeline structures can be subjected to excessive tensile strains due to a variety of environmental agents including but not limited to slope instabilities, seismic forces, freezing and thawing cycle of the permafrost in arctic regions. In addition to environmental and geotechnical effects, large...
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Fall 2018
The purpose of this project was to examine the classification experiences of paraswimmers. Understanding paraswimmers’ classification experiences added to the literature, exploring issues related to the functional classification system with a goal to influence classifier training. This research...
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The Estimation of Buttresses Volume and Classification of Leaf, Wood, and Lianas from Terrestrial Laser Scanning data
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Forests account for one third of land area, and two third of global photosynthesis. The better we know about forests, the better decisions we can make on forest management and carbon cycle modeling. During the last decades, we see the development in remote sensing techniques for forest...
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Fall 2015
This dissertation synthesizes theoretical developments in linguistics and anthropology in order to tackle questions in lexical semantics and Athapaskan historical linguistics. This dissertation aims at contributing both to theoretical development of diachronic lexical semantics and to provide...
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Toward Practical Reinforcement Learning Algorithms: Classification Based Policy Iteration and Model-Based Learning
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In this dissertation, we advance the theoretical understanding of two families of Reinforcement Learning (RL) methods: Classification-based policy iteration (CBPI) and model-based reinforcement learning (MBRL) with factored semi-linear models. In contrast to generalized policy iteration, CBPI...