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Spring 2013

Sinkov, Nikolai

Each individual chromatogram is typically very sparse, especially when coupled with a technique such as mass spectrometry. Only a small portion of the recorded data actually contains potentially useful information. Since the inclusion of irrelevant information will have detrimental effects upon...

Fall 2017

Adutwum, Lawrence A

Advancements in data acquisition technologies and the desire for rich data has led to an increase in the size of data collected from modern analytical instruments. With the aid of chemometric techniques, researchers are still able to glean more useful information from these kinds of data than...

Fall 2015

Tsehayae, Abraham A

Construction labour productivity (CLP) significantly influences the profitability of construction companies; however, CLP exhibits the highest variability among project resources and is a major source of project risk. The construction industry is thus constantly searching for ways to improve...

Spring 2020

Tang,Weixuan

Planetary gearboxes are widely used in machineries such as wind turbines and helicopters. To maximize their effectiveness over their lifecycle, condition monitoring is often used, and proper health indexes can be developed utilizing condition monitoring data. Health index (HI) development for...

Fall 2021

Hasnat, Md Arif

We study the problem of set discovery where given a few example tuples of a desired set, we want to find the set in a collection of sets. A challenge is that the example tuples may not uniquely identify a set, and a large number of candidate sets may be returned. Our focus is on interactive...

Spring 2017

Foroughi, Homa

At the core of many computer vision methods lies the question of how to represent data. Representing the data in a meaningful way, which highlights its most useful properties, can significantly affect the performance of any vision-based application. Traditional systems are heavily reliant on...

Fall 2009

Larocque, Rachelle MJ

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...