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- 1Armstrong, Michael D S
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- 1Foroughi, Homa
- 1Hasnat, Md Arif
- 1Larocque, Rachelle MJ
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Spring 2013
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...
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Application of chemometric and experimental tools for monitoring processes of industrial importance
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The common theme of this work was to investigate the relationships between multi-dimensional experimental data and the physical and chemical properties of certain reacting systems that have industrial relevance. Three particular systems of increasing complexity in terms of composition of the...
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Fall 2017
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...
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Decomposition and Feature Selection of Comprehensive 2-DimensionalGas Chromatography - Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry(GC×GC-TOFMS) Data
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Comprehensive Two-Dimensional Gas Chromatography - Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry (GC×GC-TOFMS) is an advanced instrumental technique that separates complex mixtures along two chromatographic dimensions, followed by multivariate detection that collects mass spectral information at a high...
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Developing and Optimizing Context-Specific and Universal Construction Labour Productivity Models
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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...
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Spring 2020
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...
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Fall 2021
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...
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Spring 2017
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...
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On the impact of drought-induced abiotic stress on the composition of Douglas-fir lignin for valorization
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Rising interest in the transition to renewable energy, materials, and chemicals ushers biorefining strategies that effectively utilize all components of lignocellulosic biomass feedstocks. Concurrently, more frequent and severe drought brought on by accelerating climate change pose questions...