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Disentangling a freshwater amphipod–acanthocephalan system from ecological and molecular perspectives
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One of the major goals in ecological research is to understand factors that influence distribution, diversity and prevalence of parasites and their hosts. How hosts are distributed geographically clearly restricts the spatial distribution of associated obligatory parasites. This restriction is...
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Economics of wildfire suppression: Estimation of drivers of suppression expenditure and Risk preference experiments with wildfire management
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Public wildfire management agencies are presented with a momentous responsibility: to protect life, property and infrastructure from the devastation of wildland fire, while operating at a level of expenditure justifiable to taxpayers. At a time when climate change drives more extreme fire...
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2022-11-01
In this work, a microwave planar sensor is used for liquid material characterization. Two identical complementary split-ring resonators operating at 3 GHz are coupled to create a highly sensitive capacitive region. The moderate quality factor of the sensor ~230 is significantly improved up to...
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Enhancing the Performance of Smart Grids via Applying Machine Learning Methods to Smart Meter Data
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Conventional distribution systems need to undergo several updates to be able to meet modern energy requirements. While conventional grids have been able to satisfy the objectives they were designed for, lack of sensors and powerful communication systems, primitive control and management methods,...
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Fall 2023
Modelling agent preferences has applications in a range of fields including economics and increasingly, artificial intelligence. These preferences are not always known and thus may need to be estimated from observed behavior, in which case a model is required to map agent preferences to...
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Spring 2021
Temporal difference (TD) methods provide a powerful means of learning to make predictions in an online, model-free, and highly scalable manner. In the reinforcement learning (RL) framework, we formalize these prediction targets in terms of a (possibly discounted) sum of rewards, called the...
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Estimating Winter Road Friction Coefficients: An Integrated Approach using Machine Learning, Explainable AI, and Model Transferability
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Ensuring road safety and efficient traffic movement through Winter Road Maintenance (WRM) operations is a pressing concern, particularly during harsh weather conditions. The challenge of accurately monitoring road friction coefficients, which play a crucial role in WRM, often leads to impractical...
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Finding Interesting Moments in Videos: Audio-visual and Unsupervised Video Highlight Detection
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Video is the dominant medium through which we consume information. Due to the sheer volume of video content, it is of great interest in the research community to develop automated ways to make this content manageable. In video highlight detection, our goal is to automatically find interesting...
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From Adaptive Testing to Personalized Adaptive Testing: Applications of Machine Learning Algorithms
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Invited talk given at the Twentieth Annual MARC Virtual Conference on November 3, 2022.