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Title: 'Practice' for Enhancing the Performance of a Deep Reinforcement Learning Agent
Author: Kancharla, Venkata Sai Santosh Ravi Teja
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Artificial intelligence
Description: Deep reinforcement learning has demonstrated its capability to solve a diverse array of challenging problems, which were not able to solve previously. It has been able to achieve human-level performance in Atari 2600 games and it has shown great p...

Title: A COMBINED FINITE ELEMENT AND MACHINE LEARNING APPROACH FOR PREDICTING SPECIFIC CUTTING FORCES AND MAXIMUM TOOL TEMPERATURES DURING ORTHOGONAL MACHINING
Author: Mekarthy, Sai Manish Reddy
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Engineering, Computer science
Description: In machining, specific cutting forces and temperature fields in the shear zones are of primary interest. These quantities depend on many machining parameters, such as the cutting speed, rake angle, tool-tip radius, uncut chip thickness, etc. The f...

Title: A Comprehensive Study of Drinking Water Coagulation with Aluminum Sulfate
Author: Alansari, Amir
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering
Description: Coagulation is usually the first and most important step in conventional drinking water treatment processes. The efficiency of all downstream processes is directly dependent on the effectiveness of the coagulation stage. Coagulants such as aluminu...

Title: A Contactless Non-Intrusive Approach for Machine Learning-Based Personalized Thermal Comfort Prediction
Author: Ashrafi, Roshanak
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Sustainability, Building
Description: Indoor thermal environmental conditions play a significant role in protecting occupants’ well-being. In this regard, schedule-based and predefined environmental control is one of the main reasons for the current discomfort and dissatisfaction with...

Title: A GIS-BASED EXPERT SYSTEM TO IMPROVE THE ACCURACY OF WETLAND CLASSIFICATION
Author: Deng, Jing
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Geography
Description: Wetlands play a critical role in our natural environment, such as improving water quality, controlling erosion and flooding, and protecting biodiversity. To better protect wetland systems, a comprehensive knowledge of their spatial distribution is...

Title: ANALYSIS OF OPTICAL FIBER SPECKLE PATTERNS FOR DETECTION OF IVUS CATHETER TIP IN 3D SPACE: AN INTELLIGENT SENSOR RESEARCH
Author: Razmyar, Soroush
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Optics, Computer science, Biomedical engineering
Description: This research study presents the architectural design and computational framework for an intelligent tracking sensor constructed from a multimode fiber optic. As laser light travels through an inhomogeneous medium, such as multimode fiber, the ran...

Title: Algorithmic Optimization of First Convolution Layer in CNNs for Hardware Accelerator Design
Author: Chamarthi, Ramachandra Vikas
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer engineering
Description: This thesis proposes "1D Convolution replacement layer ", a novel optimization for first convolution layer in CNN. This optimization enables edge friendly streaming accelerator design with a minimum drop in accuracy. This optimization reduces the ...

Title: An Evidence-Based Digital Nudging In Support Of Health Misinformation Assessment On Social Media Sites
Author: Alsaleh, Hamad
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Information science, Artificial intelligence
Description: In recent years, social media have dramatically improved the dissemination speed of information, which also includes health misinformation. To date, most of the computational approaches to addressing this problem have focused on detecting and flag...

Title: Art Authentication in an Untagged Art Database
Author: Dobbs, Bryan
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Art--Historiography, Mathematics
Description: The identification of the artist of a painting is also known as art authentication, and the answer to this question is manifest through art gallery exhibition and is reinforced through financial transactions. Art authentication has visual influenc...

Title: Autonomous Control of an All-terrain Vehicle using Embedded Systems and Artificial Intelligence Techniques
Author: Erian, Karim
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Computer engineering, Artificial intelligence, Automobiles--Design and construction
Description: The need for autonomous vehicles that do not operate on highways and can move off-road is increasing. While there have been significant advancements in autonomous passenger vehicles in the last couple of years, autonomous off-road vehicles have no...

Title: DISFLUENT SPEECH SEGMENTS DETECTION AND REMEDIATION
Author: Arbajian, Pierre
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Information science, Linguistics
Description: Speech remediation by identifying those segments which compromise the quality of speech content can be performed by correctly identifying portions of a recording which can be deleted without diminishing from the overall quality of the speech, but ...

Title: Developing Data-Driven Approaches for Analyzing, Identifying, and Predicting Power System Outages
Author: Doostan, Milad
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Statistics
Description: Outages that occur in power distribution systems can seriously endanger system operation in different ways. In recent years, with the explosion in data gathering within the smart grid framework, data analytics has emerged as a desirable tool in he...

Title: Development of Structural Informatics Method For Binding Peptides
Author: Patterson, John
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Bioinformatics
Description: In the continuous pursuit of advanced therapeutics, the field of bioinformatics hasinnovated tools that allow unprecedented control over the proteome, profoundly shaping our understanding and manipulation of biological domains. Computational appro...

Title: Distributed Messaging System for the IoT Edge
Author: George, Anjus
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer science, Computer engineering
Description: Recent advances in Deep Learning have made possible distributed multi-camera IoT vision analytics targeted at a variety of surveillance applications involving automated real-time analysis of events from multiple video perspectives. However, the la...

Title: ELECTRICITY PRICE FORECASTING USING ADVANCED MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES
Author: Sardana, Bhav
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Power resources
Description: Electricity Price Forecasts have been a very important part of the energy industry for a long time. Traditionally, it was used by utilities, but after the liberalization of electricity markets around the world, they are of prime importance not onl...

Title: Emergency Medical Services Demand Forecasting: Modern Machine Learning Approaches For Producing Short-Term Spatiotemporal Estimations
Author: Martin, Richard
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Operations research, Information technology
Description: Emergency medical services (EMS); commonly referred to as ambulance, paramedic or pre-hospital emergency services, are a critical component in the delivery of urgent medical care to communities. EMS agencies, the organizations responsible for prov...

Title: Empirical Methods in an Open Domain Question Answering System
Author: Gallagher, Sean
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Answering questions effectively involves a complex interconnected set of linguistic and statistical analysis tools, which can be difficult to investigate and evaluate on their own. To evaluate any one of them, I developed two composable, recursive...

Title: Exploring an Intelligent Responsive Architecture through Gesture-based Interaction
Author: An, Yijing
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Information technology, Architecture, Building
Description: Architects are increasingly adopting gesture-based interaction to create responsive, engaging and inspiring spaces. However, there is no established theories providing guidelines to link gestures and spatial movement. This thesis critiques the pre...

Title: Financial Market Innovation and Product Innovation: Evidence from Commodity Futures Markets and Stock Markets
Author: Kong, Lingfei
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Finance
Description: This dissertation contains three connected essays that feature financial market innovation and product market innovation. Two essays feature return predictability in commodity futures, which have been financialized during the past two decades. One...

Title: Functional Dynamics in Beta-Lactamase: Insights into Substrate Recognition and Inhibition
Author: Avery, Christopher
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Bioinformatics, Biophysics, Physics
Description: Beta-lactamase proteins are among the most prominent causes of antibiotic resistance. These enzymes confer resistance to beta lactam antibiotics, which are commonly used to treat bacterial infections. In recent years, novel beta-lactamase have eme...