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Title
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The Learning Facade
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Author
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MacKnight, Paul
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Information technology, Architecture
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Description
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Despite the rising popularity and utilization of intelligent systems, much of thebuilt environment, especially architecture, remains prescriptive or responsive in nature.Kinetic facades, especially, still rely on the analysis of historic or approx...
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PREDICTING CREDIT DEFAULT RISK VIA STATISTICAL MODEL AND MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS
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Author
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Choubey, Anand
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Economics
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Description
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Financial institutions need to measure risks within their credit portfolios (homeloans, credit card, auto loans, etc.) for regulatory requirements and for internal riskmanagement. To meet these requirements financial institutions increasingly rely...
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GENERATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF FIREBRANDS FROM SELECTED STRUCTURAL FUELS
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Author
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Hedayati, Faraz
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Mechanical engineering
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Description
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Spotting by firebrands is the only mechanism that is capable of initiating fires miles from a fire line. The firebrand phenomenon can be understood in three major sequential phases: production, transportation, and ignition of the recipient fuel. A...
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Fine-grained Video Classification for Rare Events
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Author
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Shan, Junjie
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Computer science, Information technology
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Description
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Video analysis plays an important role in the field of computer vision and finds its application in many areas. Fine-grained event classification is one of the most challenging problems in video analysis due to subtle difference between classes an...
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Deep Learning for Sentiment and Emotion Detection in Multilingual Contexts
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Author
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Abdullah, Malak
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Computer science
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Description
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Social media is growing as a communication medium where people can express online their feelings and opinions on a variety of topics in ways they rarely do in person. Detecting sentiments and emotions in texts have gained a considerable amount of ...
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Behavioral Health Stigma: Breaking the code with Stigma Index
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Author
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Tokmic, Farah
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Medical sciences, Information science
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Description
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Social labeling of people with behavioral health disorders falls under the umbrella of "stigma" and plays a key role in limiting the access to behavioral healthcare. Currently, the U.S. spends an estimated $201B on behavioral health disorders ever...
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An Integrated Phylogeographic Analysis of the Bantu Migration
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Author
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Ford, Colby
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Computer science, Mathematics, Genetics
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Description
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"Bantu" is a term used to describe lineages of people in around 600 different ethnic groups on the African continent ranging from modern-day Cameroon to South Africa. The migration of the Bantu people, which occurred around 3,000 years ago, was in...
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A Post-Processing Approach for Solar Power Combined Forecasts of Ramp Events
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Author
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Abuella, Mohamed
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Electrical engineering
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Description
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The growing integration level of wind and solar energy resources introduces new regulating and operating challenges in the electric grid. Ramp-rate limits of conventional power plants in the generation mix impose an operating constraint on renewab...