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An Integrated Phylogeographic Analysis of the Bantu Migration
Title
An Integrated Phylogeographic Analysis of the Bantu Migration
Author
Ford, Colby
Date Created
2018
Subjects--Topical
Computer science, Mathematics, Genetics
Description
"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...
Fine-grained Video Classification for Rare Events
Title
Fine-grained Video Classification for Rare Events
Author
Shan, Junjie
Date Created
2018
Subjects--Topical
Computer science, Information technology
Description
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...
GENERATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF FIREBRANDS FROM SELECTED STRUCTURAL FUELS
Title
GENERATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF FIREBRANDS FROM SELECTED STRUCTURAL FUELS
Author
Hedayati, Faraz
Date Created
2018
Subjects--Topical
Mechanical engineering
Description
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...
Deep Learning for Sentiment and Emotion Detection in Multilingual Contexts
Title
Deep Learning for Sentiment and Emotion Detection in Multilingual Contexts
Author
Abdullah, Malak
Date Created
2018
Subjects--Topical
Computer science
Description
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 ...
A Post-Processing Approach for Solar Power Combined Forecasts of Ramp Events
Title
A Post-Processing Approach for Solar Power Combined Forecasts of Ramp Events
Author
Abuella, Mohamed
Date Created
2018
Subjects--Topical
Electrical engineering
Description
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...
Behavioral Health Stigma: Breaking the code with Stigma Index
Title
Behavioral Health Stigma: Breaking the code with Stigma Index
Author
Tokmic, Farah
Date Created
2018
Subjects--Topical
Medical sciences, Information science
Description
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...
PREDICTING CREDIT DEFAULT RISK VIA STATISTICAL MODEL AND MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS
Title
PREDICTING CREDIT DEFAULT RISK VIA STATISTICAL MODEL AND MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS
Author
Choubey, Anand
Date Created
2018
Subjects--Topical
Economics
Description
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...
The Learning Facade
Title
The Learning Facade
Author
MacKnight, Paul
Date Created
2018
Subjects--Topical
Information technology, Architecture
Description
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...