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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 COMMUNICATION FRAMEWORK FOR MULTIHOP WIRELESS ACCESS AND SENSOR NETWORKS: ANYCAST ROUTING & SIMULATION TOOLS
Author: Sharif, Kashif
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: The reliance on wireless networks has grown tremendously within a number of varied application domains, prompting an evolution towards the use of heterogeneous multihop network architectures. We propose and analyze two communication frameworks for...

Title: A Framework for the Design and Analysis of Socially Pervasive Games
Author: Powell, Eve
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Philosophy
Description: Pervasive games have the potential to create large social impacts on players and non-players alike. However, this can only happen when the game becomes integrated and accepted within a social community - or in other words, is socially adopted in i...

Title: A Growth-Based Approach to the Automatic Generation of Navigation Meshes
Author: Hale, David
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Providing an understanding of space in game and simulation environments is one of the major challenges associated with moving artificially intelligent characters through these environments. The usage of some form of navigation mesh has become the ...

Title: A Qualitative Investigation of Factors Contributing to Women Majoring in Computer Science
Author: Wong, Alexandria
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Education, Computer science
Description: This study investigates factors that influence young women’s decision to major in computer science (CS). While there is a rapid increase of scientific advances being made in the United States and the importance of scientific fields for societal, e...

Title: A STOCHASTIC SEGMENTATION METHOD FOR INTERESTING REGION DETECTION AND IMAGE RETRIEVAL
Author: Li, Zhong
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Information science
Description: The explosively increasing digital photo urges for an efficient image retrieval system so that digital images can be organized, shared, and reused. Current content based image retrieval (CBIR) systems face multiple challenges in all aspects: image...

Title: A SYSTEM FOR COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS AND RECONSTRUCTION OF 3D COMMINUTED BONE FRACTURES
Author: Liu, Pengcheng
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer science
Description: High energy impacts at joint locations often generate highly fragmented, or comminuted bone fractures. A leading current approach for treatment requires physicians qualitatively to classify the fracture to one of four possible fracture severity ca...

Title: A Trust Supportive Framework for Pervasive Computing Systems
Author: Peng, Dichao
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Recent years have witnessed the emergence and rapid growth of pervasive computing technologies such as mobile ad hoc networks, radio frequency identification (RFID), Wi-Fi etc. Many researches are proposed to provide services while hiding the comp...

Title: A VISUAL ANALYTICS APPROACH TO FEATURE DISCOVERY AND SUBSPACE EXPLORATION IN PROTEIN FLEXIBILITY MATRICES
Author: Barlowe, Scott
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Bioinformatics
Description: The vast amount of information generated by domain scientists makes the transitionfrom data to knowledge difficult and often impedes important discoveries. Forexample, the knowledge gained from protein flexibility data sets can speed advancesin ge...

Title: A two-stage framework for designing visual analytics systems to augment organizational analytical processes
Author: Wang, Xiaoyu
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: A perennially interesting research topic in the field of visual analytics is how to effectively develop systems that support organizational knowledge worker's decision- making and reasoning processes. The primary objective of a visual analytic sys...

Title: A virtual pebble game to emsemble average graph rigidity
Author: Gonzalez, Luis
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Bioinformatics
Description: Previous works have demonstrated that protein rigidity is related to thermodynamic stability, especially under conditions that favor formation of native structure. Mechanical network rigidity properties of a single conformation are efficiently cal...

Title: ALGORITHMS FOR STRUCTURE BASED-PREDICTION OF TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR BINDING SITES
Author: Farrel, Alvin
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Biology, Bioinformatics
Description: Transcription factors (TFs) regulate gene expression through binding to specific target DNA sites. Accurate annotation of transcription factor binding sites (TFBSs) at genome scale represents an essential step toward our understanding of gene regu...

Title: AN ARGUMENT FOR THE USE OF COMPUTER SIMULATED MODELS IN PHILOSOPHY
Author: Rines, Jason
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Philosophy, Science--Philosophy
Description: This thesis will attempt to show how computer simulated models can act as a tool for philosophers. To accomplish this goal, this thesis will be broken down into six sections. The first three sections will go into more detail regarding the nature o...

Title: ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF SCHOOL BUS TRAFFIC USING MODELING SOFTWARE AND AUTOMATED TRAFFIC SIGNAL PERFORMANCE MEASURES
Author: Dumitru, Andrei
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Transportation, Computer engineering
Description: Some of the least studied vehicle types in the urban and suburban traffic environment are school buses. Their dynamic deficiencies, as well as the two additional rules that govern their functionality versus other vehicles (no right-turn-on-red and...

Title: AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF INTELLIGENT TUTORING CAPABILITIES VIA EDUCATIONAL DATA MINING
Author: Stamper, John
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Information science, Educational technology
Description: Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITSs) that adapt to an individual student's needs have shown significant improvement in achievement over non-adaptive instruction. This improvement occurs due to the individualized instruction and feedback that an ITS...

Title: Abstract visualization of large-scale time-varying data
Author: Yu, Li
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Computer engineering
Description: The explosion of large-scale time-varying datasets has created critical challenges for scientists to study and digest. One core problem for visualization is to develop effective approaches that can be used to study various data features and tempor...

Title: Adaptive Network Protocols to Support Queries in Dynamic Networks
Author: LIU, DINGXIANG
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Recent technological advancements have led to the popularity ofmobile devices, which can dynamically form wireless networks.In order to discover and obtain distributed information, queriesare widely used by applications in opportunistically formed...

Title: Advancing Safety in Roadway Work Zones with Worker-Centred Augmented Reality: Assessing the Feasibility, Usability, And Effectiveness Of AR-Enabled Warning Systems
Author: Sabeti, Sepehr
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Transportation, Computer science
Description: In recent years, there has been a concerning increase in serious injuries and fatalities within highway work zones, deviating from a previously declining trend. While innovative technologies offer potential for improving safety, the specific needs...

Title: An Approach to Reducing Parameter Uncertainty for Robotic Surface Assembly Tasks
Author: Saric, Amar
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Robotics
Description: In contrast to hard automation, which relies on the precise knowledge of all parameters and special-purpose machinery, the goal of flexible assembly is to overcome the inherent uncertainty in the location of the parts. The main result of this diss...

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...