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"Arms an Employment": Motivations for Enlisting in the 18th Century British Army
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Author
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Kane, Nicholas
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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Military history
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Description
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NICHOLAS KANE. "Arms an Employment": Motivations for Enlistment in the 18th Century British Army. (Under the direction of Drs. DAVID JOHNSON and JOHN SMAIL) In the eighteenth century, the British military boomed in size with the various wars that ...
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"Because We're Unique": The Literate Lives of Black Adolescent Females
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Author
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Strong, Kellan
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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Education, Reading, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
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Description
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This qualitative study explores the literacy and language practices of Black adolescent girls as they read and make meaning of a critical text. The focus of this inquiry was to broadly examine how societal and situational factors influence the way...
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'Practice' for Enhancing the Performance of a Deep Reinforcement Learning Agent
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Author
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Kancharla, Venkata Sai Santosh Ravi Teja
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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Artificial intelligence
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Description
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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...
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A MODIFIED SELF-INTERFERENCE BASED INCOHERENT DIGITAL HOLOGRAPHIC RECORDING SYSTEM
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Author
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Mishra, Abhinav
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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Mechanical engineering, Optics
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Description
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A Fresnel-type self-interference based incoherent digital holographic system that can measure the intensity and direction of incoming light field is proposed. This system is composed primarily of a convex lens as an objective, a linear polarizer, ...
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A Recurrent Neural Network Based Patch Recommender for Linux Kernel Bugs
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Author
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Bableshwar, Anusha
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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Computer engineering
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Description
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Software bugs result in a variety of issues including system crashes, loss of system performance, incorrect output and security vulnerabilities. In this thesis, we explore the design of a patch recommender system for the Linux kernel. Software too...
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A SCALABLE LSTM BASED APPROACH FOR MULTI-PEDESTRIAN TRACKING IN SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS
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Author
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Kulkarni, Pratik
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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Computer engineering
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Description
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There has been an ever growing interest in leveraging state of the art deep learning techniques for tracking objects in video frames. Such works primarily focus on using appearance based models which prove not to be effective in modelling the beha...
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A Scalable deep learning framework for autonomous road asset classification
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Author
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Nouri Gooshki, Sadegh
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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Artificial intelligence
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Description
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The focus of this thesis is on automation in road asset inspection using deep neural networks. Even though some progress has been made in automation of data collection and condition assessment, the amount of manual operation and the cost of road i...
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A Study on Soil-Structure Interaction of Axially Loaded Sheet Piles
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Author
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Sylvain, Matthew
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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Civil engineering
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Description
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Sheet piles are geotechnical structural elements often used in canals and rivers for soil retention and scour protection. Short span bridge abutment design in North Carolina and the U.S., for locations near bodies of water, typically uses sheet pi...
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A WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK BREADCRUMB TRAIL FOR AN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE
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Author
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Chaudhary, Manu
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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Electrical engineering
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Description
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Research in the area of wireless sensor networks has seen unprecedented growth inthe last decade. Human deployable ad-hoc networks are being used to communicateessential information in places where there is no network or the network is destroyeddu...
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A navigation system for low-cost autonomous all-terrain-vehicles
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Author
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Mhapankar, Shantanu
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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Electrical engineering, Automobiles--Design and construction, Computer engineering
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Description
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In the last decade, there has been significant research work in the field of autonomous on-road vehicle, but, research in automating off-road vehicles has been largely untouched. The main aim of this thesis was to propose a robust framework for an...
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ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION AMONG WOMEN LIVING IN THE UNITED STATES
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Author
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Solomon, Corliss
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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Public health
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Description
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The problem of heavy alcohol consumption is now a woman’s issue but there is limited data on the prevalence of and factors associated with heavy alcohol consumption among women living in the United States. Three manuscripts were developed to study...