University of Colorado Colorado Springs

ROBUST FINE-GRAINED OBJECT CLASSIFICATION IN VIDEOS DOMAIN

Author(s):Alsahafi, Yousef
Date Submitted:2020-05

Fine-grained object classification task distinguishes between classes in a sub-category of objects, for instance, the particular species of bird or dog. It uses information from still images and ignores the information ...

OPEN-SET INTRUSION RECOGNITION USING EXTREME VALUE MACHINE

Author(s):HENRYDOSS, JAMES
Date Submitted:2019-12

Machine learning is continuously expanding as a sub-field of computer science which evolved from pattern recognition and computational learning theory. Advancements in machine learning, combined with the availability of ...

Entity Theory of Suicide: Understanding Suicide Risk from a Mindset Framework Among Younger and Older Adults, An

Author(s):Williams, Kadija Ny'Omi
Date Submitted:2019-12

Suicide is a leading cause of death for middle-age to older-age adults in the United States (Drapeau & McIntosh, 2016). Implicit self-theories, cognitive frameworks that emerge out of the intersection of childhood developmental ...

TOWARDS A ROBUST UNDERSTANDING OF ARABIC WORD SENSE

Author(s):Alkhatlan, Ali N.
Date Submitted:2019-12

Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) is a task which aims to identify the meaning of a word given its context. This problem has been investigated and analyzed in depth in English. However, work in Arabic has been limited ...

IF WE BUILD IT, WILL THEY COME? ENGAGEMENT WITH DIGITAL HEALTH INTERVENTIONS FOR TRAUMA RECOVERY

Author(s):Yeager, Carolyn M.
Date Submitted:2020-08

Worldwide, exposure to potentially traumatic events is extremely common and many will develop Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) along with other disorders. Unfortunately, considerable barriers to treatment exist. One ...

ANALYSIS OF PERFLUORINATED COMPOUNDS (PFCs) IN THE FOUNTAIN CREEK WATERSHED BY LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY

Author(s):Michaud, Michael Alexander
Date Submitted:2019-12

In recent years, multiple reports and studies have been completed on toxic perfluorinated compound (PFC) contamination of drinking water, surface water, groundwater, and soil. PFCs have drawn the attention of the U.S. ...

"What Kind of Asian Are You?": Examining the Effects of the Model Minority Discourse on the Identity Formation Experiences of Asian American Emerging Adults

Author(s):Salstrand, Alexa
Date Submitted:2019-12

This study examines the impact of the model minority stereotype on Asian American college students and emerging adults. Specifically, it explores the impact that media representations of Asian Americans as the model minority ...

Roles of Psychological and Cognitive Flexibility in Complex PTSD, The

Author(s):Engle, Krista
Date Submitted:2019-12

Psychological flexibility is considered to be a person’s ability to flexibly use emotional, behavioral, and cognitive strategies to adapt to changing situational demands. A lack of psychological flexibility has been ...

FPGA-based Hardware Accelerator for Sequence Alignment by Genetic Algorithm, An

Author(s):Homet Garcia, Laura
Date Submitted:2019-12

The study of DNA, RNA and protein sequences leads to important biological information regarding structural, functional and evolutionary relationships between species. In bioinformatics, the comparison of sequences enables ...

Elucidating the function of the antisense RNA asdps in Escherichia coli

Author(s):Richardson, Katrina Lee
Date Submitted:2019-12

RNAs have emerged as major regulators of gene expression in both bacteria and eukaryotes. High-throughput sequencing techniques have uncovered a new type of RNA termed pervasive transcripts. Pervasive transcripts occur ...

Transfer Learning Across Languages With Poetry

Author(s):Tucker, Shaun C.
Date Submitted:2019-12

Transfer learning has been shown to help achieve state of the art results in various natural language processing tasks such as, next sentence prediction and question answering and machine translation. The GPT-2 model has ...

Neuropsychological Functioning in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Pain

Author(s):Correll, Danielle
Date Submitted:2019-12

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and pain often co-occur, with estimated rates between 2%-40% (McWilliams, Cox, & Enns, 2003). Both PTSD and pain are associated with impairments in neuropsychological functioning (e.g., ...

WIRELESS ENERGY HARVESTING ENHANCED BY SAW RESONATOR

Author(s):Serrano Salvador, David
Date Submitted:2019-12

Nowadays, there has been an increment in wireless communications and with them the number of RF waves in the environment. This means that there is a certain amount of energy in the waves. These waves are from different ...

Crime and sexuality: A life-story analysis of Queer individuals' experiences with law enforcement and the criminal justice system

Author(s):Miller, Rachael Christine
Date Submitted:2019-12

Historically, the Queer community has had tense relations with the criminal justice system and law enforcement. Queer criminology attempts to understand the modern-day relationship Queer individuals have with the legal ...