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ROBUST FINE-GRAINED OBJECT CLASSIFICATION IN VIDEOS DOMAIN
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
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 ... -
TOWARDS A ROBUST UNDERSTANDING OF ARABIC WORD SENSE
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 ... -
Entity Theory of Suicide: Understanding Suicide Risk from a Mindset Framework Among Younger and Older Adults, An
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 ... -
IF WE BUILD IT, WILL THEY COME? ENGAGEMENT WITH DIGITAL HEALTH INTERVENTIONS FOR TRAUMA RECOVERY
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
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
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 ... -
Elucidating the function of the antisense RNA asdps in Escherichia coli
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 ... -
FPGA-based Hardware Accelerator for Sequence Alignment by Genetic Algorithm, An
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 ... -
Roles of Psychological and Cognitive Flexibility in Complex PTSD, The
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 ... -
Crime and sexuality: A life-story analysis of Queer individuals' experiences with law enforcement and the criminal justice system
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 ... -
Neuropsychological Functioning in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Pain
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
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 ... -
Transfer Learning Across Languages With Poetry
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 ... -
Unmasking Hegemonic Masculinity: Masculine Representations in Star Wars
Star Wars has influenced generations of American viewers for decades but has gone largely unanalyzed when it comes to a critique of the discourses about masculinity presented in the films. This is problematic as media ... -
Like a Broken Record: A Critical Analysis of Popular Music
The purpose of this study is to assess the diversity of two different categories of popular music, Rock and Roll and Hot 100, while applying concepts from Horkheimer and Adorno’s ‘The Dialectic of Enlightenment’. This study ... -
REDUCING AGITATION IN LONG-TERM CARE: A VIRTUAL REALITY INTERVENTION FOR DEMENTIA
As the Baby Boom generation ages, the number of older adults with a form of dementia (or major neurocognitive disorder) will rise. Agitation behaviors are frequently associated with dementia, which can have negative ... -
PROTECTIVE SEXUAL BEHAVIORS: THE ROLE OF PARENT-TEEN SEXUAL MESSAGES
Engagement in protective sexual behaviors, including condom use, STI/STD testing, and communication with a sexual partner, are important for preventing an unplanned pregnancy and acquiring a sexually transmitted infection ... -
DRONE APPLICATIONS WITHIN THE FIELD OF AUGMENTED REALITY
This thesis has explored the drone interactive applications within the field of Augmented Reality. New forms of interactive algorithms has been created and proposed, two of them focused on how to control a drone while the ... -
Continuum-Scale Lithium-Ion Battery Cell Model in FEniCS
There are many open and closed source solutions for simulating physics-based models of lithium-ion cells. Most solutions are either too broad or narrow in scope, resulting in solutions that are unable to support a ...
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