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A Semantics-Centric Data Processing Framework for Fault Diagnosis in Internet of Things
(2019-09-06)Fault diagnosis is a challenging task in the realm of Internet of Things, where heterogeneous data and proprietary environment may cause serious interoperability problems when a monitoring job is deployed across different ... -
A Spatial Evaluation of Groundwater Quality Salinity and Underground Injection Controlled Wells Activity in Texas
(2019-05)Uncertainty around the relationship between underground injection-controlled wells and groundwater quality has spurred conversations around the potential environmental and societal impacts oil extraction may have on ... -
A Spatial Optimization Approach to Finding Locations for Wildfire Fuel Treatments
(2017-12)Wildfires are a major concern in many parts of the world. In order to minimize the threat posed by wildfires, prior to the ignition of a wildfire forest managers use fuel management activities to modify the volume and ... -
A Study in Atmosphere Dielectric Barrier Discharge Plasma Electrode Catalytic Effect Using Oxygen and Nitrogen
(2018-05)Atmospheric dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) plasma creates a gaseous environment conducive to the generation of reactive species. DBD plasmas have a variety of applications in the clinical and industrial fields. During ... -
A Study of Abell 2146: Dark and Luminous
(2018-05)The universe is a highly dynamic system. Under the primary influence of gravity, matter in the universe clumped together to create the structure we currently observe with our telescopes. Gravity formed objects on vastly ... -
A Systematic Comparison of the Anisotropy of Magnetic Susceptibility (AMS) and Anisotropy of Remanence (ARM) Fabrics of Ignimbrites: Examples from the Quaternary Bandelier Tuff, Jemez Mountains, New Mexico and Miocene Ignimbrites near Gold Point, Nevada
(2017-08)Anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility (AMS) has been widely used to define petrofabrics in silicic, elevated-temperature pyroclastic deposits (i.e., ignimbrites) and these fabrics have been successfully utilized to infer ... -
A Theoretical Exploration of Psychological Grit in the Context of Criminology
(2018-05)Psychological theory and theoretical criminology have unavoidable parallels. However, despite this reality, there has not been any research attempting to discover whether there is a relationship between psychological grit ... -
A Unified Relativistic Treatment of Tidal Disruption Events and a New Model for Self-Intersections Involving Tidal Debris Streams for Schwarzschild Black Holes
(2018-08)This dissertation concerns the astrophysical phenomena known as tidal disruption events~(TDEs), where stars are ripped apart by gravitational tides from their host galaxies' central supermassive black hole~(SBH). Stars are ... -
Abu Dhabi, Lens, and Los Angeles: The Avant-Garde Architecture of Three 21st Century Universal Art Museums
(2019-05)Rooted in the late 18th and 19th century idea of the museum as a “library of past civilizations,” the universal or encyclopedic museum attempts to cover as much of the history of mankind through “art” as possible. The ... -
Access and Information Flow control in Cloud Environments
(2019-12)Different service computing paradigms have been widely supported in the Cloud. A wide varieties of services from different providers belonging to different domains are hosted in the cloud. These services can be composed ... -
Accounting for the Dead Time in Analysis of Time of Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry Data
(2018-12)Time of Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (ToF SIMS) is a powerful tool for advanced surface analysis. It produces large data sets, which consist of mass spectra at each pixel at an imaged area. Many ToF SIMS ... -
Acoustic Feedback Cancellation Techniques for Hearing Aid Applications in Noisy Environments
(2018-05)Acoustic feedback cancellation is a problem of great interest to researchers in Hearing Aid Device (HAD) applications. Acoustic feedback effect arises due to the acoustic leakage from the loudspeaker to the input microphone. ... -
Action Recognition in Continuous Data Streams Using Fusion of Depth and Inertial Sensing
(2018-12)Human action or gesture recognition has been extensively studied in the literature spanning a wide variety of human-computer interaction applications including gaming, surveillance, healthcare monitoring, and assistive ... -
Activity Recognition in Videos Using Deep Learning
(2018-05)Automatically recognizing activities in a video is a long standing goal of computer vision and artificial intelligence. Recently, breakthroughs in deep learning have revolutionized the field of computer vision and today ... -
Adaptation and Learning in Social Networks
(2018-12)This dissertation broadly addresses the issue of learning in social networks. The dissertation builds on existing literature that leverages learning as a mechanism for predicting the performance effects of different ... -
Adapting Affect: Cognition, Emotion, and Identity from Novel to Film
(2018-05)Affect and emotion are modes of human communication that help us convey and receive meaning. Literature and film are two of the major art forms that allow such communication as each medium is composed of formal choices and ... -
Adaptive Predictors for Extracting Physiological Signals in Two Modern Bioinstruments
(2019-08)Physiological signals are at the core of understanding, diagnosing, and treating the human body. Those provide valuable insight into the internal function and state of systems within the anatomy. Depending on the system ... -
Additive Manufacturing and in Situ Mechanical and Material Characterization of Metallic Structures at Micro/Nanoscale
(2018-12)The progress in microscale additive manufacturing (µ-AM) of metals requires engineering of the microstructure for various functional applications. In situ control over the microstructure during three-dimensional (3D) ... -
Advanced Concurrency Techniques for Concurrent Data Structures
(2019-08)Concurrent algorithms have gained importance as multi-core machines have become more ubiquitous. Several techniques are employed to enable the construction of such algorithms. We present algorithms for the Group Mutual ... -
Advanced Signal Processing Techniques for Smart Grid Communications
(2016-12)Smart grid (SG) networks require a reliable communication infrastructure for bi-directional communication. The well-established network infrastructure which covers a vast geographical area motivates SG communications. The ...