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Showing 1 to 20 of 1567 for “"Computer Sciences"”.
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Studienberatung im deutschen Hochschulsystem auf der Basis psychologischer Tests : Studienfachprofile, Vorhersagevalidität und Akzeptanz
… of increasing success rates, in particular in Computer Sciences and Electrical Engineering. This work provides information about the background to the development, the construction of the test battery and technical implementation as well as empirical evidence regarding the quality of the test …
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Immunology Virtual Reality (VR): Exploring Educational VR Experience Design for Science Learning
… college freshmen in the Department of Biological Sciences at Virginia Tech (VT). The project is an interdisciplinary endeavor between my collaboration between people from different domain areas at VT: Creative Technologies, Education, Biological Sciences, and Computer Sciences. This thesis …
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Topics in Harmonic Analysis on Combinatorial Graphs
… theory, signal analysis, image processing, computer sciences, learning theory, and astronomy. My thesis is devoted to sampling, interpolation, approximation, and multi-resolution on graphs. The results in the existing literature concern mainly with these theories on unweighted graphs. My …
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Standard Network Diagramming Language and Corresponding Meta-Model
… have proven themselves to be quite useful to the computer sciences industry. It is my proposition, however, that the adoption of a formally defined standardized symbol set would improve the usefulness of these visual tools, the goal being to create a language that is used as the visual tool for …
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An investigation of a manipulative simulation in the learning of recursive programming
… is a fundamentally important topic in Computer Sciences; Even so, it is often omitted in introductory courses, or discussed only briefly. This is likely due, at least in part, to the fact that teaching recursion has been difficult. Perhaps the biggest problem in teaching recursion is …
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A study of some M[x]/G/1 type queues with random breakdowns and bernouilli schedule server vacations based on a single vacation policy
… of many practical applications related to computer sciences, telecommunication networks, manufacturing and production, human computer interaction, and so on. The classical queueing system, even vacation queues or queues subject to breakdown, might not be sufficiently realistic. The purpose …
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Developing Learning Analytics for Epistemic Commitments in a Collaborative Information Seeking Environment
… at the confluence of learning, information, and computer sciences. Using a distinctive account of learning analytics as a form of assessment, I first argue for its potential in pedagogically motivated learning design, suggesting a particular construct – epistemic cognition in literacy contexts – …
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Identification of Tissue and Circulating Biomarkers For Premalignant and Malignant Lesions
… technologies, novel inventions in the computer sciences fields have been applied to analyze these data. The current study demonstrates the application of such technologies in a variety of scenarios.</p> <p>I first described how targeted and whole-exome sequencing were used to identify …
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Tag based Bayesian latent class models for movies : economic theory reaches out to big data science
… products: namely, that of novelty. In contrast, computer sciences, and more specifically recommender theory, embrace creative products as a study object. Being items of online transactions, users of creative products share opinions on a massive scale and in doing so generate a flow of data driven …
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Platform to Assist Medical Experts in Training, Application, and Control of Machine Learning Models Using Patient Data from a Clinical Information System
… advancements in academic research fields such as computer sciences and physics into clinical practice. For this purpose, clinical data scientists and medical experts need to closely collaborate. This thesis tackles challenges of accessibility and usability of state-of-the-art machine learning …
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The transformation of public space : mobile technology practices and urban liminalities
… various architectural, urban, cultural, and computer science discourses have advanced the rhetoric that contemporary information and communications technologies (ICTs) will fundamentally transform the built and urban environment. More recently, communications and media studies, as well as …
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Strategies and public policy models of effective human capital, talents and workforce development : an investigation into the effectiveness of different scholarship programmes in the United Arab Emirates, UAE
… (Management, Biology, Engineering and Computer Sciences), and those who had received few. However, further in-depth assessment of individual institutions might be necessary in future to elicit such evidence and/or relationship links. Some results suggested that the scholarships offered …
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Career choices of black grade 12 learners in KwaZulu-Natal schools: implications for sustainable development
… as nursing, information technology, tourism, and computer sciences. Similarly, girls had begun to choose careers that were traditionally popular with the boys, such as mining, land surveying, doctor, civil engineering, prison warden, journalism, electrical engineering and mechanical engineering. …
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Development of a deep learning framework for accelerated training and efficient classification of aerial LiDAR data
The energy industry has operational needs to monitor high value assets and infrastructure such as pipelines and powerlines, against intrusions or anomalies. Aerial LiDAR scanners enable around the clock surveillance, as they are active sensors emitting laser pulses to capture detailed point cloud …
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LEARNING TO ACT FROM DIVERSE DATA SOURCES VIA WORLD MODELS
The next frontier in learning to act is generalization - the ability of the agent to operate in a diverse set of environments and to solve a diverse set of tasks. How can we learn generalist agents? I argue that learning world models that predict future outcomes of actions directly from image …
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Secured information dissemination and misbehavior detection in VANETs
"In a connected vehicle environment, the vehicles in a region can form a distributed network (Vehicular Ad-hoc Network or VANETs) where they can share traffic-related information such as congestion or no-congestion with other vehicles within its proximity, or with a centralized entity via. the …
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THE ELUSIVE QUEST: SOFTWARE PRODUCT QUALITY EVALUATION
<p>Quality has many definitions, and even more models and methods for assurance and evaluation associated with it. After an overview of existing concepts, we provide a comprehensive methodology for evaluating the quality of a software product, complete with methods for model structure and parameter …
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Faster data structures and graphics hardware techniques for high performance rendering
Computer generated imagery is used in a wide range of disciplines, each with different requirements. As an example, real-time applications such as computer games have completely different restrictions and demands than offline rendering of feature films. A game has to render quickly using only …
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Assemblies of Pervasive Services
Pervasive computing is a vision about computers blending into the background, being there to assist us when we need them, but not requiring constant attention. The vision covers scenarios in the home, at work, and out in the street, and builds on the ongoing development towards an increasing number …
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