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Showing 1 to 20 of 4345 for “"Coverage"”.
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RFID Antenna Coverage Optimization
This research focuses on the problem of determining the location of RFID antennas required to read RFID tags from all items in a facility, such that the number of antennas is minimized. We formulate the problem as a Set Covering optimization problem. We develop a heuristic algorithm for this …
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Coverage problems in mobile sensing
… communication, motion and computation. The term coverage is applied to the central question of how well a sensor-network senses some phenomenon to make inferences. More formally, a coverage problem involves finding an arrangement of sensors that optimizes a coverage metric. In this thesis we …
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Active Learning with Combinatorial Coverage
… active learning methods utilizing Combinatorial Coverage to overcome these issues. The proposed methods are data-centric, and through our experiments we show that the inclusion of coverage in active learning leads to sampling data that tends to be the best in transferring to different models and …
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The media's coverage of jury trials
… the nature and extent of the print media's coverage of jury trials. A content analysis was conducted on the Los Angeles Times from 1973 to 1995, examining both overall trends in jury coverage and the extent and nature of that coverage before and after several high-profile jury trials. The …
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Media Coverage and the Ferguson Unrest
… which makes it possible for the media to supply coverage of police force on African Americans more now than ever before. This exploratory analysis aimed to uncover ways in which the media has framed the individuals involved in the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri on August 9, 2014. …
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ONLINE LEARNING WITH BANDITS FOR COVERAGE
… we formulate this problem as the {\it online set coverage problem} and propose its solution for recommendation systems and the patrol assignment problem.</p> <p>We propose a novel online reinforcement learning algorithm inspired by the Multi-Armed Bandit problem to solve the online recommendation …
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Media Focus in Afghanistan News Coverage
… explored the Media Focus in Afghanistan News Coverage to examine what categories of Afghanistan-related news received the largest amount of coverage during periods from 2010 to 2012. This study covered reports in The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, and The Daily Outlook …
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Coverage for Mobile Robots with Uncertainty
The classical problem of robot coverage is to plan a path that brings a point on a robot within a fixed distance of every point in the free space. This problem is solved under the assumption that a robot follows the path exactly. However, a robot with uncertainty in sensing and actuation is not …
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Coverage-directed validation of hardware models
… measure the degree of verification coverage of the design. Simulation-based validation has suffered from a disconnect between the metrics used to measure the coverage of a set of simulation vectors and the vector generation process. This disconnect has resulted in the simulation of …
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Coverage Planning for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
… an environment. Three increasingly complex coverage problems based on the environment that needs to be covered are studied. The dissertation starts with a 2D point coverage problem where the UAV needs to visit a set of sites on the ground plane by flying on a fixed altitude plane parallel to …
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Analyst Coverage and Tax Reporting Aggressiveness
… Studies exist that examine the impact of analyst coverage in a financial reporting context. The purpose of this study is to examine the role of analysts in the corporate tax reporting context. This dissertation examines the impact of analyst coverage on corporate tax aggressiveness using a …
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British media coverage of the Kosovo conflict
… framework to analyse the British media's coverage of the Kosovo Conflict, and tries to identify hegemonic influences on that media coverage; the analysis therefore works on a cultural and political level. The study uses framing as it has been used in previous social-political studies, as a …
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Framing Ole Miss Coverage In Mississippi Newspapers
… of constant, and sometimes controversial, media coverage. Through the last few years, Ole Miss Athletics has garnered much of that media attention due to its recent successes. However, coverage at Ole Miss, independent of its athletic programs, gets media coverage in a much different way. …
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Computational Methods for Analyzing Health News Coverage
Researchers that investigate the media's coverage of health have historically relied on keyword searches to retrieve relevant health news coverage, and manual content analysis methods to categorize and score health news text. These methods are problematic. Manual content analysis methods are labor …
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Disaster relief vehicle routing with volunteer coverage
In disaster relief operations, modelers typically adopt a pessimistic approach, where we optimize for the worst-case scenario. In reality, there is a chance for human compassion and support which we can incorporate in the operations: specifically, we often see volunteers who are willing to offer …
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Enhancing Signal Coverage for UHF RFID Systems
The low signal coverage problem has long been one of the most crucial problems in UHF RFID systems. In this thesis, the problem is tackled using a combination of antenna design, mathematical modelling and algorithm development. A novel UHF RFID reader antenna with 2D beam-scanning ability, a wide …
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