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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"Human labor"”.
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The Economic Advantage of Computer Vision Over Human Labor, and Its Market Implications
… including changes in mar- ket dynamics and the labor market. Thus, to inform policy, we need to understand and forecast the implementation of A.I. Previous forecasts of A.I. proliferation have focused on the technical feasibility of replacing human labor in existing tasks. However, since the …
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Active Reinforcement Learning for the Semantic Segmentation of Images Captured by Mobile Sensors
… The annotation task requires time-consuming human labor. This thesis investigates the use of a reinforced active learning as region selection method to reduce human labor while achieving competitive results. A Deep Query Network (DQN) is utilized to identify the best strategy to label the …
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Acoustic Labor in the Timing of Everyday Life: A Critical Contribution to the History of Samba in Rio De Janeiro
… of his object of study in terms of (acoustic) human labor, stressing its potentials for transcending crucial theoretical dilemmas pervading the study of practices otherwise deemed as ""musics."""
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Electrokinetic trapping of biomolecules : novel nanofluidic devices for proteomic applications
… widely utilized, these methods require extensive human labor and exhibit limited resolving power for low abundance analytes. Due to the shear complexity and abundance variation of biosamples, rapid and ultra-sensitive diagnostic measurements of disease markers are still out of reach. To address …
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An affordance-inspired tool for automated web page labeling and classification
… this thesis, I build an application that assists human users in classifying and labeling web pages. This system uses a gradient boosting classifier from the scikit-learn Python package to identify which of four tasks may be performed on a given web page. It also attempts to automatically label the …
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The use of robots: implications on the labor market
… unemployment resulting from the replacement of human workers with machines. The prevailing perception seems to be the substitutability of humans with machines that reach a new and unprecedented quality. But does automation represent solely and exclusively a threat to human labor? In reality, …
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UNEARTHING ENTANGLEMENTS: HUMAN/MACHINE COLLABORATION IN THE WRITING CLASSROOM
… at the intersections of design, teaching labor, and pedagogy when automation is deployed in writing classrooms. The sites of analysis are Eli Review and Turnitin, two technologies that represent different design approaches that center around “informating” or “automating” data about student …
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Regenerative agriculture and landscape architecture: a promising partnership
… landscape architecture, is an interface between human culture and the rest of the ecologic world. The agro-ecological interface has become incredibly damaging, to humans and the rest of the living world. Globalized industrialized agriculture has led to unprecedented human labor efficiency in …
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The seen, the unseen, and the aesthetics of infrastructure
… built environment, urging me to visualize the humanity attached to materials that define space and use. Unregulated, human labor markets are deeply embedded into necessary components of contemporary global, societal infrastructures. This relationship plays itself out in plain sight, and yet can …
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Development of a dynamic multi-belt scale for IQF sorting
… production flow and product yield while reducing human labor. Valka, an Icelandic tech company, was in need of a new dynamic scale to offer more rapid weighing for sorting frozen fish pieces. The design proposed herein features a smaller weighing platform than previously employed, meant for …
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Tools for connectomics in C. elegans
… a handful of animals and required many years of human labor. Such a characterization, and, moreover, an ability to accurately assess shifts in these neural graphs on timescales compatible with the pace and statistical rigor of scientific research would significantly accelerate efforts to …
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TeachBot : an automated, hands-on apprenticeship program
… it is more economical to use a mixture of human labor and manufacturing robots; however, with the thousands of people who apply for these jobs, many do not have the experience to work along-side robots or understand how robots works. The research described by this thesis introduces a …
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HOW TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION, HUMAN BEHAVIOR, AND COST EFFICIENCY INFLUENCE HOSPITAL TASK ALLOCATION: A RESOURCE-BASED VIEW AND TECHNOLOGICAL UNEMPLOYMENT PERSPECTIVE
… are increasingly investing in Artificial Labor (AL) technologies to optimize operations. This study investigates factors influencing hospital management’s preference for allocating tasks to AL rather than Human Labor (HL), focusing on cost efficiency, negative human behaviors, and the …
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Development of a table-top robot model for thinning of fruit
… in the United States. To reduce the cost of human labor, a concept of automatic selective thinning was pursued to improve the production of peach, apple and other fruits. In this research, a table-top robot model was developed to prove the concept, with an emphasis on a task planning …
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Evaluating Video-to-3D Foundation Models for Wire Harness Assembly Verification
… and reduce the industry’s critical reliance on human labor, this thesis evaluates emerging feed-forward "Video-to-3D" foundation models for automated assembly verification. Using a custom dataset of smartphone videos, four state-of-the-art (SOTA) architectures (Pi3-X, VGGT, Depth Anything V3, …
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Value Loss of Activities Propelled by Digital Transformation: Theoretical Evaluation and Empirical Modelling to Identify Efficiency Potentials to Maximize Value in the Field of Marketing & Sales.
… The efficiency coefficient of time weights the human labor input while the additive connection with digital technologies as input factor engenders either a complementary, substitutional, or no effect. With a sequential mixed-methods research approach, a further quantitative study with 251 …
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Disturbance grounds : an inquiry into non-equilibrium architectural states
… architectural operation beyond our life-span, human labor, and predefined architectural program. From nature's perspective, mass material movements are one of the ways in which it deconstructs; in the case of a natural disturbance, one can observe the rebirth of material from one form to …
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Meta-Learning and Self-Supervised Pretraining for Few-shot Image Translation
… curated data-sets which require a lot of human labor to gather. Additionally, these models tend to generalize poorly under both slight distributional shifts and low-data regimes. In recent years, emerging fields such as meta-learning or self-supervised learning have been closing the gap …
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100-Day Exhibition: Labor, Robots, and Corridors
… spectacle with the introduction of a new sort of labor in the format of a 100-day exhibition. The robotic machines replaced the enslaved persons to run a closed system of deconstruction and reconstruction: a constant displacement of architectural productions. The whole island is a museum. The …
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Weakly supervised learning from referring expression: Challenge and directions
… masks, which requires a significant amount of human labor. Therefore, we work on an approach to perform segmentation with only image level language descriptions. Under our weakly supervised setting, we are only provided with input images and the corresponding sentence descriptions, without the …
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