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Showing 1 to 20 of 103 for “"Models and Methods"”.
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Models and Methods in Cultural and Social Evolution
… of the field of cultural evolution is to understand how processes of transmission at the individual level lead to population wide patterns of cultural diversity and change. Previous models of cultural copying and innovation have assumed that traits are independent of one another and essentially …
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Minimalist Models and Methods for Visibility-Based Tasks
This dissertation proposes minimal models for solving visibility-based robotic tasks. It introduces strategies that handle sensing and actuation uncertainty while avoiding precise state estimations. This is done by analyzing the space of sensing and actuation histories, the history information …
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Models and methods for power monolithic microwave integrated circuits
… (MMICs) depends critically on active device models that are accurate, computationally efficient, and easily extracted from measurements or device simulators. Empirical models of active electron devices, which are based on actual device measurements, do not provide a detailed description of …
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Interpretability by Design: New Interpretable Machine Learning Models and Methods
<p>As machine learning models are playing increasingly important roles in many real-life scenarios, interpretability has become a key issue for whether we can trust the predictions made by these models, especially when we are making some high-stakes decisions. Lack of transparency has long been a …
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Flexible models and methods for longitudinal and multilevel functional data
… we propose penalized spline (P-spline)-based methods for functional mixed effects models with varying coefficients. This work is motivated by a clinical study of Complicated Grief (Shear et al. 2005). In the Complicated Grief Study, patients receive active treatment during a treatment period …
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Models and Methods for Multiple Resource Constrained Job Scheduling under Uncertainty
… arise in service industries such as consulting and operating room scheduling. We focus on two general cases of the problem. The first case considers uncertainty of processing times, due dates, and resource availabilities consumption, which we denote as the stochastic MRCSP with uncertain …
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Models and methods for computer simulations as a resource in plant breeding
… improved cultivars. Because of the impact and modern complexity of these decisions, computer simulation based on effective models can be an important resource for the breeder, particularly in providing guidance on choice of parents and decisions related to various aspects of the integrated …
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Optimization models and methods for storage yard operations in maritime container terminals
… modes of transportation both on the seaside and landside, are crucial links in intercontinental supply chains. The rapid growth of container shipping and the increasing competitive pressure to lower rates result in demand for higher productivity. In this thesis, we design new models and …
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New models and methods for classification and feature selection. a mathematical optimization perspective
… this PhD dissertation is the development of new models for Supervised Classification and Benchmarking, making use of Mathematical Optimization and Statistical tools. Particularly, we address the fusion of instruments from both disciplines, with the aim of extracting knowledge from data. In such a …
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Models and methods for computationally efficient analysis of large spatial and spatio-temporal data
… is devoted to computationally efficient methods and models for large spatial and spatio-temporal data. Several approximation methods to "the big n problem" are reviewed, and an extended autoregressive model, called the EAR model, is proposed as a parsimonious model that accounts for …
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Models and Methods for Random Fields in Spatial Statistics with Computational Efficiency from Markov Properties
… focus of this work is on the development of new random field models and methods suitable for the analysis of large environmental data sets. A large part is devoted to a number of extensions to the newly proposed Stochastic Partial Differential Equation (SPDE) approach for representing Gaussian …
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A comparative evaluation of surface runoff models and methods on small developing watersheds in Northern Virginia
… has spurred the formation of numerous models and methods to simulate the effects of urbanization on runoff processes. The engineer who must use these models and methods needs to be aware of their capabilities and performance. Many of the models assume that calibration will take place to …
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On neural spike sorting with mixture models
While the nature of physics is to understand matter, the nature of neuroscience is perhaps to understand brain. With the advent of neural data collecting hardware, from single electrode tip to electrode array, there is a need to analyze these huge amount of neural data. The analysis of these data …
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Contribuição ao projeto de fundações em radier
… presents a review of the better known design methods for mat foundations and their application to practical cases. The main objective of the thesis is to establish criteria for the computation of internal forces in mat foundations, following a comparative study of the various models and …
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Refiguring George MacDonald: Science and the Realist Novel
… Elginbrod</em>, <em>Alec Forbes of Howglen</em>, and <em>Lilith </em>engage with scientific discourse and epistemological concerns of the period. These scientific and epistemological dealings include a positive evaluation of evolution, a resistance to pseudoscience and Calvinism, an endorsement of …
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Imagining Jazzocracy: Notes Toward a new Democratic Subject
… a brief survey of the biological, historical, and cultural formations that construct our political environment this essay advances equaliberty as the foundational concept for the Jazzocrat, the new political subject for tomorrow’s participatory democracy.</p>
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Concurrently designing a physical production system and an information system in a manufacturing setting
… implement a physical production system first, and then later incorporate a capable information system to control that production system. Rather, the physical production system and the information system must be designed concurrently to ensure the resulting system yields a seamless flow of …
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Scene Text Localization and Recognition for Images of Serial Numbers and Odometer Readings
This thesis investigates deep learning models and methods to create a full scene text extraction system. The system is composed of two main parts, a localization network and a recognition network, with the recognition network being the main focus. The localization network is a segmentation network …
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