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Multi-scale Deep Nearest Neighbors
In this thesis, we aim to learn a deep embedding space suitable for k-NN. Our approach is based on minimizing the leave-one-out 1-NN classification error in the embedding space. Directly optimizing for such a rule is not tractable due to its discontinuous nature. We propose Multi-scale Deep Nearest …
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Coping With Neighbors & other entanglements
This thesis explores how two ways of "seeing" landscape might be integrated through a set of design interventions for the Kooyooe fish and the people from the Paiute nation. Situated in the state currently known as Nevada, where the Paiute people have lived for over 9,000 years, Pyramid Lake is the …
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Nostalgic Neighbors: Engaging the Single-Story of Wholesomeness
<p>In exploring our pasts, memories aren’t made real until they’re articulated out loud. This critical essay offers a meditation on meaning-finding activities of the twentieth century. I offer a definition of the word wholesome, as it exists as both an aesthetic, and as a way to find personal …
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Border fixity : when good fences make bad neighbors
Since the end of the Second World War, a norm of "border fixity" - a proscription of foreign conquest and annexation of homeland territory - has become prevalent in world politics. Such practices are no longer acceptable tools of policy. Has the international norm of border fixity made …
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Efficient fixed-radius near neighbors for machine learning
… of an efficient and parallel fixed-radius near neighbors program (FRNN). FRNN is a core component in a new type of machine learning model, object oriented deep learning (OODL), serving as a replacement for CNNs with goals of invariance, equivariance, interpretability, and computational …
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Applying a randomized nearest neighbors algorithm to dimensionality reduction
… this thesis, I implemented a randomized nearest neighbors algorithm in order to optimize an existing dimensionality reduction algorithm. In implementation I resolved details that were not considered in the design stage, and optimized the nearest neighbor system for use by the dimensionality …
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Engaging Neighbors: Housing Strategies and Political Mobilization in Moscow's Renovation
<p>In summer 2017, residents of thousands of socialist-era apartment buildings in Moscow were invited to vote and decide whether their building should be included in the demolition and relocation program proposed by the Mayor’s Office. Renovation is an ongoing urban renewal plan, first announced in …
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Small city neighbors: race, space, and class in Mansfield, Ohio
… structures social relationships among neighbors. In analyzing how whiteness, especially middle class white dominance, responds to pressures that seek to undermine its privileges, my dissertation offered a small city-specific view of U.S. race relations. While my dissertation captures …
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On Neighbors, Groups and Application Invariants in Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks
The miniaturization and energy-efficient operation of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) provides unprecedented opportunities for monitoring mobile entities. The motivation for this thesis is drawn from real-world applications including monitoring wildlife, assisted living, and logistics. …
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Good Fences Make Good Neighbors: The Rio Grande Arrival/Departure Shelter
"Where the power of the wall is to deny, the power of the door is to permit, and allow entry. 1" Borders are represented on maps as thick, predetermined lines that delineate, separate, and segregate one area from another. A whole is divided into two or more parts. Borders become boundaries and, in …
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From Gunboats to Good Neighbors: U.S. Naval Diplomacy in Peru, 1919-1942
This dissertation examines the role naval power played in the evolution of U.S. policy toward Latin America during the interwar period, when the United States abandoned armed interventionism in favor of the policy of the "Good Neighbor." Specifically, it focuses on two oft-overlooked types of naval …
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Distant Neighbors: Negotiating Space and Urban Development in a Southern Mississippi Community
<p>Through a case study in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, this research explores the need for cultural competence in urban economic development of neighborhoods. I place at the forefront the need for a collective community voice in the discussions and negotiations of future development, and argue that a …
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Landmine classification using possibilistic K-nearest neighbors with wideband electromagnetic induction data
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] In this thesis, a possibilistic K-nearest neighbor classifier is presented to distinguish between and classify mine and non-mine targets on data obtained from wideband electromagnetic induction sensors. The goal of this …
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Good Neighbors: Agents of Change in the New Rural South, 1900 to 1940
This work paints an intimate portrait of rural people who lived in the hill counties of northeast Mississippi and southwest Arkansas between 1900 and 1940. Howard County, Arkansas and Union County, Mississippi serve as the representative counties for each hill-country region. Howard County is …
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The Diffusion of Conservation Technology: A Dyad Analysis of Innovators and Their Neighbors
The goal of the study is to contribute to the understanding of the process of the diffusion of innovations. A corollary to this goal is to assess systematic differences and similarities in the socioeconomic characteristics of innovators, those individuals in a social system who, relative to their …
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Plant-plant and plant-insect interactions: Direct and indirect effects of plant neighbors
In greenhouse and field experiments using Amaranthus retroflexus and Chenopodium album, I investigated whether competition and artificial leaf herbivory acted synergistically in depressing plant growth (height, diameter, and vegetative mass) and reproduction (reproductive mass and time of …
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Filters, Neighbors, and Triangles: A Behaviorally and Electrophysiologically Informed Perspective on Visual Word Recognition
Two Event-Related Potential (ERP) studies and one behavioral study are presented in service of a single goal: to evaluate current prevalent computational models of visual word recognition. Specifically, the functionally homogenous cooperative division of labor model (Triangle) and the full family …
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The neighbors will tell you what to expect: Effects of aging and predictability on language processing
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