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Showing 1 to 20 of 7854 for “"Predictions"”.
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Making Detailed Predictions Makes (Some) Predictions Worse
… paper, we investigate whether making detailed predictions about an event makes other predictions worse. Across 19 experiments, 10,895 participants, and 415,960 predictions about 724 professional sports games, we find that people who made detailed predictions about sporting events (e.g., how …
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Context-specific metabolic predictions
… which then provide context-specific metabolic predictions. This thesis is composed of three individual studies focussing on context-specific experimental data integration into computational models of metabolism. The first study presents an optimization-based method to obtain context-specific …
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Drought predictions: applications in Australia.
… in Australia, the driest continent. In doing so predictions can be made, levels of risk can be evaluated and conditional estimates of drought can be based on climatic state variables. For insight into the nature of drought in Australia, multivariate models of drought characteristics are …
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Creep predictions for turbomachinery components
… proposed by Kachanov. Creep, damage and life predictions for rectangular or circular cross section beams under bending and tensile loads are presented. Comparison with data for a Ni Superalloy showed life predictions could be 30X in excess of experimental values. This beam model also revealed …
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Stock market predictions using machine learning
… combine the two and compare the result to stock predictions made using the deep neural network on the stock prices during the same period. The selected companies for the experiment are - Microsoft, Google, Netflix, Apple, Nvidia, AMD, Amazon. The companies were selected based on their popularity …
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Predictions and Constraints of Cosmological Correlators
<p>In this dissertation, we study the role of correlation functions in Cosmology. The study is bidirectional: We explore the constraints that correlation functions gathered from data impose on different theories; we also analyze the constraints that get imposed on correlation functions given …
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Responsibly Emboldening Predictions via Boldness-Recalibration
Probability predictions are essential to inform decision making across many fields. Ideally, probability predictions are (i) well calibrated, (ii) accurate, and (iii) bold, i.e., spread out enough to be informative for decision making. However, there is a fundamental tension between calibration and …
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Body Pose Predictions in Triadic Social Interactions
Human beings are social animals in that they need to socialize with each other to build companionship and thrive alongside other humans. One of the primary characteristics of social interactions is the signals used by people to communicate their thoughts effectively. These include gesturing with …
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Improved predictions of contaminant transport in rivers
<p>To improve predictions of contaminant transport in rivers, two analytical models and one empirical model were evaluated. Analytical solutions of the model of Reichert and Wanner (1991), which represents mixing in the advective zone by dividing the channel into a flowing zone and a stagnant zone, …
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Structure-based Predictions for Molecular Initiating Events
… which chemicals can undergo a MIE. In silico predictions of MIEs are a vital tool in a modern, mechanism-focused approach to risk assessment of chemicals. In this project, new structural alert-based models for receptor binding MIEs have been constructed that create accurate, transparent and …
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Machine Learning Predictions of International Stock Returns
This dissertation is broadly describing predictability of returns on individual stocks in international context. The first chapter covers required prerequisites for any study of fundamental anomalies outside the US. The second chapter studies the predictability of stock returns at an annual …
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Modelling the NBA to make better predictions
… other statistical tools in order to better make predictions and quantify unexpected events. In my thesis, I first review other quantitative models of the NBA. Second, I present novel features extracted from NBA play-by-play data that I use in building my predictive models. Third, I propose …
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Cosmic microwave background predictions of supernatural inflation
This thesis makes predictions for the temperature anisotropy spectrum of the CMB under the supernatural inflation model class [17] and compares these predictions against the Boomerang 98 data [5], using the Lange et. al [11] cosmological parameter estimations for an [Omega]tot = 1 universe. This …
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Analysis of the uncertainty of wind power predictions
Wind power predictions improve the technical and economical integration of large shares of wind energy into the existing electricity supply system. In this work the uncertainty related to short-term predictions of the power output of wind farms is investigated in detail where uncertainty refers to …
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Stiffness and Strength Predictions of Discontinuous Fiber Composites
… for each RLVE during each analysis. Fracture predictions are obtained through a damage accumulation model called the ply discount scheme. Final structural failure of the part is declared when all plies within a single element have failed. Other definitions of final structural failure are also …
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Toward Structural and Functional Predictions from Biological Sequences
Biological sequences, including DNA and protein sequences, are believed to encode sufficient information to determine the structure and function of biological molecules, which in turn decide the phenotypic traits of animals. Deciphering the biological sequences is an important and multiscale …
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Yield Curves and Macro Variables Interactions and Predictions
This research is based on the yield curves and five macro variables, namely equity indices, FX rates, central banks’ policy rates, inflation rates and the GDP growth rates, for nine different markets, from different geographical regions. Our aim was to identify common trends in yield curves and …
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Infinite Derivative Gravity : a finite number of predictions
… shown that IDG gives almost precisely the same predictions as General Relativity for the power emitted by a binary system.
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