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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Science and engineering fields"”.
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What predicts whether foreign doctorate recipients from U.S. institutions stay in the United States
… the United States after their degree completion, and it explores individual, institutional, and country factors predicting whether the foreign doctorate recipients stay in the United States or return home. Analyzing data from the Survey of Earned Doctorates by the National Science Foundation, this …
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Enhancing parallel coordinates and RadVis visualizations using single-and multi-objective optimization
… is crucial to discover hidden patterns and relationships in high dimensional datasets; visualization is an essential branch in data analytics applied in science and engineering fields. This thesis has targeted two state-of-the-art methods from two powerful families of visualization …
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A Graph Neural Network for pairwise surrogate modeling in population-based algorithms with tournament selection
Optimization problems widely arise in various science and engineering fields. Optimisation involves evaluating a candidate solution, which can be computationally intensive. Machine learning-based surrogate models can contribute to learning the specific pattern among the decision variables and …
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ETSU GearUp: The Design and Development of an Alternative Energy Greenhouse.
… through the Federal Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs. This year's project is an alternative energy greenhouse, which incorporates solar panels and a wind turbine. The focus is on familiarizing students with control systems including programmable logic …
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ARE GRADUATE STUDENTS RATIONAL? MACROECONOMIC DETERMINANTS OF GRADUATE ENROLLMENT AND COMPLETIONS IN THE BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES
… doubling from 1998 through 2003 stimulated demand for biomedical scientists, increasing both relative wages and employment. However, because research doctorates in these fields may take six years or more to complete, there is a substantial lag in the labor supply response to changing market …
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Millivolt silicon photonic modulators for cryogenic applications
… to overcome existing bottlenecks in a range of science and engineering fields including quantum computing, high performance computing and single-photon communication systems. As these technologies mature and systems scale, a readout solution for high speed, low power data transfer between the …
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The attitudes of academics to accomodating physically disabled students into the undergraduate civil engineering programme in the Faculty of Engineering and Science, University of KwaZulu-Natal
… Natal, as stated in the Policy on Students and Staff with Disabilities, is committed to making tertiary education accessible and inclusive for all students. However, it has been observed that physically disabled students are under-represented in the science and engineering fields, as there …
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Responsible Conduct of Research with Computational Models and Simulations
Research with computational models and simulations has become integral to many science and engineering fields; computation now rivals experimentation as a mode of scientific research. Despite the rapid growth of literature on computational modeling, little has been done to examine the standards of …
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Institutional Transformation: An Analysis of Change Initiatives at NSF ADVANCE Institutions
… or impeded the implementation of round one and two NSF ADVANCE initiatives designed to improve academic climates for women in science and engineering. This study was conducted in two phases. In phase one, 35 participants from 18 institutions were interviewed to answer three research …
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Three Essays in Applied Microeconomics
… dissertation includes three chapters. The first and second chapters are related to economics of immigration, and the last one is about environmental economics. The first chapter studies people who work and live in the US on work visas such as H-1B, and compares them to natives. In this chapter I …
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Data Science for Multisectoral Water Use Management and STEM Education: A Synergistic Approach
… water resources management amid climate change and population growth and transforming higher education. Data science provides a comprehensive framework for extracting actionable insights from this wealth of data, enabling evidence-based decision-making across complex systems at scale. However, …