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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Smoothing Techniques"”.
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Reduction of Line Edge Roughness in Semiconductor Photoresist by Means of a Grazing Incidence Ion Beam
… decrease LER from the photoresist, post-develop smoothing techniques may be required to continue shrinking chip features economically. This work reports on one such method employing the use of an ion beam at grazing incidence along the features. This method smooths relatively long spatial length …
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Field Evaluation Methodology for Quantifying Network-wide Efficiency, Energy, Emission, and Safety Impacts of Operational-level Transportation Projects
… also, investigates the ability of various data smoothing techniques to remove such erroneous data without significantly altering the underlying vehicle speed profile. Several smoothing techniques are then applied to the acceleration profile, including data trimming, Simple Exponential smoothing, …
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Knowledge-Informed Weakly-Supervised Deep Learning Models for Cancer Applications
… and contextualized architectures, and label smoothing techniques that distill clinical and biological priors. These approaches enable dense spatial prediction of gene modules, genetic alterations, and segmentation of heterogeneous tumors with vague boundaries, even under sparse supervision. …
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Generation of high quality 2D meshes for given bathymetry
… and relevant dynamical scales. Two different smoothing techniques, Laplacian conditioning and targeted averaging, were applied to the fields involved in calculating the sizing matrix. The L² norm was used to quantify which technique had the greatest preservation of the original field. In both …
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Phenomena that determine knock onset in spark-ignited engines
… listening to the engine. Bandpass filters and smoothing techniques were used to process the data. The processed data was then used to determine knock intensities for each cycle for both the cylinder pressure data and microphone signal. Also, the rate of build-up before reaching peak amplitude …
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Optically Clear FDM Printing
… printer. I discovered that the other traditional smoothing techniques were not sufficient to create a clear surface, but resin coating could result in a fully transparent object. However, further research is needed to determine whether a specific focus can be repeatably created using this method, …
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An investigation into Functional Linear Regression Modeling
… Key aspects of FDA include the choice of smoothing techniques, data reduction, model evaluation, functional linear modeling and forecasting methods. FDA is applicable in numerous applications such as Bioscience, Geology, Psychology, Sports Science, Econometrics, Meteorology, etc. This …
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Motion-Logger: An Attitude and Motion Sensing System
… similar risky situations. Currently, off-line smoothing techniques based on Kalman filter concepts allow for optimal estimation of angles in the longitudinal direction, roll, and in the lateral direction, pitch. Results from both predefined experiments with known outcomes and data collected …
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First- and Second-Order Properties of Spatiotemporal Point Patterns in the Space-Time and Frequency Domains
… intensities are examined using 3-dimensional smoothing techniques. Conditions for weak stationarity are provided so that subsequent second-order analysis can be conducted. We consider second-order analysis of spatiotemporal point patterns first in the space-time domain through an extension of …
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Global barotropic variability of the ocean in response to atmospheric forcing based on multichannel regression and Kalman filter techniques
… the multichannel regression and the optimal smoothing techniques. We start with the simplest linear vorticity balance and continue by building a hierarchy of more complicated models by including effects of topography and time dependence. We use auto-regressive external (ARX) time-series …
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CODE SMOOTHING, UNIFORM DISTRIBUTIONS, AND APPLICATIONS
… The central technique used in this study is code smoothing, which involves applying additive noise to a uniformly random codeword, producing an output distribution that closely approximates uniformity. We characterize the code rate thresholds required to achieve strong uniformity guarantees, …
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Optimization Methods for Machine Learning under Structural Constraints
… for computing log-concave density MLE, based on smoothing techniques in combination with an appropriate integral discretization of increasing accuracy. We establish convergence guarantees of our approaches and demonstrate significant runtime improvements over earlier convex approaches. In the …
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An Investigation of Diggability and Other Digging Effort Related Metrics for Cable Shovels at Multiple Mines
… of metrics as well as data averaging and smoothing techniques are presented to interpret performance monitoring results in various ways and to help identify trends in the data.
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Information overload in structured data
… in deep learning. Second, we propose a general smoothing framework that takes <em>structural</em> similarity into account, inspired by state-of-the-art smoothing techniques used in natural language processing. Both the proposed frameworks are applicable to popular graph kernel families, and …
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Experimental data analysis techniques for validation of Tokamak impurity transport simulations
This thesis presents two new techniques for analyzing data from impurity transport experiments in magnetically confined plasmas, with specific applications to the Alcator C-Mod tokamak. The objective in developing these new techniques is to improve the quality of the experimental results used to …
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A zonal model for radiation heat transfer in coal-fired boiler furnaces
… conservation. After evaluating two different smoothing techniques, the least squares technique using Lagrange multipliers was selected for this study. Following this, the solution of the radiation heat transfer network was implemented for an emitting-absorbing-scattering participating medium …
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Statistical Predictions Based on Accelerated Degradation Data and Spatial Count Data
… patterns of the disease using statistical smoothing techniques. We also use the space and space-time scan statistics to reveal the presence of clusters in the spatial and spatial/temporal distribution of Lyme disease. Chapter 5 builds a predictive model for Lyme disease based on historical …
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Digital processing of system responses
… an investigation into the development of techniques for the measurement of system dynamic characteristics based on digital processing methods. The techniques are developed to meet the requirements of rapid measurement time, noise and harmonic rejection capability and ease of interpretation …
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Seismic Hazard Assessment for Mainland China Based on Spatially Smoothed Seismicity and Projected Sets of Ground Motion Models
… based on the historical catalogue and spatial smoothing techniques are considered. Moreover, an analysis is carried out to assess the completeness of the historical Chinese earthquake catalogue. Two smoothed seismic hazard models for mainland China are obtained. The first one is based on …
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Portfolio risk analysis : conditional estimates of value-at-risk and international volatility spillovers
… We found that VaR models using exponential smoothing techniques are not inferior to those based on the more advanced multivariate GARCH volatility estimates. Furthermore, in this thesis we proposed a VaR methodology which overcomes many limitations of the above and other VaR models, i.e. …
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