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Showing 1 to 20 of 97 for “"Understanding Human"”.
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Understanding Human Perception Through MooneyFaces
Human vision is remarkably tolerant to image distortions: even when every pixel in an image has been destructively altered, as in classic Mooney displays, humans can still extract information about identity, pose, and more. Most current deep learning computer vision models perform well with …
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Understanding Human Imagination Through Diffusion Model
… gathering. The primary focus is on how humans observe elements in their environment and reconstruct visual information within the brain. Drawing on insights from diverse studies, personal research, and biological evidence, the study posits that the human brain captures high-level feature …
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Understanding Human Astrovirus from Pathogenesis to Treatment
<p>While human astroviruses (HAstV) were discovered nearly 45 years ago, these small positive-sense RNA viruses remain critically understudied. These studies provide fundamental new research on astrovirus pathogenesis and disruption of the gut epithelium by induction of epithelial-mesenchymal …
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Understanding human mobility patterns from digital traces
Our current digital age is characterized by the shift from traditional industry to an economy based on the information computerization. The sweeping changes brought about by digital computing have provided new data sources for transportation modeling. In this thesis, two mainstream trends in …
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Better understanding human impacts on river thermal regimes under climate change
Human activities, especially dam construction, greatly modify the response of river thermal regimes to climate change. Dams impound large water bodies, decrease surface to volume ratios, and increase water residence times. All of these changes affect the interaction between surface meteorology and …
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Understanding human-space suit interaction to prevent injury during extravehicular activity
… Activity (EVA) is a critical component of human spaceflight. Working in gas-pressurized space suits, however, causes fatigue, unnecessary energy expenditure, and injury. The problem of injury is particularly acute and is exacerbated with the additional hours astronauts spend training inside …
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Towards Understanding Human-aligned Neural Representation in the Presence of Confounding Variables
Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) find one out of many possible solutions to a given task such as classification. This solution is more likely to pick up on spurious features and low-level statistical patterns in the train data rather than semantic features and highlevel abstractions, resulting in poor …
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Semi-structured decision processes : a conceptual framework for understanding human-automation systems
The purpose of this work is to improve understanding of existing and proposed decision systems, ideally to improve the design of future systems. A "decision system" is defined as a collection of information-processing components-often involving humans and automation (e.g., computers)-that interact …
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Understanding human mobility patterns through mobile phone records : a cross-cultural study
… this thesis, I present a cross-cultural study on human's trip length distribution and how it might be influenced by regional socio-economic factors, such as population density, income and unemployment rate. Mobile phone records contain very detailed calling information of the spatiotemporal …
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Making the Most of Program Evaluation Data: Understanding Human Services Professionals’ Well-Being Through Qualitative Secondary Analysis
… evaluation data related to the well-being of human services professionals from two fields: child welfare and early care and education (ECE). It explores these professionals’ well-being, as well as the methodological issues of how well-being has been addressed in workforce studies and the …
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Listening to urban sound: A mixed-method approach for understanding human mobility, individual sound exposure, and psychological well-being
… have extensively studied the relationships among human movement, environmental exposure, and their effects on human health. Urbanization brings about ever-growing noise problems in cities. Exposure to high levels of sound is associated with health risks involving annoyance, disturbance, stress, …
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Understanding Human Sexuality in John Paul II’s Theology of the Body: An Analysis of the Historical Development of Doctrine in the Catholic Tradition
… ‘personal’ choices in the contested areas of human sexuality. Within the Church, there are voices also who call for ‘developments’ in such areas of doctrine. For over forty years, these conversation has taken on many shades of grey coming to a head with questions of discordancy and same sex …
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Artistic Expression in Music and Poetry
… perceptions of expressions and utterances, for understanding human artistic possibilities historically and contemporarily in the fraternal arts of music and poetry, with reference to sounds, silences, sequences, rhythms, rhymes, repetitions, retards, accelerations, tempos, harmonies, melodies, …
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Probing the Boundaries of Human Agency
<p>In this dissertation, I aim to advance our understanding of human agency and how it is computed. First, I probe the limits of what behavior we can and cannot produce agentically. Secondly, I explore microdosing with psychedelic drugs as a method of perturbing and studying changes to the sense of …
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"That Hateful Prairie Wind": Violence and Ecophobia in Twentieth Century American Gothic
… and contempt of the natural world, as a way of understanding human relationships with the nonhuman world. This thesis also examines ecophobic tendencies of characters in two twentieth century Gothic novels, Toni Morrison’s <em>The Bluest Eye</em> and Truman Capote’s <em>In Cold Blood</em>. …
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High throughput measurement and perturbation of tissues and tissue-derived cellular models
Human tissues are composed of trillions of cells whose states and interactions drive health and disease. Deciphering which cells and interactions are associated with any given disease is challenging due to the vast complexity of a tissue. Successfully doing so requires a suite of tools for …
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A framework for collecting data : revising sensor synchronization methods
… model was designed with the primary goal of understanding human-spacesuit interactions through the collection and analysis of force, pressure, and internal kinematics data. This thesis addresses shortcomings in the setup that led to difficulty in data analysis and synchronization and presents …
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Put on the New Man: Embodied Sanctification in Ephesians 4:22-24
… of the church have tended toward views of human constitution that locate spiritual growth in the realm of the immaterial. In contrast, I argue that progressive sanctification requires embodied action. First, I propose holistic dualism as the biblical model for understanding human …
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