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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"active sampling"”.
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Active sampling, scaling and dataset merging for large-scale image quality assessment
… in this dissertation. First, I propose a new active sampling method for efficient collection of pairwise comparisons in subjective assessment experiments. In these experiments observers are asked to express a preference between two conditions. However, many pairwise comparison protocols …
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Indoor Air Monitoring of Ethanol and Benzene in a Pilot Winery Using Active Sampling
<p>Acute indoor concentrations of benzene and ethanol were evaluated in the California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo’s pilot winery workroom. Air samples were collected during four different wine-making activities: fermentation, fermentation with Brix content testing, post-alcoholic …
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Assessing the impacts of white-nose syndrome induced mortality on the monitoring of a bat community at Fort Drum Military Installation
… 2011 and 2012, I implemented intensive acoustic sampling using Anabat detectors at Fort Drum to develop a summer acoustic monitoring protocol that is both cost efficient and effective at detecting species of high conservation or management interest, such as the Indiana bat and the little brown …
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Validation of Passive Air Sampling Monitors Onboard United States Navy Submarines
… As part of the overall effort, a paired air sampling comparison field validation was conducted to compare the air sampling effectiveness of passive diffusive monitors compared to more traditional active air sampling methods when sampling for acrolein, formaldehyde and ozone in the enclosed …
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Decoupling Motion from Sensory Data: An Emergent Property of a Neural Population in the Piriform Cortex
… against the sensory perturbations introduced by active sampling behaviors.
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Models and Tools for Studying Infants’ Attention
From birth, infants actively control where they look, long before they gain any significant motor control over other body parts. This early emergence of attentional preferences has allowed psychologists to use infants' gaze to gain insight into the developmental origins of perception and cognition. …
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Ecotoxicology of marine biotoxins in bivalve shellfish
… and Toxin Tracking (SPATT) for the passive sampling of algal biotoxins at Lough Hyne Marine Nature Reserve in West Cork, Ireland. Spatial and temporal monitoring of the incidence of a wide range of lipophilic toxins was assessed over a 4-month period. Active sampling accumulated sufficient …
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Interpreting the role of non-coding genetic variation in human disease
… cellular contexts in which those elements are active, their upstream regulators, their downstream target genes, and the biological pathways they disrupt across eight common diseases. We show that disease associations are additionally enriched in regulatory motifs of relevant transcription …
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Compensating for On-Body Placement Effects in Activity Recognition
… environmental placement, we introduce an active sampling ap- proach to infer symbolic object location. This approach requires only simple sensors (acceleration, sound) and no infrastructure setup. The method works for specific placements such as "on the couch", "in the desk drawer" as well …
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Fate of emerging organic contaminants in Chinese wastewater treatment plants
… for these EOCs. In this thesis, the passive sampling technique of diffusive gradients in thin-films (DGT) for in situ measurement of selected EOCs in water was developed in the laboratory and validated under the real world condition-a WWTP. This sampler was then employed to study the …
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Lichens as a biomonitoring tool for detecting heavy metal air pollution associated with industrial activities in Collie, south-western Australia
… This highlights the importance of season of sampling if lichen biomonitoring studies are to be deployed in WA. The wetter and cooler winter season with more consistent rainfall patterns is recommended as optimal for conducting lichen biomonitoring studies in Collie. The transplants exposed …
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Passive in-situ estrogenic potency sampling with DGT-YES
… to extend the application of DGTs to estrogen sampling and to combine the DGT and YES technique to provide in situ quantification of the estrogenic potency of water bodies through time. DGTs were developed specifically for the sampling of BPA, BPAF, E2 and EE2. Several physical-chemical and …
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The development of dual signature, fluorescent magnetic sediment tracing technology
… sink areas of different soil and sediment types. Active sediment tracing is a field technique which uses materials designed to replicate the movement of sediment, whilst remaining identifiable within the native sediment load. Active sediment tracing techniques have been developed over the last …