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Cofibrance and completion
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mathematics, February 1999.
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Factors That Influence Program Completion: Predicting Kentucky Drug Court Completion Outcomes
… to determine factors associated with program completion outcomes. Extant research on drug court completion outcomes is generally limited to individual drug courts and includes small numbers of observations. This research uses more than three thousand participant records spanning over three …
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Race For Completion: Success Courses Components Fostering Successful Community College Completion
… the key to persistence and ultimately college completion. Implications and recommendations are presented for now and future best practices. Lastly, there is an introduction to the Roland Success Course Analysis Model.</p>
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Factors Influencing Completion and Non -Completion in Community College Online Courses
The results of this study provide valuable information for community college student service personnel, course designers and policy makers who are interested in reducing attrition rates and improving the quality of instruction in online courses. Although this study was conducted at one institution, …
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Blind regression : understanding collaborative filtering from matrix completion to tensor completion
… We apply our framework to the problem of matrix completion and give a nonparametric method which, similar to CF, combines the local estimates according to the distance between the neighbors. We use the sample variance of the difference in ratings between neighbors as the proximity of the …
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Single view object completion
The goal of this paper is to achieve complete reconstruction of a 3d object from a single depth image observation. Much effort has been put on multi-view reconstruction of objects with substantial success, but single view recon- struction is still very limited. Initial methods produce only partial …
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Low rank matrix completion
… processing. Although the general low rank matrix completion problem is NP-hard, there exist several heuristic methods that solve the problem approximately by solving the convex relaxation of the original problem. One particularly popular method is to use nuclear norm (sum of singular values) to …
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Algorithms for matrix completion
… collaborative filtering methods for matrix completion. A typical approach is to find a low rank matrix that matches the observed ratings. However, the corresponding problem has local optima. In this thesis, we study two approaches to remedy this issue: reference vector method and trace norm …
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Probabilistic completion of nondeterministic models
Motivated by Moggi's work [34] on how monads can be used to capture computational behavior, there has been a growing interest in finding monads which capture the precise computational effects generated when combining the theory of probabilistic choice and the theory of nondeterministic choice. The …
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Contour completion at edge endings
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, 1988.
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HOMOTOPY SETOIDS AND GENERALIZED QUOTIENT COMPLETION
… some results about the elementary quotient completion and we prove that homotopy setoids form a weak notion of pretopos. In the second part of this thesis, we introduce the notion of biased elementary doctrine which generalizes the one of elementary doctrine. For this framework we provide a …
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Batterers' Perception of Treatment Non-Completion
… behavior and choices affect treatment</p> <p>completion, clearly state the benefits in completing treatment, openly reward batterers for coming to group, and facilitate group cohesion among the members. Suggested policy recommendations include increased education within the judicial and law …
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Fusing visual odometry and depth completion
Recent advances in technology indicate that autonomous vehicles and self-driving cats in particular may become commonplace in the near future. This thesis contributes to that scenario by studying the problem of depth perception based on sequences of camera images. We start by presenting a sensor …
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Deterministic network coding by matrix completion
… is based on a new algorithm for maximum-rank completion of mixed matrices-taking a matrix whose entries are a mixture of numeric values and symbolic variables, and assigning values to the variables so as to maximize the resulting matrix rank. Our algorithm is faster than existing deterministic …
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Student-College Match and Bachelor's Degree Completion
… explores its relationship with bachelor’s degree completion. This study differentiates itself from existing undermatch studies by examining alternative student-college match scenarios – including undermatch, match, and overmatch and examining the phenomena’s relationship with a student outcome. …
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Graphical Methods for Image Compositing and Completion
… of image and video compositing, and scene completion. For a visually plausible compositing, it is first required to separate the object to be composed from the background it was initially captured against, a problem that is known as natural image matting. It aims, using some user …
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Homotopy Theory of Monoids and Group Completion
… of monoids and the derived functor of group completion. We show that there is a simplicial model structure on the category of reduced simplicial sets that is Quillen equivalent to the Quillen model structure of simplicial monoids. Using this Quillen equivalence we recover the fact that the …
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Exploiting Observation Bias to Improve Matrix Completion
We consider a variant of matrix completion where entries are revealed in a biased manner, adopting a model akin to that introduced by Ma & Chen (2019) [1]. Instead of treating this observation bias as a disadvantage, as is typically the case, the goal is to exploit the shared information between …
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Seven Loci: The Completion of Villa Maderni
… and critical response, Seven Loci: The Completion of Villa Maderni is for the author not only a work reflective of his still emergent design judgments, but also one birthed as he lived and worked in the physical fabric of the place. The primary goal of this work is to propose an …
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Completion Delay Minimization for Instantly Decodable Network Coding
… each transmission, which may severely affect its completion delay. Second, it requires full feedback in order to operate properly, which may be prohibitive for several practical network settings. In this thesis, we aim to reduce the effect of these drawbacks by studying the problems of minimizing …
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