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Showing 1 to 20 of 615 for “"diagnosing"”.
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Diagnosing Reading strategies: Paraphrase Recognition
<p>Paraphrase recognition is a form of natural language processing used in tutoring, question answering, and information retrieval systems. The context of the present work is an automated reading strategy trainer called iSTART (Interactive Strategy Trainer for Active Reading and Thinking). The …
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APUF Faults: Testing, Diagnosing, and Salvaging
… approach is highly effective in detecting and diagnosing bad APUFs with abnormal delta element(s). Instead of discarding these unqualified APUFs, our work proposes to use challenge selection to mitigate the undesired fault impacts. We present a systematic challenge selection-based salvaging …
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Constraint Solving for Diagnosing Concurrency Bugs
… tool and demonstrated its effectiveness in diagnosing subtle concurrency bugs in multithreaded C programs.
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Diagnosing the Increase in Homicides in Montevideo
After many years of being remarkably flat, in 2012 the homicide rate in Montevideo (the Capital city of Uruguay) started rising. By 2018 it had almost doubled and there is nothing yet to suggest that homicides might start to reverse to their pre 2012 numbers any time soon. Though this has naturally …
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Diagnosing Supply Chain Threats to Defense Innovation
As the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) shifts focus to an era of global power competition, the demand for rapid innovation and disruptive technologies has grown significantly. Prototyping remains a vital tool for advancing technological innovation, enabling early learning and risk reduction in …
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A non-invasive method of diagnosing osteoporosis
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1988.
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CLINICAL USEFULNESS OF OCULAR TESTS FOR DIAGNOSING CONCUSSIONS
Dysfunctions of ocular motor and binocular vision are some of the most commonly observed problems in patients with severe traumatic brain injury. Secondarily, subjective complaints of compromised vision and ocular motor functions are also sometimes reported in mild traumatic brain injuries (mTBI). …
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Diagnosing runtime violations of security and dependability properties
Monitoring the preservation of security and dependability (S&D) properties of complex software systems is widely accepted as a necessity. Basic monitoring can detect violations but does not always provide sufficient information for deciding what the appropriate response to a violation is. Such …
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Diagnosing and debugging abnormal battery drain on smartphones
The past few years have witnessed an evolutionary change in the smartphone ecosystem. Smartphones have gone from closed platforms containing only pre-installed applications to open platforms hosting a variety of third-party applications. Unfortunately, this change has also led to a rapid increase …
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FairML : ToolBox for diagnosing bias in predictive modeling
Predictive models are increasingly deployed for the purpose of determining access to services such as credit, insurance, and employment. Despite societal gains in efficiency and productivity through deployment of these models, potential systemic flaws have not been fully addressed, particularly the …
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A noninvasive, image-based smartphone app for diagnosing anemia
Smartphone-based telehealth is steadily transforming the delivery of medical care worldwide, moving diagnosis of disease from the clinic to the home to potentially anywhere in the globe. Smartphone images alone have recently been used by physicians to remotely diagnose a myriad of diseases. …
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Diagnosing and Treating the Voices:The Professionals’ and Clients’ perspective
The aims of this study were to explore professionals’ and clients’ experiences of diagnosis and treatment of auditory verbal hallucinations with a view to identifying important clinical issues for counselling psychologists. Six professionals, three psychologists and three psychiatrists, who had …
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Diagnosing undergraduate biology students' experimental design knowledge and difficulties
<p>Experimental design is an important component of undergraduate biology education as it generates knowledge of biology. This dissertation addresses the challenge undergraduate educators face for assessing knowledge of experimental design in biology by examining knowledge of, and difficulties …
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ACCURATELY DIAGNOSING AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER AMONG A COMORBID POPULATION
<p>Two of the most common neurodevelopmental disorders, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD), are diagnosed in early childhood. The two disorders share similar impairments across domains, are highly comorbid, and have many overlapping symptoms. Studies …
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Neuropsychological assessment accuracy in diagnosing early-onset Alzheimer’s disease
<p>Early-onset Alzheimer’s disease (EOAD), a progressive neurological condition, is often difficult to diagnose before substantial neuronal damage. Neuropsychological assessments offer a more cost-effective and accessible method for detecting early cognitive decline, yet limited research exists on …
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Dataset Interfaces: Diagnosing Model Failures Using Controllable Counterfactual Generation
Distribution shift is a major source of failure for machine learning models. However, evaluating model reliability under distribution shift can be challenging, especially since it may be difficult to acquire counterfactual examples that exhibit a specified shift. In this work, we introduce the …
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New procedures for visualizing data and diagnosing regression models
This thesis presents new methods for exploring data using visualization techniques. The first part of the thesis develops a procedure for visualizing the sampling variability of a plot. The motivation behind this development is that reporting a single plot of a sample of data without a description …
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The Humanity Strain: Diagnosing the Self in Walker Percy's Fiction
While literary scholars and theologians alike have noted the spiritual epiphanies crucial to the different protagonists' development in Walker Percy's novels, they have focused more on Percy's Christian agenda than the medical healing that occurs in his fiction. Conversely, when scholars have …
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Sources Of Missed Understanding: A Framework For Diagnosing Comprehension Breakdown
<p>This research sought to understand how a formative assessment framework created by the researcher (called the Sources of Missed Understanding construct) would be used by teachers to diagnose students’ reading comprehension challenges during authentic reading instruction, and to understand the …
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