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Patterns in dynamics
In this paper we introduce and explore the idea of persistent homology (PH) and discuss several applications of this computational topology tool beyond its intended purpose. In particular we apply persistence to data generated by dynamical systems. The application of persistent homology to the …
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Modeling mobility patterns
… analysis and model generation for user mobility patterns given a sequence of observed WiFi signals. Built on the Android platform, the data collection mobile application gathers WiFi sensor readings (BSSID and SSID). The implemented pipeline performs location identification using an online …
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Migratory patterns : stories
… AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Migratory patterns is a collection of short stories that examine the experience of Americans traveling abroad. The stories are set in a wide range of settings: Guatemala, Ireland, France, Italy, Egypt, Belize, Mexico and Spain. The stories consider the role …
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Structured polyphonic patterns
… method for the representation and retrieval of patterns in musical data. The method supports the typical polyphonic patterns that one finds in music theory textbooks. Most current computational methods to musical patterns are restricted to monophony (one melody at a time). The Structured …
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Predicting prescription patterns
… was to understand the structure of prescription patterns and explore the possibility of designing a method that will predict prescription patterns with only the knowledge of past prescription history. Various machine-learning methods were used and their performance measured by the accuracy of …
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Dispersion patterns of Holarctic-breeding, migrant landbirds : global paradigms or regional patterns?
… of the three flyways. It aims to compare how patterns of migration between the temperate and tropical latitudes vary spatially in response to a) the geography of the land masses, b) relative availability of different habitat types, c) dietary preferences and d) foraging mode.
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Time Patterns and Depth Patterns of Water Loss From a Deep Vertisol
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-12T00:17:58Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7405607.pdf: 4106484 bytes, checksum: c14c12566e6d945fd734280597e29847 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1973
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Gestational Weight Gain Patterns
… characteristics, and gestational weight gain patterns, and identifies women staying within the Institute of Medicine's (IOM) 2009 recommended guidelines for GWG. To adequately address GWG patterns, study aims were achieved through concept analysis and retrospective data collection to: (1) …
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Patterns of skinhead violence
<p>Violence committed by racist skinheads has often been characterized as being motivated by racial hatred and by white supremacist ideology. This ideological aspect has been used to make a distinction between the violent acts committed by racist skinheads and violent acts committed by other groups …
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Swimming patterns of zoospores
… in vitro are seen to form complex, large-scale patterns in the absence of external signals or stimuli. Current competing hypotheses suggest that patterns are formed by one of<br/>two distinct, concentrative phenomena: chemotaxis and bioconvection.<br/>In this thesis we investigate the mechanics …
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Patterns in Chicago traffic
This thesis analyzes the taxi data released by the City of Chicago as announced on November 16, 2016 on [1]. The main objective of this thesis is to infer traffic trends in the city of Chicago through Time Series Analysis of taxi trips by observing the trends and general statistics of the hourly …
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Understanding email communication patterns
It has been almost two decades since the beginning of the web. This means that the web is no longer just a technology of the present, but also, a record of our past. Email, one of the original forms of social media, is even older than the web and contains a detailed description of our personal and …
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Patterns of heart attacks
… that have interesting temporal diagnostic patterns leading to myocardial infarction and 2) provide out-of-sample predictions of myocardial infarction for these groups. Using clustering methods in conjunction with classification algorithms yields improved predictions of myocardial infarction …
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Hyperthermia in elliptical patterns
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1984.
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Exploring students’ patterns of reasoning
As part of a collaborative study of the science preparation of elementary school teachers, we investigated the quality of students’ reasoning and explored the relationship between sophistication of reasoning and the degree to which the courses were considered inquiry oriented. To probe students’ …
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Health Beliefs Affecting Exercise Patterns
… beliefs as a function of self-reported exercise patterns. A sample of 112 nurses participated in this study. Procedure. The Health Perceptions Questionnaire (HPQ) by John Ware, Jr. (1976) was utilized to collect data on health beliefs. A second questionnaire was prepared by the investigator and …
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Summarizing data with representative patterns
… problem of summarizing data with representative patterns. The objective is to find a set of patterns, which is much more concise but still contains rich information of the original data, and may provide valuable insights for further analysis of data. In the light of this idea, we formally …
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