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Showing 1 to 20 of 56 for “"user-based"”.
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THE PROGRESSIVE BLOGOSPHERE AS E-MOVEMENT: IDENTITY, MOBILIZATION, AND THE USER-BASED MODEL
… in order to mobilize passive readers into active users. After analyzing the PB movements' identity construction, mobilization techniques, goals, and leadership structures, I propose the existence of a "user-based model" for e-movements.
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A study of business user based information systems development, and modelling success factors
This thesis describes research into business user involvement in the information systems application building process. The main interest of this research is in establishing and testing techniques to quantify the relationships between identified success factors and the outcome effectiveness of …
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User Based Design of Medical Devices for Translation from Prototype to Clinical Device
… used in a research capacity were updated based on user and clinical requirements. Consideration was given for final designs with high reliability, broad applicability, and minimal amount of required training or technical skill to operate. An implantable microdevice allows for accelerated …
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User-based evaluation of academic digital libraries : case studies, Social Science Information Gateway, Art, Design Architecture & Media Gateway and the Electronic Journals Service of the University of Patras, Greece
… the use of academic digital libraries from a user-oriented approach. For this purpose, end-users were invited to describe how they perceive and make use of academic digital libraries. The study was focused on Subject Based Information Gateways (SBIGs) and Electronic Journals Services. …
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Information Behaviors in Higher Education Research Administration: Support for Collaborative Proposal Development Activities
… to this need as an empirical examination of a user-based method for improving our understanding of proposal development information behaviors. A hybrid concept of problem/situation is adopted for the purpose of characterizing proposal development as a problem situated in time and space, with …
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An Approach to Semi-Autonomous Indoor Drone System: Software Architecture and Integration Testing
… the Drone System to track status and executing user-based input commands. In order to resolve the limitation in hardware connections on the Flight Controller, we integrated the sonar sensor into a companion computer, from where the data is continuously fed to an embedded system through MAVLink …
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Evaluating collaborative filtering content recommenders for mobile phones
… to make predictions on unobserved items based on the preferences of similar users. User-based collaborative filtering has been identified as a simple, yet reasonably accurate scheme. An evaluation is conducted into how quickly this algorithm can identify preferred content based on …
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Integrated Mobility and Service Management for Network Cost Minimization in Wireless Mesh Networks
… in WMNs for which we propose two efficient per-user mobility management schemes based on pointer forwarding, and then a third one that integrates routing-based location update and pointer forwarding for further performance improvement. We further study integrated mobility and service management …
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A Hybrid Recommendation System Based on Association Rules
… system recommends items to a particular user based on user preferences and previous high ratings. Various recommendation schemes such as collaborative filtering and content-based approaches are used to build a recommendation system. Most of current recommendation systems were developed to …
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Design of an Adjustable Compression Glove for Hand Arthritis
… conventional compression gloves pose several user-based challenges: they are difficult to don/doff; only apply static pressure; and can be uncomfortable, thereby disincentivizing use. Introducing dynamic, shape changing behavior to compression gloves through the use of pneumatics can provide a …
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Face authentication with pose adjustment using support vector machines with a Hausdorff-based kernel
… method that verifies the identity of a user based an image of their face. Accuracy of the authentication is reduced when the pose of the training face images is different than the testing image. This dissertation describes two methodologies which can increase the face authentication …
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Anomaly Detection for Mobile Device Comfort
… find anomalies in the behaviour of a smartphone user and the current context. This can be done to prevent the mobile phone from being compromised physically or to warn the user when he/she is behaving "unusually."We apply the "time slice" notion to existing anomaly detection methods, evaluate our …
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Personalized News Recommender using Twitter
… the enormous amount of news articles available, users are easily swamped by information of little interest to them. News recommender systems are one approach to help users find interesting articles to read. News recommender systems present the articles to individual users based on their interests …
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Design and construction of a practical and portable household lifting-aid for the physically impaired
… made on improving each respective task. Finally, based on level of need expressed by the user, apparent feasibility of design, and general lack of substitutes already on the market, the decision was made to pursue design of an in-home lifting-aid. The intended function of the device would be to …
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Public perception of alternative water sources and water usage : a case study of desalination and recycled Water facilities
… source and water conservation programs through a user-based approach. Choice-based conjoint analysis was utilized as a quantitative method to determine which design attributes make alternative water sources, specifically desalination and recycled water facilities, more appealing to communities. An …
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Location Aware Multi-criteria Recommender System for Intelligent Data Mining
… facing us today is to personalize services based on user preferences. In order to achieve this objective, the design of Recommender Systems (RSs), which are systems designed to aid the users through different decision-making processes by providing recommendations to them, have been an active …
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Measuring sustainability perceptions of construction materials
… a conceptual instrument that measures the user-based assessment of product sustainability and validates decision-maker's perceptions in order to evaluate the contribution of subjective characteristics in materials selection. A survey of design and construction students and practitioners is …
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Consistency in actor based server-client architecture based applications
… the overall cost of consistency for actor based applications. Consistency levels correspond to the ways in which users receive information and how that ordering would be controlled. The eventual goal is to come up with a user based system where latencies for consistency levels can be …
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Question-Asking Behavior of Faculty During Conceptual Instructional Design: A Step Toward Demystifying the Magic of Design
… questioning behavior during design from user-based perspectives. </p> <p>The general goal of this study is to help illuminate information gaps that exist for faculty early in the instructional design process. The overarching goal of this study is to provide a starting point for future …
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Weakly Supervised Machine Learning for Cyberbullying Detection
… challenges associated with harassment-based cyberbullying detection in social media by developing machine-learning framework that only requires weak supervision. We propose a general framework that trains an ensemble of two learners in which each learner looks at the problem from a …
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