Browsing by Author "Furuta, Richard"
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Widyantoro, Dwi Hendratmo (Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)Tracking the evolution of user interests is a problem instance of concept drift learning. Keeping track of multiple interest categories is a natural phenomenon as well as an interesting tracking problem because interests ...
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Dash, Suvendu Kumar (Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)The web provides a lot of fluid information but this information changes, moves, and even disappears over time. Bookmark lists, portals, and paths are collections where the building blocks are web pages, which are susceptible ...
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McLawhorn, Tracy Elizabeth (2013-04-04)This dissertation presents an edition of six poems from John Donne’s Songs and Sonets—“The Indifferent,” “Love’s Usury,” “The Will,” “The Funerall,” “The Primerose,” and “The Dampe”—and a digital edition of one additional ...
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Audenaert, Michael (2012-02-14)Cultural heritage digital libraries have become an important and prominent tool within humanities scholarship, offering increased expressive power for representing complex networks of relationships and the ability to use ...
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Kung, Han-Wei (2014-09-01)Origami is the art of paper folding. It transforms paper into a completed form through folding techniques. “ORI” means “folding” and “GAMI” means “paper” in Japanese. Japan has developed the most extensive tradition of ...
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Park, Sunhwa (2017-05-30)As chemical process plants have become more involved and complex, the likelihood of hazardous incidents has increased simultaneously. That is, the more complex a facility’s systems, the more factors engineers must consider. ...
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Prasad, Manoj Ajith (2014-05-05)The tactile medium of communication with users is appropriate for displaying information in situations where auditory and visual mediums are saturated. There are situations where a subject's ability to receive information ...
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Gao, Lei (2018-04-19)In the wake of a polarizing election, social media is laden with hateful content. Context accompanying a hate speech text is useful for identifying hate speech, which however has been largely overlooked in existing datasets ...
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Duarte Diniz Monteiro, Caio (2018-07-27)Video sharing sites have become a central tool for the storage and dissemination of sign language content. Sign language videos have many purposes, including sharing experiences or opinions, teaching and practicing a sign ...
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Polineni, Pavana (Texas A&M University, 2005-08-29)A quantitative trait locus (QTL) is the location of a gene that affects a trait that is measured on a quantitative (linear) scale. Many important agricultural traits such as weight gain, milk fat content and intramuscular ...
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Monroy Cobar, Carlos A. (2011-10-21)Throughout the ages, countless shipwrecks have left behind a rich historical and technological legacy. In this context, nautical archaeologists study the remains of these boats and ships and the cultures that created and ...
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Smith, Lisa Min-yi Chen (Texas A&M University, 2006-08-16)A Display Computer (DC) is an everyday object: Display Computer = Display + Computer. The “Display” part is the standard viewing surface found on everyday objects that conveys information or art. The “Computer” is ...
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Sweeney, David Sean (2018-07-27)A proliferation of natural speech audio texts as well as improvements in synthetic text-to-speech technology have created new opportunities for learners. While many studies have examined factors affecting comprehension of ...
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Kulkarni, Akshay (2016-05-05)The popularity of prediction games such as fantasy sports has been on the rise and the amount of data available for the players to make the prediction in such games is growing rapidly. Prediction games, an area of data ...
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Kang, Myung Hwa (2011-02-22)This dissertation examines the effect of podcast tours on park visitor experiences. Podcast tours have emerged as a new medium in facilitating the interaction between tourists and destinations. Providing visitors with ...
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Gomathinayagam, Arun Bharath (2012-02-14)When users are searching for documents, they must sift through a collection of potentially relevant documents assessing, categorizing and prioritizing them based on the current task at hand, a process we refer to as document ...
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Janpuangtong, Sasin (2019-11-25)This dissertation attempts to address the changing needs of data science and analytics: making it easier to produce accurate models opening up opportunities and perspectives for novices to make sense of existing data. This ...
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Meneses, Luis (2009-05-15)Searching for resources that are related to time periods or events can be frustrating and even problematic since it is often bound to keyword matching or prior knowledge of the exact dates of occurrence. Additionally, the ...
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Deng, Jie (2010-01-15)Readers often encounter the need to explore a document only for a specific point of interest. We call the phenomena of approaching a narrative not for its entirety, but for a thread of a particular topic, thematic reading. ...
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Audenaert, Michael Neal (Texas A&M University, 2006-04-12)Large digital libraries typically contain large collections of heterogeneous resources intended to be delivered to a variety of user communities. One key challenge for these libraries is providing tight integration between ...