Browsing by Author "Shipman, Frank"
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Mithani, MahakThe internet enables almost anyone to locate content on almost any topic. This ability, however, is not easily available for those who sign. In order to provide resources to those whose primary language is sign language, ...
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Karappa, Virendra (2014-12-08)Locating sign language (SL) videos on video sharing sites (e.g., YouTube) is challenging because search engines generally do not use the visual content of videos for indexing. Instead, indexing is done solely based on ...
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Punjabi, Sonia Arjun (Texas A&M University, 2005-08-29)This research recognizes the need for building simulation/performance tools that can easily be integrated into the building design process. The study examines available simulation tools and attempts to determine why these ...
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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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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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Niu, Wei (2017-12-04)The global sharing of fine-grained geo-spatial footprints – via smart mobile devices and social media services (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, Flickr) – is leading to the creation of a new class of geo-social systems. These ...
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Duggina, Satyakiran (2015-11-30)Sign language is the primary medium of communication for people who are hearing impaired. Sign language videos are hard to discover in video sharing sites as the text-based search is based on metadata rather than the content ...
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Ashok Kumar, Shalini Priya (2016-05-09)Design Sketching is an important tool for designers and creative professionals to express their ideas and thoughts onto visual medium. Being a very critical and versatile skill for engineering students, this course is often ...
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Aishwarya, Fnu (2018-04-25)Popular video sharing websites contain a large collection of videos in various sign languages. These websites have the potential of being a significant source of knowledge sharing and communication for the members of the ...
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Liang, Yuan (2013-07-16)This thesis addresses the modeling of events in social media, with an emphasis on the detection, tracking, and analysis of disaster-related events like the 2011 Tohuku Earthquake in Japan. Successful event modeling is ...
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Chung, Ji Ryang (2012-07-16)In the neuronal circuits of natural and artificial agents, memory is usually implemented with recurrent connections, since recurrence allows past agent state to affect the present, on-going behavior. Here, an interesting ...
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Williford, Blake (2020-04-02)Drawing is a highly useful skill that can make people better at solving problems, communicating ideas to others, collaborating, and producing more creative and novel ideas. It can be a difficult skill to master for many ...
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Zhang, Han (2023-05-26)Recent work in news recommendation has demonstrated that recommenders can over-expose users to articles that support their pre-existing opinions. However, most existing work focuses on a static setting or over a short-time ...
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Zhang, Han (2023-05-26)Recent work in news recommendation has demonstrated that recommenders can over-expose users to articles that support their pre-existing opinions. However, most existing work focuses on a static setting or over a short-time ...
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Kim, Hong-Hoe (2016-05-05)Children’s self-regulation skills predict their school-readiness and social behaviors, and assessing these skills enables parents and teachers to target areas for improvement or prepare children to enter school ready to ...
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Singh, Swati (2015-04-30)The Walden’s Paths Project is used by different communities in order to create and use linear paths that link to documents available on the web. Walden’s Paths has been implemented as a web application using Drupal where ...
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Akkapeddi, Raghu C. (Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)History mechanisms available in hypertext systems allow users access to past interactions with the system and help users incorporate those interactions into the current context. The history information can be useful to ...
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Faltemier, Timothy Collin (Texas A&M University, 2005-02-17)Current shared file systems (NFS and SAMBA) are based on the local area network model. To these file systems, performance is the major issue. However, as the Internet grows, so does the distance between users and the ...
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Foust, Charles Gabriel (2016-01-25)This dissertation proposes a programming model for Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) that relieves the programmer of a difficult and error-prone task: orchestrating concurrent responses to events to ensure data dependencies ...
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Lan, Tian (2015-11-10)Children’s wellbeing has been regarded as one of the primary focus of public health. Among all of the factors which have huge impacts on children’s wellbeing, stress has been given a primary priority and is the one which ...