Browsing Electronic Theses, Dissertations, and Records of Study (2002– ) by Author "Ioerger, Thomas R."
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Wei, Yunan (2010-01-16)With the rapidly increasing demand for energy and the increasing prices for oil and gas, the role of unconventional gas reservoirs (UGRs) as energy sources is becoming more important throughout the world. Because of high ...
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DeJesus, Michael A. (2012-07-16)Determining which genes are essential for growth of a bacterial organism is an important question to answer as it is useful for the discovery of drugs that inhibit critical biological functions of a pathogen. To evaluate ...
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Bae, Kyounghwa (Texas A&M University, 2005-08-29)Bioinformatics applications can address the transfer of information at several stages of the central dogma of molecular biology, including transcription and translation. This dissertation focuses on using Bayesian models ...
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Yu, Yingwei (2009-06-02)Neurons are connected to form functional networks in the brain. When neurons are combined in sequence, nontrivial effects arise. One example is disinhibition; that is, inhibition to another inhibitory factor. Disinhibition ...
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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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Developing intelligent agents for training systems that learn their strategies from expert players Whetzel, Jonathan Hunt (Texas A&M University, 2005-11-01)Computer-based training systems have become a mainstay in military and private institutions for training people how to perform certain complex tasks. As these tasks expand in difficulty, intelligent agents will appear as ...
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Gopal, Kreshna (2009-06-02)Data preprocessing is critical for machine learning, data mining, and pattern recognition. In particular, selecting relevant and non-redundant features in highdimensional data is important to efficiently construct models ...
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Pai Karkala, Reetal (2010-07-14)Recent improvements in structural genomics efforts have greatly increased the number of hypothetical proteins in the Protein Data Bank. Several computational methodologies have been developed to determine the function of ...
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Miller, Michael Scott (2009-06-02)Teamwork is crucial to many disciplines, from activities such as organized sports to economic and military organizations. Team training is difficult and as yet there are few automated tools to assist in the training task. ...
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Lai, Yi Pin (2020-02-03)This study addressed the following research goals: (1) a reevaluation of Lifelong Learning (LLL) scale’s reliability and validity measuring LLL skills, (2) reevaluation of Engineering Attitude Survey’s (EAS) reliability ...
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Funck, Edward Sterling (2012-07-16)Despite an ever growing number of reports concerning the anion-π interaction, controversy surrounding the nature of these weak supramolecular interactions continues. In an effort to further explore the nature and properties ...
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He, Linli (Texas A&M University, 2007-09-17)The aggregate power of all resources on the Internet is enormous. The Internet can be viewed as a massive virtual organization that holds tremendous amounts of information and resources with different ownerships. However, ...
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Hart, Jeremy Jay (2009-05-15)The Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV) necessitates higher levels of automation than previous NASA vehicles due to program requirements for automation, including Automated Rendezvous and Docking (AR&D). Studies of spacecraft ...
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Arancillo, Maritess Noelle Victoria (2021-02-11)Small molecule probe development is pivotal in biomolecular science. Peptidomimetics are generally interesting if they resemble peptides or protein-fragments and display biological activities. To achieve this, it is desirable ...
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Zhang, Yu (Texas A&M University, 2007-04-25)Sharing common goals and acting cooperatively are critical issues in multiagent teamwork. Traditionally, agents cooperate with each other by inferring others' actions implicitly or explicitly, based on established norms ...
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Sarma, Subramonia P. (Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)Salient contour detection is an important lowlevel visual process in the human visual system, and has significance towards understanding higher visual and cognitive processes. Salience detection can be investigated by ...
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Cao, Sen (Texas A&M University, 2005-11-01)Teamwork has become increasingly important in many disciplines. To support teamwork in dynamic and complex domains, a teamwork programming language and a teamwork architecture are important for specifying the knowledge of ...
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Fischer, Tiffany Brink (Texas A&M University, 2007-04-25)Here, we present the program QContacts, which implements Voronoi polyhedra to determine atomic and residue contacts across the interface of a protein-protein interaction. While QContacts also describes hydrogen bonds, ionic ...
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Zhu, Wan Wen (2012-10-19)MshA is a glycosyltransferase that synthesizes the precursor of mycothiol, a low-molecular-weight thiol found exclusively in Actinomycetes, including the virulent pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb). The structure ...
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Yu, Hong (2009-05-15)Catalase-peroxidase (KatG) of Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a bifunctional heme enzyme that has been shown to play an important role in the activation of a first line drug, isoniazid (INH), used in the treatment of ...