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Improving Avian Species Distribution Models by Incorporating Biotic Interactions
(2018-10-15)
Maps of actual or potential species distributions are crucial for many aspects of natural resource management, land use development, and conservation planning. Species distribution models (SDMs) attempt to predict or ...
An IoT and Machine Learning Approach for Site-specific Irrigation in Residential Irrigation Systems
(2019-07-16)
Irrigation schedules on traditional irrigation controllers tend to disperse too much water by design and cause runoff, which results in wastage of water and pollution of water sources. Previous attempts at tackling this ...
Production Data Analysis by Machine Learning
(2019-04-17)
In this dissertation, I will present my research work on two different topics. The first topic is production data analysis of low-permeability well. The second topic is a quantitative evaluation of key completion controls ...
Modeling and Control Techniques in Smart Systems
(2018-08-08)
Energy and food crisis are two major problems that our human society has to face in the 21st
century. With the world’s population reaching 7.62 billion as of May 2018, both electric power
and agricultural industries turn ...
A Wearable Data Collection Platform with Smart Annotation Capabilities
(2019-05-17)
Remotely tracking users’ activity and physiology can help on disease treatment and health monitoring. For example, in nutrition management, tracking food intake helps on weight control. However, to train tracking algorithms, ...
Propensity Score Adjustment in Measurement Invariance
(2016-12-02)
Measurement invariance testing is prerequisite if meaningful comparisons of latent construct across groups are important to the study in social science. If measurement invariance is rejected, the result of non-invariance ...
Identifying Outcomes of Care from Medical Records to Improve Doctor-Patient Communication
(2017-08-08)
Between appointments, healthcare providers have limited interaction with their
patients, but patients have similar patterns of care. Medications have common side
effects; injuries have an expected healing time; and so on. ...
Human-Tool-Interaction-Based Action Recognition Framework for Automatic Construction Operation Monitoring
(2017-08-02)
Monitoring activities on a construction jobsite is one of the most important tasks that a construction management team performs every day. Construction management teams monitor activities to ensure that a construction ...
The Development of a Data-Driven Model Calibration Method for Plasma Physics Applications
(2019-11-06)
The development and subsequent studies regarding statistical convergence for a data-driven calibration approach to physics-based models are presented with the ultimate goal of using the resulting method to analytically ...
Advances in Waveform and Photon Counting Lidar Processing for Forest Vegetation Applications
(2017-12-11)
Full waveform (FW) and photon counting LiDAR (PCL) data have garnered greater attention due to increasing data availability, a wealth of information they contain and promising prospects for large scale vegetation mapping. ...