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This paper contains research into efficient autonomous navigation algorithms powered by deep reinforcement learning. These algorithms enable a mobile robot to perform waypoint tracking in an indoor environment. The robot ...
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(2009-06-09)Flash memory usage is becoming ever more prevalent in society today. It is being used in everything from portable data storage devices, portable music players, cell phones, and even solid-state (non-mechanical) computer ...
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(2012-07-11)It has been the goal of biologists to catalog and protect genetic diversity and variation among biological organisms. The amount of diversity cataloged is growing every year. In the twelve years between the latest two ...
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(2013-02-04)Fusarium verticillioides is a major pathogen of a broad range of field crops. Seeds infections lead to contamination by hazardous mycotoxins, such as fumonisin. Fumonisin is known to cause developmental defects in humans ...
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The purpose of this study is to document the creation of a software prototype that attempts to generate fact(s) about a variety of subjects in a legible English language format. Said prototype builds on top of an existing ...
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New technologies are creating interactive virtual reality experiences for users on a variety of technology platforms and mediums. Despite the increasing popularity of these technologies, not enough research has been carried ...
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Auxiliary Task Learning has proven to be an effective way to transfer knowledge between tasks. This is the case in many personalized recommendation scenarios, where many auxiliary tasks can boost the performance of the ...
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Regulations regarding industrial gas emissions, such as CO2, became stringent over the years. Additive manufacturing is a critical enabling technology that could develop innovative solutions for this application. This ...
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(2013-09-24)Shape grammars are quite effective at representing the structure of objects, thus raising the question of whether they could be utilized for design automation or related techniques like procedural generation. However, ...
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(2013-09-28)Although many genomes have now been sequenced, genes without a known function still comprise approximately 40% of both the human and Neurospora crassa genomes. The ability to control gene expression by both activation and ...
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We plan to accurately portray the cultural influence of The Beatles on the 1960’s youth and their continued influence into the present through a dance performance. We intend to dive into the sociocultural effects and ...
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(2013-12-16)ABSTRACT Exploring the Effects of Gut-derived Microbial Metabolites on Expression of SPI-1 Genes and Antimicrobial Resistance in Salmonella typhimurium. (May 2014) Rebekah Elizabeth Davis Department of Biology Texas A&M ...
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Cotton aphids, Aphis gossypii, are a major threat to agricultural and horticultural crops due to their broad host range, high reproductive rate and disease transmission to plants. Thus, crop protection is essential in both ...
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A major issue faced by many college students is food insecurity. Students who lack quality food often have lower grades and poorer mental health than those who have access to the food they need. The First Year Eats (FYE) ...
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(2007-07-14)The current system of writing education actually causes many students to become unsure and frustrated with their writing because of ill-designed Freshman Composition classes and poor pedagogy. So how can creative writing ...
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(2018-04-30)The emotional experience of shame is characterized by negative self-evaluations, while guilt is characterized by negative behavioral-evaluations. Previous research has found shame to be the more maladaptive of these ...
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When an animal is conducting instrumental behavior (e.g., pressing a lever to earn food), responding can be guided by two different response strategies: goal-directed or habitual. Experimenters are able to determine an ...
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(1996)Past studies have shown that the promoter of a human U6 small nuclear RNA gene contains two distal elements that increase the transcriptional level of the gene. One of these elements, termed OCT, is an octamer motif that ...
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Recent work in the area of automatic emotion recognition has leveraged a large amount of publicly available data with transfer learning techniques to detect emotion on low-resource data. Previous work demonstrated that the ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)United States involvement in the international effort to prevent the mass starvation of the people of Somalia began during the Bush Administration in August of 1992, and continued after Bill Clinton defeated George Bush ...