"This leading noise resource is specifically written for those with a technical interest in hazardous noise and for anyone who desires an improved general understanding of the subject. It addresses noise-related issues with the workplace and those arising in the community, with …
Determining plate boundary kinematics and fault slip rates is critical to gaining an understanding of the seismogenic nature of the faults. The kinematics of plate boundaries vary widely and are a reflection of plate boundaries history, current tectonic regime, geology, and crus…
The main contribution from the current work is the enhancement of a comprehensive noise prediction system for rotorcraft and a methodology to analyze flight test procedures in the interest of understanding the noise source generation mechanisms and aid development of noise abate…
Many filmmakers have explored the sonic possibilities offered by experimental, avant-garde, and modernist music as it prospered in the mid-twentieth century. Fascinatingly, horror cinema, with all its eerie subject matter, has championed the use of experimental music in its film…
This thesis develops a topological approach to robustness to incorrect-incomplete models in MDPs and POMDPs, and applications of this study to approximations, model learning and reinforcement learning.
Data-driven methods have become ubiquitous across the engineering and applied sciences. In the petroleum sciences, a significant body of work has arisen applying such techniques to modeling and analysis of reservoir-scale data, but laboratory-scale data and applications have rec…
Breast cancer frequently occurs in women over the world. It was one of the most serious diseases and the second common cancer among women in 2019. The survival rate of stages 0 and 1 of breast cancer is closed to 100%. It is urgent to develop an approach that can detect breast c…
In the early 2000’s, The Mars Volta’s popularity among prog(ressive) rock fandom was, in many ways, a conundrum. Unlike 1970s prog rock that drew heavily on Western classical music, TMV members Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and Cedric Bixler-Zavala routinely insisted on the integral impo…
This project seeks to address how silence, noise, and spectacles are represented in relation to foreclosing natural and economic systems and what they might signify as either fuel for, or a drain on, imaginative reverie in three main texts: Upton Sinclair’s Oil! (1927), Karen Ta…
"This book is about how you listen and what you hear, about how to have a dialogue with the sounds around you. Marcia Jenneth Epstein gives readers the impetus and the tools to understand the sounds and noise that define their daily lives in this groundbreaking interdisciplinary…
"This book is about how you listen and what you hear, about how to have a dialogue with the sounds around you. Marcia Jenneth Epstein gives readers the impetus and the tools to understand the sounds and noise that define their daily lives in this groundbreaking interdisciplinary…
This thesis surveys the sounds of everyday street and work life to argue for a reassessment of the way historians have understood community, space, materiality and identity in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century Germany and Britain. It will demonstrate that sound played …
Individual cells in a genetically identical population, exposed to the same environment, can show great variation in their protein expression levels. This is due to noise, which is inherent in many biological processes, due in part to the low molecule numbers and probabilistic i…
This thesis presents a novel evolutionary optimisation algorithm that can improve the quality of solutions in simulation-based optimisation. Simulation-based optimisation is the process of finding optimal parameter settings without explicitly examining each possible configuratio…
by Åkerstedt, Torbjörn, Gale, Ivanka, Dolenc-Grošelj, Leja
Predictive maintenance aims to minimize the downtime due to maintenance, while simultaneously minimizing the risk of unforeseen failures. Efforts in predictive maintenance have been focused on predicting the remaining useful life of a machine. There is need for a more comprehens…
This paper treats the connections between contemporary popular music and neoliberal ideology through a historical analysis and critique of digital music platforms, lo-fi, and EDM. Following the work of Byung-Chul Han and Philip Mirowski, I explore how the transformation of the d…
