Machine learning-based decision support systems bring relief to the decision-makers in many domains such as loan application acceptance, dating, hiring, granting parole, insurance coverage, and medical diagnoses. These support systems facilitate processing tremendous amounts of …
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Background: Intra-articular corticosteroid injections (IACI) are a commonly used treatment for painful knee osteoarthritis (OA). Response to treatment varies the reason for which is unclear. Further there are no data concerning the impact of accuracy of injection and psychologic…
The focus of this study was to determine if there were gender differences in terms of accuracy and latency of performance on visual-spatial tasks. A second objective was to determine if there were gender differences in confidence in visual-spatial performance. The study was base…
This study undertook an integrated geospatial assessment of human and environmental exposure to oil pollution in the Niger Delta using primary and secondary spatial data. This thesis begins by presenting a clear rationale for the study of extensive oil pollution in the Niger Del…
Application-specific parsing can be used to extract application data presented in a format that is customized to a particular application. Effective parsing of application data found in network traffic sets a solid ground to develop application-level traffic analysis software. A…
Improvement in analytical methods, including extraction procedures has been a recurrent topic in mycotoxin research due to the fact that mycotoxins are ubiquitous, potent and notoriously difficult to eradicate from the food and feed supply chain. Effective management of these to…
Wind energy is still developing industry and people who work in this industry working hard to accomplish the difficulties. Problems are not arise only by nature of wind but technological developments, methods and even market pressure itself. Wind turbine theoretical power curves…
With the explosive growth of information on the Internet, recommender systems have been broadly applied in user engaged systems to efficiently discover items of potential interest. In order to automatically generate such “guess what you like” results and serve matching recommend…
This research proposes a novel framework to control the stencil cleaning operation in the stencil printing process (SPP) on a real-time basis. In a surface mount assembly (SMA) line, most of the soldering defects result from the SPP. Stencil cleaning is necessary to remove the a…
Sports analytics applies mathematical and statistical concepts to making relevant and efficient choices for proper club management in finances and performance in the field. This study models a technique to evaluate player performance based on games they have been involved with p…
Over the past several decades, the cost of healthcare across the globe continued to increase. The projection is for faster growth in all sectors due to the improving economy, the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and the aging United States’ population (i.e., Baby Boomers). This growth…
This dissertation consists of six distinct research studies that are broadly classified into two parts. The first part is concerned with the application of emerging data analysis tools rooted in causal inference, nonlinear chaotic dynamical systems, and information theory to det…
Most technological relevant structural materials are polycrystals that contain many (millions) so-called grains. Plastic deformation in polycrystalline metallic materials is not homogeneous at the microscale, but sometimes strongly heterogeneous among grains and varies spatially…
This is the thesis component of a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) by Published Works at the University of Salford, United Kingdom (UK). The overall submission is a portfolio of seven published works supported by five associated publications and a critical appraisal focusing on the co…
Crossbreeding is practiced extensively in commercial breeding programs of many plant and animal species, in order to exploit heterosis, breed complementarity, and to protect pure line genetic material. The success of commercial crossbreeding schemes depends on identifying and us…
Neuromorphic computing is a computing field that takes inspiration from the biological and physical characteristics of the neocortex system to motivate a new paradigm of highly parallel and distributed computing to take on the demands of the ever-increasing scale and computation…
Over the last 800 million years, animals have evolved an incredible array of diverse forms, life histories, ecologies, and traits. In the age of genome-scale resources for many animal taxa, researchers have a unique opportunity to investigate animal diversity and evolution throu…
Economists often evaluate public policies by measuring the effects of those policies on participants' wage income. I use two historical settings to argue that this focus on wage income biases estimates of the returns to education, the returns to local investment, and the measure…
Since the topic of improving data quality has not been addressed for the U.S. defense cost estimating discipline beyond changes in public policy, the goal of the study was to close this gap and provide empirical evidence that supports expanding options to improve software cost e…