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Using Pedagogical Tools To Help Hispanics Be Successful In Computer Science, Rodger Irish
Using Pedagogical Tools To Help Hispanics Be Successful In Computer Science, Rodger Irish
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Irish, Rodger, Using Pedagogical Tools to Help Hispanics Be Successful in Computer Science. Master of Science (MS), July 2017, 68 pp., 4 tables, 2 figures, references 48 titles. Computer science (CS) jobs are a growing field and pay a living wage, but the Hispanics are underrepresented in this field. This project seeks to give an overview of several contributing factors to this problem. It will then explore some possible solutions to this problem and how a combination of some tools (teaching methods) can create the best possible outcome. It is my belief that this approach can produce successful Hispanics to …
Accelerating Object Extraction And Detection Using A Hierarchical Approach With Shape Descriptors, Bassam Syed Arshad
Accelerating Object Extraction And Detection Using A Hierarchical Approach With Shape Descriptors, Bassam Syed Arshad
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Automatic object recognition is a fundamental problem in the fields of computer vision and machine learning, that has received a lot of research attention lately. Miniaturization and affordability, of both, high resolution digital cameras and advanced computing hardware, have further advanced the scope and applications of object recognition methods. While there are different methods, that build upon various low level features to construct object models, this work explores and implements the use of closed-contours as formidable object features. A hierarchical technique is employed to extract the contours, exploiting the inherent spatial relationships between the parent and child contours of an …
Analysis And Simulation Of A Social Network, Twitter: A Case Study, Jonatan Reyes
Analysis And Simulation Of A Social Network, Twitter: A Case Study, Jonatan Reyes
Theses and Dissertations
The use of online social networks empowers its users to efficiently disseminate information across traditional social networks. Typically, the weight and value of messages are relative to its readers’ culture and interests. Nevertheless, in some instances, messages take the form of viral phenomenon, which circulates around the world in very short periods of time. Therefore, despite the actual content of the message spread over the network, the determination of the effectiveness of message dissemination across the social network becomes an attractive opportunity for scientific study. Since a meticulous analysis of a complete online social network would require the acquisition of …
Opinion Formation About Childhood Immunization And Disease Spread On Networks, Shan Shan Zhao
Opinion Formation About Childhood Immunization And Disease Spread On Networks, Shan Shan Zhao
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People are physically and socially connected with each other. Those connections between people represent two, probably overlapping, networks: biological networks, through which physical contacts occur, or social network, through which information diffuse. In my thesis research, I am trying to answer that question in the context of pediatric disease spread on the biological network between households as well as within them and its relationship with information sharing on the social network of households (parents in that case) via "Information Cascades." I mainly focus on the Erdos-Renyi network model. In particular, I use two different but overlapping Erdos-Renyi networks for the …