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Examination And Utilization Of Rare Features In Text Classification Of Injury Narratives, Hsin-Ying Huang
Examination And Utilization Of Rare Features In Text Classification Of Injury Narratives, Hsin-Ying Huang
Open Access Dissertations
Thanks to the advances in computing and information technology, analyzing injury surveillance data with statistical machine learning methods has grown in popularity, complexity, and quality over recent years. During that same time, researchers have recognized the limitations of statistical text analysis with limited training data. In response to the two primary challenges for statistical text analysis, dimensionality reduction and sparse data, many studies have focused on improving machine learning algorithms. Less research has been done, though, to examine and improve statistical machine learning methods in text classification from a linguistic perspective.
This study addresses this research gap by examining the …
Impact Of Rfid Information-Sharing Coordination Over A Supply Chain With Reverse Logistics, Juan Jose Nativi Nicolau
Impact Of Rfid Information-Sharing Coordination Over A Supply Chain With Reverse Logistics, Juan Jose Nativi Nicolau
Open Access Dissertations
Companies have adopted environmental practices such as reverse logistics over the past few decades. However, studies show that aligning partners inside the green supply chain can be a substantial problem. This lack of coordination can increase overall supply chain cost. Information technology such as Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) has the potential to enable decentralized supply chain coordinate their information. Even though there are research that address RFID on traditional supply chain, few researches address how to coordinate RFID information sharing in a green supply chain. We study, through simulation experiments, two types of RFID information-sharing coordination under different configurations related …
Metrics Of Critical Pair Identification, Zixu Zhang
Metrics Of Critical Pair Identification, Zixu Zhang
Open Access Theses
Critical Pair Identification works as a potential assistive tool for human air traffic controllers by identifying potentially dangerous situations that are not detected by proposed automated separation assurance systems. This concept specifically considers conflicts that might arise if aircraft unexpectedly deviate from their planned flight path in the near future. Five metrics of the critical pair concept, Critical Pair Count, Time to Risk Exposure, Lead Time, Risk Exposure Duration and Blunder Sensitivity Index, have been developed and mathematically defined to characterize the safety level of an aircraft pair or a volume of air space. Algorithm that computes proposed metrics is …
Taming Tail Latency For Erasure-Coded, Distributed Storage Systems, Jingxian Fan
Taming Tail Latency For Erasure-Coded, Distributed Storage Systems, Jingxian Fan
Open Access Theses
Nowadays, in distributed storage systems, long tails of responsible time are of particular concern. Modern large companies like Bing, Facebook and Amazon Web Service show that 99.9th percentile response times being orders of magnitude worse than the mean. With the advantages of maintaining high data reliability and ensur- ing enough space eciency, erasure code has become a popular storage method in distributed storage systems. However, due to the lack of mathematical models for analyzing erasure-coded based distributed storage systems, taming tail latency is still an open problem.
In this research, we quantify tail latency in such systems by deriving a …
Fatigue Analysis Of The Welded Region In The Automotive Torsion Beam Rear Suspension System, Nan Zhan, Xiaochuan Zhang
Fatigue Analysis Of The Welded Region In The Automotive Torsion Beam Rear Suspension System, Nan Zhan, Xiaochuan Zhang
The 8th International Conference on Physical and Numerical Simulation of Materials Processing
No abstract provided.
Impact Of Microscope, Loupes, And Video Displays On Microsurgeons’ Risk For Musculoskeletal Injuries, Yiyu Shi, Denny Yu
Impact Of Microscope, Loupes, And Video Displays On Microsurgeons’ Risk For Musculoskeletal Injuries, Yiyu Shi, Denny Yu
The Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Symposium
Microsurgery is commonly performed with operating microscopes or loupes to repair traumatic injuries, damage from cancer surgery, etc.; however, the prolonged, awkward, and constrained postures from using these equipment puts microsurgeons at risk for musculoskeletal pain and injuries. An alternative heads-up displays may improve surgeons’ ergonomics by allowing microsurgeons to perform the procedure in a more comfortable and ergonomic position. The study compares the effect of microscope, loupes and video displays on postures during microsurgical targeting task. This study incorporated three steps to contrast displays. Firstly, 12 participants wearing six reflective markers completed a surgery simulation using all three displays, …
How User's Visualization Literacy Relates To Their Cognitive Traits, Jiming Yang, Sukwon Lee, Ji Soo Yi
How User's Visualization Literacy Relates To Their Cognitive Traits, Jiming Yang, Sukwon Lee, Ji Soo Yi
The Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Symposium
Researchers in the field of Information Visualization have suggested that users’ cognitive abilities would likely to affect their understanding of data visualizations and deeper exploration in the visualizations. However, the evidence is still scant to link between user’s visualization literacy and their cognitive traits. Thus, the research goal of this study is to explore how user’s visualization literacy and their cognitive traits are related. In particular, we focused on two cognitive traits: numeracy and need-for-cognition. In order to achieve the goal, first, we measured visualization literacy, numeracy, and need-for-cognition using existing instruments with 46 Amazon Mechanical Turk workers, and the …
Leveraging Smart Infusion Pump Data For Workflow, Patient Care And Usability Improvement In Human Factors, Yan Ni Ding, Denny Yu, Poching Delaurentis, Kang-Yu Hsu, Joon Hong Kim
Leveraging Smart Infusion Pump Data For Workflow, Patient Care And Usability Improvement In Human Factors, Yan Ni Ding, Denny Yu, Poching Delaurentis, Kang-Yu Hsu, Joon Hong Kim
The Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Symposium
Infusion pumps are medical devices that deliver fluids like medication, and nutrients in a precise, timely, and controlled manner that is critical to patient care. It is widely used in clinical settings especially in hospitals, nursing homes and sometimes at home. Smart infusion pumps technology are supposed to be reduce nurses’ workload, but due to the recurring number of alarms which disrupt the workflow of the infusion process, most nurses prefer to use the traditional infusion pumps or work-around the safety features of the smart pumps. Thus, the aim of this research is to leverage Smart Infusion Pump data to …
Best Matching Processes In Distributed Systems, Mohsen Moghaddam
Best Matching Processes In Distributed Systems, Mohsen Moghaddam
Open Access Dissertations
The growing complexity and dynamic behavior of modern manufacturing and service industries along with competitive and globalized markets have gradually transformed traditional centralized systems into distributed networks of e- (electronic) Systems. Emerging examples include e-Factories, virtual enterprises, smart farms, automated warehouses, and intelligent transportation systems. These (and similar) distributed systems, regardless of context and application, have a property in common: They all involve certain types of interactions (collaborative, competitive, or both) among their distributed individuals—from clusters of passive sensors and machines to complex networks of computers, intelligent robots, humans, and enterprises. Having this common property, such systems may encounter common …
Service-Level Based Response By Assignment And Order Processing For Warehouse Automation, Zijian He
Service-Level Based Response By Assignment And Order Processing For Warehouse Automation, Zijian He
Open Access Theses
Along with tremendous growth of online sales in this Internet era, unprecedented intensive competition in shortening the delivery time of orders has been occurring among several major online retailers. On the other hand, the idea of customer-oriented service creates a trend of diversified pricing strategy. Different price options are offered to cater to diversified needs of customers. It has become an urgent need for online sales industries to provide the differentiated service levels for different classes of customers with different priorities based on the charging prices and resource constraints of the supply network.
In response to the challenges mentioned above, …
Markov-Based Ranking Methods, Baback Vaziri
Markov-Based Ranking Methods, Baback Vaziri
Open Access Dissertations
Ranking methods are an essential tool to help make decisions. This dissertation document examines different aspects of the theory and application of pairwise comparison ranking methods, specifically those that use Markov chains. First, a new method is developed to solve a traditional recruiting problem, and is shown to improve the predictive power of its ranking. Next, modifications are made to an existing method that theoretically improves the reliability, while maintaining the rank integrity. Last, a framework is developed that defines a fair and comprehensive ranking method, and several popular methods are evaluated in their ability to adhere to the said …
The Casualty Transportation Of Ebola Outbreak In Liberia: A Simulation Study, Hyejin Cho
The Casualty Transportation Of Ebola Outbreak In Liberia: A Simulation Study, Hyejin Cho
Open Access Theses
In this paper, we have solved the unique problem of casualty transportation problem under Ebola by developing dynamic policies for vehicle routing in order to provide practical decision support. The objective of the proposed model is to minimize the total transmission risk. We describe the problem with real- constraints and parameters based on the empirical data of the 2014 Ebola outbreak in Liberia. The casualty transportation problem is a variant of Dynamic Pick-up and Delivery Problems (DPDP), in which a vehicle is dispatched to demand location in real time and it then transports the demands to the aimed area (destination). …
Developing Agent-Based Simulation Models Of Task Performance Of Cognitively Diverse Teams, Megan Marie Nyre
Developing Agent-Based Simulation Models Of Task Performance Of Cognitively Diverse Teams, Megan Marie Nyre
Open Access Theses
Team-oriented work dominates industry, government, and academic areas with the goal of solving increasingly complex problems. However, the scope and external validity of traditional human factors research is inherently limited by the time and resources required to conduct laboratory studies. The model described in this thesis integrates simulation with human factors by providing an operationalized model that incorporates cognitive diversity and domain expertise. Convergence and functionality of the model have been established through a series of analyses, and a clear path for future research has been identified. By integrating simulation methods into human factors subject areas, researchers may be able …
Health Monitoring Device, Prim Boonwisut, Askar Zhapbassov, Tahmeed Rafee
Health Monitoring Device, Prim Boonwisut, Askar Zhapbassov, Tahmeed Rafee
Engagement & Service-Learning Summit
No abstract provided.
Human-System Integration, Jiahui Cai, Xianpeng Wang, Xinyue Cao, Siyu Liu, Wanyu Wu, Xiao Shi, Yutong Xu
Human-System Integration, Jiahui Cai, Xianpeng Wang, Xinyue Cao, Siyu Liu, Wanyu Wu, Xiao Shi, Yutong Xu
Engagement & Service-Learning Summit
No abstract provided.
A Smart System: Driver Safety For The Car Savvy And Not Through Mobile Application, Veronica Cruz, Jonathan La Plain
A Smart System: Driver Safety For The Car Savvy And Not Through Mobile Application, Veronica Cruz, Jonathan La Plain
Engagement & Service-Learning Summit
No abstract provided.
Application Of Smart Factory Design In Nuclear Energy Industry With Focus On Safety, Olivia Crasta, Cem Yilmaz
Application Of Smart Factory Design In Nuclear Energy Industry With Focus On Safety, Olivia Crasta, Cem Yilmaz
Engagement & Service-Learning Summit
No abstract provided.
Enhancing A Flight Dispatcher Display For Safer Flight Operations, Jeongjoon Boo
Enhancing A Flight Dispatcher Display For Safer Flight Operations, Jeongjoon Boo
Open Access Theses
This study assesses capability of flight dispatchers to adopt enhancements on their display that enables detection of flights in abnormal activities and investigation of the causes. Three approaches were used. First, the expected function for enhancements was designed by collecting information from different places about what technologies are available for consideration. Second, hierarchical task analysis was conducted based on data collected by interviewing a former flight dispatcher in order to assess operational capability to handle the enhancement. Third, based on the results of first two approaches, a display prototype that includes the enhancement was developed and evaluated for usability and …