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An Evaluation Of Robotics In Nursing Homes To Reduce Adverse Drug Events, Ozell Ueal Jr. Jan 2016

An Evaluation Of Robotics In Nursing Homes To Reduce Adverse Drug Events, Ozell Ueal Jr.

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Adverse drug events (ADE) cause many deaths annually in addition to affecting the quality of life of many others. The descriptive mixed methods approach, specifically exploratory case study and experimental design that guided this research utilized the survey and focus group methods to evaluate perceptions about robotic technology (RT) to reduce the rate of ADEs in U.S. nursing homes (NH). There is a lack of scholarly research into whether a conceptual approach rooted in RT can be implemented to assist with drug administrations in NHs. The purpose of this study was twofold. The first purpose was to evaluate the causes …


Representation And Analysis Of Multi-Modal, Nonuniform Time Series Data: An Application To Survival Prognosis Of Oncology Patients In An Outpatient Setting, Jennifer Winikus Jan 2016

Representation And Analysis Of Multi-Modal, Nonuniform Time Series Data: An Application To Survival Prognosis Of Oncology Patients In An Outpatient Setting, Jennifer Winikus

Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports

The representation of nonuniform, multi-modal, time-limited time series data is complex and explored through the use of discrete representation, dimensionality reduction with segmentation based techniques, and with behavioral representation approaches. These explorations are done with a focus on an outpatient oncology setting with the classification and regression analysis being used for length of survival prognosis. Each decision of representation and analysis is not independent, with implications of each decision in method for how the data is represented and then which analysis technique is used. One unique aspect of the work is the use of outpatient clinical data for patients, which …


De-Anonymization Attack Anatomy And Analysis Of Ohio Nursing Workforce Data Anonymization, Jacob M. Miracle Jan 2016

De-Anonymization Attack Anatomy And Analysis Of Ohio Nursing Workforce Data Anonymization, Jacob M. Miracle

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Data generalization (anonymization) is a widely misunderstood technique for preserving individual privacy in non-interactive data publishing. Easily avoidable anonymization failures are still occurring 14 years after the discovery of basic techniques to protect against them. Identities of individuals in anonymized datasets are at risk of being disclosed by cyber attackers who exploit these failures. To demonstrate the importance of proper data anonymization we present three perspectives on data anonymization. First, we examine several de-anonymization attacks to formalize the anatomy used to conduct attacks on anonymous data. Second, we examine the vulnerabilities of an anonymous nursing workforce survey to convey how …


Identifying Offensive Videos On Youtube, Rajeshwari Kandakatla Jan 2016

Identifying Offensive Videos On Youtube, Rajeshwari Kandakatla

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Harassment on social media has become a critical problem and social media content depicting harassment is becoming common place. Video-sharing websites such as YouTube contain content that may be offensive to certain community, insulting to certain religion, race etc., or make fun of disabilities. These videos can also provoke and promote altercations leading to online harassment of individuals and groups. In this thesis, we present a system that identifies offensive videos on YouTube. Our goal is to determine features that can be used to detect offensive videos efficiently and reliably. We conducted experiments using content and metadata available for each …


Computer Graphics And Visualization Based Analysis And Record System For Hand Surgery And Therapy Practice, Venkatamanikanta Subrahmanyakartheek Gokavarapu Jan 2016

Computer Graphics And Visualization Based Analysis And Record System For Hand Surgery And Therapy Practice, Venkatamanikanta Subrahmanyakartheek Gokavarapu

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In this thesis, we have designed and developed a computer graphics and visualization based analysis and record system for hand surgery and therapy practice. In particular, we have designed and developed three novel technologies: (i) model-based data compression for hand motion records (ii) model-based surface area estimation of a human hand and (iii) an emulated study of hand wound area estimation. First, we have presented a new data compression technique to better address the needs of electronic health record systems, such as file storage and privacy. In our proposed approach, we will extract the patient's hand motion information and store …


A Stochastic Petri Net Based Nlu Scheme For Technical Documents Understanding, Adamantia Psarologou Jan 2016

A Stochastic Petri Net Based Nlu Scheme For Technical Documents Understanding, Adamantia Psarologou

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Natural Language Understanding (NLU) is a very old research field, which deals with machine reading comprehension. Despite the many years of work and the numerous accomplishments by several researchers in the field, there is still place for significant improvements. Here, our goal is to develop a novel NLU methodology for detecting and extracting event/action associations in technical documents. In order to achieve this goal we present a synergy of methods (Kernel extraction, Formal Language Modeling, Stochastic Petri-nets (SPN) mapping and Event Representation via SPN graph synthesis). In particular, the basic meaning of a natural language sentence is given by its …


Mining And Analyzing Subjective Experiences In User Generated Content, Lu Chen Jan 2016

Mining And Analyzing Subjective Experiences In User Generated Content, Lu Chen

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Web 2.0 and social media enable people to create, share and discover information instantly anywhere, anytime. A great amount of this information is subjective information -- the information about people's subjective experiences, ranging from feelings of what is happening in our daily lives to opinions on a wide variety of topics. Subjective information is useful to individuals, businesses, and government agencies to support decision making in areas such as product purchase, marketing strategy, and policy making. However, much useful subjective information is buried in ever-growing user generated data on social media platforms, it is still difficult to extract high quality …


An Analysis Of The Technological, Organizational, And Environmental Factors Influencing Cloud Adoption, Joe Malak Jan 2016

An Analysis Of The Technological, Organizational, And Environmental Factors Influencing Cloud Adoption, Joe Malak

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Cloud computing provides an answer to the increasing costs of managing information technology (IT), and has become a model that aligns IT services with an organization's business strategies. However, concerns and uncertainties associated with cloud computing are deterring IT decision makers from making sound decisions regarding the adoption of the technology. The purpose of this online survey study was to examine the relationship between relative advantage, compatibility, organizational size, top management support, organizational readiness, mimetic pressure, normative pressures, coercive pressure, and the IT decision makers' intent to adopt cloud computing. The theoretical framework incorporated the diffusion of innovations theory, a …


Measures Of User Interactions, Conversations, And Attacks In A Crowdsourced Platform Offering Emotional Support., Samir Yelne Jan 2016

Measures Of User Interactions, Conversations, And Attacks In A Crowdsourced Platform Offering Emotional Support., Samir Yelne

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Online social systems have emerged as a popular medium for people in society to communicate with each other. Among the most important reasons why people communicate is to share emotional problems, but most online social systems are uncomfortable or unsafe spaces for this purpose. This has led to the rise of online emotional support systems, where users needing to speak to someone can anonymously connect to a crowd of trained listeners for a one-on-one conversation. To better understand who, how and when users utilize these systems, and to evaluate their safety, this thesis offers a comprehensive examination of the characteristics …


Software Defined Secure Ad Hoc Wireless Networks, Maha Alqallaf Jan 2016

Software Defined Secure Ad Hoc Wireless Networks, Maha Alqallaf

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Software defined networking (SDN), a new networking paradigm that separates the network data plane from the control plane, has been considered as a flexible, layered, modular, and efficient approach to managing and controlling networks ranging from wired, infrastructure-based wireless (e.g., cellular wireless networks, WiFi, wireless mesh net- works), to infrastructure-less wireless networks (e.g. mobile ad-hoc networks, vehicular ad-hoc networks) as well as to offering new types of services and to evolving the Internet architecture. Most work has focused on the SDN application in traditional and wired and/or infrastructure based networks. Wireless networks have become increasingly more heterogeneous. Secure and collab- …


Knowledge-Empowered Probabilistic Graphical Models For Physical-Cyber-Social Systems, Pramod Anantharam Jan 2016

Knowledge-Empowered Probabilistic Graphical Models For Physical-Cyber-Social Systems, Pramod Anantharam

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There is a rapid intertwining of sensors and mobile devices into the fabric of our lives. This has resulted in unprecedented growth in the number of observations from the physical and social worlds reported in the cyber world. Sensing and computational components embedded in the physical world constitute a Cyber-Physical System (CPS). Current science of CPS is yet to effectively integrate citizen observations in CPS analysis. We demonstrate the role of citizen observations in CPS and propose a novel approach to perform a holistic analysis of machine and citizen sensor observations. Specifically, we demonstrate the complementary, corroborative, and timely aspects …


Knowledge-Driven Implicit Information Extraction, Pathirage Dinindu Perera Jan 2016

Knowledge-Driven Implicit Information Extraction, Pathirage Dinindu Perera

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Natural language is a powerful tool developed by humans over hundreds of thousands of years. The extensive usage, flexibility of the language, creativity of the human beings, and social, cultural, and economic changes that have taken place in daily life have added new constructs, styles, and features to the language. One such feature of the language is its ability to express ideas, opinions, and facts in an implicit manner. This is a feature that is used extensively in day to day communications in situations such as: 1) expressing sarcasm, 2) when trying to recall forgotten things, 3) when required to …


A Hierarchical Framework For Phylogenetic And Ancestral Genome Reconstruction On Whole Genome Data, Lingxi Zhou Jan 2016

A Hierarchical Framework For Phylogenetic And Ancestral Genome Reconstruction On Whole Genome Data, Lingxi Zhou

Theses and Dissertations

Gene order gets evolved under events such as rearrangements, duplications, and losses, which can change both the order and content along the genome, through the long history of genome evolution. Recently, the accumulation of genomic sequences provides researchers with the chance to handle long-standing problems about the phylogenies, or evolutionary histories, of sets of species, and ancestral genomic content and orders. Over the past few years, such problems have been proven so interesting that a large number of algorithms have been proposed in the attempt to resolve them, following different standards. The work presented in this dissertation focuses on algorithms …


Learning Hierarchically Decomposable Concepts With Active Over-Labeling, Yuji Mo, Stephen Scott, Doug Downey Jan 2016

Learning Hierarchically Decomposable Concepts With Active Over-Labeling, Yuji Mo, Stephen Scott, Doug Downey

School of Computing: Conference and Workshop Papers

Many classification tasks target high-level concepts that can be decomposed into a hierarchy of finer-grained subconcepts. For example, some string entities that are Locations are also Attractions, some Attractions are Museums, etc. Such hierarchies are common in named entity recognition (NER), document classification, and biological sequence analysis. We present a new approach for learning hierarchically decomposable concepts. The approach learns a high-level classifier (e.g., location vs. non-location) by seperately learning multiple finer-grained classifiers (e.g., museum vs. non-museum), and then combining the results. Soliciting labels at a finer level of granularity than that of the target concept is a new approach …


Salient Pairwise Spatio-Temporal Interest Points For Real-Time Activity Recognition, Mengyuan Liu, Hong Liu, Qianru Sun, Tianwei Zhang, Runwei Ding Jan 2016

Salient Pairwise Spatio-Temporal Interest Points For Real-Time Activity Recognition, Mengyuan Liu, Hong Liu, Qianru Sun, Tianwei Zhang, Runwei Ding

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Real-time Human action classification in complex scenes has applications in various domains such as visual surveillance, video retrieval and human robot interaction. While, the task is challenging due to computation efficiency, cluttered backgrounds and intro-variability among same type of actions. Spatio-temporal interest point (STIP) based methods have shown promising results to tackle human action classification in complex scenes efficiently. However, the state-of-the-art works typically utilize bag-of-visual words (BoVW) model which only focuses on the word distribution of STIPs and ignore the distinctive character of word structure. In this paper, the distribution of STIPs is organized into a salient directed graph, …


We Can Hear You With Wi-Fi!, Guanhua Wang, Yongpan Zou, Zimu Zhou, Kaishun Wu, Lionel M. Ni Jan 2016

We Can Hear You With Wi-Fi!, Guanhua Wang, Yongpan Zou, Zimu Zhou, Kaishun Wu, Lionel M. Ni

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Recent literature advances Wi-Fi signals to “see” people’s motions and locations. This paper asks the following question: Can Wi-Fi “hear” our talks? We present WiHear, which enables Wi-Fi signals to “hear” our talks without deploying any devices. To achieve this, WiHear needs to detect and analyze fine-grained radio reflections from mouth movements. WiHear solves this micro-movement detection problem by introducing Mouth Motion Profile that leverages partial multipath effects and wavelet packet transformation. Since Wi-Fi signals do not require line-of-sight, WiHear can “hear” people talks within the radio range. Further, WiHear can simultaneously “hear” multiple people’s talks leveraging MIMO technology. We …


Distributed Rule-Based Ontology Reasoning, Raghava Mutharaju Jan 2016

Distributed Rule-Based Ontology Reasoning, Raghava Mutharaju

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The vision of the Semantic Web is to provide structure and meaning to the data on the Web. Knowledge representation and reasoning play a crucial role in accomplishing this vision. OWL (Web Ontology Language), a W3C standard, is used for representing knowledge. Reasoning over the ontologies is used to derive logical consequences. A fixed set of rules are run on an ontology iteratively until no new logical consequences can be derived. All existing reasoners run on a single machine, possibly using multiple cores. Ontologies (sometimes loosely referred to as knowledge bases) that are automatically constructed can be very large. Single …


Customizable 3-D Virtual Gi Tract Systems For Locating, Mapping, And Navigation Inside Human Gastrointestinal Tract, Megha Dattatrey Dalvi Jan 2016

Customizable 3-D Virtual Gi Tract Systems For Locating, Mapping, And Navigation Inside Human Gastrointestinal Tract, Megha Dattatrey Dalvi

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One of the critical challenges of wireless capsule endoscopy examination is to find the exact position of the capsule in the Gastrointestinal Tract (GI) tract so as to correctly and accurately spot the position of the intestinal diseases. Creating a 3D virtual GI tract system could significantly improve the capsule endoscopy operations. The virtual human model, such as the BioDigital Human, has been credited as Google Earth for the human body, which provides us medically accurate virtual body and organ structures. However, it only assembles a “Standard” human body. The problem is: there is only one earth, but billions of …


Augment Hololens’ Body Recognition And Tracking Capabilities Using Kinect, Krishna Chaithanya Mathi Jan 2016

Augment Hololens’ Body Recognition And Tracking Capabilities Using Kinect, Krishna Chaithanya Mathi

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In this thesis, we are primarily interested in exploring the HoloLens technologies for medical practices. Particularly, we will address the limitation of HoloLens’ capability in human body sensing, recognition and tracking. We will then introduce and demonstrate the use of Kinect to augment HoloLens’ sensory and processing capabilities in order to produce time and space-synchronized immersive environment with both virtual body and real body of the same patient for supporting distributed medical collaborations. Specifically, we are looking at a distributed solution in which we are collecting the patient body data from Kinect, followed by body recognition and position/motion tracking processing …


Novel Cost And Space Efficient Range Of Motion And Gait Analysis Systems, Rutvik Bharatkumar Patel Jan 2016

Novel Cost And Space Efficient Range Of Motion And Gait Analysis Systems, Rutvik Bharatkumar Patel

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In this thesis, we have explored the use of the latest motion tracking technologies, as evident by Microsoft Xbox Kinect’s motion tracking capabilities, in combination with 3D digital human modeling and animation, multi-modality image capturing and processing, and fusion, to design a new generation of low-cost range of motion and gait analysis solutions that overcome the limitation of existing tools. The proposed solutions and our prototype systems have demonstrated accurate measurements and reliable analysis outcome compared to current clinic practices, with significantly reduced complexity and cost. Furthermore, it eliminates the need for expensive effort for pre- and post- processing of …


Removal Of Impulse Noise In Digital Images With Na\"Ive Bayes Classifier Method, Cafer Budak, Mustafa Türk, Abdullah Toprak Jan 2016

Removal Of Impulse Noise In Digital Images With Na\"Ive Bayes Classifier Method, Cafer Budak, Mustafa Türk, Abdullah Toprak

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

No abstract provided.


Application Of A Time Delay Neural Network For Predicting Positive And Negative Links In Social Networks, Saghar Babakhanbak, Kaveh Kavousi, Fardad Farokhi Jan 2016

Application Of A Time Delay Neural Network For Predicting Positive And Negative Links In Social Networks, Saghar Babakhanbak, Kaveh Kavousi, Fardad Farokhi

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

No abstract provided.


Brain Tumor Detection Using Monomodal Intensity Based Medical Image Registration And Matlab, Emrah Irmak, Ergun Erçelebi̇, Ahmet Hani̇fi̇ Ertaş Jan 2016

Brain Tumor Detection Using Monomodal Intensity Based Medical Image Registration And Matlab, Emrah Irmak, Ergun Erçelebi̇, Ahmet Hani̇fi̇ Ertaş

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

digital image processing. Using suitable computer programming techniques and transformation between two images, a new much more informative image can be found. In this paper, three important and basic medical image registration (MIR) methods, namely MIR by maximization of mutual information, MIR using cross correlation (Fourier transform approach), and MIR by minimization of similarity metric, were proposed and accordingly two comprehensive applications were performed using MIR by minimization of the similarity metric, which uses the sum of the squared differences metric as a metric and the regular step gradient descent optimizer as an optimizer. What is more, MR images of …


Fuzzy Logic Based Voltage Control Scheme For Improvement In Dynamic Response Of The Class D Inverter Based High Frequency Induction Heating System, Booma Nagarajan, Rama Reddy Sathi, Pradeep Vishnuram Jan 2016

Fuzzy Logic Based Voltage Control Scheme For Improvement In Dynamic Response Of The Class D Inverter Based High Frequency Induction Heating System, Booma Nagarajan, Rama Reddy Sathi, Pradeep Vishnuram

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

No abstract provided.


Design Of Compact Octagonal Slotted Hexagonal And Rectangular Shaped Monopole Antennas For Dual/Uwb Applications, Praveen Naidu Vummadisetty, Raj Kumar Jan 2016

Design Of Compact Octagonal Slotted Hexagonal And Rectangular Shaped Monopole Antennas For Dual/Uwb Applications, Praveen Naidu Vummadisetty, Raj Kumar

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

applications are proposed in this paper. In both antennas, the slot in the ground plane is of octagonal shape, while the patch is rectangular in one of the antennas and hexagonal in the other. Thin metallic stubs of different lengths are added to the ground plane and protrude into the slot. These stubs help to improve the impedance matching over a broader bandwidth. The antennas are very compact in size and designed on low-cost FR4 substrate. The measured impedance bandwidths (S$_{11}


Sensorless Field Oriented Control Of Nonsinusoidal Flux-Distribution Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor With A Fem Based Ann Observer, Eyyüp Öksüztepe, Zeki̇ Omaç, Mehmet Polat, Hakan Çeli̇k, Ahmet Hakan Selçuk, Hasan Kürüm Jan 2016

Sensorless Field Oriented Control Of Nonsinusoidal Flux-Distribution Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor With A Fem Based Ann Observer, Eyyüp Öksüztepe, Zeki̇ Omaç, Mehmet Polat, Hakan Çeli̇k, Ahmet Hakan Selçuk, Hasan Kürüm

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

No abstract provided.


Iris And Eye Corner Detection By Processing Internal Webcam Images, Bülent Turan, Hali̇l İbrahi̇m Eski̇kurt Jan 2016

Iris And Eye Corner Detection By Processing Internal Webcam Images, Bülent Turan, Hali̇l İbrahi̇m Eski̇kurt

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

the eye regions of laptop users. To achieve this, the iris and eye corners are detected by processing the images captured by the standard internal webcam of a laptop. In addition, an artificial neural network (ANN) is used for determining the eye region. Hereby, the iris and eye corners can be detected in the determined eye region. In the study, 107 user images are captured by using a laptop's internal camera under different light intensities, environments, viewpoints, and positions. These images are used for the training of the ANN. Two different methods are used for the iris detection. In the …


Advanced~Neural Network Receiver Design~To Combat Multiple Channel~Impairments, Mürsel Önder, Aydin Akan, Hakan Doğan Jan 2016

Advanced~Neural Network Receiver Design~To Combat Multiple Channel~Impairments, Mürsel Önder, Aydin Akan, Hakan Doğan

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

No abstract provided.


Quantitative Risk Associated With Intermittent Wind Generation, Mohamed Shaaban, Mohd. Dzulhafizi Usman Jan 2016

Quantitative Risk Associated With Intermittent Wind Generation, Mohamed Shaaban, Mohd. Dzulhafizi Usman

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

No abstract provided.


Protection Of A Multiterminal Dc Compact Node Feeding Electric Vehicles On Electric Railway Systems, Secondary Distribution Networks, And Pv Systems, Jesus Casa Hernandez, Francisco Sanchez Sutil, Pedro Gomez Vidal Jan 2016

Protection Of A Multiterminal Dc Compact Node Feeding Electric Vehicles On Electric Railway Systems, Secondary Distribution Networks, And Pv Systems, Jesus Casa Hernandez, Francisco Sanchez Sutil, Pedro Gomez Vidal

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

No abstract provided.