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Spatiotemporal Subspace Feature Tracking By Mining Discriminatory Characteristics, Richard D. Appiah
Spatiotemporal Subspace Feature Tracking By Mining Discriminatory Characteristics, Richard D. Appiah
Doctoral Dissertations
Recent advancements in data collection technologies have made it possible to collect heterogeneous data at complex levels of abstraction, and at an alarming pace and volume. Data mining, and most recently data science seek to discover hidden patterns and insights from these data by employing a variety of knowledge discovery techniques. At the core of these techniques is the selection and use of features, variables or properties upon which the data were acquired to facilitate effective data modeling. Selecting relevant features in data modeling is critical to ensure an overall model accuracy and optimal predictive performance of future effects. The …
A Study Of Mathematics Achievement, Placement, And Graduation Of Engineering Students, Sara Hahler Blazek
A Study Of Mathematics Achievement, Placement, And Graduation Of Engineering Students, Sara Hahler Blazek
Doctoral Dissertations
The purpose of this study was to determine how background knowledge impacts freshmen engineering students' success at Louisiana Tech University in terms of grades in two different freshman classes and graduation. To determine what factors impact students, three different studies were implemented. The first study used linear regression to analyze which demographic and academic variables significantly impacted freshman math and engineering courses. Using regression discontinuity, the second study determined if the university's placement requirement for Pre-Calculus was appropriate. The final study analyzed factors that impact graduation for engineering students as well as other disciplines to determine which significant variables were …
Sensitivity Of Mixed Models To Computational Algorithms Of Time Series Data, Gunaime Nevine
Sensitivity Of Mixed Models To Computational Algorithms Of Time Series Data, Gunaime Nevine
Doctoral Dissertations
Statistical analysis is influenced by implementation of the algorithms used to execute the computations associated with various statistical techniques. Over many years; very important criteria for model comparison has been studied and examined, and two algorithms on a single dataset have been performed numerous times. The goal of this research is not comparing two or more models on one dataset, but comparing models with numerical algorithms that have been used to solve them on the same dataset.
In this research, different models have been broadly applied in modeling and their contrasting which are affected by the numerical algorithms in different …
Common Method Variance: An Experimental Manipulation, Alison Wall
Common Method Variance: An Experimental Manipulation, Alison Wall
Doctoral Dissertations
Although common method variance has been a subject of research concern for over fifty years, its influence on study results is still not well understood. Common method variance concerns are frequently cited as an issue in the publication of self-report data; yet, there is no consensus as to when, or if, common method variance creates bias. This dissertation examines common method variance by approaching it from an experimental standpoint. If groups of respondents can be influenced to vary their answers to survey items based upon the presence or absence of procedural remedies, a better understanding of common method variance can …
Improvements On Segment Based Contours Method For Dna Microarray Image Segmentation, Yang Li
Improvements On Segment Based Contours Method For Dna Microarray Image Segmentation, Yang Li
Doctoral Dissertations
DNA microarray is an efficient biotechnology tool for scientists to measure the expression levels of large numbers of genes, simultaneously. To obtain the gene expression, microarray image analysis needs to be conducted. Microarray image segmentation is a fundamental step in the microarray analysis process. Segmentation gives the intensities of each probe spot in the array image, and those intensities are used to calculate the gene expression in subsequent analysis procedures. Therefore, more accurate and efficient microarray image segmentation methods are being pursued all the time.
In this dissertation, we are making efforts to obtain more accurate image segmentation results. We …
Performance Modeling And Optimization Techniques For Heterogeneous Computing, Supada Laosooksathit
Performance Modeling And Optimization Techniques For Heterogeneous Computing, Supada Laosooksathit
Doctoral Dissertations
Since Graphics Processing Units (CPUs) have increasingly gained popularity amoung non-graphic and computational applications, known as General-Purpose computation on GPU (GPGPU), CPUs have been deployed in many clusters, including the world's fastest supercomputer. However, to make the most efficiency from a GPU system, one should consider both performance and reliability of the system.
This dissertation makes four major contributions. First, the two-level checkpoint/restart protocol that aims to reduce the checkpoint and recovery costs with a latency hiding strategy in a system between a CPU (Central Processing Unit) and a GPU is proposed. The experimental results and analysis reveals some benefits, …
New Microarray Image Segmentation Using Segmentation Based Contours Method, Yuan Cheng
New Microarray Image Segmentation Using Segmentation Based Contours Method, Yuan Cheng
Doctoral Dissertations
The goal of the research developed in this dissertation is to develop a more accurate segmentation method for Affymetrix microarray images. The Affymetrix microarray biotechnologies have become increasingly important in the biomedical research field. Affymetrix microarray images are widely used in disease diagnostics and disease control. They are capable of monitoring the expression levels of thousands of genes simultaneously. Hence, scientists can get a deep understanding on genomic regulation, interaction and expression by using such tools.
We also introduce a novel Affymetrix microarray image simulation model and how the Affymetrix microarray image is simulated by using this model. This simulation …
Reliability Models For Hpc Applications And A Cloud Economic Model, Thanadech Thanakornworakij
Reliability Models For Hpc Applications And A Cloud Economic Model, Thanadech Thanakornworakij
Doctoral Dissertations
With the enormous number of computing resources in HPC and Cloud systems, failures become a major concern. Therefore, failure behaviors such as reliability, failure rate, and mean time to failure need to be understood to manage such a large system efficiently.
This dissertation makes three major contributions in HPC and Cloud studies. First, a reliability model with correlated failures in a k-node system for HPC applications is studied. This model is extended to improve accuracy by accounting for failure correlation. Marshall-Olkin Multivariate Weibull distribution is improved by excess life, conditional Weibull, to better estimate system reliability. Also, the univariate …
A Failure Index For High Performance Computing Applications, Clayton F. Chandler
A Failure Index For High Performance Computing Applications, Clayton F. Chandler
Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation introduces a new metric in the area of High Performance Computing (HPC) application reliability and performance modeling. Derived via the time-dependent implementation of an existing inequality measure, the Failure index (FI) generates a coefficient representing the level of volatility for the failures incurred by an application running on a given HPC system in a given time interval. This coefficient presents a normalized cross-system representation of the failure volatility of applications running on failure-rich HPC platforms. Further, the origin and ramifications of application failures are investigated, from which certain mathematical conclusions yield greater insight into the behavior of these …
Mathematical And Empirical Modeling Of Chemical Reactions In A Microreactor, Jing Hu
Mathematical And Empirical Modeling Of Chemical Reactions In A Microreactor, Jing Hu
Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation is concerned with mathematical and empirical modeling to simulate three important chemical reactions (cyclohexene hydrogenation and dehydrogenation, preferential oxidation of carbon monoxide, and the Fischer-Tropsch (F-T) synthesis in a microreaction system.
Empirical modeling and optimization techniques based on experimental design (Central Composite Design (CCD)) and response surface methodology were applied to these three chemical reactions. Regression models were built, and the operating conditions (such as temperature, the ratio of the reactants, and total flow rate) which maximize reactant conversion and product selectivity were determined for each reaction.
A probability model for predicting the probability that a certain species …
Machine Learning Approaches For Determining Effective Seeds For K -Means Algorithm, Kaveephong Lertwachara
Machine Learning Approaches For Determining Effective Seeds For K -Means Algorithm, Kaveephong Lertwachara
Doctoral Dissertations
In this study, I investigate and conduct an experiment on two-stage clustering procedures, hybrid models in simulated environments where conditions such as collinearity problems and cluster structures are controlled, and in real-life problems where conditions are not controlled. The first hybrid model (NK) is an integration between a neural network (NN) and the k-means algorithm (KM) where NN screens seeds and passes them to KM. The second hybrid (GK) uses a genetic algorithm (GA) instead of the neural network. Both NN and GA used in this study are in their simplest-possible forms.
In the simulated data sets, I investigate two …
Fuzzy Product -Limit Estimators: Soft Computing In The Presence Of Very Small And Highly Censored Data Sets, Kian Lawrence Pokorny
Fuzzy Product -Limit Estimators: Soft Computing In The Presence Of Very Small And Highly Censored Data Sets, Kian Lawrence Pokorny
Doctoral Dissertations
When very few data are available and a high proportion of the data is censored, accurate estimates of reliability are problematic. Standard statistical methods require a more complete data set, and with any fewer data, expert knowledge or heuristic methods are required. In the current research a computational system is developed that obtains a survival curve, point estimate, and confidence interval about the point estimate.
The system uses numerical methods to define fuzzy membership functions about each data point that quantify uncertainty due to censoring. The “fuzzy” data are then used to estimate a survival curve, and the mean survival …
Statistical Modeling And Inference Regarding Risk In Case Control Studies, Deborah Kay Shepherd
Statistical Modeling And Inference Regarding Risk In Case Control Studies, Deborah Kay Shepherd
Doctoral Dissertations
Some of the common measures of risk used m epidemiology today are the relative risk, the odds ratio, the attributable risk, and the chi-square goodness of fit test. All of these measures have their shortcomings. A new approach to measuring risk in case-control studies is to use the unitless measure of the coefficient of variation of incidence of disease over the risk categories, kˆ2, first proposed by Begg et al. (1998). Begg et al. (1998), also showed that the product of multiple risk factors may be compared to an overall measure of the square of the coefficient of variation …
Statistical Properties Of Maximum Likelihood Estimates For Accelerated Lifetime Data Under The Weibull Model, Mahmoud A. Yousef
Statistical Properties Of Maximum Likelihood Estimates For Accelerated Lifetime Data Under The Weibull Model, Mahmoud A. Yousef
Doctoral Dissertations
Pipe rehabilitation liners are often installed in host pipes that lie below the water table. As such, they are subjected to external hydrostatic pressure. The external pressure leads to early deformation in the liners, which could ultimately lead to its failing or buckling before its expected service lifetime is achieved. Experiments involving long term buckling behavior of liners are typically accelerated lifetime testing procedures. In an accelerated testing procedure a liner is subjected to a constant external hydrostatic pressure and observed until it fails or for a certain time, t whichever occurs first. Liners that do not fail at time …