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Implementimi I Devops Strategjisë Në Kompani Të Vogla Dhe Të Mesme, Diellza Shabani

Theses and Dissertations

DevOps është një kornizë konceptuale për riintegrimin e zhvillimit dhe funksionimit të Sistemeve të Informacionit. Unë kam kryer një studim për strategjitë e ndryshme të implementimit të DevOps në kompani të ndryshme. Unë vërejta se DevOps nuk është studiuar në mënyrë adekuate në literaturën shkencore. Ekzistojnë relativisht pak kërkime në dispozicion në DevOps dhe studimet shpesh janë me cilësi të ulët. Unë gjithashtu vërejta që DevOps mbështetet nga një kulturë e bashkëpunimit, automatizimi, matje, shkëmbimi i informacionit dhe përdorimi i shërbimit në internet. DevOps përfiton nga SI dhe zhvillimi i operacioneve. Ajo gjithashtu ka efekte pozitive në zhvillimin e shërbimit …

Lyerja E Kushinetave Rrëshqitëse Dhe Rrokullisëse, Natyra Kololli

Theses and Dissertations

Historia e kushinetave dhe e lubrifikimit është pothuajse aq e vjetër sa historia e njerëzimit. Forca kryesore lëvizëse që u lehtësoi njerëzve aktivitetet e përditshme, mirëpo duke ulur fërkimet. Këtu hyjnë në punë kushinetat, rëndësia e të cilave rritet me njohjen e lyerësve, e që është çështje me interes për të gjithë sepse kushinetat kanë nevojë për lubrifikim. Për të eksploruar botën, apo edhe më tej nevojiten pajisje mekanike që kërkojnë lubrifikim. Të gjithë kemi nevojë për lyerës, prandaj duhet të kemi njohuri për to sepse qoftë në shtëpitë tona ose në punë, kemi pajisje që kanë pjesë lëvizëse që …

Cybersecurity Of The Artificial Pancreas, D. J. Cooke, Andres Guzman, Robert Kinney, Christine Patterson, Josh Stone

Mathematics Senior Showcase 2020

We live in a world of cyber-enabled devices that enhance many aspects of life, including the treatment of diabetes. Type I Diabetes is a chronic autoimmune disorder characterized by destruction of pancreatic cells and subsequent deficiency of insulin - a crucial hormone in regulating blood glucose levels. The development of an Artificial Pancreas System is automating the maintenance of this disease by integrating wireless devices to continuously balance blood glucose levels without patient interaction. An integral part of this system is the Continuous Glucose Monitor (CGM) which wirelessly transmits blood glucose measurements every 5 minutes. CGMs and other Implantable Medical …

Construction Of A First Order Logic Theorem Prover, Luke Philip Tyler

Mathematics Senior Showcase 2020

There are many systems that have been researched in the past on automating the process of theorem proving in first-order logic. This research explores one of these systems, the tableau method. A point of interest within the tableau method is whether or not the method is sound and complete. This research was done in tandem with a computer implementation of the tableau method written in Haskell. The basic design of the implementation was to construct a fair rule for tableau expansion and expand the tableau until it was found to be closed, open, or infinite, thereby proving or disproving of …

Road Map Generation And Feature Extraction Algorithms From Gps Trajectories And Trajectories Data Warehousing, Tariq Alsahfi

Computer Science and Engineering Dissertations - Archive

Advanced technologies in location acquisition allow us to track the movement of moving objects (people, planes, vehicles, animals, ships, ..) in geographical space. These technologies generate a vast amount of trajectory data (TD). Several applica- tions in different fields can utilize such trajectory data, for example, traffic control management, social behavior analysis, wildlife migrations and movements, ship tra- jectories, shoppers behavior in a mall, facial nerve trajectory, location-based services (LBS) and many others. Fortunately, there are now many trajectory data sets avail- able that collected from moving objects such as cars with enabled GPS devices. Two main challenges arise when …

Adaptive Graph Convolutional Neural Network And Its Biomedical Applications, Ruoyu Li

Computer Science and Engineering Dissertations - Archive

As the rise of graph neural networks, many deep learning frameworks have been extended to graph-structured data. The research in many diverse regimes have been tremendously reshaped, especially in areas like medical image understanding. When input data reach the scale of whole slides images (WSIs), the modeling becomes more challenging and we have to balance the trade-off between performance and efficiency. Furthermore, the theory of existing graph convolution has its own constraints which prevent learning robust graph representation on data that has diverse topological structure and are infeasible for graph sampling or coarsening. To tackle the problems we introduced a …

Socio-Hydrology: An Interplay Of Design And Self-Organization In A Multilevel World, Vicken Hillis

Human-Environment Systems Research Center Faculty Publications and Presentations

The emerging field of socio-hydrology is a special case of social-ecological systems research that focuses on coupled human-water systems, exploring how the hydrologic cycle and human cultural traits coevolve and how such coevolutions lead to phenomena of relevance to water security and sustainability. As such, most problems tackled by socio-hydrology involve some aspects of engineering design, such as large-scale water infrastructure, and self-organization in a broad context, such as cultural change at the population level and the hydrologic shift at the river basin or aquifer level. However, within the field of socio-hydrology, it has been difficult to find general theories …

Geochemistry, Petrology, And Palynology Of The Princess No. 3 Coal, Greenup County, Kentucky, Madison M. Hood, Cortland F. Eble, James C. Hower, Shifeng Dai

Center for Applied Energy Research Faculty and Staff Publications

The high volatile C bituminous-rank, Bolsovian-age Princess No. 3 coal, a correlative of the heavily-mined Hazard No. 7 coal and the Peach Orchard and Coalburg Lower Split coals, was investigated three sites at a mine in Greenup County, Kentucky. The coal exhibits a “dulling upwards” trend, with decreasing vitrinite and a greater tendency towards dull clarain and bone lithotypes towards the top of the coal. The relatively vitrinite-rich basal lithotype is marked by a dominance of lycopod tree spores. The palynology transitions upwards to a middle parting co-dominated by tree fern and small lycopod spores and an upper bench dominated …

Iowa Waste Reduction Center Newsletter, December 2020, University Of Northern Iowa. Iowa Waste Reduction Center.

Iowa Waste Reduction Center Newsletter

Contents:

--- IWRC End of 2020 Director Address
--- IWRC Providing Compressed Air Assessment and Lighting Analysis
--- Iowa DNR creates EASY Air Equipment Deactivation Form
--- Industry News

Phantom Ocean, Real Impact: Natural Surf Sound Experiments Alter Foraging Activity And Habitat Use Across Taxa, Ryan N. Wardle

Master's Theses

A growing body of research focuses on how background sounds shape and alter critical elements of animals’ lives, such as foraging behavior, habitat use, and ecological interactions (Bradbury & Vehrencamp, 2011; Barber et al., 2010; Kight & Swaddle, 2011; Shannon et al., 2016). Much of this research has centered on the effects of anthropogenic noise (Dominoni et al., 2020; Francis & Barber, 2013; Ortega, 2012; Swaddle et al., 2015), but recent studies have also revealed that natural sound sources can influence animal behavior (Davidson et al., 2017; Le et al., 2019). Natural sounds, such as crashing surf, can create conditions …

The History Of Nintendo: The Company, Consoles And Games, Laurie Takeda

ART 108: Introduction to Games Studies

From the start, Nintendo has evolved overall as a company; from a playing card manufacturer to developing a wide variety of video game consoles and video games that are played worldwide, they continue to research and expand upon what the company can offer.

Corn And Soybean Response To Wastewater-Recycled Phosphorus Fertilizers, Shane Ylagan

Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences Undergraduate Honors Theses

The ability to recycle phosphorus (P) from wastewaters could provide a sustainable, continuous source of P that might also help protect surface water quality from P enrichment. The mineral struvite (MgNH4PO4·6H2O) is an understudied material that can be created from Pcontaining wastewater and has been shown to have agricultural fertilizer value. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of electrochemically precipitated struvite (ECST), chemically precipitated struvite (Crystal Green; CG), diammonium phosphate (DAP), monoammonium phosphate (MAP), rock phosphate (RP), and triple super phosphate (TSP) on corn (Zea mays) and soybean (Glycine max) response in a 79-day greenhouse pot …

2020 December - Tennessee Monthly Climate Report, Tennessee Climate Office, East Tennessee State University

Tennessee Climate Office Monthly Reports

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Recompilation Of Lithological Proxies Across The Permian-Triassic Boundary, Heather Nicole Brauer

Earth & Environmental Sciences Theses - Archive

The largest mass extinction occurred near the Permian-Triassic boundary (PTB; 251.902 ± 0.024 Ma; Shen et al., 2011), with the demise of more than 90% of marine species and 70% of terrestrial species. This study expands sedimentary data bases created by Rees and others (2002) and the PALEOMAP Project by Scotese (2001). Lithological data was categorized as upper Permian (259.1-254.902 Ma) or Lower Triassic (251.902-247.2 Ma), and the paleogeographic information of the proxies were reconstructed using GPlates 2.0. These lithological proxies are compared with climate sensitivity simulations from the fully coupled comprehensive Community Climate System Model (CCSM3). The climate simulation …

Transfer-To-Transfer Learning Approach For Computer Aided Detection Of Covid-19 In Chest Radiographs, Barath Narayanan Narayanan, Russell C. Hardie, Vignesh Krishnaraja, Christina Karam, Venkata Salini Priyamvada Davuluru

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) global pandemic has severely impacted lives across the globe. Respiratory disorders in COVID-19 patients are caused by lung opacities similar to viral pneumonia. A Computer-Aided Detection (CAD) system for the detection of COVID-19 using chest radiographs would provide a second opinion for radiologists. For this research, we utilize publicly available datasets that have been marked by radiologists into two-classes (COVID-19 and non-COVID-19). We address the class imbalance problem associated with the training dataset by proposing a novel transfer-to-transfer learning approach, where we break a highly imbalanced training dataset into a group of balanced mini-sets and …

Polarization-Selective Modulation Of Supercavity Resonances Originating From Bound States In The Continuum, Chan Kyaw, Riad Yahiaoui, Joshua A. Burrow, Viet Tran, Kyron Keelen, Wesley Sims, Eddie C. Red, Willie S. Rockward, Mikkel A. Thomas, Andrew M. Sarangan, Imad Agha, Thomas A. Searles

Electro-Optics and Photonics Faculty Publications

Bound states in the continuum (BICs) are widely studied for their ability to confine light, produce sharp resonances for sensing applications and serve as avenues for lasing action with topological characteristics. Primarily, the formation of BICs in periodic photonic band gap structures are driven by symmetry incompatibility; structural manipulation or variation of incidence angle from incoming light. In this work, we report two modalities for driving the formation of BICs in terahertz metasurfaces. At normal incidence, we experimentally confirm polarization driven symmetry-protected BICs by the variation of the linear polarization state of light. In addition, we demonstrate through strong coupling …

Envrment: Investigating Experience In A Virtual User-Composed Environment, Matthew Key

Master's Theses

Virtual Reality is a technology that has long held society's interest, but has only recently began to reach a critical mass of everyday consumers. The idea of modern VR can be traced back decades, but because of the limitations of the technology (both hardware and software), we are only now exploring its potential. At present, VR can be used for tele-surgery, PTSD therapy, social training, professional meetings, conferences, and much more. It is no longer just an expensive gimmick to go on a momentary field trip; it is a tool, and as with the automobile, personal computer, and smartphone, it …

Investigation On The Use Of Small Aperture Telescopes For Leo Satellite Orbit Determination, Luis R. Curiel Iii

Master's Theses

The following thesis regards the use of small aperture telescopes for space domain awareness efforts. The rapidly populating space domain was motivation for the development of a new operation scheme to conduct space domain awareness feasibility studies using small telescopes. Two 14-inch Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescopes at the California Polytechnic State University and the Air Force Research Lab in Kirtland AFB, NM, in conjunction with a dedicated CCD camera and a commercial DSLR camera, were utilized to conduct optical observations on satellites in Earth orbit.

Satellites were imaged during August 2019, and from January 2020 to March 2020, resulting in the collection …

On The Generation, Structure, And Semantics Of Grammar Patterns In Source Code Identifiers, Christian D. Newman,, Reem S. Alsuhaibani, Michael J. Decker, Anthony Peruma, Dishant Kaushik, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Emily Hill

Articles

Identifier names are the atoms of program comprehension. Weak identifier names decrease developer productivity and degrade the performance of automated approaches that leverage identifier names in source code analysis; threatening many of the advantages which stand to be gained from advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning. Therefore, it is vital to support developers in naming and renaming identifiers. In this paper, we extend our prior work, which studies the primary method through which names evolve: rename refactorings. In our prior work, we contextualize rename changes by examining commit messages and other refactorings. In this extension, we further consider data …

Nonparametric Estimation Of Trend Function For Stochastic Differential Equations Driven By A Weighted Fractional Brownian Motion, Abdelmalik Keddi, Fethi Madani, Amina A. Bouchentouf

Applications and Applied Mathematics: An International Journal (AAM)

In this paper, we consider the problem of nonparametric estimation of trend function for stochastic differential equations driven by a weighted fractional Brownian motion (weighted-fBm). Under some general conditions, the consistent uniform, the rate of convergence as well as the asymptotic normality of our estimator are established. In addition, a numerical example is provided to illustrate the validity of the considered estimator.

Impatient Customers In An Markovian Queue With Bernoulli Schedule Working Vacation Interruption And Setup Time, P. Manoharan, T. Jeeva

Applications and Applied Mathematics: An International Journal (AAM)

In this paper, using probability generating function method, Impatient customers in an Markovian queue with Bernoulli schedule working vacation interruption and setup time is discussed. Customers impatience is due to the servers vacation. During the working vacation period, if there are customers in the queue, the vacation can be interrupted at a service completion instant and the server begins a regular service period with probability (1 - b) or continues the vacation with probability b. We obtain the probability generating functions of the stationary state probabilities, performance measures, sojourn time of a customer and stochastic decomposition of the queue length, …

On A Multiserver Queueing System With Customers’ Impatience Until The End Of Service Under Single And Multiple Vacation Policies, Mokhtar Kadi, Amina A. Bouchentouf, Lahcene Yahiaoui

Applications and Applied Mathematics: An International Journal (AAM)

This paper deals with a multiserver queueing system with Bernoulli feedback and impatient customers (balking and reneging) under synchronous multiple and single vacation policies. Reneged customers may be retained in the system. Using probability generating functions (PGFs) technique, we formally obtain the steady-state solution of the proposed queueing system. Further, important performance measures and cost model are derived. Finally, numerical examples are presented.

Statistics Of Branched Populations Split Into Different Types, Thierry E. Huillet

Applications and Applied Mathematics: An International Journal (AAM)

Some population is made of n individuals that can be of P possible species (or types) at equilibrium. How are individuals scattered among types? We study two random scenarios of such species abundance distributions. In the first one, each species grows from independent founders according to a Galton-Watson branching process. When the number of founders P is either fixed or random (either Poisson or geometrically-distributed), a question raised is: given a population of n individuals as a whole, how does it split into the species types? This model is one pertaining to forests of Galton-Watson trees. A second scenario that …

Nonparametric M-Regression With Scale Parameter For Functional Dependent Data, Mebsout Mokhtaria, Attouch M. Kadi, Fetitah Omar

Applications and Applied Mathematics: An International Journal (AAM)

In this paper, we study the equivariant nonparametric robust regression estimation relationship between a functional dependent random covariable and a scalar response. We consider a new robust regression estimator when the scale parameter is unknown. The consistency result of the proposed estimator is studied, namely the uniform almost complete convergence (with rate). Thus, suitable topological considerations are needed, implying changes in the convergence rates, which are quantified by entropy considerations. The benefits of considering robust estimators are illustrated on two real data sets where the robust fit reveals the presence of influential outliers.

The Linear Combination Of Kernels In The Estimation Of Cumulative Distribution Functions, Abdel-Razzaq Mugdadi, Rugayyah Sani

Applications and Applied Mathematics: An International Journal (AAM)

The kernel distribution function estimator method is the most popular nonparametric method to estimate the cumulative distribution function F(x). In this investigation, we propose a new estimator for F(x) based on a linear combination of kernels. The mean integrated squared error, asymptotic mean integrated squared error and the asymptotically optimal bandwidth for the new estimator are derived. Also, based on the plug-in technique in density estimation, we propose a data based method to select the bandwidth for the new estimator. In addition, we evaluate the new estimator using simulations and real life data.

Estimating Parameter Of The Selected Uniform Population Under The Generalized Stein Loss Function, K. R. Meena, Aditi K. Gangopadhyay

Applications and Applied Mathematics: An International Journal (AAM)

This paper deals with the problem of estimating scale parameter of the selected uniform population when sample sizes are unequal. The loss has been measured by the generalized Stein loss (GSL) function. The uniformly minimum risk unbiased (UMRU) estimator is derived, and the natural estimators are also constructed under the GSL function. One of the natural estimators is proved to be the generalized Bayes estimator with respect to a noninformative prior. For k = 2, we obtained a sufficient condition for an inadmissibility result and demonstrate that the natural estimator and UMRU estimator are inadmissible. A simulation investigation is also …

Fuzzy Solutions To Second Order Three Point Boundary Value Problem, Dimplekumar N. Chalishajar, R. Ramesh

Applications and Applied Mathematics: An International Journal (AAM)

In this manuscript, the proposed work is to study the existence of second-order differential equations with three point boundary conditions. Existence is proved using fuzzy set valued mappings of a real variable whose values are normal, convex, upper semi continuous and compactly supported fuzzy sets. The sufficient conditions are also provided to establish the existence results of fuzzy solutions of second order differential equations for three point boundary value problem. By using Banach fixed point principle, a new existence theorem of solutions for these equations in the metric space of normal fuzzy convex sets with distance given by the maximum …

The Lattice Of Intuitionistic Fuzzy Topologies Generated By Intuitionistic Fuzzy Relations, Soheyb Milles

Applications and Applied Mathematics: An International Journal (AAM)

We generalize the notion of fuzzy topology generated by fuzzy relation given by Mishra and Srivastava to the setting of intuitionistic fuzzy sets. Some fundamental properties and necessary examples are given. More specifically, we provide the lattice structure to a family of intuitionistic fuzzy topologies generated by intuitionistic fuzzy relations. To that end, we study necessary structural characteristics such as distributivity, modularity and complementary of this lattice.

Impulse Effect On The Food-Limited Population Model With Piecewise Constant Argument, Fatma Karakoç

Applications and Applied Mathematics: An International Journal (AAM)

The qualitative study of mathematical models is an important area in applied mathematics. In this paper, a version of the food-limited population model with piecewise constant argument under impulse effect is investigated. Differential equations with piecewise constant arguments are related to difference equations. First, a representation for the solutions of the food-limited population model is stated in terms of the solutions of corresponding difference equation. Then using linearized oscillation theory for difference equations, a sufficient condition for the oscillation of the solutions about positive equilibrium point is obtained. Moreover, asymptotic behavior of the non-oscillatory solutions are investigated. Later, applying the …

Introduce Gâteaux And Frêchet Derivatives In Riesz Spaces, Abdullah Aydın, Erdal Korkmaz

Applications and Applied Mathematics: An International Journal (AAM)

In this paper, the Gâteaux and Frêchet differentiations of functions on Riesz space are introduced without topological structure. Thus, we aim to study Gâteaux and Frêchet differentiability functions in vector lattice by developing topology-free techniques, and also, we give some relations with other kinds of operators.