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แบบจำลองเชิงรูปนัยของกระบวนการจัดการโครงการในมาตรฐาน Iso/Iec29110 โดยใช้คัลเลอร์เพทริเน็ต, วรันณ์ธร ศิริกระจาย

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

วิทยานิพนธ์นี้นำเสนอแนวทางการตรวจสอบความถูกต้องเชิงรูปแบบ (Formal Verification) ร่วมกับกรอบการประเมินผลผ่านระบบเว็บแอปพลิเคชันสำหรับองค์กรขนาดเล็กประเมินตนเอง เพื่อสนับสนุนการปฏิบัติตามกระบวนการบริหารโครงการ (Project Management: PM) ของมาตรฐาน ISO/IEC 29110 สำหรับองค์กรขนาดเล็กมาก (Very Small Entities: VSEs) โดยใช้แบบจำลอง Colored Petri Nets (CPNs) ในการนิยามและจำลองกระบวนการหลักของ PM ได้แก่ การวางแผน การดำเนินโครงการ การควบคุม และการปิดโครงการ พร้อมทั้งตรวจสอบคุณสมบัติที่สำคัญของกระบวนการเหล่านี้อย่างเป็นระบบและระบบเว็บแอปพลิเคชันถูกพัฒนาขึ้นเพื่ออำนวยความสะดวกในการเก็บรวบรวมข้อมูล เรียกใช้การจำลอง และนำเสนอผลการประเมิน ข้อมูลที่ได้รับจากผู้ใช้จะถูกแปลงให้อยู่ในรูปของโทเคน เพื่อนำไปประเมินผ่านแบบจำลอง CPN และเชื่อมโยงผลลัพธ์กับระดับการปฏิบัติตามมาตรฐานในแต่ละกระบวนการของ ISO/IEC 29110 PM การทดลองใช้งานระบบยืนยันถึงความถูกต้อง ความสามารถในการตรวจสอบย้อนกลับ และประสิทธิภาพในการดำเนินงานของระบบที่นำเสนอ การผสานรวมระหว่างแบบจำลองเชิงรูปแบบกับระบบอัตโนมัติผ่านเว็บแอปพลิเคชันนี้ เป็นทางเลือกที่มีความยืดหยุ่นและเชื่อถือได้ โดยช่วยเสริมสร้างความเข้มงวดในการตรวจสอบ การประเมินกระบวนการอย่างเป็นระบบ และรองรับการนำไปใช้งานจริงผ่านส่วนติดต่อผู้ใช้ที่เข้าใจง่ายและเหมาะสมกับองค์กรพัฒนาซอฟต์แวร์ขนาดเล็กก่อนรับการตรวจสอบจากผู้ตรวจสอบ

ปัจจัยที่ส่งผลต่อความตั้งใจใช้งานโมไบล์แบงก์กิ้งอย่างต่อเนื่อง, รตน รัตนพรเจริญ

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

การใช้บริการโมไบล์แบงก์กิ้ง ในประเทศไทยมีอัตราเติบโตอย่างต่อเนื่องภายใต้การสนับสนุนจากภาครัฐ แต่ในช่วงหลายปีที่ผ่านมากลับพบว่าผู้ใช้จำนวนมากยังคงใช้งานเพียงบางฟังก์ชันพื้นฐาน เช่น การโอน-จ่าย-รับเงิน เท่านั้น (ธนาคารแห่งประเทศไทย, 2567) และประสบการณ์กับมิจฉาชีพและความเชื่อมั่นในระบบก็ยังคงเป็นประเด็นสำคัญที่สะท้อนให้เห็นถึงพฤติกรรมหลังการยอมรับและใช้งานโมไบล์แบงกิ้งกับการเปิดใจใช้บริการการเงินดิจิทัลอื่น ๆ ของผู้ใช้บริการบริโภค ซึ่งยังขาดการศึกษาในเชิงลึกโดยเฉพาะด้านปัจจัยที่ส่งผลต่อความตั้งใจใช้งานอย่างต่อเนื่อง และการเปิดรับฟังก์ชันใหม่ทั้งจากผู้ให้บริการโมไบล์แบงกิ้งและผู้ให้บริการอื่น ๆ ภายใต้ บริบทของการรับรู้ประโยชน์, และคุณภาพการบริการงานวิจัยนี้มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อศึกษาปัจจัยที่ส่งผลต่อความตั้งใจใช้งานโมไบล์แบงก์กิ้งอย่างต่อเนื่อง ความตั้งใจใช้ฟังก์ชันที่ไม่เคยใช้งานและความตั้งใจใช้งานร่วมกับแอปพลิเคชันทางการเงินอื่น โดยอิงกรอบแนวคิดจากทฤษฎีความตั้งใจใช้งานต่อเนื่อง (Continuance Intention Model) รวมถึงการวิเคราะห์ผลจากประสบการณ์กับมิจฉาชีพต่างกัน กลุ่มตัวอย่างทั้งหมดจำนวน 434 คนถูกรวบรวมโดยการสุ่มแบบเจาะจง (Purposive Sampling) จากผู้ใช้โมไบล์แบงก์กิ้งในกรุงเทพมหานครและปริมณฑล ข้อมูลถูกวิเคราะห์ด้วยสถิติเชิงพรรณนาและการถดถอยเชิงพหุ (Multiple Regression Analysis)โดยผลการศึกษาพบว่า ปัจจัยด้านการรับรู้ประโยชน์ ความพึงพอใจ และความเชื่อมั่นในผู้ให้บริการ ส่งผลเชิงบวกต่อความตั้งใจในการใช้งานต่อเนื่องและการเปิดรับฟังก์ชันใหม่ทั้งจากธนาคารและผู้ให้บริการภายนอก ในขณะที่ประสบการณ์กับมิจฉาชีพมีแนวโน้มส่งผลให้ความตั้งใจใช้งาน แต่ไม่ส่งผลต่อการเปิดรับฟังก์ชันใหม่ การศึกษาปัจจัยด้านคุณภาพสารสนเทศทั้งสามมิติพบผลกระทบเชิงบวกต่อความพึงพอใจของผู้ใช้ และการศึกษาด้านความเชื่อมั่นพบผลกระทบเชิงบวกจากความสามารถ ความหวังดี และความซื่อสัตย์ของผู้ให้บริการ ผลการวิจัยนี้สามารถนำไปใช้พัฒนาแนวทางในการส่งเสริมการใช้งานฟังก์ชันของแอปพลิเคชันทางการเงินให้ครอบคลุมยิ่งขึ้น ทั้งในมิติการออกแบบระบบและผลิตภัณฑ์ทางการเงิน การสร้างความเชื่อมั่น และการออกนโยบายจัดการความเสี่ยงจากมิจฉาชีพ อีกทั้งยังสามารถขยายผลเชิงวิชาการในด้านการประยุกต์ใช้โมเดลพฤติกรรมผู้บริโภคในบริบทเทคโนโลยีทางการเงิน ซึ่งยังเป็นพื้นที่วิจัยที่เปิดกว้างและท้าทายในประเทศไทย

Motion Artifacts (Ma) At-Rest In Measured Arterial Pulse Signals: Time-Varying Amplitude In Each Harmonic And Non-Flat Harmonic-Ma Coupled Baseline, Md Mahfuzur Rahman, Mamun Hasan, Zhili Hao

Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Faculty Publications

Motion artifacts (MA) cause great variability in a measured arterial pulse signal, and treatment of MA solely as a baseline drift (BD) fails to eliminate its effect on the measured signal. This paper presents a study on the effect of MA at rest (< 0.7 Hz) on measured arterial pulse signals using a microfluidic-based tactile sensor. By taking full account of the dynamic behavior of the transmission path from the true pulse signal in an artery to a measured pulse signal at the sensor, the tissue-contact-sensor (TCS) stack, an analytical model of MA in a measured pulse signal is developed. In this model, the TCS stack is treated as a 1DOF system for its dynamic behavior; MA is quantified as the displacement (i.e., BD) and time-varying system parameters (TVSP) of the TCS stack. The mathematical expression of MA in a measured pulse signal reveals that while BD remains as low-frequency additive noise, TVSP causes time-varying harmonics in a measured pulse signal. Further time-frequency analysis (TFA) of measured pulse signals validates the existence of TVSP and, for the first time, reveals its effect on a measured pulse signal: time-varying amplitude in each harmonic and non-flat harmonic-MA-coupled baseline.

A Two-Phase Learning Approach Integrated With Multi-Source Features For Cloud Service Qos Prediction, Fuzan Chen, Jing Yang, Haiyang Feng, Harris Wu, Minqiang Li

Information Technology & Decision Sciences Faculty Publications

Quality of Service (QoS) is a key factor for users when choosing cloud services. However, QoS values are often unavailable due to insufficient user evaluations or provider data. To address this, we propose a new QoS prediction method, Multi-source Feature Two-phase Learning (MFTL). MFTL incorporates multiple sources of features influencing QoS and uses a two-phase learning framework to make effective use of these features. In the first phase, coarse-grained learning is performed using a neighborhood-integrated matrix factorization model, along with a strategy for selecting high-quality neighbors for target users. In the second phase, reinforcement learning through a deep neural network …

A Spoofing Speech Detection Method Combining Multi-Scale Features And Cross-Layer Identification, Hongyan Yuan, Linjuan Zhang, Baoning Niu, Xianrong Zheng

Information Technology & Decision Sciences Faculty Publications

Pre-trained self-supervised speech models can extract general acoustic features, providing feature inputs for various speech downstream tasks. Spoofing speech detection, which is a pressing issue in the age of generative AI, requires both global information and local features of speech. The multi-layer transformer structure in pre-trained speech models can effectively capture temporal information and global context in speech, but there is still room for improvement in handling local features. To address this issue, a speech spoofing detection method that integrates multi-scale features and cross-layer information is proposed. The method introduces a multi-scale feature adapter (MSFA), which enhances the model’s ability …

Optimal Control Of Queueing Systems With Error-Prone Servers, Junqi Hu, Sigrún Andradóttir, Hayriye Ayhan

Information Technology & Decision Sciences Faculty Publications

Consider a Markovian tandem line with finite intermediate buffers and an equal number of stations and servers. Servers are flexible but noncollaborative, so that a job can be processed by at most one server at any time. When a job is being processed, it can be damaged and wasted depending on the proficiency of the server. We identify the dynamic server assignment policy that maximizes the long-run average throughput of the system with two stations and two servers. We find that the optimal policy is either a single or a double threshold policy on the number of jobs in the …

Investing In The Age Of Generative Ai: A Gpt-Based Sentiment Analysis Approach, Xianrong Zheng

Information Technology & Decision Sciences Faculty Publications

Generative AI, which ushers a new age of AI, comes with huge economic potential. To capitalize the AI boom, investors are interested in trading AI stocks. AI chatbots, which can identify and classify the sentiment from financial news, can be leveraged for investment. So, this paper proposes a GPT-based sentiment analysis approach for trading AI stocks. Also, natural experiments are conducted to evaluate its effectiveness. Initial results show that the approach achieves a good rate of return.

The Influence Of Shopping Context And Anthropocentric Bias On Consumer Preferences For Human And Ai Designers In Fashion, Dooyoung Choi, Ha Kyung Lee, Christina Soyoung Song, Ji Young Lee

Educational Leadership & Workforce Development Faculty Publications

This study explores how shopping contexts (hedonic vs. utilitarian) influence consumer preferences for AI- vs. human-designed fashion products. In Study 1, participants with hedonic motivations preferred human-designed items, while those with utilitarian motivations preferred AI-designed products, supporting the hypothesis that shopping context affects designer preferences. Study 2 further investigates the mediation of competence-warmth traits in designer preferences and the moderation of anthropocentric bias. It finds that hedonic shopping contexts increase the desire for warmth-related traits, leading to a preference for human designers, while utilitarian contexts favor competence-related traits and AI designs. Additionally, individuals with higher anthropocentric biases showed stronger preferences …

Procedural Terrain Generation: Noise Functions, Modern Methods, And Style Transfer, Hunter Barton

EWU Masters Thesis Collection

Procedural terrain generation, the algorithmic creation of digital terrain, finds use in multiple types of digital media. As the capabilities of modern computation increase, the ability to create more and more realistic terrains fully procedurally at scale improves. Modern methods of procedural generation have also overlapped with these advances, most notably advances in hardware. To account for this, a survey was done of modern methods for procedural terrain generation. Smooth procedural noise functions are one of the backbones of procedural terrain generation. Perlin noise, value noise, and fractal noise were explored in-depth. These noise functions were also tested for capabilities …

Death By Design: A Biological Approach To Container Security, Alexander Hunter Moomaw

EWU Masters Thesis Collection

Microservice architectures are central to modern cloud computing and have become the dominant design pattern for scalable, distributed applications. Kubernetes is often the tool used for rapid deployment and orchestration of microservices. A known issue for large networks clusters is a malicious actor can compromise a vulnerable cluster in minutes. Their ability to quickly compromise vulnerable clusters highlights the urgent need for stronger security. This project views cluster defense through a preemptive security lens, introducing the Cluster Life cycle Management System (CLMS). Inspired by the biological process of apoptosis, CLMS systematically replaces aging containers and services to prevent exploitation of …

Artificial Intelligence In Achieving Sustainable Development: Expectations Of Undergraduate Students, Jinhee Kim

STEMPS Faculty Publications

While there has been ample discussion regarding Artificial Intelligence (AI)’s contributions and challenges on the development agenda at the policy level, little is known about how students translate the potential and barriers of AI in achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Drawing upon various qualitative data, including class observation, focus group interviews, and learning activity outcomes generated by 240 students across 7 different majors, this case study explores the expected roles of AI as well as barriers to AI adoption for sustainable development perceived by undergraduate students. The study revealed that students anticipated AI to play diverse roles, including data analyst, …

Examining Non-Traditional Online Learners' Ownership Of Learning In The Context Of Chatgpt-Facilitated Design, Mohan Yang, Tian Luo, Kristin Herman, Belle Li, Shanan Chappell Moots, Noah Glaser, Shiyan Jiang

STEMPS Faculty Publications

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) offers potential solutions to educational challenges by personalizing learning experiences for diverse learners. However, it also introduces complexities around issues of ownership of learning. As an indicator of empowered learning, ownership is a multifaceted but underexplored concept. In this study, the authors adopted a mixed-methods multiple-case study design to explore non-traditional online students’ perceived ownership of learning when using ChatGPT for instructional design. The authors adopted the psychology ownership construct consisting of self-efficacy, accountability, belongingness, and self-identity as the theoretical framework. Findings revealed students’ prior AI experiences and educational levels played a significant role in their …

Neural Network Algorithm And Analysis For Multi-Label Ecg Data Classification, Akhil Raghava Kalal

Theses and Dissertations

Electrocardiogram (ECG) analysis is a fundamental diagnostic tool in cardiology, providing critical insights into cardiac function that directly impact patient care decisions and treatment outcomes. As healthcare systems face increasing demands, automated ECG interpretation using artificial intelligence offers promising solutions to improve diagnostic accuracy, reduce physicians workload, and enhance early detection of life threatening conditions.

This thesis compares two advanced deep learning architectures, CNN-GRU and Wide and Deep Transformer, for multi-label classification of 12-lead ECG data. Using data from the PhysioNet/Computing in Cardiology Challenge 2020, I evaluated both architectures across 27 different cardiac abnormalities. Results demonstrated that CNN-GRU architecture consistently …

The Impact Of Loss Function Topology On Gradient Descent, Robert B. Skudnig Jr.

Theses and Dissertations

Gradient descent is a popular optimization method that utilizes a model’s prediction error to iteratively improve its parameters for a given task. The functions that measure this error can be defined to align with the user’s goals and sometimes satisfy metric or norm properties. It is common for these functions to measure over Rn, but any differentiable space allows for gradient descent to occur. There has been some research investigating the influence of topological spaces on optimization methods, but it is a limited field of study. This thesis further explores this phenomenon by applying a transformation prediction model to multiple …

A Systematic Review And Taxonomy For Privacy Breach Classification: Trends, Gaps, And Future Directions, Clint Fuchs, John Hastings

Research & Publications

In response to the rising frequency and complexity of data breaches and evolving global privacy regulations, this study presents a comprehensive examination of academic literature on the classification of privacy breaches and violations between 2010-2024. Through a systematic literature review, a corpus of screened studies was assembled and analyzed to identify primary research themes, emerging trends, and gaps in the field. A novel taxonomy is introduced to guide efforts by categorizing research efforts into seven domains: breach classification, report classification, breach detection, threat detection, breach prediction, risk analysis, and threat classification. An analysis reveals that breach classification and detection dominate …

Novel Generative And Language Model Architectures With Applications, Edison Mucllari

Theses and Dissertations--Mathematics

This dissertation investigates novel architectures to address fundamental challenges in machine learning, particularly focusing on transformer models, recurrent neural networks, GAN and continual learning and their applications in natural language processing and computer vision. We propose the Neumann-Cayley Gated Recurrent Unit (NC-GRU), which leverages a Neumann series-based Scaled Cayley transformation to maintain orthogonal weight matrices, effectively mitigating exploding gradients problems while improving long-term memory retention across prediction tasks. We demonstrate the practical applications of NC-GRU by implementing our proposed architecture into an autoencoder to derive neural molecular fingerprints. Building upon these advancements, we turn our attention to the transformer architecture, …

Temporal Machine Learning For Predicting Accidents And Violations In The Mining Industry, Nathan T. Kelley

Theses and Dissertations--Mining Engineering

This thesis examines the predictive capability of a temporal machine learning model for forecasting future accidents and violations at individual mines, based on historical data. Mine accidents were categorized by accident classification and violations were categorized by the Part Section. The primary datasets utilized were the mine safety and health administration’s (MSHA’s) Accident Injuries and Violations datasets. The available datasets were cleaned and organized by mine type and commodity, then divided into separate subsets for training, validating, and testing. Different models, cutoff metrics, learning rates, number of hidden layers, data processing methods, data processing divisions, number of points observed …

Enhancing Public Health Surveillance: Development And Validation Of Machine Learning Models For Suspected Opioid Overdose Detection In Emergency Medical Services Data, Peter J. Rock

Theses and Dissertations--Clinical and Translational Science

The ongoing opioid overdose crisis in the United States requires timely and accurate surveillance systems to inform public health responses. Traditional public health surveillance methods rely on hospital discharge data and death certificates, which suffer from significant reporting delays and miss cases where patients refuse hospital transportation. Emergency Medical Services (EMS) data presents a promising alternative with advantages in timeliness and case ascertainment but lacks validated definitions for suspected opioid overdose (SOO).

This dissertation addresses this critical gap through the development, validation, and fairness assessment of machine learning models with natural language processing (ML-NLP) for identifying SOOs in EMS data. …

Neural And Computational Approach To Understanding Environmental Modulation Of Behavioral Identity In Zebrafish, John W. Hageter

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Organisms rely on behavior for survival. Animals engage in behaviors that allow for feeding, mating, exploring and navigating their environment among others. Necessary for these behaviors to develop are the environmental factors and underlying circuitry which make behavior possible. Specifically, how the environment guides underlying neural circuitry to develop unique facets or phenotypes of a larger behavior are key to understanding why unique behaviors exist. In this thesis, I build foundational evidence for determining these mechanisms through the use of the zebrafish local search behavior. This is a behavior that zebrafish employ following the loss of environmental illumination where they …

Utilizing Artificial Intelligence As A Strategic Risk Management Tool For Public Sector Operations And Auditing Processes, Oğuz Ümit Tamer, Bruce D. Mcdonald Iii, Farouk Hemici, Georgia Kontogeorga

School of Public Service Faculty Publications

Symbolizing a significant turning point in the historical landscape, AI is becoming an effective tool in today's public administration, not only for increasing capacity, quality, and speed in services, but also for strategic risk management. Regulators and algorithmic auditing play a central role in implementing fairness, transparency, and persistent controls against risks in AI systems. Discussing modern applications of AI, such as anomaly-based fraud detection, resource estimation, and continuous auditing, and their respective strengths and weaknesses, this study concludes that AI significantly enhances efficiency and oversight but also poses the risk of enshrining bias, opacity, and accountability gaps. By considering …

Argue With Your Ai: Critically Engaging With Copilot, James Day

Publications

By now, you probably have some experience interacting with an AI chatbot. You might even have taken some training courses to learn about “prompt engineering” methods such as CO-STAR (Context, Objective, Style, Tone, Audience, Response)1 and RICCE (Relevance, Intent, Context, Clarity, Examples).2 In taking advantage of generative artificial intelligence, the focus is generally on writing that initial query. For this paper, let’s ignore advanced prompts asking for a complex analysis and consider the case where you’re simply looking for factual information.

Cultivating Confidence, Leila Halawi, Mark Miller, Sam Holley

Publications

Artificial intelligence (AI) is pervasive in scholarly publications, internet sites, and public discourse. AI is a term with broad scope that refers to machines that can learn and perform tasks that typically require human intelligence. The specter of AI intruding into many aspects of aviation has raised alarms, concerns, and prodigious misunderstanding of potential and contemplated applications in systems and processes. The EASA AI Roadmap (EASA, 2023 ), a linear projection with three levels EASA, 2023 extending into 2050, places the human-AI teaming period (through 2035) at Level 2. This suggests a ten-year span to develop the interactive issues to …

Embracing Ai In Higher Education: Redefining Teaching And Learning In The Digital Era, Najem Tala, Leila Halawi

Publications

This research explores the transformative potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in education, focusing on its ability to address emerging challenges and revolutionize teaching practices. We critically assess the current educational landscape, evaluate AI's role as a catalyst for educational reform, and examine implementation challenges. Our analysis emphasizes the evolving impact of AI on personalized learning, student engagement, and administrative efficiency and contributes to the growing body of literature on educational technology. The discussion highlights both the opportunities and limitations of AI in education, pointing to critical areas that remain underexplored.

Eulerian Smoke Simulation With Multiple Fields, Diyang Zhang

Dartmouth College Master’s Theses

Fluid simulation is a cornerstone of computer graphics, enabling the realistic depiction of dynamic phenomena such as smoke, fire, and other gaseous behaviours. This thesis focuses on advancing Eulerian smoke simulation techniques, with a particular emphasis on grid-based simulations that capture intricate vortical structures and fine visual details.

We propose several detail-preserving frameworks that incorporate various scalar and vector fields within the simulation pipeline, including velocity, impulse, and Lamb vectors, along with their decompositions and transformed representations. By mathematically analyzing the properties of impulse, we derive its scalar fields decomposition (ImpSFD), which introduces an alternative numerical interpretation, and Vortex-Particles in …

A Hybrid Soft Voting And Stacking-Based Meta-Learning Approach For Sentiment Analysis Of Bangkalan Batik, Moh. Imron Wahyudi, Lailil Muflikhah, Rizal Setya Perdana

Knowledge Engineering and Data Science

Sentiment analysis is an important field in Natural Language Processing (NLP) that focuses on processing consumer opinions to gain useful insights. The information generated from sentiment analysis can be used as a basis for business decision-making, service quality evaluation, and the formulation of more effective marketing strategies. In the local context, Bangkalan Batik, as one of Madura's distinctive cultural products, has high economic value and cultural identity. However, consumer reviews available online, for example through Google Maps, are still rarely utilized optimally by MSMEs as a source of strategic information. Therefore, this study was conducted to develop a sentiment classification …

Comparative Performance Of Vgg16 And Efficientnetb0-Based Transfer Learning For Brain Tumor Classification, Huzain Azis, Rizqi Ananda Jalil, Abdul Rachman Manga'

Knowledge Engineering and Data Science

The classification of brain tumors using Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) images is essential for early diagnosis but remains challenging due to tumor diversity. This study evaluates the effectiveness of two distinct architectural approaches for feature extraction: VGG16, representing a classic sequential design, and EfficientNetB0, a modern architecture optimized for parameter efficiency through compound scaling. Using a dataset of 2,870 MRI images categorized into four classes, we implemented a static transfer learning strategy by freezing all pre-trained ImageNet weights to act as fixed feature extractors. Features were extracted from specific layers, the final pooling layer for VGG16 and the Global Average …

Computation-Efficient Deep Learning Models For Computer Vision And Multimodal Vision-Language Tasks Via Network Pruning, Abir Mohammad Hadi

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

With the rapid evolution of deep neural networks over the past decade, the demand for efficient, generalizable, and task-adaptable models, especially in computer vision, has increased significantly. To address the computational and deployment challenges posed by overparameterized models, the research community has extensively explored model compression techniques such as pruning, quantization, and distillation. These approaches aim to enhance model efficiency without compromising performance, particularly when adapting to domain-specific tasks under limited resources. This dissertation investigates several underexplored yet critical aspects of task-aware deep learning model compression, spanning both convolutional and vision-language architectures. In the early part of this work, we …

Video Comprehension Score (Vcs): A Metric For Long-Form Video Description Evaluation, Harsh Dubey

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Existing video description evaluation metrics fail to capture the long-range chronology and semantic alignment essential for long-form descriptions. An effective evaluation metric for long-form descriptions must (i) assess global thematic alignment, (ii) measure local semantic alignment, and (iii) evaluate chronological alignment while detecting corrupted content. We introduce Video Comprehension Score (VCS), a reference-based metric, which directly addresses these evaluation requirements through three components: Global Alignment Score for thematic alignment, Local Alignment Score for local semantic alignment, and Narrative Alignment Score for chronological alignment with adjustable tolerance. We evaluate VCS on two large-scale synthetic datasets designed to test corruption detection and …

Discovery Of Photosynthetic Oxic N2-Fixation In Cyanobacteria Using Wet Lab And Machine Learning Approaches, James A. Young Iii

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Survey-Weighted Ordinal Modeling Of Alcohol-Associated Liver Disease Severity Through Social Determinants Of Health, Jaylene Viveros Cruz

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Alcohol-associated liver disease (ALD) is a condition that describes the spectrum of disease and liver injury attributed to the consumption of alcohol. ALD diagnosis is heavily dependent on alcohol use, making it challenging to test for, as alcohol use is often self-reported, and early-stage ALD can present asymptomatically. This study aims to explore how social determinants of health associated with alcohol use behaviors predict ALD-related liver stress risk. MEC participants included in the two two-year cycles of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), 2014-2014 and 2015-2016, were assigned liver stress labels based on clinical thresholds for ALD diagnosis. …