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A Discrete Event Based Stochastic Simulation Approach For Studying The Dynamics Of Biological Networks
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2008-04-22)With increasing availability of data resources on the molecular parts of a living cell, biologists are focusing on holistic understanding of cellular mechanisms and the emergent dynamics arising out of their complex ... -
Discrete Event Controller: Application Using Dynamic Resource Allocation
(Electrical Engineering, 2007-09-17)This work consists of developing a Discrete Event Controller with Dynamic Resource Allocation, simulating it and than applying it on a test-bed using robots and static sensor nodes. These are the contributions ... -
Discrete Time Risk Models With Random Premiums
(2018-04-27)Over the past century insurance companies relied to a large extent on the continuous time Mathematical Risk Model proposed by Lundberg, known for its ability to estimate the probability of ruin(capital reserve falling below ... -
Discrete-time Control Algorithms And Adaptive Intelligent Systems Designs
(Electrical Engineering, 2007-10-08)In this work, approximate dynamic programming (ADP) designs based on adaptive critic structures are developed to solve the discrete-time optimal control problems in which the state and action spaces are continuous. This ... -
Discriminant Processing In Multi-class Pattern Recognition Systems
(Electrical Engineering, 2014-03-12)Multi-Layer Perceptron neural network classifiers face problems when applications have numerous output classes. A major problem is the fact that the MLP discriminant values given by the MLP differ considerably from the ... -
Discriminating Parkinson's disease using functional connectivity and brain network analysis
(2016-05-10)In this study, we explored the use of functional connectivity patterns in fMRI data to classify subjects on the basis of Parkinson's disease. We explore various brain networks and features. We partition our fMRI data in 5 ... -
Disease in a Changing Ocean: Ecoimmunological Approaches to Coral Reef Ecology
(2018-04-26)Increasing prevalence of anthropogenic stressors and climate change have resulted in rapid increases in the incidence and severity marine disease affecting a number of vulnerable taxa. Cnidarians, including both reef-building ... -
Dishonest Associates In The Workplace: The Correlation Between Motivation And Opportunity In Retail Among Employee Theft
(Criminology & Criminal Justice, 2009-09-16)White-collar crime is a major loss to the economy, employers, and consumers. It is a crime that often goes undetected, and when detected, employers rarely file charges, so estimates as to how often it occurs are hard to ... -
Dispensationalism And United States Foreign Policy With Israel
(Political Science, 2008-08-08)I incorporated various public opinion surveys regarding the nature of Dispensational concepts to convey the prevalence of Dispensational theology in America. I incorporated demographic data regarding survey participants ... -
Dispersion Engineering With Leaky-mode Resonance Structures
(Electrical Engineering, 2010-07-19)In the thesis, a numerical method for the analysis of optical pulses propagation through leaky-mode/guided-mode resonance (GMR) structures is implemented by integrating a Fourier decomposition technique and the rigorous ... -
Dispersion study of Metal-Organic Frameworks and Synthesis of MOF-High-density polyethylene fibers
(2023-05-19)Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) are a highly versatile class of materials with a wide range of potential applications in gas storage, separation, catalysis, drug delivery, and sensing. The ability to tailor the properties ... -
Disruption Of Information Technology Projects: The Reactive Decoupling Of Project Management Methodologies
(Information Systems & Operations Management, 2014-03-12)Information Technology projects have migrated toward two dominant Project Management (PM) methodologies. Plan-driven practices provide organizational control through highly structured plans, schedules, and specifications ... -
Distinct Value Estimation By Sampling On Unstructured Peer To Peer Networks
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2008-04-22)Peer-to-Peer networks have become very popular on the Internet, with millions of peers all over the world sharing large volumes of data. The sheer scale of these networks has made it difficult to gather statistics that ... -
DISTRACTION DETECTION AND INTENTION RECOGNITION FOR GESTURE-CONTROLLED UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE OPERATION
(2022-05-17)Gesture Control as a way to replace more conventional remote-control operations has been pursued for a significant period of time with different levels of success. The use of gestures to control different types of human ... -
DISTRIBUTED ALGORITHMS FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING
(2015-12-08)Coordinated charging of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) can effectively mitigate the negative effects imposed on the power distribution grid by uncoordinated charging. Simultaneously, coordinated charging algorithms can ... -
Distributed Cooperative Control Of Ac Microgrids
(Electrical Engineering, 2014-09-17)In this dissertation, the comprehensive secondary control of electric power microgrids is of concern. Microgrid technical challenges are mainly realized through the hierarchical control structure, including primary, ... -
Distributed Data Dimensionality Reduction And Denoising
(Electrical Engineering, 2014-03-12)With the recent upsurge in the amount of data transmission and use, giving rise to the era of big data, research has put a lot of emphasis on designing efficient methods to extract useful information by reducing the size ... -
Distributed Data Intensive Computing on Graph
(2016-10-25)Distributed frameworks, such as MapReduce and Spark, have been developed by industry and research groups to analyze the vast amount of data that is being generated on a daily basis. Many graphs of interest, such as the Web ... -
Distributed Data Management in Opportunistic Networks
(2016-08-24)Opportunistic networks (ONs) allow wireless devices, primarily mobile, to interact with one another through a series of opportunistic contacts. While ONs exploit mobility of devices to route messages and distribute information ... -
Distributed Deep Neural Networks Training For Brain Imaging Applications
(2019-12-12)Over the recent years, Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have surpassed human-level intelligence in recognizing and interpreting complex patterns in data. Ever since the ImageNet competition in 2012, Deep Learning (DL) has become ...