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Use Of Temperature Sensitive Mutants To Map Reovirus Induced Oncolysis
(Biology, 2007-08-23)Reovirus is known to establish persistent infections in normal cells while selectively destroying transformed cells. Individual viruses from each of the ten groups of Reovirus is known to establish persistent infections ... -
USE OF TIME-DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY TO CHARACTERIZE THERMAL AND HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES OF UNSATURATED SANDS
(2021-01-06)Unsaturated soil is an essential consideration for many geotechnical engineering fields, for example, soil bearing capacity, soil lateral earth pressure, slope stability analysis, and seepage-related problems. Thermal-hy ... -
Use of Ultra-High-Performance Fiber-Reinforced Concrete (UHP-FRC) for Fast and Sustainable Repair of Pavement and a New Sustainable Structural Member with Ultra-High-Performance Fiber-Reinforced Concrete (UHP-FRC) and Fiber-Reinforced Polymer (FRP) Reinforcement
(2019-05-22)The first part of this research presents a new methodology, which enables streets, roads, highways, bridges, and airfields to use an advanced fiber-reinforced concrete material, which can delay or prevent the deterioration ... -
Use Of Wireless Signal Characteristics For Mobile Robotics Localization And Access Point Mapping
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2009-09-16)Mobile robotics is an interesting and challenging emerging field in computer science.To properly achieve true autonomy, a robot must be able to determine where it is in relationshipto a global frame of reference and it ... -
USE OF WORD EMBEDDING TO GENERATE SIMILAR WORDS AND MISSPELLINGS FOR TRAINING PURPOSE IN CHATBOT DEVELOPMENT
(2019-12-06)The advancement in the field of Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning has played a significant role in the huge improvement of conversational Artificial Intelligence (AI). The use of text-based conversation AI ... -
User Syndication Using Speech Rhythm
(2019-08-08)In recent years we have seen a variety of approaches to increase security on computers and mobile devices including fingerprint, and facial recognition. Such techniques while effective are very expensive. Voice biometrics, ... -
Users' Perceptions Of Open Space Benefits In Master Planned Communities In North Texas
(Landscape Architecture, 2014-07-14)This study examines the relationship between users and open spaces benefits in North Texas. Specifically, it probes the residents' perception of open spaces benefits in master planned communities. The importance of open ... -
Users' Perceptions Of The Design And Value Of Hiking Trail Systems: A Comparison From National, State, And Regional Parks
(Landscape Architecture, 2008-04-22)Hiking trail systems are added to many park plans by today's landscape architects. Hiking trails are defined in this thesis as paths and trails, improved or unimproved, in park areas where nature is the primary environment, ... -
Uses Of Sacred Spaces In Urban Neighborhoods: A Study Of Cemeteries In Uptown Dallas
(Landscape Architecture, 2013-07-22)This study examines residents' perceptions regarding potential uses of sacred spaces. It further investigates a cemetery's visual impact on residents in high-density urban environments. Historically, cemeteries have provided ... -
USING A CULTURALLY ADAPTED LEARNING TOOL WITH LATINOS DIAGNOSED WITH DEPRESSION
Due to stigma, low mental health knowledge, and cultural beliefs a significant number of Latinos do not seek treatment for depression. Interventions and treatment methods that are culturally adapted and consider the patient's ... -
Using A Structural Equation Model To Examine Child Maltreatment Potential Across Ecological Systems In A Population Of Families In Poverty
(Social Work, 2007-08-23)This study was a secondary analysis designed to examine the ecological system indicators of child maltreatment potential. A total of 263 families living within 200% of the poverty level were included in the sample. Results ... -
Using Advanced Metering Infrastructure Data For Smart Grid Development
(Electrical Engineering, 2014-07-14)Identifying and using Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) data to improve customer experience, utility operations, and advanced power management is one of the most important challenges in the smart grid development. ... -
Using Aerial Range Feature Descriptor (ARFD) For LiDAR Strip Adjustment And Mosaicing
(Electrical Engineering, 2014-12)Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) has become the primary surface data extraction mapping technique nowadays. Airborne LiDAR system consists of three major components, which are laser ranging and scanning unit, Global ... -
Using An AHP/ANP Hybrid Methodology For Freight Transport Networks Selection Towards Sustainable Transportation
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2013-03-20)The selection of an effective transportation network for the transport of container freight is one of the most important factors in supply chain and logistics planning. The current transport networks, hub-and-spoke and ... -
Using antipatterns to improve database code fragments, and utilizing knowledge graphs and NLP patterns to extract standardized data element names
(2022-04-06)Database code fragments exist in software systems by using SQL as the stan- dard language for relational databases. Traditionally, developers bind databases as backends to software systems for supporting user applications. ... -
Using Approximate Dynamic Programming to Control an Electric Vehicle Charging Station System
(2017-08-11)Dynamic programming (DP) as a mathematical programming approach to optimize a system evolving over time has been applied to solve the multi-stage optimization problems in a lot of areas such as manufacturing systems and ... -
Using ChebConv and B-Spline GNN models for Solving Unit Commitment and Economic Dispatch in a day ahead Energy Trading Market based on ERCOT Nodal Model
(2020-05-22)Spectral Convolutions and B-Spline Graph Neural Network techniques have been used in past to learn embeddings in various complex, multidimensional structured knowledge graphs like genetics, social networks, geometric shapes ... -
USING EMPIRICAL DATA TO DESIGN AND VALIDATE HYBRID SIMULATION MODELS OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR IN SERVICE OPERATIONS
(2021-05-05)The purpose of this research is to examine how a change in a team member's role, team dynamics, and organizational policies impact an individual's motivation to engage in helping behavior, as well as the impact of helping ... -
Using GPU-based Computing To Accelerate Finite Element Problems
(Aerospace Engineering, 2012-07-25)Historically Graphics Processing Units (GPU) have been used for offloading graphical visualization and made popular in use for video games, but with the development of NVIDIA's CUDA architecture and programing language ... -
Using Graph Convolutional Network and Message Passing Neural Networks for Solving Unit Commitment and Economic Dispatch in a day ahead Energy Trading Market based on ERCOT Nodal Model.
(2020-05-22)Various machine learning applications will pre-process graphical representations into a vector of real values which in turn loses information regarding graph structure. Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are a combination of an ...