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Post-migration seismic data conditioning methods on a merged dataset
(2024-05-11)Analyzing amplitude anomalies in seismic data requires a comprehensive understanding of the geological context and the accuracy of the seismic image to faithfully represent the subsurface. Over the past four decades, ... -
Potential Application of Machine Learning in Optical Communication Systems
(2017-07-07)In this work, we will examine practically encoding information in the state of polarization using M- POLSK. We employ polarization-shift keying (POLSK) to generate an expected pattern of changing states of polarization ... -
Potential Outcomes of the Syrian Conflict: A Case Study for Understanding Civil War Termination
(2017-05)The Syrian conflict has been ongoing for the last six years and has left the international community unsure of how or when it will end. Existing literature on civil war termination creates a framework in which we can better ... -
Potential Predictability and Impacts of Subseasonal Extreme Precipitation Events in the United States
(2020-12-18)Prediction of climate extremes at the S2S time scale has become a large topic of conversation between researchers and decision makers. Long duration precipitation events, lasting 14-days, may lead to devastating impacts ... -
Potential sources of oil from Hugoton Embayment reservoirs
(2020-05)Oil has been produced in the Hugoton Embayment in western Kansas since the early 1900s, but the primary source rock for these oils has not definitively been determined. Thirty-two oils from the Middle Pennsylvanian to the ... -
THE POWER OF STORYTELLING: USING NARRATIVE INQUIRY TO UNDERSTAND THE ROLE OF LIFE STORY FOR IDENTITY FORMATION
(2020)This study explores the impact a person’s life story has on their sense of self, and how meaning is made in the creation of the life story. Using narrative inquiry, the author analyzes his grandmother’s handwritten life ... -
PRACTICAL COUGH DETECTION IN PRESENCE OF BACKGROUND NOISE AND PRELIMINARY DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS FROM COUGH SOUND USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
(2020-05-07)Cough is one of the most common symptoms for many of the diseases. Physicians have been using characteristics of cough for preliminary diagnosis of certain respiratory diseases for ages. But the methods have been subjective ... -
Prayers of the Dark-hearted: A Collection of Linked Stories
(2023-05-12)“Prayers of the Dark-hearted” is a collection of linked stories written and revised between the fall of 2021 and the spring of 2023. These stories are often autobiographical in nature, but largely fictional, focusing on ... -
Precipitation Whiplash Events Across the Southern Great Plains of the United States
(2021-08)The Southern Great Plains is a region that is prone to precipitation extremes and transitions between them which have direct impacts on agriculture, infrastructure, water quality and water quantity. However, current ... -
PREDICTING EMPLOYEE-SUPERVISOR RELATIONSHIP STRENGTH (LMX): DOES A SINGLE MOMENT MATTER?
(2020-05-08)Abstract The leader-member exchange (LMX; Dansereau et al., 1975) theory explains how employee-supervisor relationships form and posits that relationship strength will be established through communication-based exchanges ... -
Predicting NBA Efficiency from NCAA Statistics Using Play-by-Play and On-Off Statistics
(2018)New data is available for college basketball since 2009-10. However, when adding interactions, there is a sparse dataset with over 30,000 variables. This causes problems, because there are far more variables than observations. ... -
Predicting Sarcoidosis Disease Incidence using Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms and Supervised Machine Learning
(2021-05-14)Predicting disease incidence based on Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) for a complex multi-factorial disease like sarcoidosis remains a difficult prediction problem. If disease prediction could be improved, genetic ... -
Predicting wine quality and/or taste through the use of a latent ODE-RNN Neural Net
(2019-12-13)It is common for recommendation systems to use clustering techniques for finding similar products for the downstream user. These models do not always incorporate time as a variable when recommending an item. If our ... -
PREDICTION OF EARLY STAGE LUNG CANCER PROGNOSIS AFTER SURGERY USING A NEW CAD-GENERATED IMAGING MARKER
(2018-05-11)Due to cancer heterogeneity, identifying new clinical markers to more effectively predict prognosis of cancer patients plays an important role to improve efficacy of cancer treatment. Objective of this study is to develop ... -
Prediction of user intentions when operating with the cursor
(2017-12-15)Studies have shown that when we operate the cursor on a computer, several factors such as the type of device used (i.e. mouse or touchpad), aging (young vs. old) or motor-impairment can hinder performances. More precisely, ... -
Predictive Modeling in Fugitive Emissions Testing
(2020-07)Greenhouse gases have become an increasingly significant issue in the last few decades. As a response, many organizations have sought to tighten their regulations on their operations to reduce their contributions to ... -
Predictive Tracking Simulation and Techniques for All-digital Radar
(2021-08-05)All-digital radar architectures allow radar systems to operate with more flexibility. Multiple Input, Multiple Output (MIMO) radars are especially effective at identifying multiple targets. Combined with statistical ... -
Preferred Versus Novel Exercise Modalities on Endogenous Pain Inhibition Following Exercise
(2017-05-12)Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience which can indicate potential or actual tissue damage. Exercise has been shown to result in marked decreases in pain sensitivity both during and following exercise. ... -
Pregnancy, Magic, and Medicine: The Many Roles of Midwives in Eighteenth-Century Mexico
(2017-05-12)Despite the vast research by historians of 18th-century Mexico on women’s and gender history, New World medical cultures, and witchcraft, little is known about the lives and practices of late colonial parteras (midwives). ... -
Preliminary Design of Robust Adaptive Control Laws for an Aerial Manipulator
(2019-05-10)One platform commonly used in modern control systems research is the quadcopter unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). This platform finds many uses in both civilian and military aviation, such as aerial surveillance and imaging, ...