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Adaptation and Automation of Search and Rescue Patterns with Implementation for an Operational Unmanned Aircraft System
(2014-02-24)The development and employment of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) is transferring many missions from manned aircraft to UAS. Search is one of these missions. This work proposes leveraging the familiar, well-established ... -
ADAPTATION AND SURVIVAL OF THE NEMATODE Caenorhabditis elegans DURING OSMOTIC-ANOXIC STRESS
Oxygen is an absolute requirement for multicellular life. Animals that are deprived of oxygen for sufficient periods of time eventually become injured and die. This is largely due to the fact that, without oxygen, animals ... -
Adaptation for Brain-Computer Interfaces
(2014-04-30)Brain-computer interface (BCI) technology is evolving rapidly, and shows promise for restoring and even augmenting dextrous control of movement. Recent studies have demonstrated control of robotic arms and computer cursors ... -
Adaptation of HIV-1 Envelope to Macaque Cells and Implications for the Design of Improved Models of HIV/AIDS
(2012-08-10)Research in the area of Human Immunodeficiency Virus type 1 (HIV-1) vaccine development is hindered by the limitations of the Simian/Human Immunodeficiency Viruses (SHIVs) used in macaque studies. The relevance of SHIV ... -
Adapting a process based cold hardiness model to conifers
Plant phenology has been and continues to be impacted by climate change. Process-based modeling of phenology reveals biological characteristics through interpretation of model results and parameter values. This paper aims ... -
Adapting Spatiotemporal Gaussian Process Regression for Multinomial Data
Estimating risk factor exposures over time is crucial to measuring and evaluating progress on behavioral, environmental, and occupational risks. Risk factor levels and trends are also a critical input in calculating the ... -
Adapting Statistical Learning Method for Spatial Applications
In this dissertation, we develop new principled applications of statistical learning methods in spatial applications. In the first chapter, we consider a modified regression tree approach allowing for spatial correlation ... -
Adapting the Ki'tla Center: Safeguarding Intangible Heritage through the Adaptive Reuse of a Former Lumber Mill
At the intersection of the Olympic Loop Highway, also known as Highway 101, and La Push Road, the main vehicular route to the Quileute ancestral village of La Push, sits a sprinkling of buildings amidst nine-acres of flat, ... -
Adapting to Climate Change in Unalakleet, Alaska
(2014-02-24)Climate change is affecting western Alaskan communities in many negative ways: infrastructure damage, loss of safe water sources, loss of the subsistence way of life, more danger from hunting and fishing near uncertain ... -
Adapting to the Heat: Integrating Healthcare, Communities + the Built Environment in Gao, Mali
(2012-05-31)After three consecutive years of insufficient rainfall and a decade of higher temperatures, West Africa is facing high urbanization rates due to lack of food and water, the result from the extreme climate. The Tamasheq, a ... -
Adapting Trauma Outcome Prediction Models to Individual Facilities using Transfer Learning
With the increasing availability of big data and advanced computational techniques, machine learning (ML) models are becoming common in medicine and healthcare. Generalizable models, models that can be applied to any setting ... -
Adaptive Bayesian Nonparametric Smoothing with Markov Random Fields and Shrinkage Priors
The need to estimate unknown functions or surfaces arises in many disciplines in science and there are many statistical methods available to do this. Our interest lies in using Bayesian nonparametric approaches to estimate ... -
Adaptive Capacity of the Maine Lobster Fishery: Insights from the Maine Fishermen’s Climate Roundtables
Climate change is altering the abundance and distribution of fish stocks globally, resulting in changes in catchability and availability to commercial fisheries. The Gulf of Maine in the northwestern Atlantic Ocean is ... -
Adaptive Crowd Algorithms for Open-Ended Problems
Decomposing problems is fundamental to solving them for both people and computers. When it comes to problem solving, people and computers have complementary approaches. Computer algorithms can methodically solve large ... -
Adaptive designs in the time to event setting: The potential for benefit and risk
Group sequential designs (GSDs) have been the standard sequential approach to maintain scientific, ethical, and efficiency goals in any confirmatory Phase III studies. Over the past two decades, adaptive extensions to group ... -
Adaptive evolution and loss of function of a primate intrinsic immunity gene
(2007)The evolution of retroviral elements and their hosts is inextricably tied together throughout the animal kingdom. Retroviral elements selfishly unleash an onslaught of tactics to replicate themselves within host cells while ... -
adaptive mixology: a direction for transforming Chicago's shuttered schools
This thesis project explores the potential of a mixed-use education program that utilizes the old school building. The closed school program will be reimplemented back into the building but reflecting upon 21st century ... -
An adaptive multilevel method for boundary layer meteorology
(1994)This thesis presents a new adaptive multilevel numerical model for incompressible flows and applies such a model for the first time to the simulation of atmospheric boundary layers capped by shallow cumulus and stratocumulus ... -
Adaptive or absent: A critical review of building system resilience in the LEED rating system
With time spent indoors dominating the lives of individuals across developed nations particularly within Europe, North America, and Australia, protecting indoor environmental quality becomes critical to protecting human ... -
Adaptive Pitch Composite Blades for Axial-Flow Marine Hydrokinetic Turbines
Marine hydrokinetic (MHK) turbines are quickly becoming a viable and valuable method of generating renewable energy from ocean, tidal, and river currents. Modern MHK turbine blades are typically constructed from fiber ...