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O3 photochemistry in the western US: mixing wildfire smoke with urban emissions
Ozone (O3) is a respiratory irritant and is hazardous to human health. O3 pollution is prevalent in urban areas but is also influenced by the transport of wildfire smoke. When wildfire smoke mixes with urban emissions, ... -
Oasis of Resilience, Healing and empowering Syrian Children in Za'atari refugee camp
This thesis, Oasis of Resilience, presents the challenges Syrian refugee children faced during the years of war in Syria and continue to face in Za'atari refugee camp in Jordan. Recasting the physical environment as an ... -
"Obama never said that": Evaluating fact-checks for topical consistency and quality
This thesis examines topical consistency between claims and fact-checks in the Birdwatch dataset published by Twitter. The dataset has tweets (the claims), notes (context-adding annotations written by Birdwatch users), and ... -
Object 3D Perception via Camera-Radar Cross-Modality Learning for Autonomous Driving
Autonomous or assisted driving is increasingly feasible through the recent development of machine learning and deep learning community. As the autonomous vehicle is usually a multi-sensor platform, it is crucial to not ... -
Object Manipulation with Tangible User Interface for Head Mounted Augmented Reality Devices
Recent advances in technology enabled a new generation of Augmented Reality (AR) development where the near seamless integration and interaction between computer generated virtual and real-world physical objects can be ... -
Object Recognition and Semantic Scene Labeling for RGB-D Data
(2014-02-24)The availability of RGB-D (Kinect-like) cameras has led to an explosive growth of research on robot perception. RGB-D cameras provide high resolution (640 x 480) synchronized videos of both color (RGB) and depth (D) at 30 ... -
Object-based attention: the effects of selective and divided attention
(2013-02-25)Selective attention improves information processing for a subset of relevant information, usually at the expense of irrelevant information. Visual information can be selected on the basis of a particular spatial location, ... -
An Object-Oriented Parallel Social Simulation Framework
Agent-Based Modeling (ABM) is a powerful social simulation technique that employs a bottom-up approach for opinion dynamics study. In this work, we develop a social simulation framework based on ABM. The framework supporting ... -
Objective Methods for Characterizing Physical Exposures which may contribute to Work-related Musculoskeletal Disorders in Agricultural Workers
US Migrant farmworkers perform physically-demanding work but are less likely to report poor working conditions, which exposes them to greater risk for musculoskeletal disorders (e.g., prolonged non-neutral postures, ... -
Objective quantification of convective clustering observed during the AMIE/DYNAMO 2-day rain episodes
One critical bottleneck in developing and evaluating ways to represent the mesoscale organization of convection in cumulus parameterization schemes is that there is no single accepted method of objectively quantifying the ... -
Objectively Measured Walking: Temporal, Spatial, and Built Environmental Characteristics
(2014-02-24)Walking and environmental correlates have been increasingly investigated in the field of public health and transportation. Recent development in real-time activity and location tracking technology provides a unique opportunity ... -
Objects of Heaven and Earth: Thaumaturgy & Representation in Quattrocento Italy
(2013-07-25)In fifteenth-century Florence, the Basilica of the Santissima Annunziata housed thousands of wax sculptures, all created in response to a single fresco located on the interior wall of the nave. This painting, known as the ... -
"Objects on the Margins": How Things Make Persons and Worlds in Nineteenth-Century United States Writing
“Objects on the Margins”: How Things Make Persons and Worlds in Nineteenth-Century United States Writing examines how nonhuman things make and unmake persons and worlds in mid-nineteenth-century United States writing. I ... -
Oboebasics.com A Modern Method for Oboe Embouchure
(2012-09-13)University of Washington Abstract Oboebasics.com A Modern Method for Oboe Embouchure Jennifer Elise Muehrcke Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Professor Steven Morrison Music This dissertation presents a method for ... -
Observability Based Path Planning in Range-only Localization
(2013-11-14)The motivations of oceanographic research have driven the development of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) now capable of great feats of autonomy and endurance. It is anticipated that the future of autonomous oceanographic ... -
Observability-Based Approach to Design, Analysis and Optimization of Dynamical Systems
The present dissertation aims to use the coupling between actuation and sensing in nonlinear systems to alternatively design a set of feasible control policies, to find the minimum number of sensors, or to find an optimal ... -
Observability-Based Guidance and Sensor Placement
Control system performance is highly dependent on the quality of sensor information available. In a growing number of applications, however, the control task must be accomplished with limited sensing capabilities. This ... -
Observation Centric and Central Distance Recovery for Tracking of Sports Athletes
Multi-Object Tracking on humans has improved rapidly with the development of object detection and re-identification algorithms. However, multi-actor tracking over humans with similar appearance and non-linear movement can ... -
Observation of the Nuclear Magnetic Octupole Moment of 137Ba+
Single trapped ions are ideal systems in which to test atomic physics at high precision, which can in turn be used for searches for violations of fundamental symmetries and physics beyond the standard model, in addition ... -
Observation, Simulation, and Evaluation of Snow Dynamics in the Transitional Snow Zone
The frequent mid-winter accumulation and ablation cycles of snowpack within the rain-snow transitional zone play an important role for the maritime basins along the western U.S. mountain ranges. Representation of transitional ...