Breast cancer has been reported by American Cancer Society as the second leading cause of death among all the cancers of women. It is also reported that the early detection of breast cancer can improve survival rate by allowing...
Palabra clave:
Breast Cancer, Contrast Enhancement, Laplacian Pyramid, Mammogram y Squeeze Box Filter
Tema:
Breast -- Radiography -- Technological innovations, Breast -- Radiography -- Data processing, Breast -- Imaging -- Technological innovations, Breast -- Imaging -- Data processing, Breast -- Cancer -- Diagnosis -- Technological innovations y Breast -- Cancer -- Diagnosis -- Data processing
Demand Side Management (DSM) programs provide utility companies with amethod to shift consumer electricity usages away from peak electricity hours. DSMprograms use alternative appliance usage schemes that maintain their...
Palabra clave:
Demand Side Management, Linear Control, Load leveling, Smart Grid y System Identification
Tema:
Demand-side management (Electric utilities) -- Technological innovations, Electric power systems -- Control y Electric power systems -- Load dispatching
This thesis proposes a novel method for learning and pattern recognition. The algorithm presented relies entirely on memory arranged in a custom hierarchical data structure which shifts the workload from the processor to...
Palabra clave:
AI, human learning, memory, pattern recognition, prediction y representation
Tema:
Pattern recognition systems y Memory hierarchy (Computer science)
Clinical evident shows that the shape of mammographic calcification is an indicator of the pathology. Microcalcifications (MC) with rough shape are early signs of malignant breast cancer. This thesis proposed a shape metric to...
Palabra clave:
cancer y shape measurement
Tema:
Breast -- Cancer -- Diagnosis, Breast -- Radiography y Breast -- Imaging
Nursing burnout affects the nurse’s home and work life and can lead to serious physical and emotional symptoms as well as patient dissatisfaction and increased nursing turnover. With a shortage of nurses expected to increase to...
Heart failure (HF) is an epidemic affecting approximately 5.1 million people in the United States and is one of the most expensive cardiovascular illnesses, costing the nation an estimated $32 billion each year (CDC, 2013)....
Tema:
Nurses -- Rating of -- North Carolina -- Case studies, Nurses -- Education (Continuing education) -- North Carolina -- Case studies y Heart failure -- Treatment -- North Carolina -- Evaluation -- Case studies
Traditionally, autonomous underwater vehicles employ multiple configurations of sensor payloads in order to accomplish a specific mission. Due to advances in imaging technology, imaging sonar arrays and optical imaging devices...
Palabra clave:
Edge Detection, Neural Network, Optical y Sonar
Tema:
Optical pattern recognition, Robot vision, Robotics, Ocean engineering, Underwater imaging systems y Neural networks (Computer science)
Research has shown that maltreatment in childhood can have serious effects on mental health outcomes in adulthood. While physical maltreatment has been well studied, the effects of childhood emotional maltreatment are less...
Tema:
Child abuse, Psychological child abuse y Mental illness
The aim of this qualitative, phenomenological study was to gain an understanding of older peoples’ experiences and perceptions of education about fall prevention to establish what features of communications about fall risk and...
Palabra clave:
Adult, Education, Fall, Older, Prevention y Qualitative
Tema:
Falls (Accidents) in old age -- Prevention y Older people -- Health and hygiene
Since 2007 I have been creating installation art with the plant kudzu as the primary medium. My work often develops by changing over a period of time. In some of my work I use the pared down, dried kudzu vine as 3-dimensional...
Palabra clave:
Environmental Art, Installation Art y Kudzu
Tema:
Installations (Art), Found objects (Art) y Plants in art
