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Upper and Expected Value Normalization for Evaluating Information Retrieval and Text Generation Systems
(2023-08-02)
Evaluation metric is a crucial part to improve the performance of any system. An accurate evaluation metric is capable to detect and compare multiple different models and thus serving the user’s need in a specific domain. ...
Upper and Expected Value Normalization for Evaluating Information Retrieval and Text Generation Systems
(2023-08-03)
Evaluation metric is a crucial part to improve the performance of any system. An accurate evaluation metric is capable to detect and compare multiple different models and thus serving the user’s need in a specific domain. ...
Upper Bounds on the Coarsening Rates for Some Non-Conserving Equations
(2012-08-02)
In this thesis, we prove one-sided bounds on the coarsening rates for two models of
non-conserved curvature driven dynamics by following a strategy developed by Kohn and
Otto in [20].
In the rst part, we analyze the ...
Uranyl Sensing and Extracting Using Salen-base Quinoxalinol Ligands
(2019-04-23)
In spite of infamous nuclear accidents, the increasing need for low cost, reliable
energy with low greenhouse emission makes the use of nuclear power an attractive
option. Unfortunately, the nuclear fuel cycle produces ...
Urban Assemblages
(2013-03-22)
Urban Assemblages explores a landscape strategy for the adaptive reuse of abandoned
homes throughout the West End neighborhoods of Birmingham Alabama with the goal of making these properties once again valuable to local ...
Urban Floodplain Design: Utilizing the Regenerative Disturbance of Flooding to Create Form and Habitat Within the Urban Landscape
(2011-11-30)
Village Creek watered the industrial machine that became Birmingham, AL. Once seen as the lifeblood of the city, attitudes towards Village Creek have deteriorated due to a century of poor development decisions. By creating ...
An Urban Forest Inventory at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama
(2022-11-29)
Redstone Arsenal (RSA) is a United States Army Post in Huntsville, Alabama. To promote RSA’s management goals, an urban forest inventory was conducted to make good land management decisions in urban areas and maintain ...
Urban Land-Use Effects on Resident Saltmarsh Fish in the Gulf of Mexico
(2013-05-16)
Salt marshes are valuable ecosystems and provide a number of important services, including providing habitat for fish. Urban land-use has been shown to alter salt marshes through changes in the hydrology, sedimentation, ...
Urban Sprawl and Atmospheric Pollution Effects on Forests in the Georgia Piedmont
(2008-05-15)
Current and projected population pressures on natural lands in the South have resulted in extensive amounts of rural forests being converted to human-modified urban uses. Such substantial loss of forest land and wildlife ...
US Craft Brewery Owners’ Environmental Values, Involvement and Motivations Behind Environmentally Sustainable Practices and the Effect of Business Challenges
(2019-07-29)
In 2018, 7,450 craft breweries across the US produced 25.9 million barrels of beer as part of an industry worth a cumulative $27.6 million and which employs over 456,000 workers. Craft brewery owners across the US have ...
Usability Size N
(2007-08-15)
In the software development cycle, it is often the practice that developers will hold usability studies to test the accuracy and effectiveness of the software and to retrieve user response as to the satisfaction or usability ...
Usability, Undergraduates, Understanding: Enhancing Climate Resiliency and Climate Literacy through Co-Production
(2024-04-25)
The overarching goal of this dissertation research is to contribute to the body of literature on co-production while enhancing climate literacy and climate resiliency of various stakeholder groups. For each of the three ...
Use and Misuse of the Power Side Channel in Additive Manufacturing Security
(2023-05-02)
Additive Manufacturing (AM) is growing rapidly as an industry, particularly into the production of functional, safety-critical parts. AM Security has accordingly become a key research area for the technology, as sabotage ...
Use of a Scald Additive to Reduce Levels of Salmonella During Poultry Processing
(2006-12-15)
The risk of cross contamination of food-borne pathogens such as Salmonella during poultry processing remains of great concern to the poultry industry. One of the most critical steps in poultry processing where cross ...
The use of a small scale study and regional data sources to understand grassland bird habitat relationships
(2015-05-07)
Habitat loss and degradation, among other factors, contributed to a steady decline in grassland bird populations across the U.S. Many large scale management efforts are in place to stabilize and increase grassland bird ...
Use of a Small-scale Erosion Control Model in the Design of Silt Fence Tiebacks
(2006-05-15)
For most storm events, accelerated erosion caused by storm water runoff from construction sites can be mitigated through vigilant management efforts. The control measures that are designed to provide a practical field ...
Use of Accelerometers to Characterize Behavior in Beef Cattle During Health and Subclinical Disease
(2017-11-30)
The acute phase response (APR) represents a protective, coordinated response of the host with the aim of eliminating the inciting stimuli and re-establishing homeostasis. Produced by activated immune cells, proinflammatory ...
The use of Anaerobic Fermentation Acids and Aldehydes to Control Nematodes and Improve Soil Health
(2012-04-19)
There is increasing effort to develop cropping systems utilizing soil amendments, flooding, and tarping to control nematodes. The decrease in nematode populations under such anaerobic conditions is attributed to the ...
Use of Anova Asphalt Rejuvenator and Balanced Mix Design Principle to Improve the Performance of High-RAP Asphalt Mixtures
(2019-10-22)
The use of recycled materials like Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement (RAP) in asphalt mixtures is now a common practice with associated economic, social, and environmental benefits. However, asphalt mixture performance issues, ...
Use of Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) to address four of the “National Academy of Engineering Grand Challenges for Engineering in the 21st Century”.
(2021-04-08)
Engineering is the shrewd application of science to the exploitation and transformation of natural resources for the benefit of humanity. Humankind has always resorted to engineering in order to overcome limitations, ...