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Weng, Weizhe. "Essays on Water Policy and Coupled Human and Natural Systems." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/102031.

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Human and freshwater ecosystems are intrinsically interconnected. To better design effective policies, modeling tools and valuation methods are necessary to help understanding the complex reciprocal linkages between ecosystem processes and human actions, and coupled human and natural systems (CNHS) sets up a critical paradigm to do so. It is thus of both academic and empirical appeal to integrate reliable economic valuation methods with tools and models from multiple disciplines in order to quantify the feedbacks between human and natural systems and to inform better policy design. Using fresh

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Kalnicky, Emily A. "A Coupled Human and Natural Systems Approach to Understanding an Invasive Frog, Eleutherodactylus Coqui, in Hawaii." DigitalCommons@USU, 2012. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/1412.

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Human activities worldwide have altered nature in ways that create new combinations of species and environmental processes. To understand so-called "novel ecosystems" it is important to consider both the natural and the societal factors that shape them, and how those factors are interconnected or "coupled." We used such an approach to explore options for managing a non-native invasive frog, the coqui, which has become established on the island of Hawaii and threatens to spread to other parts of the state. The nighttime calls of the coqui create a nuisance for property owners when populations b

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Laingen, Christopher R. "Complex feedbacks among human and natural systems and pheasant hunting in South Dakota, USA." Diss., Manhattan, Kan. : Kansas State University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/1352.

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Moriniere, Lezlie C. "A Well-Founded Fear? Tracing the Footprints of Environmentally Influenced Human Mobility." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/145714.

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Humans have fled environmental degradation for many millennia. Due partially to climate change, environments across the world have often degraded to the point that they can no longer securely sustain livelihoods. Entire communities and households have been displaced by extreme, rapid or creeping disasters; during their flight, they have left footprints across the globe that merit tracing. Sometimes this mobility is forced and at other times it is purely voluntary; for both, the mobility has roots in a changing environment. The footprint of environmentally influenced mobility (EIM) was traced t

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Liu, Hongxing. "Coupled Modeling of Economic – Hydrological Systems: Examining Spatial Heterogeneity in Water Quality Benefits and Optimal Agricultural Land Use Management in Ohio." The Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1494006418870902.

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Scarrow, Ryan Matthew. "Hothouse Flowers: Water, the West, and a New Approach to Urban Ecology." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1471483922.

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Leung, Tommy (Tommy Chun Ting). "Coupled natural gas and electric power systems." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/98547.

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Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, 2015.<br>This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.<br>Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-240).<br>Scarce pipeline capacity in regions that rely on natural gas technologies for electricity generation has created volatile prices and reliability concerns. Gas-fired generation firms uniquely operate as large consumers in the gas market and l

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Ojha, Abhi. "Coupled Natural Gas and Electric Power Systems." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/78666.

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Decreasing gas prices and the pressing need for fast-responding electric power generators are currently transforming natural gas networks. The intermittent operation of gas-fired plants to balance wind generation introduces spatiotemporal fluctuations of increasing gas demand. At the heart of modeling, monitoring, and control of gas networks is a set of nonlinear equations relating nodal gas injections and pressures to flows over pipelines. Given gas demands at all points of the network, the gas flow task aims at finding the rest of the physical quantities. For a tree network, the problem enjo

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Deshpande, Amol Mukund. "Design Process to Integrate Natural and Human Systems." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/9679.

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After more than a century, there are very few examples of excellent interdisciplinary work in landscape architecture, like the "Emerald Necklace" designed by Frederick Law Olmsted or Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord by Peter Latz. Most of the projects still have only one purpose: they are either reserved for conservation as are the great national parks, or are planned for recreation or development that ignores natural systems. "Most...landscape designers are still inspired by and primarily focused on aesthetics; society's other major objectives are secondary for them" (Richard Forman 2002, p: 85

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Gupta, Aditi M. Ph D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Human interaction & gait strategy with tightly-coupled lower-extremity systems." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/130718.

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Thesis: Ph. D., Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology, February, 2021<br>Cataloged from the official PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-148).<br>Interest in the use of exoskeletons (wearable robotic devices tightly-coupled to the user's body) for human gait augmentation has soared recently, with research flourishing in system design, control, and use efficacy. Use cases span many fields, from military (e.g. load carriage assistance) to medicine (e.g. gait rehabilitation or restoration) and industry (e.g. injury prevention). Evaluating the h

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Ulfvengren, Pernilla. "Design of Natural Warning Sounds in Human-Machine Systems." Doctoral thesis, KTH, Industriell ekonomi och organisation, 2003. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-3679.

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The goal of this research is increased safety in aviation. Aviation is a highly automated and complex, as well as, safety critical human-machine system. The pilot communicates with the system via a human-machine interface in cockpit. In an alerting situation this interface is in part an auditory alerting system. Human errors are often consequences of actions brought about by poor design. Pilots complain that they may be both disturbed and annoyed of alerts, which may affect performance, especially in non-normal situations when the mental workload is high. This research is based on theories in

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Schroeder, Ryan T. "Gait entrainment in coupled oscillator systems: Clarifying the role of energy optimization in human walking." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2020. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/2281.

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Empirical evidence suggests that parameters of human gait (e.g. step frequency, step length) tend to minimize energy expenditure. However, it is unclear if individuals can adapt to dynamic environments in real time, i.e. continuously optimize energy expenditure, and to what extent. Two coupled oscillator systems were used to test the learned interactions of individuals within dynamic environments: (1) experienced farmworkers carrying oscillating loads on a flexible bamboo pole and (2) individuals walking on a treadmill while strapped to a mechatronics oscillator system providing periodic force

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Nykvist, Björn. "Social learning in the Anthropocene : Governance of natural resources in human dominated systems." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Systemekologiska institutionen, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-74836.

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We live in the Anthropocene – an age where humans dominate natural systems – and there is ample evidence that our current practices degrade the capacity of natural systems to provide us with natural resources. How we, as humans, organize and learn, in communities and among state and other societal actors, constitute a decisive factor for both local management of natural resources and the functioning of the planet Earth. In other words, the outcome of learning has become a matter of governance across multiple levels. This thesis studies the role of social learning in governance of natural resou

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Parsons, Sven David Charles. "Natural animal model systems to study tuberculosis." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/4505.

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Thesis (PhD (Molecular Biology and Human Genetics))--University of Stellenbosch, 2010.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The growing global epidemic of human tuberculosis (TB) results in 8 million new cases of this disease and 2 million deaths annually. Control thereof will require greater insight into the biology of the causative organism, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and into the pathogenesis of the disease. This will benefit the design of new vaccines and diagnostic assays which may reduce the degree of both disease transmission and progression. Animal models have played a vital role in the understandin

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Rothwell, Clayton D. "Recurrence Quantification Models of Human Conversational Grounding Processes: Informing Natural Language Human-Computer Interaction." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1527591081613424.

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Lutter, Seth Hendrik. "Human Dimensions of Young Forest Conservation Programs: Effects of Outreach, Post-Program Management, and a Coupled Systems Perspective." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/84544.

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Achieving long-term conservation gains through the framework of conservation incentive programs requires an understanding of both the ecological and social components of these programs. Landowner program experiences and management decisions after program participation are important for long-term conservation, but these aspects of conservation programs are not well understood. To address this research gap related to conservation program participation, this thesis investigates Natural Resources Conservation Service programs that provide private landowners with financial and technical assistance

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Duenas-Osorio, Leonardo Augusto. "Interdependent Response of Networked Systems to Natural Hazards and Intentional Disruptions." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/7546.

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Critical infrastructure systems are essential for the continuous functionality of modern global societies. Some examples of these systems include electric energy, potable water, oil and gas, telecommunications, and the internet. Different topologies underline the structure of these networked systems. Each topology (i.e., physical layout) conditions the way in which networks transmit and distribute their flow. Also, their ability to absorb unforeseen natural or intentional disruptions depends on complex relations between network topology and optimal flow patterns. Most of the current resea

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Gajic, Nevena. "Human dimensions of natural resource management for the Vosso wild salmon population : A systems thinking approach." Thesis, Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, Institutt for energi- og prosessteknikk, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-15079.

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Vosso, the second-largest watershed in Norway, was considered special as it produced some of the biggest salmon in the country. This salmon had economic, cultural as well as ecological importance. Due to its diversity, it was regarded a unique biological resource. Yet in the late 1980s the stock collapsed, quite abruptly and unexpected. This triggered a large-scale scientific research and eventually led to a rescue project to restore the wild Vosso salmon. The goal of this thesis was to explore the fundamental questions about the impact of human activity on nature and the conflicts of interest

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Bali, Archana. "The study of human-caribou systems in the face of change| Using multiple disciplinary lenses." Thesis, University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10133723.

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<p> Barren-ground caribou herds are part of social-ecological systems that are of critical importance to northern Indigenous Peoples of the Arctic, contributing to nutritional, cultural, and spiritual well being that are today undergoing significant changes. This dissertation uses multiple disciplinary lenses to understand the dynamics of these systems and to clarify methods for studying them. Chapter 1 focuses on a prediction of summer (June 1- August 31) mosquito activity and potential insect harassment of caribou in response to a changing climate. The Mosquito Activity Index (MAI) was based

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Potgieter, Timothy Kyle. "Using natural user interfaces to support synchronous distributed collaborative work." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/10880.

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Synchronous Distributed Collaborative Work (SDCW) occurs when group members work together at the same time from different places together to achieve a common goal. Effective SDCW requires good communication, continuous coordination and shared information among group members. SDCW is possible because of groupware, a class of computer software systems that supports group work. Shared-workspace groupware systems are systems that provide a common workspace that aims to replicate aspects of a physical workspace that is shared among group members in a co-located environment. Shared-workspace groupwa

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de, Schutter Elisabeth Marie Louise, Stefan Giljum, Tiina Häyhä, et al. "Bioeconomy Transitions through the Lens of Coupled Social-Ecological Systems: A Framework for Place-Based Responsibility in the Global Resource System." MDPI AG, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11205705.

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Bioeconomy strategies in high income societies focus at replacing finite, fossil resources by renewable, biological resources to reconcile macro-economic concerns with climate constraints. However, the current bioeconomy is associated with critical levels of environmental degradation. As a potential increase in biological resource use may further threaten the capacity of ecosystems to fulfil human needs, it remains unclear whether bioeconomy transitions in high income countries are sustainable. In order to fill a gap in bioeconomy sustainability assessments, we apply an ontological lens

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Zhang, Di. "INFORMATION THEORETIC CRITERIA FOR IMAGE QUALITY ASSESSMENT BASED ON NATURAL SCENE STATISTICS." Thesis, University of Waterloo, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/2842.

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Measurement of visual quality is crucial for various image and video processing applications. <br /><br /> The goal of objective image quality assessment is to introduce a computational quality metric that can predict image or video quality. Many methods have been proposed in the past decades. Traditionally, measurements convert the spatial data into some other feature domains, such as the Fourier domain, and detect the similarity, such as mean square distance or Minkowsky distance, between the test data and the reference or perfect data, however only limited success has been achieved.

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Jacobs, Gershwin. "User experience guidelines for mobile natural user interfaces: a case study of physically disabled users." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/17547.

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Motor impaired people are faced with many challenges, one being the of lack integration into certain spheres of society. Access to information is seen as a major issue for the motor impaired since most forms of interaction or interactive devices are not suited to the needs of motor impaired people. People with motor impairments, like the rest of the population, are increasingly using mobile phones. As a result of the current devices and methods used for interaction with content on mobile phones, various factors prohibit a pleasant experience for users with motor impairments. To counter these f

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Gonzalez, Carla Sofia Dávila Soares. "Interpreting change in human-nature and long term social relationships." Doctoral thesis, FCT - UNL, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/5877.

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Dissertação apresentada para obtenção do Grau de Doutor em Ciências do Ambiente, pela Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia.<br>A conservação da biodiversidade, o desenvolvimento e a ciência modernos tiveram um impacto profundo nos sistemas humanos e naturais acoplados e na sua gestão. Os desafios que hoje se colocam a este nível em regiões moldadas no longo prazo pela presença humana, como é o caso do Mediterrâneo, são exemplo evidente das limitações criadas pela dicotomização entre economia e ecologia, humanos e natureza, conhecimento leigo e científico, práticas in

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Watkin, Levi B. "The Role of Heterologous Immunity in Mediating Natural Resistance to Infection in Human Subjects: A Dissertation." eScholarship@UMMS, 2012. https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/gsbs_diss/586.

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Heterologous immunity is a mechanism by which immunological memory within an individual, developed in response to a previous infection, plays a role in the immune response to a subsequent unrelated infection. In murine studies, heterologous immunity facilitated by cross-reactive CD8 T-cell responses can mediate either beneficial (protective immunity) or detrimental effects (e.g. enhanced lung and adipose immunopathology and enhanced viral titers) (Selin et al., 1998; Chen et al., 2001; Welsh and Selin, 2002; Nie et al., 2010; Welsh et al., 2010). Protective heterologous immunity results in enh

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Rolih, Gabi. "Applying Coreference Resolution for Usage in Dialog Systems." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-353730.

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Using references in language is a major part of communication, and understanding them is not a challenge for humans. Recent years have seen increased usage of dialog systems that interact with humans in natural language to assist them in various tasks, but even the most sophisticated systems still struggle with understanding references. In this thesis, we adapt a coreference resolution system for usage in dialog systems and try to understand what is needed for an efficient understanding of references in dialog systems. We annotate a portion of logs from a customer service system and perform an

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Ma, Tao. "Statistics of Quantum Energy Levels of Integrable Systems and a Stochastic Network Model with Applications to Natural and Social Sciences." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1378196433.

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Hamann, Maike. "Exploring connections in social-ecological systems : The links between biodiversity, ecosystem services, and human well-being in South Africa." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Stockholm Resilience Centre, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-126318.

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A key challenge of the Anthropocene is to advance human development without undermining critical ecosystem services. Central to this challenge is a better understanding of the interactions and feedbacks between biodiversity, ecosystem services and human well-being, which interact in dynamic and complex social-ecological systems. These relationships have been the focus of much work in the past decades, however more remains to be done to comprehensively identify and quantify them, especially at larger scales. In this thesis, a social-ecological systems approach is adopted to investigate connecti

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Mendes, MarÃlia Soares. "MALTU - model for evaluation of interaction in social systems from the Users Textual Language." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2015. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=14296.

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The field of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) has suggested various methods for evaluating systems in order to improve their usability and User eXperience (UX). The advent of Web 2.0 has allowed the development of applications marked by collaboration, communication and interaction among their users in a way and on a scale never seen before. Social Systems (SS) (e.g. Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn etc.) are examples of such applications and have features such as: frequent exchange of messages, spontaneity and expression of feelings. The opportunities and challenges posed by these types of

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Elvir, Miguel. "EPISODIC MEMORY MODEL FOR EMBODIED CONVERSATIONAL AGENTS." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2010. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/3000.

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Embodied Conversational Agents (ECA) form part of a range of virtual characters whose intended purpose include engaging in natural conversations with human users. While works in literature are ripe with descriptions of attempts at producing viable ECA architectures, few authors have addressed the role of episodic memory models in conversational agents. This form of memory, which provides a sense of autobiographic record-keeping in humans, has only recently been peripherally integrated into dialog management tools for ECAs. In our work, we propose to take a closer look at the shared characteris

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Harris, Caroline. "Uncovering the effect of natural diversity on the Anopheles gambiae response to Plasmodium falciparum." Thesis, Montpellier 2, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010MON20247/document.

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Le contrôle du paludisme ne semble aujourd'hui envisageable que par stratégies combinées ciblant différents stades du parasite. Chez le vecteur, certains mécanismes de la réponse immunitaire pourraient être manipulés pour bloquer le développement sporogonique du parasite. Cette thèse examine les effets de la diversité du vecteur et du parasite dans le couple le plus important en termes d'épidémiologie, A. gambiae - P. falciparum. Des polymorphismes de gènes de l'immunité du moustique contrôlant le niveau d'infection ont été identifiés par étude d'association. Certains d'entre eux ont un effet

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Wen, Tsung-Hsien. "Recurrent neural network language generation for dialogue systems." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/275648.

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Language is the principal medium for ideas, while dialogue is the most natural and effective way for humans to interact with and access information from machines. Natural language generation (NLG) is a critical component of spoken dialogue and it has a significant impact on usability and perceived quality. Many commonly used NLG systems employ rules and heuristics, which tend to generate inflexible and stylised responses without the natural variation of human language. However, the frequent repetition of identical output forms can quickly make dialogue become tedious for most real-world users.

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Tintarev, Nava. "Explaining recommendations." Thesis, Available from the University of Aberdeen Library and Historic Collections Digital Resources, 2009. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?application=DIGITOOL-3&owner=resourcediscovery&custom_att_2=simple_viewer&pid=59438.

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Parde, Natalie. "Reading with Robots: A Platform to Promote Cognitive Exercise through Identification and Discussion of Creative Metaphor in Books." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2018. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1248384/.

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Maintaining cognitive health is often a pressing concern for aging adults, and given the world's shifting age demographics, it is impractical to assume that older adults will be able to rely on individualized human support for doing so. Recently, interest has turned toward technology as an alternative. Companion robots offer an attractive vehicle for facilitating cognitive exercise, but the language technologies guiding their interactions are still nascent; in elder-focused human-robot systems proposed to date, interactions have been limited to motion or buttons and canned speech. The incap

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López-Hoffman, Laura, Jay Diffendorfer, Ruscena Wiederholt, et al. "Operationalizing the telecoupling framework for migratory species using the spatial subsidies approach to examine ecosystem services provided by Mexican free-tailed bats." RESILIENCE ALLIANCE, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/626546.

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Drivers of environmental change in one location can have profound effects on ecosystem services and human well-being in distant locations, often across international borders. The telecoupling provides a conceptual framework for describing these interactions-for example, locations can be defined as sending areas (sources of flows of ecosystem services, energy, or information) or receiving areas (recipients of flows). However, the ability to quantify feedbacks between ecosystem change in one area and societal benefits in other areas requires analytical approaches. We use spatial subsidies-an app

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Baineta, Rosendahl Maria. "Mänskliga rättigheter vid en naturkatastrof : En jämförelse mellan Haiti och Thailand." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-253786.

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There are three main purposes for this thesis; the first is to distinguish the possible violations that can occur in time of natural disasters. The second is to analyze if there is a correlation between political systems and how the effected country handles the aftermath of a natural disaster. The third purpose is to determine the role of the global community and what responsibility lies with them. The issue is often that the aid becomes the main object for discussion and analysis, but the focus rarely shifts to the effected State. Therefore the focus in this essay is the political system and

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Lenz, Anthony M. "COFFEE: Context Observer For Fast Enthralling Entertainment." DigitalCommons@CalPoly, 2014. https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/1244.

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Desktops, laptops, smartphones, tablets, and the Kinect, oh my! With so many devices available to the average consumer, the limitations and pitfalls of each interface are becoming more apparent. Swimming in devices, users often have to stop and think about how to interact with each device to accomplish the current tasks at hand. The goal of this thesis is to minimize user cognitive effort in handling multiple devices by creating a context aware hybrid interface. The context aware system will be explored through the hybridization of gesture and touch interfaces using a multi-touch coffee table

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Junior, Albino Adriano Alves Cordeiro. "Modelos e Métodos para interação homem-computador usando gestos manuais." Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica, 2009. http://www.lncc.br/tdmc/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=195.

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Esta tese aborda o problema de entender videos digitais algoritmicamente aplicado ao design de sistemas de Interação Homem-Computador (HCI do Inglês: Human-Computer Interaction) baseados na postura e movimento da mão. Tais sistemas são frequentemente referidos como um tipo de Interface Perceptual com o usuário (PUI do Inglês: Perceptual User Interface), que é uma interface que habilita o computador a detectar e reconhecer ações dos usuários de forma ativa. Acredita-se que PUI é um paradigma que irá suplementar o padrão atual, as Interfaces Gráficas com o Usuário (GUI do Inglês: Graphical User

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Figueiredo, Sara Cristina Albuquerque. "Development of a dialog system for interaction with robots." Master's thesis, Universidade de Aveiro, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/14030.

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Mestrado em Engenharia de Computadores e Telemática<br>Service robots operate in the same environment as humans and perform actions that a human usually performs. These robots must be able to operate autonomously in unknown and dynamic environments, as well as to maneuver with several people and know how to deal with them. By complying with these requirements, they are able to successfully address humans and fulfill their requests whenever they need assistance in a certain task. Natural language communication, including speech that is the most natural way of communication between humans, becom

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Stoia, Laura Cristina. "Noun phrase generation for situated dialogs." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1196196971.

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Prates, Jonathan Simon. "Gerenciamento de diálogo baseado em modelo cognitivo para sistemas de interação multimodal." Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, 2015. http://www.repositorio.jesuita.org.br/handle/UNISINOS/3348.

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Cordeiro, Junior Albino Adriano Alves. "Modelos e Métodos para interação homem-computador usando gestos manuais." Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica, 2009. https://tede.lncc.br/handle/tede/123.

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Made available in DSpace on 2015-03-04T18:51:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 thesisAlbino.pdf: 7858077 bytes, checksum: c060d6e1ca39e253884a9704701bd989 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-07-24<br>This thesis addresses the problem of algorithmic understanding of digital video applied to the design of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) systems based on hand posture and motion. Such systems are often referred as a type of Perceptual User Interface (PUI), which is an interface that enables the computer to detect and recognize users' actions in an active way. PUI is believed to be a paradigm that i

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Cuq, Marie. "L'alimentation en droit international." Thesis, Paris 10, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PA100128.

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En 2015, la FAO estimait qu’environ 795 millions de personnes sont sous-alimentées dans le monde. Les Nations Unies ont régulièrement qualifié cette situation « d’atteinte à la dignité humaine ». La coopération internationale est légitimement devenue dans ce contexte un moyen privilégié de lutter contre la malnutrition. Cependant, l’alimentation est au carrefour de nombreuses problématiques. Certains Etats sont soucieux d’affirmer leur autosuffisance alimentaire tandis que d’autres rencontrent des difficultés à gérer leurs surplus. Les enjeux de qualité sanitaire ou nutritionnelle côtoient les

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Stankevičius, Kęstutis. "Lygiagrečių tekstynų kūrimo interaktyvios informacinės sistemos." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2012. http://vddb.laba.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2012~D_20120723_105613-14222.

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Šio magistro darbo užduotis – apžvelgti šiuo metu labiausiai naudojamas vartotojo sąsajas, kurios padeda žmogui sąveikauti su kompiuteriais ir kitais įrenginiais bei sąsajų architektūros būdus, kurie palengvina programų kūrimą. Taip pat išanalizuoti šiuo metu plačiausiai naudojamus metodus interneto paslaugoms įgyvendinti, kad būtų rastas sprendimas, kaip interaktyvios informacinės sistemos galėtų bendrauti tarpusavyje be apribojimų reikiamam funkcionalumui gauti pasirenkant geriausią būdą saugoti ir atvaizduoti reikiamus programos duomenis kuo paprastesniu ir lankstesniu būdu. Sukurti lygiagr

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Ax, Jens, and Jesper Obrelius. "Vad har du på menyn? : Designriktlinjer för naturliga interaktioner och mobilitet i en stationär miljö." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för informatik (IK), 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-54236.

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Många företag har idag intranät som misslyckas med att möta användarnas behov och det mest förekommande klagomålet är att användarna inte hittar vad de letar efter. Detta leder till att företagen tappar både tid och pengar på att ha personal som inte kan nyttja systemet på ett effektivt sätt, vilket ofta leder till dyra utbildningskostnader och produktivitetsförluster. Den främsta anledningen till att information inte hittas är att det saknas en konsekvent navigation som ger tydliga indikationer på vart användaren ska ta sig för att finna det den letar efter. Design och str

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Friis, Cecilie. "Land use change in a globalised world." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/18180.

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Die weltweit steigende Nachfrage nach land-basierten Rohstoffen erhöht stetig den Druck auf Land und Landnutzung, vor allem in ressourcenreichen Frontierregionen. Eine gegenwärtige Erscheinungsform dessen stellen Transnationale Landnahmen dar, die den Landnutzungswandel vorantreiben und die landbasierte Lebensgrundlage insbesondere der ländlichen Bevölkerung in vielen Teilen der Welt massiv bedroht. Ziel dieser Doktorarbeit ist es, ein besseres Verständnis der komplexen Prozesse zu schaffen, die Landnahmen befördern. Erstens untersucht sie die rezente Konjunktur des Bananenanbaus in der Provin

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(6564809), Elisabeth Krueger. "Dynamics of Coupled Natural-Human-Engineered Systems: An Urban Water Perspective on the Sustainable Management of Security and Resilience." Thesis, 2019.

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<div>The security, resilience and sustainability of water supply in urban areas are of major concern in cities around the world. Their dynamics and long-term trajectories result from external change processes, as well as adaptive and maladaptive management practices aiming to secure urban livelihoods. This dissertation examines the dynamics of urban water systems from a social-ecological-technical systems perspective, in which infrastructure and institutions mediate the human-water-ecosystem relationship. </div><div><br></div><div>The three concepts of security, resilience and sustainability a

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(7484483), Soohyun Yang. "COUPLED ENGINEERED AND NATURAL DRAINAGE NETWORKS: DATA-MODEL SYNTHESIS IN URBANIZED RIVER BASINS." Thesis, 2019.

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<p></p><p></p><p></p><p>In urbanized river basins, sanitary wastewater and urban runoff (non-sanitary water) from urban agglomerations drain to complex engineered networks, are treated at centralized wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) and discharged to river networks. Discharge from multiple WWTPs distributed in urbanized river basins contributes to impairments of river water-quality and aquatic ecosystem integrity. The size and location of WWTPs are determined by spatial patterns of population in urban agglomerations within a river basin. Economic and engineering constraints determine the co

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LIN, YA-HSIEN, and 林亞賢. "The Coastal Lowland of the Tsengwen River as a Coupled Human-Natural System: Exploring the Traditional Ecological Wisdom." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/57m9u9.

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碩士<br>國立臺北大學<br>都市計劃研究所<br>107<br>Today, when extreme weather frequently causes large-scale disasters, the speed of human engineering technology progress cannot be fully overcome to prevent it. In the past, engineering technology has not yet developed to dominate all surface runoff. Society can only adapt as much as possible. Up to now, flood control projects have been widely applied to significantly reduce the frequency of flooding. However, the past flooding adjustment strategies have been neglected. But the current situation should be discussed. The adaptation strategy for disasters needs t

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Slott, Jordan Matthew. "Numerical Modeling of Coastline Evolution in an Era of Global Change." Diss., 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10161/661.

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<p>Scientists expect temperatures on Earth to get substantially warmer over the course of the 21st century, causing storm systems to intensify and sea-level rise to accelerate--these changes will likely have dramatic impacts on how the coastlines of tomorrow will evolve. Humans are also playing an increasingly important role in shaping Earth's coastal systems. Coastal scientists have only a general understanding of how these three factors--humans, storms, and sea-level rise--will alter the evolution of coastlines over the coming century, however. I conduct numerical modeling experiments to sh

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