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Frankel, Joe. "Linear dynamic models for automatic speech recognition." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/1087.

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The majority of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems rely on hidden Markov models (HMM), in which the output distribution associated with each state is modelled by a mixture of diagonal covariance Gaussians. Dynamic information is typically included by appending time-derivatives to feature vectors. This approach, whilst successful, makes the false assumption of framewise independence of the augmented feature vectors and ignores the spatial correlations in the parametrised speech signal. This dissertation seeks to address these shortcomings by exploring acoustic modelling for ASR with an application of a form of state-space model, the linear dynamic model (LDM). Rather than modelling individual frames of data, LDMs characterize entire segments of speech. An auto-regressive state evolution through a continuous space gives a Markovian model of the underlying dynamics, and spatial correlations between feature dimensions are absorbed into the structure of the observation process. LDMs have been applied to speech recognition before, however a smoothed Gauss-Markov form was used which ignored the potential for subspace modelling. The continuous dynamical state means that information is passed along the length of each segment. Furthermore, if the state is allowed to be continuous across segment boundaries, long range dependencies are built into the system and the assumption of independence of successive segments is loosened. The state provides an explicit model of temporal correlation which sets this approach apart from frame-based and some segment-based models where the ordering of the data is unimportant. The benefits of such a model are examined both within and between segments. LDMs are well suited to modelling smoothly varying, continuous, yet noisy trajectories such as found in measured articulatory data. Using speaker-dependent data from the MOCHA corpus, the performance of systems which model acoustic, articulatory, and combined acoustic-articulatory features are compared. As well as measured articulatory parameters, experiments use the output of neural networks trained to perform an articulatory inversion mapping. The speaker-independent TIMIT corpus provides the basis for larger scale acoustic-only experiments. Classification tasks provide an ideal means to compare modelling choices without the confounding influence of recognition search errors, and are used to explore issues such as choice of state dimension, front-end acoustic parametrization and parameter initialization. Recognition for segment models is typically more computationally expensive than for frame-based models. Unlike frame-level models, it is not always possible to share likelihood calculations for observation sequences which occur within hypothesized segments that have different start and end times. Furthermore, the Viterbi criterion is not necessarily applicable at the frame level. This work introduces a novel approach to decoding for segment models in the form of a stack decoder with A* search. Such a scheme allows flexibility in the choice of acoustic and language models since the Viterbi criterion is not integral to the search, and hypothesis generation is independent of the particular language model. Furthermore, the time-asynchronous ordering of the search means that only likely paths are extended, and so a minimum number of models are evaluated. The decoder is used to give full recognition results for feature-sets derived from the MOCHA and TIMIT corpora. Conventional train/test divisions and choice of language model are used so that results can be directly compared to those in other studies. The decoder is also used to implement Viterbi training, in which model parameters are alternately updated and then used to re-align the training data.
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Jiang, Yugang. "Large scale semantic concept detection, fusion, and selection for domain adaptive video search /." access full-text access abstract and table of contents, 2009. http://libweb.cityu.edu.hk/cgi-bin/ezdb/thesis.pl?phd-cs-b23749957f.pdf.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--City University of Hong Kong, 2009.<br>"Submitted to Department of Computer Science in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 145-161)
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Wei, Xiaoyong. "Concept-based video search by semantic and context reasoning /." access full-text access abstract and table of contents, 2009. http://libweb.cityu.edu.hk/cgi-bin/ezdb/thesis.pl?phd-cs-b23750509f.pdf.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--City University of Hong Kong, 2009.<br>"Submitted to Department of Computer Science in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 122-133)
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Wysoski, Simei Gomes. "Evolving spiking neural networks for adaptive audiovisual pattern recognition a thesis submitted to Auckland University of Technology in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), 2008." Click here to access this resource online, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10292/390.

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Cordero, Gamboa Nadia. "Le devenir professionnel des jeunes diplômés étrangers en France." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018USPCC013/document.

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Les migrations professionnelle et étudiante ont été abordées sous l’angle des réseaux, de la socialisation ou des échanges entre les pays d’origine et la France. Cette recherche anthropologique, quant à elle, s’attache à analyser la situation professionnelle des jeunes diplômés de master ou de doctorat issus de pays n’appartenant pas à l’Union européenne. Ceux-ci souhaitent s’engager dans une activité professionnelle en France, toutefois « la question du retour au pays d’origine se pose souvent à l’issue de leurs cursus universitaire ». Pour eux, l’entrée dans le monde professionnel prend une dimension administrative très marquée. Ils se trouvent confrontés à des obligations administratives (pendant leurs études, dans la vie quotidienne ou au travail), à des contraintes d’insertion professionnelle ou de poursuite de carrière (postes réservés aux ressortissants de l’Union européenne, problèmes pour changer de statut) en passant par des difficultés à établir un projet professionnel après l’obtention de leur diplôme. Dans le cadre d’une démarche anthropologique, un travail d’immersion est mené au sein d’associations représentatives des doctorants travaillant sur la valorisation du parcours doctoral et d’associations qui informent et apportent leur soutien aux jeunes diplômés étrangers, afin d’appréhender la manière dont ils envisagent la suite de leur parcours en France et de connaître la manière dont ils le vivent<br>Professional and student migrations have been considered from the point of view of networks, socialization and exchanges between countries of origin and France. For its part, this anthropological study focuses on analysis of the professional status of recent foreign graduates of a PhD or a master degree coming from non european union countries. Those foreign graduates wish to start a professional activity in France, however "the return home issue often comes up at the end of their university curriculum". For them, entering the labor market takes on a strong administrative dimension. They have to face administrative obligations (during their studies, in their everyday life or at work), constraints to integrate the labor market or to carry on with their career (reserved positions for citizens of the european union, problems to get a change of legal status) or even difficulties to determine a professional project after graduating. Within an anthropological approach, an immersion work is led in representative associations of PhD students interested in the promotion of PhD experience and in associations that provide information and support to recent foreign graduates, in order to apprehend the way they consider the continuation of their experience in France and to know how they feel about it
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Frerichs, Gundrun. "Balancing recognition and disrespect recovery as the process of identity formation : a New Zealand study of how services shape recovery from sexual abuse : a thesis submitted to Auckland University of Technology in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), 2007 /." Click here to access this resource online, 2007. http://aut.researchgateway.ac.nz/handle/10292/344.

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Sandford, Adam. "Configural procesing in familiar face recognition." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2014. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=225680.

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Face recognition is widely held to rely on 'configural processing', recently defined as an analysis of metric distances between features. Given that face recognition concerns those faces of people who we know, it is suggested that our unique representations of familiar faces contain information about these metric distances. The experiments in this thesis examine the hypothesis that face recognition relies on 'configural processing' by comparing performance between familiar and unfamiliar faces in a range of tasks. Experiments in the first half of the thesis investigate the effects of geometric distortions on different face tasks. Experiments in the second half examine familiarity advantages in rescaling distorted facial images. The main findings are that face recognition might not rely on simple measures of metric distances between features, and that observers show a surprising degree of tolerance to configural changes applied to familiar faces. This suggests that an operationalisation of configural processing will need to consider other measures that do not survive the image deformations tested in this thesis. The findings are discussed in relation to existing research on familiar face recognition as distinct from unfamiliar face perception.
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Coleman, Matthew Charles. "Pattern recognition of historical fermentation data for optimization of recombinant protein production /." For electronic version search Digital dissertations database. Restricted to UC campuses. Access is free to UC campus dissertations, 2005. http://uclibs.org/PID/11984.

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McKenzie, Christopher Gordon Jemison. "Candida albicans recognition by and escape from macrophages." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2011. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=167784.

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Disruption of <i>N-</i>mannosylation and <i>O</i>-mannosylation on the <i>C. albicans</i> outer cell wall increased the rate by which <i>C. albicans</i> is ingested by macrophages. Conversely, disruption of phosphomannosylation reduced the rate of <i>C. albicans</i> is phagocytosis. Alterations to the outer cell wall and genetic or chemical inhibition of hyphal morphogenesis in <i>C. albicans</i> resulted in significantly abrogated macrophage killing <i>in vitro</i>. Disruption of <i>C. albicans </i>ability to tolerate oxidative stresses also perturbed its ability to escape from and kill macrophages. The engagement of specific receptors on the macrophage surface is an essential component of <i>C. albicans</i> recognition and clearance. In the presence of serum, blocking pattern recognition receptors associated with specific fungal cell wall epitopes (Mannose Receptor, Dectin 1 and CD16/32) resulted in an initial decrease in phagocytosis and decreased macrophage killing. Blocking macrophage pattern recognition receptors using soluble components of the<i> C. albicans</i> cell wall resulted in decreased phagocytosis under serum free conditions of <i>O-</i>linked mannans only, and reduced macrophage killing for macrophages pre-exposed to <i>N-</i>mannan and laminarin. The presence of serum increased the rate of uptake for macrophages pre-exposed to <i>N-</i>mannan and laminarin, and had no affect upon macrophage killing. The interaction of <i>C. albicans</i> cell wall epitopes with macrophage pattern recognition receptors, coupled with <i>C. albicans</i> ability to respond to stresses encountered after ingestion are critical determinants of the macrophage’s ability to ingest and process <i>C. albicans.</i>
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Masato, Daniele. "Incremental activity and plan recognition for human teams." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2012. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=186768.

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Anticipating human subjects' intentions and information needs is considered one of the ultimate goals of Artificial Intelligence. Activity and plan recognition contribute to this goal by studying how low-level observations about subjects and the environment in which they act can be linked to a high-level plan representation. This task is challenging in a dynamic and uncertain environment; the environment may change while the subjects are reasoning about it, and the effects of the subjects' interactions cannot be predicted with certainty. Humans generally struggle to enact plans and maintain situation awareness in such circumstances, even when they work in teams towards a common objective. Intelligent software assistants can support human teams by monitoring their activities and plan progress, thus relieving them from some of the cognitive burden they experience. The assistants' design needs to keep into account that teams can form and disband quickly in response to environmental changes, and that the course of action may change during plan execution. It is also crucial to efficiently and incrementally process a stream of observations in order to enable online prediction of those intentions and information needs. In this thesis we propose an incremental approach for team composition and activity recognition based on probabilistic graphical models. We show that this model can successfully learn team formations and behaviours in highly dynamic domains, and that classification can be performed in polynomial time. We evaluate our model within a simulated scenario provided by an open-source computer game. In addition, we discuss an incremental approach to plan recognition that exploits the results yielded by activity recognition to assess a team's course of action. We show how this model can account for incomplete or inconsistent knowledge about recognised activities, and how it can be integrated into an existing mechanism for plan recognition.
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Lawrie, Louisa. "Adult ageing and emotion perception." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2018. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=239235.

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Older adults are worse than young adults at perceiving emotions in others. However, it is unclear why these age-related differences in emotion perception exist. The studies presented in this thesis investigated the cognitive, emotional and motivational factors influencing age differences in emotion perception. Study 1 revealed no age differences in mood congruence effects: sad faces were rated as more sad when participants experienced negative mood. In contrast, Study 2 demonstrated that sad mood impaired recognition accuracy for sad faces. Together, findings suggested that different methods of assessing emotion perception engage the use of discrete processing strategies. These mood influences on emotion perception are similar in young and older adults. Studies 3 and 4 investigated age differences in emotion perception tasks which are more realistic and contextualised than still photographs of facial expressions. Older adults were worse than young at recognising emotions from silent dynamic displays; however, older adults outperformed young in a film task that displayed emotional information in multiple modalities (Study 3). Study 4 suggested that the provision of vocal information was particularly beneficial to older adults. Furthermore, vocabulary mediated the relationship between age and performance on the contextual film task. However, age-related deficits in decoding basic emotions were established in a separate multi-modal video-based task. In addition, age differences in the perception of neutral expressions were also examined. Neutral expressions were interpreted as displaying positive emotions by older adults. Using a dual-task paradigm, Study 5 suggested that working memory processes are involved in decoding emotions. However, age-related declines in working memory were not driving age effects in emotion perception. Neuropsychological, motivational and cognitive explanations for these results are evaluated. Implications of these findings for older adults' social functioning are discussed.
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Paget, Jane Elizabeth. "Dissecting the mechanism of substrate recognition by ψC31 integrase". Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2014. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=210800.

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φC31 integrase (Int) and other site-specific recombinases enable controlled and precise genetic manipulations of complex genomes. Int mediates integration of the φC31 genome into the genome of its Streptomyces host. Recombination occurs between specific attachment sites; attB and attP. Int binds attP and attB with similar affinities, despite significant sequence differences. The mechanism through which Int recognises its substrates is not fully understood. To study DNA binding in vivo in the absence of recombination, we employed the challenge phage assay. In this assay, binding by Int to attP or attB results in a high frequency of P22-1000 lysogen formation in Salmonella. When Int has lost binding activity, fewer lysogens are generated. A randomly mutated integrase library has been screened using this assay. A number of the mutants showed a reduction in binding to both attB and attP or just to attB. Point mutations in these integrases largely clustered either a putative zinc finger or to the pfam07508 ‘recombinase' domain. To validate the phage challenge assay data, the binding defective Int mutants were purified and tested in in vitro DNA binding experiments. Int mutants displayed reduced binding to attB and/or attP compared to attL or attR. The purified proteins were used in in vitro recombination assays. Mutants in the recombinase domain generally showed reduced integration whilst demonstrating almost wild type gp3 dependant excision. These data combined with data from others suggested two DNA binding domains in Int; the recombinases domain and the zinc finger. A truncated mutant Int, IntV371SUGA had previously been shown to bind DNA with low affinity. The mutations in the recombinase domain were transferred to IntV371SUGA to test their effect on DNA binding. I suggest that the recombinase motif is intimately involved in DNA recognition and discrimination between the att sites required for phage integratation and excision.
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Wang, Yonglian. "Speech Recognition under Stress." Available to subscribers only, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1968468151&sid=9&Fmt=2&clientId=1509&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Cameron, Isobel M. "Recognition of depression in primary care : associated factors and outcomes." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2010. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=202543.

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Hauksdóttir, Herborg. "Retinoic acid receptors : the effects of differences in DNA recognition and corepressor binding on transcriptional regulation /." For electronic version search Digital dissertations database. Restricted to UC campuses. Access is free to UC campus dissertations, 2002. http://uclibs.org/PID/11984.

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McMahon, Michelle J. "Three-dimensional integration of remotely sensed imagery and subsurface geological data." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 1993. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=216342.

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The standard approach to integration of satellite imagery and sub-surface geological data has been the comparison of a map-view (two-dimensional) image interpretation with a selection of sub-surface cross-sections. The relationship between surface and subsurface geology can be better understood through quantitative three-dimensional (3-D) computer modelling. This study tests techniques to integrate a 3-D digital terrain model with 3-D sub-surface interpretations. Data types integrated, from a portion of the Paradox Basin, SE Utah, USA, include Landsat TM imagery, digital elevation data (DEM), sub-surface gravity and magnetic data, and wellbore data. Models are constructed at a variety of data resolutions. Combined modelling of basement and topographic features suggests the traditional lineament analysis approach to structural interpretation is over-simplistic. Integration of DEM and image data displayed in 3-D proved more effective for lithology discrimination than a map-view approach. Automated strike and dip interpretation algorithms require DEM data at resolutions of the order of 30 metres or better. Methods are described for the creation of fault-plane maps from three-dimensional displays of surface and subsurface data. The approach used in this study of linking existing software packages (Erdas image processing system, CPS3 mapping package and SGM and GTM three-dimensional geological modelling packages) is recommended for future studies. The methodology developed in this study is beneficial to interpretation of imagery data in frontier exploration areas.
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Al-Dahiyat, Emad Abdel Rahim. "Towards legal recognition of intelligent software agents : should we think outside the box?" Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2006. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=236213.

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It is argued that it is no longer convincing to classify the advanced generations of software agents as passive transmission tools, and that the traditional paradigm of face-to-face communication may not readily fit the intelligent agent technology that is evolving with an ultimate aim of eliminating any effective human involvement in the electronic contracting process. It is also argued that the idea of custody might seem inappropriate where the harm is a function of many factors, or when an electronic agent has a malfunction or operates in a manner unintended, unauthorized or unforeseen. It is argued that the introduction of “one-size” regulation without sufficient consideration of the nature of electronic agents or the environments in which they communicate might lead to a divorce between the legal theory and technological practice. In the third part, it is concluded that it is incorrect to deal with electronic agents as if they were either legal persons or nothing without in any way accounting for the fact that there are various kinds of electronic agents endowed with different levels of autonomy, mobility, intelligence, and sophistication. Throughout this thesis, we insist on the importance of establishing a reciprocal cooperation between law and technology so that law interferes in the earlier stages, rather than waiting the technological outcomes and then struggling to accommodate novel issues in an outdated legal framework. Law is also strongly advised to take into account the role every party plays in producing the action in question, consider the type of problem that caused the damage, and then use different standards of responsibility depending whether the action is done autonomously by an unattended software, or whether it is done automatically by an attended software. On the other hand, this thesis advocates that it has become necessary to re-evaluate the legal status and role of intelligent software agents in electronic commerce.
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Seif, Haley. "Contesting Mexican (im)migrant illegalization and the mobile struggle for recognition : an ethnography of California state legislative politics after Proposition 187 /." For electronic version search Digital dissertations database. Restricted to UC campuses. Access is free to UC campus dissertations, 2004. http://uclibs.org/PID/11984.

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Merrick, Georgina. "Transgenic models of tauopathies and Alzheimer's disease : an investigation into motor learning and recognition memory." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2010. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=165825.

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The first focus of this thesis was to determine whether motor learning and recognition memory was intact in Line 66+/+ mice, a mouse model which mimics neurodegenerative disease coupled with tau aggregation. Line 66+/+ display positive tau pathology in forebrain, hindbrain and spinal cord by 5 weeks of age. At 4 months of age Line 66+/+ mice were impaired in the motor learning task suggesting that tau pathology had decreased motor performance. Treatment with an anti tau aggregating drug reversed motor learning deficits in Line 66+/+ mice. At 5 months of age Line 66+/+ mice exhibited deficits in the social recognition. This result indicates that transgenic influences on Line 66+/+ mouse performance had extended to social memory function. The second focus of this thesis was investigating recognition memory of a novel triple transgenic model of AD, the PLB1 mouse model. Generation of the PLB1 mouse model came from the realisation that many of current mouse models for AD display major disadvantages in the fact that there is no control for the disturbance caused by the insertion of the transgene(s) with many of them lacking age-specificity, as well as brain-region and cell-type specificity. PLB1Double mice were generated using a knock-in procedure for integration of a single construct containing mutated APP and tau under the control of a forebrain- and age-specific CaMKII promoter. PLB1Double mice were crossed with a PSEN expressing mouse line generating the PLB1Triple line. APP and tau transgenes were flanked by floxed and flirted allowing direct comparison between animals containing one, two or three AD-relevant transgenes. PLB1Triple mice exhibit neuropathological changes by 6 months of age. PLB1mice displayed deficits in behavioural paradigms from 8 months of age suggesting that transgene inclusion had affected recognition of spatial, object and social information.
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Spencer, Timothy. "Digital imaging of the retina." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 1992. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=124209.

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In this study, fluorescein angiograms of the ocular fundus have been digitised to enable them to be processed and analysed by computer. A fully automated technique for counting microaneurysms (MA) in these images was developed with a view to producing an objective, accurate and highly repeatable way of quantifying these lesions. Prior to any other image processing, a number of pre-processing stages were applied in order to compensate for non-uniformaties and to remove the background fluorescence component present in all the images. Matched filters modelled on two-dimensional Gaussian distributions were employed to detect MA in the 'shade-corrected' images. A binary image representation of the vascular network was constructed. This 'vessel mask', used in conjunction with the original match-filtered images, enabled MA to be detected by grey-level thresholding the filtered images. The resulting binary objects could then be counted by the computer as MA. The automated technique was assessed by comparing the computer's results for six fluorescein angiograms with MA counts obtained by ophthalmologists analysing both analogue and digital images. The performance of both man and machine were judged with respect to 'gold standards' compiled from prints of the original negatives. The best results were obtained by the clinicians analysing the analogue prints, although they differed greatly in their ability to detect microaneurysms. The computer performed better than the clinicians when they were counting MA in the digital images and produced highly repeatable results. To improve the performance of the automated technique, images were captured at approximately four times the previous spatial resolution and a smaller area of each image was analysed. Additionally, more complex image-processing techniques were employed to increase the accuracy of the computer analysis. Although the performance of the automated technique was improved, the computer results only matched those of the clinicians' analogue analyses for two of the images.
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Donnan, Gemma Louise Jean. "An investigation of cultural variations in emotion experience, regulation and expression in two Scottish settings." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2017. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=234053.

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Individuals from Aberdeen/Aberdeenshire and Glasgow/Greater Glasgow have anecdotally been thought to differ in their expression of emotion with the former group being thought to be less emotionally expressive that the latter. The current thesis carried out three studies to empirically examine this. A systematic review of measures of emotion experience, regulation, expression and alexithymia was carried out to establish their psychometric properties. The results of the review lead to recommendations for which scales to use within future studies of the thesis. The second study used measures of emotion experience (Positive Affect Negative Affect Schedule), emotion regulation (Emotion Regulation Questionnaire) and alexithymia (Toronto Alexithymia Scale-20), identified within the review, in samples of adults from Aberdeen/Aberdeenshire and Glasgow/Greater Glasgow. A multiple indicators multiple causes model was used to examine group differences in response to these measures, this method allowed examination of differences on factor means and individual indicator items on the scales. It was found that Aberdeen/Aberdeenshire participants demonstrated a higher factor mean on the Negative Affect (NA) factor of the PANAS; the Aberdeen/Aberdeenshire participants also endorsed an individual item on the ERQ (Item 5) and the TAS-20 (Item 1) more than the Glasgow/Greater Glasgow participants. Finally, a qualitative study was carried out in which participants from each group recalled events related to six emotions. In describing events related to fear, anger and sadness, Aberdeen/Aberdeenshire participants tended to use positive statements that downplayed events related to these emotions, while the Glasgow/Greater Glasgow participants tended to use 'catastrophic' statements when describing events related to the same emotions. This may indicate differing cultural models between these populations.
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Houston, Kate Alexandra. "The emotional eyewitness : an investigation into the effects of anger on eyewitness recall and recognition performance." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2010. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=165532.

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The present thesis examined the effects of anger on the completeness and accuracy of eyewitness free and cued recall and recognition performance. Anger was revealed by a recent survey as the emotion experienced by the majority of eyewitnesses to crime, so is particularly important in this context. Previous literature has tended to use generic concepts such as ‘emotion’ or ‘stress’ to investigate emotion effects, but this thesis sought to examine the effect of the specific emotion of anger on memory. Experiment 1 tested theoretical predictions regarding the effects of anger on encoding and retrieval processes. In line with these predictions, angry participants provide more complete descriptions of a perpetrator compared to neutral participants. However, angry participants provide less complete descriptions of the perpetrator’s actions than their neutral counterparts. This pattern of results was replicated throughout all experiments in this thesis. Experiment 2 revealed that anger has no effect on the completeness and accuracy of victim descriptions. Experiment 3 found that the pattern of anger effects observed for a younger adult sample were also found when older adults were tested. This prompted a statistical comparison of younger and older adults which found very few age effects and no interactions between age of the participant, experience of anger and the category of detail recalled. The final experiment thoroughly investigated the effects of anger on participants’ ability to recognise the perpetrator from a photographic lineup. The main findings of this thesis suggest that while angry eyewitnesses may be able to provide a more complete description of the perpetrator, they may be less able to describe what he did, and less able to accurately recognise him from a lineup than neutral eyewitnesses. These findings are discussed in terms of cognitive and meta-cognitive models of encoding and retrieval.
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Tarawneh, Musleh Ahmad Musa. "Recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitration agreements under the New York Convention on Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards of 1958." Thesis, Available from the University of Aberdeen Library and Historic Collections Digital Resources, 1998. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?application=DIGITOOL-3&owner=resourcediscovery&custom_att_2=simple_viewer&pid=59754.

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Yuan, Yu. "Image-based gesture recognition with support vector machines." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file, 155 p, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1601517921&sid=2&Fmt=2&clientId=8331&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Neill, Emily S. "Attraction to the Psychologically Healthy Workplace (PHW): An Examination Focused on Personal Values, Health, and Industry Type." Xavier University Psychology / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=xupsy162747800552569.

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Al, Qaraghuli Mohammed. "Investigating the antibody recognition of different hapten classes using a combination of phage display and protein modelling." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2014. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=214816.

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Reiss, Jason Edward. "Object substitution masking what is the neural fate of the unreportable target? /." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file, 200 p, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1397916081&sid=9&Fmt=2&clientId=8331&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Sethi, Ricky Jaineet. "A physics-based, neurobiologically-inspired stochastic framework for activity recognition." Diss., [Riverside, Calif.] : University of California, Riverside, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=0&did=1957340981&SrchMode=2&sid=1&Fmt=2&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1268416562&clientId=48051.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Riverside, 2009.<br>Includes abstract. Title from first page of PDF file (viewed March 11, 2010). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Includes bibliographical references (p. ). Also issued in print.
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Lee, Myoung Jae. "Increasing the recognition of the healing ministry through teaching /." Free full text of English translation is available to ORU patrons only; click to view:, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1268599481&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=456&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Applied research project (D. Min.)--School of Theology and Missions, Oral Roberts University, 2006.<br>Includes abstract and vita. Translated from Korean. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 156-163).
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Hantehzadeh, Neda. "3-D Face Recognition using the Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT)." Available to subscribers only, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1964658571&sid=3&Fmt=2&clientId=1509&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Anyichie, Chika Stella. "Recognition and enforcement of an arbitral award : a comparative analysis of England and Wales, Nigeria and United States of America." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2013. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=197759.

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The thesis advocates for recognition and enforcement of arbitral award, considering the requirements of and procedures for the recognition and enforcement of an arbitral award. International arbitration is the preferred mechanism for resolving oil and gas disputes due to its counted advantages over litigation. Most times, the party’s concern is on how the outcome of the arbitration proceeding is to be secured and the procedure to take. This thesis analyzes the legal frameworks for the recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitral awards in England and Wales, Nigeria and United States, laying emphasis on the approach to the implementation, similarities and dissimilarities that exist. In addition, it considers whether the procedure for enforcement reflects the objectives of achieving the effect of an award or if the procedure draws a balance with parties’ choice and restriction of parties’choice. That is to say, there are examples where the procedure for recognition and enforcement is binding without further consideration on the interest of the awardholder or the award-loser (this is analyzed on the aspect of Multi-door courthouse (MDC) system). Within this area of research, relevant international conventions on the recognition and enforcement of an arbitral award are considered, bearing in mind the central aim of this research: legal effect of an award and impact of the conventions in the England and Wales, Nigeria and United States legal systems. The Conventions discussed have guiding principles for recognition and enforcement of award and the countries used as case study have ratified these Convention. However, the thesis evaluates more closely on whether the national laws comply with best international practice standard especially as embodied in New York Convention 1958 (NYC). The NYC is praised as “utmost enactment”, and has been incorporated in the England, Nigeria and United States legal systems. The aim of NYC is the harmonization of the recognition and enforcement procedure among Contracting States, through stipulating for the procedure and grounds for refusal of enforcement of award under its articles III, IV and V. It is appropriate to examine the national courts reactions to these grounds and impact of the NYC standard grounds for refusal of arbitral award to the oil and gas disputes. This research considers whether the national laws used as case study comply with the NYC procedural standard. The thesis finds that the national laws are generally consistent with the NYC. Furthermore, the interpretation given by these legal systems are narrowly or broadly construed, which means consistency is at different levels. The thesis concludes that the effective and appropriate implementation of the recognition and enforcement of award by the judicial system and arbitrators will determine the extent of the law’s efficiency and achievement of the legal effect of an award. In addition, the Courts, parties and arbitrators are enjoined to pay utmost regard to the overriding concept of the law of the recognition and enforcement of an arbitral award.
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Talwar, Gaurav. "HMM-based non-intrusive speech quality and implementation of Viterbi score distribution and hiddenness based measures to improve the performance of speech recognition." Laramie, Wyo. : University of Wyoming, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1288654981&sid=7&Fmt=2&clientId=18949&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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You, Hong. "Robust automatic speech recognition algorithms for dealing with noise and accent." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1997778571&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Fullenkamp, Adam M. "A hybrid gait recognition solution using video and ground contact information." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file, 123 p, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1397912071&sid=12&Fmt=2&clientId=8331&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Adla, Shalini. "Characterization of the neural cell recognition molecule L1 in breast cancer cells and its role in breast cancer cell motility." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file, 125 p, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1459905751&sid=5&Fmt=2&clientId=8331&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Li, Cui. "Image quality assessment using algorithmic and machine learning techniques." Thesis, Available from the University of Aberdeen Library and Historic Collections Digital Resources. Restricted: no access until June 2, 2014, 2009. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?application=DIGITOOL-3&owner=resourcediscovery&custom_att_2=simple_viewer&pid=26521.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Aberdeen University, 2009.<br>With: An image quality metric based in corner, edge and symmetry maps / Li Cui, Alastair R. Allen. With: An image quality metric based on a colour appearance model / Li Cui and Alastair R. Allen. ACIVS / J. Blanc-Talon et al. eds. 2008 LNCS 5259, 696-707. Includes bibliographical references.
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Wojtowicz, Woj Maul. "The Drosophila Dscam gene encodes a vast repertoire of neuronal recognition molecules." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1610045451&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Mujumdar, Monali. "Estimation of the number of syllables using hidden Markov models and design of a dysarthria classifier using global statistics of speech." Laramie, Wyo. : University of Wyoming, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1283963331&sid=6&Fmt=2&clientId=18949&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Gao, Feng. "Complex medical event detection using temporal constraint reasoning." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2010. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=153271.

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The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) is a hospital ward specializing in looking after premature and ill newborn babies. Working in such a busy and complex environment is not easy and sophisticated equipment is used to help the daily work of the medical staff . Computers are used to analyse the large amount of monitored data and extract hidden information, e.g. to detect interesting events. Unfortunately, one group of important events lacks features that are recognizable by computers. This group includes the actions taken by the medical sta , for example two actions related to the respiratory system: inserting an endotracheal tube into a baby’s trachea (ET Intubating) or sucking out the tube (ET Suctioning). These events are very important building blocks for other computer applications aimed at helping the sta . In this research, a strategy for detecting these medical actions based on contextual knowledge is proposed. This contextual knowledge specifies what other events normally occur with each target event and how they are temporally related to each other. The idea behind this strategy is that all medical actions are taken for di erent purposes hence may have di erent procedures (contextual knowledge) for performing them. This contextual knowledge is modelled using a point based framework with special attention given to various types of uncertainty. Event detection consists in searching for consistent matching between a model based on the contextual knowledge and the observed event instances - a Temporal Constraint Satisfaction Problem (TCSP). The strategy is evaluated by detecting ET Intubating and ET Suctioning events, using a specially collected NICU monitoring dataset. The results of this evaluation are encouraging and show that the strategy is capable of detecting complex events in an NICU.
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Knight, Kenneth. "Recognition through Misrecognition: Kant, Hegel and the Problem of United Life in Modernity." Available to subscribers only, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1885544311&sid=11&Fmt=2&clientId=1509&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Baldwin, Shaun. "Racial categorization of ethnically ambiguous faces and the cross-race effect." Click here for download, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1288668691&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=3260&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Narayanan, Bharath Krishnan. "A new strategy for speech recognition through the parametric classification of ear pressure signals /." Available to subscribers only, 2005. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1079666561&sid=6&Fmt=2&clientId=1509&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Onyper, Serge V. "Dual-process signal detection theory in item recognition: evidence for some-or-none recollection /." Related electronic resource:, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1407689661&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=3739&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Panchapagesan, Sankaran. "Frequency warping by linear transformation, and vocal tract inversion for speaker normalization in automatic speech recognition." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1610480121&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Gandotra, Sheetal. "The roles of mycobacterial proteasome : and host intracellular pattern recognition receptor NOD2 during tuberculosis in mice /." Access full-text from WCMC, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1539822201&sid=3&Fmt=2&clientId=8424&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Kimaru, Irene W. "Characterization of chiral interactions by fluorescence anisotropy and development of fluorescence sensors for recognition of molecular species /." Available to subscribers only, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1212787701&sid=15&Fmt=2&clientId=1509&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Miyahira, Andrea Kiem Hwa Malawaina. "The regulation of type I interferon responses to pathogen recognition receptor pathways by TANK-binding kinase-1." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1693160891&sid=7&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Nandakumar, Jayakrishnan. "Discrimination of RNA versus DNA by an RNA ligase and distinct modes of substrate recognition by DNA ligases /." Access full-text from WCMC:, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1428838891&sid=13&Fmt=2&clientId=8424&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Teng, Yan. "Objective speech intelligibility assessment using speech recognition and bigram statistics with application to low bit-rate codec evaluation." Laramie, Wyo. : University of Wyoming, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1456283581&sid=5&Fmt=2&clientId=18949&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Suh, Ik Seon. "The effects of audit committee financial accounting expertise and recognition versus disclosure on chief audit executives' tolerance for financial misstatements /." Available to subscribers only, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1791777381&sid=2&Fmt=2&clientId=1509&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 2009.<br>"School of Accountancy." Keywords: Audit committee, Financial accounting expertise, Internal auditors, Misstatements, Power, Recognition vs. disclosure, Accounting expertise, Financial misstatements. Includes bibliographical references (p. 128-144). Also available online.
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