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Managing developer interruption
(2018-12-01)
The high frequency of interruptions during cognitively-intense activities can be annoying and detrimental to deadline-driven work, such as software development. When developers are interrupted they not only lose productivity ...
Scalable immersive audio for virtual environments
(2018-05-01)
This thesis discusses the history of game sound and how it developed to become increasingly more immersive and realistic by accounting for the spatial aspects of sound. It then compares several 3D sound technologies before ...
Metabifurcation analysis of a phenomenological ventricular cell model
(2018-08-01)
Heart disease is the leading cause of death in America, and arrhythmia is considered one of the most important precursors of heart attacks. We cannot predict arrhythmia directly; however, it has been shown that cardiac ...
Galo: guided automated learning for query workload re-optimization
(2018-12-01)
Traditional query optimization techniques often fail when logical subtleties in business queries and schemas circumvent them. Query performance problem determination is typically performed manually in consultation with ...
Predicting mobile application power consumption
(2018-05-01)
We present an analysis of battery consumption to predict the average consumption rate of any given application. We explain the process and techniques used to gather the data, and present over 25000 readings collected over ...
Study of a 2 dimensional aggregation model with non-linear adaptations
(2018-08-01)
In this paper we will explore the impacts on collective animal motion of adding non-linearity to the animals’ turning rate in a 2-dimensional model of aggregation. The model in question was proposed by Fetecau and implements ...
Do extroverts create stronger passwords?
(2018-04-01)
We investigate the relationship between personality types and the strength of created and
selected passwords. For this purpose, we conducted an experiment on Amazon’s Mechanical
Turk, with 510 participants. Participants ...
Characterizing the potential energy surface of two dimensional and bulk materials using high dimensional neural network potentials
(2018-08-01)
Computing material properties at the ab-initio level of detail is computationally prohibitive for large systems or long timescales. As a result, such methods cannot be used to efficiently sample configuration space. Force ...
Achieving real-time video summarization on commodity hardware
(2018-04-01)
We present a system for automatic video summarization which is able to operate in
real-time on commodity hardware. This is achieved by performing segmentation
to divide a video into a series of small video clips, which are ...
Depletant induced attractions in red blood cells
(2018-10-01)
Red blood cells suspended in plasma are able to aggregate into linearly stacked rouleau. The aggregations can form complex clusters and branching networks which cause complications in various pathological cases. The self ...