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Objects of Immortality: Hairwork and Mourning in Victorian Visual Culture
(2018)Often misunderstood as purely an artifact of mourning, hairwork was exchanged as a living, sentimental token of love and friendship in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Hair was an artifact of affection and a material ... -
Observations of Sea-breeze Fronts Along the Houston Gulf Coast
(2013-12)Observations of sea breeze fronts along the Houston Gulf Coast were used to correlate meteorological conditions with remote sensing observations. The aim of this study was to find patterns in cloud and weather parameters ... -
Observer Based Parameter Estimation With Applications To Model Based Diagnostics
(2012-12)Presented in this manuscript is an observer-based method for consistent parameter estimation and the utility of these estimates in real-time model based diagnostics. Parameter estimation is realized through a calculation ... -
Occupant Detection and Tracking in Smart Buildings using Unobtrusive Sensing
(2018-05)Non-intrusive occupant identification enables numerous applications in smart buildings such device-free climate control and adjustment in buildings which would not only enhance occupants' comfort but also save energy. To ... -
Omics-Scale Bioinformatics Technology and Methods: from Data to Information
(2014-12)Omics-scale bioinformatics is an emerging discipline of science that plays an essential role in analyzing and interpreting large scale biological data. In this thesis, I developed three different omics-scale bioinformatics ... -
On Communication-Computation Overlap in High-Performance Computing
(2016-05)The number of compute nodes and cores per node have increased many fold on high end computer systems over the last decade. For a parallel application to scale to tens or even hundreds of thousands of processes, all ... -
ON COMPUTATIONAL TECHNIQUES FOR EXPLORING PARENT-INFANT DYNAMICS DURING SOCIAL INTERACTION
(2015-05)With the recent trend in developmental science toward new techniques and methods that involve sophisticated hardware and data processing, it is becoming more and more important to merge the many different subfields within ... -
On Enforcing Maximum Principles and Element-Wise Species Balance for Advective-Diffusive-Reactive Systems
(2015-08)This dissertation aims at developing robust numerical methodologies to solve advective-diffusive-reactive systems that provide accurate and physical solutions for a wide range of input data (e.g., Péclet and Damköhler ... -
On Holomorphic Sectional Curvature and Fibrations
(2016-12)In this dissertation, we prove the existence of a metric of definite holomorphic sectional curvature on certain compact fibrations. The basic idea for these curvature computations is to use the already available information ... -
On Scalable Collective I/O for High Performance Computing
(2013-12)The increasing number of cores per node has propelled the performance of leadershipscale systems from teraflops to petaflops. On the other hand, bandwidth of I/O subsystems have almost been stagnant. This has created a ... -
On the Microscopic Mechanism of Mesoscopic Aggregation in Protein Solutions
(2015-08)Mesoscopic clusters of protein-rich fluid are observed in solutions of several proteins. The molecular origin and thermodynamics underlying the formation of the clusters are poorly understood. Here we test the “complexation” ... -
On The Mind's Foreign Shores: The Origins of Henry A. Murray's Personology
(2012-08)Henry A. Murray (1893-1988) became one of America’s premier scholars in personality research. While most psychologists remember him as the co-developer of the Thematic Apperception Test, he and a large and devoted staff ... -
On the Positive Holomorphic Sectional Curvature of Projectivized Vector Bundles over Compact Complex Manifolds
(2016-05)In complex geometry, there are few known examples of, and few known results about, manifolds with metrics of positive curvature. For instance, the geometry of fiber bundles and total spaces of fibrations over positively-curved ... -
Online Health Information Seeking and the Deaf: An Examination of How the Deaf Utilize the Internet for Healthcare Purposes
(2015-05)Our modern world and digital technology are evolving at an unimaginable pace, which has greatly impacted healthcare. However, some populations such as the Deaf may not fully incorporate this evolution due to differences ... -
Online Multi Object Tracking Using Reinforcement Learning
(2018-04-27)This thesis presents an approach to online learning of Multi-Object Tracking (MOT). It is based on representations from a discriminatively trained Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and controlled by sequentially pursuing ... -
ONLINE REVIEWS AND PRODUCT QUALITY IN THE WEB HOSTING INDUSTRY
(2011-08)Consumers purchasing Internet-based services from companies that lack physical presences have a unique problem. They do not have access to the information that they require in order to discern the quality of the company's ... -
Onset and progression of with-the-rule astigmatism in children with infantile nystagmus syndrome
(Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 2010-01)Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the onset and progression of with-the-rule (WTR) astigmatism during the first 8 years of life in children with idiopathic infantile nystagmus syndrome (INS) or INS associated ... -
Open Scholarship Workshop
(2018-11-16)Slides from a workshop delivered Nov 16, 2018, in University of Houston Libraries' Digital Research Commons (DRC). This workshop addresses some of the core values and practices of open scholarship, primarily from a humanist ... -
"Open Your Doors": Alternate Tunings of Three Texas Bluesmen
(May 2017)As the blues developed across the southern United States different regional cultures emerged, connected by a set of musical influences but distinguished by the figures that represented them. The Texas country blues tradition ... -
OpenFlow-based Distributed and Fault-Tolerant Software Switch Architecture
(2014-05)We are living in the era where each of us is connected with each other virtually across the globe. We are sharing the information electronically over the internet every second of our day. There are many networking devices ...