College of Science and Engineering

Evaluating Sentiment Analysis Mechanism for Labelled Amazon Reviews

Trada, Parth Sureshbhai; 0009-0000-8911-778X (2023-05-09)

Sentiment analysis has become increasingly important in understanding customer opinions, feedback, and preferences towards products and services, particularly on marketplaces like Amazon. Researchers have proposed various ...

Federated Learning to Build Sentiment Analysis Models for Amazon Review Datasets without Labels

Kadve, Ritu; 0000-0002-8869-4937 (2023-05-09)

In Natural Language Processing, one of the most popular tasks is sentiment analysis which aims to predict the sentiment of a text. It has many practical applications in industries such as marketing and customer service. ...

Effectiveness of Drones for Freshwater Turtle Surveys Aimed Toward Detecting the Cryptic Western Chicken Turtle. (Deirochelys Reticularia Miaria).

Nagro, Jason; 0009-0005-1991-4309 (2023-04-28)

The rise in the use of drones in wildlife research has shown promising results for conservation practices. Few studies have focused on drone surveys for aquatic freshwater turtles. This study evaluated the effectiveness ...

Parameterizable Design on Convolutional Neural Networks with Chisel Hardware Construction Language

Madineni, Mukesh Chowdary (2023-04-21)

This thesis presents a parameterizable design generator on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) using Chisel hardware construction language (HCL). Chisel HCL is an open-source embedded domain-specific language (created and ...

Talk Code-y To Me: An analysis of speech to text systems for consideration of use in writing software

Tijerina, Isaac Guillermo (2022-05-16)

This study proposes to create an application to allow ease of Speech to Text (STT) conversion specifically for programmers to make programming more accessible to those with disabilities. Recently there is being a movement ...

Swarm intelligence application in solving robot inverse kinematic problems

Danaci, Hasan; 0000-0002-2628-1926 (2021-07-28)

This dissertation aims to find the inverse kinematic solution for redundant serial manipulators using the meta-heuristic method, Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm (PSO). Primarily this paper focuses on moving the ...

Reviewtag: Tagging Amazon Negative Product Review with Deep Learning

Kumari, Priyanka; 0009-0001-5823-7620 (2023-05-19)

The success of Amazon sellers hinges on high ratings and meeting customer needs with exceptional products and services. However, the large scale of negative reviews pose significant challenges that require careful analysis ...

Examining the ecological function of small-scale living shorelines in Galveston Bay

Gilbert, Ryan Scott; 0000-0002-0334-2140 (2022-12-01)

Living shorelines are an increasingly popular shoreline protection strategy. In contrast to traditional armoring techniques such as concrete bulkheads, living shorelines are designed to provide the many ecological functions ...

Shock-Induced Geochemical Variations in the Keplerite-Bearing Assemblages of Tissint and Intergrown Apatite-Merrillite Assemblages of ALH 84001,146

Slabic, Ane; 0000-0003-2272-4467 (2022-12-01)

Shock metamorphism describes changes (physical, chemical) that occur to materials (structures, rocks, minerals) as a result of shock wave deformation. All Martian meteorites have been subjected to shock, though the degree ...

Application of Whole Genome Sequencing and Maldi-Tof to Identification of Bacillus Species Isolated from Cleanrooms at Nasa Johnson Space Center

Mazhari, Farnaz (2021-12-15)

Astromaterial cleanrooms at NASA Johnson Space Center are built environments that hold samples, such as lunar rocks, from different space exploration missions. Bacillus sp. are frequently detected in routine microbial ...

Oa1s and Oa2s Radiative corrections for w-boson production at the tevatron and atlas experiment

Teel, Matthew James; 0000-0002-4497-7708 (2022-05-31)

In this thesis, we propose an approach for calculating W-Boson Transverse Momentum Dependent (TMD) distributions using the LHAPDF library with nCTEQ15, MSTW2008 and CT10 Parton Distribution Functions (PDF). We utilize ...

Application of Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) for Differentiating Sources of Fecal Pollution

Kmiecik, Caroline (2022-05-27)

Since the passage of the Marine Mammal Protection Act in 1973, pinniped populations in coastal waters of the United States have increased exponentially. These high populations of large mammals could contribute to fecal ...

Foraging Ecology of Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops Truncatus) in Galveston Bay, Texas

McDaniel, Sherah Ann; 0000-0001-8228-5780 (2022-05-31)

The overall goal of this research was to develop a better understanding of the trophic ecology of the Galveston Bay common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) stock that would provide critical data needed to manage ...

Application of MALDI-TOF MS for multiple source tracking from sewage and septic tanks along with identification of antibiotic-resistant pathogenic Escherichia coli

Mirani, Akshita (2022-05-26)

The intensity of extreme flooding events, driven by tropical cyclones and sea-level rise, may increase dramatically this century. These extreme weather events can spread untreated sewage from wastewater treatment plants ...