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The Bird's Ear View: Audification for the Spectral Analysis of Heliospheric Time Series Data.
(2015)
The sciences are inundated with a tremendous volume of data, and the analysis of rapidly expanding data archives presents a persistent challenge. Previous research in the field of data sonification suggests that auditory ...
Selected Problems for High-Dimensional Data - Quantile and Errors-in-Variables Regressions.
(2016)
This dissertation addresses two problems. First, we study joint quantile regression at multiple quantile levels with high dimensional covariates. Variable selection performed at individual quantile levels may lack stability ...
Planning for Open Space Conservation: Using GIS to Match Cultural Values and Ecological Quality of Open Spaces.
(2008)
The dilemma for open space conservation in exurbia is that, while people move to exurbia for open space experiences and to be closer to environments that they perceive as natural, exurban development occupies open space ...
The Teaching Green School Building: Exploring the Contributions of School Design to Informal Environmental Education.
(2013)
The Teaching Green Building (TGB) is emerging as a way to engage building occupants in environmental themes through the architectural design of buildings. These buildings aspire to high levels of environmental performance ...
Generative Reciprocity: A Computational Approach for Performance-Based and Fabrication-Aware Design of Reciprocal Systems
(2020)
Using the capabilities of computation and digital fabrication this thesis provides a basis for a novel process of design to fabrication for reciprocal systems.
In the traditional sense, reciprocal structures combine the ...
Aural Architecture as Affect: Understanding the Impact of Acoustic Environments on Human Experience
(2021)
Architectural design plays a significant role in shaping human experience in buildings through the perception of space. However, architectural characteristics not only result in visual attributes that affect how the occupants ...
Continuity and Change in Theory-of-Mind Development: A Neuroscientific Approach.
(2013)
This dissertation seeks a more comprehensive picture of the process of theory-of-mind development (an understanding that action is guided by internal mental states such as beliefs, desires, and intentions) by examining ...
Moving Targets: Managing Interinstitutional Relationships in Green Building Design and Construction.
(2013)
The act of building typically results in significant consumption of land and natural resources through both construction and building use, as well as the production of both indoor air pollution and landfill waste. Yet green ...
Influence of Uncertainty in User Behaviors on the Simulation-Based Building Energy Optimization Process and Robust Decision-Making
(2016)
Computer-based simulations have been widely used to predict building performances. Building energy simulation tools are generally used to perform parametric studies. However, the building is a complex system with a great ...
The effect of radiant heat exchange on thermal comfort in the workplace.
(1989)
Presently, six factors affecting thermal comfort are recognized, i.e., air temperature, mean radiant temperature, air velocity, humidity, activity level, and thermal insulation of clothing. Mean radiant temperature is the ...