Essays about: "thesis on selection"

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  1. 11. PUBLIC HEALTH EXPENDITURE AND HEALTH OUTCOMES : AN EMPIRICAL STUDY ANALYSIS

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Nationalekonomi

    Author : Justus Mwaura Wanjiku; [2024]
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    Abstract : Public health expenditure plays a critical role in enhancing the health and well-being of a nation's population. Despite its significance, there is limited research exploring the link between public health expenditure and health outcomes. READ MORE

  2. 12. Image Quality Assessment Pipeline and Semi-Automated Annotation method for Synthetic Data

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för data- och informationsteknik

    Author : Liam Le Tran; Edina Dedovic; [2023-10-24]
    Keywords : Facial Expression Recognition; FACS; Action Units; styleGAN2-ada; synthetic data; Image Quality Assessment; Multi-stage Pre-training; Pipeline Processing; Semi-automated Human Annotation;

    Abstract : Predicting human emotions through facial expression, particularly in relation to medication field such as clinical trial settings, has garnered scientific interest in recent years due to significant understanding of the impact of treatment on emotions and social functioning. This thesis aims to improve performance of a FER model using large scale of synthetic data. READ MORE

  3. 13. An Empirical Survey of Bandits in an Industrial Recommender System Setting

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för data- och informationsteknik

    Author : Tobias Schwarz; Johan Brandby; [2023-09-21]
    Keywords : computer science; industrial application; machine learning; reinforcement learning; multi-armed bandits; MAB; contextual multi-armed bandits; survey; batch learning;

    Abstract : In this thesis, the effects of incorporating unstructured data—images in the wild—in contextual multi-armed bandits are investigated, when used within a recommender system setting, which focuses on picture-based content suggestion. The idea is to employ image features, extracted by a pre-trained convolutional neural network, and study the resulting bandit behaviors when including respective excluding this information in the typical context creation, which normally relies on structured data sources—such as metadata. READ MORE

  4. 14. THE ADAPTATION CYCLE OF COMIC BOOKS AND CINEMA: Authorship, Intermediality and Fidelity in Batman Adaptations

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Nicola Camoglio; [2023-09-20]
    Keywords : English; Batman; The dark knight; Tim Burton; Joel Schumacher; Bruce Timm; Christopher Nolan; Adam West; authorship; adaptation; intermediality; adaptive revision; dialogism; geneticism; fidelity;

    Abstract : This thesis explores the adaptation process from comic books to cinema, by leveraging theoretical frameworks found in the modern field of adaptation studies. The focus lies primarily on film adaptations of Batman, one of the most famous and well-regarded characters from the comic book medium. READ MORE

  5. 15. Spatio-temporal analysis of COVID-19 in Västra Götaland, Sweden

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för matematiska vetenskaper

    Author : Natalia Andreeva; [2023-08-23]
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    Abstract : Spatio-temporal analysis of COVID-19 data with the two different statistical approaches is the main objective of this thesis. The first classical approach, the Endemic-Epidemic framework (Held et al., 2005) is a class of multivariate time-series models for the incidence counts, obtained from the surveillance systems. READ MORE