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Thesis (M.Sc. (Horticulture)) -- University of Limpopo, 2022 / The purpose of this study was to assess the impact of pre-harvest bagging materials on maturity indices and post-harvest quality of cherry tomatoes. At pre-harvest, fruit were bagged with blue and transparent plastic bags of 0.075- and 0.025-mm thickness, respectively. The non-bagged fruit were considered as control treatment. The experiment was carried out in a randomized complete block design arranged in a 2 × 3 factorial arrangement with three replications. Physical quality parameters such as; colour changes (L*, a*, b*, C*, h˚, and ΔE), firmness, weight loss and size were assessed. Physico-chemical parameters such as pH, total soluble solids, and total titratable acidity were also evaluated. Bagging had a significant effect on the quality of both cherry tomato cultivars. The results showed that bagging cherry tomatoes at 1.5 cm diameter with blue and transparent plastic bags accelerated maturity. Moreover, bagging with transparent plastic bags enhanced exocarp colour, reduced weight loss, retained larger size, increased pH and TTA, with an increase in TSS when compared with blue plastic bags and control, respectively at 12 days of shelf-life. In conclusion, the findings demonstrate that pre-harvest bagging has the potential to improve maturity indices and post-harvest quality of cherry tomatoes. Therefore, pre-harvest bagging can be used as an alternative method to enhance cherry tomato fruit quality and shelf-life. / NRF

Les travaux de cette thèse se situent dans le domaine de l'apprentissage automatique et concernent plus particulièrement la paramétrisation des forêts aléatoires, une technique d'ensembles de classifieurs utilisant des arbres de décision. Nous nous intéressons à deux paramètres importants pour l'induction de ces forêts: le nombre de caractéristiques choisies aléatoirement à chaque noeud et le nombre d'arbres. Nous montrons d'abord que la valeur du premier paramètre doit être choisie en fonction des propriétés de l'espace de description, et proposons dans ce cadre un nouvel algorithme nommé Forest-RK exploitant ces propriétés. Nous montrons ensuite qu'avec un processus statique d'induction de Forêts, certains arbres provoquent une diminution des performances de l'ensemble, en dégradant le compromis force/ corrélation. Nous en déduisons un algorithme d'induction dynamique particulièrement performant en comparaison avec les procédures d'induction statique.

The purpose of this study is to thoroughly discuss kernel hazard function estimation, both in the complete sample case as well as in the presence of random right censoring. Most of the focus is on the very important task of automatic bandwidth selection. Two existing selectors, least–squares cross validation as described by Patil (1993a) and Patil (1993b), as well as the bootstrap bandwidth selector of Gonzalez–Manteiga, Cao and Marron (1996) will be discussed. The bandwidth selector of Hall and Robinson (2009), which uses bootstrap aggregation (or 'bagging'), will be extended to and evaluated in the setting of kernel hazard rate estimation. We will also make a simple proposal for a bootstrap bandwidth selector. The performance of these bandwidth selectors will be compared empirically in a simulation study. The findings and conclusions of this study are reported. / Thesis (M.Sc. (Statistics))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2011.

The purpose of this study is to thoroughly discuss kernel hazard function estimation, both in the complete sample case as well as in the presence of random right censoring. Most of the focus is on the very important task of automatic bandwidth selection. Two existing selectors, least–squares cross validation as described by Patil (1993a) and Patil (1993b), as well as the bootstrap bandwidth selector of Gonzalez–Manteiga, Cao and Marron (1996) will be discussed. The bandwidth selector of Hall and Robinson (2009), which uses bootstrap aggregation (or 'bagging'), will be extended to and evaluated in the setting of kernel hazard rate estimation. We will also make a simple proposal for a bootstrap bandwidth selector. The performance of these bandwidth selectors will be compared empirically in a simulation study. The findings and conclusions of this study are reported. / Thesis (M.Sc. (Statistics))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2011.

Submitted by Automa??o e Estat?stica (sst@bczm.ufrn.br) on 2016-02-03T20:29:00Z No. of bitstreams: 1 DiegoSilveiraCostaNascimento_TESE.pdf: 3953454 bytes, checksum: 3237fa5d0296298ccc738a2ba7eab05e (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Arlan Eloi Leite Silva (eloihistoriador@yahoo.com.br) on 2016-02-03T23:54:37Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 DiegoSilveiraCostaNascimento_TESE.pdf: 3953454 bytes, checksum: 3237fa5d0296298ccc738a2ba7eab05e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-02-03T23:54:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DiegoSilveiraCostaNascimento_TESE.pdf: 3953454 bytes, checksum: 3237fa5d0296298ccc738a2ba7eab05e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-12-05 / Significativos avan?os v?m surgindo em pesquisas relacionadas ao tema de Comit?s de Classificadores. Os modelos que mais recebem aten??o na literatura s?o aqueles de natureza est?tica, ou tamb?m conhecidos por ensembles. Dos algoritmos que fazem parte dessa classe, destacam-se os m?todos que utilizam reamostragem dos dados de treinamento: Bagging, Boosting e Multiboosting. A escolha do tipo de arquitetura e dos componentes a serem recrutados n?o ? uma tarefa trivial, e tem motivado, ainda mais, o surgimento de novas propostas na tentativa de se construir tais modelos de forma autom?tica e, muitas delas, s?o baseadas em m?todos de otimiza??o. Muitas dessas contribui??es n?o t?m apresentado resultados satisfat?rios quando aplicadas a problemas mais complexos ou de natureza distinta. Em contrapartida, a tese aqui apresentada prop?e tr?s novas abordagens h?bridas para constru??o autom?tica em ensembles de classificadores: Incremento de Diversidade, Fun??o de Avalia??o Adaptativa e Meta-aprendizado para a elabora??o de sistemas de configura??o autom?tica dos par?metros de controle para os modelos de ensemble. Na primeira abordagem, ? proposta uma solu??o que combina diferentes t?cnicas de diversidade em um ?nico arcabou?o conceitual, na tentativa de se alcan?ar n?veis mais elevados de diversidade em ensemble, e com isso, melhor o desempenho de tais sistemas. J? na segunda abordagem, ? utilizado um algoritmo gen?tico para o design autom?tico de ensembles. A contribui??o consiste em combinar as t?cnicas de filtro e wrapper de forma adaptativa para evoluir uma melhor distribui??o do espa?o de atributos a serem apresentados aos componentes de um ensemble. E por fim, a ?ltima abordagem, que prop?e uma nova t?cnica de recomenda??o de arquitetura e componentes base em ensemble, via t?cnicas de meta-aprendizado tradicional e multirr?tulo. De forma geral os resultados s?o animadores, e corroboram com a tese de que ferramentas h?bridas s?o uma poderosa solu??o na constru??o de ensembles eficazes em problemas de classifica??o de padr?es / Significant advances have emerged in research related to the topic of Classifier Committees. The models that receive the most attention in the literature are those of the static nature, also known as ensembles. The algorithms that are part of this class, we highlight the methods that using techniques of resampling of the training data: Bagging, Boosting and Multiboosting. The choice of the architecture and base components to be recruited is not a trivial task and has motivated new proposals in an attempt to build such models automatically, and many of them are based on optimization methods. Many of these contributions have not shown satisfactory results when applied to more complex problems with different nature. In contrast, the thesis presented here, proposes three new hybrid approaches for automatic construction for ensembles: Increment of Diversity, Adaptive-fitness Function and Meta-learning for the development of systems for automatic configuration of parameters for models of ensemble. In the first one approach, we propose a solution that combines different diversity techniques in a single conceptual framework, in attempt to achieve higher levels of diversity in ensembles, and with it, the better the performance of such systems. In the second one approach, using a genetic algorithm for automatic design of ensembles. The contribution is to combine the techniques of filter and wrapper adaptively to evolve a better distribution of the feature space to be presented for the components of ensemble. Finally, the last one approach, which proposes new techniques for recommendation of architecture and based components on ensemble, by techniques of traditional meta-learning and multi-label meta-learning. In general, the results are encouraging and corroborate with the thesis that hybrid tools are a powerful solution in building effective ensembles for pattern classification problems.

The paper describes predictive modelling of biomarker data stemming from patients suffering from multiple sclerosis. Improvements of multivariate analyses of the data are investigated with the goal of increasing the capability to assign samples to correct subgroups from the data alone. The effects of different preceding scalings of the data are investigated and combinations of multivariate modelling methods and variable selection methods are evaluated. Attempts at merging the predictive capabilities of the method combinations through voting-procedures are made. A technique for improving the result of PLS-modelling, called bagging, is evaluated. The best methods of multivariate analysis of the ones tried are found to be Partial least squares (PLS) and Support vector machines (SVM). It is concluded that the scaling have little effect on the prediction performance for most methods. The method combinations have interesting properties – the default variable selections of the multivariate methods are not always the best. Bagging improves performance, but at a high cost. No reasons for drastically changing the work flows of the biomarker data analysis are found, but slight improvements are possible. Further research is needed.