Univ., Diss.--Ulm, 2005. / Literaturverz. S. 227 - 248.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Rutgers University, 2007. / "Graduate Program in Computer Science." Includes bibliographical references.

Providing high school students a course of study for becoming competent and thorough lifelong independent readers of complex texts was the goal for this thesis. This is accomplished by integrating literary theory that looks beyond just the typical level of analysis often emphasized in many Florida classrooms. If put into use and successful, this curriculum guide will aid Florida teachers in endowing their students with a new level of ability to analyze literature. Research of prior work done in the field of integrating critical theory into high school classrooms was analyzed and synthesized in order to create a larger course of critical theory study to be completed during the senior year of high school in the state of Florida. The curriculum guide acts as a starting point, providing teachers with all the tools necessary to bring literary theory into the high school classroom while maintaining their individual teaching style. The curriculum guide is broken into four distinct units which follow the most common course of Florida twelfth grade study, the English canon, with each chapter addressing two literary theories. The literary theories utilized are: New Criticism, New Historicism, Feminism, Marxism, Reader Response, Psychoanalysis, Structuralism, and Deconstruction.

Glaucoma is a degenerative disease that damages the nerve fiber layer in the retina of the eye. Its mechanisms are not fully known and there is no fully-effective strategy to prevent visual impairment and blindness. However, if treatment is carried out at an early stage, it is possible to slow glaucomatous progression and improve the quality of life of sufferers. Despite the great amount of heterogeneous data that has become available for monitoring glaucoma, the performance of tests for early diagnosis are still insufficient, due to the complexity of disease progression and the diffculties in obtaining sufficient measurements. This research aims to assess and extend Bayesian Network (BN) models to investigate the nature of the disease and its progression, as well as improve early diagnosis performance. The exibility of BNs and their ability to integrate with clinician expertise make them a suitable tool to effectively exploit the available data. After presenting the problem, a series of BN models for cross-sectional data classification and integration are assessed; novel techniques are then proposed for classification and modelling of glaucoma progression. The results are validated against literature, direct expert knowledge and other Artificial Intelligence techniques, indicating that BNs and their proposed extensions improve glaucoma diagnosis performance and enable new insights into the disease process.

Thesis (doctorat)--Universität Ulm, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-248).

Thesis (M.S.)--State University of New York at Binghamton, Thomas J. Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science, Department of Computer Science, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references.

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Submitted by SBI Biblioteca Digital (sbi.bibliotecadigital@puc-campinas.edu.br) on 2017-02-01T12:15:41Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Marcelo Cicero Ribeiro da Silva.pdf: 2629636 bytes, checksum: 626dcdd3e190058ed959a36deb2c116f (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-02-01T12:15:41Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Marcelo Cicero Ribeiro da Silva.pdf: 2629636 bytes, checksum: 626dcdd3e190058ed959a36deb2c116f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-12-13 / Pontif?cia Universidade Cat?lica de Campinas ? PUC Campinas / One of the major responsible to change in a competitive landscape is the steady progress of technology and communication (TIC). With the evolution of technology and 'machine learning', computers are already available to carry out learning in a sophisticated way, improving the prescriptions of medical diagnosis, generating a second opinion for the medical professional and thus, To provide a better service to the community. The objective of this research is to develop a computational model, supported by data mining using machine learning techniques and, using communication devices integrated with communication and information technologies, to provide efficient support for The medical diagnosis in the area of orthopedics.The proof of the concept of this proposal will be used besed on a public database in the branch of backbone and the specific objective will be assist the doctor in the discovery of the Diseases Olisthesis and Herniated disk. This application will work with the concept of Knowledge Discovery in Databases to achieve the desired result. This process will use the Data Mining that, through classification algorithms, can transform data into useful information to the support the medical professional in the elaboration of diagnosis. The research will explore and define, in the WEKA Data Mining tool, the most appropriate algorithm, among the several that already exist, that can offer the highest diagnostic accuracy and enable a mobile solution. The dynamics structured in this work should allow that system to be enriched for each new patient treated and, with this, the platform becomes more efficient and effective as it expands. It is expected that the consulted computational model can be configured as a second opinion in support of the diagnosis of the medical professional. The results were satisfactory obtaining an average accuracy index above 86%. Among the benefits it is believed that it will be possible to assist in the graduation of new professionals assisting them in the Medical Residency, and reducing problems in possible medical errors thus, increasing the efficiency during the attendance and saving time and money. / Um dos grandes respons?veis pela mudan?a deum panorama competidor ? o progresso constante da tecnologia da informa??o e comunica??o (TIC).A maior parte das dificuldades na tomada de decis?o ? a transforma??o de dados e informa??es em conhecimento, principalmente quando as bases de dados dizem respeito ? sa?de. Com a evolu??o da tecnologia e do ?aprendizado de m?quina?(machine learning), j? se disp?e de computadores capazes de realizar aprendizado de forma sofisticada, permitindo sua utiliza??o no aux?lio nas prescri??es de diagn?stico m?dico, gerando uma segunda opini?o para o profissional da medicina e contribuindo, assim, para uma melhor presta??o de servi?o ? comunidade. O objetivo da pesquisa relatada consiste em elaborar um modelo computacional, apoiado em minera??o de dados com uso de t?cnicas de aprendizado de m?quina, que, utilizando-se de dispositivos de comunica??o integrados ?s tecnologias de comunica??o e informa??o e que venha oferecer suporte eficiente para o diagn?stico m?dico na ?rea de ortopedia. A prova do conceito desta proposta utilizar? de uma base de dados p?blica na especialidade da ortopedia (coluna vertebral) e o objetivo espec?fico ser? o de auxiliar o m?dico na descoberta das doen?as Listese e H?rnia de Disco. Esta aplica??o trabalhou com o conceito de descoberta de conhecimento em bases de dados (Knowledge Discovery in Databases), para conseguir o resultado desejado. Esse processo a Minera??o de Dados que, por meio de algoritmos de classifica??o, poder? transformar dados em informa??es ?teis ao apoio do profissional m?dico na elabora??o do seu diagn?stico. A pesquisa ir? explorar e definir, na ferramenta de Data Mining WEKA, o algoritmo mais apropriado, dentre os v?rios j? existentes, que possa oferecer maior acur?cia no diagn?stico e que viabilize uma solu??o tipo mobile. A din?mica estruturada neste trabalho dever? permitir que o sistema seja enriquecido a cada novo paciente tratado e que, com isto, a plataforma se torne mais eficiente e eficaz ? medida que se amplie. Espera-se que o modelo computacional elaborado possa se configurar como uma segunda opini?o em apoio ao diagn?stico do profissional m?dico retornando o diagnostico do paciente. Os resultados obtidos foram satisfat?rios obtendo um ?ndice de acuracidade m?dia acima de 86%. Dentre os benef?cios acredita-se que ser? poss?vel auxiliar na forma??o de novos profissionais auxiliando-os na Resid?ncia M?dica, na redu??o de problemas decorrentes de erros m?dicos e, dessa forma, aumenta-se a efic?cia no atendimento com ganhos de tempo e dinheiro.

Online advertising has a continuously increasing popularity. Target audience of this new advertising method is huge. Additionally, there is another rapidly growing and crowded group related to internet advertising that consists of web publishers. Contextual advertising systems make it easier for publishers to present online ads on their web sites, since these online marketing systems automatically divert ads to web sites with related contents. Web publishers join ad networks and gain revenue by enabling ads to be displayed on their sites. Therefore, the accuracy of automated ad systems in determining ad-context relevance is crucial. In this thesis we construct a method for semantic classification of web site contexts in Turkish language and develop an ad serving system to display context related ads on web documents. The classification method uses both semantic and statistical techniques. The method is supervised, and therefore, needs processed sample data for learning classification rules. Therefore, we generate a Turkish marketing dataset and use it in our classification approaches. We form successful classification methods using different feature spaces and support vector machine configurations. Our results present a good comparison between these methods.