Browsing Theses by Subject "Entropy"
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Automated Epileptic Seizure Onset Detection
(University of Waterloo, 2009-04-27)Epilepsy is a serious neurological disorder characterized by recurrent unprovoked seizures due to abnormal or excessive neuronal activity in the brain. An estimated 50 million people around the world suffer from this ... -
Entropy and Graphs
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-23)The entropy of a graph is a functional depending both on the graph itself and on a probability distribution on its vertex set. This graph functional originated from the problem of source coding in information theory and ... -
Entropy-based Demand Splits in a Hospital-Warehouse Profit Center
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-11)Financial pressures on healthcare industry in the United States and elsewhere have forced the industry to address their supply costs, their fastest growing cost sector currently comprising over 40 % of their total spend. ... -
Exploring Ligand Structure and Thermodynamics of the Malachite Green RNA Aptamer
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-20)RNA aptamers are in vitro sequences of RNA that have a high affinity for their target ligand. They have applications in therapeutics, biosensors and molecular machines. While the practical applications of aptamers are ... -
INFORMATION THEORETIC CRITERIA FOR IMAGE QUALITY ASSESSMENT BASED ON NATURAL SCENE STATISTICS
(University of Waterloo, 2006)Measurement of visual quality is crucial for various image and video processing applications. <br /><br /> The goal of objective image quality assessment is to introduce a computational quality metric that can predict ... -
Localising Information in Bandlimited Quantum Field Theory
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-24)A deeply-held belief in fundamental physics is that interactions must happen locally. Despite the great success of local models, there are many indications that locality must be abandoned in a theory of quantum gravity. For ...