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Mindorff, David – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Practical work involving laboratory experiments is agreed upon to be an essential component of secondary science education. Practical work encompasses a broad range of activity types. The different forms of practical work are not equal in terms of cognitive demand and learning benefit. Inquiry-based investigations provide experience of cognitive…
Descriptors: Secondary Education, Science Education, Biology, Information Retrieval
Samia Shafique – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Shoeprints are a common type of evidence found at crime scenes and are regularly used in forensic investigations. However, their utility is limited by the lack of reference footwear databases that cover the large and growing number of distinct shoe models. Additionally, existing methods for matching crime-scene shoeprints to reference databases…
Descriptors: Crime, Court Litigation, Database Design, Database Management Systems
Varun Mandalapu – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Educational data mining focuses on exploring increasingly large-scale data from educational settings, such as Learning Management Systems (LMS), and developing computational methods to understand students' behaviors and learning settings better. There has been a multitude of research dedicated to studying the student learning process, leading to…
Descriptors: Models, Student Behavior, Learning Management Systems, Data Use
Kuang, Jieyan – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Net Promoter System (NPS) is well known as an evaluation measure of the growth engine of big companies in the business area. The ultimate goal of my research is to build an action rules and meta-actions based recommender system for improving NPS scores of 34 companies (clients) dealing with similar businesses in the US and Canada. With the given…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Measurement Techniques, Corporations, Business
Koh, Byungwan – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The advent of information technology has enabled firms to collect significant amounts of data about individuals and mine the data for developing their strategies. Profiling of individuals is one common use of data collected about them. It refers to using known or inferred information to categorize the type of an individual and to tailor specific…
Descriptors: Screening Tests, Program Effectiveness, Information Technology, Data Collection
Zhang, Yi – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Due to the rapid advances in computing and sensing technologies, enormous amounts of data are being generated everyday in various applications. The integration of data mining and data visualization has been widely used to analyze these massive and complex data sets to discover hidden patterns. For both data mining and visualization to be…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Data Processing, Data Analysis, Information Retrieval
Jiang, Wenxin – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Recognition and separation of sounds played by various instruments is very useful in labeling audio files with semantic information. This is a non-trivial task requiring sound analysis, but the results can aid automatic indexing and browsing music data when searching for melodies played by user specified instruments. Melody match based on pitch…
Descriptors: Music, Semantics, Musical Instruments, Classification
El-Bathy, Naser Ibrahim – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The study of this dissertation provides a solution to a very specific problem instance in the area of data mining, data warehousing, and service-oriented architecture in publishing and newspaper industries. The research question focuses on the integration of data mining and data warehousing. The research problem focuses on the development of…
Descriptors: Research Problems, Information Retrieval, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science
Mei, Qiaozhu – ProQuest LLC, 2009
With the dramatic growth of text information, there is an increasing need for powerful text mining systems that can automatically discover useful knowledge from text. Text is generally associated with all kinds of contextual information. Those contexts can be explicit, such as the time and the location where a blog article is written, and the…
Descriptors: Information Retrieval, Data Processing, Language Patterns, Pattern Recognition
Shen, Warren H. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This dissertation studies information extraction (IE), the problem of extracting structured information from unstructured data. Example IE tasks include extracting person names from news articles, product information from e-commerce Web pages, street addresses from emails, and names of emerging music bands from blogs. IE is all increasingly…
Descriptors: Information Retrieval, Access to Information, Data Processing, Pattern Recognition
Nandeshwar, Ashutosh R. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
In the modern world, higher education is transitioning from enrollment mode to recruitment mode. This shift paved the way for institutional research and policy making from historical data perspective. More and more universities in the U.S. are implementing and using enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, which collect vast amounts of data.…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Institutional Research, Graduation Rate, Program Effectiveness