Physical Models of Human Motion for Estimation and Scene Analysis Marcus A Brubaker Doctor of Philosophy Graduate Department of Computer Science University of Toronto 2011 This thesis explores the use of physics based human motion models in the context of videobased human motion estimation and scene analysis. Two abstract models of human locomotion are described and used as the basis for video-...

HE ebony mutant of Drosophila melanogaster shows a number of abnormalities in mating behavior which lead to lowered mating success. The movements of these ebony flies is slowed and apparently uncoordinated as compared with the wild type (JACOBS 1960). It was thought that this abnormal behavior as well as the correlated black body color may possibly result from aberrant amino acid metabolism. In...

Title of dissertation: Finite Frames and Graph Theoretical Uncertainty Principles Paul J. Koprowski, Doctor of Philosophy, 2015 Dissertation directed by: Dr. John J. Benedetto Department of Mathematics The subject of analytical uncertainty principles is an important field within harmonic analysis, quantum physics, and electrical engineering. We explore uncertainty principles in the context of t...

Title of Thesis: CALIBRATING SHENANDOAH WATERSHED SWAT MODEL USING A NONLINEAR GROUNDWATER ALGORITHM Yan Wang, Master of Science, 2011 Directed By: Dr. Kaye Brubaker Water Resources Engineering Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering This study contributes to a project with the Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin to build a model of the Potomac watershed using the Soil Wa...

Restoration ecology would be easier in a world of linear, deterministic, ordered, predictable change tending toward stable equilibria. In such a world, many restoration projects would require only that the restorationist give a degraded or damaged ecosystem an initial push, and then stand back and watch the system heal itself. But this is not the world that most ecologists believe we inhabit (B...

General This manuscript by Brubaker and colleagues reports the investigation of the effects of docetaxel (20 mg/kg every 2 weeks) alone or in combination with the bisphosphonate zoledronic acid (0.1 mg/kg, given s.c. twice weekly) on the in vivo growth of prostate cancer LuCaP 23.1 tumors in bone. These authors have previously shown that zoledronic acid (0.25 mg/kg, given s.c. twice weekly) red...

Most of the fire history research conducted in the past century has focused on case studies and local-scale assessments of pattern and process, with an emphasis on describing typical fire frequencies in forest stands and watersheds. Dominant research themes have included the characterization and analyses of fire frequencies across ranges of topographic settings and habitats. In general, these “...

INTRODUCTION Trace-element analysis of the calcareous shells of ostracodes The effects of climatic change on the boreal forest have in a sediment core from Farewell Lake provides the first limnobeen the subject of many recent investigations because of geochemical record for climatic reconstructions in Alaska. When the concern about the sensitivity of the northern high-latitude compared with pol...