ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I express my sincere gratitude and appreciation to my advisor Dr. Aria Nosratinia. Without his unwavering patience and confidence in me, this thesis would not have been possible. For the past two years being a part of his research group has been an exciting challenge and privilege. I also thank Dr. Andrea Fumagalli and Dr. Hlaing Minn to agree on serving my supervisory committe...

In this paper, we investigate some properties of a new type of 2D Hidden Markov Model, based on the notion of Dependency Tree. DT-HMMs avoid the complexity of regular 2D HMMs by changing the double horizontal and vertical spatial dependencies into a random uni-directional dependency, either horizontal or vertical. We explore various issues about the effect of this random choice. This type of pr...

This paper applies alternative time series techniques such as General to Specific (GETS) and Johansen Maximum Likelihood (JML) to estimate the long run income and price elasticities of demand for energy for Fiji. We also test for the causal relationship between energy consumption, GDP and energy prices using the Granger causality tests. Our results imply that there is a uni-directional causalit...

DNA G-Quadruplex is highly sensitive to oxidation as their structures include $$\pi$$ -stacked guanine quartets allowing fast hole transfer between the nucleobases. These transfers can be described using vertical energy gap and electronic coupling different diabatic states at play in a pair. Using classical molecular dynamics simulation constrained DFT/MM implementation deMon2k, we determine th...

For in-service GFRP (glass fibre-reinforced polymer) cellular bridge decks, wheel loads can induce damage of the anti-skid surfacing-to-deck bond, thereby loosening fragments surfacing that then cause abrasion deck’s top flange under further loads. Indeed, over last 20 years, load-induced to flanges FRP decks on road network has been observed in different countries, after periods service rangin...

The focus of this survey is on the analysis two modalities multimodal deep learning: image and text. Unlike classic reviews learning where monomodal classifiers such as VGG, ResNet Inception module are central topics, paper will examine recent models structures, including auto-encoders, generative adversarial nets their variants. These go beyond simple in which they can do uni-directional (e.g....

In many newly industrializing countries (NICs), increased international trade activities are often triggered by several advancements, including attracting foreign direct investment (FDI), financial development, and technological changes. Recently, abundant diversified renewable energy sources used in production have also started to take their place among these advancements. Although the relatio...

Climate change remains one of the world’s significant threats today, and thus Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 13 prioritizes countries to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions mitigate climate by 2030. Recent studies have scrutinized impact Information Communications Technologies (ICTs) on environment. However, majority these assumed that environmental ICT is homogenous across countries. Th...

Conditions for which strain-based and stress-based failure criteria are mathematically equivalent in elastic media are explored by expressing the criteria in the spectral eigenspace of the elasticity tensor. For scalar-valued quadratic criteria that are homogeneous functions of degree one, stressbased and strain-based criteria are most likely to be mathematically equivalent when the criteria’s ...

Through globalization, the increased integration in financial markets has made relationship between exchange rate and stocks important. The study aims to model volatility using daily data for period 04.01.2010-15.10.2020 investigate causality sector returns return volatility. In order of series, GARCH was used reveal possible asymmetry feature series. As a result applications, (2,2) determined ...