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Clustering is an essential data mining tool that aims to discover inherent cluster structure in data. As such, the study of clusterability, which evaluates whether data possesses such structure, is an integral part of cluster analysis....
Health condition monitoring and failure detection play a crucial role in estimating the performance of solar panels such as degradation trend over time and occurrence of failures. Monitoring and detecting significant degradation can help...
The purpose of this study was to explore and better capture the concept of choking under pressure by operationally redefining it. Choking was examined using a Bayesian approach to internal psychological crisis and the evaluation of the...
The realm of education is steadily changing from the influence of ideas, theories, research, and technology. Revisiting theory and practices and reinvigorating them with the knowledge gained in research and the advances in technology...
The Effects of Guided Imagery and HRV Biofeedback Training on Psychological Variables and Post-Operative Outcome Measures of Orthopaedic Surgical Patients
Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) is comprised of a range of therapeutic modalities and atypical practices which have been found to successfully accompany standard medical care. Interventions such as guided imagery and stress...
The aim of this dissertation is to fill in the vacant spots in the innovation and diffusion study, which are meaningful but have not had much work done previously. First, most policy diffusion studies have focused on the adoption of a...
This work’s objective is to apply the model predictive control method to the intelligent energy management layer of the Future Renewable Electric Energy Delivery and Management system. This allows for optimal power reference signals to...
To better constrain the timing of panda's dietary shift from omnivorous to bamboo-exclusive herbivores, this study analyzed stable isotopes of carbon and oxygen in tooth enamel samples from two pygmy pandas from Yanliang Cave (early...
This collection of personal essays and short fiction investigates a post-9/11 America locked in forever war. Centered upon the American veteran and the veteran family experience, Anchor & Knife showcases wide-ranging narratives that...
An atmospheric model is coupled to a sea surface temperature algorithm that calculates the diurnal variability in order to understand the responses to near surface winds and boundary layer temperature, pressure, and moisture in the north...
Evaluating the performance of models predicting a binary outcome can be done using a variety of measures. While some measures intend to describe the model's overall fit, others more accurately describe the model's ability to discriminate...
Immediately upon our diagnosis, we are inundated with information about diabetes. In our visits with our healthcare team, we receive education from our healthcare providers, but we’re also surrounded by posters, handouts, pamphlets, ...
Microwaves have been for their ability to heat water and food rapidly. And thanks to scientific technology and global marketing, the microwave oven was invented and got widely used in 1970's and 1980's. . Microwave radiation has specific...
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is one of the most common neurodegenerative disorders and causes cognitive impairment and memory deficits of the patients. The mechanism of AD is not well known, due to the lack of study materials, e.g., human...
Oxide ceramics are materials with a wide range of properties. Insulators are most common, however semiconductors, strongly correlated electron materials, and even superconductors are all relevant oxide materials. Here we seek to...
With the advancement information and communication technologies, networked computing devices have been adopted to address real-world challenges due to their efficiency and programmability while maintaining scalability, sustainability, ...
College student veterans may experience a variety of challenges as they transition from military life to student life, including adjusting to the academic environment, coping with mental health concerns such as depression and anxiety, ...
This thesis examines staged performances of traditional music in Addis Ababa, the capital city of Ethiopia. It includes the history of traditional performing groups in Ethiopia and their purposes, the continuities and changes in...
Mesoscale convective systems (MCSs) provide much of the annual rainfall over central equatorial Africa (CEA) during the March-April-May (MAM) and September-October-November (SON) rainy seasons. The characteristics and propagation of...
This mixed-methods study investigated the use of different types of instructional techniques as mediational tools for developing student vocabulary development and retention in the Japanese classroom. The experimental treatment, designed...
Pathological exercise (PE) is a common feature of individuals with eating disorders (ED) and represents a key maintaining factor of eating pathology. However, little is known about underlying mechanisms that maintain PE and whether these...
How do sport consumption activities (i.e., sport participation, sport spectating, and sport media viewing) affect the subjective well-being (or happiness) of sport consumers? To fulfill the ethical creed of sport marketers and to...
This study examines the connection between architecture and economy in Mycenaean Greece; it is a deep investigation of economic theory and models of the Mycenaean economy, existing methods for the study of prehistoric architecture, and...
Socialization of doctoral students refers to the learning and adjustment process through which they acquire information and knowledge about their work, department, university, and discipline. This dissertation explores characteristics...
The innovation and accessibility of Internet across the globe has made life easy. For instance, enormous information in the form of digital data (images, audios, videos, pdf, etc.) is available on Internet, which can easily be accessed...
The low quality of educational services in the favelas (slums) of Rio de Janeiro is well documented (e.g., Abramo, 2003; Alves, Franco & Ribeiro, 2008; Cano, 2012; Cavallieri e Coelho, 2003; Frigotto, 2004; Henriques, 2000; Henrique &...
The aim of this work is to develop a deeper understanding of the nuances involved in designing and optimizing the performance of gas/liquid plasma reactors for chemical synthesis. The design of such reactors requires integrating...
The simulation and study of fluid properties and dynamics in a microgravity environment on the Earth’s surface is of great interest due to the high costs associated with conducting research in space. Cryogenic fluids like liquid helium, ...
Most of the data encountered is bounded nonlinear data. The Universe is bounded, planets are sphere like shaped objects, and life growing on Earth comes in various shapes and colors that can hardly be represented as points on a linear...
"…we live in an age in which celebrity is often confused with greatness, in which a genius like Anders Eliasson – who lives as an ‘artistic monk' – can fall completely through the cracks of public awareness. In a sane world, Anders...
Rossby waves are waves in potential vorticity that propagate along the extratropical tropopause and can be impacted by the advection of low-PV air originating from the subtropics. In this study, the subtropical precipitation influence on...
A key challenge for modern chemistry is the production of mesoscopic complexity and hierarchical order to ultimately bridge the gap between the molecular world and functional microdevices. As proof of concept, nature shows unambiguously...
Network of unmanned vehicles, are poised to be the next giant leap of technology. Such systems are already being used by the defense and law enforcement agencies. The US DoD and some very large private corporations are spending large...
Four Movements in Search of a Composer draws inspiration from the play Six Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello. Rather than a character sketch of the six Characters in this play, this piece centers around four moments...
African Americans have higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease (CVD) compared to other racial groups. Modifiable and non-modifiable factors play a role in the development of both diseases. This study assessed...
An objective index of the onset and demise of the Indian summer monsoon (ISM) is introduced. This index has the advantage of simplicity by using only one readily available variable, All-India rainfall (AIR), which has been reliably...
These case studies examined the effect of music reinforced nonnutritive sucking on term infants receiving intravenous lines. Intravenous lines are a common invasive procedure that hospitalized infants endure. Subjects were between the...
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