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For this dissertation, four item purification procedures were implemented onto the generalized linear mixed model for differential item functioning (DIF) analysis, and the performance of these item purification procedures was...
Meta-analytic Structural Equation Modeling (MASEM) has drawn interest from many researchers recently. In doing MASEM, researchers usually first synthesize correlation matrices across studies using meta-analysis techniques and then...
Groundwater systems are open and complex, rendering them prone to multiple conceptual interpretations and mathematical descriptions. When multiple models are acceptable based on available knowledge and data, model uncertainty arises. One...
I study 3-manifold theory, which is a fascinating research area in topology. Many new ideas and techniques were introduced during these years, which makes it an active and fast developing subject. It is one of the most fruitful branches...
The availability of high resolution temperature and water vapor data is critical for the study of mesoscale scale weather phenomena (e.g., convective initiations, and tropical cyclones). As hyperspectral infrared sounders, the...
Equatorial waves have been studied extensively due to their importance to the tropical climate and weather systems. Historically, their activity is diagnosed mainly in the wavenumber-frequency domain. Recently, many studies have...
Cracking is a primary distress on flexible pavements in Florida. Therefore, it is necessary to evaluate the crack resistance of proposed asphalt mixtures on Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) projects. A comprehensive literature...
Across the United States, a great deal of attention is being focused on promoting energy efficient and environmental friendly modes of transportation. Bicycling is an integral part of a sustainable transportation system that is one of...
The Internet email system as a popular online communication tool has been increasingly misused by ill-willed users to carry out malicious activities including spamming and phishing. Alarmingly, in recent years the nature of the email...
A machine learning based framework is proposed in this paper to capture the dynamics of high-frequency limit order books in financial markets and automate the prediction process in real-time on metrics characterizing the dynamics such as...
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