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Browsing Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Title
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Face Captioning Using Prominent Feature Recognition
(2021)Humans rely on prominent feature recognition to correctly identify and describe previously seen faces. Despite this fact, there is little existing work investigating how prominent facial features can be automatically ... -
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Face Processing in Deaf and Hearing Individuals
(2017)Deaf individuals may possess enhanced visual processing abilities, particularly in the periphery. Deaf individuals may also be more accurate at discriminating between faces, compared to their hearing counterparts. We ... -
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Facile Synthesis of Mixed Metal Oxygen Evolution Reaction Catalysts
(2016)Global energy demand is projected to increase at a rapid rate in the followingdecades. This poses a challenge for researchers to develop innovative and cost effectivemethods to harvest sustainable energy and prevent a rise ... -
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Facilitating Data Driven Research Through a Hardware- and Software-Based Cyberinfrastructure Architecture
(2022)Cyberinfrastructure is the backbone of research and modern industry. As such, to have an environment conducive to research advancements, cyberinfrastructure must be well maintained and accessible by all researchers. Presented ... -
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Factors Affecting the Development and Spread of Eating Disorders in China
(2010)In the psychological community there is much debate over the reasons behind the development and rapid spread of eating disorders in China. While a sizable portion of psychologists such as Dr. Sing Lee, hold to the belief ... -
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Factors Fostering the Forgetting & Remembering of Childhood Abuse
(2022)This dissertation will review various psychological conceptualizations of forgetting and remembering with an emphasis on the serviceably of each conceptualization. Constructs are taken to be serviceable when they bring ... -
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Factors Influencing Population Performance and Tradeoffs Associated with Reproduction of a Large Herbivore
(2017)Large herbivores are commonly reliant on sources of nutrition to maximize survival and reproductive output and thus, fitness. Moreover, large herbivores exhibit slow-paced life histories where, throughout a long lifespan, ... -
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Factors Influencing the Development and Evolution of Remembering Interactions
(2009)This dissertation examines the concept of memory from the perspective of a natural science of behavior. In making this analysis, the philosophy of Interbehaviorism and system of Interbehavioral Psychology are described. ... -
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Factors Influencing The Human Preferred Interaction Distance
(2020)Nonverbal interactions are a key component of human communication. Since robots have become significant by trying to get close to human beings, it is important that they follow social rules governing the use of space. Prior ... -
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Factors influencing the olfactory capabilities of foraging rodents
(2012)Granivorous rodents living within rich communities of scatter-hoarding speciespartially rely on olfaction as a foraging strategy to locate buried seeds.While abiotic factors are well known to influence the olfactory ... -
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Factors predicting the practice of breastfeeding in Africa and USA
(2022)The benefits of exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) are well documented. However, EBF is often not practiced both in the United States and in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs). It is therefore important to further characterize ... -
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Factors that Hinder and Help Adolescents to Medically Manage Type-1 Diabetes
(2010)Type-1 diabetes is a chronic illness that affects roughly 23.6 million Americans each year (American Diabetes Association: All about diabetes, 2007). This disease is typically diagnosed when an individual is around ... -
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False Awakening
(2023)The art from False Awakening utilizes elements from dream research, personal dreams, and surveyed dreams. It embraces a wide range of influences to reexamine my biases on the topic of dreams and lucid dreams. This practice ... -
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Family Background and Propensity to Engage in Infidelity: Exploring an Intergenerational Transmission of Infidelity
(2012)The purpose of the current dissertation project was to explore whether the experience of a parental infidelity is associated with a greater likelihood of offspring having engaged in infidelity, as well as test a theoretical ... -
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Family Stress and Early Intervention for Families of Infants and Toddlers with Complex Medical Needs
(2015)Advances in medical technology have enabled children to survive with conditions that were once considered fatal; however, with their increased life expectancy these children may also experience chronic illnesses or severe ... -
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Family, Peers, Role Models and Resilience: Prominent Elements in the Success of Low-income High School Students
(2019)This study examined the experiences of high school students from low-income households and what they believe contributed to their persistence to their senior year. The intent of this research was to garner an understanding ... -
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Fan Influence: The English-Speaking Anime and Manga Speech Community's Relationship With the Japanese Language and Gender Roles
(2022)Beginning in the 1960s, an effort was made to import and translate anime and manga (animation and graphic novels from Japan) to a young English-speaking audience. Since then, the style of translation—which originally ... -
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Fantastic Birds and Where to Find Them
(2023)I investigated avian-habitat relationships in three related study systems. In my first chapter I characterize the nonbreeding habitat of the western subspecies of Willow Flycatchers (Empidonax traillii subspp.), including ... -
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FAST AND SECURE INTEGRITY VERIFICATION FOR HIGH-SPEED DATA TRANSFERS
(2020)The amount of data generated by scientific and commercial applications is growing at an ever-increasing pace. This data is often moved between geographically distributed sites for various purposes such as collaboration and ... -
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Fate and transport of contaminants from acid mine drainage in the Perry Canyon Abandoned Mine Land, Washoe County, Nevada
(2020)Perry Canyon abandoned mine land (AML) hosts acid mine drainage from abandoned mine workings with elevated levels of toxic heavy metals that may be contaminating municipal water in the town of Sutcliffe, Nevada. The objective ...