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Browsing Theses and Dissertations by Title
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Daily Writing in the Content Areas: A Look at How Secondary Teachers Explain Their Experiences with Writing Integration
(2018)Examinations of adolescent literacy practice over the last 10 years have illuminated the significance of an integrated approach to literacy and content area instruction (Bean, 2000; Applebee & Langer, 2013; IRA, 2012). ... -
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Dall Sheep Demographics: A Peek at Intrinsic and Extrinsic Effects
(2014)Understanding population demographics requires an understanding of a multitude of factors, both extrinsic and intrinsic, that are important for reproduction, recruitment, and survival Nonetheless, physiological mechanisms ... -
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Damage Avoidance Design of Special Truss Girder Frames with Energy Dissipation Devices
(2009)An innovative detail that facilitates the use of energy dissipating devices, such as Buckling Restrained Braces (BRBs), is proposed for Special Truss Moment Frames (STMFs). The configuration of the proposed Special Truss ... -
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Damped Vibration Sensing Using Optical Fiber Resonator Method
(2012)In past few years the demand for fiber optic vibration sensors has increased as they are free from electromagnetic interference (EMI) and chemical corrosion. These sensors have been widely used for monitoring earthquakes, ... -
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Data Processing Algorithms and Applications of LiDAR-Enhanced Connected Infrastructure Sensing
(2018)The advantages of connected vehicles, especially in traffic safety, rely on the real-time micro high-resolution traffic data (HRMTD) of all road users. The existing traffic sensors are not able to provide the required data ... -
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Data Processing Toolset for the Virtual Watershed Project
(2016)The proposed Data Processing Toolset for the Virtual Watershed Project (DPT-VWP) is a user-centric web application that includes a set of new data processing tools for the NSF EPSCoR-supported Western Consortium for Water ... -
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Dating Groundwater Using Dissolved Organic Carbon and Estimating Flow-path Travel Times in Southern Nevada Aquifers
(2013)ABSTRACTThe study's objective was to evaluate the use of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) carbon-14 (14C) to estimate groundwater ages in southern Nevada aquifers. Hydrogeologists have traditionally used dissolved inorganic ... -
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Daughter Tongue
(2018)Daughter Tongue is a collection of poems about straddling cultures and languages as a Filipino-American. Divided into three sections, the book follows a single speaker who moves between sites of contradiction. In addition ... -
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Death and Value Reignition: Lucky in the Chance to Die
(2014)In this thesis I examine life-extension and embodied immortality and ask whether these are intrinsically problematic or undesirable. I examine the history of the concept of immortality and find that the usage of the term ... -
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Decision making under risk and uncertainty
(2017)The three chapters of my dissertation investigate decision making under risk and uncertainty. Although the papers in my dissertation cover diverse topics, they all share a common thread, the inclusion of behavioral issues ... -
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Decision-making in Civil Litigation: Effects of Attorney Credibility, Evidence Strength, and Juror Cognitive Processing
(2014)The current study examined the relationship between juror cognitive processing (measured by need for cognition [NFC]), attorney credibility, evidence strength, and civil litigation verdicts (liability, likelihood of ... -
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Decoding the neural representation of size using multivariate pattern analyses and high density electroencephalography
(2015)The perception of object size is not a simple process. The retinal size of an object scales with distance to the observer, and human beings lack a dedicated system for accurately measuring object distance outside a limited ... -
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Decreasing Omega-6 to Omega-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid Ratios Inhibit Tumorigenesis in Prostate Cancer Cells in Vitro
(2015)Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in American men. Currently, there are different treatment options depending on the situation, for instance, hormone therapy is a common treatment which reduces the ... -
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Deep Convolutional Neural Networks Based Single Image Super-Resolution And Classification For Crater Detection
(2019)Craters are among the most abundant features on the surface of many planets with great importance for planetary scientists. Craters reveal chronology information about planets and may be used for autonomous spacecraft ... -
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Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for MultilabelPrediction Using RGBD Data
(2014)Robotics relies heavily on the system's ability to perceive the world around the robot accurately and quickly. In a narrow setting as in manufacturing this goal is relatively simple. To make robotics feasible in more ... -
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Deep Learning Based Robust Human Body Segmentation for Pose Estimation from RGB-D Sensors
(2016)This project focuses on creating a system for human body segmentation meant to be used for pose estimation. Recognizing a human figure in a cluttered environment is a challenging problem. Current systems for pose estimation ... -
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Deepwater Horizon Impact on Deep-sea Meiofauna Biomass
(2018)The Deepwater Horizon oil spill occurred in 2010, oil and dispersants were spread across the surface and the deep-sea. Meiofauna community biomass increased regardless of whether the station had signatures of the oil spill ... -
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Defects in protein trafficking affect expression of GPCRs in C. elegans
(2015)In the nematode C. elegans, the bilaterally symmetric PVQ neurons are located in the tail and each extends an axon along the ventral nerve cord to the head. Several G protein coupled receptors (EGL-47, SRA-6) are terminally ... -
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Defining the Self: Exploring Analytic Theories of Self
(2019)The thesis compiles multiple theories for the existence of self from analytic philosophy ranging from minimal reduction accounts to broad narrative conceptual accounts. The initial focus is on Galen Strawson’s minimal self ... -
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Degradation of Structural Alloys in Molten LiCl-Li2O-Li
(2019)The necessity to curtail carbon emissions to limit anthropogenic climate change is at odds with the continued increase in energy demand caused by economic and population growth in the developing world. In order to ...
