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(2010-01-06)Correlated parameters are often expected when modeling a natural system. However, correlation among the variables often blurs the model uncertainty and makes it difficult to determine parameter sensitivity. In simple ...
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(2010-01-06)Biochemical agents, including bacteria and toxins, are potentially dangerous and responsible for a wide variety of diseases. Reliable detection and characterization of small samples is necessary in order to reduce and ...
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(2010-01-06)This thesis considers the application of L1 adaptive control methodology to a model of the X-48B Blended Wing Body aircraft. We explicitly verify the performance bounds of the adaptive flight control system at various ...
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(2010-01-06)This thesis presents a study of a novel summarization problem called contrastive opinion summarization (COS). Given two sets of positively and negatively opinionated sentences which are often the output of an existing ...
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(2010-01-06)In this study I provide an empirical analysis of the judicial system. The main emphasis of this study is on the causes and consequences of judicial independence. In the first chapter, I analyze the determinants of ...
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(2010-01-06)With the advent of the Internet, open distributed computing such as peer-to-peer file sharing and grid computing has become increasingly popular. As these systems exhibit an increasing level of online interactions and ...
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(2010-01-06)This dissertation seeks to provide an intraracial narrative history of African American politics and class tensions in Atlanta, Georgia from 1966, the year when black power movement forces emerged and helped to elect Maynard ...
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(2010-01-06)Heterodera glycines, the soybean cyst nematode, is the major pathogen of Glycine max (soybean). Effective management of this pathogen is contingent on the use of resistant cultivars, thus screening for resistant cultivars ...
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(2010-05-14)This dissertation investigated whether adult second language (L2) learners of Chinese go through stages when learning to read Chinese characters. A study conducted with preschoolers to 6th graders in China (Chen, 2004) had ...
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(2010-05-19)This dissertation presents two studies designed to examine the topic of fraction division in selected Chinese and US curricula. By comparing the structure and content of the Chinese and Everyday Mathematics textbooks and ...
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(2010-05-14)Abstract In the Kenyan government’s Sessional Paper No. 1 of 1965, entitled African Socialism and its Application to Planning in Kenya, it was clearly stated that “Education must serve the needs of national development ...
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(2010-05-14)Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases (aaRSs) are ancient enzymes that charge tRNA with its cognate amino acid. In order to maintain fidelity during protein synthesis, editing mechanisms ensure that tRNAs are accurately charged. ...
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(2010-05-14)This dissertation uses the methodological lens of book history to re-examine the role of the literary market in the construction of modernist authorship in American culture. I examine how four American writers, F. Scott ...
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(2010-05-14)My study, entitled From Exiles to Transcendences focuses on five authors: Lydia Maria Child, Hannah Crafts, Kate Chopin, James Weldon Johnson, and Jean Toomer. It examines each author’s effort to represent the mixed-race ...
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(2010-05-19)Recent demonstrations of nanoscience provide ample evidence indicating the feasibility of rational control, manipulation and interrogation of matter at the atomic scale. A class of devices, with micro-sized sensor probes, ...
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(2010-05-19)The purpose of this study was to investigate faculty development from the perspectives of program administrators in different colleges of a Division I research institution. The participants were administrators of faculty ...
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(2010-05-19)This dissertation investigates several physical phenomena in atomic and optical physics, and quantum information science, by utilizing various types and techniques of quantum measurements. It is the deeper concepts of these ...
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(2010-05-18)Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is an emerging biomedical imaging modality that interferometrically measures the depth-resolved back-scattered light from a sample. The high resolution subsurface imaging capabilities of ...
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(2009-10)Effective poverty reduction programs require careful measurement of poverty status. Commonly used consumption or income-based classifications of poverty aggregate together households that are persistently poor with those ...
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