Children with Down syndrome (DS) display language deficits in expressive and receptive skills beyond what is predicted by nonlingusitic cognitive skills. Clinically, a ubiquitous presumption is that vocabulary taught in ...

Conceptual restructuring emerges from children’s experiences in multiple contexts. This paper explores the interactions of school-based science education and informal science education through the lens of conceptual change. ...

Rapid and accurate judgments of social traits from faces are indispensable to successful interpersonal interactions. Anomalous trait judgment has been observed in the schizophrenia spectrum and may lead to delusion formation ...

Hardware implementations of Object-Tracking Algorithms are susceptible to radiation-induced soft errors. The thesis analyzes the results of fault emulation experiments conducted on register-transfer level on a field-programmable ...

Word learning requires learners to bind together arbitrarily-related phonological, visual, and conceptual information. Prior work suggests that this binding can be robustly achieved via incidental cross-situational statistical ...

This research examines the cross-border utilization of Mexican health care services by Hispanic border residents. Using data from a community survey conducted in Webb County, Texas along the U.S.-Mexico border, this study ...

Earthquakes are horrible natural events causing loss of lives in the thousands. Following earthquakes, building collapses, and cave-ins, large number of victims will suffer from renal failure and death following crush syndrome.

In the course of this dissertation a software EM-Fold was developed that combines de-novo protein structure prediction and medium resolution cryoEM density maps. It can be applied to proteins containing α-helices and ...

Semiconductor nanocrystals are a desirable class of nanomaterials for electronic, energy conversion, and biomedical applications. The work presented in this thesis aids in the understanding of the fundamental chemistry ...