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(2009-07-28)Department: Biomedical InformaticsUse of Bayesian networks (BN) has increased in medicine. Traditionally, BNs have been developed by experts or from the current literature. Several applications implement "off the shelf" BN structure learning algorithms, ...
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(2019-10-15)Department: PsychologyCorrelations and correlation matrices are common in quantitative research. As researchers move away from p-values to reporting effect sizes and confidence intervals, appropriate confidence interval techniques for multiple, ...
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(2006-12-04)Department: Special EducationSPECIAL EDUCATION A COMPARISON OF DYNAMIC ASSESSMENT AND PROGRESS MONITORING IN THE PREDICTION OF READING ACHIEVEMENT FOR STUDENTS IN KINDERGARTEN AND FIRST GRADE ERIN CAFFREY Dissertation under the direction of Professor ...
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(2015-04-02)Department: PsychologyEmotion differentiation is emerging as a focus in emotion research due to its potential for enhancing regulation strategies, social functioning, and other valuable life outcomes. These studies aim to explore whether the ...
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(2012-12-07)Department: Biomedical EngineeringDynamic contrast enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MRI) is a method that can be used to quantitatively and qualitatively assess physiological characteristics of tissue. Quantitative DCE-MRI requires an estimate of ...
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(2018-08-01)Department: Interdisciplinary Studies: Communication Disorders and Neurodevelopmental DisabilitiesThis study investigated the extent to which parental language input to children with hearing loss (HL) differs from input to children with typical hearing (TH). A 20-minute parent-child interaction sample was collected for ...
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(2005-12-19)Department: Biomedical InformaticsIn biomedical and biological domains, researchers typically study continuous data sets. In these domains, an increasingly popular tool for understanding the relationship between variables is Bayesian network structure ...
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(2009-07-20)Department: Special EducationStudents at risk for developing externalizing behavior disorders (EBD) are among the most challenging students to teach. The combination of instructional and behavioral demands that students at risk for EBD place on their ...
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(2017-03-01)Department: Environmental EngineeringThe environment, health, and safety properties of thorium-uranium-based (“thorium”) fuel cycles are estimated and compared to those of analogous uranium-plutonium-based (“uranium”) fuel cycle options using a structured ...
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(2015-07-15)Department: Special EducationVideo modeling (VM) is an evidence-based intervention for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The purpose of this study was to analyze the relative effect of video modeling with versus without play narrations for ...
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(2008-07-24)Department: PsychologyA model in which self-perceived competence mediates the relations of parenting and negative life events to depressive symptoms was tested in a sample of 755 elementary and middle school students. Developmental trends in ...
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(2011-08-02)Department: EnglishRichard Wright's powerful 1940 novel Native Son holds a notoriously vexed place in literary history. Wright has been variously disparaged for his depiction of women, pilloried for his "gratuitous" violence, denigrated for ...
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(2015-03-27)Department: Biomedical EngineeringUnfortunately, the current re-excision rates for breast conserving surgeries due to positive margins average 20-40%. The high re-excision rates arise from difficulty in localizing tumor boundaries intraoperatively and lack ...
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(2018-03-29)Department: Microbiology and ImmunologyThe immune system is a complex network of cells spread throughout the body, spanning dozens of tissue types and locations. A complete understanding of a systemic immune response, like those required for the regression of ...
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(2019-07-19)Department: Earth and Environmental SciencesThe Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers transport over one billion tonnes of sediment across the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna river delta (GBMD) plain each year. We investigate stratigraphic and bulk geochemical data for over 4,500 ...
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(2018-04-04)Department: Electrical EngineeringfMRI nowadays is a very popular and crucial tool for medical purposes, which is always involved with engineering methods for properly processing the fMRI images. However, not too much effort has been invested in studying ...
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(2014-07-22)Department: Biomedical InformaticsGene fusions are instances where two discrete genes incorrectly join together. They are common mutations in cancer, and, since the advent of next generation sequencing technology, many gene fusions in cancer tissues have ...
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(2007-12-05)Department: Biomedical EngineeringImage to physical space registration is a very challenging problem in image guided surgical procedures for the liver due to deformation and paucity of prominent surface anatomical landmarks. Iterative closest point (ICP) ...
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(2006-04-17)Department: PsychologyThe Tower of Hanoi (TOH) is a classic problem solving task. Over the past twenty years, it has found new applications in domains of cognition such as executive function, in special populations such as patients with frontal ...
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(2007-08-01)Department: Electrical EngineeringIn robotics, one important objective is the ability to teach the robot new skills and have it reason about the current tasks at hand without explicit programming. Indeed, this idea is central to open-ended development, ...