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D.I.Y. Health: How Emerging Technology Empowers People to Prevent Future Health Issues and Hospital Interior Spaces
(2017)According to insurance and risk management firm Acrisure, there are more than 40,000 health-related software apps for smartphones with currently only 0.01% of the world’s population using them. This demonstrates an untapped ... -
Daptomycin versus Vancomycin for Empiric Treatment of Methicillin-Resistant S. aureus among Hospitalized Patients: An Institutional Cost-Breakpoint Analysis
(May 2013)Background: Bacteremia caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus is associated with increased hospitalization days, costs, and mortality. Daptomycin was shown to be noninferior to vancomycin in a phase III ... -
Data Compression and Machine Learning in the Analysis of the Entropy of Photodissociation in Organic Donor-Acceptor Interfaces
(2018)Organic photovoltaics have become increasingly relevant in recent years, resulting in a growing demand for theoretical models that can accurately approximate the behavior of electrons in organic donor-acceptor inter- faces. ... -
Data Mining A PeopleSoft Database To Assist In Developing Student Retention Interventions
(2016-12)Per a Bellwether Education Partners study (Aldeman, 2015, p. 8), "As of 2013, there were 29.1 million college dropouts versus 24.5 million Americans who dropped out with less than a high school diploma. In pure, raw numbers, ... -
Data Structure and Management Summer Internship at the Smithsonian Gardens 2017
(2017)I am minoring in Business Administration, and the Gardens needed an Administrative Intern. After the infamous Women’s March in D.C., many of the exhibits were damaged/ruined. The Gardens were and are still collecting ... -
Data-Driven Parameter Selection in Radiation Therapy Treatment Planning
(2017)Intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) is one of the most common therapies for prostate cancer. IMRT’s goal is to kill the tumor while sparing nearby healthy organs (bladder, rectum and femoral heads). Multiple ... -
Data-driven Techniques For Estimation And Stochastic Reduction Of Multiscale Systems
(2012-12)Parametric estimation of stochastic processes is one of the most widely used techniques for obtaining effective models, given a discrete dataset. Often, the experimental or observational datasets are not explicitly generated ... -
Data-Driven, Label Consistent, Dictionary Learning Methods for Analysis of Biological Datasets
(2016-08-15)The goal of this thesis is to develop a data-driven, label consistent, and dictionary learning based framework that can be applied on a variety of signal analysis problems. Current methods based on analytical models do not ... -
Data-Morphic Analyzing Approach for Understanding a Tennis Racket: Comparison of Tennis Rackets in UH Tennis Club
(2017)The shapes in the beginner group are relatively moderate than other groups. Some similar shapes are found in the intermediate group while extremely sharp shapes appear in the advanced group. I believe the reason that ... -
Database of redox potentials of porphyrins and related macrocycles
(2012-05)Thermodynamic half wave potentials for oxidation and reduction of porphyrins and related macrocycles which have appeared in the literature from 1997 to 2011 are collected and categorized as a function of compound structure ... -
Dataset Modification To Improve Machine Learning Algorithm Performance And Speed
(2014-05)We propose two pre-processing steps to classification that apply convex hull-based algorithms to the training set to help improve the performance and speed of classification. The Class Reconstruction algorithm uses a ... -
David Lang and the so-called laws of nature
(2015-05)David Lang is a celebrated American composer whose unique voice often employs strict, process-based compositional techniques. His works exhibit a mastery of contrapuntal techniques rooted in early music but also follow ... -
DEAL OR NO DEAL: REDUCING PRODUCTION DEVIANCE
(2015-08)Production deviance, a form of counterproductive work behavior (CWB), refers to such behaviors as leaving early, procrastinating, and wasting resources. It costs organizations billions of dollars annually (Bennett & Robinson, ... -
Death as Confrontational and Embracing in Symbolism
(2018)Death was hardly a new subject in the visual arts in the late-nineteenth century, having been depicted often in Christian and mythological narratives and symbolically in still lifes, portraits and landscapes. The Symbolists ... -
Debunking the Myths of Political Responses to Income Inequality
(2018-05-11)This dissertation focuses on the political responses to income inequality. Multiple critical puzzles existing in the political economy of inequality are solved in three essays. Firstly, why low-income voters do not punish ... -
Decentralized-Inverter Based Reactive Power Compensation of Active Meshed Distribution Network
(2016-12-13)This thesis presents the analysis of voltage control in distribution systems, with the presence of distributed generation (DG). In microgrids, many smaller renewable generators (e.g, wind turbines, photovoltaic, fuel cells, ... -
Deception in Democracies
(2018)This summer, I researched whether political deception could be exercised by the common people in democracies, and what that deception would entail. By answering this question, I hoped to gain a better understand political ... -
Decision Making in Social Networks
(December 2)We investigate how the network topology of social networks impacts decision making. First we look at sequential models of decision making with feedforward network toplogies. We see how rational agents incorporate knowledge ... -
Decision Making Processes for School Administrators for Bilingual Programs
(2012-05)This study explores the decision-making process principals utilize when making instructional decisions for Limited English Proficient (LEP) students. This mixed-methods research design will facilitate an in depth look into ...