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Visual Comparison Model for Transportation Data of Great Britain
(2013-08)It is a known fact today, that globalization has increased the opportunities around the world and more so in the urban areas. As a result, there is high concentration of population in all urban communities around the world. ... -
Visual decision making in the presence of stimulus and measurement correlations
(2013-12)Our brains process sensory information to infer the state of the world. However, the input from our senses is noisy, which may lead to errors in perceptual judgements. A number of theoretical studies have modeled perception ... -
Visual Force-Feedback Interfacing for Image-guided Telemanipulated Robotic Surgical Systems
(2013-05)Robot-assisted procedures are perpetually evolving due to potential improvement in patient management and reduction in the overall cost. Integration of an imaging modality intraoperatively further strengthens these procedures ... -
Visual Perception in Children with Spina Bifida Myelomeningocele and the Impact of Posterior Cortical Changes
(2012-08)The present study investigated categorical and coordinate visual perception in 81 children with spina bifida myelomeningocele (SBM) relative to 28 controls, and related this performance to indices of cortical thickness, ... -
Visual Working Memory and Visual Selective Attention among Survivors of Pediatric Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL)
(2016-08)The present study investigated the relationship between visual working memory (VWM) and visual selective attention in survivors of pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) either at high-risk or low-risk for neurocognitive ... -
Voices of Assistant Principals on the Importance of Student Discipline to Effective Schools
(2010-12)Research in education, criminology, and sociology has long suggested that there is a strong, reciprocal connection between students’ behaviors in school and their academic achievement. Student misbehavior in schools has ... -
Voluntary Disclosure in Corporate Control Contest--Evidence of Management Earnings Forecast Characteristics and Consequences
(2013-05)This dissertation examines how managerial incentives in contested takeovers affect voluntary disclosure strategies. I study characteristics of voluntary disclosure around contested takeovers, based on the conjecture that ... -
Volunteering as a Source of Conflict or Enrichment for Work: the Role of Employer Support
(August 201)While numerous studies have explored the relationship between work and family, few have examined the connection between work and community, leaving a gap in our understanding of the work-nonwork relationship. Drawing from ... -
Vp-Vs Relations of Organic-rich shales
(2013-08)Organic-rich shales can serve as both source rocks and reservoir rocks. They are becoming increasingly important exploration and exploitation targets; however our knowledge of organic-rich shale properties is poor. Mudrock ... -
Water Contents of the Mantle Lithosphere beneath the Southwestern United States: FTIR Analysis of Peridotite Xenoliths from the Rio Grande Rift, NM, and Dish Hill, CA
(December 2)This project aims at understanding the distribution and partitioning behavior of water in the Earth's mantle relative to melting, metasomatism, and oxygen fugacity conditions. For that purpose, the water contents, Fe3+ ... -
Water oxidation with ruthenium catalysts
(2012-08)CeIV-activated water oxidation: A family of 29 mononuclear RuII complexes have been prepared and characterized by 1H NMR, electronic absorption, and cyclic voltammetry. These complexes are studied as catalysts for water ... -
WATER RIGHTS AND AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY: EVIDENCE FROM INDIA
(2012-05)There is growing concern in the world to better manage water resources in order to sustain increased water demands. This heightened demand can be most importantly attributed to a rapid population growth and heightened ... -
Watercolor in Context: Exploring Social Justice Issues Through Art
(2018-05-17)Background: Research denotes that many of America’s educational inequities are rooted in issues of gender, social class, and race. Due to demographic changes in the nation’s school population, pre-service educators are ... -
WAVE-THEORETIC PREPROCESSING TO ALLOW THE INVERSE SCATTERING SERIES METHODS FOR MULTIPLE REMOVAL AND DEPTH IMAGING TO REALIZE THEIR POTENTIAL AND IMPACT: METHODS, EXAMPLES, AND ADDED VALUE
(2013-12)The research described in this dissertation (1) extends Green's-theorem ghost removal in the space-frequency domain to complicated synthetic (SEAM) and field data, bringing in (and solving) acquisition issues that affect ... -
Wavelet Approaches to Seismic Data Analysis
(2012-12)There have been extensive applications of wavelets to petroleum seismic data. In this dissertation, we focus on developing and testing new wavelets approaches to seismic data compression, microseismic first arrival picking, ... -
WEARABLE ELECTRODERMAL ACTIVITY SENSING - A VALIDATION STUDY
(2013-12)Electrodermal activity (EDA) is an important affective indicator, which is conven- tionally measured via Galvanic Skin Response (GSR) probes tethered on the fingers. Recently, a new generation of EDA sensors came into ... -
Weblog Discourses on Voluntary Childlessness
(2016-05)This thesis is a study of voluntarily childless individuals who write discourses on weblogs. This research addresses the bloggers’ narratives on who the voluntarily childless bloggers are, what their perceptions are of the ... -
Well on Wheels: A Holistic Wellness Intervention for Individuals with Spinal Cord Injuries: Risk Profile, Longitudinal Outcomes, and Success
(2018-05)Individuals with spinal cord injuries (SCI) report significantly lower satisfaction with life (SWL) than the general population. One ultimate goal of rehabilitation is to increase SWL. The Well on Wheels intervention was ... -
Well Strategies for Enhanced Tight Oil Recovery
(2016-08-11)The worldwide technically recoverable tight oil resources estimated to be 418.9 billion barrels, and about 78.2 billion are located in the US. Despite the yearly increase in oil production from the unconventional formations, ... -
Well-Posedness for Weak Solutions of Axisymmetric Div-Curl Systems
(2018-05)We study the axisymmetrc div-curl system on bounded volumes of revolution with normal and tangential boundary conditions. This vector system of equations arises in classical field theories. In particular, the electrostatic ...