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A Statistical Approach to Visual Masking and Spatial Attention
(2015-12-09)
A stimulus (mask) reduces the visibility of another stimulus (target) when they are presented in close spatio-temporal vicinity of each other, a phenomenon called visual masking. Visual masking has been extensively studied ...
Interface Fracture in Masonry Composites: A Lattice Approach
(2015-08)
The brick-mortar bond or interface is often the weakest link in the masonry composites. The localization of fracture processes at this bi-material interface plays an important role in the failure of this assemblage. These ...
NOTES FROM THE TRENCHES: A CONFIRMATORY FACTOR ANALYSIS OF THE ATTITUDINAL SURVEY OF TEACHERS' PERCEPTIONS OF CLASSROOM CREATIVITY
(2015-05)
Creativity is an important lifetime skill for students to develop, and it is commonly mentioned as an important component of lessons, curriculum and classroom practice. The landscape of today’s classroom is shaped by ...
1. Attempts to Prepare Porous Materials Based on Thiols and Fluorinated Precursors 2. Self-Sorting of Complex Libraries during Kinetically Controlled Acylations
(2015-08)
This thesis presents three studies in supramolecular chemistry. First is the synthesis and characterization of dynamic covalent disulfide bond based metal-organic framework (MOF), second is development of the fluorinated ...
Operating Room Awareness with the Smart Trocar: Innovative Laparoscopic Surgery
(2015-08)
Laparoscopic surgery is a popular alternative to open surgery due to the considerable reduction of recovery time, pain, scaring, and complications. During laparoscopic surgery, operations are performed through small incisions ...
Relationship between Faculty Assessment of Resident Medical Knowledge and Resident Performance on the CREOG In-Service Examination
(2015-08)
In 2012, 13% of Obstetrics and Gynecology (Ob/Gyn) physicians failed the American Board in Obstetrics and Gynecology (ABOG) written exam, the first step to becoming certified following their 48-month residency training. ...
AN EVALUATION OF THE SPARK PROGRAMMING MODEL FOR BIG DATA ANALYTICS
(2015-05)
The focus of companies like Google, Amazon etc. is to gain competitive business advantage from the insights drawn by processing petabytes of data. Big Data refers to data characterized by large volume, great variety, and ...
The Art of Manipulation: Agents of Influence and the Rise of the American National Security State, 1914-1960
(2015-05)
Throughout the twentieth century, British and Chinese agents of influence, fellow travelers and their unwitting allies conducted political warfare campaigns designed to exploit America’s rising xenophobia to achieve specific ...
Community College Students' Motivational Orientations and Chinese Language Learning
(2015-05)
Motivation is a key component in Second Language (L2)/Foreign Language achievement. In existing literature, a few studies have explored the students’ motivation in Chinese language learning. However, the majority of ...
Choosing the Right Kernel A Meta-Learning Approach to Kernel Selection in Support Vector Machines
(2015-05)
In recent years Support Vector Machines (SVM) have gained increasing popularity over other classification algorithms due to their ability to produce a flexible boundary over non-linearly separable datasets. Such an ability ...