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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...