This thesis examines the methods of resistance used by Jewish women in the concentration camps. These women based their resistance on their pre-camp experiences, having learned valuable skills during the economic crises ...

In this thesis, some statistical properties of two interesting problems are studied. The first one is about non-stationary central limit theorems. We establish central limit theorems for a sequence of nested balls ...

Increasing college costs, coupled with decreasing financial aid has raised public concerns over the affordability of higher education. For the past four decades, the nation has seen the cost of tuition rise at levels that ...

The Piano Concerto in E-flat Major, op.73, completed in 1811, represents Beethoven's fifth and final contribution to this genre. This paper investigates the first movement of the Fifth Piano Concerto in light of the heroic ...

Writing is the gatekeeper for college readiness. It is critical to marry the relationship of writing to the processes of analysis and synthesis, the levels at which college readiness is assessed. As more and more teachers ...

Increase of postural instability is one of the significant issues related to aging, due to its relevance concerning risk for falls and associated impacts on life quality and health care costs in the U.S. Sub-threshold ...

Motivated by proofs in extreme value theory, we investigate the statistical properties of certain chaotic dynamical systems, including the well-known dispersing billiard model. In particular, we prove the existence of a ...

Objective: Disability and functioning are central aspects of neuropsychological and psychological evaluations. Disability is often assessed by self-report measures, such as the World Health Organization Disability Assessment ...

Education has increasingly become the territory of women, and this shift is pronounced in the African American community where women earned well over the majority of bachelor degrees at 67% (Cuyjet, 2006; Knapp, Kelly-Reid, ...

Decision-making for autonomous systems acting in real world domains are complex and difficult to formalize. For instance, consider the task of autonomously navigating a mobile robot in an automated manufacturing facility. ...