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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 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. ...