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Japan's Manchukuo Economic Development Or Militaristic Seizure, Nathan Douglas Alder
Japan's Manchukuo Economic Development Or Militaristic Seizure, Nathan Douglas Alder
Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects
Was the founding of the State of Manchukuo an act of independence brought about by the people of Manchuria or a planned take-over by the Japanese military and government? Was Manchukuo a favored trading nation of Japan or just another province in an expanding Japanese empire? Answers to these questions are the motivation for this paper, and aim at the heart of Manchukuo's history.
Development And Evaluation Of An Expert System For Use As An Aid In Culling Dairy Cattle, Max L. Checketts
Development And Evaluation Of An Expert System For Use As An Aid In Culling Dairy Cattle, Max L. Checketts
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
An expert system for identifying cows to be culled, MAXCULL, was programmed to run on an IBM or compatible personal computer. It was designed to be used with Dairy Herd Improvement (DHI) records as an aid in decision making. MAXCULL used fifty-two health, seventeen reproduction, and thirty-nine production rules in the analysis.
MAXCULL was initially developed using two expert system tools. VP-Expert and Super Expert both had inductive abilities and were reasonably priced. VP-Expert was selected to continue the development of the MAXCULL system. The program used a rule-based method of storing knowledge, which was obtained from literature reviewed in …
The Development Of An Instrument For The Assessment Of Obesity-Related Cognitions, David E. Christian
The Development Of An Instrument For The Assessment Of Obesity-Related Cognitions, David E. Christian
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
This dissertation involved the design and validation of the Obesity Cognitions Inventory (OCI) which was intended to quantify cognitions associated with obesity. An initial pool of 117 items was refined through expert ratings, a pilot test involving 59 subjects, and a major test and validation using 217 subjects.
The resulting 56-item instrument contains scales measuring five types of cognitions: Personal Control, Dietary Restraint, Cost-Benefit Beliefs, Health Knowledge, and Self-Concept. Test-retest reliabilities for these scales range from .69 to .83 and Cronbach alphas range from .57 to .82. Concurrent criterion validity of the OCI was assessed through two methods (a) correlations …