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Real-Time Acquisition Of Multi-View Face Images To Support Robust Face Recognition Using A Wireless Camera Network, Srikanth Parupati Jan 2011

Real-Time Acquisition Of Multi-View Face Images To Support Robust Face Recognition Using A Wireless Camera Network, Srikanth Parupati

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Recent terror attacks, intrusion attempts and criminal activities have necessitated a transition to modern biometric systems that are capable of identifying suspects in real time. But real-time biometrics is challenging given the computationally intensive nature of video processing and the potential occlusions and variations in pose of a subject in an unconstrained environment. The objective of this dissertation is to utilize the robustness and parallel computational abilities of a distributed camera network for fast and robust face recognition.;In order to support face recognition using a camera network, a collaborative middle-ware service is designed that enables the rapid extraction of multi-view …

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Tyrosine Phosphorylation Linked To Cardiac Arrhythmias Via Hcn Pacemaker Channel, Yen-Chang Lin Jan 2011

Tyrosine Phosphorylation Linked To Cardiac Arrhythmias Via Hcn Pacemaker Channel, Yen-Chang Lin

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Cardiac sudden death (CSD) is the leading cause of death in the United States. Although the causes of CSD are not understood completely, cardiac arrhythmias have been indicated as the major contribution to CSD. The main purpose of this thesis is to investigate the mechanisms underlying cardiac arrhythmias, therefore providing scientific basis for clinical applications in the future to lower the rate of CSD.;My thesis contains four chapters. Chapter 1 aims to examine a novel role of tyrosine phosphorylation in the arrhythmogenesis. To achieve this goal, a rat arrhythmia model was established without structural remodeling, and the Src tyrosine kinase …

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Analysis And Classification Of Current Trends In Malicious Http Traffic, Risto Pantev Jan 2011

Analysis And Classification Of Current Trends In Malicious Http Traffic, Risto Pantev

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Web applications are highly prone to coding imperfections which lead to hacker-exploitable vulnerabilities. The contribution of this thesis includes detailed analysis of malicious HTTP traffic based on data collected from four advertised high-interaction honeypots, which hosted different Web applications, each in duration of almost four months. We extract features from Web server logs that characterize malicious HTTP sessions in order to present them as data vectors in four fully labeled datasets. Our results show that the supervised learning methods, Support Vector Machines (SVM) and Decision Trees based J48 and PART, can be used to efficiently distinguish attack sessions from vulnerability …

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An American "Duchess" In Disguise: John Singleton Copley's Turquerie Portrait Of Margaret Kemble Gage, Elizabeth Rininger Jan 2011

An American "Duchess" In Disguise: John Singleton Copley's Turquerie Portrait Of Margaret Kemble Gage, Elizabeth Rininger

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A number of portraits that John Singleton Copley painted in the years prior to the American Revolution show women clad in turquerie. Traditionally, art historians have explained the appearance of this fashion as provincial colonials copying fashions from their parent country. The appeal of the fashion was strong; however, the political, social, and sexual connotations complicate this explanation for the sitters' choice of dress. While the purpose here is not to disprove the explanation of fashion-consciousness, it is to read these portraits from the perspective of the colonized rather than the colonizer. It is an attempt to decode an appropriated …

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Surfactants And Digital Alloys For Strain Relief In Iii-Nitride Distributed Bragg Reflectors And Related Heterostructures Via Metal Organic Vapor Phase Epitaxy, Lee Ellen Rodak Jan 2011

Surfactants And Digital Alloys For Strain Relief In Iii-Nitride Distributed Bragg Reflectors And Related Heterostructures Via Metal Organic Vapor Phase Epitaxy, Lee Ellen Rodak

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III-Nitride based semiconductors have emerged as one of the promising materials for electronic and opto-electronic devices, including but not limited to, solid state emitters, photodetectors, and transistors. Despite commercial success, several issues ranging from material growth to device fabrication remain unresolved and continue to hinder the efficiency of these devices. One such issue includes strain management in III-Nitride heterostructures. The binary alloys in the (Al,In,Ga)N family are characterized by a large lattice and thermal mismatch which leads to defect formation and cracking within heterostructures. These defects are detrimental to device fabrication and operation. This work investigates growth based techniques to …

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B-Splines In Emd And Graph Theory In Pattern Recognition, Qin Wu Jan 2011

B-Splines In Emd And Graph Theory In Pattern Recognition, Qin Wu

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With the development of science and technology, a large amount of data is waiting for further scientific exploration. We can always build up some good mathematical models based on the given data to analyze and solve the real life problems. In this work, we propose three types of mathematical models for different applications.;In chapter 1, we use Bspline based EMD to analysis nonlinear and no-stationary signal data. A new idea about the boundary extension is introduced and applied to the Empirical Mode Decomposition(EMD) algorithm. Instead of the traditional mirror extension on the boundary, we propose a ratio extension on the …

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Electrochemical And Microstructural Analysis Of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Electrodes, Mingjia Zhi Jan 2011

Electrochemical And Microstructural Analysis Of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Electrodes, Mingjia Zhi

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Fuel cells offer several advantages over conventional routines of power generation, such as substantially higher conversion efficiency, modular construction, minimal sitting restriction, and much lower production of pollutants. Solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC), in principle, can utilize all kinds of combustion fuels including coal derived syngas (CSG). The U.S. Department of Energy is currently working on coupling coal gasification and SOFC to form Integrated Gasification Fuel Cell (IGFC) systems. Such IGFC systems will enable the clean, efficient and cost-effective use of coal---the nation's most abundant fossil fuel.;However several issues need to be considered before SOFC can be really commercialized. The …

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Demographic Response Of American Ginseng (Panax Quinquefolius L.) To Climate Change, Sara Souther Jan 2011

Demographic Response Of American Ginseng (Panax Quinquefolius L.) To Climate Change, Sara Souther

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Ecological response to recent climate change has been documented for a multitude of species worldwide. Climate models predict further increases in temperature, as much as 8 times the degree of warming that has already occurred. Given observations of species response to contemporary climate change and the unprecedented degree of warming expected over the next century, climate change will no doubt determine future ecosystem composition and affect global species diversity. In order to prevent loss of biodiversity, it is necessary to understand and accurately project species' response to climate, and to identify species that are vulnerable to climate change driven extinctions. …

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Computational Hybrid Systems For Identifying Prognostic Gene Markers Of Lung Cancer, Ying-Wooi Wan Jan 2011

Computational Hybrid Systems For Identifying Prognostic Gene Markers Of Lung Cancer, Ying-Wooi Wan

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Lung cancer is the most fatal cancer around the world. Current lung cancer prognosis and treatment is based on tumor stage population statistics and could not reliably assess the risk for developing recurrence in individual patients. Biomarkers enable treatment options to be tailored to individual patients based on their tumor molecular characteristics. To date, there is no clinically applied molecular prognostic model for lung cancer. Statistics and feature selection methods identify gene candidates by ranking the association between gene expression and disease outcome, but do not account for the interactions among genes. Computational network methods could model interactions, but have …

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Ubps Unraveled: Genetic Characterization Of Three Ubiquitin Specific Protease Subfamilies In Arabidopsis Thaliana., Crystal M. Goldyn Jan 2011

Ubps Unraveled: Genetic Characterization Of Three Ubiquitin Specific Protease Subfamilies In Arabidopsis Thaliana., Crystal M. Goldyn

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This study investigated the function of three ubiquitin specific protease subfamilies (UBP15-19, UBP12/13 and UBP3/4) in Arabidopsis thaliana via reverse genetic analysis. In the investigation of the UBP15-19 subfamily, T-DNA insertion lines were utilized to determine phenotypic characteristics compared to wild-type individuals, such as reduced inflorescence, leaf, flower and silique size. Phenotypic alterations were also detected that affected development and reproduction. A phylogenetic analysis of this subfamily uncovered three subgroups in the monocotyledonous and dicotyledonous plants, but a single group in the mosses suggested that subgroup evolution began prior to the separation of dicots and monocots but following the divergence …

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Reclaimed Surface Mine Terrestrial Pools: Integrating Remote Sensing, Spatial Data And Field Work., Sheila A. Kazar Jan 2011

Reclaimed Surface Mine Terrestrial Pools: Integrating Remote Sensing, Spatial Data And Field Work., Sheila A. Kazar

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This study investigated the remote sensing of aboveground biomass in reclaimed surface mine reclamation sites and the carbon (C) storage potential of these sites. The research is structured in three sections. In the first study, the potential for utilizing the tasseled cap (TC) spectral transformation to characterize multi-temporal changes of vegetation growth was investigated within nine reclaimed coal surface mines in Monongalia and Preston Counties, West Virginia. The spectral patterns of TC greenness, brightness and wetness values associated with the minesites were investigated for a multi-temporal series of Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) images, from 1992 to 2007. In general, most …

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The Livingstons Of Liberty Hall: Changes And Restrictions Of Gender In Eighteenth- Century America., Jennifer M. Tobin Jan 2011

The Livingstons Of Liberty Hall: Changes And Restrictions Of Gender In Eighteenth- Century America., Jennifer M. Tobin

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The Livingstons of Liberty Hall: Changes and Restrictions of Gender in Eighteenth- Century America explore issues of masculinity and femininity during the settlement of New York and New Jersey through the American Revolution. In it, theories relating to social order, economics and law are explored as they pertain to three generations of the Livingston family. Ideas regarding class and cultural diffusion, as well as the transformation of British colonial subjects to American citizens are seen through the education, lives and changes experienced by the Livingston family. Each Livingston son and daughter reacted and participated to the war and the changes …

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Protein Surface Characterization Using An Invariant Descriptor, Zainab Abu Deeb Jan 2011

Protein Surface Characterization Using An Invariant Descriptor, Zainab Abu Deeb

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A novel descriptor to characterize protein surfaces, and hence classify functionally similar proteins into functional families is proposed. The descriptor exploits the protein tertiary structure surface, locally and globally, to identify intra-family proteins. By using only sparse data based on the C-alpha atoms on the protein surface, we characterize the surface using different invariant descriptors, namely, distance distributions, residue co-occurrences, and distance-residue co-occurrences between all atoms confined to a particular patch. Using the method, proteins with very low sequence similarity were successfully classified into their functional families with a high degree of accuracy.

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Investigation Of Particulate Matter Size Distribution And Concentration During Low Temperature Combustion, Ramamoorthy Balakrishnan Jan 2011

Investigation Of Particulate Matter Size Distribution And Concentration During Low Temperature Combustion, Ramamoorthy Balakrishnan

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Stringent emissions regulations imposed by US EPA on diesel engine manufacturers have shifted the focus towards development and implementation of in-cylinder emissions reduction strategies. In order to simultaneously achieve low oxides of nitrogen (NOx) and particulate matter (PM) emissions, along with high thermal efficiencies, advanced combustion concepts, such as low temperature combustion (LTC), have been identified as promising approaches. Furthermore, fuel properties, such as cetane number (CN) have been known to critically affect the combustion process and hence exhaust emissions.;The primary objective of this study was to investigate the impacts of LTC on PM size distribution and number concentration for …

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A Spatial Analysis Of The Role Of Entrepreneurship In The Economic Development In Northeast Region Of The United States, Saima Bashir Jan 2011

A Spatial Analysis Of The Role Of Entrepreneurship In The Economic Development In Northeast Region Of The United States, Saima Bashir

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Increasing population and very modest economic growth are major concerns in regional economic development. There have been many fluctuations and inconsistencies in regional economic growth since the Second World War. Policy makers started to pay attention to the possibility of increasing entrepreneurial activities in the Northeast region after realizing that manufacturing firms alone cannot meet the employment needs of local residents. The United States has focused on providing more support to entrepreneurs to have a competitive economy. Entrepreneurship is important for economic activities such as employed resources, labor and capital goods pricing, organizing production, and marketing goods. This study develops …

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Parameterized Strings: Algorithms And Data Structures, Richard A. Beal Jan 2011

Parameterized Strings: Algorithms And Data Structures, Richard A. Beal

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A parameterized string (p-string) T = T[1] T[2]...T[n] is a sophisticated string of length n composed of symbols from a constant alphabet Sigma and a parameter alphabet pi. Given a pair of p-strings S and T, the parameterized pattern matching (p-match) problem is to verify whether the individual constant symbols match and whether there exists a bijection between the parameter symbols of S and T. If the two conditions are met, S is said to be a p-match of T. A significant breakthrough in the p-match area is the prev encoding, which is proven to identify a p-match between S …

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Effect Of Temperature Variation On The Structural Capacity Of A Multi-Span Horizontally Curved Steel I-Girder Bridge, Christopher L. Beckett Jan 2011

Effect Of Temperature Variation On The Structural Capacity Of A Multi-Span Horizontally Curved Steel I-Girder Bridge, Christopher L. Beckett

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Horizontally curved steel I-girder bridges have become a popular bridge design choice among bridge engineers. The current level of knowledge regarding the design and analysis of curved I-girder bridges under thermal loading is incomplete. The thermal expansion of curved bridges is rather complicated and current standards provide little guidance when designing a bearing plan to prevent the development of thermal stresses and out-of-plane distortional behavior. Thermal stresses, in the form of axial compressive stresses, will develop if thermal expansion is constrained. This study examines the effect of different bearing arrangements on the development of thermal stresses and out-of-plane web distortions …

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A Two Dimensional Numerical Soot Model For Advanced Design And Control Of Diesel Particulate Filters, Prabash E. Abeyratne Jan 2011

A Two Dimensional Numerical Soot Model For Advanced Design And Control Of Diesel Particulate Filters, Prabash E. Abeyratne

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One of the most effective methods to control diesel particulate matter (PM) emissions from heavy duty diesel engines is to use wall flow diesel particulate filters (DPF). It is still a major challenge to get an accurate estimation of soot loading, which is crucial for the engine afterteratment assembly optimization. In the recent past, several advanced computational models of DPF filtration and regeneration have been presented to assess the cost effective optimization of future particulate trap systems. They are characterized by different degree of detail and computational costs, depending on the specific application (i.e diagnostics, control, system design, component design …

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Impact Of Gas Desorption On Production From Multiply Fractured Horizontal Well In Shale, Abdallah O. Arwishad Jan 2011

Impact Of Gas Desorption On Production From Multiply Fractured Horizontal Well In Shale, Abdallah O. Arwishad

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In recent years, the exploitation of unconventional gas reservoirs has become increasingly important to North American energy supply. Unconventional gas development depends on effective stimulation of low permeability reservoir by creating multiple hydraulic fractures which connects massive reservoir area to the wellbore. Hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling are primary techniques to obtain economical production from the shale gas reservoir. In addition to that, gas desorption can be a significant source of gas production in shale gas reservoirs.;This research will illustrate the impact of gas desorption on production from multiply fractured horizontal well in shale by using a reservoir model. This …

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Attitudes Toward Help Seeking Among Depressed And Non-Depressed Postpartum Women, Terri L. Liberto Jan 2011

Attitudes Toward Help Seeking Among Depressed And Non-Depressed Postpartum Women, Terri L. Liberto

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Background: Postpartum depression is a serious mood disorder that can have negative effects on the new mother and her infant. Postpartum depression affects 10-15% of all women after childbirth. A majority of women with postpartum depression do not seek help from any source. Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between attitudes toward help seeking and actual help seeking in postpartum women with and without depressive symptoms. Method: A convenience sample of 130 postpartum women from northwestern Pennsylvania completed the Postpartum Depression Screening Scale (PDSS) and the Attitudes Toward Seeking Professional Psychological Help Short Form (ATSPPH-SF).The …

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Variances In Diurnal Fatigue Patterns And Mood Among Postpartum Women, Amanda L. Mcbean Jan 2011

Variances In Diurnal Fatigue Patterns And Mood Among Postpartum Women, Amanda L. Mcbean

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Postpartum women have highly disrupted sleep and many experience a disruption in their circadian rhythm during this time. They are also susceptible to mood disruptions during the postpartum period. While mood disruption may be a result of sleep disruption, there are not many data to support a link between circadian rhythm disruption and mood among healthy postpartum women. This study sought to fill that gap. Participants were a convenience sample of 71 women from a larger study. The total sample was 26.4 (SD = 4.0) years old, had a mean annual income of {dollar}51,000 (SD = {dollar}35,000), and had 15.7 …

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The Dynamics Of Collaboration In Universal Pre-K Counties Of West Virginia, Kimberly S. Miller Jan 2011

The Dynamics Of Collaboration In Universal Pre-K Counties Of West Virginia, Kimberly S. Miller

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West Virginia Senate Bill 247 mandated that local school systems develop and implement universal preschool programs for all four-year-old children and three-year-old children as mandated by federal law. This mandate was the impetus for West Virginia Policy 2525: West Virginia's Access to a Quality Early Education System. Within policy, local school systems are mandated to collaborate with licensed childcare providers and Head Start to make up at least 50% of the preschool classrooms. This descriptive qualitative case study investigated how the experience of compulsory collaboration required by WV policy 2525 is described by early education providers. The description of the …

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A Dutch Woman In An English World: The Legacy Of Alida Livingston Of New York, Melinda M. Mohler Jan 2011

A Dutch Woman In An English World: The Legacy Of Alida Livingston Of New York, Melinda M. Mohler

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In 1674, at the conclusion of the Third Dutch War, the Treaty of Westminster placed the Dutch New Netherlands permanently under English control. For the many businesswomen of Dutch heritage who resided in the New Netherlands during the late seventeenth century, this shift in colonial power resulted in a drastic loss of economic freedom and, in many cases, brought an end to their public business ventures. As Dutch businesswomen increasingly retreated from the public sphere, their need to document daily activities dwindled and records of their personal lives all but disappeared. A study of the correspondence of Alida Schuyler Livingston …

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Understanding Transnational Advocacy Groups: A Case Study Of The Effectiveness Of The Committee To Protect Journalists In The Promotion Of Press Freedom In The Philippines, Mayuri Mukherjee Jan 2011

Understanding Transnational Advocacy Groups: A Case Study Of The Effectiveness Of The Committee To Protect Journalists In The Promotion Of Press Freedom In The Philippines, Mayuri Mukherjee

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Given the increasingly crucial role of the media in forming popular opinion, policymaking and the conduct of democratic institutions, there has been a severe, often lethal, backlash against individuals who exercise this power through their craft. This study examines the effectiveness of international advocacy groups in protecting journalists and promoting press freedom through a case study of the Committee to Protect Journalists, a non-governmental international advocacy group, in getting justice for killed journalists in the Philippines -- one of the world's most deadliest places for journalists. The study attempts to provide a detailed insight into how transnational advocacy groups work …

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Modeling Of Heat Transfer And Reactive Chemistry For Particles In Gas-Solid Flow Utilizing Continuum-Discrete Methodology (Cdm), Jordan M. H. Musser Jan 2011

Modeling Of Heat Transfer And Reactive Chemistry For Particles In Gas-Solid Flow Utilizing Continuum-Discrete Methodology (Cdm), Jordan M. H. Musser

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A comprehensive multi-phase flow model requires coupled hydrodynamics, boundary conditions, heat and mass transfer, and chemical reaction kinetics. A model must also capture the multi-scale nature of these problems. Computational fluid dynamics-discrete element method (CFD-DEM) provides an accurate description of chemical reactions and heat and mass transfer at the particle scale. Currently, MFIX-DEM, the existing CFD-DEM used as the foundation for this work, can only model coupled hydrodynamics. This dissertation extends the functionality of MFIX-DEM by addressing the remaining deficiencies in three separate efforts.;The first effort outlined in this dissertation focuses on the algorithmic development of discrete mass inflow and …

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Following Advice Because It's Been Paid For: Age, The Sunk-Cost Fallacy, And Loss Aversion, Leo Schlosnagle Jan 2011

Following Advice Because It's Been Paid For: Age, The Sunk-Cost Fallacy, And Loss Aversion, Leo Schlosnagle

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The sunk-cost fallacy occurs when a person invests more of a resource because they have made an irrecoverable initial investment (i.e., a sunk cost) compared to scenarios in which they did not make an initial investment, or made a smaller initial investment. The normatively correct decision is to invest exactly the same amount regardless of whether or not an initial investment has been made. An aversion to "wasting" or "losing" the initial investment has been cited as a potential reason for why people commit the sunk-cost fallacy (Arkes & Blumer, 1985; Soman, 2004). Additionally, younger adults commit the sunk-cost fallacy …

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On The Evolution Of Social Development In The British Sudan A Comparative Study Of The Gezira And Zande Cotton-Growing Schemes, Joseph M. Snyder Jan 2011

On The Evolution Of Social Development In The British Sudan A Comparative Study Of The Gezira And Zande Cotton-Growing Schemes, Joseph M. Snyder

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By the early 1950s, two-thirds of the manpower in the British Colonial Service -- some 10,000 out of 15,000 expatriates -- was concentrated in Africa. The total disbursements on research showed the same Africanist bias: fifty-eight percent of the research money spent between 1940 and 1961 went into British African territories. These facts are indicative not only of the obvious -- the massive investment obliged by planned decolonization -- but also of the more opaque and protean: the influence of Lord Hailey's African survey, begun in the late 1930s, which culminated in his Native Administration and Political Development in Tropical …

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Role Of Inhibition In Binaural Processing, Jesse M. Thompson Jan 2011

Role Of Inhibition In Binaural Processing, Jesse M. Thompson

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The medial and lateral superior olives (MSO, LSO) are the lowest order cell groups in the mammalian auditory circuit to receive massive binaural input. The MSO functions in part to encode interaural time differences (ITD), the predominant cue for localization of low frequency sounds. Binaural inputs to the MSO consist of excitatory projections from the cochlear nuclei (CN) and inhibitory projections from both the medial nucleus of the trapezoid body (MNTB) and lateral nucleus of the trapezoid body (LNTB). The interaction of excitatory and inhibitory currents within an MSO cell's soma and dendrites over the backdrop of its intrinsic ionic …

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Ecological Benefits Of Mitigation On A Large River Mainstem In An Intensively Mined Appalachian Watershed, Eric Mitchell Miller Jan 2011

Ecological Benefits Of Mitigation On A Large River Mainstem In An Intensively Mined Appalachian Watershed, Eric Mitchell Miller

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Large scale surface mining in the central Appalachians causes significant alteration of headwater catchments, and these impacts may be offset through implementation of stream restoration projects. As an example, several habitat enhancement structures (cross-vanes and j-hooks) were constructed along a 13.7 km section of the Little Coal River as mitigation for mining impacts in the region. The objectives of our study were to: 1-quantify changes in channel morphology, habitat quality, sediment composition, bank stability, biological communities and organic matter processing in response to habitat enhancing structures; 2-relate changes in structural and functional attributes of the Little Coal River mainstem to …

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Evaluation On The Use Of The Frax Tool To Improve Recognition And Treatment Of Low Bone Mass In Primary Care Practice, Natalie J. Eddy Jan 2011

Evaluation On The Use Of The Frax Tool To Improve Recognition And Treatment Of Low Bone Mass In Primary Care Practice, Natalie J. Eddy

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Background. Research has revealed that there is a consistent underutilization of treatment of osteoporosis especially after fragility fractures. The purpose of the study was to evaluate the application of the FRAXâ„¢ tool as a strategy to improve the assessment and treatment of osteoporosis in primary care. Objectives. The primary outcome was to improve primary care provider recognition and treatment of osteoporosis through the use of the FRAXâ„¢ tool. Secondary outcomes were to increase provider adherence to clinical practice guidelines on osteoporosis. Design. Primary care providers attended one educational session. Pre- and post-test assessed knowledge. Charts were audited for provider adherence …

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