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Latency And Distortion Compensation In Augmented Environments Using Electromagnetic Trackers, Henry Himberg Dec 2010

Latency And Distortion Compensation In Augmented Environments Using Electromagnetic Trackers, Henry Himberg

Theses and Dissertations

Augmented reality (AR) systems are often used to superimpose virtual objects or information on a scene to improve situational awareness. Delays in the display system or inaccurate registration of objects destroy the sense of immersion a user experiences when using AR systems. AC electromagnetic trackers are ideally for these applications when combined with head orientation prediction to compensate for display system delays. Unfortunately, these trackers do not perform well in environments that contain conductive or ferrous materials due to magnetic field distortion without expensive calibration techniques. In our work we focus on both the prediction and distortion compensation aspects of …

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Costs Of Treating Depression With Individual Versus Family Therapy, Sareta Dobbs Head Dec 2010

Costs Of Treating Depression With Individual Versus Family Therapy, Sareta Dobbs Head

Theses and Dissertations

Marital discord contributes to the development and continuation of depression and to the recurrence of depressive episodes for those in troubled relationships. Early research suggests that family therapy may reduce the severity and frequency of depressive episodes through modification of family interactional patterns. This would result in a reduction in the cost of treating depression. This study summarizes the literature linking family dynamics with depression. Then,using a sample taken from a large health maintenance organization, data was statistically analyzed to measure the effectiveness of both individual and family therapy as delivered by different types of mental health professionals. Results indicated …

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2010-12-17 General Education Council Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate., General Education Council. Dec 2010

2010-12-17 General Education Council Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate., General Education Council.

Faculty Senate Records

General Education Council meeting minutes from December 17, 2010.

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Higher-Critical Thinking And Its Effects (Part Vi), Roy Gane Dec 2010

Higher-Critical Thinking And Its Effects (Part Vi), Roy Gane

Memory, Meaning & Faith

No abstract provided.

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An Implementation Of A Numerical Advection Equation Solver On Modern Graphics Cards Using Compute Unified Device Architecture, Wei Dang Dec 2010

An Implementation Of A Numerical Advection Equation Solver On Modern Graphics Cards Using Compute Unified Device Architecture, Wei Dang

Engineering

"In the past decade, the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) is reported to have become a powerful general-purpose computation platform for various application areas. The Arctic Region Supercomputing Center (ARSC) intends to assess the capability of this emerging computing tool so that they may enlist it as component of supercomputing systems, but at a lower cost. This thesis reports on parallelization, on both GPU and CPU, of a numerical algorithm named the Total Variation Diminishing (TVD) scheme, which is used in the Eulerian Polar Parallel Ionospheric Model (EPPIM) developed at UAF's Geophysical Institute (GI) and ARSC. The GPU (single NVIDIA Tesla® …

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Characterization And Fluid Flow Properties Of Frozen Rock Systems Of Umiat Oil Field, Alaska, Vasil Godabrelidze Dec 2010

Characterization And Fluid Flow Properties Of Frozen Rock Systems Of Umiat Oil Field, Alaska, Vasil Godabrelidze

Engineering

The Umiat field, located in northwestern Alaska between the Brooks Range and the Arctic Ocean, potentially contains the largest accumulation of oil in Naval Petroleum Reserve No.4. Most of the oil is found within the permafrost zone. The main oil-producing zones in the Umiat field are marine sandstones in the Grandstand Formation of the Cretaceous Nanushuk group. Although the temperatures are close to freezing, the oil in the Umiat field remains unfrozen due to its very high API gravity. However, this results in a very unique pore space containing frozen water and oil, posing a particular challenge to characterization and …

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At The Table, Candice Lewis Dec 2010

At The Table, Candice Lewis

ATS Chapel Services

No abstract provided.

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Praying With Confidence, J. Steven Harper Dec 2010

Praying With Confidence, J. Steven Harper

ATS Chapel Services

No abstract provided.

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"I Wonder When We'll Be In Civilization Again": Women, Alaska And The 1910 Seattle To Ophir Travel Letter Of Cinthia "Addie" Rieck, Lillian Anderson Misel Dec 2010

"I Wonder When We'll Be In Civilization Again": Women, Alaska And The 1910 Seattle To Ophir Travel Letter Of Cinthia "Addie" Rieck, Lillian Anderson Misel

Arctic and Northern Studies

Mainstream Alaskan history has largely ignored women's role in the development of the state during the early 20th century. Although mainly a male endeavor, the multiple Alaskan gold stampedes from 1899 to 1914 brought a migration of women, and they played a role in the development of the territory. The current literature of women in the north focuses primarily on the Canadian Klondike stampede of 1897-98 which saw women traveling to the gold fields for a variety of reasons, such as to support their husbands in their ventures, seek their own business opportunities, or just seek adventure. The same reasons …

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Daniel Byrd Sr. Dec 2010

Daniel Byrd Sr.

African American Funeral Programs

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Meeting Minutes, Wku University Senate Dec 2010

Meeting Minutes, Wku University Senate

Faculty Senate

Meeting regarding raises, DELO revenue distribution, Student Government Association, executive committee, benefits, tobacco free campus, charter revision, overall policy, eleven month compensation, variable employer contributions for health plan and Lou Stahl's retirement.

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December Agenda, Wku Graduate Council Dec 2010

December Agenda, Wku Graduate Council

Graduate School

Meeting agenda.

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Meeting Minutes, Wku Graduate Council Dec 2010

Meeting Minutes, Wku Graduate Council

Graduate School

Meeting minutes.

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Psychiatric Comorbidity In Transformed Migraine: Presentation, Treatment, Impact And Outcome, Muhammad A. Abbas M.D, Haseeba Ismaiel, M.D, William B. Young M.D., Mary Hopkins, Stephen D. Silberstein, M.D Dec 2010

Psychiatric Comorbidity In Transformed Migraine: Presentation, Treatment, Impact And Outcome, Muhammad A. Abbas M.D, Haseeba Ismaiel, M.D, William B. Young M.D., Mary Hopkins, Stephen D. Silberstein, M.D

Jefferson Journal of Psychiatry

Transformed migraine is one of the subtypes of chronic daily headache (CDH), and is similar to chronic migraine, described in the new International Headache Society (IHS) classification 2004. The term CDH refers to the Headache disorders experienced 15 or more days a month and includes headaches associated with medication overuse. CDH can be divided into primary and secondary varieties. Primary CDH is not related to a structural or systemic illness. It includes diseases such as Transformed migraine (TM). Chronic tension-type headache (CTTH), new daily persistent headache (NDPH), and hemicrania continua (HC). Secondary CDH has an identifiable underlying cause, including post-traumatic …

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Resident Teaching Expectations And Medical Student Feedback, Michael Ignatowski Dec 2010

Resident Teaching Expectations And Medical Student Feedback, Michael Ignatowski

Jefferson Journal of Psychiatry

Objective Much of resident teaching of medical students occurs in an informal manner, with bedside teaching a common focus. Hence, the ability to monitor such teaching is limited. Feedback about how students perceive the teaching is perhaps one way to more effectively monitor and influence resident teaching.

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Ten Year Follow Up Of A Psychiatry Residency Program Merger, Alvi A. Azad, Julianne Flynn, Thomas Matthews, Kenneth Matthews, Joseph Chozinski Dec 2010

Ten Year Follow Up Of A Psychiatry Residency Program Merger, Alvi A. Azad, Julianne Flynn, Thomas Matthews, Kenneth Matthews, Joseph Chozinski

Jefferson Journal of Psychiatry

Objective: To report on the successful merger of a civilian and military psychiatry residency. Methods: The reasons for and the history of the merger between the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and Wilford Hall Air Force Medical Center psychiatry residencies is described. Results: After some false starts, a bottom-up approach was implemented by first merging seminars, then rotations. Conclusions: Combining two psychiatry residencies in order to capitalize on both their strengths can yield a product even greater than the sum of their two programs and the key to a lasting merger is to start with two …

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Relationship Of Vulnerability To Coercive Control And Intimate Partner Violence (Ipv) Among Latinas, Susan Dee Watson Dec 2010

Relationship Of Vulnerability To Coercive Control And Intimate Partner Violence (Ipv) Among Latinas, Susan Dee Watson

Open Access Dissertations

IPV is the most common cause of violence-related injury to women in the United States and greater than one-third of all female homicide victims in the U.S. were killed by the victims' husband or partner. Nationally, intimate partner violence (IPV) has been identified as a public health issue, and internationally gender inequality is the number one human rights issue. In addition to risk factors identified among multicultural samples, characteristics that increase Latina vulnerability to IPV may relate to the specific cultural scripts between partners that are expected and supported within Latino culture. Latinas in the United States are affected by …

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Personality Style And Hiv Risk Behavior Among Adolescent Substance Abusers, Stephanie E. Diamond Dec 2010

Personality Style And Hiv Risk Behavior Among Adolescent Substance Abusers, Stephanie E. Diamond

Open Access Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to investigate relationships between four personality styles and two important indications of HIV risk behavior, at intake and 3-month follow-up, among a sample of adolescents participating in court-mandated substance abuse treatment in conjunction with an HIV prevention intervention. This study involved a secondary analysis of data from a NIDA funded project (1R01DA011875-01, R. Malow, PI). Predictor variables included levels of antisocial (unruly), dependent(submissive), avoidant (inhibited), and borderline (borderline tendency) personality styles drawn from scales of the Million Adolescent Clinical Inventory (MACI). Criterion variables included number of sexual partners and percentage of sex acts unprotected, …

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American Ethni/Cities: Critical Geography, Subject Formation, And The Urban Representations Of Abraham Cahan, Richard Wright, And James Baldwin, Joshua S. Stone Dec 2010

American Ethni/Cities: Critical Geography, Subject Formation, And The Urban Representations Of Abraham Cahan, Richard Wright, And James Baldwin, Joshua S. Stone

Open Access Dissertations

By drawing upon aspects of critical geography to explore three writers' representations of urban space and subject formation, American Ethni/Cities develops and advocates for a new methodological approach to the study of literature. Predicated on theories devised by Henri Lefebvre, David Harvey, Edward Soja, Gil Valentine and other geographically-minded thinkers, this spatially conscious literary practice has the potential to enhance one's understanding of literary texts, power dynamics, identity construction, and the spaces one inhabits. Each of the chapters comprising this study aims to demonstrate what this interdisciplinary partnership between geography and literature can reveal. By focusing on Cahan's representation of …

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Modeling Of Flow In An In Vitro Aneurysm Model: A Fluid-Structure Interaction Approach, Qing Hao Dec 2010

Modeling Of Flow In An In Vitro Aneurysm Model: A Fluid-Structure Interaction Approach, Qing Hao

Open Access Dissertations

Flow velocity field, vorticity and circulation and wall shear stresses were simulated by FSI approach under conditions of pulsatile flow in a scale model of the rabbit elastin-induced aneurysm. The flow pattern inside the aneurysm sac confirmed the in vitro experimental findings that in diastole time period the flow inside the aneurysm sac is a stable circular clock-wise flow, while in systole time period higher velocity enters into the aneurysm sac and during systole and diastole time period an anti-clock circular flow pattern emerged near the distal neck; in the 3-D aneurysm sac, the kinetic energy per point is about …

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Psychophysiological Responses To Disgust: Cardiovascular And Facial Muscle Patterns Associated With Different Functional Domains, Robert Oum Dec 2010

Psychophysiological Responses To Disgust: Cardiovascular And Facial Muscle Patterns Associated With Different Functional Domains, Robert Oum

Open Access Dissertations

This study examined the distinguishing physiological characteristics of the disgust reaction across different domains. According to an evolutionary analysis, disgust is a heterogeneous emotion with features that are specific to three distinct domains: pathogens, sex, and morality. Each domain is predicted to take as input information specific to the adaptive problem it evolved to solve and regulate behavior accordingly. The goal of the present study was to investigate whether there are any adaptive physiological differences associated with the disgust response across domains. Participants were asked to imagine acts that elicit pathogen, sexual, and moral disgust. It was hypothesized that there …

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Population Structure And The Mating System Of Loggerhead Turtles (Caretta Caretta), Janne Thoft Nielsen Dec 2010

Population Structure And The Mating System Of Loggerhead Turtles (Caretta Caretta), Janne Thoft Nielsen

Open Access Dissertations

Studies of the maternally inherited mitochondrial DNA in loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) demonstrate that females are philopatric, returning to nest in the region where they hatched. Eleven genetic stocks of maternal lineages have been identified in the Atlantic Ocean. An analysis of the conventionally-used 380 bp of the mitochondrial control region of a sample of individuals from the genetic stock of loggerheads in Mexico (N = 175) revealed 13 haplotypes. When a longer sequence read of 815 bp was analyzed, 17 haplotypes were uncovered. In the genetic stock of loggerheads in northwestern Florida (N = 25), three haplotypes were …

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Caregiver Behaviors As Moderators Of The Relation Between Children's Joint Attention Skills And Subsequent Language In An At-Risk Sample, Dolores Farhat Dec 2010

Caregiver Behaviors As Moderators Of The Relation Between Children's Joint Attention Skills And Subsequent Language In An At-Risk Sample, Dolores Farhat

Open Access Dissertations

The positive link between children's joint attention skills and subsequent language outcomes is well established. There is also abundant evidence that responsive caregiver behaviors lead to optimal language outcomes. Though directive behaviors are generally considered detrimental to children's growth, specific types of directive behaviors which extend or build upon a child's behavior are thought to promote children's learning. No study has examined how caregiver behaviors interact with children's joint attention skills to affect subsequent language. Therefore, the objective of the present study was to examine how three different caregiver behaviors (Responsiveness, Supportiveness, and Intrusiveness) measured at 18 months moderated the …

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Information Integration In A Grid Environment Applications In The Bioinformatics Domain, Ahmed M. Radwan Dec 2010

Information Integration In A Grid Environment Applications In The Bioinformatics Domain, Ahmed M. Radwan

Open Access Dissertations

Grid computing emerged as a framework for supporting complex operations over large datasets; it enables the harnessing of large numbers of processors working in parallel to solve computing problems that typically spread across various domains. We focus on the problems of data management in a grid/cloud environment. The broader context of designing a services oriented architecture (SOA) for information integration is studied, identifying the main components for realizing this architecture. The BioFederator is a web services-based data federation architecture for bioinformatics applications. Based on collaborations with bioinformatics researchers, several domain-specific data federation challenges and needs are identified. The BioFederator addresses …

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Molecular Mechanisms Of Self-Renewal In Marrow Stromal Stem Cells, Carmen I. Rios Dec 2010

Molecular Mechanisms Of Self-Renewal In Marrow Stromal Stem Cells, Carmen I. Rios

Open Access Dissertations

Adult stem cells currently represent the most promising cell type for cell therapy approaches in regenerative medicine. To obtain a thorough understanding of their properties is essential for successful stem cell therapy approaches. We previously identified a unique population of human marrow-isolated adult multilineage inducible (MIAMI) cells isolated from males and females 3 to 72 years of age. Although their numbers decrease with age, their molecular profile is sustained, suggesting that these cells self-renew during the lifetime of the individual. Understanding the mechanisms of in vitro self-renewal will allow us to expand these cells to numbers suitable for cell therapy …

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Integrating Climate Information Into Water Resource Decision-Making In South Florida, Jessica A. Bolson Dec 2010

Integrating Climate Information Into Water Resource Decision-Making In South Florida, Jessica A. Bolson

Open Access Dissertations

Water resource decision making in South Florida is characterized by complexity. Factors including climate variability and change, population, land use, and shifting water demands contribute to this complexity. Integrated approaches are suggested as mechanisms to observe and manage complex management challenges, but the practical role of integrated models in environmental decision-making has not been thoroughly evaluated. This research evaluates the potential role for an integrated water model by applying an end-to-end research design in the context of South Florida water management stakeholders. Scenarios for future drivers of water demand and the integrated system dynamics water model, the SFIWM, which were …

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Chemical And Acoustic Emission Evaluation Studies Of Concrete Bridge In Marine Environment, Alexander Boudewijn Suma Dec 2010

Chemical And Acoustic Emission Evaluation Studies Of Concrete Bridge In Marine Environment, Alexander Boudewijn Suma

Open Access Dissertations

A field investigation of the Fair Isle Bridge, Miami, Florida consists of a nondestructive evaluation program including physical and acoustic emission (AE) assessment. The bridge is situated in a marine environment and its deck consists of PC and RC sections. Chemical evaluation is performed prior to strengthening with CFRP laminates and consists of visual inspection, carbonation, pH evaluation, chloride content, and steel corrosion detection by half-cell potential. After repair, three additional physical assessments are performed: crack mapping, thermography, and AE. These combined techniques provide sufficient information to create layered maps to evaluate the condition of the bridge structure. Within the …

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Building Transnational Media Spaces: Immigrant Journalism In South Florida, Moses A. Shumow Dec 2010

Building Transnational Media Spaces: Immigrant Journalism In South Florida, Moses A. Shumow

Open Access Dissertations

Since the election of Hugo Chávez in 1999 and the subsequent rapid growth of Venezuelan immigration to the United States, there has been an explosion of Venezuelan community media in South Florida. While focused on local issues, the mediated communication being produced and distributed among members of this community remains distinctly transnational in scope, informed primarily by events taking place in Venezuela as the country is being transformed politically, socially, and economically under the controversial leadership of President Hugo Chávez. This study presents an empirical, qualitative investigation into the practices of Venezuelan media producers in South Florida through a series …

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Gsu View, 2010-12-16, Office Of Public Affairs Dec 2010

Gsu View, 2010-12-16, Office Of Public Affairs

GSU View

Newsletter published by Governors State University 2007-current.

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Governors State University Begins Infant And Toddler Childcare, Office Of Public Affairs Dec 2010

Governors State University Begins Infant And Toddler Childcare, Office Of Public Affairs

Press Releases

Beginning on December 17, Governors State University’s Family Development Center (FDC) opened an Illinois State licensed childcare facility for infants, toddlers, and two year olds. The little ones are cared for in specially equipped classrooms of eight children, each staffed with two teachers. The infant and toddler childcare center is open from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Friday.

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