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Investigating Approaches To Media Literacy: An Analysis Of Media Literacy Organizations, Michael Francis Jan 2016

Investigating Approaches To Media Literacy: An Analysis Of Media Literacy Organizations, Michael Francis

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

Media literacy is a competency needed for success in the 21st century yet a clear purpose does not exist that is useful in curriculum design. The purpose of this study was to investigate a combined (eclectic) approach to media literacy education according to selected international media literacy organizations. Determining an eclectic approach from subject area experts will be useful in designing and integrating media literacy curriculum. Methodologically, this study was a qualitative content analysis and is thematic in nature using a constant comparative method of analysis. Supporting frameworks were established through standards based curriculum development and Schwab’s (1969, 1971, 1973, …

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Investigation Of Mathematical Modeling For The General Treatment Of Glioblastoma, Dharma Raj Khatiwada Jan 2016

Investigation Of Mathematical Modeling For The General Treatment Of Glioblastoma, Dharma Raj Khatiwada

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

The purpose of this research is to validate various forms of mathematical modeling of glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) expressed as differential equations, numerically. The first work was involved in the numerical solution of the reaction-convection model, efficacy of which is expressed in terms of survival time. It was calculated using simple numerical scheme for the standard-of-care treatment in clinics which includes surgery followed by the radiation and chemotherapy. Survival time using all treatment options increased significantly to 57 weeks compared to that of surgery close to 14 weeks. It was also observed that survival time increased significantly to 90 weeks if …

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Political Decision-Making At The National Labor Relations Board: An Empirical Examination Of The Board's Unfair Labor Practice Disputes Through The Clinton And Bush Ii Years, Amy Semet Jan 2016

Political Decision-Making At The National Labor Relations Board: An Empirical Examination Of The Board's Unfair Labor Practice Disputes Through The Clinton And Bush Ii Years, Amy Semet

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Does partisan ideology influence the voting of members of multi-member adjudicatory bodies at “independent agencies”? In studying the federal circuit courts of appeals, scholars have found that results of cases vary depending upon the partisan composition of the particular panel hearing a case. Few scholars to date, however, have systematically studied whether partisan panel effects occur in administrative adjudication. In this Article, I explore the impact that partisan ideology and panel composition have on the vote choices of an administrative agency rumored to be one of the most partisan: the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”). Employing an original dataset of …

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Low Cost Robotic Car As A Way To Teach Mathematics, Santiago Andres Aguerrevere Jan 2016

Low Cost Robotic Car As A Way To Teach Mathematics, Santiago Andres Aguerrevere

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

This report describes the development of a low cost open source semiautonomous robotic car and a way to communicate with it. It is a continuation of prior research done by other students at FAU and published in recent ASEE conferences. The objective of this project was the development of a new robotic platform with improved precision over the original, while still keeping the cost down. It was developed with the aim to allow a hands-on approach to the teaching of mathematics topics that are taught in the K-12 syllabus. Improved robustness and reliability of the robotic platform for visually solving …

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Large-Scale Cortical Functional Connectivity Underlying Visuospatial Attention, Timothy Patrick Meehan Jan 2016

Large-Scale Cortical Functional Connectivity Underlying Visuospatial Attention, Timothy Patrick Meehan

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

The endogenous, or voluntary, control of visuospatial attention relies upon interactions within a frontoparietal dorsal attention network (DAN) and this network’s top-down influence on visual occipital cortex (VOC). While these interactions have been shown to occur during attention tasks, they are also known to occur to some extent at rest, but the degree to which task-related interactions reflect either modulation or reorganization of such ongoing intrinsic interactions is poorly understood. In addition, it is known that in spatial neglect—a syndrome following unilateral brain lesions in which patients fail to attend to the contralesional side of space—symptom severity covaries with disruptions …

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Mhysa Or Monster: Masculinization, Mimicry, And The White Savior In A Song Of Ice And Fire, Rachel Hartnett Jan 2016

Mhysa Or Monster: Masculinization, Mimicry, And The White Savior In A Song Of Ice And Fire, Rachel Hartnett

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

Song of Ice and Fire is unarguably one of the most popular fantasy series of all time. Notwithstanding its success, the series has only recently begun to be analyzed critically. George R.R. Martin’s books are often celebrated for breaking many of the tropes common in fantasy literature. Despite this, the series is nonetheless a product of a genre that has been shaped by white, male authors. Using such prominent postcolonial scholars as Edward Said, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Homi Bhabha, and Albert Memmi, I analyze the five published books of Martin’s series. I argue that although Martin seems to be aware …

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Moving Mountains: Animal Rights Organizations, Emotion, And Autodidactic Frame Alignment, Lee Charles Jr Jarvis Jan 2016

Moving Mountains: Animal Rights Organizations, Emotion, And Autodidactic Frame Alignment, Lee Charles Jr Jarvis

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

Animal rights organizations, in attempting to affect institutional change in industrial animal agriculture, face an institutional mountain. I show how these organizations, though contesting institutions which are highly reified, tacitly endorsed, and historically inertial, leverage emotional experiences and regulation to incrementally move this mountain. Using a grounded qualitative study of interview data from animal rights advocates and archival data generated by animal rights organizations, this study finds that animal rights organizations have encoded both response- and antecedent-focused emotion regulation into two distinct strategies used to garner support for their institutional change project: transgression mining and seed planting. Furthermore, this study …

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Molecular Mechanisms Of Cav2.1 Expression And Functional Organization At The Presynaptic Terminal, Brati Das Jan 2016

Molecular Mechanisms Of Cav2.1 Expression And Functional Organization At The Presynaptic Terminal, Brati Das

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

Neuronal circuit output is dependent on the embedded synapses’ precise regulation of Ca2+ mediated release of neurotransmitter filled synaptic vesicles (SVs) in response to action potential (AP) depolarizations. A key determinant of SV release is the specific expression, organization, and abundance of voltage gated calcium channel (VGCC) subtypes at presynaptic active zones (AZs). In particular, the relative distance that SVs are coupled to VGCCs at AZs results in two different modes of SV release that dramatically impacts synapse release probability and ultimately the neuronal circuit output. They are: “Ca2+ microdomain,” SV release due to cooperative action of many loosely coupled …

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Moving Towards Fairness And Diversity? An Analysis Of Perceptions From Employees Working In The United States Department Of The Interior, Stacey Lisbeth Beals Jan 2016

Moving Towards Fairness And Diversity? An Analysis Of Perceptions From Employees Working In The United States Department Of The Interior, Stacey Lisbeth Beals

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

This dissertation examines how different United States Department of the Interior (USDOI) employees’ perceive fairness and support for diversity. The USDOI is an agency with numerous STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) employees who have the opportunity to influence future generations through their STEM internship. Specifically, this dissertation examines the relationship between: (1) the perceived fairness of performance appraisals and the empowerment index, demographic characteristics, satisfaction, accountability and recognition; and (2) the perceived support (or lack thereof) of departmental programs and supervisors to foster diversity in the workforce and the empowerment index and demographic characteristics. This dissertation accomplishes several things. …

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Mozart’S Die Zauberflöte: A Kingdom Of Notes And Numbers, Daemon Garafallo Jan 2016

Mozart’S Die Zauberflöte: A Kingdom Of Notes And Numbers, Daemon Garafallo

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed Die Zauberflöte in the last year of his life. It was intended in part to glorify Freemasonry as a new Emperor, more hostile to the Masons, took his office. After a brief survey of his life and works, this paper shows how Mozart used number symbolism in the opera, and will equip the reader with an understanding of this as practiced by the Freemasons. Further, it will show how Mozart associated the characters of the opera with specific musical tones. It will expose a deeper understanding of the question of meaning in word and text in …

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Multiple Measures As A Placement Instrument In Mathematics At Florida State Colleges, Martínez Iii Miguel A Montañez Jan 2016

Multiple Measures As A Placement Instrument In Mathematics At Florida State Colleges, Martínez Iii Miguel A Montañez

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

Every year, thousands of Florida public high school graduates seek to enter Florida state colleges based on a single standardized placement test. This quantitative study sought to identify an actuarial model, based on multiple measures, as an alternative to standardized placement tests. The study, grounded on degree completion theories, examined high school students from the Miami-Dade metropolitan area and their performance in one first-year mathematics course in Miami Dade College during the Fall 2014 academic term. The study, using a sample size of 10,186 subjects, examined multiple predictor variables and one outcome variable to measure predictability of success in Intermediate …

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Professional Public Administration: A Synthesis Of An Inchoate Concept, Joseph Christian Heilman Jan 2016

Professional Public Administration: A Synthesis Of An Inchoate Concept, Joseph Christian Heilman

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

The term profession is found throughout the scholarly literature; despite frequent use of the term, there exists little or no means of providing a common conception of the term. Consequently, calls for increasing professionalization of public administration appear to be premature. Therefore, this dissertation utilizes inductive research to generate theory, which synthesizes the inchoate concept of the professional public administrator. The motivation to pursue this line of inquiry stems from a personal need to weigh in on the perennial debate about what skills, knowledge, and information should be communicated to future generations of public administration thinkers and practitioners. To that …

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Protective Mechanisms Of Granulocyte-Colony Stimulating Factor Against Experimental Models Of Stroke, Janet Menzie-Suderam Jan 2016

Protective Mechanisms Of Granulocyte-Colony Stimulating Factor Against Experimental Models Of Stroke, Janet Menzie-Suderam

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

Ischemic stroke has a multiplicity of pathophysiological mechanisms. Granulocyte-colony stimulating factor (G-CSF) is an endogenous growth factor that exerts a diverse range of neuroprotection against ischemic stroke. Several lines of evidence demonstrated the contribution of endoplasmic reticulum (ER) in apoptotic cell death involving ischemia. Cell culture of undifferentiated PC12 cells were subjected to 10mM glutamate and selected doses of G-CSF (25ng/ml, 50ng/ml, 100ng/ml and 250ng/ml) for 24 hours. Cell viability, expression of the G-CSF receptor and expression level of CHOP were assessed in vitro. Sprague-Dawley rats were subjected to middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO). Rats were subcutaneously injected with G-CSF …

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Quantum Circuits For Cryptanalysis, Brittanney Jaclyn Amento Jan 2016

Quantum Circuits For Cryptanalysis, Brittanney Jaclyn Amento

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

Finite elds of the form F2m play an important role in coding theory and cryptography. We show that the choice of how to represent the elements of these elds can have a signi cant impact on the resource requirements for quantum arithmetic. In particular, we show how the Gaussian normal basis representations and \ghost-bit basis" representations can be used to implement inverters with a quantum circuit of depth O(mlog(m)). To the best of our knowledge, this is the rst construction with subquadratic depth reported in the literature. Our quantum circuit for the computation of multiplicative inverses is based on the …

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Rapid Analysis Of Fecal Glucocorticoid Metabolites: Testing An Alternative Method For Analyzing Stress Markers In Chimpanzees, Benni Litman Jan 2016

Rapid Analysis Of Fecal Glucocorticoid Metabolites: Testing An Alternative Method For Analyzing Stress Markers In Chimpanzees, Benni Litman

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

This study explores the application of two methods of spectroscopy; Near Infrared spectroscopy (NIR) and Fourier transform spectroscopy (FTIR) as alternative approaches for measuring glucocorticoid metabolites in chimpanzee feces. The goals of this study were twofold: The first was to determine if cortisol can be identified within the NIR and/or FTIR spectra of chimpanzee fecal hormone extract in ethanol solution. The second objective was to determine the capability of NIR and FTIR to predict FGM concentrations obtained using standard laboratory methods. Fecal glucocorticoid concentrations measured by Enzyme Immunoassay were used as the reference data of partial least square (PLS) regression …

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Reassessing Consensus: Alejandro O’Reilly’S 1765 Visita And Puerto Rican History, Sean Thomas Mallen Jan 2016

Reassessing Consensus: Alejandro O’Reilly’S 1765 Visita And Puerto Rican History, Sean Thomas Mallen

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

King Charles III of Spain implemented a series of Enlightenment reforms throughout his domain following the 1763 defeat of the Seven Years War Among the royal officials sent to enact these reforms in the Caribbean, the Crown dispatched Field Marshal Alejandro O’Reilly to the colony of Puerto Rico Historians have attributed to his 1765 inspection, or visita, and subsequent report, or memoria, the foundations for a turning point in the island’s history Despite the historical consensus that has lauded O’Reilly’s recommendations, this inspector-general does not merit the credit that historians consistently have given him Agrarian and economic patterns such as …

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Reliable Vehicle-To-Vehicle Weighted Localization In Vehicular Networks, Lina Altoaimy Jan 2016

Reliable Vehicle-To-Vehicle Weighted Localization In Vehicular Networks, Lina Altoaimy

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

Vehicular Ad Hoc Network (VANET) supports wireless communication among vehicles using vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication and between vehicles and infrastructure using vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communication. This communication can be utilized to allow the distribution of safety and non-safety messages in the network. VANET supports a wide range of applications which rely on the messages exchanged within the network. Such applications will enhance the drivers' consciousness and improve their driving experience. However, the efficiency of these applications depends on the availability of vehicles real-time location information. A number of methods have been proposed to fulfill this requirement. However, designing a V2V-based localization method …

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Salinity Assessment, Change, And Impact On Plant Stress / Canopy Water Content (Cwc) In Florida Bay Using Remote Sensing And Gis, Donna Selch Jan 2016

Salinity Assessment, Change, And Impact On Plant Stress / Canopy Water Content (Cwc) In Florida Bay Using Remote Sensing And Gis, Donna Selch

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

Human activities in the past century have caused a variety of environmental problems in South Florida. In 2000, Congress authorized the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP), a $10.5-billion mission to restore the South Florida ecosystem. Environmental projects in CERP require salinity monitoring in Florida Bay to provide measures of the effects of restoration on the Everglades ecosystem. However current salinity monitoring cannot cover large areas and is costly, time-consuming, and laborintensive. The purpose of this dissertation is to model salinity, detect salinity changes, and evaluate the impact of salinity in Florida Bay using remote sensing and geospatial information sciences (GIS) …

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Sand Compositional Analysis Using A Combined Geological And Spectroscopic Approach, Molly E. Smith Jan 2016

Sand Compositional Analysis Using A Combined Geological And Spectroscopic Approach, Molly E. Smith

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

Many minerals, such as calcite and magnetite, show diagnostic overtone and combination bands in the 350-2500 nm window. Sand, though an important unconsolidated material with great abundance on the Earth’s surface, is largely overlooked in spectroscopic studies. Over 100 sand samples were analyzed through traditional microscopic methods and compared to spectral reflectance collected via an ASD Spectroradiometer. Multiple methods were chosen to compare spectroscopic data to sand composition and grain size: 1) existing spectral indices, 2) continuum removal, 3) derivative analysis, and 4) correlation analysis. Particular focus was given to carbonate content. Results from derivative and correlation analysis showed strong …

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Self-Directed Learning And The Lupus Patient: Using Adult: Education Strategies To Actively Cope With Chronic Illness, Kristin Brittain Jan 2016

Self-Directed Learning And The Lupus Patient: Using Adult: Education Strategies To Actively Cope With Chronic Illness, Kristin Brittain

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

The purpose of this study was 1) to examine the significance of a patient’s active or passive role in terms of his/her health management; 2) to determine if a relationship exists between one’s active and passive scores and his/her self-directed learning readiness, and 3) to identify if his/her view of one’s self as a patient (when diagnosed with a chronic disease) impacted his/her own personal health management. Utilizing the quantitative analysis of The Self-Directed Learning Readiness Scale and the Vanderbilt Pain Management Inventory, 81 individuals’ descriptive statistics were analyzed. Self-directed learning was found to positively influence an individual’s ability to …

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Silence, Expression, Manifestation: Developing Female Desire And Gender Balance In Early Modern Italian, English, And Spanish Drama, Mitchel Baccinelli Jan 2016

Silence, Expression, Manifestation: Developing Female Desire And Gender Balance In Early Modern Italian, English, And Spanish Drama, Mitchel Baccinelli

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

Renaissance and Baroque drama offers a view into gender dynamics of the time. What is seen is a development in the allowed expression and manifestation of desire by females, beginning from a point of near silence, and arriving at points of verbal statement and even physical violence. Specifically, in La Mandragola by Niccolò Machiavelli, Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, and Fuenteovejuna by Lope de Vega, there appears a chronological progression, whereby using desire and its expression as a metric in conjunction with modern concepts of gender and sexuality to measure a shift in relation to what is and is …

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Sparse Modeling Applied To Patient Identification For Safety In Medical Physics Applications, Stephanie Lewkowitz Jan 2016

Sparse Modeling Applied To Patient Identification For Safety In Medical Physics Applications, Stephanie Lewkowitz

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

Every scheduled treatment at a radiation therapy clinic involves a series of safety protocol to ensure the utmost patient care. Despite safety protocol, on a rare occasion an entirely preventable medical event, an accident, may occur. Delivering a treatment plan to the wrong patient is preventable, yet still is a clinically documented error. This research describes a computational method to identify patients with a novel machine learning technique to combat misadministration.The patient identification program stores face and fingerprint data for each patient. New, unlabeled data from those patients are categorized according to the library. The categorization of data by this …

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Teacher Education Students At Miami Dade College: Perceptions Of High Impact Practices, Joaquín G. Martínez Jan 2016

Teacher Education Students At Miami Dade College: Perceptions Of High Impact Practices, Joaquín G. Martínez

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

Miami Dade College (MDC) is predominantly an associate degree granting institution also authorized to confer baccalaureates. As “democracy’s college”, MDC is the nation’s largest, most diverse community college. In 2011, a comprehensive redesign effort was launched to increase degree completion. This sequential mixed model design study queried teacher education student voices to explore their perceived impact of three high-impact practices (i.e., mandatory orientations, assigned advisors, and Individualized Educational Plans). A survey (n=218) was administered during an initial quantitative phase, confirming that a) students perceived the interventions as the institution intended and b) ethnicity influenced perception. Focus groups (n=27) were conducted …

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Study Of Cell Penetrating Peptide Uptake And Cancer Cell Discrimination With Raman Spectroscopy And Microscopy, Patrick Jason Cosme Jan 2016

Study Of Cell Penetrating Peptide Uptake And Cancer Cell Discrimination With Raman Spectroscopy And Microscopy, Patrick Jason Cosme

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

Cell penetrating peptides (CPPs) are short sequences of amino acids that excel in crossing the cellular membrane without inducing cytotoxicity Interest in these peptides stem from their ability to be attached, and grant their penetrating properties to, a variety of cargo In this work we have combined the application of Confocal Raman Microscopy (CRM) and Atomic Force Microscopy for the first time to examine the interactions of unlabeled Transportan (TP), one of the most well studied CPPs, with mammalian cells CRM’s capability to discriminate control and treated cell groups was verified by principal component analysis (PCA) and linear discriminant analysis …

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Synaptic Rearrangements And The Role Of Netrin-Frazzled Signaling In Shaping The Drosophila Giant Fiber Circuit, Brandon N. Lloyd Jan 2016

Synaptic Rearrangements And The Role Of Netrin-Frazzled Signaling In Shaping The Drosophila Giant Fiber Circuit, Brandon N. Lloyd

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

In the developing CNS, presynaptic neurons often have exuberant overgrowth and form excess (and overlapping) postsynaptic connections. Importantly, these excess connections are refined during circuit maturation so that only the appropriate connections remain. This synaptic rearrangement phenomenon has been studied extensively in vertebrates but many of those models involve complex neuronal circuits with multiple presynaptic inputs and postsynaptic outputs. Using a simple escape circuit in Drosophila melanogaster (the giant fiber circuit), we developed tools that enabled us to study the molecular development of this circuit; which consists of a bilaterally symmetrical pair of presynaptic interneurons and postsynaptic motorneurons. In the …

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Teacher Expertise In Motion: A Theory Of The Synergistic Gears That Shape And Sustain Teacher Expertise, Christine N. Rodriguez Jan 2016

Teacher Expertise In Motion: A Theory Of The Synergistic Gears That Shape And Sustain Teacher Expertise, Christine N. Rodriguez

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

This study explored the factors expert teachers reported as influences in the development and sustainment of their expertise as well as those that challenge it. Through one-on-one interviews with 15 expert teachers, the generated data were scrutinized using a grounded theory approach. The analysis protocol followed a multi-step process of three stages – exploration, amalgamation, and conceptualization. In each of those stages, the data were examined using a cyclical and recursive process of investigation-interpretationintegration- illustration. By the completion of the conceptualization stage, a theory was developed to describe the interdependence of the four influential factors that shape and sustain teacher …

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Testing Momentum Enhancement Of Ribbon Fin Based Propulsion Using A Robotic Model With An Adjustable Body, Ian L. English Jan 2016

Testing Momentum Enhancement Of Ribbon Fin Based Propulsion Using A Robotic Model With An Adjustable Body, Ian L. English

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

A robotic ribbon fin with twelve independent fin rays, elastic fin membrane, and a body of adjustable height was developed for this thesis specifically to test the 1990 theory put forth by Lighthill and Blake that a multiplicative propulsive enhancement exists for Gymnotiform and Balisiform swimmers based on the ratio of body and fin heights. Until now, the theory has not been experimentally tested. Proof of such a momentum enhancement could have a profound effect on unmanned underwater vehicle design and shed light on the evolutionary advantage to body-fin ratios found in nature, shown as optimal for momentum enhancement in …

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Task Specialization In The Public Administration Profession: A Job Analysis Of Public Procurement Practitioners, Joshua M. Steinfeld Jan 2016

Task Specialization In The Public Administration Profession: A Job Analysis Of Public Procurement Practitioners, Joshua M. Steinfeld

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

This dissertation examines task specialization in the public administration profession through studying the job tasks that a public procurement practitioner performs, manages, and both performs and manages. The purpose of this dissertation was to establish a baseline to benchmark what these practitioners actually do on their jobs. Factor analysis was used to study a data set of 2,549 respondents that were administered a survey by the Universal Public Procurement Certification Council (UPPCC) in 2012. The research question to be answered involved addressing what job tasks public procurement practitioners perform, manage, and both perform and manage. Hypotheses were examined that predicted …

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The American Police Paramilitary Unit: An Analysis Of Swat As An Aggressive Policing Strategy, Brian P. Mello Jan 2016

The American Police Paramilitary Unit: An Analysis Of Swat As An Aggressive Policing Strategy, Brian P. Mello

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

This research study examines the American paramilitary units know as Special Weapons and Tactics. Throughout this thesis, the fundamental and foundational research on police paramilitary units is presented and discussed. Additionally, this paper focuses on trends of militarization in American policing. Mainly, these trends are identified by the tremendous rise and normalization of American paramilitary police units since the internal societal wars of the 1970s. In this study, research is presented on Special Weapons and Tactics team deployments in the state of Maryland. Four years of data are analyzed focusing on proactive search warrant crime deployments from 2010 through 2013. …

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Text Mining And Topic Modeling For Social And Medical Decision Support, Jose Luis Hurtado Jan 2016

Text Mining And Topic Modeling For Social And Medical Decision Support, Jose Luis Hurtado

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

Effective decision support plays vital roles in people's daily life, as well as for professional practitioners such as health care providers. Without correct information and timely derived knowledge, a decision is often suboptimal and may result in signi cant nancial loss or compromises of the performance. In this dissertation, we study text mining and topic modeling and propose to use text mining methods, in combination with topic models, to discover knowledge from texts popularly available from a wide variety of sources, such as research publications, news, medical diagnose notes, and further employ discovered knowledge to assist social and medical decision …

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