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Complexity, Accuracy And Fluency, Reformulation As A Corrective Feedback Strategy In Pair And Individual Writing And Revision: A Study In An Efl Context, Abdul Hakim Jan 2021

Complexity, Accuracy And Fluency, Reformulation As A Corrective Feedback Strategy In Pair And Individual Writing And Revision: A Study In An Efl Context, Abdul Hakim

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Some research (e.g., Dobao, 2012; Shehadeh, 2011; Wigglesworth & Storch, 2009; Storch, 2005) suggests that collaborative L2 writing results in higher quality L2 writing production than individual writing. Similarly, collaborative L2 writing has also been found to bring about more L2 learning opportunities for learners (e.g., Dobao & Blum, 2013; Dobao, 2012; Wigglesworth & Storch, 2012; Brooks & Swain, 2009). However, much is still unknown about how CW promotes higher quality L2 writing and other L2 learning opportunities. The purpose of the current study was to examine second language collaborative writing in an under-researched EFL context to determine (1) whether …

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Exploring Associations Between Adverse Childhood Experiences, Emotion Regulation, And Problem Behaviors Among Adolescents In Residential Treatment, Kiersten Alicia Hawes Jan 2021

Exploring Associations Between Adverse Childhood Experiences, Emotion Regulation, And Problem Behaviors Among Adolescents In Residential Treatment, Kiersten Alicia Hawes

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The high prevalence of conditions among adolescents such as anxiety, depression, substance use and suicide has become a global concern. Given the growing rates of internalizing and externalizing behavioral problems at the onset of adolescence, researchers have begun to find interest in identifying associations that account for dysfunctional patterns and problem behaviors. Findings suggest that these negative psychological and behavioral outcomes could be linked to exposure to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) like abuse, neglect, violence, and household dysfunction. The present study investigated associations between ACEs, difficulties in emotion regulation, and problem behaviors among a sample of 43 adolescents age 11-17 …

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Reclaiming The Revolutionaries: African American Organizing During The Interwar Period In Memphis, Tennessee, Matthew Isaacs Jan 2021

Reclaiming The Revolutionaries: African American Organizing During The Interwar Period In Memphis, Tennessee, Matthew Isaacs

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The global black freedom struggle of the early twentieth century took many turns, while building momentum into the post-World War II era. Along the way, an interracial coterie of activists and disparate organizations rallied around a mass movement for black advancement. They enlarged avenues of resistance and developed strategies for cooperative alliances that laid the groundwork for future organizations and activists, often in areas that remain understudied. This dissertation examines one of those locations, Memphis, Tennessee, and its engagement with the global black freedom struggle during the interwar period. Due to a convergence of local, national, and international forces, the …

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The Empirical Relationship Between Cds Premiums, Bond Yields, And Stock Prices During The 2007-2008 Financial Crisis: Causality, Co-Movement And Price Discovery, Yi Lu Jan 2021

The Empirical Relationship Between Cds Premiums, Bond Yields, And Stock Prices During The 2007-2008 Financial Crisis: Causality, Co-Movement And Price Discovery, Yi Lu

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This dissertation provides a comprehensive study of the credit-default swaps (CDS). In the short-run, we review and synthesize literature across disciplines and offer a theoretical framework of the empirical relationship between CDS premiums, bond yields, and stock prices. Theoretically, the credit risk captured by CDS and bond spreads should be equal, since both CDS and bond spreads are the risk premiums associated with corporations risky instruments. However, data reveal a significant difference between the two spreads. Stock prices, as well, should impact CDS and bond spreads. In a panel time-series framework with daily data of 96 corporations from North America, …

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Three Essays In Economics: Superfund Sites Revisit - The Heterogeneous Effects Of Us And China Trade War - The Selected Firms Level Impact Of The U.S.-China Trade Conflicts, Duy Nguyen Jan 2021

Three Essays In Economics: Superfund Sites Revisit - The Heterogeneous Effects Of Us And China Trade War - The Selected Firms Level Impact Of The U.S.-China Trade Conflicts, Duy Nguyen

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In the first essay, hedonic regression on transaction data is the favored method to measure the impact of adverse environmental characteristics. However, this method only weakly identifies the direct causal relationship of unfavorable factors on house prices. The paper found a weak negative impact of 23% on the house price index in the early stage between treatment and control zip code using a robust two-way fixed effects estimation. The diagnostic of the two-way fixed effects estimators found no issues with negative weights, but the sites exhibit a wide range of heterogeneous treatment effects. In the second essay, we found empirically …

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Detection And Explanation Of Distributed Denial Of Service (Ddos) Attack Through Interpretable Machine Learning, Saikat Das Jan 2021

Detection And Explanation Of Distributed Denial Of Service (Ddos) Attack Through Interpretable Machine Learning, Saikat Das

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Distributed denial of service (DDoS) is a network-based attack where the aim of the attacker is to overwhelm the victim server. The attacker floods the server by sending enormous amount of network packets in a distributed manner beyond the servers capacity and thus causing the disruption of its normal service. In this dissertation, we focus to build intelligent detectors that can learn by themselves with less human interactions and detect DDoS attacks accurately. Machine learning (ML) has promising outcomes throughout the technologies including cybersecurity and provides us with intelligence when applied on Intrusion Detection Systems (IDSs). In addition, from the …

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Allah Made Me This Way: Negotiating Identities For Muslim Americans With Same-Sex Attraction, Emily El-Oqlah Jan 2021

Allah Made Me This Way: Negotiating Identities For Muslim Americans With Same-Sex Attraction, Emily El-Oqlah

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To date, little research has focused on the experiences of U.S. Muslims with same-sex attraction. The purpose of this study is to extend research on the experiences of Muslims in the United States of America who have same-sex or same-gender attraction. This study sought to answer the following research questions: (1) How do LGBQ+ Muslims negotiate their intersecting identities? (2) What are experiences with discrimination or acceptance in and out of the Muslim community? (3) How do LGBQ+ Muslims approach the topic of coming out to their communities? and (4) What do mental health professionals need to know when working …

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Explanation Techniques Using Markov Logic Networks, Khan Mohammad Al Farabi Jan 2021

Explanation Techniques Using Markov Logic Networks, Khan Mohammad Al Farabi

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Explaining the results of Artificial Intelligence (AI) or Machine Learning (ML) algorithms is crucial given the rapid growth and potential applicability of these methods in critical domains including healthcare, defense, autonomous driving, etc. While AI/ML approaches yield highly accurate results in many challenging tasks such as natural language understanding, visual recognition, game playing, etc., the underlying principles behind such results are not easily understood. Thus, the trust in AI/ML methods for critical application domains is significantly lacking. While there has been progress in explaining classifiers, there are two significant drawbacks. First, current explanation approaches assume independence in the data instances …

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Waveform And Geodynamic Modeling Of Seismicity Associated With The Charlevoix Seismic Zone, Oluwaseun Idowu Fadugba Jan 2021

Waveform And Geodynamic Modeling Of Seismicity Associated With The Charlevoix Seismic Zone, Oluwaseun Idowu Fadugba

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The Charlevoix seismic zone (CSZ) is the most seismically active region in eastern Canada. It is located within the Late Proterozoic-Early Cambrian St. Lawrence rift zone in southeastern Quebec. The location was also the site of a Devonian impact crater. The CSZ poses a high seismic risks due to its seismicity compared to the other seismic zones in the area and its proximity to densely populated cities (e.g., Quebec City, Ottawa, and Montreal). It is also responsible for much of the seismic hazard in New England. Previous studies in the CSZ observed a maximum compressive stress orientation of N86, which …

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A Ground-Motion Prediction Model For Small-To-Moderate Induced Earthquakes For Central And Eastern United States And Ground Motion Model Ranking, Zoya Farajpour Jan 2021

A Ground-Motion Prediction Model For Small-To-Moderate Induced Earthquakes For Central And Eastern United States And Ground Motion Model Ranking, Zoya Farajpour

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This dissertation concerns developing a new ground motion model (GMM) for small to moderate potentially induced seismic events in Central and Eastern United States (CEUS) and ranking worldwide and local GMMs for Iran. The body of research work is carried out in two related studies.The first study presents a new GMM. The proposed model is developed considering induced and potentially induced seismic events in CEUS. For this study, a comprehensive flatfile of potentially induced ground motions for moment magnitudes (Mw) between 3 and 6 and distances of less than 200 km is used. The Pezeshk et al. (2018) model, which …

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School Counselors And Academic Outcomes Among Secondary School Students In One Southeastern District, Martha Burke Jan 2021

School Counselors And Academic Outcomes Among Secondary School Students In One Southeastern District, Martha Burke

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The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between school counselor ratios, and Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program [TCAP] English Language Arts and Mathematics scores. This study will also consider school level characteristics and student level characteristics in one large, public, urban school district in the southeastern United States. This study will merge two archival data sets from the 2018-2019 school year. Both data sets were downloaded from the Tennessee Department of Educations website and are publicly available. The first data set contains demographic information listed by school. The second data set contains TCAP testing score reports by school. …

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The Comparative Effects Of Modified Augmentative And Alternative Communication Modalities On Requesting For A Child With Autism And Visual Impairments, Mallorie Hutton Caradine Jan 2021

The Comparative Effects Of Modified Augmentative And Alternative Communication Modalities On Requesting For A Child With Autism And Visual Impairments, Mallorie Hutton Caradine

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The present study used a multiple probe across behaviors design, with an embedded alternating treatments design to compare the effects of two modified communication systems, the Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) and a speech generating device, on requesting for a child with multiple disabilities, including autism and visual impairments. Both modalities were taught across the first three phases of PECS instruction (simple request, distance and persistence, and discrimination). During baseline the participant demonstrated little to no requesting across all three phases for either modality. During intervention requesting increased to proficient levels across all three phases for both modalities. Modified PECS, …

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Exploratory Look Into The Impact Of Race On Response Dynamics While Categorizing Stereotypical Black Names And Stereotypical White Names Via Mouse Movements, Taylor Clark Jan 2021

Exploratory Look Into The Impact Of Race On Response Dynamics While Categorizing Stereotypical Black Names And Stereotypical White Names Via Mouse Movements, Taylor Clark

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Racial bias (especially in the context of Black people) in society is as prevalent as ever. Because of this, scientists have developed various ways to measure racial bias against Black people. I propose that mouse tracking is a tool that can be used to predict racially biased behavior accurately. The overall purpose of this exploratory study was to use mouse tracking to investigate whether race impacts participants' mouse movements when categorizing stereotypically sounding Black and White names. As well as to see if participants consistently categorize Black and White names. This experiment showed a significant difference in the number of …

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Do Not Feed The Fetishizers: Boys Love Fans Resistance And Challenge Of Perceieved Reputation, Hailey Rose Coleman Jan 2021

Do Not Feed The Fetishizers: Boys Love Fans Resistance And Challenge Of Perceieved Reputation, Hailey Rose Coleman

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Existing research on Boys Love (BL) fans has focused primarily on heterosexual womens consumption of the media. Queer audience members have rarely been included in BL studies. Drawing on autoethnographic materials and 36 in-depth interviews, this project documented the ways that individuals who self-identify as BL fans created, resisted, and challenged the perceived stigma that all BL fans are fetishizers of gay men. Respondents relied on Biographical Work to construct their identities and frame their experiences with BL media in relation to fetishizer exemplars. Some participants engaged in Identity Politics where they made claims about the wrong ways and right …

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Graphic Agency: Teaching Graphic Medicine In The Liberal Arts Classroom, Esther Bendit Saltzman Jan 2021

Graphic Agency: Teaching Graphic Medicine In The Liberal Arts Classroom, Esther Bendit Saltzman

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Comics and graphic novels, as well as comics studies courses, are being increasingly recognized as important multimodal texts in higher education. Medically themed comics and graphic novels, or graphic medicine texts, however, have not been used as frequently as the basis for course offerings, and there is a need for them to be used and for their significance to be studied.This dissertation advocates for the inclusion of graphic medicine in college curricula because of its ability to demonstrate and facilitate agency. As my readings of graphic medicine texts and my pedagogical explorations indicate, medically themed graphic texts express themes of …

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Select Life/Delete/New Page, Jeremy D. Scherer Jan 2021

Select Life/Delete/New Page, Jeremy D. Scherer

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The novella Select Life/Delete/New Page" by Jeremy Scherer follows the story of Nopok, a young man who works in a computer lab while pursuing a political science degree. Lacking any direction in his academic or professional lives, Nopok suffers at home, where his parents use him and his brother Sammy as proxies to act out their obvious dysfunction. Nopok's only escape is his online life, where he finds meaning as a user on the gaming website Gamefaqs, where he provides people with gaming advice and fits into an odd, but endearing community of artists and gamers. When Nopok's mother threatens …

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Entrepreneurial Developments In The Life And Works Of Johann Sperger (17501812), Joel Scott Schnackel Jan 2021

Entrepreneurial Developments In The Life And Works Of Johann Sperger (17501812), Joel Scott Schnackel

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Adolf Meiers Konzertante Musik fr Kontraba in der Wiener Klassik shows how the contrabass player and composer Johann Matthias Sperger (17501812) participated in both the public and private arenas of high society, toured as a soloist, and played in the leading Kapelle orchestras. His mastery of his instrument, which earned him the reputation of being one of the greatest soloists on the Viennese contrabass, has to this day overshadowed his reputation as a composer. This dissertation builds upon Meiers work, concentrating on Sperger as an entrepreneurial composer-performer who over time developed the skills of what today we would call strategic …

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The Effect Of Pre- And Postnatal Diet Exposure On Gut Morphology, Function And Inflammation, Suman Sharma Jan 2021

The Effect Of Pre- And Postnatal Diet Exposure On Gut Morphology, Function And Inflammation, Suman Sharma

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Consumption of high fat diet and obesity have been shown to increase risk of intestinal inflammation. Interestingly, early life exposure to a high fat diet (HFD), during gestation and lactation, also increases the risk of these inflammatory gut conditions in the offspring even in adulthood. Therefore, we hypothesized that using a rationally designed diet containing high amounts of fermentable fiber and omega-3 fatty acids, components that are known to improve gut inflammation, and providing this diet at weaning will improve inflammatory conditions later in life. Healthy (8 male and 8 female) C57BL/6 mice were used. 6 pairs were given HF …

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Multi-Modal Narrative Practices In Adult Esl: Fostering Investment In Language Learning And Negotiating Racism, Linguicism, & Identity, Mahmuda Sharmin Jan 2021

Multi-Modal Narrative Practices In Adult Esl: Fostering Investment In Language Learning And Negotiating Racism, Linguicism, & Identity, Mahmuda Sharmin

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Language learners identity construction and language learning through narratives (Norton 2010; Johnson 2015) and multimodal technologies (Lam 2006; White 2007) have been found to be effective ways to facilitate ESL learning. Additionally, Multimodal pedagogies and narrative practices in the language classroom facilitate L2 learning, investment in language learning, and learners identity and agency construction (Crandall 2018; Johnson & Kendrick, 2017). Further, racism and linguicism are aspects of language learners lives that affect their language learning trajectories (Corona & Block, 2020; Dovchin, 2019). Few studies, however, examine how multimodal narrative practices in L2 classrooms can foster learners investment in language learning …

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Prompting Self-Explanations During The Learning Of Probability: Content-Specific Versus Generic Versus Generic With A Form Of Guidance, Genghu Shi Jan 2021

Prompting Self-Explanations During The Learning Of Probability: Content-Specific Versus Generic Versus Generic With A Form Of Guidance, Genghu Shi

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Learners often cannot apply (transfer) the knowledge they learned from instructional settings into a new context. Therefore, their knowledge is likely inert. Research shows that learners must be actively involved in learning construction activities to enable knowledge transfer to occur. Self-explanation is one such constructive cognitive activity that involves explaining learning materials (expository texts, worked examples) to oneself with attempts to make sense of new information. It has been shown to support deep comprehension and knowledge transfer. However, self-explanations usually cannot be spontaneously generated by learners, but need to be elicited by prompts. The prompts can range from generic type …

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Triangulating The Webs Of Environment Influences, Bacteria, And Antibiotics., Prabin Shrestha Jan 2021

Triangulating The Webs Of Environment Influences, Bacteria, And Antibiotics., Prabin Shrestha

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The importance of maintaining a healthy microbiome is being recognized increasingly. Our research in the gut microbiome and environmental pollutants suggests that pollutants like particulate matter (PM2.5) and nanometals can induce Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) and decrease the microbiome stability. Additionally, the abusive use of antibiotics in the past has led to great changes in the microbiome and caused the rise of many antibiotic-resistant strains.Developing a new antibiotic is costly and time-consuming. Methods to improve the existing drugs should be cost-effective. A narrow-spectrum antibiotic that targets only the problematic pathogens should prevent microbiome disruption and reduce the rise of antibiotic …

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Environment, Brain, And Behavior: Neuroendocrine Mechanisms Underlying Seasonal Rhythms In Stress, Immunity, And The Gut Microbiota In Siberian Hamsters (Phodopus Sungorus), Elyan Shor Jan 2021

Environment, Brain, And Behavior: Neuroendocrine Mechanisms Underlying Seasonal Rhythms In Stress, Immunity, And The Gut Microbiota In Siberian Hamsters (Phodopus Sungorus), Elyan Shor

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The daily axial rotation of the Earth and its annual orbit around the sun both result in recurring fluctuations in geophysical cycles, thus creating cyclic changes in environmental factors. Organisms that can anticipate these environmental changes and adapt appropriately may maximize their survival and fitness. Such adaptations manifest themselves as biological rhythms: rhythmic shifts in physiology and behavior that match rhythmic shifts in environmental conditions. Among the most predictable environmental cues in temperate regions is the annual progression of changes in day length, and the capacity to measure and respond to seasonal changes in the light cycle is termed photoperiodism. …

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Parametric And Non-Parametric Approaches To Factorial Data Analysis., Prabin Shrestha Jan 2021

Parametric And Non-Parametric Approaches To Factorial Data Analysis., Prabin Shrestha

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Factorial design is one of the best ways to screen different factors in a system of study. It allows the study of the main effects and their interactions at the same time. We used the 2k-factorial design to screen different factors that affect the bacterial sensitivity to antibiotics. Through simulation studies, we examined the sensitivity and specificity of four different approaches to analyze the factorial data under different scenarios. The parametric ANOVA showed higher sensitivity and specificity for normally distributed data, but it failed largely for non-normal data. Rank-ANOVA had very high sensitivity and specificity for both normal and non-normal …

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Understanding The Subjective Perceptions Of Higher Education Diversity Practitioners On Effective Leadership Practices For Transformational Campus Diversity Culture Change, Bobbie R. Porter Jan 2021

Understanding The Subjective Perceptions Of Higher Education Diversity Practitioners On Effective Leadership Practices For Transformational Campus Diversity Culture Change, Bobbie R. Porter

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Successfully leading transformative diversity culture change is one of the most significant challenges facing modern higher education. This study sought out campus diversity officers perceptions, shaped by their lived experiences as diversity practitioners, to identify and deeply understand diversity leadership practices that they perceived to be most effective in transforming diversity culture on higher education campuses. A Q-methodology was used to investigate the subjective perceptions of campus diversity officers with membership in the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education and who represented numerous institution types, including four-year public, four-year private, and community colleges. Using both quantitative and qualitative …

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Principals' Perceptions Of The Need For Formal Novice Principal Mentorship: A Qualitative Case Study, Kimberly Nicole Quinn Jan 2021

Principals' Perceptions Of The Need For Formal Novice Principal Mentorship: A Qualitative Case Study, Kimberly Nicole Quinn

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Although 21 states are currently designating a portion of their Every Student Succeeds Act funds specifically for novice principal induction and support, Tennessee is not currently one of these states. This dissertation uses a qualitative case study approach to interview Tennessee principals serving in years four to five, who did not have formal mentorship support during their novice years, to gather their experiences and support needs during this time. The researcher reviews the current literature on novice principal mentorship programs across the country through the lens of Krams Mentoring Model and Suchmans Program Theory before connecting the literature with the …

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Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Edge-Centric Solution For Automated Assessment Of Sleep Using Wearables In Smart Health, Md Juber Rahman Jan 2021

Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Edge-Centric Solution For Automated Assessment Of Sleep Using Wearables In Smart Health, Md Juber Rahman

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Artificial intelligence-enabled applications on edge devices have the potential to revolutionize disease detection and monitoring. Smartphones, with increased processing speed, storage capacity, and integrated sensors, hold tremendous promise in physiological sensing, monitoring, and development of Smart and Connected Communities (SCC). The major challenges are development of user-friendly low-cost sensing of physiological data, seamless data transfer while maintaining privacy, and data processing and inference at the edge while keeping the system performance at an expected level. The overall focus of my dissertation work is the development of a smart health (sHealth) framework that uses embedded artificial intelligence, such as edge computing, …

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Identification Of Epigenetic Markers For Allergic Diseases Via Genome-Scale Association Studies, Aniruddha Rathod Jan 2021

Identification Of Epigenetic Markers For Allergic Diseases Via Genome-Scale Association Studies, Aniruddha Rathod

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Asthma is a global public health concern with limited preventive strategies. Recently, DNA methylation (DNAm) has been studied to understand the underlying pathogenesis of asthma. The role of DNAm in asthma acquisition from pre- to post- adolescence is unclear, and how its role changes from adolescence to adulthood is also unknown. The studies in this dissertation were carried out using data in two birth cohorts with one as a discovery cohort and the other as replication cohort. Longitudinal assessments in both cohorts revealed that the associations of DNAm at 62 Cytosine-Guanine sites (CpG sites) with asthma acquired during adolescence were …

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Financing Early Stage Cleantech Firms, Sean O'Reilly, Ciarán Mac An Bhaird, Damien Cassells Jan 2021

Financing Early Stage Cleantech Firms, Sean O'Reilly, Ciarán Mac An Bhaird, Damien Cassells

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T HE report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [47] highlighted the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and strive for decarbonization in order to restrict global warming. The Paris Agreement, a legally binding international treaty on climate change, has a vision of accelerating technology development and transfer [92] in order to reduce harmful carbon emissions. The development of new and innovative disruptive technologies to ameliorate and reverse the harmful effects of carbon emissions is emphasized by governments and international agencies [6], [53], [59], [102]. Large incumbent firms are well resourced to conduct this research and development (R&D), although …

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Contract Law In The Agri-Food Supply Chain, Bianca Gardella Tedeschi Jan 2021

Contract Law In The Agri-Food Supply Chain, Bianca Gardella Tedeschi

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Narratives Of Quality In European Food Governance And Beyond, Lorenzo Bairati Jan 2021

Narratives Of Quality In European Food Governance And Beyond, Lorenzo Bairati

FIU Law Review

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