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Undergraduate Research at a Teaching-Oriented College: Seniors’ Perspectives and Approaches to Consider
(IUScholarWorks Journals, 2021-05-03)This study examines the relationship of undergraduate research (UGR) participation on senior students’ reported engagement, perceived gains, satisfaction with their educational experience and retention, and graduation ... -
Neural Correlates of the Relationship between Optimism and Pain Perception in a Conditioned Pain Modulation Paradigm
(2018-01-01)Introduction: Pain is a pervasive public health problem in the United States. Despite its prevalence, the variables influencing pain processing remain poorly understood. It is now accepted that psychological factors such ... -
Development of a Universal Hand Assist Tool for Patients with Reduced Upper Extremity Mobility Resulting From Cervical Spinal Cord Injury.
(2018-01-01)Tetraplegia caused by cervical spinal cord injury is a devastating condition resulting in limited or complete loss of sensation and motor function beyond the location of the injury. The lack of mobility drastically affects ... -
MACHINE LEARNING APPROACH TO AGRICULTURAL PRICE FORECASTING
(2018-01-01)The use of machine learning is on a rise in many industries, including the agricultural sector. For example, McCormick and Company is a leading spice manufacturer, and they would like to forecast changes in the price of ... -
The Effect of the Perception of Access to Training and Development Opportunities, on Rates of Work Engagement and Turnover Intent, Among Federal Employees in the United States
(2019-01-01)Work engagement is characterized by feelings of vigor, dedication, and absorption. Those who have high rates of work engagement tend to have higher rates of job satisfaction, motivation, and job performance and lower rates ... -
Full Text Search based on Lucene and Cloud Adaptability Review
(2018-01-01)We implement a serial indexing approach using Lucene search engine to find the free text in a relational database. We propose to analyze and compare the results obtained using the Lucene search engine against the conventional ... -
Uninformed Adversarial Community Detection
(2018-01-01)An increasingly popular branch of graph theory is the concept of community detection. However, the field of adversarial community detection currently has very little scientific literature. Initial tests suggest that an ... -
Problems in group testing estimation and design
(2018-01-01)Group testing, which includes any procedure in which units are tested in pools rather than individually, has been an active area of research in the statistical literature for over 70 years. Much of this research has been ... -
Mechanical response, texture evolution, and fracture of a rare-earth-containing magnesium alloy sheet, ZEK100, at different strain rates and temperatures: Experiments and modeling
(2019-01-01)Magnesium alloys have been at the forefront as possible alternatives to conventional materials such as aluminum and steel for their high specific-strength. However, magnesium alloys exhibit anisotropy, tension-compression ... -
Predictors of attentional bias modification: Examining the influence of reflective processes of self-evaluation for risky alcohol use on changes in attentional bias following intervention.
(2018-01-01)Dual Process Models describe the critical influences on human behavior, including substance use, by recognizing the role of two distinct processes: automatic and reflective (for a review see Wiers, et al. 2013). With ... -
VERIFYING SOFTWARE CODE VULNERABILITIES USING MACHINE LEARNING AND CLASSIFICATION TECHNIQUES
(2019-01-01)Software assurance analysts deal with thousands of potential vulnerabilities many of which are false positives during the process of static code analysis. Manual review of all such potential vulnerabilities is tedious, ... -
The Life and Times of John Graham Chambers: Sports and Commercialization of Leisure in Victorian Britain
(2018-01-01)The profound changes in middle-class athletics that began around the third quarter of the nineteenth century, both cultural and commercial, have been widely recognized by historians. Yet, one of the earliest and most ... -
Automate the tracing of Windows System Calls to identify malicious activities
(2019-01-01)We describe the problems addressed by various malware or malicious applications on the Microsoft Windows Operating System. Our work focuses on automatic the dynamic malware analysis by intercepting Windows system calls ... -
Investigating the Relation Between Low-Income Parents’ Educational Involvement and Classroom Variables on Children’s Reading Skills
(2018-01-01)This study examined the relation between low-income parents’ educational involvement, measured as a composite of home- and school-based activities, and children’s reading skills in first grade. Class size, amount of reading ... -
Effects Of group interaction On community-based information sharing
(2018-01-01)The success of community-based information sharing critically depends on the retention and engagement of its members. In this study, we study the impact of natural groups on user engagement and retention in community-based ... -
Reciprocity Matters During the American Civil War: Canadian Raw Goods and the Union Supply Line
(2018-01-01)This thesis examines the economic benefits provided by the Reciprocity Treaty of 1854 to several of the Union’s wartime suppliers. The vigorous trade between Canada and the Union that was facilitated by the treaty provided ... -
Multiple Testing Procedures controlling False Discovery Rate with applications to genomic data
(2018-01-01)In recent mutation studies, analyses based on protein domain positions are gaining popularity over traditional gene-centric approaches since the latter have limitations in considering the functional context that the position ... -
An Exploration of Dispositional Mindfulness and the Mechanisms of Pain Processing in Children
(2019-01-01)Cognitive load has been shown to affect subjective pain experiences for adults, however the current study is the first to examine the effect of cognitive load on distraction effectiveness for children. Additionally, ... -
Identification of Genetic Variants Influencing Efficacy of Lisinopril Treatment on Age-specific Physical Performance: A Genome-wide Analysis in Drosophila melanogaster
(2018-01-01)Age-related decline in physical performance is a general phenomenon in most organisms and in humans confers high risk for disability and mortality. Despite the near ubiquity of senescence and extensive variation among ...
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