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COMPETING EXISTENTIAL MOTIVES: A STEP TOWARD INTEGRATION
Multiple theories claim to explain the phenomenon of worldview defense. Terror management theory claims that people defend their beliefs because of the fear of death; other theories (e.g., meaning maintenance model) claim ... -
MOD BST based resonator and filters
Tunable and switchable BST FBAR with different composition (BST6040 doped and undoped, BST7030, BST8020 and BST9010) are designed, simulated and fabricated on silicon and sapphire substrates. BST with different composition ... -
SPEAKER RECOGNITION: EVALUATION FOR GMM-UBM AND 3D CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORKS SYSTEMS
The Speaker Recognition (SR) systems are more accurate than ever in verifying and identifying the human voice which is one of the most convenient biometric characteristics of the human identity. Research and development ... -
Toxic Masculinity in Children's Animated Films: The Importance of Portrayal
This thesis defines toxic masculinity as social and physical traits that are harmful to not only women, but men as well. It outlines these detrimental traits as racism, homophobia, and sexism, and offers gender constancy, ... -
EFFICIENT COMPUTATION OF QUANTUM DOT PROPERTIES: APPLICATION OF MODIFIED CHARGE EQUILIBRATION TO LARGE INCLUSIVE SETS OF WURTZITE CDSE NANOCRYSTAL STRUCTURES
Semiconducting quantum dots (QDs) exhibit tunable size dependent properties, leading some to designate these materials as “artificial atoms”. Synthetic methods of CdSe QDs have been highly refined and typically involve ... -
Jury Nullification: Convincing Your Fellow Jurors to Break the Law
Delivering a verdict that goes against the law, termed jury nullification, is a seldom studied phenomenon which has severe implications for the judicial system. Research on the topic suggests that those who know about ... -
The Relationship between Dissociation, Personality Disorders, and Neurocognitive Disorder
Peritraumatic dissociation is a disturbance of emotion and/or cognition during or immediately after a traumatic experience. Trait dissociation describes these same emotional/cognitive disturbances in daily functioning. ... -
Open Set Text Classification Using Neural Networks
In a closed set environment, classifiers are trained on examples from a number of known classesandtestedwithunseenexamplesbelongingtothesamesetofknownclasses. However, in most real-world scenarios, a trained classifier is ... -
Examination of Concentrations of THC and its Major Metabolites in Postmortem Blood Using Solid-Phase Extraction Preparation Methods and Analysis by Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry
As of 2018, in the United States, thirty states have legalized cannabis for medical use and nine states have legalized cannabis for recreational use. In the state of Colorado, by law, a driver may be prosecuted for Driving ... -
Examining the Effectiveness of Online Mindfulness and Nature Interventions on Improving Cognitive Functioning in a Trauma-Exposed Sample
Mindfulness and nature-based treatment interventions are increasingly used to reduce stress, including posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). However, little is known about their mechanisms of change or influence on cognitive ... -
Construal Level of Embodied Episodic Representations
Despite advancements in the study of personality, many traits continue to lack a neurocognitive theoretical basis. In the current study, a theory was proposed for the personality dimension of abstractedness. It was ... -
Neural Networks For Automatic Polyphonic Piano Music Transcription
Automatic Music Transcription is the process of producing an accurate musical representation from a polyphonic audio signal and continues to challenge state-of-the-art techniques. To produce reliable transcriptions, human ... -
HIDDEN VARIABLE RESULTANT APPROACH FOR CLASSICAL COMPUTER VISION PROBLEMS
Many problems in computer vision may be formulated as minimal problems; problems that require a minimal number of inputs and solving them equals to solve a system of non-linear polynomial equations with a finite number ... -
Relationship Between Homicide Hot Spots, Victim Characteristics, and Economic Disadvantage in a large Urban City in Colorado
This research utilized geographic information system map capabilities to analyze homicide hotspots within a large city in east central Colorado. Previous literature has found numerous examples of the influence of social ... -
Androgynous Leadership Style as Performed by Queer Leaders
This study explored the lived experiences of six transgender leaders and considers how they perform androgynous leadership as an extension of their gender transition. Individual interviews were conducted with each leader, ... -
Openset Approach To Object Detection, An
Object detection has been a popular area of research in computer vision, where during the recent years deep learning based approaches have taken over the traditional approaches based on hand engineered features like HOG ... -
ARMET: An Engineering Education Program to Expedite Aircraft Geometry Creation and Meshing with Element Quality Feedback
A program known as ARMET (Automated useR-interfaced Multi-Software Educational Tool) that automates aircraft geometry creation, meshing, and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) pre-processing is described. Developed for use ... -
INFLUENCE OF INTERPERSONAL INTIMACY ON DONOR RETENTION: AN INTRINSIC CASE STUDY APPROACH
This dissertation utilizes an intrinsic case study approach to analyze the influence of interpersonal communications on religious philanthropy. Specifically, I test my proposition that Berger and Calabrese’s (1975) ... -
Freedom Movement: A Case Study of Feminist Leadership in Kurdistan
Metcalfe, Amanda (Ph.D. Educational Leadership, Research, and Policy) Freedom Movement: A Case Study of Feminist Leadership in Kurdistan Dissertation directed by Associate Professor Sylvia Mendez ABSTRACT The Kurds ... -
DUAL-BAND BANDSTOP FILTER (DBBSF) USING SPURLINE & STEPPED-IMPEDANCE RESONATOR WITH TUNABLE DEVICES
Bandstop filters are very important components in RF microwave systems by virtue of their effective suppression of spurious signals. They are used widely as key components in transmitter and receiver systems. They can be ...
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