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ANALYSIS OF PERFLUORINATED COMPOUNDS (PFCs) IN THE FOUNTAIN CREEK WATERSHED BY LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY
In recent years, multiple reports and studies have been completed on toxic perfluorinated compound (PFC) contamination of drinking water, surface water, groundwater, and soil. PFCs have drawn the attention of the U.S. ... -
"What Kind of Asian Are You?": Examining the Effects of the Model Minority Discourse on the Identity Formation Experiences of Asian American Emerging Adults
This study examines the impact of the model minority stereotype on Asian American college students and emerging adults. Specifically, it explores the impact that media representations of Asian Americans as the model minority ... -
Roles of Psychological and Cognitive Flexibility in Complex PTSD, The
Psychological flexibility is considered to be a person’s ability to flexibly use emotional, behavioral, and cognitive strategies to adapt to changing situational demands. A lack of psychological flexibility has been ... -
FPGA-based Hardware Accelerator for Sequence Alignment by Genetic Algorithm, An
The study of DNA, RNA and protein sequences leads to important biological information regarding structural, functional and evolutionary relationships between species. In bioinformatics, the comparison of sequences enables ... -
Elucidating the function of the antisense RNA asdps in Escherichia coli
RNAs have emerged as major regulators of gene expression in both bacteria and eukaryotes. High-throughput sequencing techniques have uncovered a new type of RNA termed pervasive transcripts. Pervasive transcripts occur ... -
Transfer Learning Across Languages With Poetry
Transfer learning has been shown to help achieve state of the art results in various natural language processing tasks such as, next sentence prediction and question answering and machine translation. The GPT-2 model has ... -
Neuropsychological Functioning in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Pain
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and pain often co-occur, with estimated rates between 2%-40% (McWilliams, Cox, & Enns, 2003). Both PTSD and pain are associated with impairments in neuropsychological functioning (e.g., ... -
WIRELESS ENERGY HARVESTING ENHANCED BY SAW RESONATOR
Nowadays, there has been an increment in wireless communications and with them the number of RF waves in the environment. This means that there is a certain amount of energy in the waves. These waves are from different ... -
Crime and sexuality: A life-story analysis of Queer individuals' experiences with law enforcement and the criminal justice system
Historically, the Queer community has had tense relations with the criminal justice system and law enforcement. Queer criminology attempts to understand the modern-day relationship Queer individuals have with the legal ... -
Unmasking Hegemonic Masculinity: Masculine Representations in Star Wars
Star Wars has influenced generations of American viewers for decades but has gone largely unanalyzed when it comes to a critique of the discourses about masculinity presented in the films. This is problematic as media ... -
REDUCING AGITATION IN LONG-TERM CARE: A VIRTUAL REALITY INTERVENTION FOR DEMENTIA
As the Baby Boom generation ages, the number of older adults with a form of dementia (or major neurocognitive disorder) will rise. Agitation behaviors are frequently associated with dementia, which can have negative ... -
Like a Broken Record: A Critical Analysis of Popular Music
The purpose of this study is to assess the diversity of two different categories of popular music, Rock and Roll and Hot 100, while applying concepts from Horkheimer and Adorno’s ‘The Dialectic of Enlightenment’. This study ... -
PROTECTIVE SEXUAL BEHAVIORS: THE ROLE OF PARENT-TEEN SEXUAL MESSAGES
Engagement in protective sexual behaviors, including condom use, STI/STD testing, and communication with a sexual partner, are important for preventing an unplanned pregnancy and acquiring a sexually transmitted infection ... -
Continuum-Scale Lithium-Ion Battery Cell Model in FEniCS
There are many open and closed source solutions for simulating physics-based models of lithium-ion cells. Most solutions are either too broad or narrow in scope, resulting in solutions that are unable to support a ... -
DRONE APPLICATIONS WITHIN THE FIELD OF AUGMENTED REALITY
This thesis has explored the drone interactive applications within the field of Augmented Reality. New forms of interactive algorithms has been created and proposed, two of them focused on how to control a drone while the ... -
ETHNIC SETTLEMENT IN AMERICA’S 21ST CENTURY CITIES: A SOCIO-SPATIAL EXPLORATION OF CHINESE HOME OWNERSHIP AND LOCATIONAL OUTCOMES IN RE-EMERGING IMMIGRANT GATEWAY DENVER
This study examines the residential mobilities and locational outcomes among the Chinese community in Denver as a re-emerging immigrant gateway city compared to traditional immigrant gateway cities. Using housing warranty ... -
Geriatric Anxiety Scale: Development and Preliminary Validation of a Long-Term Care Anxiety Assessment Measure
Introduction: Anxiety symptoms and disorders are common in later-life but they often go undetected and untreated in long-term care settings. This may be linked to the lack of a go-to reliable anxiety screener validated for ... -
EFFICIENT MACHINE LEARNING INFERENCE FOR EMBEDDED SYSTEMS WITH INTEGER BASED RESTRICTED BOLTZMANN MACHINES CLASSIFIERS
Nowadays, there exist many emerging applications for embedded systems, such as computer vision and speech recognition, which heavily rely on machine learning classification. The typical approach to carry out machine learning ... -
Sharing Culture: Volunteer Cultural Mentorship of Refugees
Refugees resettled in the United States are entitled to services related to health, employment and education assistance organized at the federal level, and offered cultural mentorship from volunteers organized at the local ... -
Investigating The Reasons Women Wear Choker Necklaces
Choker necklaces have been around for centuries, carrying with them different cultural and societal connotations. However, little to no research investigates the reasons why women continue to wear choker necklaces today. ...
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