Browsing Theses by Date "2018-12"
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Death is an Amputation: Theoretical Development and Psychometric Validation of a Measure of Traumatic Grief
Despite numerous attempts to parse out the elements of traumatic grief, it eludes definitive measurement. This study was an attempt to build a scale that could measure theoretically-driven elements that have been proposed ... -
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 ... -
Examination of the Intersection of Equity and Public Majority: 100 Years of Legislation, An
Twenty-four states in the United States permit their citizens to create legislation through the direct democracy ballot initiative. However, no study has quantitatively tested this policy-making device as it relates to ... -
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 ... -
Determination of Pristine Margin in F-RAM using the Sectional Shmoo
As demand for consumer electronics continues to grow, device manufacturers are pushing semiconductor companies to develop and innovate memories to have higher reliability, faster read/write performance, lower power and ... -
Effects of emotion, emotional tolerance, and emotional processing on reasoning
Emotion plays a significant role in our reasoning even without awareness, perhaps especially for individuals who have a high affect intolerance (i.e., difficulties tolerating strong, negative emotions). For such individuals, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Line-Storm: An Interactive Augmented Stylus and Writing Pad for Creative Human Performance
We present Line-Storm, an interactive computer system for creative performance. The context we investigated was writing on paper using Line-Storm. We used self-report questionnaires as part of research involving human ... -
Development and psychometric properties of the Police Exposure and Impact Scale
Police use of force is a problem that in recent years has come back into public spotlight. The Department of Justice estimates that non-fatal police use of force incidents affect more than 700,000 people annually and ... -
Metacarpal Bone Strength of Pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) compared to Mule Deer (Odocoileus hemionus)
Human-made barriers influence the migration patterns of many species. In the case of the pronghorn (Antilocapra americana), a member of the Order Artiodactyla and native to the central and western prairies of the United ... -
Open Set Text Classification Using Neural Networks
In a closed set environment, classifiers are trained on examples from a number of known classes and tested with unseen examples belonging to the same set of known classes. However, in most real-world scenarios, a trained ... -
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, ... -
Relationship between Dissociation, Personality Disorders, and Neurocognitive Disorder, The
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. ... -
Towards Literary Genre Identification: Applied Neural Networks for Large Text Classification
Recent advances in Natural Language Processing are finding ways to place an emphasis on the hierarchical nature of text instead of representing language as a flat sequence or unordered collection of words or letters. A ... -
Restorative Practices and Repeated Offending Within a Colorado Springs Elementary School
In response to 2012 Colorado legislation and growing concerns over increasing expulsion and suspensions rates, Colorado Springs School District 49 adopted a restorative practice policy aimed at steering away from prevailing ... -
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 ... -
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 ...
