Browsing Masters Theses by Issue Date
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A History of the North Carolina College for Negroes
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The Effect of Thickness and Continuity of Motorcycle Helmet Shells on Performance
(2018)Road accidents are the leading cause of death within the 15-29 years age range worldwide and the risk of death for motorcyclists is 20 times that of car occupants. As such, 31% of over 10,250 annual road traffic deaths in ... -
A cross-cultural study of social perception …
(2017-02-01)Introduction: Wherever social relations or interpersonal relations are involved, social perception runs as an undercurrent, either implicitly or explicitly. Perhaps the primary importance of social perception derives from ... -
Predicting behavior : an examination of the utilities of trait and interaction approaches to locus of control
(2017-02-01)INTRODUCTION: Speculations about the nature of personality can be found throughout recorded time. There have been numerous and often contradictory attempts to describe man's personality, character, and temperament. The ... -
Some correlates of the Jungian typology: personal style variables
(2017-02-01)C. G. Jung’s Typology (21) is a richly described and, to the writer, intuitively reasonable method of categorizing individuals. One of its type-pairs, extraversion-introversion, has become a controversial, but apparently ... -
To Live or Not to Live: a Comparison Between Nietzsche's Teaching of "Will to Power" and Hobbes's Concept of "Desire of Power"
(2017)Both Nietzsche and Hobbes understand human life as the continuous acquisition of power and maintain that such pursuit of power leads to competition and conflicts. Given the seeming similarities in their understandings of ... -
Political Effect of Economic Data Manipulation: Evidence from Chinese Protests
(2017)As people become increasingly accessible to economic statistics, data manipulation occurs more often across regions, among countries with or without democratic institutions, and at different levels of governments. The ... -
Multiple-try Stochastic Search for Bayesian Variable Selection
(2017)Variable selection is a key issue when analyzing high-dimensional data. The explosion of data with large sample size and dimensionality brings new challenges to this problem in both inference efficiency and computational ... -
High-resolution, anthropomorphic, computational breast phantom: fusion of rule-based structures with patient-based anatomy
(2017)While patient-based breast phantoms are realistic, they are limited by low resolution due to the image acquisition and segmentation process. The purpose of this study is to restore the high frequency components for the ... -
A novel technique to irradiate surgical scars using dynamic electron arc radiotherapy
(2017)Purpose: The usage of conformal electron beam therapy techniques in treating superficial tumors on uneven surfaces has often lead to undesired outcomes such as non-uniform dose inside the target and a wide penumbra at ... -
Wavelet Regression using MapReduce and Analysis of Multiple Sclerosis Clinical Data
(2017)Two problems, one related to scalable methods and the other on application of statistical methods to clinical data are addressed in this thesis. In the first chapter, motivated by growing numbers of ``large p'' datasets, ... -
Real-Time Sepsis Prediction using an End-to-End Multi Task Gaussian Process RNN Classifier
(2017)We present a scalable end-to-end classifier that uses streaming physiological and medication data to accurately predict the onset of sepsis, a life-threatening complication from infections that has high mortality and ... -
Measuring Baseball Defensive Value Using Statcast Data
(2017)Multiple methods of measuring the defensive value of baseball players have been developed. These methods commonly rely on human batted ball charters, which inherently introduces the possibility of measurement error and ... -
Spatial Assignments Using Intrinsic Markers to Infer Migratory Patterns
(2017)In ecology, it is extremely useful to model migratory connections as it can be builtupon to produce further research into organisms and the environment. However, itcan be difficult due to the high cost of tracking animals ... -
Dizang Forum: The Formation of Virtual Buddhist Community and the Innovation of Dizang Belief in Modern China
(2017)In this modern era, our lives are largely influenced by digital technology and the Internet. The interactive feature of the new technology has transformed our conventional understanding of objects. Technology that provides ... -
Size-dependent Fate of Nanoceria in Large Scale Simulated Wetlands
(2017)Nanoceria, or cerium (IV) oxide, is used widely in industry for its catalytic and physical properties, thus its release into the environment is eminent. The environmental risk of nanoceria is still unclear, but understanding ... -
Clinical CBCT-Based Dose Simulation for 80 kVp X-PACT Treatment Using FLUKA Monte Carlo Package
(2017)X-PACT as a novel cancer therapy utilizes kilovoltage x-ray beam, phosphor and psoralen to treat solid tumors. Since x-ray beam is not commonly used for radiation therapy treatment purposes, a lack of treatment planning ...
