Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is associated with changes in relationship functioning, which are in turn hypothesized to influence the trajectory of PTSD symptoms. One focus of recent research is romantic partners' ...
Dominant theoretical models of social anxiety disorder (SAD) suggest that people who suffer from function-impairing social fears are likely to react more strongly to interpersonal stressors. Researchers have examined the ...
This document describes the investigative process of the dancer–
audience relationship through the exploration of emotions as movements. I
choreographed an eleven minute and forty seconds (11:40) dance piece called
Bereave ...
In Sjomere, the last crumbling city of a far-future earth, the seer Aoife dreams of escaping her life as a slave. As the foretold day approaches, Aoife and her five-year-old son, Mika, a child born of rape, along with ...
A Darkroom is a poetic exploration of memory and loss within in a family unit. The backbone of this thesis is centered on a crown of sonnets that relies on film and innovation of the sonnet form to tell the story of the ...
Presentation of machine learning (ML) model results plays an important role in decision makers’ trust and use. Yet, there has been little agreement on how information should be visualized to present models' evaluations. ...
The underlying motivation for my dissertation research is to investigate the combined use of wireless network coding with multi-channel communication to perform data collection in low-power and lossy networks (LLNs). Network ...
This dissertation explores advancements in random projection, a method of dimensionality reduction that reduces the number of variables in a dataset via multiplication with a smaller, randomly generated matrix. Compared ...
Advances in biotechnology have dramatically changed the manner of characterizing large populations of microbial communities that are ubiquitous across several environments. The process of "metagenomics" involves sequencing ...
Modern medical imaging techniques including Computed Tomography (CT), Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Ultrasound (US) and Microscope Imaging provide numerous images containing sufficient information. However, the clinical ...
Bioinformatics databases are both syntactically and semantically heterogeneous,
reflecting, in this inconsistency of their models, the individual interpretations scientists
place on the underlying, highly networked, ...
The Earth’s ionosphere is the region of upper atmosphere that is a partially ionized gas. It
extends from the mesosphere and through the thermosphere to altitudes ~1000 km where
it ultimately merges with the magnetosphere. ...
The standard narrative of Spanish and Mexican land grants in California and New Mexico concludes that after the Mexican-American War the U.S. federal government deliberately, consistently, and systematically dispossessed ...
The 2011 “Arab Spring” which started in Tunisia and spread to the rest of
North Africa and the Arab Middle East has opened a potentially democratic space,
triggering what this work calls the process of ‘de-marginalisation’. ...
K-Pop - contemporary Korean dance music - is currently becoming one of the noticeable popular music genres in the world. It was firstly globalized in East Asian region, and recently it is being globalized in the rest of ...
This thesis is a collection of fictional short stories about people mostly on the brink of
physical death and occasionally on the brink of spiritual death, as well as their observers.
Topics addressed in the book include: ...
This study examines Deaf parents with children who have cochlear implants on their beliefs and perspectives of bilingualism in American Sign Language and English using complementary mixed methods through surveys and follow-up ...
This thesis is about underrepresented employees speaking and being heard in a
large bureaucratic organization. Constrictive master narratives on what it means to be an
employee have challenged the ability for underrepresented ...
In its first year, the Obama administration established the Open Government Initiative, a program requiring all executive agencies to use digital media to advance transparency, collaboration, and participation. In this ...
Climate variations on decadal time scales, such as droughts and changes in extreme weather events, have a great impact on society and therefore reliable predictions of these variations would be valuable. Unfortunately, the ...