In June 2009 following a contentious presidential election, a cycle of antigovernmental protests took place in major cities throughout Iran. Garnering the attention of the transnational community, this uprising was branded ...
A formative design experiment methodology was employed to investigate the acquisition of early reading skills for high school English language learners (ELLs) beginning to read English. A fundamental challenge facing high ...
Pattern mining is an umbrella term used for data mining algorithms with the goal of finding relationships between attributes, such as association rules, frequent sets, contrast patterns, emerging patterns, etc. While ...
Discovering all drug and vaccine side effects during the development process is impos-sible. This dissertation aims to propose a framework in exploring spatiotemporal adverse event surveillance models by identifying adverse ...
Many aspects of our society are affected by how opinions change and ideology spreads (e.g., interest in STEM and political radicalization), but the underlying processes are not well understood. Previous attempts at modeling ...
This research presents an innovative process of text-based Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) validation by programmatically constructing geoparsed geospatial footprints. Place names are collected in a detailed, ...
Current theories and models of confidence need to be improved to provide a simpler and broader explanation for the relationship between confidence and memory. For example, current theories of confidence posit dozens of ...
A Gospel of Health and Salvation is a work of digital history — defined as the critical application of computational technologies to the study of the past — focused on the relationship between time and gender in Seventh-day ...
This study investigates the accuracy and institutional variables that contribute to the NCAA academic reform measure, the Academic Progress Rate (APR). The APR is the NCAA's newest measure and it is meant to be a "real ...
The climatological community relies increasingly on computing intensive models and applications to study atmospheric chemistry, aerosols, carbon cycle and other tracer gases. These models and applications are becoming ...
Agent-Based Models (ABMs) have become more widespread over the last two decades allowing researchers to explore complex systems composed of heterogeneous entities. Although ABMs have proven effective for generating simple ...
The purposes of this linguistic analysis of agency in adult secondary learners are to use functional linguistics to develop a diagnostic tool to analyze narratives for agency and to investigate adult secondary learners’ ...
The landmark 2001 No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act has been a step forward in federal policy for the ever-increasing population of English Learners (ELs), fostering inclusion in standards-based assessments and college and/or ...
Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI), which peaks in adolescence, is associated with poor psychological health, physical pain, and risk for future suicide attempts, but empirically supported treatment is scarce. Emotional ...
The purpose of this dissertation was to explore the role that parent-related environmental risk factors (poor parental monitoring and mental health) and adolescent social-emotional coping skills play in the development of ...
This study examined the effects of dietary copper (Cu) and zinc (Zn) on spatial learning/memory and social preference in a mouse model of late onset Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Previous research has indicated that excess ...
Upon conviction and incarceration, individuals receive the stigmatizing label “criminal offender.” Criminal offenders are exposed to stigma after being released from jail or prison, with laws that marginalize them from ...
In order for the Naval Academy Athletic Association (NAAA) and other similar athletic institutions to maximize profitability, organizational effectiveness, and compliance there needs to be an analysis conducted on all three ...
All biological problems, including cancer, mental disorders, rare diseases, and immunological disorders, are complex multisystem pathophysiological shifts facilitated by functional changes. Multiple points of origin and ...
The approach-and-landing is one of the most complex procedures in airline operations. To mitigate the potential risks in this phase of flight, airlines and regulators have published stabilized approach criteria that require ...