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Exploring Adverse Drug Effect Data with Apache Spark, Hadoop, and Docker
(2015-09-23)Adverse drug reactions (ADRs), a subset of the broader adverse events (AEs), have been shown in several studies to have a considerable burden on healthcare costs and patient outcomes. ADRs account for a significant increase ... -
EXPLORING AMERICAN INDIAN STUDENTS' PERCEPTIONS, ATTITUDES, AND MISCONCEPTIONS OF SCIENTISTS AND THE NATURE OF SCIENCE
(2011)The purpose of this study is to describe and analyze the perceptions, attitudes, and misconceptions (PAM) that high school American Indian (AI) students possess about scientists and the nature of science. AI is the least ... -
EXPLORING BEAMFORMING TECHNIQUES FOR mmWAVE SCANNING ANTENNAS
(2024-05-10)Radar and communication systems greatly benefit from having a highly directive antenna, with a narrow beamwidth. Previous studies have been performed on multiple techniques to obtain a reduced beamwidth, and the aim of ... -
Exploring cell heterogeneity: applications of single-probe single cell mass spectrometry for subpopulation analysis
(2023-12-15)Mass spectrometry (MS) has become an indispensable tool for transformed metabolomics studies, whereas exploring single-cell metabolomic profiles remains a challenge due to limited techniques and suitable algorithms. This ... -
Exploring children's geometric thinking.
(1998)This study examined seven 4th and 5th graders' geometric thinking, specifically their understanding in the areas of area and volume. Base Ten Blocks, Tangrams, questions on 2-D and 3-D are three categories of geometric ... -
Exploring Cognitive Processes of Teachers in the Open-Ended Learning Environment
(2011)This study explores professional learning of teachers in a web-based Open-Ended Learning Environment (OELE). Adult learning theorists suggest that adults are self-directed, experience-based, personally- and socially-related, ... -
Exploring collaboration and its influence on artistic creativity through an investigation of literature, personal interviews, and the creation of a non-hierarchical collaborative process in dance, music, and painting
(2022-05-13)This thesis explores collaboration and its influence on artistic creativity through an investigation of literature, personal interviews, and an autoethnographic case study of a non-hierarchical collaboration that began in ... -
Exploring CopterSonde Use for National Weather Service Operations
(2023-05-12)The CopterSonde is a state of the art sampling platform that can be used to advance the field of meteorology in operational forecasting and data collection. One capability of the CopterSonde is that it can collect ... -
EXPLORING CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT IN INDIGENOUS EARLY CHILDHOOD LANGUAGE IMMERSION PROGRAMS: AN INDIGENOUS STORYWORK JOURNEY THROUGH THE KIOWA ENCAMPMENT STORY CIRCLE METHODOLOGY
(2020)Our children represent the future of our people. Each generation has a responsibility to ensure the younger generations have what they need to carry our people forward. With this in mind, I am sharing with you, the reader, ... -
Exploring Direct and Indirect Relationships among Teacher Self-efficacy, Motivations for Teaching, Teacher-child Interactions, and Child Outcomes in Early Head Start Classrooms
(2016-08)More infants and toddlers are in early care and education settings at this time than ever before in history, making the study of these settings of critical importance. In the first three years of life, patterns for health, ... -
Exploring Drug-Use Progression Through Stability Enhanced Clustering
(2022-05)Background and aims: Drug use initiation sequences have been the subject of much research, and theories such as the Gateway Hypothesis have been created to explain patterns of progression from common to dangerous drugs. ... -
Exploring ecological and biogeographic questions using biological databases derived from natural history collections and surveys
(2009)Biogeographic research has benefited from the digitizing of large databases derived from natural history collections and biological surveys. These resources made available via the Internet can be accessed by biogeographers ... -
Exploring Educational Interests and Preferences of Older Adults
(2018-12-14)This qualitative study examines the lived experience of 12 older adults aged 55 – 86, participants in the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute and living independently in the Midwest of the United States. The primary data ... -
Exploring Entrepreneurial Mindset and Characteristics: Their Influence on Readiness, Success, and Educational Implications
(2024-04-02)Entrepreneurship has historically taken the inadequate and misleading misnomer of starting a business. The concept is far more significant and encompasses much more than the act and its process. Typically, the critical ... -
EXPLORING FACTORS THAT IMPACT QUALITY OF LIFE FOR ADULTS WITH AUTISM
(2016-08-12)The purpose of this study was to (a) explore factors that may impact the quality of life for adults with ASD, and (b) based on those results, offer recommendations for interventions designed to improve the quality of ... -
Exploring Future Hydrologic Extremes of the Red River Basin
(2017-08)Hydrologic extremes of drought and flooding stress water resources and damage communities in the Red River Basin, located in the south-central U.S. For example, the summer of 2011 was the third driest summer in Oklahoma ... -
EXPLORING GENDER DIFFERENCES IN MUSCLE STRENGTHENING AND AEROBIC PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AMONG COLLEGE STUDENTS USING THE INTEGRATIVE BEHAVIOR MODEL
(2017-05-12)Chronic diseases have become a serious problem for the people in the United States causing decreased quality of life, premature death, and rising health care costs (Bauer, et al. 2014). A primary way to lessen the risk of ... -
Exploring hemolysis due to paravalvular leakage in artificial heart valves
(2020-12-18)Artificial heart valves require a surgical suture to keep them in place. These sutures can become infected or degrade over time, which can give rise to the phenomenon of paravalvular leakage. The defect compromising flow ... -
Exploring immunosuppresion with 3D in vitro T-cell attachment and exosome co-culture in dynamic bioreactor flow
(2020-12-18)Cancer is a prevalent disease that impacts many lives all over the world, projected to pass more than 27 million deaths in 2030. Among many cancer therapies and treatment solutions are immunotherapies, which can include ... -
Exploring Middle School Students’ Goal Orientation In Two Contexts: Math And Music
(2021-05-16)While decades of study have supported the trichotomous goal orientation model presented by Elliot and Harackiewicz (1996), minimal work has been conducted on understanding whether the model is effective across different ...