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Randomly and Non-Randomly Missing Renal Function Data in the Strong Heart Study: A Comparison of Imputation Methods
(PLos One, 2015-09-28)
Kidney and cardiovascular disease are widespread among populations with high prevalence of diabetes, such as American Indians participating in the Strong Heart Study (SHS). Studying these conditions simultaneously in ...
It's Not About Cowboys: Cowboys as Subject in Contemporary Art
(2015-05)
Images of American cowboys are examined in a selection of lens-based artworks including Richard Avedon’s In the American West (1984), Laurie Simmons’ Cowboys (1979), David Levinthal’s The Wild West (1987-89), Matthew ...
SUPPORTING FOURTH GRADE STUDENTS’ DEVELOPMENT IN PERSUASIVE WRITING THROUGH THE USE OF A CLASS BLOG
(2015-12-18)
In this sequential explanatory mixed methods study the researcher examined a) the quality of persuasive writing, and b) attitudes toward writing of two groups of fourth graders, one that blogged and another group that did ...
Frequency-Agile Microwave Filters For Radars With Simultaneous Transmission and Reception
(2015-12)
Multi-band/multi-mode wireless communication systems have been receiving increased attention recently due to their potential for spectrum management in a dynamic spectral environment. Similarly radar systems, which can ...
Federalists, Songs, and the Populist Ratification of the Constitution Undergraduate
(2015-04-01)
Despite elitist tendencies of the Federalists they used songs as a way to gain popular support for the Constitution. In order to ensure the ratification of the Constitution, Federalists published and performed songs to ...
Influence of prior anterograde shear rate exposure on exercise-induced brachial artery dilation
(2015-05-25)
Shear rate can elicit substantial adaptations to vascular endothelial function. Recent studies indicate that prior exposure to anterograde flow and shear increases endothelium-dependent flow-mediated dilation at rest and ...
Housing Wealth, Elderly Labor Outcomes and Financing Retirement
(2015-08)
The first chapter of my dissertation uses the restricted access version of the Health and Retirement Survey (HRS) data to examine elderly workers responses to changes in housing wealth, property taxes and financial wealth. ...
Self-Control: The Linking of Self, Motivation, and Virtue
(2015-03-14)
The key issue our team will be exploring is the role played by self-control in the development and expression of virtue. In particular, we are interested in the self-regulating function of people’s self-narratives ...
On the Centrality of HPC for taking NGS to the next frontier: Clinical application at scale
(2015-09-23)
Next Generation Sequencing (NGS), the basis for volume sequencing enablement, has been around for several years. The volume of sequencers deployed per year remains on an exponential growth path. Nevertheless, the vision ...
Emotions and Sensemaking: How Anger, Guilt, and Emotion Regulation Impact Ethical Decision Making
(2015-05-08)
Affect plays an important role in cognition and behavior, but how discrete emotions influence decision making is still unclear. To contribute to the understanding of this process, this study investigated the impact of guilt ...