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Machine Learning Algorithms and Applications in Investment Analysis
(2016-12-16)
We can simplify investment analysis as filtering out speculative stocks, bonds, derivatives and other financial products. This area is very challenging yet extremely critical since individual investors’, large institutions’ ...
Investigation of Genetic Variation Underlying Central Obesity amongst South Asians
(PLos One, 2016-05-19)
South Asians are 1/4 of the world’s population and have increased susceptibility to central obesity and related cardiometabolic disease. Knowledge of genetic variants affecting risk of central obesity is largely based on ...
Language Revitalization Through Pawnee Music
(2016)
Pawnee music has always been a crucial component in the lives of the Pawnee people and have been a source of comfort to those who have needed it. Traditional songs give Pawnee people a sense of identity lacking because of ...
Evaluating Low Impact Development Best Management Practices as an Alternative to Traditional Urban Stormwater Management
(2016-08-12)
The Trailwoods residential neighborhood (Norman, OK) included two instrumented watersheds (each approximately 2.3 acres), with the purpose of quantifying the impact on stormwater quantity and quality through implementation ...
Analyses of Organ Etudes Opp. 38, 66 and 72 by Rachel Laurin
(2016)
Rachel Laurin (b. 1961) has become a leading female organ composer, and is recognized as such in her native Canada as well as in the United States. Almost half of her compositional output consists of solo organ works, ...
Seismic Attribute Analysis of Depth-Migrated Data
(2016)
Most seismic attributes are originally designed and computed on time-migrated data. While some papers show the values of attribute analysis on depth-migrated data, few have compared the images to corresponding time-migrated ...
Shadows in the Cognitive Terrain: Suicide Terrorism and the Role of Ideology
(2016)
Presents a historic review on the role of ideology on suicide terrorism. Reviews research from cognitive psychology and anthropology to describe how ideology influences individual perception and decision making to become ...
EFFECT OF AN ACUTE HIGH FAT MEAL IN HEALTHY INDIVIDUALS: THE EXERCISE PRESSOR RESPONSE
(2016-12-16)
Background: Cardiovascular disease is the number one cause of mortality in the United States which has arose from numerous contributing factors including the westernized diet and its shift toward more fatty and carbohydrate ...
LEADING A MORE EFFECTIVE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY: UNDERSTANDING AND MANAGING THE COGNITIVE CHALLENGES OF HUMAN INTELLIGENCE COLLECTION IN LETHAL ENVIRONMENTS
(2016-12-07)
The purpose of this research was to gain a better understanding of how specific aspects of cognitive performance are influenced by operating in lethal environments with the aim of incorporating any helpful insights into ...
The Legibility of Empire in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
(2016)
In this dissertation, “The Legibility of Empire in Nineteenth-Century American Literature,” I examine how American authors used their literary works to comment on – and, at times, challenge – the way legibility is mobilized ...