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Southeast U.S. Cold Season Severe Thunderstorm Environments and Their Depictions Using Multiple Planetary Boundary Layer Parameterization Schemes
(2015-12-18)
The primary motivations of this dissertation are to identify meteorological characteristics of the southeastern United States cold season tornado environment and to improve numerical modeling of such environments focused ...
NURTURING PROMOTES THE EVOLUTION OF LEARNING IN CHANGING ENVIRONMENTS
(2015-08-14)
An agent may interact with its environment and learn complex tasks based on evaluative
feedback through a process known as reinforcement learning. Reinforcement
learning requires exploration of unfamiliar situations, ...
Experiences of Early Childhood Educators Who Use Constructivist Approaches in an Era of High-Stakes Accountability
(2015-08)
Over the past thirty years, American education has moved toward a system of increased accountability. High-stakes accountability is characterized by the reliance of high-stakes testing, or assessments that lead to significant ...
Lock-In and Team Effects: Recruiting and Success in College Football Athletics
(Journal of Sports Economics, 2015-04-07)
How important is recruiting to a football program’s success? While prior research has attempted to answer this question, we utilize an extensive panel set covering 13 years of games along with a two-stage least squares ...
Teacher-Child Interactions in Infant and Toddler Classrooms: A Qualitative Study Examining the Nature of Care
(2015-05)
The purpose of this study was to describe and explore the nature of infants’, toddlers’, and caregivers’ lived experiences in group care settings. Multi-case qualitative research was conducted with three infant and/or ...
Achieved availability importance measure for enhancing reliability-centered maintenance decisions
(Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part O: Journal of Risk and Reliability, 2015-02-01)
An effective defense strategy requires aircraft, among other weapons systems, to be available and ready for use when circumstances deem necessary. This article offers a set of importance measures to identify the critical ...
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 ...