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Saliency Based Automated Image Cropping
(2017-12-01)
Automatic Image Cropping have been enormously popular in the fields of photography, printing industries and in many other fields. It can be usually done in two ways; attention based and aesthetic based. Attention based ...
Role of Student Teaching in Balancing Student Teachers' Educator Role Profile
(2017-05-01)
Over the past several years, agricultural education has faced a shortage of qualified teachers to fill the ever-growing vacancies throughout the United States. This lack of qualified teachers has put the pressure on teacher ...
King of the mat: Former elite wrestlers and perceptions of perfectionism and identity
(2017-05)
Research on perfectionism and identity is vast and has a significant focus on athletic and academic performance along with links to positive and negative mental health. The majority of research is quantitative and data is ...
Optimum Preplant Nitrogen Rates for Maize (Zea Mays L.) And Sorghum (Sorghum Bicolor L.) Production
(2017-05-01)
Nitrogen Use Efficiency (NUE) for maize (Zea mays L.) production is low in the developed and developing world. Nitrogen application rates both preplant and sidedress need to be adjusted based on variables such as the ...
Determining the Effect of Anonymity on the Constraining Ability of Political Correctness
(2017-05-01)
Abstract: Political correctness currently enjoys a high visibility and controversy. One of the main criticisms is that political correctness stifles free speech and constrains behavior on college campuses. Research in this ...
Disentangling Frequency and Talker Variability in a Statistical Learning Task Investigating Child Speech Acquisition
(2017-05-01)
Past research suggests that statistical patterns in a child’s native language influence the child’s speech production accuracy (Stoel-Gammon, 1998; Plante, Bahl, Vance, & Gerken, 2011). In addition to hearing some forms ...
Capacity, flexibility and pricing decisions for substitutable products under demand and supply uncertainties
(2017-05)
We study the resource investment and pricing decisions for a profit-maximizing firm producing two substitutable products with partially flexible resources facing three types of uncertainties separately: demand uncertainties, ...
Parental values for the education of their children
(2017-07)
While broad attempts have been made to investigate values undergirding school choice (Bosetti & Pyryt, 2007; Zeehandelaar & Northern, 2013), research has yet to employ a means for subjectively and holistically investigating ...
Fall River Lake: Comparison of reservoir inflow and local bias-correction technique for CMIP3 and CMIP5 climate projections, and legal analysis of low-flow regulation
(2017-05)
Scope and Method of Study: This case study compares the World Climate Research Programme's (WCRP's) Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 5 (CMIP5) against the phase 3 (CMIP3) guidance for a case study location of ...
Using Drilling Data to Calculate Porosity & Permeability
(2017-05-01)
Porosity and permeability are two important parameters for reservoir characterization, formation evaluation, and stimulation design. Typically, the methods for obtaining these two parameters are not only costly and time ...