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Least square multi-class kernel machines with prior knowledge and applications.
(2006)In this study, the problem of discriminating between objects of two or more classes with (or without) prior knowledge is investigated. We present how a two-class discrimination model with or without prior knowledge can be ... -
Lebanese Subjectivities and Media Use: Post/Global Contexts
(2011)Media use is neither socially determined nor socially determinative outside of subjectivity, the process by which the self makes meaning of its place in the world. To further our understandings of media and social change, ... -
Lee Hoiby's Song Cycle The Shining Place, With Poetry by Emily Dickinson
(2010)LEE HOIBY'S SONG CYLE THE SHINING PLACE, -
THE LEGACY OF THE DIRECTORS OF THE Morehouse College GLEE CLUB: HISTORY, TRADITION, AND REPERTOIRE
(2019-05-10)Since its inception in 1911, The Morehouse College Glee Club has gained both national and international recognition through artistic performances. Its legacy, which developed out of a European historical tradition of male ... -
Legal and extra-legal variables in sentencing outcomes: The effect of race and gender.
(2002)A long debate has existed in criminal justice literature about the effects of legal variables and extra-legal variables on sentencing. The debate centers on the importance of each type of variable and the effects produced ... -
Legally related religious challenges to public school materials, curricula, and instructional activities: The "Impressions" controversies, 1986-1994.
(1997)The increase and subsequent decline of challenges based on occult content coincided with a large number of challenges to Holt, Rinehart and Winston's Impressions reading series, the first whole language reading series and ... -
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 ... -
Leisure and Conversation in the Fin de Siècle Novel
(2017-12)This project examines images of leisure in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Golden Bowl, and Howards End. These novels, all of which are set in Britain, depict the rapidly changing ... -
Leisure piano lessons: A case study of lifelong learning.
(2001)The importance of the social and emotional benefits of leisure piano study, whether in a private or group setting, should not be underplayed. While all of the participants in this study experienced age-related difficulties ... -
Leon Russianoff :
(1983)Perhaps the most difficult obstacle that Russianoff had to overcome on his way to success was his pervasive inferiority complex. Russianoff never believed that he had the innate talent required to be a first-rate performer. ... -
Les Contens of Odet de Turn√ʾ :
(The University of Oklahoma., 1974) -
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Queer (LGBQ) Youth in the Child Welfare System: Hope, Well-Being, and Future Expectations
(2024-05-10)The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the experiences of an often invisible and understudied population within child welfare, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer (LGBQ) youth. Specifically, this research explores ... -
The letter as a dramatic device in Shakespeare's plays /
(The University of Oklahoma., 1956) -
The leverage implication of the portfolio effect for multi-industry firms /
(The University of Oklahoma., 1974) -
Leveraging Group Knowledge: The Effects of Collaborative Technology Appropriation on Group Outcomes
(2009)Organizations are increasingly relying upon groups aided by information technology to complete tasks requiring coordinated action and knowledge sharing (Jehn and Mannix, 2001; Sarker et al., 2002). As such, the importance ... -
LHC Phenomenology and Dark Matter Considerations for Various Anomaly Mediated Supersymmetry Breaking Models
(2010)In this thesis we examine three different models in the MSSM context, all of which have significant supergravity anomaly contributions to their soft masses. These models are the so-called Minimal, Hypercharged, and Gaugino ... -
Liberation and liberal freedom: A critique of Rawls's "Law of Peoples" in light of positive freedom.
(2006)1T.H. Green, Lectures on the Principles of Political Obligation. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986), 2000.