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Video CODEC with adaptive frame rate control for intelligent transportation system applications
(2014-05)
Video cameras are one of the important types of devices in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). The camera images are practical, widely deployable and beneficial for traffic management and congestion control. The ...
Learning Relational Concepts with the Spatiotemporal Multidimensional Relational Framework
(2014-05)
The real world can be seen as containing sets of objects that have multidimensional properties and relations. Whether an agent is planning the next course of action in a task or making predictions about the future state ...
Mis(sed) Conceptions: Motherhood Through the Lens of Involuntary Childlessness
(2014-12-12)
The present study examined predictors of fertility-specific distress in the experience of
involuntary childlessness. One hundred and twelve women took part in this online
study. Participants completed a demographic ...
Terror Management Theory, Religious Orientation, and Dissociation: Addressing Allport's Paradox of Religion and Racism
(2014-04-30)
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This dissertation addresses the paradoxical relationship between religion and racism. Specifically, this study combines elements of terror management theory (TMT) and the dissociation model to examine the potential ...
Desegregating the Line of Scrimmage: Race and College Football in the Southwest
(2014-12)
This dissertation traces the racial desegregation of major college football in the states of Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas from the end of World War II through the mid-1970s. Moving beyond the realm of sport, it links ...
Trends and Developments in Thirty Prominent Snare Drum Method Books Published in the United States from 1935 to 2008 with a Review of Selected Material
(2014-05-09)
This document examines thirty prominent snare drum method books published between 1935 and 2008 in the United States. A review of each method book is provided, followed by a discussion of trends and developments in ...
Analysis and Design of Reflectarray Antennas for Radar System Applications
(2014)
In recent years reflectarray has received more and more attention and it has been considered as a suitable candidate to replace the traditional reflectors due to its
high-gain, low profile and low cost features. Reflectarray ...
Molecular basis of ecdysteroid mediated limb regeneration in the fiddler crab, Uca pugilator
(2014-05)
Regeneration is a biological phenomenon that provides an organism the ability to recapitulate part of embryonic development as an adult. The capacity to regenerate is not limited to any particular group of animals; however, ...
Applying Hierarchical Non-Linear Modeling To Investigate The Influence Of High School Characteristics In Predicting First-Year College Retention
(2014-05)
Student retention in higher education is an incredibly important social and psychological phenomenon. The impact of student retention reaches across multiple domains, influencing individual students, state and local ...
Some sharp inequalities related to Moser-Tridinger-Onofri inequality
(2014-05)
In this dissertation, we focus on the study of sharp inequalities of Moser-
Trudinger-Onofri type. We first establish the analog Bliss and Hardy inequal-
ities with sharp constant involving exponential weight function. ...