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Neoliberal Natives: Projections, Disruptions, and Survivance within Casino Narratives
(2017-05-12)Upon the passage of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA) in 1988, Indian gaming has been at the forefront of Native American discourses regarding sovereignty, self-determination, and economic development. Gaming operations ... -
Neural Correlates of Self-Perception in Individuals who Vary in Social Engagement
(2016-08)Electroencephalography (EEG) studies indicate a reduced or absent self-preference effect for faces in individuals diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The current study extends these findings to individuals below ... -
Neural Signatures for Precision Rehabilitation in Stroke and Aging
(2023-05-12)The current growth of the population ages 65 and older is unprecedented. The number of these individuals is projected to nearly double by 2060 with the age group’s share of total population rising from 16 to 23 percent. ... -
Neuroimaging Features of Adults With and Without Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment
(2017)Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment (aMCI), a condition in which the memory functions of cognition are significantly impaired, is an established risk factor for Alzheimer’s Dementia, a neurodegenerative disease that has no ... -
A New Approach Adapting Neural Network Classifiers to Sudden Changes in Nonstationary Environments
(2017-05-12)Business are increasingly analyzing streaming data in real time to achieve business objectives such as monetization or quality control. The predictive algorithms applied to streaming data sources are often trained sequentially ... -
A New Approach to Form Error Determination in Sculptured Surface Metrology
(2018-08-02)This thesis presents a new approach to the determination of sampling points for CMM inspection of sculptured surfaces, for when the surface equations are not available. It is an implementation-based methodology that relies ... -
A New Front-End System For UAV-Based Antenna Measurements For Polarimetric Weather Radars
(2023-08-04)Radar system calibration is vital for ensuring optimal performance, especially in weather radars that have stringent requirements for co-polarization mismatch. In-field calibration is essential, particularly for mobile ... -
New Insights Into Tenontosaurus tilletti (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) From an Exceptionally Preserved Specimen
(2018-05)Tenontosaurus tilletti Ostrom, 1970 is one of the most completely known Early Cretaceous (Aptian-Albian) dinosaurs, represented by more than thirty partial skeletons. Even so, some questions remain about the morphology of ... -
New Methodology for Inspecting Ruled and Free-Form Surface in Metrology
(2018-12-14)A new method is proposed to find the cutter contact (CC) points for both 3- and 5-axis CNC machining, and use this to determine measurement points using CMM. The first part of this research focuses on deriving a mathematical ... -
New Species of Ictiobus (Cypriniformes, Catostomidae) from the Late Miocene (Clarendonian) Ogallala Formation, Beaver County, Oklahoma
(2021-05-14)The Ogallala Formation is an accumulation of fluvial and lacustrine sediments deposited in the high plains of North America during the middle Miocene to early Pliocene. Most famous for its highly diverse mammalian fauna, ... -
Night Song for tenor and orchestra
(2019-05-10)Night Song for tenor and orchestra is a setting of the poem “Night Song” from Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche, translated into English by R.J. Hollingdale. The piece is 24 minutes in length, and is ... -
NIL and the Effect of Corporate Density on College Football Recruiting
(2022-05-13)College athletics is an ever-changing landscape and the most recent event to change that landscape is the introduction of Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) policies. This issue of NIL pertains to the ability for college student ... -
NMR Considerations in Shales at Elevated Temperature
(2019)The process of hydrocarbon production from unconventional resource shales begins with identifying zones in the well which have the most favorable features – in terms of fluid content, fluid flow and rock mechanical ... -
No Easy Thing to Understand: A Historiography of the Iranian Constitutional Revolution
(2016-05-14)The historiography of the Constitutional Revolution in Iran centers on the root causes of social change in Iran. In this way, authors must generally accomplish two things in their histories of the Constitutional Revolution. ... -
Nocturnal Ascent and Low-Level Jet in a Baroclinic Zone
(2022-05)A remarkable feature of the regional climatology of the central United States and the Great Plains is the existence of a nocturnal maximum in convective rainfall during the warm season. This study follows up the work of ... -
Noise and Fragile Symphonies: Animality and the South African Sonic Genre in The Whale Caller, Disgrace, and Nineveh
(2019-05-11)When establishing an interspecies ethics, it is often the gaze that is used to establish the agency of the animal Other in the absence of logocentric speech. However, when considering the physical realities of the nonhuman ... -
Noise Detection And Estimation In Free Space Optical Communication
(2021-04-28)Free Space Optical Communication (FSOC) has become a popular wireless communications technique for providing and supporting optical high-speed bandwidth data transmission for telecommunication and computer networking. FSOC ... -
Non-destructive examination of ceramic matrix composites for quantitative determination of porosity via pulse-echo thermographic inspection
(2021-12)Ceramic Matrix Composites are seeing a widespread increase in use, especially in the aerospace industry. These materials are being utilized for their excellent material properties at high temperatures. As these materials ... -
Non-Destructive Index Testing For Relative Assessment Of Rock Strength
(2016)Index tests for the determination of rock properties have been employed since the early 90s, based on methods developed since the 1900s in the metallurgical industry. Examples include the Brinell hardness test, Rockwell ... -
Non-invasive load monitoring in female Division 1 collegiate gymnastics
(2021-12-17)Gymnasts is a high intensity, monotonous, and extremely physically and mentally demanding sport. Despite strong research in other, primarily male, populations, internal and external load measures have been scarcely researched ...