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PREDICTION OF EARLY STAGE LUNG CANCER PROGNOSIS AFTER SURGERY USING A NEW CAD-GENERATED IMAGING MARKER
(2018-05-11)Due to cancer heterogeneity, identifying new clinical markers to more effectively predict prognosis of cancer patients plays an important role to improve efficacy of cancer treatment. Objective of this study is to develop ... -
Prediction of user intentions when operating with the cursor
(2017-12-15)Studies have shown that when we operate the cursor on a computer, several factors such as the type of device used (i.e. mouse or touchpad), aging (young vs. old) or motor-impairment can hinder performances. More precisely, ... -
Predictive Modeling in Fugitive Emissions Testing
(2020-07)Greenhouse gases have become an increasingly significant issue in the last few decades. As a response, many organizations have sought to tighten their regulations on their operations to reduce their contributions to ... -
Predictive Tracking Simulation and Techniques for All-digital Radar
(2021-08-05)All-digital radar architectures allow radar systems to operate with more flexibility. Multiple Input, Multiple Output (MIMO) radars are especially effective at identifying multiple targets. Combined with statistical ... -
Preferred Versus Novel Exercise Modalities on Endogenous Pain Inhibition Following Exercise
(2017-05-12)Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience which can indicate potential or actual tissue damage. Exercise has been shown to result in marked decreases in pain sensitivity both during and following exercise. ... -
Pregnancy, Magic, and Medicine: The Many Roles of Midwives in Eighteenth-Century Mexico
(2017-05-12)Despite the vast research by historians of 18th-century Mexico on women’s and gender history, New World medical cultures, and witchcraft, little is known about the lives and practices of late colonial parteras (midwives). ... -
Preliminary Design of Robust Adaptive Control Laws for an Aerial Manipulator
(2019-05-10)One platform commonly used in modern control systems research is the quadcopter unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). This platform finds many uses in both civilian and military aviation, such as aerial surveillance and imaging, ... -
Preliminary Study on Deterministic Chaotic System From Physical Approach
(2019-05-10)Chaotic phenomenon widely exists in the nonlinear dynamic systems. Such phenomenon is described to be highly related the initial conditions and intrinsic system properties. Traditionally, large effort has been put on ... -
Preliminary survey of the information preservation needs of the marine conservation community
(2023-05-12)Observations of environmental degradation, ecosystem change, fisheries collapses, and biodiversity loss have raised concerns over our ability to preserve marine communities. Knowledge plays a key role in any attempt to ... -
Preparation of Field Validation for an All-Digital, Permanent Downhole Pressure Sensor Design
(2023-12-15)Downhole pressure sensing has become increasingly important in oil and gas operations. Some of the many advancements provided by an improvement in downhole sensing is seen in drilling, stimulation, production forecasting, ... -
Preparing the Dance Artist for a Sustainable Career: The Role of Community Integration Practice Courses in the Undergraduate Dance Performance Degree Curriculum
(2019-05-10)While an emerging body of published research explores examples of community initiatives being achieved through dance, few studies have explored the extent to which community integration practices are being infused into the ... -
Presidential Discourse on HIV/AIDS in Post-Apartheid South Africa
(2016)This project analyzes the public discourse of three heads of South Africa on the spread of HIV/AIDS in the post-apartheid era. Each of these individuals – Nelson Mandela, Thabo Mbeki, and Jacob Zuma – exemplify the historical, ... -
The Price Is Not Right: Grocery Taxation, Race, and Food Security During COVID-19
(2023-05-12)Using recent data from a national sample of 2.8 million households surveyed by the Household Pulse Survey (HPS) (U.S. Census Bureau 2022), this research examines the relationships across food insecurity, grocery taxes, and ... -
Prima Donna Culture and the Tulsa Opera, 1954--1968
(2023-05-12)This thesis explores the role of prima donnas in the Tulsa Opera in the mid-20th century and how women both onstage and offstage were essential to the development of the Tulsa Opera Company and American opera at large. I ... -
A priori testing of subgrid-scale models for large eddy simulations in supersaturated conditions
(2023-05-12)Turbulence is characterized by irregular movement in pressure and flow velocity. Better understanding of turbulent flow will help in the understanding of air movement including wind currents, dissipation of pollutants and ... -
Prioritizing Engagement and Movement in the World Language Classroom: An Action Research Study on Deskless Seating in Secondary, Novice-Level Spanish Classes
(2020-05-08)Deskless seating is a seating trend that has grown in popularity in recent years, particularly among world language educators of students of all ages. In deskless seating, the desks in the classroom are removed and the ... -
PRIVATE DEVOTION, PUBLIC ACTION: THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF MADAME ACARIE TO POST-REFORMATION FRENCH CATHOLICISM
(2020-05-08)Among the figures in Post-Reformation France who greatly influenced the development of Catholic spirituality as well as French history and culture is Madame Acarie, a wife, mother, mystic, and reformer who later became a ... -
Probabilistic Characterization of Floods from Catchment-Scale Precipitation Moments
(2019)Floods are one of the most devastating natural hazards across the world, accounting for roughly one third of all global geophysical hazards. The ability to predict and characterize floods is increasingly important, and in ... -
PROCEDURAL FEMINISM AND SLOW ARGUMENT: THE VALUE OF LISTENING IN FIRST-YEAR COMPOSITION
(2017-05-12)This essay argues that program-wide curriculum planning can benefit from feminist practices that have come from the past decade’s feminist rhetorical theory, such as Krista Ratcliffe’s work on rhetorical listening and the ... -
PROCESS BASED MODELING OF SURFACE ENERGY FLUXES, EVAPOTRANSPIRATION, SOIL MOISTURE, AND SOIL TEMPERATURE IN THE US SOUTHERN PLAINS
(2019-12-13)This study aims to evaluate the capability and transferability of a physically-based hydrologic model to understand the trade-offs between precipitation, soil moisture and surface energy fluxes at sites with different ...