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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Duke University"”.
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Interplay - An Architecture School for Duke University
… involves a project, an architecture school for Duke University, and examines the idea of composition as a type of â structured play.â Structured play is used as a method to study reciprocal relationships in architecture. This exploration focuses on the relationship between inside and outside in …
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Simulated pion photoproduction experiments
… experiment at the High Intensity Gamma Source at Duke University. I will review the relevant theory and set out the importance of this experiment. I will describe the proposed apparatus and how I have modeled it in my simulation. I will explain the data we wish to draw from the experiment and …
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Schottisches and scars: Finding the unity in music during the division of the Civil War
… focused on a set of sixteen schottisches from Duke University's Historical American Sheet Music Project. I analyzed these pieces searching for the rhythmic, melodic, harmonic, and structural conventions associated with the schottische. What I found is that the conventions attached to the dance …
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Positive Psychology in the NCAA: Amplifying the Power and Uplifting the Voices of Student Athletes In Multiple Mental Health Studies
… an administrator in the athletic department at Duke University, and Dr. Chelsi Day (2011) previously the sport psychologist from Ohio State University athletics, and currently for the National Basketball Association (NBA) team, the Memphis Grizzlies. Both are identified as experts regarding …
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Simulation of a pion photodetection experiment
… the High Intensity Gamma Source (HI[gamma]S) at Duke University. After discussing the relevance of the experiment and briefly reviewing the physics at play, we delve into the details of the Crystal Box detector and explain how it is being modeled in the simulation. We calculate the acceptance of …
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Assessing the benefits of DCT compressive sensing for computational electromagnetics
… Lawrence Carin and his team of researchers at Duke University developed an in situ compressive sensing algorithm specifically tailored for computational electromagnetic applications. This algorithm is known as the discrete cosine transform (DCT) method. Using the DCT algorithm, I have developed …
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An investigation of low-level stimulus-induced measures of driver drowsiness
… Eyelid closure, in studies conducted at Duke University, was a reliable measure of drowsiness. A computer simulated nighttime driving task introduced 90 minutes of typical highway driving to twenty driver/subjects seated ixx a moving-base driving simulator. Each driver/subject drove under …
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Characterization of Gene-by-Age Interaction and Gene-by-Gene Interaction In Coronary Artery Disease
… using case-control samples enrolled at Duke University Medical Center. First, we studied the impact of age on coronary artery disease (CAD). Gene-by-age (GxAGE) interactions were tested at genome-wide scale, along with genes' marginal effects in age-stratified groups. Based on the …
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Midlatitude D Region Variations Measured from Broadband Radio Atmospherics
… short), are recorded by our sensors located near Duke University. The purpose of this work is to develop and implement algorithms to derive the variations of <italic>D</italic> region electron density profile which is modeled by two parameters (one is height and another is sharpness), by comparing …
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Newspaper framing of indicted U.S. athletes: Evaluating orientation, prominence and proximity
… the 2006 rape indictment of three members of the Duke University lacrosse team, and the 2004 assault indictment of professional basketball player Ron Artest, who contributed to a brawl between fans and players during a National Basketball Association game between the Detroit Pistons and the …
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ADVANCING THE SCIENCE OF HIRING TEACHERS : AN ANALYSIS OF THE EFFECTS OF TEACHER CHARACTERISTICS ON STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT
… Education Research Data Center (NCERDC) at Duke University after receiving approval from East Carolina University's Institutional Review Board. Results of the data indicated that the teacher characteristics, National Board Certification, college attended, and teaching experience had a …
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"We are the church": the Romanization of United Methodism, 1945-1988
… dissertation. Dean of the Divinity School of Duke University through the 1960s, observer at Vatican II, and founding member of the Wesley Works project, Cushman rejected the liberal evangelical theology of early twentieth-century Methodism and constructed a neo-Wesleyan theology. Cushman …
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TOWARDS A UNIVERSAL DEFINITION AND MEASURE OF SPIRITUALITY IN THE WORKPLACE
… a comparison of the USS with the DUREL - Duke University Religiosity Index (Koenig & Bussing, 2010). Results show that correlations were moderately high (0.20 to 0.41) at significance levels of 0.05 and 0.01 between expected factors for the DUREL and USS. Notably, there is no significant …
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Durham’s Self-Help And The Financialization Of The Bull City: Development Without Displacement? Or Displacement Without Development?
… the city and other institutions, principally Duke University, to manage community relations, shepherd state and federal tax credits and other public financing, and act as a symbol of progressive politics. Through innovative methods developed over a five-year media and institutional ethnography …
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Quality of Life, Religious/Spiritual Coping, Demoralization and Depression in Heart Failure Patients
… a survey containing demographic questions, the Duke University Religion Index, Religious Coping Scale, the Demoralization Scale, the Beck Depression Inventory-II and the Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire. Results: T-tests revealed significant differences for positive religious/spiritual …
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DEEP ARCHITECTURES FOR SPATIO-TEMPORAL SEQUENCE RECOGNITION WITH APPLICATIONS IN AUTOMATIC SEIZURE DETECTION
… features. In this study, we use the Temple University EEG (TUEG) Corpus, supplemented with data from Duke University and Emory University, to evaluate the performance of these hybrid deep structures. We demonstrate that performance of a system trained only on Temple University Seizure Corpus …
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Voices of Jim Crow: Early Urban African American English in the Segregated South
… as part of the Behind the Veil project at Duke University. The Behind the Veil project was launched in 1990 at Duke and the majority of the interviews were conducted between 1994 and 1997. Each speaker completed a survey regarding her/his life history, education, professional history, and …
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Development of a System for Real-Time Measurements of Metabolite Transport in Plants Using Short-Lived Positron-Emitting Radiotracers
… close proximity of two research facilities at Duke University: the Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory (TUNL) and the Duke University Phytotron, which are separated by approximately 100 meters. The short-lived positron-emitting radioisotopes are generated using the 10-MV tandem Van de …
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THE ECONOMICS DISCIPLINE AND PROFESSION AND U.S. POWER IN CHILE (1930s-1990s)
… state behavior, foreign and economic policies, university influence and the academic knowledge they produced, and non-governmental actors, which often reinforced one another during the Cold War. The multifaceted development of economics in Chile was shaped by various transnational interactions …
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