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Improving Dbnsfp
<p><strong>IMPROVING dbNSFP</strong><strong></strong></p> <p>Mingyao Lu, B.S.</p> <p>Advisory Professor: Xiaoming Liu, Ph.D.</p> <p>The analysis and interpretation of DNA variation are very important for the Whole Exome studies (WES). Genome research has focused on single nucleotide variants …
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Improving employee commitment
… need to focus efforts in two main areas: (1) improving people's perceptions of the organization and its meaningfulness to them; (2) improving people's level of need's satisfaction, in key areas such as recognition, feedback, job enjoyment, and personal growth opportunities.
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Improving Accounting Education
<p>This thesis examines and explores the potential of active teaching methods inside and outside the classroom. This literature review analyzes studies of accounting programs in different countries including the United States. The previous literature suggest that students perform better through …
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Improving TaleBlazer analytics
TaleBlazer is a platform for creating and playing augmented reality location-based mobile games. TaleBlazer Analytics is an automated system for collecting and analyzing anonymized player data from these games. This thesis presents additions and improvements made to TaleBlazer Analytics to allow …
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Improving Early Sepsis Identification
<p> Sepsis is a serious complication which is initiated by the body’s extreme response to an infection. If sepsis is not identified and treated promptly, it can rapidly lead to tissue damage, organ failure and death. Accounting for high morbidity and mortality rates in the United States, sepsis has …
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Improving statistical seismicity models
… geometry is the most valuable information for improving aftershock forecasts. Furthermore, they reveal that static stress maps can additionally improve the forecasts of off--fault aftershock locations, while the integration of ground shaking data could not upgrade the results significantly. In …
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Improving base metal electrowinning
<p>"In zinc electrowinning, Mn oxidizes to form MnO<sub>2</sub> on Pb-Ag anodes, cell walls and pipes. MnO<sub>2</sub> reduces anode corrosion but also leads to short circuits and maintenance issues. MnO<sub>2</sub> is thought to interact with chloride ions and produce oxidized chlorine species. …
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Improving U.S. Nuclear Capability
<p>The United States must be prepared for the myriad of nuclear threats it will face in the twenty-first century. American preeminence and security will be challenged in the coming decades. Countries of concern to U.S. security are developing, or have developed, a weaponized capability; the rise of …
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Improving Electromagnetic Bias Estimates
<p>The electromagnetic (EM) bias is the largest source of error in the TOPEX/Poseidon and Jason-1 satellite sea surface height (SSH) estimates. Due to incomplete understanding of the physical processes which cause the bias, current operational models are based on empirical relationships between the …
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Improving outpatient physical therapy
Outpatient physical therapy loses effectiveness due to long wait times in between clinical visits. PT Helper is a system designed to combat this disadvantage in three ways. PT Helper increases the effectiveness of the patient-clinician interview conducted at the beginning of each clinical visit by …
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Improving supply chain resilience
Due to the global expansion of Company A's supply chain network, it is becoming more vulnerable to many disruptions. These disruptions often incur additional costs; and require time to respond to and recover from these disruptions. The base paper supply chain was identified as the most vulnerable …
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Improving Bio-Inspired Frameworks
… ACO frameworks, BEACON also has a good scope in improving performance using parallel computing. We try to exploit the available parallelism using both multi-core Central Processing Units (CPUs) and Graphics Processing Units(GPUs). Using our new multithreaded approach we can reduce test generation …
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Improving sexuality in interpersonal relationships
… Main qualitative findings with regard to improving sexual relationships related to improving communication, intimacy, affection, self-esteem and quality of life. Integrating theoretical and practical investigations, the thesis concludes with various recommendations with regard to improving …
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Improving understanding of rape proclivity
The current dissertation included three studies that together aimed to improve understanding of rape proclivity as a potential construct related to sexual violence. In the first study, participants' understanding of the items on the Rape Proclivity Measure were assessed to gain insight into …
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Improving the Material Point Method
… In this work, we give a different approach to improving MPM by combining ideas from meshfree particle methods and finite element methods. Such an approach provides a general framework for improving MPM. Not only has the framework produced the improved material point method (IMPM), but it can …
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Improving Simulation Performance With Gpus
<p>Simulations are indispensable for engineering. They make it possible that one can perform faster and cheaper virtual experiments than physical ones on virtual environments based on numerical methods. One key factor to the performance of a simulation system is the speed of solving linear …
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