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Showing 1 to 20 of 133 for “"Mathematics & Statistics"”.
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Exploring the experiences and persistence of women in undergraduate mathematics and statistics programs
… STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) programs is low, and of the few who enter these programs, research shows they are at least 1.5 times more likely to leave the field than their male peers (Ellis et al., 2016). Various factors have been identified as reasons why women …
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Constructing Mathematical Models of Gene Regulatory Networks for the Yeast Cell Cycle and Other Periodic Processes
… or developing analysis methods in the areas of mathematics, statistics, and computer science. We identify genes with periodic expression and then the interactions between periodic genes, which defines the structure of the network. This network is then translated into a mathematical model, using …
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Improving Students' Attitudes About Statisitcs Ability through Integration of Statistical Software With Statistics Instruction
… counseling centers state that their problem is mathematics related anxiety (Richardson & Suinn, 1972). Preconceived notions about statistics, feelings of weak mathematical background, and limited computer exposure may increase student anxiety and fear in undergraduate and graduate courses in …
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A Contribution to Metric Diophantine Approximation : the Lebesgue and Hausdorff Theories
This thesis is concerned with the theory of Diophantine approximation from the point of view of measure theory. After the prolegomena which conclude with a number of conjectures set to understand better the distribution of rational points on algebraic planar curves, Chapter 1 provides an extension …
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Some Results on Vertex-Minimal Triangulations of Manifolds
This thesis presents some results on vertex-minimal (simplicial) triangulations of manifolds. We are interested in triangulations that have nice geometric and combinatorial properties. In the first chapter, we list some defnitions used throughout the thesis. In the second chapter, we give an …
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A Study of Concept Images and Concept Definitions related to Metric Spaces
… understanding of the role definitions play in mathematics. A set of questions was designed in order to gain insight into students’ understanding of the concept of open set, and their opinions on mathematical definitions. The questions were used in a written questionnaire, which was completed in …
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The prime number theorem: Analytic and elementary proofs
Three proofs of the prime number theorem are presented. The �rst is a heavily analytic proof based on early accounts. Cauchy's residue theorem and various results relating to the Riemann zeta function play a vital role. A weaker result than the prime number theorem is used for the proof, namely …
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Critical Events in Students’ Engagement with Mathematics
… invest significant resources in the provision of mathematics tuition to first year students and in response to this decline in standards have further invested in the provision of mathematics supports. Research has shown that a significant minority of students at risk of failing do not engage with …
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An Exploration of the Effects of High-Stakes Examinations on the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics in Post-Primary Education in Ireland and Turkey.
… and Turkey on the teaching and learning of mathematics in post-primary education. The study comprised of three parts: an exploration of teachers’ views on the high-stakes examinations in their countries, a comparison of students’ attitudes and study methods, and a classification of …
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Some Metric Theorems on Polynomials
The theory of metric Diophantine approximation can be studied from many di�erent perspectives. The problems studied in this thesis all concern questions on integer polynomials. Simultaneous rational approximation to integer polynomials is studied in the p-adic metric. Next, the nature of the …
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Dendrogram seriation in data visualisation: algorithms and applications
Seriation is a data analytic tool for obtaining a permutation of a set of objects with the goal of revealing structural information within the set of objects. The purpose of this thesis is to investigate and develop tools for seriation with the goal of using these tools to enhance data …
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Dade's Conjecture for the McLaughlin Simple Group
In [Da92] E.C. Dade announced the first of what was to be a series of conjectures concerned with counting characters in the blocks of finite groups. Specifically, Dade's so-called Ordinary Conjecture asserts that if a finite group G has trivial p-core, and B is a p-block of G of positive defect, …
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Elliptic Curves Over Finite Fields
… advanced undergraduates and graduate students in mathematics, with emphasis on the the theory of elliptic curves over finite fields. In Chapter 1, affine and projective planes are introduced. Chapter 2 introduces the theory of algebraic curves and the Weierstrass Normal Form of a cubic curve is …
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Approximations to non-central distributions and their applications
In testing hypotheses involving noncentral distributions percentage points are not always readily available and, if they are available, are not very well tabulated except, perhaps, for smaller degrees of freedom and noncentralities. Consequently,· for values that are not tabulated, interpolation, …
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Jaunųjų tenisininkų sportinio ugdymo sistemos modeliavimas /
… and generalisation, document analysis and mathematics statistics method. Conclusion. 1. The prevailing approach to formal education of children is oriented at the achievement of sports results. The number of academic hours assigned to the coach depends on the sports result. Children who do …
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UNDERSTANDING DIFFERENTIAL ABUNDANCE IN MICROBIAL ECOLOGY USING COMMUNITY STRUCTURE.
Advances in DNA sequencing have deepened our understanding of the microbiome’s role in health and disease, with microbiome research spanning biotechnology, food science, agriculture, and medicine. Differential abundance analysis (DAA) is one of the central statistical methods for identifying …
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