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Showing 1 to 20 of 3088 for “"Missing"”.
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All exits missing
… mourns the life of Jenny, a friend who went missing. Francis begs for Jenny’s safety, while Jenny shares impressions from the one long night that is her life. Emmett, a man who died early and suddenly in his life, argues for his death’s purpose, while his friend, Chris, wanders without …
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Missing noun phrases in Navajo.
Thesis. 1978. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy.
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Control Charts with Missing Observations
… for observations, and even entire samples, to be missing. This dissertation investigates missing observations in Exponentially Weighted Moving Average (EWMA) and Multivariate EWMA (MEWMA) control charts. The standardized sample mean is used since this adjusts the sample mean for the fact that part …
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Sufficient Dimension Reduction with Missing Data
… (SDR) methods typically consider cases with no missing data. The dissertation aims to propose methods to facilitate the SDR methods when the response can be missing. The first part of the dissertation focuses on the seminal sliced inverse regression (SIR) approach proposed by Li (1991). We show …
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Where Nothing Is Missing Or Missed
<p>These poems were written between August, 2011 and April, 2014.</p>
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Student Retention: Finding the Missing Perspective
This baseline study was designed to better understand non-withdrawing student leavers. An exploratory research design was utilized which consisted of pilot interviews and a survey. The pilot interviews in this study consisted of five on-campus Fall 2005 undergraduate student leavers. Leaver insight …
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In the galleria of missing persons
The title of my thesis is In The Galleria Of Missing Persons. It is a collection of prose narrative, and lyrical poems based on themes of identity and memory. Using memory as the primary lens for exploration, my intent was to focus on how 'identity' is multiplied or made other by major shifts in …
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Missing Domains Of Lung Transplant Patient Selection
… This project had three aims: 1) to establish the missing domains of the interdisciplinary assessment of the lung transplant candidate, 2) to have these domains validated by an international panel of lung transplant experts, and 3) to recommend the next step for inclusion of these domains into the …
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Reducing the missing heritability of gastrointestinal cancer
Contains fulltext : 306672.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Generalized Linear Models with Nonignorable Missing Covariates
… models (GLMs) for binary and count data with missing covariates when the missing data mechanism is nonignorable. We use the maximum likelihood method to estimate the parameters in GLMs. We study a set of ML estimating equations for fitting regression models to binary and Poisson data with …
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Online independent film distribution : what is missing?
This thesis proposes a new model for online platforms for independent films. Today, platforms such as Netflix, iTunes, and YouTube are in the face of major industry challenges: more competitors are entering the market; consumers are demanding more diverse content and higher quality service; and …
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Missing argument referent identification in natural language
Thesis (S.B. and M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1999.
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Representation of Missing Children in National Television News
… study examines how closely representations of missing children in television news reflect missing children statistics from "official" sources. The methodology used in this study was a content analysis of five national television news stations from 1987-2011 using the Vanderbilt Television News …
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Given: F(A Great Love + a Missing Body)
Given: f(A great love + A missing body) is a collection of poems in four sections that takes love and mathematics at its core. The lyric and narrative poems navigate an affair between a female narrator and her lover. The math is positioned with the verse in the way an ekphrastic poem might be …
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Handling of Missing Data with Growth Mixture Models
… is the performance of growth mixture models with missing data and when using the various methods for dealing with them. Missing data are usually an inconvenience that must be addressed in any data analysis scenario, and the use of growth mixture models is no less an exception to this. While the …
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