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Natural Selection
My thesis work is about imagination. I use the collaborative efforts of the viewer's mind and my sculptures, or specimens, to make associations of real life animals. I feel this engages the viewer and in turn invites them to inspect the work on closer level. This is my ultimate goal in the work, to …
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Fiction Selection
The following contains two novel excerpts and two short stories completed during the years of 2011 to 2013. Rain in Paluma consists of a fictitious community based upon island life in Australia. Stroke deals with the relationship of father and son, both facing the consequences of Alzheimer’s …
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Fiction Selection
The following contains two novel excerpts and two short stories completed during the years of 2011 to 2013. Rain in Paluma consists of a fictitious community based upon island life in Australia. Stroke deals with the relationship of father and son, both facing the consequences of Alzheimer’s …
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Semantic component selection
… and using novel techniques to define a generic selection/categorisation framework. Implementing the framework outlined in the thesis improves an existing algorithm of semantic distance acquisition. Finally, as a novel approach to the extraction of semantic information is proposed, there exists a …
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Natural Selection Reconsidered
… tend to underpin mainstream accounts of natural selection, noting where those assumptions break down and taking this as a basis for fresh analysis. First, I examine the assumption that natural selection inherently involves struggle or competition. I show selection can take place without zero-sum …
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INFERENCE AFTER VARIABLE SELECTION
… + ... + beta_p x_p + e after model or variable selection, including prediction intervals for a future value of the response variable Y_f, and testing hypotheses with the bootstrap. If n is the sample size, most results are for n/p large, but prediction intervals are developed that may increase …
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Selection and Assortative Mating
Theoretical aspects of selection and assortative mating were considered separately and jointly. Selection based on the conditional mean of the merit variable given the data maximizes the expected value of the merit variable when the proportion selected is constant. This is optimal even if …
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Natural selection successfully taught
"Natural selection, one of biology's most important concepts, has proven vexing to both teach and learn. Polanyi's concept of tacit knowledge and Broudy's concept of ""knowing with"" served as the basis for developing materials to teach natural selection. These materials sought to make explicit to …
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Essays on equilibrium selection
The first two chapters of this thesis explore how coordination happens in simple games. The first chapter models the adaptive play of a 2 x 2 game by pairs of agents matched together from a large population. In contrast with the existing literature, I assume that agents have some control over who …
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Infuences on Teacher Selection
With increasing emphasis being placed on the selection of highly qualified teachers as mandated by the No Child Left Behind legislation (NCLB) of 2001, growing numbers of student populations, and the decreasing numbers of teachers entering the profession, it is evident that the teacher selection …
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Hierarchical Bayesian Dataset Selection
… (<b>HBDS</b>), the first dataset selection algorithm that utilizes hierarchical Bayesian modeling, designed for collaborative data-sharing ecosystems. The proposed method efficiently decomposes the contributions of dataset groups and individual datasets to local model performance …
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Representative selection of variables
The classical and most frequent use of the discriminant function is for the purpose of classification, by obtaining a combined measurement such that the difference between two or more groups is as large as possible. The linear discriminant function for the special case of two groups was first …
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Model selection for correlated data and moment selection from high-dimensional moment conditions
… two important but challenging issues: model selection for correlated data with diverging number of parameters and consistent moment selection from high-dimensional moment conditions. Longitudinal data arise frequently in biomedical and genomic research where repeated measurements within …
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The Selection of Science Books for Elementary School Libraries: An Analysis of Selection From National Selection Sources and From a Local Buying List
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Gaze selection in the real world : finding evidence for a preferential selection of eyes
… attention, and what special role (if any) the selection of eyes has in it. Chapters 2 and 3 demonstrate that when observers are shown complex natural scenes, they look at the eyes more frequently than any other region. This selection preference is enhanced when the social content and activity …
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Model Selection with Information Criteria
This thesis is on model selection using information criteria. The information criteria include generalized information criterion and a family of Bayesian information criteria. The properties and improvement of the information criteria are investigated. We analyze nonasymptotic and asymptotic …
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Information selection in intelligence processing
In many intelligence agencies, the processing of data into usable information ready for analysis poses a significant bottleneck. Typically, much more data is available than what can be processed in the limited time available for processing. We formulate the problem faced by an intelligence …
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Factors influencing bicycle route selection
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Factors influencing bicycle route selection
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