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Showing 1 to 20 of 2472 for “"Wide Variety"”.
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Factors affecting speech recognition in noise and hearing loss in adults with a wide variety of auditory capabilities
… to address these three issues, by examining a wide range of hearing<br/>abilities in large samples of participants having a range of hearing ability from normal to<br/>moderate-severe impairment. The research extends previous work by including larger samples<br/>of participants, a wider range …
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The synthesis of aminophosphonic acid derivatives & related compounds
… have long been claimed to be compounds with a wide variety of application. Numerous examples exist where they have been described as: complex-forming agents with sequestrating properties, extractants, wetting agents, pharmaceutical preparations, ion exchangers, herbicides, compounds with plant …
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Topics in Combinatorial Algorithms (Multicommodity Flows, Quadratic Programming)
This thesis is a study of a wide variety of combinatorial optimization problems.
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Confinement effects on multiexciton dynamics in semiconductor nanocrystals
… for a number of technological developments in a wide variety of lighting applications. They also are an incredibly useful model system to interrogate fundamental carrier interactions in crystalline semiconductor lattices. This thesis investigates the properties of multiexciton states in …
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Method and instrumentation for the measurement and characterization of MEMS fabricated electrical contacts
… fabricated electrical contacts are used in a wide variety of applications including MEMS relays, wafer probing applications, and the packaging and assembly of MEMS devices. In all of these devices, low, stable contact resistance is desired. Modeling these contacts is difficult because much of …
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Time resolved fluorescence of CdSe nanocrystals using single molecule spectroscopy
A wide variety of spectroscopic studies of CdSe nanocrystals (NCs) are presented in this thesis, all studying some aspect of the temporal evolution of NC fluorescence tinder different conditions. In particular the methods of single molecule spectroscopy are used in many experiments allowing the …
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The Abiotic and Biotic Reduction of Bromate
… filtration can provide sustained removal under a wide variety of water quality conditions.
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Letters to the World: Self-Presentation in Personal Homepages on the World Wide Web
The study concludes personal homepages come in a wide variety of forms and serve different purposes for their authors, and that the context of personal homepage environment is also very important in their production and popularity.
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An Inverse Design Method for Supersonic Airfoils
… geometry can lead to significant changes in a wide variety of aircraft performance metrics. Inverse design methods offer an efficient alternative to standard direct methods. The key to this design problem is to derive a direct relationship between changes in airfoil geometry and changes in …
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Representation and coding of images using wavelets
… of wavelets, driven by its application in a wide variety of areas, especially in image processing. This dissertation presents a body of work addressing the application aspects of wavelets in representation and coding of images.
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A Descriptive Study of the Student Support Team Process in Elementary Schools in Georgia
… around the state. The study showed that a wide variety of individuals served as members and coordinators of Student Support Teams (SSTs), with a wide variety of models used to structure teams.</p> <p>SST coordinators' perceptions of the SST process were obtained through a 1 to 4 Likert-type …
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The Cultural Impact of Short-Term Study Abroad Programs
… of South Carolina students who participated in a wide variety of topical, short-term study abroad programs during the summer of 2010 were interviewed following their return to campus.</p> <p>Students who participated in this study were affected by the culture of the country that they traveled to …
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Accelerating human-in-the-loop machine learning
… intermediates as appropriate. Helix captures a wide variety of application needs within its Scala DSL, with succinct syntax defining unified processes for data preprocessing, model specification, and learning. We demonstrate that the reuse problem can be cast as a Max-Flow problem, while the …
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Everyday storytelling : supporting the mediated expression of online personal testimony
… creativity and experimentation, supports a wide variety of storymaking styles, provides novel wayfinding strategies for story discovery and enables the audience to actively and broadly interpret personal rich-media stories. As a spatial storytelling environment, Confectionary reduces …
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A Diagnostic Readiness Test and Programmed Teaching Unit For Entrance-Level College Debaters
Students enter college debate programs with a wide variety of forensic backgrounds. At present there is no efficient way to assess the entrant's grasp of elementary debate principles or fill the gaps in this basic knowledge. This thesis offers as a remedy a diagnostic readiness test and programmed …
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Carbenoid insertions and cyclometallations of zirconacycles
… and further elaborations to produce a wide variety of<br/>carbocyclic and heterocyclic systems is well established. This thesis focuses on the<br/>insertion of chloro(aryl)methyllithiums (benzyl carbenoids) into a range of<br/>zirconacyclopentenes and …
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New era in the tratment of schizophrenia
… disorders in the world. Schizophrenia has a wide variety of symptoms, which can further be divided into positive and negative symptoms.With the advancement in various disciplines in the last century (such as: biochemistry, cell biology and genetics), the pharmacotherapy of this disorder has …
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Unique Approaches to Interfacial Nanoscience
… first time here, has led to the formation of a wide variety of nanorod structures embedded in and supported by a number of different surfaces. The fabrication and properties of these nanostructures are explored in detail.
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Analysis of a Peer Observation Program for Graduate Teaching Assistants to Enhance Instructional Development
Feedback from TA observations targeted a wide variety of teaching-related topics, provided detailed suggestions as well as general comments, and was balanced in both positive and negative feedback. Findings from the study also indicated that the benefits from the program included direct …
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Advanced Quantum Communication Systems
… generator. These tools may be applied to a wide variety of future quantum and classical information systems.
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