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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"primary model"”.
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Community violence exposure and posttraumatic stress disorder : support and faith among children and adolescents in inner-city Jamaica
… and theoretical literature, two competing models were designed and tested, a priori. In the primary model, CVE was proposed to directly impact PTSD both directly and indirectly through social support and spirituality/religiosity. The alternate model tested the full meditational effect of …
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A Quantamental approach to Bitcoin trading: Are we swinging for the Fences?
… in the book's pipeline to adjust a momentum primary model on Bitcoins, and to incorporate and study features that would let estimate the size of the primary model bets (secondary model to be trained on top of the rst model). The range of features to analyze goes from nancial metrics derived …
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"Studies in Allusion in the ""Eclogues"" of Vergil"
… In the Aeneid, Vergil takes a single author as a primary model and analyzes his works, using them to create something greater than the model. In the Eclogues as well he has taken the work of a single author, found the elements which tie his view of these several poems together, and used that to …
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Examining the Relationship between Bicultural Stress and Psychological Well-being among Korean Adolescents in Singapore: A Mixed Methods Study
… the moderating effect of ethnic identity. The primary model testing showed that ethnic identity did not buffer the impact of bicultural stress on psychological well-being, rather enhanced the impact of stress on depression for Korean adolescents who reported having a stronger ethnic identity. …
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Examining Longitudinal Patterns of Psychotropic Medication Use by Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities Relocating from Institutions to Community Settings
For 133 years, institutionalization was the primary model of care provided for individuals with intellectual disabilities in Ontario. By March 31, 2009, the last remaining institution in Ontario was closed. Given that individuals with intellectual disabilities are more likely to develop health and …
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Modeling for thermal resistance of non-O157 shiga toxin producing Escherichia coli in ground beef
<p>Predictive models in microbiology are used for estimating the growth or survival of microorganism in a set of environmental conditions. A validated predictive model provides an alternative to extensive survival and shelf life studies. In this study, a predictive inactivation model for non-O157 …
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Non-Peripheral: Re-Thinking the Organized Industrial Zone
… Zone (OIZ) in Turkey emerged in the 1960s as a primary model for industrial development. Combining base infrastructure, specific land use rules, financial incentives such as tax exemptions, and partial self-governance, the OIZ is essentially a cluster of light to medium industries. It was meant …
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Development of a middle-range theory of caregiver stress from the Roy Adaptation Model
… of caregiver stress derived from Roy Adaptation Model was developed to examine the relationships among stimuli, coping mechanism and adaptive modes. The theory hypothesized that objective burden in caregiving would be the most important stimulus that leaded to perceived caregiver stress. Higher …
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The Impact of Powassan Virus and Borrelia burgdorferi Coinfection in Ixodes scapularis Ticks
… Dual infection was studied in a murine model. A lethal model of POWV infection was developed for C3H mice, the primary model of Lyme disease. Dual infection did not attenuate the response to POWV, although the expression of some cytokines was enhanced by dual infection. Additionally, …
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The Effect of Earnings Quality on Analyst Forecast Accuracy, Dispersion, and Optimism and Implications for CEO Compensation
… optimism of individual financial analysts. The primary model employed for analyst forecast accuracy is consistent with Barniv et al. (2005), Clement (1999), and Jacob et al. (1999). Further reduced model of forecast accuracy based on variables used by Bae et al. (2008) is also used. The forecast …
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Development of hydrograph-based approach to modeling fate and transport of sediment-borne bacteria in lowland rivers
… plans like Total Maximum Daily Loads, no single model has been widely recognized as an efficient and effective tool for estimating fecal pollution. This dissertation develops a simple yet effective modeling approach, called Hydrograph-based Approach, to bacterial fate and transport modeling in …
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Designing Massive 3-Dimensional Neural Networks with Chromosomal-Based Simulated Development
… process control systems by accurately modeling the nervous structures of higher biological organisms. The mammalian cerebral cortex was selected as the primary model since it is the only computational element capable of interpreting and complex patterns that develop over time. However …
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Prediction and surveillance of antigenic variation in influenza and SARS-CoV-2 viruses
Influenza has long been a primary model organism for antigenically variable pathogens meaning it can escape immunity acquired through prior exposure by accumulating mutations in the key surface proteins targeted by the immune system (hemagglutinin in the case of influenza). As such, the strain …
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Modelling the behaviour of Listeria monocytogenes in cheese
… to milk or laboratory media, indicating that models built from laboratory media would not accurately predict the behaviour of L. monocytogenes in farmhouse cheese. Lower limits of growth at aw values of 0.94-0.96, depending on contamination level, were identified using an Ordinary Logistic …
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Syncretic Narrative: Method for Navigation of Power and Resistance in War and Conflict
… informed by and reliant upon communication models and technologies, enables us to navigate, negotiate, and elicit meaning both from and within complexity of information. As a primary model of communication during the Arab Spring, the networked model of communication facilitated a dynamic …
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Causal and system-theoretic approaches to interpretable machine learning
… constraints. In such settings, machine learning models frequently fail to generalize and may even produce results that contradict well-established scientific principles. The lack of interpretability not only undermines trust but also hinders our ability to diagnose, debug, and improve these …
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Characterisation of the Mechanism of Norovirus VPg-Nucleotidylylation
… (NS7). Using murine norovirus (MNV) as the primary model, this project sought to better understand this key stage of the norovirus life cycle, providing insight into a previously ill-characterised crucial stage of the viral life cycle and may help to identify key points which could be …
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Targeted Differentiation of Primary Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma Cells
… potential. This dissertation created a primary model to reproduce the cornification of HNSCC cells and analyzed the mechanisms underlying differentiation using ATAC and RNA sequencing. Immunofluorescence verified the results using human HNSCC tissue from different anatomical locations. …
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Development and Characterization of Phospholipid Encapsulated Quantum Dot Constructs for Biologic Applications
… morphologies can be offered by utilizing the model of functionalized quantum dot (QD) constructs. </p> <p> Quantum dots are nano-particles composed of semi-conducting materials that fluoresce at discrete wavelengths when irradiated by a high energy UV source. QD constructs are …
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Discrete Two-Stage Stochastic Mixed-Integer Programs with Applications to Airline Fleet Assignment and Workforce Planning Problems
… in the two-stage space may not satisfy the model's binary restrictions. We thus need to be able to detect whether or not a Benders' subproblem is solved by a given fractional second-stage solution. We design a novel procedure to check this situation in the overall algorithmic scheme. A key …