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Fall 2017
Advancements in data acquisition technologies and the desire for rich data has led to an increase in the size of data collected from modern analytical instruments. With the aid of chemometric techniques, researchers are still able to glean more useful information from these kinds of data than...
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Decomposition and Feature Selection of Comprehensive 2-DimensionalGas Chromatography - Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry(GC×GC-TOFMS) Data
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Comprehensive Two-Dimensional Gas Chromatography - Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry (GC×GC-TOFMS) is an advanced instrumental technique that separates complex mixtures along two chromatographic dimensions, followed by multivariate detection that collects mass spectral information at a high...
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Developing and Evaluating Algorithms for Fixing Omission and Commission Errors in Structured Data
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The use of machine learning is rapidly rising to deliver a variety of benefits in various domains. However, developing predictive systems often faces many challenges that can drastically delay model deployment. For instance, obtaining labeled training data is one of the most expensive bottlenecks...
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Fall 2012
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) measures the dynamic activity of each voxel of a brain. This dissertation addresses the challenge of learning a diagnostic classifier that uses a subject’s fMRI data to distinguish subjects with neuropsychiatric disorders from healthy controls. fMRI...
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Fall 2021
This phenomenological study explores the lived experience of the nurse’s touch in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Touch is deeply embedded within NICU nursing, sometimes so taken-for-granted as to seem invisible, but implied in nearly every nursing gesture and pursuit. Inserting an...
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2010
Love, Alan C. , Brigandt, Ingo
Accounting for the evolutionary origins of morphological novelty is one of the core challenges of contemporary evolutionary biology. A successful explanatory framework requires the integration of different biological disciplines, but the relationships between developmental biology and standard...
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Fall 2019
On-line analytical tools are needed to optimize the upgrading process. This technology could reduce environmental impacts, reduce costs, and enhance quality control of heavy oil feeds. Ultraviolet and visible spectroscopy, a well established ex-situ technique, is one example that could...
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Examining Intra-Personal and External Support Factors Supporting Academic Success in Post-Secondary Students with ADHD
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Young adults with ADHD are less likely to graduate from high school and pursue post-secondary education than young adults without ADHD (Barbaresi et al., 2007; Barkley, 2006; Molina et al., 2009). University students with ADHD, given their enrollment in postsecondary education, have likely...
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Feasibility study of asset mapping with children: Identifying how the community environment shapes activity and food choices in Alexander First Nation
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Fehderau, David D., Willows, Noreen D., Ball, Geoff D., Holt, Nicholas L.
Introduction: It is estimated that First Nations children living on reserves are 4.5 times more likely to be obese than Canadian children in general. Many First Nations children living on reserves have limited healthy food and physical activity options. Understanding how community factors...
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Fall 2019
The growth of an organization in the market relies on customer’s satisfaction towards its products and services. Due to the dynamic nature of the internet, and increasing blogs, forums, and customer feedback, it usually remains a key issue in any industry to identify and extract data attributes...