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Decongestive Progressive Resistance Exercise with Advanced Compression for Breast Cancer Related Lymphedema Management (DREAM): A Pilot Randomized Control Trial
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Introduction: More than one in five women who survive breast cancer will eventually develop lymphedema. Recent studies in breast cancer lymphedema management have demonstrated that resistance exercise can improve the survivors’ quality of life without exacerbating their lymphedema. However,...
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Fall 2018
The adoption of powered myoelectric prostheses and their ability to improve quality of life for persons with amputations is hindered by the difficulty of controlling multiple degrees of freedom with a limited number of input signals. Different myoelectric control strategies have been developed to...
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Fall 2015
Understanding how an artificial agent may represent, acquire, update, and use large amounts of knowledge has long been an important research challenge in artificial intelligence. The quantity of knowledge, or knowing a lot, may be nicely thought of as making and updat- ing many predictions about...
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Developing, Implementing and Evaluating a Mental Health Training Program for Police Officers
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Interactions between police and individuals suffering from mental illness are very frequent. Police forces are regularly first responders to those with mental illness. Unfortunately, on occasion interactions are violent and sometimes fatal. Despite this, training police how to best interact with...
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Fall 2023
Language models are a fundamental component of natural language processing (NLP) systems. Numerous successful deployments of modern artificial intelligence systems are based on language models, including GPT-4 and ChatGPT. In practice, they are often trained with the teacher forcing objective,...
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Does overload exercise training alter autonomic nervous system activity and hemodynamic regulation in aerobically fit men?
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In general, chronic endurance training has positive effects on physiological function. However, the performance of training in excess of what an individual is able to recover from can lead to performance, physiological and psychobiological maladaptation. The purposes of this investigation were to...
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EASE-BE-FIT: Elder-Friendly Approaches to the Surgical Environment Bedside Reconditioning for Functional Improvements An Innovative Reconditioning Program for Elderly Emergency Abdominal Surgery Patients
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Introduction: Elderly individuals who are hospitalized due to emergency abdominal surgery spend on average over 80% of their recovery time in bed, resulting in early and rapid muscle loss. As these elderly individuals have a lower physiological reserve, the impact of muscle wasting on function...
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Spring 2024
Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH), a devastating stroke caused by the rupture of vasculature in the brain, is responsible for <20% of all strokes, yet accounts for a disproportionately high burden of stroke related death and disability. The formation and degradation of the hematoma (blood clot)...
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Fall 2020
This dissertation investigates the properties of representations learned by modern deep reinforcement learning systems. Representation learning plays an important roll in reinforcement learning. A representation contains information extracted from states---the description of the current situation...