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Spring 2024
The escalating energy consumption of buildings highlights the significance of adopting energy-efficient building design and construction practices. The growing demand for higher thermal resistance within building envelopes also necessitates innovative solutions for energy-efficient building...
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Spring 2024
Abstract Advanced cirrhosis is characterized by hemodynamic abnormalies, including increased portal pressure, and decreased arterial pressure, which contribute to the complicaons of the disease4. Short chain faty acids (SCFAs), produced by the gut microbiota through carbohydrate fermentaon,...
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Exploring Effects of Participation in Group Social Skills Interventions on the Self-Esteem of Autistic Youth
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Autistic youth commonly participate in Group Social Skills Interventions (GSSIs) as social-communication difficulties are a core component of their diagnosis. In these groups, autistic youth spend many weeks gaining knowledge about neurotypical social expectations. However, the evidence for GSSIs...
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Spring 2024
Trajectory data analysis refers to the systematic exploration of spatial and temporal movement patterns in trajectory datasets. Missing trajectory points pose a challenge as they affect downstream tasks that rely on these datasets, such as public transportation management, wildlife monitoring,...
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Spring 2024
Bengali and Hind are two widely spoken yet low-resource languages. The state-of-the-art in modeling such languages uses BERT and the Wordpiece tokenizer. We observed that the Wordpiece tokenizer often breaks words into meaningless tokens, failing to separate roots from affixes. Moreover,...
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Spring 2024
In recent years, significant strides in optimal bidirectional heuristic search (Bi-HS) have deepened our theoretical understanding and boosted performance. Yet, algorithms for Bi-HS in unbounded suboptimal scenarios remains largely unexplored. Despite leveraging front-to-end (F2E) and...
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Derivational Suffix Knowledge: What do Students Know and How to Best Support Their Learning
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Despite the considerable attention given to morphology instruction in recent years, there remains an essential need to understand how and when it should be taught, as well as whether it is better suited for students with specific characteristics. Thus, the objective of this dissertation was...
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Examining the Effects of Cytoplasmic Tail Splicing Event in Goldfish (Carassius auratus) Leukocyte Immune-type receptors
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The innate immune system is important in clearing infections and maintaining homeostasis. Across vertebrates, innate immunity is capable of executing potent effector responses through the actions of highly specialized cells. Effector responses, such as phagocytosis and cytokine secretion, are...
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Uptake of waterborne selenite, and its toxic effects, in the water flea (Daphnia magna), Westslope cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii lewisi) and rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)
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Selenium is an essential element, playing an important role in many physiological processes. However, it possesses a narrow margin between essentiality and toxicity. In aquatic systems, selenium is increasingly identified as a trace element of major concern with levels exceeding regulatory...
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Spring 2024
Yoho National Park protects the Burgess Shale: a chain of fossil beds in British Columbia bearing what paleontologist and science writer Stephen Jay Gould once called “the world’s most important animal fossils.” They are an extraordinary record of underwater soft-bodied organisms from just after...