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A Study of Ensemble Machine Learning Model Architectures for Parkinson’s Disease Detection and Freezing of Gait Forecasting
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Parkinson's Disease (PD) is a major progressive neurological disorder and is extremely difficult to diagnose PD~\cite{pmid23039866} since there are no defined medical tests for this task. The existing approach involves a combination physical examinations, neuroimaging and demographic analysis...
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An experimental investigation of the impact of fat taxes: Price effects, food stigma, and information effects on economic instruments to improve dietary health
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This thesis investigates how a tax and warning label on less healthy snack food products may affect consumer behaviour when the imposition of the tax is a source of consumer information. A survey that included choice experiments was implemented in supermarkets. Participants were asked to choose...
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2009
Aalhus, J.L. , Basarab, J.A. , Stewart-Smith, J. , Wang, Z, Goonewardene, L.A. , Price, M.A. , Seneviratne, R.W. , Okine, E.K.
Beef composites (C) have combined favourable traits of pure breeds. The objective was to compare the growth rates (GR) of muscle (M) and fat (F) in the primal cuts of serially harvested Beefbooster® C types (SM = C of small breeds, AH = C of Angus and Hereford and GLC = C with Gelbvieh, Limousin...
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Fall 2016
Background: Intracerebral Hemorrhage (ICH) is associated with high morbidity and patients commonly suffer motor dysfunction. ICH volume is a significant predictor of outcome, and perihematoma edema may also represent tissue injury. Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) can be used to assess in-vivo...
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Fall 2013
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a valuable imaging modality and is commonplace in diagnosing, evaluating, and understanding the pathobiology of many neurological disorders. Current methods are helpful in the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis (MS) but fail to provide useful longitudinal...
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Spring 2013
The energy requirements to produce muscle and fat in five beef composites relative to harvest age were determined. In Exp. 1, the proportion of muscle in the whole carcass decreased and fat increased with harvest age (P < 0.01). Based on energy apportioned to muscle and fat, to obtain lean beef,...
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Spring 2013
Spinal cord injury is most commonly caused by physical trauma, and the resulting functional loss can vary considerably in both degree, extent and location. Understanding what spinal cord tissue is damaged and to what degree can be useful in both determining the appropriate treatment for...
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Geochronology and Trace Element Characteristics of Pyrite from Selected Carbonate Hosted Pb-Zn Ore Deposits
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Carbonate-hosted ore deposits, such as Mississippi Valley-type (MVT), and Irish-type deposits, are a major class of Pb-Zn ores. Due to the mineralogy of these deposits, numerical constraints on the timing of mineralization are few. This thesis investigates pyrite Re-Os geochronology for dating...