The vigilance decrement is the decline in performance over time that characterizes tasks requiring sustained attention. Resource Theory proposes that the vigilance decrement is due to information processing assets that ...
Coronal cavities are large scale structures in the solar corona that are closely related to the long-term evolution of the magnetic field in the photosphere as well as associated with energetic solar activity such as ...
Bacterial resistance to antibiotics continues to be a serious concern worldwide. This has motivated a strong research focus on naturally-occurring antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) as templates for new drug development. To ...
Cancer is a complex system of systems - in which heterogeneous actors interact dynamically with each other and with the environment across time. It is the second leading cause of death in the U. S. after cardiovascular ...
This dissertation analyzed the social media posts of the 2016 United States presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Study one, utilizing the Extended Parallel Process Model, looked at the different fear ...
Low power, lossy networks (LLNs) are becoming a critical infrastructure for future applications that are ad-hoc and untethered for periods of years. The applications enabled by LLNs include Smart Grid, data center power ...
The purpose of special education is to ensure that students with disabilities are provided a free appropriate public education, while accessing the general education curriculum and receiving specialized instruction to ...
People of different cultures tend to have different cognitive processing styles.
Philosophers throughout the years have believed that culture fundamentally shapes
human social practices and intellectual processes (Nisbett, ...
Recommender systems are intended to help users make effective product and service choices, especially over the Internet. They are used in a variety of applications and have proven to be valuable for predicting the utility ...
The combination of stakeholders’ concerns about mathematics education in the United States – students’ lack of proficiencies, problem-solving skills, and preparation for 21st century careers in stem fields – together with ...
Child maltreatment is a serious problem in the United States. The vast majority of the perpetrators of maltreatment for young children (ages 2-6) are parents/caregivers. If left untreated, early childhood maltreatment is ...
This thesis describes how Title IX has contributed to the progress in women’s sports and female participation numbers at all levels since its implementation in 1972. However, while the law has contributed to increased ...
A formative design experiment methodology was employed to investigate the acquisition of early reading skills for high school English language learners (ELLs) beginning to read English. A fundamental challenge facing high ...
Pattern mining is an umbrella term used for data mining algorithms with the goal of finding relationships between attributes, such as association rules, frequent sets, contrast patterns, emerging patterns, etc. While ...
Many aspects of our society are affected by how opinions change and ideology spreads (e.g., interest in STEM and political radicalization), but the underlying processes are not well understood. Previous attempts at modeling ...
This research presents an innovative process of text-based Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) validation by programmatically constructing geoparsed geospatial footprints. Place names are collected in a detailed, ...
Current theories and models of confidence need to be improved to provide a simpler and broader explanation for the relationship between confidence and memory. For example, current theories of confidence posit dozens of ...
A Gospel of Health and Salvation is a work of digital history — defined as the critical application of computational technologies to the study of the past — focused on the relationship between time and gender in Seventh-day ...