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Using Genetic Programming to Quantify the Effectiveness of Similar User Cluster History as a Personalized Search Metric
(2008-09-09)
Online search is the service that pushes the Internet. One must only look at the success of a company such as Google, an idea from a 1998 graduate research paper that has in 2005 not only become a wildly successful company, ...
Evaluation of Restraint Stresses and Cracking in Early-age Concrete with the Rigid Cracking Frame
(2008-09-09)
Early-age cracking problems are common in a wide variety of concrete structures, ranging from bridge decks and piers, to pavements used for highways and airport runways. Numerous surveys conducted by state and federal ...
A Quantitative Study of Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) Over Internet Protocol (IP) Protocols
(2008-09-09)
The research, which is discussed in this dissertation, consists of the development and testing of a suite of ten Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and reliable Real Time Protocol (RTP) MIDI over IP (MOIP) protocols, and ...
The Activity Metric for Low Resource, On-line Character Recognition
(2008-09-09)
This work presents an algorithm for on-line character recognition that is fast, portable, and consumes very little memory for code or data. The algorithm is alphabet-independent, and does not require training beyond ...
Psychopathy and Choice of Victims: Implications for the Sub-Categorization and Treatment of Juvenile Sexual Offenders
(2008-09-09)
Adolescent sexual offenders are responsible for a considerable portion of the sexual abuse victimization that takes place in American society today. Convicted sexual offenders report that they most often began their sexual ...
Numerical Model Evaluations of Cumulative Contraction Scour at a Bridge Site with Cohesive Soils
(2008-09-09)
The objective of this study was to perform 2-Dimensional numerical contraction
scour calculations at an actual bridge site with cohesive soils. The 2-D model used in the
analysis was the Finite Element Surface Water ...
A Narrative Look at the Regional Voice of Political Columnist Molly Ivins
(2008-09-09)
Mass communication research that focuses on analyzing the opinion writing of prominent columnists is nearly non-existent. The columns of Austin, Texas-based nationally syndicated columnist Molly Ivins are studied, looking ...
The Mediational Role of Coping in the Relationship between Personality and Work-Family Conflict
(2008-09-09)
The purpose of the present study was to explore a model of Work-Family Conflict (WFC) that includes personality and coping with a sample of university faculty. Contrary to prediction, coping was not a mediator in the ...
Identity Rifts in the Spanish Speaking World: A Literary Comparison of Martí, Darío, Unamuno and Machado
(2008-09-09)
This thesis serves to explain how the transition that occurred in Spain and Spanish America during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries affected the issue of identity. Because of Spain’s historically powerful ...
Generalization of Ky Fan-Amir-Moez-Horn-Mirsky's result on the eigenvalues and real singular values of a matrix
(2008-09-09)
Ky Fan's result states that the real part of the eigenvalues of an n by n com-
plex matrix A is majorized by the eigenvalues of the Hermitian part of A. The
converse was established by Amir-Moez and Horn, and Mirsky, ...