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Efficacy of Long-Term and Short-Term Residential Substance Abuse Treatment Modalities
(2005-12-15)
The overall purpose of this study was to examine the efficacy of two drug treatment modalities: (1) long-term residential treatment extended care and (2) short-term residential treatment and their effectiveness in serving ...
The Efficacy of No-Suicide Contracts with Clients in Counseling on an Outpatient Basis
(2006-08-15)
Clients at two outpatient facilities who self-identified as having expressed suicidal thoughts or engaged in suicidal behaviors during some point in their counseling treatment were invited to participate in a survey to ...
Efficacy of Price Interventions for Mitigating Childhood Obesity by Promoting Healthy Food Choices: An fMRI Study in Parents with Low Socioeconomic Status
(2016-12-07)
Childhood obesity has been a rising problem among rural and low income populations. Childhood obesity increases the risk of various diseases later in life. Government has tried several price interventions such as lowering ...
Efficacy of Purified Amino Acids in Practical Diets for Pacific White Shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei
(2018-07-18)
Shrimp growth and nitrogen loading is influenced by the quantity and quality of protein supplied to the diet. Protein is also the main cost component of the diet, and, therefore, feed formulations need to be cost effective. ...
Efficacy of U.S. Antidumping Duties: The Case of Freshwater Crawfish Tail Meat
(2017-04-17)
Quantity-dependent and price-dependent Rotterdam conditional demand systems are estimated using annual data for 1990-2014 to determine whether an antidumping duty levied by the United States on crawfish imports from China ...
The Efficiency of Enzymatic L-Cysteine Oxidation in Mammalian Systems Derives from the Optimal Organization of the Active Site of Cysteine Dioxygenase
(2014-04-22)
Intracellular concentrations of free cysteine in mammalian organisms are maintained within a healthy equilibrium by the mononuclear iron-dependent enzyme, cysteine dioxygenase (CDO). CDO catalyzes the oxidation of L-cysteine ...
The Efficiency of Modified Canola Oil as a Replacement of Menhaden Fish Oil in Practical Diet for Pacific White Shrimp, Litopenaeus vannamei
(2019-04-17)
Lipids are an essential component of the diet serving as source of energy and components of cell structures. Marine species require a certain level of specific fatty acids in their diet as they have limited ability to ...
Efficiency of Surveying, Baiting, and Trapping Wild Pigs at Fort Benning, Georgia
(2009-12-16)
This study, conducted at Fort Benning, Georgia, sought to develop more efficient ways of surveying for and trapping wild pigs (Sus scrofa), an abundant, destructive invasive species found on Fort Benning. Game cameras set ...
Efficient Acquisition and Reconstruction for Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Imaging
(2013-01-08)
Magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging (MRSI), combining both magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques, has proven to be a powerful approach to reveal information about ...
Efficient Algorithms for Retrospective Motion Correction in MRI
(2019-05-22)
Compared with other medical imaging modalities, MR imaging is time consuming due to the relatively slow sequential data acquisition pattern. Hence, motion is often an unavoidable issue for MRI. Object motion during the ...
Efficient and Robust Classification for Positive Definite Matrices with Wasserstein Metric
(2021-04-16)
Riemannian geometry methods are widely used to classify SPD (Symmetric Positives-Definite) matrices, such as covariances matrices of brain-computer interfaces. Common Riemannian geometry classification methods are based ...
Efficient Determination of Copper Electroplating Chemistry Additives using Advanced Neural Network Algorithms
(2015-04-30)
Copper plating is the metallization process of choice for modern semiconductor devices. It has proven to be a relatively inexpensive and simple process and easily adaptable to high volume manufacturing. The development of ...
Efficient Image Restoration Algorithms for Near-Circulant Systems
(2007-05-15)
The problem of image restoration has been extensively studied for its practical importance as well as its theoretical interest. Restoration problem arises in almost every branch
of engineering and applied physics. The ...
An efficient methodology for the partitioning of VLSI circuits using genetic algorithm
(2014-02-12)
In the recent years, with the explosive growth in the density of VLSI circuits, efficient algorithms and methodologies for circuit partitioning have been established as an important area of computer aided design for VLSI. ...
Efficient Movement and Task Management in MapReduce for Fast Analytics of Big Data
(2014-05-12)
MapReduce programming model has achieved great success over the past decade. With its recognized merits such as superior scalability and strong fault tolerance, MapReduce has thrived as a primary processing engine adopted ...
Efficient Numerical Algorithms for Solving Nonlinear Filtering Problems
(2014-06-18)
Examples of nonlinear filtering problems arise in biology, mathematical finance, signal processing, image processing, target tracking and many engineering applications. Commonly used numerical simulation methods are the ...
Efficient Rank Regression with Wavelet Estimated Scores
(2011-07-07)
Wavelets have been widely used lately in many areas such as physics, astronomy, biological
sciences and recently to statistics. The main goal of this dissertation is to provide
a new contribution to an important problem ...
Efficient Reliability Verification Testing in Open Source Software Using Priority Prediction
(2015-05-08)
Open source software is becoming a strong alternative to private development for a wide market of applications. There is a stigma against using open source software in the private sector because of licensing restrictions ...
Efficient Storage Design and Query Scheduling for Improving Big Data Retrieval and Analytics
(2015-05-04)
With the perpetually increasing requirement and generation of digital data, the human being has been stepping into the Big Data era. To efficiently manage, retrieve and exploit such gigantic amount of data continuously ...
An Efficient Transition Detector Exploiting Charge Sharing
(2014-12-09)
Transition detectors have been widely employed for online error and metastability detection, including in Better-Than-Worst-Case (BTWC) timing design of microprocessors that are designed to allow occasional timing errors. ...