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Being Neither and Both: The Liminal Nationality of Four Eighteenth-Century Anglo-Irish Women Writers, A Study of Genre, Gender, and Nation
(2011-07-14)
This dissertation examines the work of four Anglo-Irish women writers who published in the long eighteenth century, an integral voice in the development of Anglo-Irish nationality. These voices present a counter-perspective ...
An Active and Hybrid Storage System for Data-intensive Applications
(2011-07-20)
Since large-scale and data-intensive applications have been widely deployed, there is a growing demand for high-performance storage systems to support data-intensive applications. Compared with traditional storage systems, ...
A Novel Through-Silicon-Via (TSV) Fabrication Method
(2011-07-18)
The Through Silicon Via (TSV) is expected to be the future of 3-D chip stacking technology for electronic devices. The structure of the TSV interconnect is developed by first etching deep vias into the surface of a wafer, ...
Analysis and Implementation of Built-In Self-Test for Block Random Access Memories in Virtex-5 Field Programmable Gate Arrays
(2011-07-18)
In order to ensure the proper operation of the embedded Block Random Access Memories (BRAMs) in Xilinx Virtex-5 Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) a dependable and resource efficient test is needed so that the integrity ...
Nonparametric Methods for Classification and Related Feature Selection Procedures
(2011-07-18)
One important application of gene expression microarray data is
classification of samples into categories, such as types of tumor.
Gene selection procedures become crucial since gene expression
data from DNA microarrays ...
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 ...
The Influence of Time Spent in Outdoor Play on Daily and Aerobic Step Count in Costa Rican Children
(2011-07-18)
There is strong evidence that children’s health associated with obesity is a major concern for nations around the world (Sharma, 2007; Wang & Lobstein, 2006). World efforts are being made to improve and protect their health. ...
Military Deployments: Evaluating Teacher Knowledge
(2011-07-18)
This mixed method study examined the possible influence of a military deployment online tutorial on teacher knowledge. DoDEA and public school teachers were the two groups used for the study. From this exploratory study, ...
Ecoimmunological Investigations of the Cottonmouth (Agkistrodon piscivorus)
(2011-08-04)
Despite the benefits gained from studying the immune system of non-traditional model organisms, including the discovery of key components of the human immune system, squamates remain the most poorly-understood major ...
Three Essays on Antidumping Duties and Risk Factors Affecting International Seafood Trade
(2011-11-08)
This dissertation includes three essays to address influences of the antidumping policy, price risk, and exchange risk in the US seafood import market. In the first chapter, I attempt to evaluate the effect of trade diversion ...