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Third Party Social Interaction and Word Learning from Video
(2009-07-23)
In previous studies, very young children have learned words while “overhearing” a conversation, yet they have had trouble learning words from a person on video. Here, 64 toddlers viewed an object labeling demonstration ...
Distributed Diagnosis of Continuous Systems: Global Diagnosis Through Local Analysis
(2009-08-04)
Early detection and isolation of faults is crucial for ensuring system safety and efficiency. Online diagnosis schemes are usually integrated with fault adaptive control schemes to mitigate these fault effects, and avoid ...
Biological Applications of Fluorescent Imaging
(2009-08-11)
The use of fluorescent microscopy as a tool for studying biological systems has exploded with the development of the laser scanning confocal microscope. In conjunction with traditional biochemical techniques, it can plan ...
The Effects of Triglyceride on Lysosomal Function in Macrophage Foam Cells
(2009-07-28)
Macrophage foam cells are prominent in atherosclerotic lesions. In late stage disease, much of the cholesterol accumulation within foam cells is found in large, swollen, lysosomes. Tissue culture models using human macrophages ...
A comparison of Bayesian network structure learning algorithms on emergency department ambulance diversion data
(2009-07-28)
Use of Bayesian networks (BN) has increased in medicine. Traditionally, BNs have been developed by experts or from the current literature. Several applications implement "off the shelf" BN structure learning algorithms, ...
Supervisory control and intent recognition of a powered knee and ankle prosthesis
(2009-07-29)
This work describes a control architecture and intent recognition approach for the real-time supervisory control of a powered lower limb prosthesis. The proposed approach infers user intent to stand, sit, or walk, by ...
"I Love You, So I Choose to Not Be with You": The Practice of Transnational Parenting among Chinese Immigrant Families
(2009-07-27)
In this dissertation I examine the impact that international migration has on immigrant parents and their family arrangements through the study of Chinese transnational families residing in Nashville, Tennessee. I argue ...
Spectral morphisms, K-theory, and stable ranks
(2009-07-27)
We study the interplay between spectral morphisms, K-theory, and stable ranks for Banach algebras and, more generally, for Frechet algebras with open group of invertibles.
After some preliminaries on the Gelfand transform, ...
Fluid-Structure Impact Modeling and Risk Assessment
(2009-07-29)
Fluid-structure impact analysis is a topic of increasing interest to engineers and designers in the shipbuilding and aerospace industries, and recent advances in the availability of computational power have allowed for ...
Microfluidic Continuous Separation of Particles and Cells by using AC-Dielectrophoresis
(2009-07-29)
AC-dielelectrophoresis is utilized inside a lab-on-a-chip device to separate particles and cells. Dielectrophoresis is the movement of particles in a non-uniform electric field due to the interaction of the particle's ...