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Rewriting Survival Strategies: Hip Hop, Sampling,and Reenactment
(2007-08-01)
According to R. G. Collingwood, the historian does far more than simply present a series of facts to his audience. Such an individual actually “re-enacts past thought...within the context of his own knowledge and therefore, ...
A Near Infrared Spectroscopy Study of Counterfactual Thinking
(2007-07-31)
This thesis describes a study on counterfactual thinking, which refers to the ability to imagine scenarios that are contrary to fact. I investigated the neural correlates of realistic and unrealistic past counterfactual ...
Non-Hermitian Orthogonality and Meromorphic Approximation
(2007-08-01)
In this thesis we consider the distribution of poles of meromorphic and multipoint Padé approximants to the sum of a rational function and a Cauchy transform of a complex measure.
Contextual Analysis of Measurement Bias in the Child Behavior Checklist for African American Children
(2006-07-31)
This study examined the cultural validity of the Child Behavior Checklist, by employing an Item Response Theory analysis to determine measurement inequivalence in both the items and scales for 1st grade African-American ...
Preventing Depression in Adolescents: A Prospective Trial of Two Universal Prevention Programs
(2006-03-28)
This study evaluated two universal programs for the prevention of depressive symptoms in adolescents. Three hundred eighty students from suburban/rural high schools were randomly assigned to a cognitive behavioral program ...
Supervised-reinforcement learning for a mobile robot in a real-world environment
(2005-07-28)
This research measures how well supervised-reinforcement-learning techniques perform when applied to real-world tasks, managed as a discrete-event dynamic system (DEDS). Two types of experiments are tested. One tests the ...
Implementing A Robust 3-Dimensional Egocentric Navigation System
(2005-08-09)
Robot Navigation is a large component of current robotics research. In this paper, a method to implement the “go-to-goal” aspect of navigation is discussed. Specifically, I will first discuss a method called Egocentric ...
Structural Control By Induced Stress Based Stiffness Modification
(2005-07-28)
Structural control through bracing modification is presented in this thesis. First existing structural control devices discussed. Then the idea of how to adjust the stiffness properties of a structural frame is introduced. ...
Early Modern Iberian Landscapes: Language, Literature, and the Politics of Identity
(2009-07-30)
This study examines the cultural cross-pollination occurring between Spain and
Portugal during the early modern period. More specifically, it argues that a number of
Portuguese authors––including Manuel de Faria e Sousa, ...
Constructing Development: Bras í lia and the Making of Modern Brazil
(2006-07-29)
On 21 April 1960 President Juscelino Kubitschek oversaw the inauguration of Bras í lia as the capital of Brazil. While construction of the city was far from complete at that moment, Kubitschek rightly laid claim to a ...