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Lifetime Alcohol Misuse Prevalence Rates Among Sexual Offenders Currently Enrolled In Outpatient Sex Offender Treatment

Foster, James P. (Social Work, 2013-03-20)

Sex offenders' high prevalence of alcohol misuse augments their risk of reoffending. Identifying sexual offenders' alcohol misuse patterns and history is vital to effective treatment that lowers rates of recidivism. The ...

Light Driven Reduction Of Carbon Dioxide Via Ruthenium Polypyridyl Complexes In The Presence Of A Pyridinium Cocatalyst

West, Matthew

The rapid increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide since the industrial revolution is now beginning to cause global climate changes which could adversely affect our planets ecosystem. Nonetheless, our ability to sustain the ...

LIGHT REFLECTANCE SPECTROSCOPY FOR THE DETECTION OF POSITIVE SURGICAL MARGIN OF PROSTATE CANCER

Chan, Henry Thek; 0000-0002-8200-4085

During a radical prostatectomy in the operating room, there exists a certain degree of risks of a surgical positive margin of prostate cancer. Positive surgical margins are defined as cancer that has spread beyond the ...

Light Trapping And Absorption Enhancement For High Performance Solar Cells And Infrared Photodetectors

Chen, Li (Electrical Engineering, 2010-07-19)

This dissertation presents the work on light trapping and absorption enhancement in solar cells and infrared photodetectors. Hemispherical microstructure based omni-directional anti reflection (Omni-AR) coating has been ...

Light-Weight Seated Posture Guidance System with Machine Learning and Computer Vision

Kapoor, Rithik; Jaiswal, Ashish; Makedon, Fillia (ACM, 2022-07-11)

In today’s world, the increased time people spend in front of their computers has been one of the main causes for neck and back pains. Especially, since the pandemic, it has been quite evident that slouching at home for ...

Lights, Camera, History Portraying the Past in Film

Francaviglia, Richard V.; Rodnitzky, Jerry (University of Texas at ArlingtonTexas A&M PressDigital Creation Department, Central Library, University of Texas at ArlingtonDepartment of History, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2007)

Likelihood Inference for Flexible Cure Models with Interval Censored Data

Treszoks, Jodi; 0000-0001-6213-1194 (2023-05-19)

Models for survival data with a surviving fraction, known as cure rate models, play a vital role in survival analysis. Due to the improvement of intervening methodologies, some subjects are seen to be immune permanently. ...

Likelihood Inference for Flexible Cure Rate Models in the Context of Infectious Diseases with Multiple Exposures

Engel, Zachry Joseph (2020-09-01)

Cure rate models are mostly used to study data arising from cancer clinical trials. Its use in the context of infectious diseases has not been explored well. In 2007, Tournoud and Ecochard rst proposed a mechanistic ...

Lilac: Architecture For Anonymous Light Weight Communication

Upadhyaya, Ankit (Computer Science & Engineering, 2013-10-23)

We present lilac; a circuit based low latency anonymous light weight instant messaging communication system. This browser based chat platform provides anonymity in context with unlinkability and unobservability for the ...

LILAC: THE SECOND GENERATION LIGHTWEIGHT LOW-LATENCY ANONYMOUS CHAT.

Pobala, Revanth Rao (2016-08-15)

Instant messaging is one of the most used modes of communication and there are many instant messaging systems available online. Studies from the Electronic Frontier Foundation show that there are only a few instant messengers ...

Lilith Rising: American Gothic Fiction And The Evolution Of The Female Hero In Sarah Wood's Julia And The Illuminated Baron, E.D.E.N. Southworth's The Hidden Hand, And Joss Whedon's Buffy The Vampire Slayer

Musgrove, Kristie Leigh (English, 2008-09-17)

The construction and gendered identity of the female hero has long been a pressing concern of feminist criticism. A female hero capable of sustaining a role as a central protagonist in terms of complexity of character and ...