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Price Discovery Of Credit Risk
(Finance & Real Estate, 2009-09-16)
This study investigates financial markets' price discovery for credit risk across the stock, bond, and credit derivatives markets. This study also examined what factors affect financial market's price discovery for credit ...
Functional Data Analysis For Environmental And Biomedical Problems
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2009-09-16)
Vast amounts of data are being generated due to the development of sensing technology. Among those, one of the common types of data usually found in various discipline is the functional data. Because the functional data ...
Dynacet: A Minimum-effort Driven Dynamic Faceted Search System Over Structured Databases
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2009-09-16)
In this thesis, we propose minimum-effort driven navigational techniques for enterprise database systems based on the faceted search paradigm. Our proposed techniques dynamically suggest facets for drilling down into the ...
Data Mining-driven Approahces For Process Monitoring And Diagnosis
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2009-09-16)
The objective of this dissertation is to develop a new set of efficient process monitoring and diagnostic tools through their integration with data mining algorithms. Statistical process control (SPC) is one of the most ...
Ecological Genetics Of Adaptive Life-history Phenotypes In The Cricket Allonemobius socius
(Biology, 2009-09-16)
As many organisms inhabit unstable environments, the ability to respond to changing environmental conditions is highly adaptive, and results in the evolution of phenotypic plasticity. Thus, identifying the genetic basis ...
Analysis Of Novel Regulatory Region And Function Of A Young Drosophila Retrogene: Dntf-2r
(Biology, 2009-09-16)
Dntf-2r is a young retroposed gene that originated from the nuclear transport gene Dntf-2. Here the function, quality and evolutionary origin of the regulation of this retrogene are explored. In Chapter 1, I introduce the ...
Negotiated Authorship: A Rhetorical Analysis Of Professional Writer Job Postings
(English, 2009-09-16)
This qualitative study (a rhetorical/discourse analysis) explores the genre of job postings, particularly postings for writing-related jobs in the financial services sector, to determine how words like "author" and "writer" ...
Analysis Of Oxygen Uptake During Blood Flow Through A Rectangular Microchannel: A Two Phase Eulerian Model With Oxygen-hemoglobin Reaction
(Biomedical Engineering, 2009-09-16)
The evolution of oxygenator design has culminated in the current strategy of utilizing micro-porous membranes to separate blood and oxygen phases while utilizing extra-luminal blood flow orientations to promote passive and ...
The Effect Of Displacement Control Loading Histories On Genral Connecting Surfaces Using Finite Element Analysis
(Civil & Environmental Engineering, 2009-09-16)
Displacement loading history provided by the AISC Seismic Provision 2002 is commonly used for experimental testing and analytical modeling of beam-to-column steel connection to stimulate the seismic effect. However, the ...
Analysis Of Calorimeter/itc Cosmic Ray Data From The Atlas Detector, And Preparation For Supersymmetry Searches
(Physics, 2009-09-16)
The Large Hadron Collider is the largest most ambitious experiment in high energy physics history. It involves the greatest number of scientists from around the world. The first collisions will start being produced in late ...