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Perception And Presentation: Mythological Imagery And The Female Gaze In Italian Renaissance Art
(Humanities, 2007-10-08)
Ostensibly, it would seem that during the Renaissance, subjects of mythological origin in the visual arts were almost exclusively created with the male patron in mind. While this is a highly visible trend, it is important ...
Structural Optimization Using Femlab And Smooth Support Vector Regression
(Mechanical Engineering, 2007-08-23)
In recent years support vector machine (SVM) has been emerging as a popular tool for function approximation. Application of SVM for approximation of mathematical functions and complex engineering analysis has been represented ...
Experimental Investigations On Small-strain Stiffness Properties Of Partially Saturated Soils Via Resonant Column And Bender Element Testing
(Civil & Environmental Engineering, 2007-08-23)
A comprehensive series of resonant column (ASTM D 2325-68), bender element (ASTM C 778), pressure plate (ASTM D 4015-92), and filter paper (ASTM D 5298) tests were conducted on compacted specimens of poorly graded sand ...
Graduate Business Education And Perceptions Of Employment Opportunities
(Business Administration, 2007-08-23)
The value of master's level business education has been previously studied primarily through cost/benefit analysis, generally confirming that MBAs make more money. This study addresses the large question of the value of ...
Does An Exotic Invasive Grass Facilitate The Invasion Of A Woody Species Into Remnant Prairies?: A Study of The Native, Prosopis glandulosa And the Alien, Sorghum halapense
(Biology, 2007-08-23)
The native tree, Prosopis glandulosa, and the exotic grass, Sorghum halepense, have been invading native prairies in the Southwest U.S. since the 1800s. My objectives were to determine if S. halepense was driving shifts ...
The Effects Of Equity Sensitivity And Personality On Transformational Leadership Behavior
(Management, 2007-08-23)
This thesis examines the relationship between the Big Five personality traits
(extraversion, agreeableness, openness to experience, conscientiousness, and
neuroticism) and equity sensitivity and transformational leadership ...
Case Studies Of The Circular Restricted Three Body Problem
(Physics, 2007-08-23)
In this thesis, the onset of instability for a planet which is part of a stellar binary system is investigated by running numerical simulations of the circular restricted three body problem. This study also makes use of a ...
Sequence Alignment Editor - A New Tool To Assist With Inferring Phylogenetic And Functional Relationships In Biological Data
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-09-17)
Biologists study evolution, discover functional and structural information in genomic or protein data through the extensive use of sequence alignments. It is very difficult to manually align long regions, so development ...
Convex Versions Of Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines And Implementations For Complex Optimization Problems
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2007-08-23)
Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines (MARS) provide a flexible statistical modeling method that employs forward and backward search algorithms to identify the combination of basis functions that best fits the data. In ...
Supramolecular Nanostructures Based On Calixarenes
(Chemistry & Biochemistry, 2007-08-23)
This dissertation describes a systematic approach towards the design, synthesis, characterization, and application of calixarene-based supramolecular nanostructures. Chapter 1 briefly overviews the field of supramolecular ...