Using the close-text methods of rhetorical criticism, this study examines the history of discursive exclusion of people with disabilities from the polity, as evinced in presidential oratory. Specifically, this project ...

The purpose of the study was to determine the relative validity of a short screener used to assess dietary compliance to a modified Mediterranean diet in a cardiopulmonary rehabilitation program. Thirty-one participants ...

Multivariate count data with zero-inflation is common throughout pure and applied science. Such count data often includes excess zeros. Zero-inflated Poisson regression models have been used in several applications to model ...

Path planners in which a hunter is required to chase after a moving target is an important problem for modern robotic systems such as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUVs). This thesis ...

There is a growing awareness and concern from consumers about the negative impacts of their consumption decisions on the environment, public health, and the global economy. Consequently, consumers are beginning to seek ...

The purpose of this thesis was to compare positive practice and a function-based intervention in reducing challenging behaviors. The present thesis included a systematic review of the literature and a single-case research ...

When modern readers encounter sensory experiences in medieval literature, we often assume that they look, sound, smell, taste, and feel as they do today. However, while the physiological experience may be similar across ...

Nondestructive evaluation methods have grown increasingly popular and necessary in a variety of industries. For example, the aerospace industry uses such techniques to inspect aircraft components for damage prior to making ...

Latent transition analysis (LTA) is an increasingly popular research method used to categorize subsets of individuals within a population. The current study is purposed to investigate parameter recovery of a distal outcome ...

Different from many societies that religion is embedded in the cultural tradition and is supported or subsidized by the state, religion in China is marginalized by the Confucian tradition and regulated by the atheist ...