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Contextualizing immigrant adolescents’ high school outcomes by their school environments and friend groups.
(2015-03-19)
Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health and the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study in combination with conducting hierarchical linear modeling analyses, this dissertation looks ...
Synthesis and evaluation of 8-substituted adenine derivatives as toll-like receptor 7 agonists.
(2015-04-08)
Toll-like receptors (TLRs) are immune cell receptors that have the ability to recognize microbial pathogens and trigger innate immune responses. Research into TLR7 agonists is of specific interest because they can induce ...
Tinkering with technology and religion in the digital age : the effects of Internet use on religious belief, behavior, and belonging.
(2015-04-15)
The intersection of religion and technology has been a primary issue in sociology since the inception of the discipline. Internet technology presents a new conceptual reality, one that could potentially challenge religion ...
Petrophysical lithofacies modeling of the upper Pennsylvanian Cline Shale in the Midland Basin, West Texas.
(2015-07-22)
The Cline Shale is an upper Pennsylvanian interval of interstratified organic-rich shale, inorganic shale, and allochthonous carbonate beds, and is currently an active unconventional exploration target within the Midland ...
A synthetic control model to estimate the effect of Colorado's Family Planning Initiative on abortions.
(2015-04-17)
In 2009, the Colorado Family Planning Initiative provided IUDs at no cost for low-income women. The lowering of the price of an IUD could have the possible substitution effect of decreasing the number of abortions. Even ...
Food for thought : a social cognitive approach to assessing children’s food environments.
(2015-04-08)
The objective of this study was to describe the process of developing and piloting a Social Cognitive Theory (SCT)-based assessment tool to capture the interaction between environmental and social determinants of child ...
Perceptual change and alcohol use during couples' conflicts.
(2015-07-07)
The current project sought to understand why previous studies have sometimes failed to find associations between alcohol and conflict behavior, how alcohol use is associated with relationship conflict, and whether alcohol ...
Topics in Bayesian adaptive clinical trial design using dynamic linear models and missing data imputation in logistic regression.
(2015-11-09)
Conventional Phase II clinical trial designs usually employ a logistic regression model to analyze the efficacy of a new drug and, therefore, assumes monotone dose-response relationship. Also, the logistic regression model ...
Modeling the transport of sucralose, an anthropogenic tracer, in an effluent dependent watershed with the Soil and Water Assessment Tool during an extreme drought.
(2015-11-17)
Contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) in rapidly urbanizing watersheds represent an area of increasing attention. The Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT), has been used for numerous water quality and quantity assessments, ...
Bayesian methods for hurdle models.
(2015-02-09)
Hurdle models are often presented as an alternative to zero-inflated models for count data with excess zeros. They consist of two parts: a binary model indicating a positive response (the “hurdle”) and a zero-truncated ...