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Miniature of Distance Based Pre-clustering for Deep Time-Series Forecasting: A Data Selection Approach
Distance Based Pre-clustering for Deep Time-Series Forecasting: A Data Selection Approach
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    Date: 2024-01-01

    Creator: Leopold Felix Spieler

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      Virtual Reality Accessibility with Predictive Trails

      Date: 2020-01-01

      Creator: Dani Paul Hove

      Access: Open access

      Comfortable locomotion in VR is an evolving problem. Given the high probability of vestibular-visual disconnect, and subsequent simulator sickness, new users face an uphill battle in adjusting to the technology. While natural locomotion offers the least chance of simulator sickness, the space, economic and accessibility barriers to it limit its effectiveness for a wider audience. Software-enabled locomotion circumvents much of these barriers, but has the greatest need for simulator sickness mitigation. This is especially true for standing VR experiences, where sex-biased differences in mitigation effectiveness are amplified (postural instability due to vection disproportionately affects women). Predictive trails were developed as a shareable Unity module in order to combat some of the gaps in current mitigation methods. Predictive trails use navigation meshes and path finding to plot the user’s available path according to their direction of vection. Some of the more prominent software methods each face distinct problems. Vignetting, while largely effective, restricts user field-of-vision (FoV), which in prolonged scenarios, has been shown to disproportionately lower women’s navigational ability. Virtual noses, while effective without introducing FoV restrictions, requires commercial licensing for use. Early testing of predictive trails proved effective on the principal investigator, but a wider user study - while approved - was unable to be carried out due to circumstances of the global health crisis. While the user study was planned around a seated experience, further study is required into the respective sex-biased effect on a standing VR experience. Additional investigation into performance is also required.


      Miniature of Freezing temperatures drive functional trait clustering more than habitat structure in eelgrass communities in the Gulf of Maine
      Freezing temperatures drive functional trait clustering more than habitat structure in eelgrass communities in the Gulf of Maine
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        Date: 2023-01-01

        Creator: Bridget Marjorie Patterson

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          Miniature of Cell Adhesion in Arabidopsis thaliana
          Cell Adhesion in Arabidopsis thaliana
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              Date: 2019-05-01

              Creator: Natasha Ann Belsky

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                “How the World Could Be in Spite of the Way That It Is”: Broadway as a Reflection of Contemporary American Sociopolitical Life

                Date: 2020-01-01

                Creator: Isabel Thomas

                Access: Open access

                Drawing on the plays and musicals of the 2018-2019 Broadway season, this thesis examines how theatre responds to the sociocultural, economic, and political conditions of society. Sociologists have largely overlooked theatre’s cultural influence, but Broadway productions act as social reflection by reproducing the conversations and inequalities of their context. Access to Broadway is limited, in various manners, by socioeconomic class, race, gender, ability, and age. As conversations about equity expand and audiences increasingly demand diversified representation, Broadway begins to shed the restraints of its conventions. In many regards, the recent changes fail in meaningfully transforming the Broadway institution. Those who control the stories on Broadway stages—producers, directors, writers—are disproportionately white and men, and the stories themselves predominantly uphold white privilege and heteronormativity. Economic pressures keep Broadway producers focused on high profit and cultural capital, at the expense of artistic and political risk. Broadway has particular affective power, employing the uniquely provocative effect of live theatre for unparalleled numbers of people. This influence is accompanied by responsibility to contribute to society’s progress rather than its stagnation, a responsibility which Broadway falls behind in fulfilling.


                Miniature of Advanced Mammals
                Advanced Mammals
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                    Date: 2020-01-01

                    Creator: Emma Bezilla

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                      Miniature of The role of the ROG1 protein in pectin perception
                      The role of the ROG1 protein in pectin perception
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                          Date: 2014-05-01

                          Creator: Divya Hoon

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                            Miniature of Determination of the Relationship Between Peptoid Catalyst Oligomeric Length and Catalytic Enantioselectivity of Trifluoromethylation of Aldehydes
                            Determination of the Relationship Between Peptoid Catalyst Oligomeric Length and Catalytic Enantioselectivity of Trifluoromethylation of Aldehydes
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                              Date: 2020-01-01

                              Creator: Katharine Toll

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                                Miniature of Role of SR-like RNA-binding protein 1 (Slr1) in hyphal tip localization of She3-transported mRNA in <i>Candida albicans</i>
                                Role of SR-like RNA-binding protein 1 (Slr1) in hyphal tip localization of She3-transported mRNA in Candida albicans
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                                  Date: 2020-01-01

                                  Creator: Emma Beane

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                                    From Left to Right? White Evangelical Politicization, GOP Incorporation, and the Effect of Party Affiliation on Group Opinion Change

                                    Date: 2013-05-01

                                    Creator: Devon B Shapiro

                                    Access: Open access

                                    While most white evangelicals in America have advocated moral, cultural, and social conservatism since the Founding, the group’s fiscal and social welfare preferences have been more volatile. Early 20th century evangelicals tended to be socially conservative, fiscally liberal, and, to the extent that they were politicized, mostly Democratic partisans. Since that time, not only have white evangelicals abandoned the Democratic Party, but also they have largely become fiscal and social welfare conservatives. I attempt to explain that transformation. I first examine the dynamics of white evangelical politicization and GOP incorporation, providing social and historical context to the political and partisan calculations of white evangelicals since the 1970s. Further, I propose a party affiliation effect that helps to explain white evangelical fiscal and social welfare conservatism. This effect asserts that partisanship penetrates individual conceptions of political issues. In the case of white evangelicals, I argue that the group affiliated with the GOP largely on the basis of socio-moral issues and concerns. Partly as a result of that affiliation, group opinion on fiscal policy began to drift to the right, toward the Republican Party status quo. Consistent with this claim, I provide longitudinal analyses of ANES and GSS data that shed light on the timing of opinion changes. As we would expect, white evangelical opinion on economic issues was closer to Democratic partisans during the 1960s and moved moved toward Republicans during the 1980s-1990s.