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ALGORITHMS FOR STRUCTURE BASED-PREDICTION OF TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR BINDING SITES
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Author
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Farrel, Alvin
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Computer science, Biology, Bioinformatics
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Description
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Transcription factors (TFs) regulate gene expression through binding to specific target DNA sites. Accurate annotation of transcription factor binding sites (TFBSs) at genome scale represents an essential step toward our understanding of gene regu...
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A LEGAL ANALYSIS OF CYBERBULLYING WITH SEXTING CASES
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Author
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Ayers, Dana
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Law
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Description
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The misuse of social media and technology is an emerging threat to adolescents. The court systems are being forced to address the legality and fine line of social media use and the First Amendment rights of those involved. This research study is a...
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EXCHANGE RATE REGIMES, FX LIQUIDITY RISK, AND CARRY TRADE RETURNS
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Author
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Abankwa, Samuel
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Finance, Industrial management, Economics
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Description
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The dissertation consists of three related topics: FX market-wide liquidity measure and individual currency-pair liquidity co-movements, FX liquidity risk and carry trade returns, and the forward premium puzzle in foreign exchange markets. This is...
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Factors Related to the Self-Efficacy of School Counselors in Training
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Author
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Mitchell, Rolanda
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Educational counseling, Counseling psychology
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Description
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Professional school counselors play an integral role in the academic, personal/social and career development of children. Each day, they are charged with addressing student mental health needs (Burnett-Zeigler & Lyons, 2012; Green et al., 2014), e...
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Hexacoordinate Silicon Complexes as Cathodic Colorants
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Author
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Peloquin, Derek
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Nanoscience, Chemistry, Chemistry, Inorganic
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Description
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Electrochemical and spectroelectrochemical characterization of hexacoordinate polypyridine silicon complexes show that they are fitting candidates for electrochromic applications. Tris(bipyridine)silicon(IV), [Si(bpy)3]+4, is colorless in acetonit...
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Hierarchically Structured Recommender System for Improving NPS
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Author
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Kuang, Jieyan
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Computer science, Information technology
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Description
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Net Promoter System (NPS) is well known as an evaluation measure of the growth engine of big companies in the business area. The ultimate goal of my research is to build an action rules and meta-actions based recommender system for improving NPS s...
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Frequency-Dependent Electric Power Line Modeling for Steady State Harmonic Analysis
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Author
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Poudel, Bikash
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Electrical engineering, Engineering
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Description
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The modern electric power system is experiencing an increased level of harmonic frequency components because of the growing use of power electronic devices, such as converters, and nonlinear loads, such as rectifier-end loads. Electric power line ...
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Modeling the Crash Injury Severity in Work Zone Areas on Freeways
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Author
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Miatudila, Sr., Alain
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Civil engineering, Transportation, Statistics
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Description
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The rising frequency of crashes in work zones on American freeways is a growing issue inherently linked to the degrading state of our transportation infrastructure. As travel demand increases and our infrastructure continues to age and wear out, w...
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LIMIT THEOREMS FOR ONE CLASS OF ERGODIC MARKOV CHAINS
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Author
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Turhan, Nezihe
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Statistics, Mathematics
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Description
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The goal of this dissertation is to develop some classical limit theorems for the additive functionals of the homogeneous Markov chains in the special class of the so-called, Loop Markov Chains. The additive functionals of the Markov chains have t...
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Intersectionality of Identity and HIV-Related Stigma
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Author
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Lovato, Laura
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Sociology, Government policy, Psychology
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Description
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The impact of HIV-related stigma on HIV prevention, treatment, and the well-being of people living with HIV (PLWH) is well established within the existing literature. HIV-related stigma experiences are compounded by intersections of identity, in t...
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Interfacial instabilities in reacting flows
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Author
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Attal, Nitesh
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Mechanical engineering
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Description
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Fluid instabilities, particularly interfacial instabilities, have proven to be a powerful mechanism in driving and sustaining combustion processes in several devices of practical interest. Modern combustors are in fact designed to exploit the mixi...
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Intermittency for Branching random walks with heavy tails.
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Author
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Getan, Asmaa
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Mathematics
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iic 2016Asmaa GetanALL RIGHTS RESERVEDiiiABSTRACT Branching Markov process models populations in which each individual in gener-ation n produces some random number of individuals in the next generation, n + 1, according to a certain probability di...