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A Child-Driven Metadata Schema: A Holistic Analysis of Children's Cognitive Processes During Book Selection
(2014-05-01)The purpose of this study was to construct a child-driven metadata schema by understanding children's cognitive processes and behaviors during book selection. Existing knowledge organization systems including metadata ... -
A Climatology of Extreme South American Andean Cold Surges
(2018-05-01)Interactions between the tropics and midlatitudes have been an ongoing area of research since the inception of meteorology. Cold surges represent one of several phenomena by which midlatitude features can modulate the ... -
A Collection Divided: an Analysis of Accession 16082, the Ohio Hopewell Site Collection at the Milwaukee Public Museum
(2020-05-01)This thesis investigates and documents sixty-one Ohio Hopewellian objects that form a collection currently housed at the Milwaukee Public Museum (MPM). The objects were excavated from the Hopewell site of Ross County, Ohio ... -
A Community-engaged Narrative Inquiry Photovoice Project Examining the Health-Impacting Experiences of Older Adult Russian and Spanish-Speaking Immigrants in Southeastern Wisconsin, United States.
(2022-08-01)Background: Among the nearly 10 million older adult immigrants in the United States, most come from Mexico and speak Spanish. Moreover, in addition to the hundreds of thousands of Russian-speaking immigrants from the Former ... -
A Comparison of the Application to Architecture of the Ecological and Gestalt Approaches to Visual Perception
(1984-01-01)This research is a comparison of two psychological theories of visual perception, Gestalt Theory and an Ecological Theory developed by J. J. Gibson, with two theories of architectural composition, theories developed by the ... -
A Comparison of Two Devices for Isometric Lingual Strengthening in Healthy Adults
(2020-08-01)The purpose of this study was to compare tongue pressure measurements recorded by an established device, the Iowa Oral Performance Instrument (IOPI) and a new device, the TongueometerTM. Eight healthy adults ages 18 to 59 ... -
A Comprehensive Study on the Estimation of Freeway Travel Time Index and the Effect of Traffic Data Quality
(2019-05-01)Travel time reliability aims to quantify the variation of travel time by using the entire range of travel times for a given trip, for a selected time period over a selected horizon. A trip can occur over a segment, facility ... -
A Comprehensive Study on the Estimation of Freeway Travel Time Index and the Effect of Traffic Data Quality
(2019-05-01)Travel time reliability aims to quantify the variation of travel time by using the entire range of travel times for a given trip, for a selected time period over a selected horizon. A trip can occur over a segment, facility ... -
A Computer Learning Environment for Novice Java Programmers That Supports Cognitive Load Reducing Adaptations and Dynamic Visualizations of Computer Memory
(2014-08-01)Learning to program a computer is difficult for many. The Learning Edge Momentum hypothesis suggests that the difficulty may be due to the tightly integrated nature of programming concepts and adapting the way curriculum ... -
A Conceptual Definition of Quality of Life for People Living with an Implanted, Destination Therapy Left Ventricular Assist Device
(2020-05-01)BACKGROUND: People with advanced heart failure experience persistently severe symptoms with increasingly impaired capacity and quality of life. Treatment options beyond palliative care are limited to heart transplantation ... -
A Conceptual Modeling Framework for Hydrologic Ecosystem Service
(2019-01-01)Ecosystem services (ES) help people understand and deal with current environmental situations and problems, and ES-related research has been increasing recently. However, the quantitative evaluations of ES that can be ... -
A Conceptual Modeling Framework for Hydrological Ecosystem Services and Its Application to the Impacts of Climate Change and Urban Expansion
(2019-05-01)Ecosystem services (ESs) are used as intermediates for researchers, stakeholders, and the public to understand and deal with the current environmental situation and problems, and ESs-related studies have drawn increasing ... -
A Configuration Management System for Software Product Lines
(2012-08-01)Software product line engineering (SPLE) is a methodology for developing a family of software products in a particular domain by systematic reuse of shared code in order to improve product quality and reduce development ... -
A Conservative Type System Based on Fractional Permissions
(2016-05-01)The system of fractional permissions is a useful tool for giving semantics to various annotations for uniqueness, data groups, method effect, nullness, etc. However, due to its complexity, the current implementation for ... -
A Course in Legal English and U.S. Law for Undergraduate Japanese Law Students
(2022-12-01)In this paper, I discuss the design of a Legal English and U.S. Law course for undergraduate Japanese law students visiting for a semester at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s English Language Academy. I review how ... -
A Crowdsourced Hail Dataset: Potential, Biases, and Inaccuracies
(2013-12-01)Hail is a substantial severe weather hazard in the USA, with significant damage to property and crops occurring annually. Traditional methods of forecasting hail size have limited accuracy, and despite improvements in ... -
A Culture of Civic Action: Deliberative Pedagogy for Composition
(2021-05-01)Despite rhetoric and composition maintaining a role as a producer of democracy, democratic deliberation has not appeared widely as a pedagogical practice, outside of reinforcing traditional modes of argumentative writing. ... -
A Data-Driven Predictive Model of Reliability Estimation Using State-Space Stochastic Degradation Model
(2019-12-01)The concept of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) provides the foundation to apply data-driven methodologies. The data-driven predictive models of reliability estimation can become a major tool in increasing the life ... -
A Decision Support System to Analyze, Predict, and Evaluate Solar Energy System Performance: PVSysCO (photovoltaic System Comparison)
(2014-08-01)In 2010, the U.S. Department of Energy announced the SunShot Initiative, which aims to reduce the total installation cost of solar technologies by 75% between 2010 and 2020. This implies that solar energy is a top priority ... -
A Deep Recurrent Neural Network with Iterative Optimization for Inverse Image Processing Applications
(2021-12-01)Many algorithms and methods have been proposed for inverse image processing applications, such as super-resolution, image de-noising, and image reconstruction, particularly with the recent surge of interest in machine ...