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Creator:: Fujimoto-Kanatani, Koichiro
Abstract:: The golf swing involves a complex sequence of body movements which adjust according to the demands of a given shot. The purpose of this study was to determine common characteristics and essential elements of the golf swing under various conditions. The swing patterns of thirteen elite professional golfers were analyzed...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Creator:: LaRiviere, Jane A.
Abstract:: Osteoporosis is characterized by low bone mineral density (BMD), bone fragility, and an increased risk of osteoporotic fracture. The disease is systemic in nature but potential solutions include exercises prescriptions that target the clinically relevant sites of osteoporosis (hip and spine) to improve bone mass. The aim of this dissertation...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Creator:: Abraham, Robin
Abstract:: XML is a very versatile data format that has been used to represent many different kinds of data, including web pages, books, business and accounting data, programming interfaces, vector graphics, system logs, and games. In a short span of time, it has gained wide acceptance as the document and data...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Creator:: Padilla, Diana M.
Abstract:: Objectives: To compare the neuropsychological concussion assessment testing batteries of the Standardized Assessment of Concussion (SAC™) test and the Immediate Post-Concussion Assessment and Cognitive Testing (ImPACT™) test and determine if the tests measure similar neuropsychological functions as well as determine the test-retest reliability of the pre and post season measures...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Creator:: Nelson, Heather A.
Abstract:: Approximately half of the 6.4 million pregnancies occurring each year in the United States are unintended (Finer & Henshaw, 2006). Unintended pregnancies, defined as pregnancies not wanted at the time conception occurs, regardless of contraceptive use (Chandra, Martinez, Mosher, Abma, & Jones, 2005) can have serious repercussions on women, children,...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Creator:: Balla, Radha-Krishna
Abstract:: We consider the problem of tactical assault planning in real-time strategy games where a team of friendly agents must launch an assault on an enemy. This problem offers many challenges including a highly dynamic and uncertain environment, multiple agents, durative actions, numeric attributes, and different optimization objectives. While the dynamics...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Creator:: Nguyen, Chien Ngoc
Abstract:: Hot-melt pan-coating, which is a novel coating method and takes 2-3 hours for 300 mg coating weight gain per capsule and tamper-resistant coating, which takes 30 minutes, is much faster than tedious sugar coating and allows greater coating weight gains in shorter times than spray-melt coating. Although hot-melt pan coating...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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