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Creator:: Totty, Njesa
Abstract:: In this dissertation we present a compilation of the research conducted during the author’s doctoral program. In the first part, we discuss a case study regarding the impact of scholar-ships on student success at Oregon State University (OSU). Specifically, we look at the grad-uation and retention rates and aim to...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Education: Contributions to Teaching and Data Analysis Abstract approved: Claudio Fuentes James Molyneux

Creator:: Brintz, Benjamin J.
Abstract:: N-mixture models provide a structure for making inference about a local population size while accounting for imperfect detection. Using a binomial likelihood, they assume prior distributions on the size parameters and then integrate those parameters out of the full likelihood. For large population sizes, the established frequentist methods have exhibited...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: }) = R ∏ i=1 { ∞ ∑ Ni=maxtnit [ S ∏ t=1 Bin(nit ;Ni, p) ] f (Ni;θ) } . (1.3) where θ is the

Creator:: Dumelle, Michael J.
Abstract:: We describe spatio-temporal random processes using linear mixed models and discuss estimation, inference, and prediction under this formulation. We show how many commonly used covariances are special cases of this more general framework and pay special attention to the separable and product-sum covariances. The linear mixed model formulation facilitates straightforward...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
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Creator:: Zhang, Yang
Abstract:: Obesity and metabolic syndrome (MetS) affect over 1.9 billion adults and 12.7 million youth in the US. If all of today’s obese American youth become obese adults, the total societal costs over their lifetime may exceed $1.1 trillion. We show that feeding rodents a high-fat diet supplemented with xanthohumol (XN)...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: technical assistance. Jan F. Stevens, Paul R. Blakemore, and Claudia S. Maier provided scientific and

Creator:: Jeroue, Lacey M.
Abstract:: Urban forests are an essential green infrastructure of our cities. Due to the proximity of urban trees to more than 250 million people and the grey infrastructure within United States cities, urban forests are uniquely positioned to provide a host of social, environmental and economic benefits. Careful management that maximizes...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: 126: 405-416. Gill, S. E., J. F. Handley, A. R. Ennos and S. Pauleit. 2007. Adapting cities for

Creator:: James, Addison
Abstract:: Nonparametric model-assisted estimators have been proposed to improve estimates of finite population parameters. More efficient estimators are obtained when the parametric model is misspecified due to the flexibility of nonparametric models. In this dissertation, we derive information criteria to select appropriate auxiliary variables to use in an additive model-assisted method....
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: = argminθ n KLU( f ,g), ˆ̀(θ̂ n) ≈ 1 N ∑i∈S π−1i `i(θ 0)+ 1 N ∑i∈S π−1i [ ∂`i(θ 0) ∂θ n ] (θ̂ n−θ 0

Creator:: Viriato Maia Ferreira Pestana, Ana Catarina
Abstract:: Over the past two decades, the Lean Construction academic and practicing engineering community has used lean practices and tools to help improve the performance of the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry. Lean practices have led to improved competitiveness of construction companies that have adopted them, by focusing on ways...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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