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Ethical problems in predictive DNA based genetic testing created by the artifact of health insurance.
Human chromosome abnormalities -- Diagnosis -- Moral and ethical aspects. ; Health insurance -- United States. ; Discrimination in insurance -- United States.
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The role of nongeometric information in spatial language.
Space and time in language. ; Space perception. ; Figure-ground perception. ; Psycholinguistics.
Across languages, there exists a relatively small number of spatial prepositions. These terms are used to express the infinite number of possible spatial locations of an unlimited number of different entities in the environment. Previous research...
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Behavioral and neural investigations of behaviorally relevant features of auditory stimuli.
Auditory pathways -- Physiology. ; Auditory perception -- Physiological aspects. ; Directional hearing -- Physiological aspects. ; Speech perception -- Physiological aspects. ; Prefrontal cortex -- Physiology. ; Parietal lobes -- Physiology. ;...
Studies of the structure and function of the human and non-human primate auditory system have led to the hypothesis that it is composed of dorsal and ventral processing streams that are respectively dedicated to spatial and non-spatial processing....
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Naming and sharing resources across administrative boundaries.
Electronic data processing -- Distributed processing. ; Computer network architectures. ; Programming languages (Electronic computers) -- Semantics. ; Database management.
I tackle the problem of naming and sharing resources across administrative boundaries. Conventional systems manifest the hierarchy of typical administrative structure in the structure of their own mechanism. While natural for communication that...
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Uniform avoidance coupling, design of anonymity systems and matching theory / by Ewa Joanna Infeld
We start by introducing avoidance coupling of Markov chains, with an overview of existing results. We then introduce and motivate a new notion, uniform coupling. We show that the only Markovian avoidance coupling on a cycle is of this type, and...
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Improving MHC-peptide binding prediction from sparse data with a multi-allele graphical model and active learning / by Li Jiang
The recognition of foreign peptides by MHC (Major Histocompatibility Complex) proteins is a critical step in the immune response mounted by higher vertebrates against pathogens. MHC proteins have many allelic variants, each recognizing different...
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Assisting human motion-tasks with minimal, real-time feedback.
Human locomotion -- Computer-assisted instruction. ; Real-time data processing. ; Human-computer interaction.
Teaching physical motions such as riding, exercising, swimming, etc. to human beings is hard. Coaches face difficulties in communicating their feedback verbally and cannot correct the student mid-action; teaching videos are two dimensional and...
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Strategies for technological change in housing production.
Housing. ; Building -- Cost control. ; Building -- Mathematical models.
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Stimulus control in children under blocking paradigm.
Learning, Psychology of. ; Stimulus compounding. ; Response consistency.
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The heterogeneous role of the medial prefrontal cortex and nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subtypes in negative occasion setting.
Prefrontal cortex -- Physiology. ; Acetylcholine -- Receptors. ; Nicotine -- Physiological effect. ; Inhibition.
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State representation for agent-based reinforcement learning.
Agent-based policy learning in complex and uncertain environments is challenged by escalating computational complexity with the size of the task space (action choices and environmental states) as well as the number of agents. Nonetheless, there is...
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Relating behavioral control and brain development : insights from adolescence / by Heidi Catherine Meyer
Across mammalian species, adolescence is characterized by a unique combination of cognitive, behavioral and neurobiological changes. Behavioral tendencies observed during this period promote a variety of flexible interactions with the surrounding...
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Secure context-sensitive authorization.
Computers -- Access control. ; Authentication. ; Ubiquitous computing.
Pervasive computing leads to an increased integration between the real world and the computational world, and many applications in pervasive computing adapt to the user's context, such as the location of the user and relevant devices, the presence...
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Forming, operating, and improving micro-systems of health care.
Clinical medicine -- Practice. ; Medicine -- Practice. ; Group medical practice.
Health care micro-systems are small, organized groups of clinicians and staff working together with a shared clinical purpose to provide care for a defined set of patients. The size of individual micro-systems vary--a micro-system must be large...
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An analysis of convergence properties of the Border Gateway Protocol using discrete event simulation.
BGP (Computer network protocol). Convergence. Discrete-time systems. Simulation methods.
The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) facilitates communication between parts of the Internet by determining paths by which data can get from one network to any other. Just as IP is used ubiquitously as an addressing scheme, BGP is used ubiquitously...
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Delayed visual feedback and visual-motor control.
Feedback (Psychology); Visual evoked response. Motor ability.
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The cognitive dynamics underlying decision-making : interactions between attention memory and reward in action control / by Kanghoon Jung.
A fundamental question in decision neuroscience is how cognitive processes underlying decision-making give rise to efficient decisions, especially in complex situations with multiple choice options, and each option consisting of multiple attributes...
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Bayesian nonparametric methods for non-exchangeable data / by Nicholas J. Foti.
Bayesian nonparametric methods have become increasingly popular in machine learning for their ability to allow the data to determine model complexity. In particular, Bayesian nonparametric versions of common latent variable models can learn as...
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Efficient wait-free algorithms for implementing LL/SC objects.
Memory management (Computer science). Computer algorithms. Synchronization. Multiprocessors.
Over the past decade, a pair of instructions called load-linked (LL) and store-conditional (SC) have emerged as the most suitable synchronization instructions for the design of lock-free algorithms. However, current architectures do not support...
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Hardware-Assisted Secure Computation.
Computer networks -- Security measures. Computer networks -- Access control. Computer network protocols.
The theory community has worked on Secure Multiparty Computation (SMC) for more than two decades, and has produced many protocols for many settings. One common thread in these works is that the protocols cannot use a Trusted Third Party (TTP), even...
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Mapping the junction of action perception and production.
Perceptual-motor learning -- Physiological aspects. ; Language acquisition -- Physiological aspects. ; Motor ability -- Physiological aspects. ; Knots and splices.
The studies presented in this dissertation explore several points of intersection between action perception and production within the human brain. One's ability to use perceptual information about another individual's actions to guide and inform...
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A multivariate analysis of self-selection and change due to college experience.
College students -- Psychology. College environment.
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Head direction cells, grid cells, and the neural basis of spatial orientation
Space perception -- Physiological aspects.;""Thalamus -- Physiology."";""Hippocampus (Brain) -- Physiology."";""Neural networks (Neurobiology)"";""Neural Pathways -- physiology."";""Anterior Thalamic Nuclei -- physiology"";""Entorhinal Cortex --...
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Collaborative automated trust negotiation.
Computer networks -- Security measures. Computers -- Access control.
Automated trust negotiation is a new approach to access control and authentication for the open systems such as the Internet, where sensitive interactions sometimes occur among entities with no prior knowledge of each other. Trust negotiation...
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Cerenkov radiation in dielectric-loaded waveguides.
Cherenkov radiation.
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Attribute-based, usefully secure email.
Electronic mail systems -- Security measures. Electronic mail systems -- Social aspects. Trust.
A secure system that cannot be used by real users to secure real-world processes is not really secure at all. While many believe that usability and security are diametrically opposed, a growing body of research from the field of Human-Computer...
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Exercise and the brain : impacts on cognition neural function and mental health / by Andrea M. Robinson.
It has been well established that physical exercise has broad impacts across the lifespan, including improved cognition, brain function, and mental health. Studies investigating the mechanism underlying the cognitive enhancing effect of exercise...
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Cortical representations of hierarchical category learning / by Sergey Victor Fogelson
Current theories of visual category learning posit a representation of category rules and visual features that critically define those categories that are encoded separately and distributed throughout the cerebral cortex. Neuroimaging and...
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A framework of computational opinions / by Fei Yu.
We have a limited understanding of how an opinion is originated, how an opinion and information supporting and explaining it gets conveyed, and how the communicated opinion is perceived and processed by others. One direction of current research...
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Within and between hand acquisition of multiple stimulus-response mappings.
Hand -- Psychophysiology. Conditioned response. Hand -- Movements. Perceptual-motor processes.
The present studies examine the flexible application of two stimulus-response (SR) mappings to a single set of stimuli. The following questions are addressed: (1) Can dual mapping performance equal single mapping performance (2) Can rapid map...
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Evaluating mobility predictors in wireless networks for improving handoff and opportunistic routing.
Wireless communication systems. Computer network protocols.
We evaluate mobility predictors in wireless networks. Handoff prediction in wireless networks has long been considered as a mechanism to improve the quality of service provided to mobile wireless users. Most prior studies, however, were based on...
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Neural basis underlying auditory categorization in the human brain.
Auditory perception -- Physiological aspects. Categorization (Psychology) Musical perception -- Physiological aspects. Speech perception -- Physiological aspects.
Our daily lives are pervaded by sounds, predominantly speech, music, and environmental sounds. We readily recognize and categorize such sounds. Our understanding of how the brain so effortlessly recognizes and categorizes sounds is still...
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The regulation and packaging of Cif, a novel virulence factor of Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an opportunistic pathogen of humans and the leading cause of mortality in patients with the inherited disorder cystic fibrosis (CF). The focus of the studies presented herein was characterization of the regulation and...
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Selective serotonergic modulation of cortical pyramidal neurons in the rodent prefrontal cortex / by Daniel Avesar.
Serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine, 5-HT) in the prefrontal cortex (PFC) plays an important role in cognitive processing and emotional regulation, and altered serotonergic signaling in the cortex is associated with disorders such as schizophrenia,...
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The detection and characterization of epistasis and heterogeneity :a learning classifier system approach
As the ubiquitous complexity of common disease has become apparent, so has the need for novel tools and strategies that can accommodate complex patterns of association. In particular, the analytic challenges posed by the phenomena known as...
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Hierarchical reinforcement learning and social cognition in cooperative multi-robot foraging
Robots.;""Reinforcement learning."";""Social interaction."";""Cooperation."";""Biomimetics.""
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Examining relationships between health beliefs and medical decisions in the context of medical uncertainty.
Medical care -- Decision making. Health attitudes. Prostate -- Cancer -- Treatment -- Decision making. Prostate -- Cancer -- Patients -- Attitudes. Uncertainty. Video recording in medicine.
This dissertation used two studies to evaluate the appropriateness of a theoretical model exploring the relationships between screening/treatment beliefs and intending to be screened or treated for prostate cancer (P-CA). Study One examined...
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Centralized and distributed algorithms for network scheduling.
Computer algorithms. Computer networks -- Workload. Production scheduling.
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Character theory of groups with a (B.N.) pair
Group theory
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Effect of vicarious punishment on sharing behavior in children.
Sharing. Child psychology.
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Effects of elevated endogenous kynurenic acid on spatial working memory, contextual conditioning, and conditional learning.
Kynurenine -- Derivatives. Cognition. Memory. Brain chemistry. Brain -- Pathophysiology -- Animal models.
Kynurenic acid (KYNA) is produced and released by astrocytes, and acts as an α7-nicotinic acetylcholine receptor antagonist (at lower, physiological concentrations) and an antagonist of the glycine site of the NMDA receptor (at higher,...
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Methods for efficient object categorization detection scene recognition and image search / by Alessandro Bergamo.
In the past few years there has been a tremendous growth in the usage of digital images. Users can now access millions of photos, a fact that poses the need of having methods that can efficiently and effectively search the visual information of...
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Enhancing non-determinism in operating systems / by Morgon Kanter.
Computer security has come a long way since the days of the first Internet worm. With the spreading and commercialization of the Internet, the stakes have gotten higher. Viruses existed and spread before most computers were online, but as global...
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Performance evaluation of distributed security protocols using discrete event simulation.
Computer networks -- Security measures. BGP (Computer network protocol). Public key infrastructure (Computer security). Discrete-time systems -- Mathematical models. Computer simulation.
The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) that manages inter-domain routing on the Internet lacks security. Protective measures using public key cryptography introduce complexities and costs. To support authentication and other security functionality in...
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Asymptotic tensor norms.
Tensor products. C*-algebras. Morphisms (Mathematics).
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On-line metasearch, pooling and system evaluation.
Information retrieval -- Mathematical models. ; Electronic information resource searching. ; Computer algorithms. ; Decision making -- Data processing. ; Mathematical optimization.
This thesis presents a unified method for simultaneous solution of three problems in Information Retrieval--metasearch (the fusion of ranked lists returned by retrieval systems to elicit improved performance), efficient system evaluation (the...
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Integration of machine learning network science and pathway analysis in genetic epidemiology / by Qinxin Pan.
Although genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and other high-throughput initiatives have led to an information explosion in human genetics and genetic epidemiology, the mapping from genotype to phenotype remains challenging as most of the...
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Large-scale wireless local-area network measurement and privacy analysis
Wireless LANs -- Evaluation.;""Wireless LANs -- Security measures.""
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