Sediment-water interfaces (SWIs) are loci of dynamic physical, chemical, and biological interactions in stratified, eutrophic reservoirs. Seasonal reservoir mixing and stratification affects SWI physicochemical processes ...
Research shows that teachers’ treatment and perceptions of students will vary
based upon the race of the teacher and student. When teachers share the same race as the student, the student will benefit in the way of higher ...
Modern liberal society exists by negotiating a fine balance between the liberty of the citizen and the authority of the state. Yet, as the years put distance between our founding principles and their execution, we have ...
American playwright Sarah Ruhl’s work is characterized by a distinct ability to contrast mythic themes of life, love, and death with the quotidian aspects of everyday life. Ruhl’s 2003 play, Eurydice, poignantly addresses ...
Previous research has indicated that sexism can be separated into factors of ambivalence – hostile and benevolent – to address the many issues that arise with discrimination against women. Whereas hostile sexism is openly ...
During their own lifetime, Horace and Vergil were Rome’s two most
celebrated living poets, and history relates that they were also friends.
Unfortunately, little is known of their friendship, and few avenues exist by
which ...
This dissertation is an exploration of a contemporary approach to Baptist theology which some have dubbed “Bapto-Catholic.” The Bapto-Catholic sensibility is described as an attempt to respond to the collapse of the ...
This thesis examines President Barack Obama’s use of the rhetoric of American exceptionalism to establish authority for the exercise of sovereign power. I perform a close reading of three speeches to examine how Obama ...
Coal-fired power plants represent the largest source of anthropogenic mercury in the world. The Central Texas region as represented by the Heart of Texas Council of Governments contains two coal-fired power plants located ...
Forest edges provide open space that bats often use to travel and forage. As another type of margin, forest canopies provide similar structural space for bat activities. Such margins may supply bats in forests with the ...
The relationship between bats and urbanization is not yet well understood. Whereas bats are nocturnal and generally operate in darkness, insects tend to be drawn to illumination at nighttime. For this project, the ...
The process of conducting a pharmaceutical clinical trial often produces information in a way that can be used as the trial progresses. Bayesian methods offer a highly flexible means of using such information yielding ...
We consider the problem of point and interval estimation for the risk ratio using double sampling with two-sample misclassified binary data. For such data, it is well-known that the actual data model is unidentifiable. To ...
The change-point (CP) problem, wherein parameters of a model change abruptly
at an unknown covariate value, is common in many fields, such as process control,
epidemiology, and ecology. CP problems using two-segment ...
We present interval estimation methods for comparing Poisson rate parameters from two independent populations with under-reported data for the rate difference and the rate ratio. In addition, we apply the Bayesian paradigm ...
Measurement error problems in binary regression are of considerable interest among researchers, especially in epidemiological studies. Misclassification can be considered a special case of measurement error specifically ...
Bias in parameter estimation of count data is a common concern. The concern is even greater when all counts are not recorded. Failing to adjust for underreported data can lead to incorrect parameter estimates. A Bayesian ...
Binary misclassification is a common occurrence in statistical studies that, when ignored, induces bias in parameter estimates. The development of statistical methods to adjust for misclassification is necessary to allow ...
The efficacy, safety, and cost of pharmaceutical products are critical issues in society today. Motivated both financially and ethically by these concerns, the pharmaceutical industry has continually worked to develop ...
Response partial missingness is a problem in studies conducted in a variety of disciplines. We investigate the impact ignoring response partial missingness has on determining a subset of significant covariates in non-linear ...