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Combining Metadata, Inferred Similarity of Content, and Human Interpretation for Managing and Listening to Music Collections
(2011-10-21)
Music services, media players and managers provide support for content
classification and access based on filtering metadata values, statistics of access and user
ratings. This approach fails to capture characteristics of ...
Essays on International Market Entry Strategy
(2011-10-21)
Two important issues regarding international market entry strategy remain largely unexplored: international launch time window (the elapsed time between product launch in the home country and launch in the focal country) ...
Are Tax and Non-Tax Factors Associated with FIN 48 Disclosures?
(2011-10-21)
This study examines the determinants of tax aggressiveness. I utilize the unrecognized tax benefits (UTB) disclosed by the adoption of Financial Interpretation No. 48, “Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes” (FIN 48) ...
The Role of Free-ranging Mammals in the Deposition of Escherichia coli into a Texas Floodplain
(2011-10-21)
Free-ranging wildlife are an important contributor of fecal pollution in the form
of Escherichia coli (E. coli) to water bodies. Currently, details of this contribution are
nebulous and understudied. Much of the related ...
Occurrence and Stability of Glaciations in Geologic Time
(2011-10-21)
Earth is characterized by episodes of glaciations and periods of minimal or no ice
through geologic time. Using the linear energy balance model (EBM), nonlinear EBM
with empirical ice sheet schemes, the general circulation ...
An Additive Bivariate Hierarchical Model for Functional Data and Related Computations
(2011-10-21)
The work presented in this dissertation centers on the theme of regression and
computation methodology. Functional data is an important class of longitudinal
data, and principal component analysis is an important approach ...
Teachers' Concerns Regarding the Adoption of the New Mathematics Textbook
(2011-10-21)
The goal of this study is to identify and examine teachers' concerns regarding their use of the new adopted mathematics textbook. In Texas, middle school mathematics teachers are often given a great deal of flexibility in ...
A Model for Student Learning in Knowledge Translation and Transfer in Ontario
(2011-10-21)
The purpose of this study was to create a model for student learning in knowledge translation and transfer in Ontario. The study was informed by two focus groups, each associated with a student research communications skill ...
Inference and Visualization of Periodic Sequences
(2011-10-21)
This dissertation is composed of four articles describing inference and visualization of periodic sequences.
In the first article, a nonparametric method is proposed for estimating the period and values of a periodic ...
Platonic Cosmopolitanism
(2011-10-21)
What is the content of a meaningful cosmopolitan theory? Contemporary
cosmopolitanism offers numerous global theories of liberalism, democracy,
republicanism, and postmodernism, but is there anything of the “cosmos” or ...