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The necklace braid group NBvn is the motion group of the n + 1 component necklace link Lvn in Euclidean R^3 . The link Lvn consists of n pairwise unlinked Euclidean circles each linked to an auxiliary circle. Partially ...

This study examined an assessment of climate mental models within the domain of traffic safety. Organizational climate is a shared phenomenon comprised of perceptions surrounding policies, practices, and procedures in the ...

The importance of digital information collections is growing. Collections are typically represented with text-only, in a linear list format, which turns out to be a weak representation for cognition. We learned this from ...

In 1843-42 Thomas Carlyle wrote Past and Present in direct response to the political and social problems of his time. However, this book is by no means a straightforward social tract or political treatise. Instead, the ...

Traditionally, safety evaluation of drugs and chemicals is performed using in vivo animal testing. Although animal models have been thoroughly validated and have decades of accumulated data, issues such as the complexities ...

Reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) is a popular modeling approach for nonparametric function estimations. This dissertation demonstrates how to incorporate nice properties of RKHS in constructing estimators that have ...