The Combinatorial Nullstellensatz can be used to solve certain problems in combinatorics. However, one of the major complications in using the Combinatorial Nullstellensatz is ensuring that there exists a nonzero monomial. This dissertation looks...
Medical records--Data processing; Data mining; Databases--Design
A major problem with integrating information from multiple databases is that the same data objects can exist in inconsistent data formats across databases and a variety of attribute variations, making it difficult to identify matching objects using...
A connected matching in a graph is a set of disjoint edges such that, for any pair of these edges, there is another edge of the graph incident to both of them. This dissertation investigates two problems related to finding large connected matchings...
Because of limitations in randomized controlled trials, medical researchers are often forced to rely upon studies of observational data. Confounding is a major difficulty encountered in such studies that can create considerable bias in estimates of...
Traditionally, fingerprint image acquisition was based on contact. However
the conventional touch-based fingerprint acquisition introduces some problems
such as distortions and deformations to the fingerprint image. The most recent
technology for...
The area of total coloring is a more recent and less studied area than vertex and edge coloring, but recently, some attention has been given to the Total Coloring Conjecture, which states that each graph's total chromatic number xT is no greater...
From a computerized image analysis prospective, early diagnosis of lung cancer involves detection of doubtful nodules and classification into different pathologies. The detection stage involves a detection approach, usually by template matching,...
Drugs and crime are inextricably connected. Much of the growth in the prisoner population in America is attributable to the misuse and abuse of drugs and alcohol. Offenders who abuse or are dependent on drugs are at high risk for substantial health...
Recently our lab has shown that with broadband stimuli (either visual noise or natural scenes), performance for detecting oriented content is worst at horizontal, best at the obliques, and intermediate at vertical orientations--an anisotropy...
Emergency medicine--Diagnosis; Emergency medical services
A retrospective study involving the secondary analysis of public health surveillance records was undertaken to characterize the reliability and validity of an EMS dispatch data-based scheme for assigning emergency patients to surveillance syndromes...
Gender identity in advertising; Gender identity in mass media; Sex role in advertising; Advertising--Social aspects
Images in advertisements often depict social expectations for gendered behavior, reinforcing stereotypical masculine and feminine behaviors. This study examined the effectiveness of using gender role stereotypical images in advertisements by...
The field of bone densitometry has grown rapidly, particularly in the past 15 years. Many techniques are now available from which the physician may choose. The focus of this research is on Dual-Energy X-Ray Absorptiometry (DXA) and Quantitative...
Three curtsying girls in matching long white ruffled dresses, and three girls costumed as boys in matching white ruffled shirts and knickers, prepare to perform at the third American Folk Song Festival, which was held at the Traipsin' Woman Cabin...
Two young African-American men in matching tuxedos and three young women in matching skirts and blouses stand in a row holding a slip of paper in their right hands. An older man sits next to them. Title supplied by cataloger.
The two-story home features a front porch capped by a second-story balcony. The house is very symmetrical with matching shutters around the windows. A low stone wall is centered in front of the house with steps leading up it and onto a pathway to...
Schools; Group portraits; Students; Teachers; Buildings; People
Address: 1649 Everett Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky. A large group of students and teachers pose in front of the Kentucky Home School for Girls. This two-story building has Doric columns on the front porch and the balcony above it. The symmetrical...
This two-story home has Doric columns on the front porch and the balcony above it. The symmetrical building has matching windows on either side of the door and balcony and four chimneys. An automobile is parked to the left of the building. The...
Houses; Dwellings; Building construction; Refuse; Refuse disposal
This photograph is one in a series ordered by the law firm of Batson, Cary & Welch of this property. The image shows an outbuilding, or possibly an unfinished house. In the background, a home with a brick front porch and matching columns can be...
A two-story home is shown. The front porch is capped by a second-story balcony. Both levels have benches. The house is very symmetrical with matching shutters around the windows. The house is surrounded by a number of trees. There appears to be an...
Address: 919 Baxter Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky. A double set of doors and a double set of windows sit under matching arched windows. Between the windows is the symbol of compass and a builder's square with the letter G inside. The square and...
