Trees in cities--Kentucky--Louisville; Urban forestry--Kentucky--Louisville; Louisville (Ky.)--Environmental conditions
Trees in urban residential neighborhoods provide valuable ecosystem services. Urban trees also face threats from disturbances, such as storms. In 2008, the Urban Forest Effects model was used to estimate abundance and species composition of...
The secondary visual pathway, from the retina through the superior colliculus and pulvinar nucleus has been linked to spatial attention (Snow et aI., 2009; Arend et aI., 2008) movement planning and motor response to visual stimuli (Wilke et aI....
This paper investigates the development and applications of the Black-Scholes
formula. This well-known formula is a continuous time model used primarily to price
European style options. However in recent decades, observations in financial market...
The pulvinar is the largest nucleus of the human dorsal thalamus and is affected in a variety of brain disorders, such as schizophrenia. The experiments described in this dissertation elucidate key features of tecto-pulvino-cortical pathways as a...
Medical care--Decision making; Decision making--Simulation methods
A variety of methodologies have been employed for decision making related to the treatment of diseases/injury. Decision trees are a functional way in which to examine problems under uncertainty by providing a method to analyze decisions under risk...
Current high-throughput gene expression experiments have a straightforward design of examining
the gene expression of one group or condition relative to that of another. The data is typically
analyzed as if they represent strictly intracellular...
Recently, social multimedia-sharing websites, which allow users to upload, annotate, and share online photo or video collections, have become increasingly popular. The user tags or annotations constitute the new multimedia "meta-data". We...
Nonparametric statistics; Estimation theory; Distribution (Probability theory)
Multistate models are a type of multi-variate survival data which provide a framework for describing a complex system where individuals transition through a series of distinct states. This research focuses on nonparametric inference for general...
Bioinformatics; Breast--Cancer--Treatment; Medical care--Data processing
Statistical models have been the first choice for comparative effectiveness in clinical research. Though effective, these models are limited when the data to be analyzed do not fit the assumed distributions; which is mostly the case when the study...
Data mining; Lungs--Cancer; Outcome assessment (Medical care)
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in the United States and the world, with more than 1.3 million deaths worldwide per year. However, because of a lack of effective tools to diagnose Lung Cancer, more than half of all cases are...
Medical records--Data processing; Data mining; Medical care--Data processing; Coronary heart disease--Treatment
The goal of this study is to use a data mining framework to assess the three main treatments for acute myocardial infarction: thrombolytic therapy, percutaneous coronary intervention (percutaneous angioplasty), and coronary artery bypass surgery....
This set of woodblock prints was reprinted in the 1980s. With the exception of the caged lion, the saddle, and the man wearing vest resting on log, holding axe, while boy carries sheaves of wheat, the images duplicate the earlier prints in this...
A tree in Iroquois Park of Louisville, Kentucky is surrounded by a wood frame with chicken and barbed wire. On the tree is carved, "Z. Taylor 1831." Zachary Taylor, the twelfth president of the United States, is believed to have carved...
"Z Taylor 1835" is carved into the trunk of a tree in Iroquois Park, Louisville, Kentucky. The tree is believed to have been carved by Zachary Taylor, the twelfth president of the United States, in 1835. Beneath that carving is another...
A red sport utility vehicle (SUV) is tied to a tree with a length of green garden hose. According to the blogger who contributed the photo: "On 3rd street the most impressive part was the cars that had their trunks float and forced their back...
Large tree [possibly pine tree] with full branches inside a rectangular frame. The phrase "Ex Libris" is above the tree. The name "Marion Macfarlane Walsh" is below the tree. These elements are contained by a rectangular border....
Portrait of actress Belle Gold, who played Desdemona in the Vaudeville musical "The Ham Tree," tilting her head away from the camera, wearing a pleated white blouse with high lacy collar. "The Ham Tree" was performed at...
Tableaux; Teenagers; Boys; Girls; Couples; Fictitious characters; Trees
Hattie Cochran, as the character Lloyd Sherman in the Little Colonel book series, leans against the trunk of a large tree gazing up at Muir Semple, playing the character Rob Moore. Muir's arm rests on the tree above Hattie's head. He is wearing a...
Flowering royal poinciana tree with other multi-colored flowers. There is a building near the tree. Text printed on verso reads, "Florida is indeed the favored child of Nature. Beauty has been bestowed with lavish hand on this enchanted State...
A wood and wire fence surrounds a tree at Iroquois Park in Louisville, Kentucky. The tree is believed to have been carved by Zachary Taylor, the twelfth president of the United States, in 1835. The sky is gray and there are more leaves on the...
