Wheelchairs--Design and construction; Dogs--Equipment and supplies; Dogs--Health; Veterinary physical therapy
Hind limb paralysis may occur in dogs for a variety of neurological or musculoskeletal reasons. For dogs with limited mobility their lack of ability to ambulate can have a great impact on their physical and mental health. Canine wheelchairs can...
Two men stand atop a cart of hay. Each holds what appears to be a pitchfork. At least one mule is at the front of the cart. At the rear of the cart is a pulley system that appears to be picking up the hay from the field and putting it on the cart....
An ensemble consists of a set of individual predictors whose predictions are combined. Generally, different classification and regression models tend to work well for different types of data and also, it is usually not know which algorithm will be...
Pattern perception--Data processing; Pattern recognition systems; Land mines--Detection; Data mining
For complex detection and classification problems, involving data with large intra-class variations and noisy inputs, no single source of information can provide a satisfactory solution. As a result, combination of multiple classifiers is playing...
The purpose of this dissertation is to find ways to decrease Medicare costs and to study health outcomes of diabetes patients as well as to investigate the influence of Medicare, part D since its introduction in 2006 using the CMS CCW (Chronic...
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...
Various vision tasks are usually confronted by appearance variations due to changes of illumination. For instance, in a recognition system, it has been shown that the variability in human face appearance is owed to changes to lighting conditions...
Ground-level ozone forecast models were developed for the following middle and small metropolitan areas in Kentucky: Ashland, Bowling Green, Owensboro, and Paducah. These models were nonlinear regression models, based on models previously developed...
A significant amount of effort has been put in developing tools to interpret Ground Penetrating Radar signals obtained during surveys. Currently, skilled and experienced users do most of GPR image interpretation. They use experience in deciphering...
Two one-story buildings made of vertical wood boards with large signs, "Blacksmith Shop" (at left, smaller) and "London Wagon Works. Incorporated" (at right, larger). In front of the buildings, there are people milling around; a...
A man stands on a corn shredder in a field of dirt and cropped corn, operating a wheel; another man stands with his arm on the shredder. In front of the shredder a dark horse and a white horse are attached to a cart bearing three barrels. Across...
Children; Men; Women; Animals; Play (Recreation); Toys; Farming; Reading; Spinning
Woodblock prints of, from left to right starting at top: girl seated outdoors holding dog; man in overcoat and top hat facing man in shirtsleeves and vest holding axe; axe leaning against tree stump (sideways); man and boy on porch, with dog and...
Address: 231 E. Market Street, Louisville, Kentucky. A black car parks at the curb in front of S. Goodman & Sons. Beyond the car a pair of horses wait with a cart which has a loading ramp extended. On the side of the cart is printed, "1228...
Baskets are stacked up on a cart at Vincennes Packing Corporation's tomato farm. A man in overalls and a straw hat stands on the wagon holding a dark sheet of material which is also held by another man standing next to the cart. Others work in the...
Music teachers--Kentucky; Vocational guidance; School music--Instruction and study--Kentucky
This phenomenological study examines the experiences of current music teachers to determine what influences them to pursue a career teaching at the elementary level. Eight elementary music teachers from rural counties in Kentucky were interviewed...
Women agricultural laborers--England--History--19th century; Women agricultural laborers--United States--History--19th century; Women in agriculture--England--History--19th century; Women in agriculture--United States--History--19th century; Women...
This thesis is a historical study comparing the work-lives African-American and English nineteenth-century, field-working women. It focuses on the ideology and structure of the gender division of labour as it formed and informed the lives of these...
A careful perusal of Shakespeare’s works leads to one outstanding conclusion. Shakespeare was preeminently interested in words, as such. His every play shows a painstaking attention to words in their various shades of meaning. It is our interest...
The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of acute glutamine supplementation on maximal performance and recovery from high-intensity exercise. In a placebo-controlled, crossover study, seven (six males and one female) healthy subjects...
This dissertation presents a research whose objective is to design and develop an intrusion detection and response model for Mobile Ad hoc NETworks (MANET). Mobile ad hoc networks are infrastructure-free, pervasive and ubiquitous in nature, without...
