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Journey towards artistry : Blues for an Alabama sky.
Acting; Cleage, Pearl. Blues for an Alabama sky; Cleage, Pearl--Characters--Angel
This thesis represents and examines my metamorphic journey as it relates to acting. These pages hold my greatest fears, insecurities, perspectives, and mantras toward life and the magical world of theatre. Chapter One, Genesis of Passion, reveals...
University of Louisville Electronic Theses & Dissertations

The cost-effectiveness of the Kentucky pilot project of allowing primary PCI at hospitals without onsite CABG capabilities.
Coronary heart disease--Treatment--Cost effectiveness; Angioplasty; Medical laws and legislation--Kentucky
A myocardial infarction (MI) occurs when blood supply to the heart is cut off by a blockage in one of the coronary arteries. Most hospitals treat a patient with thrombolysis or a percutaneous coronary intervention (PC I). The latter has been...
University of Louisville Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Removal of electrocardiographic corruption from electromyographic signals using a localized wavelet based approach.
Electromyography; Spinal cord--Wounds and injuries
Introduction: Approximately 12,000 new cases of spinal cord injury (SCI) are reported each year in the US. Currently, the most widely used method of assessing the recovery of voluntary capability after spinal cord injury is the American Spinal...
University of Louisville Electronic Theses & Dissertations

3D visualization of in-flight recorded data.
Flight recorders; Three-dimensional imaging
Human being can easily acquire information by showing the object than reading the description of it. Our brain stores images that the eyes are seeing and by the brain mapping, people can analyze information by imagination in the brain. This is the...
University of Louisville Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Lung nodule modeling and detection for computerized image analysis of low dose CT imaging of the chest.
Lungs--Cancer--Diagnosis
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,...
University of Louisville Electronic Theses & Dissertations

The role of genetic and environmental oxidative stress factors in prostate cancer.
Prostate--Cancer--Genetic aspects; Oxidative stress
Prostate cancer (PCA) development may be influenced by genetic variations within oxidative stress response (OSR) related mechanisms, such as antioxidation (e.g., carcinogen metabolism/detoxification), DNA repair, and apoptotic regulation. Excessive...
University of Louisville Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Swarm intelligence for clustering dynamic data sets for web usage mining and personalization.
Swarm intelligence; Web usage mining; Data mining
Swarm Intelligence (SI) techniques were inspired by bee swarms, ant colonies, and most recently, bird flocks. Flock-based Swarm Intelligence (FSI) has several unique features, namely decentralized control, collaborative learning, high exploration...
University of Louisville Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Human visual processing of orientation in broad stimuli.
Visual perception--Ability testing; Visual perception--Experiments
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...
University of Louisville Electronic Theses & Dissertations

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