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University of New Orleans Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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    • Visual Perception in Traumatic Brain Injury: Effects of Severity and Effort

    • Visual Perception in Traumatic Brain Injury: Effects of Severity and Effort

    • Traumatic Brain Injury, Visual Perception, Perceptual Organizational Index, Block Design, Picture Completion, Matrix Reasoning, Rey Osterrieth Complex Figure, Benton Facial Recognition Test, Effort, Malingering, Neuropsychological assessment.

    • Previous studies have found that poor effort can significantly impact psychometric performance by Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) patients. So far, this impact has been relatively well studied in attention and memory. However, this is not the case for...

    • 2007-12-15;
    • Language Dysfunction in Traumatic Brain Injury While Controlling for Effort

    • Language Dysfunction in Traumatic Brain Injury While Controlling for Effort

    • traumatic brain injury, effort, language, malingering

    • The present study included three traumatic brain injury (TBI) groups (good effort mild TBI, poor effort mild TBI, and good effort moderate/severe TBI) and two neurologic control groups (dementia and unilateral left hemisphere stroke). Language...

    • 2007-12-15;
    • Executive Dysfunction following Traumatic Brain Injury and Factors Related to Impairment

    • Executive Dysfunction following Traumatic Brain Injury and Factors Related to Impairment

    • Traumatic Brain Injury, Wisconsin Card Sorting Test, Executive Function, Effort, Malingering, Neuropsychological Assessment

    • Deficits in executive function are commonly reported following Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and are important for establishing functional impairments. Understanding the nature of executive dysfunction following TBI is often complicated by...

    • 2007-12-15;
    • Divergence Model for Measurement of Goos-Hanchen Shift

    • Divergence Model for Measurement of Goos-Hanchen Shift

    • Goos-Hanchen, total internal reflection, evanescent waves, image processing, Canny filters, sub-pixel, Superresolution

    • In this effort a new measurement technique for the lateral Goos-Hanchen shift is developed, analyzed, and demonstrated. The new technique uses classical image formation methods fused with modern detection and analysis methods to achieve higher...

    • 2007-08-08;
    • Numerical Simulation of Unsteady Hydrodynamics in the Lower Mississippi River

    • Numerical Simulation of Unsteady Hydrodynamics in the Lower Mississippi River

    • Lower Mississippi River, Unsteady Hydrodynamics, Fixed Bed, Diversions, HEC-RAS Model

    • Alterations along the Mississippi River, such as dams and levees, have greatly reduced the amount of freshwater and sediment that reaches the Louisiana coastal area. Several freshwater and sediment diversions have been proposed to combat the...

    • 2010-05-14
    • Barely There Tales: A Phenomenological Study of Stories Told by Pre-service Teachers

    • Barely There Tales: A Phenomenological Study of Stories Told by Pre-service Teachers

    • Pre-service teacher education; personal narratives; educational experience; teaching methods; reflection; pre-service teachers; reflective teaching; knowledge base for teaching; teacher educator; teacher education; phenomenology; storytelling

    • Teacher stories were once relegated to informal gatherings but more recently this aspect of teacher development is being carefully studied in more formalized settings because it is believed to be an important part of teacher development. New ways...

    • 2010-12-17
    • Spiral Welded Pipe Piles For Structures In Southeastern Louisiana

    • Spiral Welded Pipe Piles For Structures In Southeastern Louisiana

    • spiral welded pipe piles, pile capacity, pile load test, USACE Method for pile load test reductions, Suburban Canal Fronting Protection, Elmwood Canal Fronting Protection, West Closure Complex

    • In an effort to obtain 100-year level hurricane protection for southeastern Louisiana, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) has implemented design guidelines that both levees and structures shall be designed to. Historically, USACE has used...

    • 2010-12-17
    • Biomimetics and Host-Guest Chemistry

    • Biomimetics and Host-Guest Chemistry

    • Macrocycle; Tris(2-pyridyl)methanol; Biomimetics; Host-Guest; supramolecular; Carbonic Anhydrase

    • In an effort to produce the tetrahedrally coordinated, catalytically active zinc center, three families of tris(2-pyridyl)methanol derivatives were synthesized and characterized. Zinc binding studies revealed that the binding behaviors of the...

    • 2004-12-17;
    • Ad-Hoc Sharing for Palm Devices

    • Ad-Hoc Sharing for Palm Devices

    • Palm; Sharing Palm Records; Mobile Collaboration; PDA

    • The current generation of Palm PDA devices is designed to share information records primarily with a base desktop system, or a server. Therefore, their built- in features for sharing data during ad-hoc collaboration among groups of mobile users are...

    • 2005-05-20;
    • Environmental Performance of Copper Slag and Barshot as Abrasives

    • Environmental Performance of Copper Slag and Barshot as Abrasives

    • Coal Slag; Abrasives; Abrasive Blasting; Sand Blasting; Copper slag; Emission factors; Rusted Panels; Waste Minimization; Maritime Industry; Dry Abrasive Blasting; Shipbuildng Industry; Blasting Pressure (PSI); Barshot; GCRMTC

    • The basic objective of this study was to evaluate the environmental performance of two abrasives Copper Slag and Barshot in terms of productivity (in terms of area cleaned- ft2/hr), consumption and or used-abrasive generation rate (of the abrasive-...

    • 2005-05-20;
    • Development of a Laminar Construction Quadrupole Ion Trap

    • Development of a Laminar Construction Quadrupole Ion Trap

    • Quadrupole Ion Trap

    • The three-dimensional quadrupole ion trap (QIT) is an extraordinary device. It functions both as an ion store in which gaseous ions can be confined for a period of time and as a mass spectrometer of considerable mass range and variable...

    • 2005-08-10;
    • Synthesis of Molecular Baskets and Introduction of Inward Facing Functionality

    • Synthesis of Molecular Baskets and Introduction of Inward Facing Functionality

    • host/guest chemistry; cavitand; supramolecular chemistry; directed ortho metallation; enzyme mimic

    • As a first step to producing a shape selective catalysts or enzyme mimic, two preorganized host molecules were synthesized. Binding studies of the two hosts with a variety of guests in three solvents demonstrated that an important driving force in...

    • 2006-01-20;
    • Data Visualization for the Benchmarking Engine

    • Data Visualization for the Benchmarking Engine

    • visual data mining; data visualization

    • In today’s information age, data collection is not the ultimate goal; it is simply the first step in extracting knowledge-rich information to shape future decisions. In this thesis, we present ChartVisio - a simple web-based visual...

    • 2003-05-16;

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