Browsing UW Milwaukee Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Title
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3 Up, 3 Down: the Complex Relationship of Professional Sports and Community Identity in Brooklyn, Milwaukee, and Washington, D.C.
(2014-05-01)This paper seeks to understand the role that professional sports teams play in influencing community identity. Specifically, it hypothesizes that community identity is one of the main factors in cities choosing to provide ... -
3D FLOW CYTOMETRY USING SNAPSHOT PROJECTION OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY
(2024-12)While flow cytometry is routinely used for high-throughput interrogation of suspended cells, it misses visual context provided by the rich spatial information inside the cell. On the other hand, fluorescence microscopy has ... -
3D Reconstruction of Proteins and Viruses from Angular Correlations of the Scattered Intensities
(2017-08-01)There is a remarkable shortage of the detailed knowledge of membrane proteins at atomic resolution despite the fact that they are the targets of many of today's drugs. The reason is that membrane proteins tend to have large ... -
3D SEM Surface Reconstruction from Multi-View Images
(2018-05-01)The scanning electron microscope (SEM), a promising imaging equipment has been used to determine the surface properties such as compositions or geometries of specimens by achieving increased magnification, contrast, and ... -
3D SEM Surface Reconstruction: An Optimized, Adaptive, and Intelligent Approach
(2016-05-01)Structural analysis of microscopic objects is a longstanding topic in several scientific disciplines, including biological, mechanical, and material sciences. The scanning electron microscope (SEM), as a promising imaging ... -
3D Shape Descriptor-Based Facial Landmark Detection: A Machine Learning Approach
(2018-12-01)Facial landmark detection on 3D human faces has had numerous applications in the literature such as establishing point-to-point correspondence between 3D face models which is itself a key step for a wide range of applications ... -
A Brief Rational Disputation Exercise Enhances Cardiovascular, Anxiety, and Affective Recovery Following Worry-Recall
(2016-05-01)Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) (Ellis, 1958), educates a client on the relationship between one’s irrational beliefs (IBs) and the dysfunctional emotional/behavioral consequences of maintaining those beliefs such ... -
A Battery-operated Portable Standard Lead ECG Monitor with Abnormal Heart Condition Detection System for Dogs
(2017-06-01)Long term monitoring the dog's heart condition is the best way to prevent being unable to treat the dog's heart failure in time when it occurs. Although, electro-cardio activity has been discovered by French scientist ... -
A Beer for the People: Black Capitalism and the Brewing Industry in Civil Rights Era Wisconsin
(2021-08-01)The term “Black Capitalism” was coined by Richard Nixon during the 1968 presidentialcampaign as a means of both quelling the unrest of the previous decade regarding the more volatile factions within the larger civil rights ... -
A Biofuel Supply Chain Equilibrium Analysis with Subsidy Consideration
(2018-12-01)Growing environmental concerns in the last few decades along with the energy security issues have led governments to take actions to reduce their dependence on fossil fuels and enhance renewable energy usage, including ... -
A Brief History of the Found Footage Phenomenon in North America 1994-2019
(2023-05-01)Beginning as an underground scene across Canada and the USA, a collection of comedians who sourced ephemera from VHS tapes, and transformed it for comedic effect, would go on to create the found footage phenomenon. This ... -
A Case Study of Citizen Participatory Planning Within the City of Milwaukee: the Choice Neighborhood Initiative
(2020-08-01)ABSTRACTIn September of 2016, the City of Milwaukee won a grant from HUD to designate Westlawn Housing as a Choice Neighborhood Initiative (CNI) redevelopment project. This designation came with a $30,000,000.00 grant to ... -
A Case Study: The Effects of Restorative Justice Course on African-American Students in an Urban School.
(2018-12-01)This ethnographic critical case study investigated the usefulness of a restorative justice course as an alternative to punitive discipline in a high school setting, the goal of which was to holistically address ways to ... -
A Case Study: the Role of Women in Creating Community on the Dakota Frontier, 1880 to 1920
(2015-12-01)ABSTRACT A CASE STUDY: THE ROLE OF WOMEN IN CREATING COMMUNITY ON THE DAKOTA FRONTIER, 1880 TO 1920 by Ruth Page Jones The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2015 Under the Supervision of Professor Genevieve G. McBride ... -
A Challenge to Psychological and Biological Theories of Personal Identity
(2022-05-01)Traditionally, reductive accounts of personal identity within a three-dimensionalist framework face notorious problems. I focus mainly on the problem of graduality. This problem arises out of the apparent tension that ... -
A Child-Driven Metadata Schema: A Holistic Analysis of Children's Cognitive Processes During Book Selection
(2014-05-01)The purpose of this study was to construct a child-driven metadata schema by understanding children's cognitive processes and behaviors during book selection. Existing knowledge organization systems including metadata ... -
A Climatology of Extreme South American Andean Cold Surges
(2018-05-01)Interactions between the tropics and midlatitudes have been an ongoing area of research since the inception of meteorology. Cold surges represent one of several phenomena by which midlatitude features can modulate the ... -
A Collection Divided: an Analysis of Accession 16082, the Ohio Hopewell Site Collection at the Milwaukee Public Museum
(2020-05-01)This thesis investigates and documents sixty-one Ohio Hopewellian objects that form a collection currently housed at the Milwaukee Public Museum (MPM). The objects were excavated from the Hopewell site of Ross County, Ohio ... -
A Community-engaged Narrative Inquiry Photovoice Project Examining the Health-Impacting Experiences of Older Adult Russian and Spanish-Speaking Immigrants in Southeastern Wisconsin, United States.
(2022-08-01)Background: Among the nearly 10 million older adult immigrants in the United States, most come from Mexico and speak Spanish. Moreover, in addition to the hundreds of thousands of Russian-speaking immigrants from the Former ... -
A Comparison of Two Devices for Isometric Lingual Strengthening in Healthy Adults
(2020-08-01)The purpose of this study was to compare tongue pressure measurements recorded by an established device, the Iowa Oral Performance Instrument (IOPI) and a new device, the TongueometerTM. Eight healthy adults ages 18 to 59 ...