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Disability Ecology: Re-Materializing U.S. Fiction from 1890-1940
(2016)
Disability Ecology: Re-Materializing U.S. Fiction from 1890-1940 argues that disability is the material-semiotic product of an ecological network of human and non-human actors. As social forms, disability ecologies move ...
Selected Problems for High-Dimensional Data - Quantile and Errors-in-Variables Regressions.
(2016)
This dissertation addresses two problems. First, we study joint quantile regression at multiple quantile levels with high dimensional covariates. Variable selection performed at individual quantile levels may lack stability ...
The Psychedelic Listener: Theorizing Music in Therapeutic Practice
(2019)
Since the advent of sound reproduction, new types of listener have emerged: a consumer-listener enters Muzak’s affective atmosphere and purchases more than planned; prisoner-of-war-listeners are assaulted with earsplitting ...
Nearby Nature and Mental Wellbeing: A Designer's Perspective.
(2015)
The beneficial role of nearby nature settings in mental wellbeing is particularly important in the urban context where residents are dealing with numerous distractions and sources of stress in their daily life. Given the ...