Approved: ___________________________________ Thesis Supervisor ____________________________________ Title and Department ____________________________________ Date ____________________________________ Thesis Supervisor ____________________________________ Title and Department ____________________________________ Date 1 THE EFFECTS OF VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX DAMAGE ON INTERPERSONAL COORDI...

Thesis Supervisor: Anthony T. Patera Title: Professor of Mechanical Engineering MIT Thesis Supervisor: Liu Gui-Rong Title: Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering NUS

Approved: ____________________________________ Thesis Supervisor ____________________________________ Title and Department ____________________________________ Date ____________________________________ Thesis Supervisor ____________________________________ Title and Department ____________________________________ Date 1 DEVELOPMENT OF THE ZEBRAFISH AS A MODEL FOR BARDET-BIEDL SYNDROME

Approved: ____________________________________ Thesis Supervisor ____________________________________ Title and Department ____________________________________ Date ____________________________________ Thesis Supervisor ____________________________________ Title and Department ____________________________________ Date 1 FACTORS AFFECTING ACCURACY OF COMPARABLE SCORES FOR AUGMENTED TESTS UNDER C...

Approved:___________________________________ Thesis Supervisor ___________________________________ Title and Department ___________________________________ Date ___________________________________ Thesis Supervisor ___________________________________ Title and Department ___________________________________ Date 3 INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTOR 6: A NOVEL REGULATOR OF KERATINOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION ...

Approved: ____________________________________ Thesis Supervisor ____________________________________ Title and Department ____________________________________ Date ____________________________________ Thesis Supervisor ____________________________________ Title and Department ____________________________________ Date 1 CONSTRAINED ORDINAL MODELS WITH APPLICATION IN OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENT...

Approved: ____________________________________ Thesis Supervisor ____________________________________ Title and Department ____________________________________ Date ____________________________________ Thesis Supervisor ____________________________________ Title and Department ____________________________________ Date 1 EXAMINING THE INTEGRATION OF TALK AND WRITING FOR STUDENT KNOWLEDGE CONSTRU...

In this thesis, we describe various experiments on the ranking function of the Google Search Appliance to improve search quality. An evolutionary computation framework is implemented and applied to optimize various parameter settings of the ranking function. We evaluate the importance of IDF in the ranking function and achieve small improvements in performance. We also examine many ways to comb...