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This project concerns the most effective dimension reduction (EDR) space in functional regression settings. Our investigation is motivated by finding a smaller set of derived variables that contains just as much predictive power as the original set. The main idea originated from cumulative slicing for multivariate data in Zhu et al. (2010 JASA), which assesses the EDR space by cumulatively pool...

Graduate Student Poster Competition

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of cimaterol, a p-adrenergic agonist, on muscle Calcium Dependent Proteinase (CDP) activity and the possible relationships between proteolytic activity, cimaterol-induced muscle hypertrophy and meat tenderness. Cimaterol was administrated at 0 or 10 ppm in a complete mixed diet to 28 ram lambs for 3 or 6 weeks. Dietary administration of ci...

Graduate Student Appreciation Week

The movement of people from one country to another and the subsequent settling of migrants in host communities diversely affect all parties in relocation processes. Directly or indirectly, both migrant and their host communities respond differently to the worldviews of the migrants and the socio-cultural contexts of the host communities. While the religious beliefs of people appear to be the le...