Andrea Bajo Defends his Ph.D. Dissertation

Potential influence of the pericardial space on myocardial function: Cardiac interactions of adenosine and endothelin-1 Ph.D. Doctoral Dissertation

Mobile IPv4 Secure Access to Home Networks

To my parents and sister, for everything. iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS It is my pleasure to give my sincere thanks to all the people who have supported and helped me during the pursuit of my Ph.D. degree. Without their encouragement, I would not have completed this dissertation. First of all, I would like to express my deep gratitude to my dissertation advisor, Dr. John A. Copeland, for his constant su...

European Stock Market Contagion during Sovereign Debt Crisis and the Effects of Macroeconomic Announcements on the Correlations of Gold,Dollar and Stock Returns

Acknowledgement This research has reached this point because of the help of many people I'd like to extend the deepest appreciation. I owe a great deal of thanks to the chair of my dissertation committee, Dr. Atsuyuki Naka. He earned my special gratitude and respect for his deep knowledge of the subject and the extended hours he spent to help me. I would like also to thank my dissertation commi...

RNA CoMPASS: RNA Comprehensive Multi-Processor Analysis System for Sequencing

Acknowledgments First and foremost, I want to thank my advisor Dr. Christopher Taylor. His endless support and wisdom helped me finish this dissertation. His enthusiasm for Bioinformatics was contagious—and I definitely caught it. His depth of knowledge and very precise academic guidance brought me to develop a web-based GUI distributed computational pipeline, which provides all-in-one function...

Reciprocal Recommendation System and User Behavior Analysis of Online Dating

OF A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY COMPUTER SCIENCE UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL 2014 DISSERTATION SUPERVISOR BENYUAN LIU, PH.D. ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE DISSERTATION MEMBER CINDY CHEN, PH.D. ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SC...