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X-VECTORS: ROBUST NEURAL EMBEDDINGS FOR SPEAKER RECOGNITION
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2020-03-24)Speaker recognition is the task of identifying speakers based on their speech signal. Typically, this involves comparing speech from a known speaker, with recordings from unknown speakers, and making same-or-different ... -
Y is Male Breast Cancer so Rare?
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2014-12-16)Male breast cancer (MBC) occurs at less than 1% frequency of female breast cancer, and its actual etiology is still unclear. We hypothesize that males are protected from contracting breast cancer because the male-specific ... -
Yahweh's "Cruel Sword": The Manifestation of Punishment and the Trauma of Exile
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2018-03-01)Divine weapons, as powerful rhetorical symbols, play a vital role in religious ritual and wartime rhetoric throughout the ancient world, including the Hebrew Bible. In the context of ancient empires, divine weapons often ... -
Yankee ‘Blackbirding’: The United States and the Illegal Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1850-1867
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2017-08-11)This dissertation examines the United States’ changing relationship with the transatlantic slave trade during the traffic’s final, illegal, phase from 1850 to 1867. During this period, the trade ran primarily along a new ... -
Yeast Proteostasis under Acute Stress
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2017-05-16)Protein homeostasis (proteostasis) is crucial to maintain normal cell activity. Loss of proteostasis is related to cell dysfunction and many neurodegenerative diseases. Protein aggregation is a sign of proteostasis loss. ... -
Yellow River delta management using flood mitigation strategies
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2019-03-29)Owing to their extraordinary natural resources and ecosystem services, river deltas have fostered the development of past civilizations, and today host over a half billion people. The sustainability of societies on these ... -
“YOU DON’T REALLY HAVE ANYTHING TO GIVE BUT YOUR WORD AND A FAULTY MEMORY”: US MILITARY VETERANS AND UNDOCUMENTED TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURIES
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2014-12-17)Prior to November 2006, the US military did not systematically screen for traumatic brain injury (TBI), now considered a “signature” and “invisible” injury of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. A generation of combat ... -
“You know Georgians, we are each other's psychologists": Mental health care spaces, trajectories, and social integration among internally displaced persons in Georgia
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2014-01-10)Care-seeking for mental illness and psychological problems is impeded by a lack of access to formal services. In the absence of mental health service utilization, it remains unclear how psychological problems are recognized, ... -
You Will Know Me by My Writing: The Scribe’s Choice of Goal-Marking Strategies in Biblical Hebrew in the Light of Social, Historical, and Linguistic Correlates
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2020-06-30)Ancient scribes writing Biblical Hebrew could mark a Goal argument (the place to which one is moving) with the directive he suffix, with a directional preposition, or as an accusative of destination. Previous studies have ... -
Young mothers with a history of child welfare involvement: Maternal health, pregnancy outcomes, and maltreatment perpetration
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2016-01-11)Statement of the Problem: Youth with past child welfare involvement are at risk for early entry into motherhood and increased burden of chronic health conditions. The association of these risk factors with birth outcomes ... -
Z' Searches with Heavy Fermions
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2016-09-07)A number of new physics models suggest that a heavy $Z^\prime$ or $W^\prime$ particle may decay through heavy fermions. In some such models, decays with intermediate new particles may have a higher branching ratio than ... -
ZCCHC8 IS REQUIRED FOR THE DEGRADATION OF PERVASIVE TRANSCRIPTS ORIGINATING FROM MULTIPLE GENOMIC REGULATORY REGIONS
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2021-04-21)Antibodies are among the most frequently used tools in biomedical research, but they are often subject to many pitfalls including cross-reactivity, production lot-to-lot variability, and loss of activity. Despite the ... -
Zeros of Random Reinhardt Polynomials
(Johns Hopkins University, 2014-07-01)For a strictly pseudoconvex Reinhardt domain Ω with smooth boundary in C m+1 and a positive smooth measure µ on the boundary of Ω , we consider the ensemble PN of polynomials of degree N with the Gaussian probability ...