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The demand for high-voltage and high-power power electronics devices, especially for the next generation electrical ship system, has increased rapidly these years. The three-phase three-level neutral point clamped (NPC) rectifier...
This research joins the gender equity conversation within science education by providing a feminist poststructural analysis of teachers' doing gender and teaching science. Feminist poststructuralism is used in recognition of the...
Past research suggests that reading comprehension performance relies not solely on cognitive skills such as decoding, vocabulary, and inference skills, but also on attention and behavior. Specifically, the literature has pointed to...
Abstract This study examines state agency leadership and the viability of the traditional politics-administration dichotomy in state government. Despite all the academic theorizing about how appointed public managers should be involved...
This work analyzes the intersections between the notions of geography, power, and resistance, specifically focusing on how these concepts produce and are productive of one another within a French Caribbean context. Focusing on the works...
In this paper, I attempt to identify the factors that lead some post-foster youth to successfully enter college. I decided to conduct this research in an effort to understand how to create educational equality for post-foster youth, who...
Mobile platforms have become ubiquitous in our society; however, classical benchmarks have not kept up with their growth. When not entirely incompatible, current benchmarking techniques often provide very little useful information about...
Effortful control (EC) is an important developmental construct associated with academic performance, socioemotional growth, and psychopathology. EC, defined as the ability to inhibit or delay a prepotent response typically in favor of a...
It is clear that the genetic networks that control the shape and patterning of important phenotypic traits are much more important to trait evolution than was previously thought. This study addresses the ability of the Drosophila...
This collection of personal essays and short fiction investigates a post-9/11 America locked in forever war. Centered upon the American veteran and the veteran family experience, Anchor & Knife showcases wide-ranging narratives that...
This research identifies and discusses the changes occurring in family organizational patterns in rural areas around the megacity of Chennai, India, as a result of expanded educational opportunity. Chennai is located in the state of...
Robert Douglas was a Church of Christ missionary to Libya, Egypt, and Lebanon during the 1960s. Traveling during this period introduced Douglas to the reality of post-colonial context of the countries. He and his family lived as...
Throughout the history of writing, avian iconification has proven to be an inextricable representation of the human pathos. Birds have long been prominent symbols in ancient cultures, mythologies, and pre-industrial civilizations....
This dissertation explores the nature and significance of fear in the works of Seneca the Younger. While a variety of emotions have already been examined within the writings of this author, fear remains largely neglected despite its...
Categorical perception refers to the enhanced discernibility of stimuli that exist in different innate or learned categories. This effect has been observed in many different contexts, ranging from speech phoneme differentiation (Liberman...
A new numerical method is developed for the solution of the diffusion problem in a system of several materials. In such a system, the diffusion coefficients are piecewise continuous and jumps in their values can occur across the complex...
This dissertation tests if fetal loss can be applied as an extension of prior literature on the weathering hypothesis. To do so, this study extends upon the weathering hypothesis: the observation that blacks experience substantially...
Public library development in Florida greatly benefited from the New Deal relief programs that emerged out of the Great Depression. Historians and librarians had advocated for expansion of state support for libraries and the creation of...
Method and system for generating and using digital fingerprints for electronic documents
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This invention is directed to a method and system for generating and using digital fingerprints in copies of an electronic document so that it is possible to determine at least one from among a group of purchasers colluding to forge a...
A Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-Century American Clarinetists is designed as a resource to provide information on the lives and careers of American clarinetists and pedagogues of note, active primarily between the years 1900 and...
The purpose of this study was to examine the perceptions of pre-service music education majors regarding participation in competitive concert and marching band events. Participants (N = 168) were undergraduate pre-service music education...
Emergent phenomena are one of the most profound topics in modern science, addressing the ways that collectivities and complex patterns appear due to multiplicity of components and simple interactions. Ensembles of random Hamiltonians...
The photophysical characteristics of 5-arylvinyl-5Oe-methyl-2, 2Oe-bipyridyls (AVMB) and their zinc complexes were investigated in order to recognize the factors that influence the emission band shift and fluorescence quantum yield change...
For the past sixty years the question of whether or not Pope Pius XII did all that he could to help the victims of the Holocaust has plagued the reputation and memory of his papacy. As the Vatican and Pope Francis continue proceedings...
Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI) is the most common type of TBI leading to other long-term neurodegenerative disorders. mTBI is known to effect a significant percentage of the men and women in athletics, military and motor vehicle...
The KOTO experiment recently reported four candidate events in the signal region of K-L -> pi(0)nu(nu) over bar search, where the standard model only expects 0.10 +/- 0.02 events. If confirmed, this requires physics beyond the standard...
Parenting styles are known to influence a child’s development, the present study investigates the relationship between parenting factors and child dissociative symptoms. Seventy parents and their children were participants in this study....
"The purpose of this study by a teacher of the fourth grade was to peruse some of the literature in the fields of child growth, child development, and mental health in order to learn some characteristics of nine-year-olds--physical,...
High temperature compatible insulation for superconductors and method of applying insulation to superconductors
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There is described a method of applying insulative coating on high temperature superconductors and low temperature superconductors from sol-gel solutions prepared from Zr or Zr with one of, Mg, Y, Ce, In and Sn based precursor materials....
Cooperation is a complex behavior in which individuals act in ways that increase the fitness of others, at some cost to themselves. In cooperatively breeding vertebrates, helpers capable of reproducing forgo their own reproduction to...
School library media specialists have a flexible role within the structure of a school's environment, which allows for a unique opportunity to promote students' reading motivation. This study qualitatively explored school library media...
The purpose of this dissertation is to argue that while a discussion of the nature of human knowledge might be a worthy goal to pursue in public education, the science classroom is not the appropriate place for this discussion. The...
The purpose of the study was to examine the impact of the affect and gender of pedagogical agents as learning companions (PALs) on learning, interest, self-efficacy, and agent persona. Two experiments were conducted to examine PALs'...
Multisubstance Use Among Treatment-Seeking Smokers: Synergistic Effects of Coping Motives for Cannabis and Alcohol Use and Social Anxiety/Depressive Symptoms.
This study examined the impact of coping motives for cannabis and alcohol use on the relation between social anxiety/depressive symptoms and severity of substance use for alcohol, tobacco, and cannabis among treatment-seeking smokers who...
Youth with juvenile justice (JJ) interactions and/or adjudica-tions face a number of challenges as they transition back into their community, including college and career readiness needs. In addition to the typical concerns of...
This study examined ways in which a simultaneously bilingual child increased her productive communicative ability in her weaker language through interaction in pretend play with more capable peers. Resting in the framework of Vygotskian...
The South is a region of mystery, of tradition, of shifting identity. As a cultural region within the United States, the South has always defined (and redefined) itself in such a way that it remains distinctive from, even oppositional to...
Frailty is a prevalent geriatric syndrome. Little is known about the psychological factors associated with this syndrome. Based on four large samples of older adults aged from 65 to 104 years old, the present study examined whether...
When identifying potential trophic cascades, it is important to clearly establish the trophic linkages between predators and prey with respect to temporal abundance, demographics, distribution, and diet. In the northwest Atlantic Ocean, ...
Hydrophobic fluorinated polyelectrolyte complex films and associated methods
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A polyelectrolyte film is provided, the polyelectrolyte film comprises an interpenetrating network of a net positively charged polymer and a net negatively charged polymer, wherein the net positively charged polymer, the net negatively...
Using a case study approach, this exploratory study investigated the manner in which the staff and students of the Florida Virtual School (FLVS) seek information resources and services and whether their information-seeking behavior could...
The purpose of this treatise will be to explore Verdi's development of the title role of his opera Rigoletto. The historical timeline will be followed from Verdi's first documented interest in Victor Hugo's Le roi s'amuse as a libretto...
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