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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...
We present the results of our numerical studies on the transport properties of strongly correlated nanostructures, particularly quantum dots and single molecules. The main focus is on correlation, interference and phononic effects....
Localized magnetic particle hyperthermia heating treatment using ferromagnetic and superparamagnetic nanoparticles continue to be an active area of cancer research. Magnetic hyperthermia is a promising therapeutic method for treatment of...
The individual and organizational practices that advance and impede careers of people of color are well documented in research (Alfred, 2001; Bell, 1990; Clay, 1998; Chee, 2004; Darden, 2003; Dawkins, 2004; Fagneson, 1993; Green-Powell, ...
This research focuses on the signal transduction pathway involved in acid-induced deflagellation in the green algae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. A wild type copy of the 2L15 gene will be amplified and used to create a plasmid. This plasmid...
Over the last 30 years, college women's drinking has steadily increased from 6% to 49%. While colleges across the country have attempted to deal with alcohol-related issues by implementing a multitude of programs and policies, the data...
The first appearance of the term "bagatelle" is in the beginning of the eighteenth-century, with most of the early works traced back to simple dances. Later, Ludwig Van Beethoven elevated his bagatelles, expanding them in many ways, ...
This thesis is based upon information from a variety of sources dealing with the soundtrack for the film Liquid Sky. One of these sources is the movie itself, which can be aurally and visually confusing without peripheral sources of...
Christian communities in the first four centuries struggled to construct and maintain a sense of social identity in a time when there were no stable descriptions for Christianity or Judaism. Competing social identities emerged among...
This study quantifies the adverse results from the lock-in effect attributable to the passage of Save Our Homes Amendment 13. Originally intending to lessen homesteader tax burden, the system reduced economic efficiency by discouraging...
Investigations on retention and graduation often focus on the overall issue of student persistence. Research has identified two variables that consistently predict persistence: the student's ability to integrate academically and socially...
In this research, two important concepts concerning parallel robots are investigated: compliance and fault tolerance. First, we address the issue of synthesizing a suitable compliance. This is an important problem since a well-designed...
Applications of Calcareous Nannofossils and Stable Isotopes to Cenozoic Paleoceanography: Examples from the Eastern Equatorial Pacific, Western Equatorial Atlantic and Southern Indian Oceans
This dissertation is a collection of five calcareous nannofossil and one stable isotope studies on materials from Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Legs 183 (Site 1135), 206 (Site 1256), and 207 (Site 1259) that target two important...
This study examined the longitudinal influence of father involvement on emerging adult children's psychological well-being. This was explored in the contexts of mother involvement, interparental marital relationships, and children's...
Utilization of the emergency department (ED) for non-urgent visits has become an important topic among healthcare providers and administrators. Non-urgent visits to the ED result in financial and health related problems for those who...
Franchising is an important organizational form, but extant theory explaining firms' use of franchising is at best incomplete. Research has primarily used agency and resource-scarcity theory to explain firms' propensity to franchise, and...
This dissertation involves an exploratory investigation that examined the antecedents and consequences of personal reputation in organizations. Using existing scales, this examination inspected personality, social effectiveness, ...
The purpose of this study was to examine if degree (on a continuum from negative to positive) and/or similarity of patients' and their partners' meanings of the lung cancer illness significantly influenced psychosocial adjustment in a...
James Quitman Mulholland, composer, is Professor of Music at Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana. He has received commissions from children's choirs, middle schools, high schools, universities, professional ensembles, national...
After firstly investigating the correlations among students' omniscient authority beliefs, students' perceived teacher-directedness, and students' intra-group communication behaviors, this research explored the cultural differences...
The aim of the present study was twofold, to attempt to reduce false memories with the experimental manipulation of giving feedback; and to assess factors that potentially increase suggestibility to false memories, such as stress. In...
The main aim of this study was to examine the nature of literary discussions in an advanced level English literature class in a Turkish EFL (English as a Foreign Language)setting. The focus of the study was the discursive features of a...
An Explanatory Mixed Methods Content Analysis of Two State Level Correctional Institutions' Pre-Release Handbook Curriculum Designs, Looking Through the Lenses of Two Philosophical Orientations of Education.
The purpose of this study was to discover how Minnesota's Department of Corrections, Making a Successful Transition: Adult Pre-Release Handbook (2005), and Indiana's Department of Corrections, Pre-Release Re-Entry Program Offender...
This thesis describes the filming and post-production strategy used to develop the ethnographic film, And the Rivers Flow: Hunting and Treaty Rights in a First Nations Community. This paper outlines my process, suggesting that an...
Sequent Introduction is a rejection of Richard Rorty's assertion that traditional philosophical problems are no longer of use. This text is strong poetry, introducing new vocabularies and metaphors to redescribe traditional philosophical...
Diphtheria toxin repressor is a regulatory protein from Corynebacterium diphtheriae, the causal agent of Diphtheria. The diphtheria toxin repressor (DtxR) contains an SH3-like domain that forms an intramolecular complex with a proline...
Cellular Butoh is a series that focuses on the subjects of form, identity, and transformation. Transformation, in particular, is used as a catalytic element for a nuanced exploration of the spiritual/physical relationship. I'm interested...
Advanced composites which offer robust mechanical properties are being increasingly used for structural applications in the aerospace, marine, defense and transportation industries. However, the anisotropic nature of composite materials...
We present the calculation of Next-to-Leading-Order Quantum Chromo Dynamics corrections for the production of W or Z weak bosons associated with a bottom anti-bottom quark pair at hadron colliders (ppbar, pp to W/Z bbbar), including the...
Small nucleolar RNAs (snoRNAs) are localized in the nucleolus as small ribonucleoprotein particle (snoRNP) that are RNA-protein complexes and catalyze site specific modifications on the ribosomal RNA. When compared to many protein...
"Pure Religion of the Gospel…Together with Civil Liberty": A Study of the Religion Clauses of the Northwest Ordinance and Church-State in Revolutionary America
The Ordinance of 1787 provided the method for territories of the Old Northwest to become states. It set out a three-stage process that territories would pass through in order to acquire full rights of statehood. Furthermore, it contained...
Understanding the characteristics of probability distribution of extreme water levels is important for coastal flood mitigation and engineering design. In this study, frequency analysis has been conducted to investigate probability...
This descriptive, nonexperimental, cross-sectional, in vivo study examined factors influencing decisions about life-sustaining treatment decisions (CPR, mechanical ventilation, tube feeding, and hemodialysis), and perceptions of the...
The demand for high-speed mobile wireless communications is rapidly growing. MIMO technology promises to be a key technique for achieving the high date capacity and spectral efficiency for wireless communication systems of the near...
This study investigates the measurement and psychometric features of survey questions common to anti-tobacco campaign evaluations. The constructs explored in the study were those designed to measure cigarette usage, adolescent and youth...
The history, culture, and tradition of professional black choirs have had a great influence on choral music through the twenty-first century. During its 80 year history, professional black choirs have gained both a national and...
The purpose of this study was to compare the effects of music, gestures, and music with gestures on the sight-word recognition of students with dyslexia. Specifically, this study examined participants': 1) sight-word recognition in...
This study explores sensitivity of the Atlantic subtropical anticyclone and the tracks of tropical cyclones traveling around the subtropical anticyclone to radiative transfer. The data sets for these experiments are derived from 120...
Centered in nineteenth-century Vienna, the Biedermeier era was characterized by intense political upheaval contrasted by free-spirited social and cultural innovation and style. This treatise focuses on Franz Schubert's chamber music with...
Esta tesis doctoral analiza el proceso de creación y de transmisión de los cuentos o historias que forman parte del Quijote. Se examina la función e importancia de la pluralidad de voces narrativas que ofrecen, mediante la técnica del...
This dissertation explores evidence and provides insight to secrecy-related information actions that can and are sometimes used as a method to circumvent established government policy and law. These information actions may also be used...
The Effects of an Acute Bout of Continuous versus Accumulated Exercise of Isocaloric Energy Expenditure on Blood Lipids, Lipoproteins and Related Enzyme Activities
Effects of acute bouts of continuous versus accumulated exercise of isocaloric energy expenditure on blood lipids, lipoproteins and related enzyme activities. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine if exercise, whether...
William Bolcom's Concerto in D for violin and orchestra (1983) is an important work in the twentieth-century violin repertoire. Bolcom successfully integrates popular music into the classical idiom, constantly seeking to reconcile the...
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