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The purpose of this single case multiple-baseline design was to investigate the utility of using a mobile device application specifically Pictello for the iPad, as a tool to teach and support peer buddies to interact with a student with...
This study examines the relationship between childhood victimization and self- reported current symptoms of psychosis in an incarcerated female population in the United States. Participants are 159 randomly selected women incarcerated in...
A large body of scholarship has focused on the factors that lead to improved prison social order and prisoner reentry outcomes. Research suggests that one such factor, social ties, are especially salient for helping individuals manage...
Issues surrounding the use of cognitive enhancers by healthy adults have given rise to numerous ethical concerns. It may be considered unnatural, unfair to those who cannot or do not use them, or unsafe in certain ways, and therefore...
We present a measurement of the W boson production charge asymmetry in proton-antiproton collisions in the electron channel through W-> e-nu decays using data collected with the DØ detector. The collision of an up quark with an antidown...
In this paper I analyze and critique Gert's views on death, tracing the evolution of his ideas throughout his career. I argue that the definitions-criteria-tests framework that he and his colleagues introduced, along with their approach...
Research on the development of reading skills through the primary school years has pointed to the importance of individual differences in initial ability as well as the growth of those skills. Additionally, it has been theorized that...
My first attempt at a feature-length screenplay, Mycelium is a Lovecraftian horror story set in the darkest recesses of the Amazon Rainforest. When Lucas, Caio and Diego finally get together to do the trip down the Amazon River that they...
Aspects of global change - specifically, elevated soil nitrogen deposition and warming - are resulting in significant changes in native plant communities. These effects can be direct through changes in productivity, or indirect through...
This dissertation raises the question of how environmentalists should consider the idea of human labor in nature. This is ultimately a part of the greater question of what we consider the relationship between humanity and nature to be....
Land use in Florida has seen many changes since it became an American territory in 1821. But while land use can be a categorical term for classifying property, it can also take on a more valuable meaning. When the land was originally...
This study addresses the correlation between Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus (RBB&BC) and their attachment to place and possession while living as part of a mobile community. It focused on two touring divisions of RBB&BC;...
The aim of this study is to determine whether there is a significant difference between self-reported scores of anxiety, mood state, and pain levels and the physiological comparison of vital signs when patients are allowed to listen to...
The first decade after Tajikistan became independent was characterized by a 5 year long civil war and a difficult peace process. Just as Tajikistan was beginning to recover, the US began the invasion of Afghanistan on Tajikistan's...
An Annotated Survey of Douze Chants d'Anatolie of Cemal Reùit Rey: A Practical Performance Companion to Understanding the Origin and Context of Turkish Art Song in the Twentieth Century
This dissertation examines Douze chants d'Anatolie (Twelve Anatolian Songs), a complete art song set and one of the first mature works of Turkish composer Cemal Reşit Rey. The songs of Douze chants d'Anatolie are some of the first...
We develop partial differential equation methods with well-posed boundary conditions to price average strike options and swing options in the energy market. We use the energy method to develop boundary conditions that make a two space...
Quantifying uncertainty in modeling and simulation is crucial since the parameters of the physical system are inherently non-deterministic and knowledge of the system embodied in the model is incomplete or inadequate. The most well...
Chromatin structure plays a critical role in the regulation of the human genome. An understanding of the role of chromatin structure and its relationship to gene regulation is critical to developing new strategies to prevent and treat...
A central issue in second language acquisition (SLA) research is the relationship between morphosyntactic and lexical-semantic knowledge among L2 learners. It has been proposed that, L2 language acquisition starts with transfer of L1...
The objective of this work is to quantify uncertainty and perform global sensitivity analysis for nonlinear models with a moderate or large number of stochastic parameters. We implement non-intrusive methods that do not require...
The along-track resolution of a sonar system is proportional to the aperture length in the along-track direction. Synthetic aperture sonar (SAS) coherently sum samples from multiple physical locations to form a synthesized aperture which...
This thesis is an exploratory study of the information seeking behavior of junior enlisted United States Army veterans of Operation Iraqi and Enduring Freedom. During this study, twenty-five qualitative interviews were conducted with...
The purpose of this article is to provide a commentary on the current state of several measurement issues pertaining to curriculum-based measures of reading (R-CBM1). We begin by providing an overview of the utility of R-CBM, followed by...
Background: Parks and other forms of green space are among the key environmental supports for recreational physical activity. Measurements of green space access have provided mixed results as to the influence of green space access on...
Chlorination of water is among the cheapest and mostly widely used drinking water disinfection methods. It also produces many disinfection by-products (DBPs) that are considered carcinogenic. DBPs are the result of chlorine reaction with...
As a kind of controlled cognition, strategically reinstating an encoding process to facilitate retrieval of specific subsets of information is more cognitively costly than more automatic forms of retrieval. Although strategic...
In today's economic environment, there are pressures to fundraise throughout all of the academic units at colleges and universities, including libraries. Unfortunately, however, there is no natural constituency for the academic library....
Florida's Gold Seal Quality Care program, created in statute in 1996, serves as a policy lever to improve program quality in childcare and serve as a symbol of quality for parents when choosing a childcare provider for their children....
Understanding and predicting the evolution of the tropical cyclone (TC) inner-core continues to be a major research focus in tropical meteorology. Eyewall slope and its relationship to intensity and intensity change is one example that...
Clustering in atomic nuclei is an interesting phenomenon that has been studied extensively in the past. However, most studies were related to clustering in α-like 4N nuclei. This work is focused on clustering in N≠Z non-self-conjugate...
Previously a narrowly researched phenomenon (Fine & Nevo, 2008), interest in underemployment is gaining momentum and current research (Erdogan, Bauer, Peiro, & Truxillo, 2011a; 2011b; Feldman & Maynard, 2011) in the area has provided...
The aim of this series of case studies is to determine whether music therapy interventions are effective in decreasing perceived stress levels in parents of premature infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. The principal...
Museum information professionals meet the needs of the producers and consumers of museum information resources, yet little is known of how their own needs are met or what benefits they obtain from being part of a broader professional...
Over the past decade, the majority of research on perceived effort in children has emanated from a physiological perspective and has generally focused on the development of RPE scales for children. Although Tenenbaum (1999, 2001) and...
Asterisk* Comics seeks to provide visual and interactive tools through which young adults can develop their writing skills. The website's primary focus is to serve as a medium for instructional materials and to promote writing by...
This work describes a tool for configuring and analyzing the weight of combined cycle power plant, designed for shipboard applications. The effects that varying selected combined cycle parameters have on the weight and the efficiency are...
ABSTRACT A limited number of studies using various types of cover materials to attenuate H2S emissions have been performed both at the laboratory and field scales. These results have demonstrated that H2S emissions can be effectively...
The photoproduction of ω mesons and π0 ω meson pairs is studied with the intention of providing data which will be useful in isolating baryon resonances. The data used for this analysis was recorded using the CBELSA/TAPS experiment in...
Extended Metal Atom Chains (EMACs) are compounds that consist of three or more metal atoms that are directly bonded with the support of equatorial organic ligands. This dissertation is focused on the high frequency electron magnetic...
Microbial fuel cell (MFC) technology has been practiced in the treatment of landfill leachate. However, it is a big challenge for the usage of MFCs to treat landfill leachate with high ammonium content. The purpose of this study was to...
Many of the early plays written and performed at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin were controversial, creating dissent between religious, social, and political groups in Ireland. Among the most volatile of these controversial pieces were...
The secondary injury cascades in the acute phase of traumatic brain injury (TBI) are often the most devastating to patient outcome. These cascades include the neurobiological and neurochemical changes subsequent to the mechanical trauma...
The Florida Big Bend region in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico contains both spawning sites and nursery habitats for a variety of economically valuable marine species. One species, the gag grouper (Mycteroperca microlepis), relies on the...
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