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Previous studies indicate that women who use oral contraceptives have voices that are more stable than women who do not use oral contraceptives. The purpose of this study was to analyze the effects of initial contraceptive use on vocal...
Climatology of Dvorak classifications for operational probabilistic genesis forecasts
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A basic climatology of tropical cyclogenesis and pre-genesis evolution is presented using Dvorak classifications of tropical systems. In the absence of adequate in situ observations, the Dvorak technique provides a standardized method...
Encoding beauty: ovulating women encode the attractiveness of male and female social targets
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Ovulation (the period of peak female fertility) profoundly influences women's mating-related psychology and behavior. Recent studies suggest that, during the period surrounding ovulation, women prioritize physical attractiveness when...
A study of pupil responses on an objective test as a basis for selecting content for units on housing for the family and furnishings and equipment for the home
Why do certain things achieve widespread popularity and what are the effects of gaining popularity? This research thesis will attempt to analyze how pieces of text and certain personas gain acceptance in the popular culture community....
Design of a bio-inspired, dynamic tree climbing robot
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In recent years, researchers have developed a variety of bio-inspired robots that can climb surfaces ranging from brick and stucco to smooth glass. Instrumental in this development has been the utilization of specialized compliant foot...
Credible commitments: the role of effective domestic legal systems in resolving territory and water conflict
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Audience costs are often seen as a useful tool in decoding a number of puzzles, one of which is the tendency for democracies to settle their disputes peacefully and to make credible commitments in the international arena. Although...
Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert: exposing religious incongruity
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Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are two very funny comedians with television programs on Comedy Central. In their "infotainment" news parodies, they mock many aspects of American life: politics, economics, media, and religion. How does...
A survey of the dietary habits of a group of Leon County high school students planned to investigate the relation of dietary practices to the adequacy of the diet
Program design effects on SCHIP's enrollment rates
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Abstract: The State Children Health Insurance Program has been around 10 years now, has it fulfill its objective? Making sure that children are not uninsured has been the focus of this program but the statistical evidence shows that the...
I am the periphery: conceptual and material space in Salvador, Brazil's capoeira angola
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To know the reasons behind the geographic placement of capoeira angola works in Salvador, Brazil, the application of models and traditional, economically driven theories of location selection are not enough; one must understand the...
Real-time assessment of microbial quality of salmon treated with natural antimicrobial materials using a novel microrespirometer
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The effectiveness of the CO2 evolution rate (CER) method using a novel microrespirometer was evaluated to determine the effects of soy sauce, white wine, and ginger on the microbial quality of raw salmon and to compare it with the...
Daniel 7, 1 Enoch 14, and 4Q530 all contain a throne-vision with similar characteristics. All three texts feature God enthroned upon a chariot surrounded by numerous heavenly hosts. This tradition can be traced back to the biblical book...
Childhood In Poetry Volume 5 - Index: a catalogue of the books of English and American poets in the Library of the Florida State University. With lists of the poems that relate to childhood and notes
Imitation of adults and peers in a music-play context by children with autism spectrum disorders
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The context of study is the Music-Play Project (MPP), a medical ethnomusicology program for children with ASD and their families that centers on free, exploratory music-play sessions held in a specially designed facility called the E...
Single women in history: an examination of social attitudes and the pressure to marry
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Examining attitudes toward single women and the pressure to marry are important for understanding the increasing population of single women today as well as their experiences throughout history. Given the rise in cohabitation and divorce...
Childhood in poetry: a catalogue of the books of English and American poets in the Library of the Florida State University. With lists of the poems that relate to childhood and notes
Physician power: understanding and exploring physicans' cultural, economic and political power in the United States, Great Britain and Germany
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Physicians have a great deal of power in the United States, and Paul Starr attributes this power to three things: Cultural Authority, Economic Power and Political Power. According to a set of criteria proposed by Starr in The Social...
Light scattering from solutions of mixtures of nanoparticles
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Abstract: Light scattering is a technique used to characterize the physical properties of solutions of nanoparticles. Properties such as the molecular weight, the radius of gyration, and the second virial coefficient can be found with...
Comparative mortuary analysis of early Copper Age burials from the Great Hungarian Plain
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Mortuary analysis in archaeology allows the evaluation of the sociocultural constructs of a society to be inferred from the burial characteristics of graves. The theoretical framework initially set forth by Arthur Saxe (1970) is used in...
Vorticity-based detection of tropical cyclogenesis in the Eastern Pacific Basin
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A vorticity-based detection technique developed by Gierach et al. (2007), which was based on a method developed by Sharp et al. (2002), is tested in the Eastern Pacific basin. The computer program used in this study was a modification by...
Exploratory studies of the helicity difference in double-polarization photo-production at Jefferson Laboratory
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Abstract: Many mysteries remain in the study of excited states of the nucleon. It is expected that photo-production experiments, polarization experiments in particular, will reveal previously unseen information about some of these...
National identity & self definition during the Holocaust
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This project was a historiography of anti-Semitism and its effect on Europe, particularly in German speaking countries leading up to and during World War II and the Holocaust. It focuses on the personal and social identity of Germans and...
Controlling crystalline formation in selectively substituted polyethylenes
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Semi-crystalline polyethylene remains the most widely used polymer material because its properties can be tuned over a wide range by controlling the characteristics of amorphous and crystalline phases, respectively. In this context, ...
The British in colonial India: reformers or preservationists?
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In the context of colonial India, the British who overtook the country were sometimes intent on preserving traditional Indian cultural practices while others saw themselves as reformers who wanted to transform the country along lines...
Development of data analysis for the investigation of the physical properties of polystyrene mixtures
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The use of light scattering theory for the characterization of polymers has been of interest in recent years. The ability for static light scattering measurements to determine physical and thermodynamic properties, such as the molecular...
Characterization of sarcopenic skeletal muscle using MR imaging and spectroscopy
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Abstract: Sarcopenia, defined as the progressive loss of muscle tissue that occurs with aging, is primarily responsible for age-related decreases in muscle strength and power. Accelerating after age 50, sarcopenia leads to functional...
Attributions and gender differences in post-breakup adjustment
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The study of relationship failure and adjustment has fueled the majority of research with the topic of divorce. This study attempts to replicate the findings in divorce studies on attributions and adjustment using 188 college-age...
Nucleon pairing approximations in the nuclear shell model
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Abstract: Despite the relatively simple fundamental laws of nature, the diversity and complexity of our world is astonishing. The many-body problem is at the center of transition from simple microscopic components to macroscopic...
Predicting the initiation of cloud-to-ground lightning
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Thunderstorm echo top height and echo volume are tested for their ability to predict warm season cloud-to-ground (CG) lightning initiation in rural, urban, and marine areas across the southeast United States. Results show that the echo...
Language, before our eyes: practice, rules & meaning in Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations
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This essay is an attempt to present a clear description of some particularly important aspects of Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations, including Wittgenstein's central aim, which is to describe language as a natural phenomenon....
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