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In recent years, NASA has become interested in densified fuels such as solid hydrogen. A change from liquid to solid-state fuel storage would result in an approximately 15% smaller onboard fuel tank, and thus a lower gross vehicle lift...
The Oregon Bach Festival completed its thirty-fifth season of performances in Eugene, Oregon on Sunday, July 11, 2004. Beginning as a summer school program organized by Royce Saltzman in 1970 at the University of Oregon, the Festival's...
The effects of early self-concept on social adjustment as defined by the development of interest in romantic relationships, twin relations and substance use in adolescent girls
Solid-state carbon-13 nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy has come to be considered the pre-eminent analytical technique for the study of soil organic matter in its entirety. Despite its widespread use, carbon-13 CP-MAS NMR of...
In this study, two kinds of methodology are proposed for incorporating total column zone data from the Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) into initial conditions of a mesoscale prediction model. The first methodology is based on the...
My thesis is that a realistic image of a human face can be generated using a computational simulation of light transport. I demonstrate this thesis by acquiring the three-dimensional geometry of a face, measuring the reflectance function...
Much research, including that by Koreans (e.g., Yoon & Kim, 1999; Mo, 1999), agrees on two major points relating to the inequitable and unequal condition of women in the scientific community: 1) the fact that the under-representation of...
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...
In recent years, studies have shown that independent/sparse components of local windows of natural images resemble the receptive fields of cells in the early stages of the mammalian visual pathway. However, the role of the independence...
NCEP multi-sensor hourly rainfall data and ground-baed GPS zenith total delay (ZTD) were used for data assimilation and evaluation of quantitative precipitation forecasts (QPFs) through three case studies. Improvements in QPFs were...
The purpose of this study was to gain knowledge and insight into how student- and school-level factors impact mathematics performance. Within the school and student systems, there are numerous variables that can have significant impacts...
In this thesis, an approach is proposed for the design and implementation of fuzzy traffic controllers using Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs).The focus of this study is to develop an effective traffic signaling strategy to be...
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a lyric analysis and group discussion vs. other music therapy techniques, on values clarification and decision- making styles of adolescent delinquents. Eighteen middle school...
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...
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'...
Small intestinal submucosa (SIS) is an extracellular matrix (ECM) harvested from pig. It contains primarily collagen with multiple proteins and growth factors. It is a biocompatible scaffold that supports cell growth in vitro and can be...
Diabetes is a significant problem in the health care arena today, impacting morbidity and mortality. Approximately 1.3 million people aged 20 years or older are newly diagnosed each year with diabetes. Additionally, obesity, has now...
Previous published investigations into the relationship between the menstrual cycle and sport behavior have focused on physiological variables associated with incidence of injury, specifically ACL laxity. More recent research has begun...
As composite materials gain wider acceptance within the transportation industry, it is pertinent to investigate the available coating processes with a view to reduce emissions and associated costs. Current painting processes are not only...
This analysis provides a fact-based examination of the doctrine of nationalism and its idol, the national interest, couched within the context of twentieth century wartime presidential speeches and writings. What is significant about...
With current computational limitations, the accuracy of high resolution precipitation forecasts has limited temporal and spatial resolutions. Forecast accuracy drops dramatically after a 24 hour forecast. Current operational mesoscale...
A multiple baseline design across participants was used to investigate the effects of reciprocal questioning strategy instruction delivered in cooperative pairs on the reading comprehension of children with autism spectrum disorder....
The purpose of this study was to determine if the leadership style of retail executives was related to the perceived benefits of electronic data interchange (EDI). Data for this study was collected online. Two previously validated...
An abundance of research has focused on clients' expectations regarding psychotherapy, yet there is still little consensus regarding the implications of that research. One of the primary problems associated with past research on therapy...
This thesis examines an assemblage of artifacts recovered from the U.S. Army Transport Maple Leaf. This assemblage was part of a cargo of baggage from three regiments of Union Army troops sent to Florida in 1864. The U.S. Sanitary...
Statistical guidance equations are developed to determine the probability of noon to midnight lightning activity (the occurrence or non occurrence of at least one flash) in eastern Miami-Dade and Broward Counties during the warm season ...
Rooted in the cultural, social, and material circumstances of the last forty years, there appears to have been an increase in the insecurities and anxieties that are being experienced by many in the working and middle class. The source...
Between 1861 and 1865 Florida placed 15, 000 of its citizens under the Confederate banner. Nearly 6, 000 of these civilians-turned-soldiers, in six regiments, would see service in the Western theater, or the area encompassing the lands...
Interviews conducted with teachers and students suggest that girls may accumulate more physical activity receiving physical education class separate from boys. Few studies have actually measured student's physical activity levels in...
The purpose of this treatise is to assemble a performer's guide to the subject of baroque ornamentation and free improvisation, the cadenza in the classical concerto, and the aleatoric, indeterminate and improvisatory music of the late...
Pulsed gas phase corona discharge was studied as a possible new technology for the removal of nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds from contaminated gases. The combination of pulsed positive streamer corona discharge with a...
In My Own Hands is a novel that follows the life of Abbie, a young woman with an overbearing, needy mother and absentee father. As a young child Abbie witnesses the abuse of her mother at the hands of her biological father. While seh...
Although many attempts have been made to construct an economically feasible Fault Current Limiter (FCL), no FCL has yet been widely accepted by the power industry. This thesis presents a novel fault current limiter for power system...
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