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Ocean transport of heat is a substantial component of the climate system but its characteristics and dynamic causes are still somewhat unknown. Prior research has shown that global observations from the ocean and atmosphere indicate that...
Research on adolescent substance abuse treatment effectiveness has grown in quantity, as evidenced by several review articles (Deas & Thomas, 2001; Muck, Zempolich, Titus, Fishman, Godley, & Schwebel, 2001; Williams & Chang, 2000). The...
Statisticians often encounter data in the form of a combination of discrete and continuous outcomes. A special case is zero-inflated longitudinal data where the response variable has a large portion of zeros. These data exhibit...
This study explores the expression of Christian fellowship in the home. The purpose of this study is to gain an understanding of how Christians today express koinonia, the Greek term used in New Testament scripture to describe the church...
When considering computer processors, there is a trade-off between performance and power; improved performance does not typically come without an increase in power. Similarly, the reduction of power often times means a reduction in...
The first essay conducts robustness analysis on Gali's (1999) results. Following Gali's identification strategy, the model is extended to the sectoral level within the private sector. The paper also looks at the two important breaks, ...
In this thesis, we discuss the development of a new Boids system that simulates flocking behavior inside the Blender Game Engine and within the framework of the Real-Time Par- ticles System (RTPS) library developed by Ian Johnson. The...
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...
Examining the Sustainability of Research-Based Practices in Rural Elementary Schools after Program Funding Ends: A Case Study of Four First Grade Teachers
This paper describes a qualitative case study designed to investigate research-based practices as a contemporary phenomenon within the real-life context of schools. Selected first grade teacher perceptions of research based practices and...
Catalog from the 26th Annual Tallahassee International featuring the artists Laurie Joan Aron, Michael J. Bauman, Ashley Kathleen Bell, David S. Bogus, Jeff Briggs, James H. Calvin, Xuan Chen, Sue Danielson, Colleen C. Ellis, Patricia...
Secular gains in intelligence test scores have perplexed researchers since they were documented by Flynn (1984, 1987), but few have attempted to understand them as a cognitive phenomenon. Gains are most pronounced on seemingly "culture...
This dissertation studies the size- and site-dependent optical and magnetic properties of II-VI quantum dots (QDs). The first chapter provides a theoretical background used to analyze the data and the properties expected for diluted...
Informing a test taker about the presence of MMPI-2 validity scales has been shown to facilitate one's ability to dissimulate while simultaneously eluding test invalidation (Baer & Sekirnjak, 1997; Baer & Wetter, 1997; Baer, Wetter, &...
Local economic development is in transition to "green economic development." Local governments in the U.S. and other countries have adopted a variety of policy tools to promote green economic development and are appying them to to their...
In the Aftermath of the September 11th attacks, the fear of apocalyptic terrorism has caused many Americans and academics worldwide to reexamine previously held beliefs on the morality and suitability of torture as a means of ensuring...
This dissertation offers an answer to the question of how the Midwest, specifically the middle Mississippi Valley, came to be the American heartland. In this dissertation, I argue that evangelicalism was instrumental in the making of the...
This project is an examination of the War against al-Qaeda from the field of religious ethics. In response to September Eleventh, the United States has spent the last decade fighting a war against a diffuse and elusive network of...
The concurrent rising rates of two societal concerns, rising rates of obesity along with increasing reports of parental indulgence, make it imperative to look at these issues in tandem. Not only has obesity become a national epidemic, ...
Maritime archaeological sites located in the inter-tidal zone are common throughout the world. Such sites are difficult to investigate yet their state of preservation often provides unique archaeological data unavailable on most...
Predictions regarding the excited baryon spectrum provided by symmetric quark models called Constituent Quark Models (CQMs) show good agreement with experimental measurements in the low-energy region (less than ≈ 1.8 GeV). The mass...
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...
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...
Too often, the reasoning behind why individuals choose to immigrate tends to be a most important side of the story that is neglected in the midst of the political discourse over the controversies surrounding the topic of immigration, ...
Southern Alaska crustal exposures provide an excellent opportunity to study the growth of collisional continental margins through the processes of terrane accretion, magmatism, accretionary prism development, and subduction of oceanic...
For this dissertation, four item purification procedures were implemented onto the generalized linear mixed model for differential item functioning (DIF) analysis, and the performance of these item purification procedures was...
In the natural world there are things we call 'syndromes'. Depression is an example of a syndrome. There are many forms of depression, but generally, people with depression suffer from a subset of several unpleasant symptoms, such as...
This article subjects a randomized controlled trial published in the American Journal of Psychiatry to a methodological and statistical critique, including a re-analysis of the effect size statistics presented. The published trial tested...
The focus of this thesis is to provide a critical examination of the movement of culture jamming through a primary reading of activist group The Yes Men. The Yes Men as the primary focus, and the movement of culture jamming as the...
Woman by the Water and Other Stories is a collection of four short stories that range in setting from a touristy beach town in the Florida Gulf to a party school in northern Appalachia, and from old-fashioned Midwestern suburbia to a...
Solution-Phase Hydrogen/Deuterium Exchnage Monitored by Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance Mass Spectrometry: Technique Development and Application to Muscle Biochemistry
Proteins are vital macromolecules of every living cell. They undertake a variety of tasks that are essential for life. Most proteins function in assemblies rather than individually. Protein function is strongly correlated to structure...
The poems in Dear Exorcist are derived from my own experience. The poems portray the struggle of working class individuals as well as my desire for self-actualization after recovering from physical, spiritual, and verbal abuse. As...
This dissertation presents three papers that can be generally categorized as political economy. Though they differ in topic and methodology, a unifying theme is accountability. The first two papers focus on political accountability and...
Muscle contraction is regulated at the thin filament level by tropomyosin (Tm) and the troponin complex (Tn). Tm is an α-helical coiled coil protein that forms a continuous strand on the actin filament through end-end interactions with...
Human glucokinase is a 52 kDa single polypeptide chain containing 465 amino acids and a single binding site. It catalyzes the ATP dependent phosphorylation of glucose in the beta pancreatic cells, which ultimately serves as the glucose...
In this dissertation, I investigate the representations of Saladin in English textual representations from the medieval period to the present, beginning with the romance, King Richard in the fourteenth-century codex, Edinburgh, National...
A multitude of studies have examined key factors influencing college or university selection by student-athletes. Much less attention, however, has been given to the roles of athletic recruiters and how their qualities and...
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