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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....
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 Association of Leptin and Adiponectin with Bone and Body Composition during a Six Month Weight Loss Period in Overweight and Obese Postmenopausal Women
Osteoporosis and obesity are well-known public health concerns, particularly for postmenopausal women. Recently, an increasing research interest has been focused on the adipocyte-secreted hormones, leptin and adiponectin, as potential...
Systems with critical functionality and are prone to damage due to excessive stress level from operation conditions and working environment requires health monitoring. Condition or health monitoring involves acquiring data that can be...
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....
Three troponin T (TnT) mutants that cause hypertrophic, restrictive, and dilated cardiomyopathy (I79N, ΔE96, and ΔK210, respectively), were examined using the thin-filament extraction/reconstitution technique. Effects of Ca(2+), ATP, ...
While the maternal and infant health benefits of breastfeeding are greatly supported by research, breastfeeding rates in the United States remain sub-optimal. Increasing the prevalence of infant breastfeeding is an important public...
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...
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...
Previous research examining decisions to shoot using computer simulations has found that people tend to be biased toward shooting Black suspects (i.e., participants tend to be quick to shoot Black suspects and to mistakenly shoot unarmed...
This article addresses the impact of financial literacy on high school students' financial decisions. To analyze the impact, financial literacy information was provided to the treatment group and the treatment and control group discussed...
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...
Fish provides a valuable source of many essential nutrients. However, it is also one of the "Big Eight" allergenic foods that account for more than 90% of food allergic reactions, so reliable detection of its presence is crucial. The...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
With the increase of dual language learners in the United States, high efficacy service delivery to this group is a pertinent issue in speech-language pathology. There is a need for research addressing the social validity of empirically...
I examine how an audit client's political contributions influence the auditor-client relationship. Prior research suggests opposing forces from political contributions on the auditor's assessment of audit risk. Prior research also...
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...
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...
This evaluation assesses the Alternative Route to Licensure (ARL) program of the Clark County School District (CCSD), in Clark County, Nevada from the program participants' perspectives. The program was implemented to reduce teacher...
The three major research questions are: What factors influence ridership for different types of transit systems? Is there a relationship between transit system design and accessibility? Does one type of transit system design provide...
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...
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...
Research has shown that pragmatic understanding allows children to appropriately communicate and form peer relationships. Hearing loss (HL) in early childhood may lead to immature or delayed social communication due to an early lack of...
Can Value Properties Earn Their Keep? The Metaphysics of Value Supposing they exist, what work are value properties supposed to do? What difference do they make? What is the difference between a world in which they exist and a world in...
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...
PURPOSE: Objective 1 - To determine whether trained cyclists exhibit lower bone mineral density (BMD) than recreational cyclists. Objectives 2&3 - To determine the effects of 12 weeks supplementation with calcium collagen chelate (CCC)...
Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR) offer an adaptive immune system that protects bacteria and archaea from nucleic acid invaders through an RNA-mediated nucleic acid cleavage mechanism. Our knowledge of...
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...
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