Summarizing high-risk drug use behavior for HIV infection among intravenous...
Intravenous drug use is now associated with one-third of all new AIDS cases reported in the U.S. Factors associated with HIV transmission among intravenous drug users (IVDUs) include the frequency of...
View ArticlePolymorphic multiple-processor networks
Many existing multiple-processor architectures are designed to efficiently exploit parallelism in a specific narrow range, where the extremes are fine-grained data parallelism and coarse-grained...
View Article'Perestroika' and the politics of the Revolutionary Left in Latin America
The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the impact of Soviet perestroika and foreign policy "new thinking" on the Revolutionary Left in Cuba, Nicaragua and El Salvador. Chapters on each of...
View ArticleConcerns of southeastern Massachusetts elementary school principals regarding...
Participative decision making has been identified as a crucial aspect of current American public school restructure efforts. The calls for school improvement through collective decision making by the...
View ArticleBlack alumnae of predominantly white colleges: Their effect upon the...
Black alumnae are a major resource for informed opinion about the experiences of Black students on predominantly white college campuses. Their wisdom, energy, knowledge and support have remained...
View ArticleMetaphysical havens as sexual fantasy: Epistemological and sexual...
This study expands the definition of British Modernism by interweaving an epistemological analysis with issues of sexual construction in the following texts: Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure, Joseph...
View ArticleMotivation and commitment among adult learners enrolled in an Adult Basic...
This research project emerged from the researcher's work as an adult basic education instructor in a community learning center. With an inordinately high attrition rate (over seventy percent), the...
View ArticleEvaluation of the weighted least squares method for the analysis of...
Hypotheses about the relationship among variables in a multiway contingency table may be tested by analysis of the probability distribution of observed frequencies or transformation of these...
View ArticlePredicting the effect of instance representations on inductive learning
The ability to generalize from examples depends on the algorithm employed for learning and the instance representation used to describe the examples to the learning algorithm. Recently a considerable...
View ArticleDisagreement in the parent-physician relationship and control of childhood...
This study explored Disagreement in the parent-physician relationship in ideas about a child's asthma and its course of treatment as a potential cause of the difficulty for parents in maintaining...
View ArticleThe orientation of low-molecular weight nematic liquid crystals in transverse...
The orientation of nematic liquid crystals in electrical fields is commonplace in flat-panel watch and calculator displays. In 99% of these devices, the optical path and the electrical field are...
View ArticleLocally organized text generation
In this thesis I present an architecture for generating extended text. This architecture is implemented in a system, Salix, which incrementally generates natural language texts whose structure is...
View ArticleThe worker's fallback position, rate of wage change, and its cyclical...
This dissertation investigates the effect of the worker's fallback position on the wage determination process, specifically, on the wage slowdown in the 1980s. It is argued that the failure of the...
View ArticleTranscellular membrane protein polarity of bovine aortic endothelial cells in...
This project dissects the transcellular membrane protein polarity of bovine aortic endothelial cell monolayers in vitro with respect to the roles that the submembranous cytoskeleton and tight...
View ArticleA truncated bag model of hadrons
The mode sum in bag model field operators is truncated for the purpose of studying higher order effects of QCD in a cavity. A perturbation theory method is developed in order to calculate higher order...
View ArticleRegional and global diversity patterns of deep-sea gastropods in the Atlantic...
This dissertation is the first critical analysis of patterns of species diversity in a deep-sea taxon (the Gastropoda) on a global scale. My analysis is based on 85 epibenthic sled samples collected...
View ArticleExact solutions for stress analysis of transversely isotropic elastic layers
The general equations for the elastic analysis of transversely isotropic materials are written in a form which allows all orders of derivatives to be calculated. The displacements and stresses are...
View ArticleSynthetic and X-ray structural studies of pentabenzylcyclopentadienyl...
An improved synthetic route to pentabenzylcyclopentadiene, $\rm C\sb5Bz\sb5H$, has been developed. Both pentabenzylcyclopentadiene and an isomer were obtained depending on the reaction conditions....
View ArticleStereochemical aspects of Ziegler-Natta catalysts
The advent of MgCl$\sb2$ supported Ti catalysts and more recently the chiral ansa-bridged metallocene homogeneous systems has sparked interest concerning the stereochemical nature of these two classes...
View ArticleDesigning, implementing, and evaluating a staff development project to...
This dissertation describes the design, implementation and assessment of a staff development project to develop a cooperative whole language approach. The foundation for this staff development project...
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