Phase behavior and transreaction studies of model...
The goal of this thesis is to quantitatively study the relationship between interchange reaction and blend phase behavior in polyester/bisphenol-A-polycarbonate (PC) blends. Before transreaction...
View ArticleEntanglement in polymeric systems
Entanglement is one of the most important--but poorly understood--effects that occur in polymeric materials of high molecular weight. This work studies aspects of three long-standing...
View ArticleElementary school teachers' lives and careers: An interview study of physical...
This study addressed two questions: (a) In what ways do elementary school teachers describe the interaction of their personal lives and teaching careers over time, and (b) what aspects of their job...
View ArticleThe effects of annealing and shear flow on texture growth, mechanical...
The effect of annealing and shear deformation on the microstructure change, mechanical properties change, and nematic liquid crystalline to isotropic phase transition temperature, has been studied...
View ArticleUnderstanding mainstreaming through the definitions of all participants: A...
This study examined the definitions of mainstreaming handicapped students into the regular classroom by a variety of people involved in the process and within a single setting. Each participant's...
View ArticleBiology and control of chestnut blight disease caused by Cryphonectria...
One hundred and two virulent (V) strains of Cryphonectria parasitica were isolated from chestnut blight cankers on American chestnut trees (Castanea dentata) in western Massachusetts, and vegetative...
View ArticleInteractions between clonal asparagus plantlets and virulent and avirulent...
Fusarium oxysporum was isolated most frequently, followed by F. moniliforme, and F. solani from infected asparagus plants grown in the field. In pathogenicity tests both with seedlings and plantlets,...
View ArticleStructure and star forming activities of the cold, massive molecular cloud...
We have studied the gas and dust properties and the star forming activity in G216-2.5 (also called Maddalena's cloud), a cold, massive GMC that has no evidence for star formation. We have mapped 11...
View ArticleGrowth and self-assembly of macromolecular systems
In the first part of this thesis, we consider the physical phenomena accompanying the growth of highly branched polymers through computer simulation. The resultant dendritic molecules have unique...
View ArticleThe inner world of shyness: An exploration of object relations in shy college...
The relationship between object relations (the internal basis for the capacity to relate) and shyness in college students was studied. In part one, 150 male and female subjects were administered the...
View ArticleIonomeric blends of pyridine containing polymers with sulfonated PET
An investigation of acid-base interactions and zinc transition-metal complexations in ionomeric blends of sulfonated poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) with pyridine containing polymers will be...
View ArticleDesign with spatial relationships and tolerance specification and propagation...
In designing a product, the product specifications are developed first which conceptually constrain the geometry and functions of the product. Subsequently, its components are designed with the form...
View ArticlePersistence patterns among Latino students attending community colleges: An...
This exploratory study examines the persistence patterns of Latino students attending a two-year college in North Central Massachusetts. Thirty-three persisting students participated in this study....
View ArticleThe use of a practicum seminar led by an urban practicum advisor (UPA) to...
Many new secondary teachers will begin their careers in urban schools because so many vacancies exist there. Because secondary urban teacher education programs are virtually extinct, many teachers...
View ArticleA practical visionary: Mary Emma Woolley and the education of women
This dissertation is a study of the professional life and, to a lesser extent, the personal life of Mary Emma Woolley (1863-1947), an American educator, feminist, social reformer, peace activist, and...
View ArticleForced convection heat transfer from pin fin arrays
Extended surfaces in the form of fins are widely used to enhance heat dissipation from a surface. A review of the literature revealed that there exists considerable experience in experimental and...
View ArticleEvolution and population dynamics of natural transformation in Haemophilus...
Genetic mixis, or sexuality, in bacteria is well understood at the molecular level, yet the evolutionary forces ultimately responsible for the origin and maintenance of bacterial sex remain obscure....
View ArticleElementary school teachers' opinions regarding the purposes and...
Elementary school teachers serve a key role in the use and interpretation of standardized achievement test batteries (SATBs). If this role is to be properly exercised, teachers must be willing and...
View ArticleIch suche ein unschuldiges Land: Reading history in the poetry of Ingeborg...
"Ich suche ein unschuldiges Land": Reading History in the Poetry of Ingeborg Bachmann" reads the discourse on fascism as one among multiple discourses in the poetry (1948-1967) of the postwar Austrian...
View ArticleAn analysis of multiracial change efforts in student affairs
Student affairs divisions at colleges and universities across the nation are currently implementing a variety of programmatic responses to develop multiracial campus environments. The purpose of this...
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