Biographies of black female scientists and inventors. An interdisciplinary...
The purpose of this study is to gather and present biographies on afro-american female scientists and inventors to be used in interdisciplinary units of core curriculum. Black female students without...
View ArticleFlow injection vapor generation techniques for atomic spectrometric detection
The goal of this research has been to enhance vapor generation techniques for atomic spectrometry--particularly for atomic absorption spectrometry--through more fundamental examinations of gas-liquid...
View ArticleTraining preschool teachers to promote reciprocal interactions between...
Promising technologies are being developed to increase the levels of reciprocal interactions between typical children and those with autism and other developmental delays. Research in this area,...
View ArticleBayesian estimation of surface information from radar images
The dissertation presents a method for deriving the shape of a surface from a radar image of the surface. An appropriate model of radar image formation is derived from physical principles. A Bayesian...
View ArticleAn essay in the art of economic cooperation: Cooperative enterprise and...
This dissertation introduces a political economic analysis of Social Reproduction. It ultimately focuses in on cooperative entrepreneurship as part of a strategy of urban industrialization which can...
View ArticleAn analysis of the impact of Honig v. Doe and the Massachusetts discipline...
This study traces the judicial history and educational impact of Honig v. Doe, the Supreme Court decision concerning the suspension of special needs students. In addition, the related Massachusetts...
View ArticleThe perception of risk for non-lethal events and its relation to risk-taking...
A frequently used safety device is the safety sign. Despite its frequent use, it is often found to be ineffective in modifying consumer behavior. Those areas of research that are related to safety...
View ArticleThe process and content of community education for participatory community...
This study begins by reviewing the literature on community education, identifying two major strands, the progressive, exemplified by Elsie Ripley Clapp, and the conservative. The literature on citizen...
View ArticleRouting in high-speed networks
In the 1990s, significant advances in fiber optic and switching technology have precipitated the current explosion in the amount of research in future high-speed networks. The challenges facing...
View ArticleA comparison of the hypnotic experience between signing deaf and hearing...
Hypnosis has traditionally been a therapeutic tool for hearing clients. This has not been true for deaf people. Though it has long been accepted that hypnotic response can occur with eyes open focused...
View ArticleChallenges of faith and family in the lives of defense workers
This is a contemporary examination of the challenges that religion provides to workers in the defense industry, and, in turn, less explicitly, to their families. The challenges of prophetic religion...
View ArticleThe Massachusetts Equal Educational Opportunity grants: Have they contributed...
It is generally recognized that disparities both in funding and the quality of educational services exist among school districts throughout the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Using the property tax as...
View ArticleMeasurement of the threshold electrodisintegration of the deuteron
The threshold electrodisintegration of the deuteron has been measured at momentum transfers of $Q\sp2$ = 8.7, 20.3, 31.3, 35.5, and 41.7 fm$\sp{-2},$ for electron beam energies of 347, 574, 750, 813,...
View ArticleFrom information-oriented Geographic Information Systems toward...
The purpose of this research is to determine how Geographic Information Systems (GISs) can be modified for more efficient use in land use planning and design. While information-oriented GIS technology...
View ArticleStresses associated with transport in polymeric films
The experimental technique of real time holographic interferometry has been developed to measure the transport properties of polymers. The application of holographic interferometry is to measure...
View ArticleStochastic facility layout planning and traffic flow network design
This dissertation is concerned with a facility layout and traffic flow network design problem where the focus is on assigning activities to locations in order to minimize the congestion within a...
View ArticleIntracellular calcium signaling in nucleotide stimulated porcine aortic...
Individual smooth muscle cells respond in a dose dependent manner to extracellular ATP with an immediate initial transient rise followed by oscillations in (Ca$\sp{2+}$) $\sb{\rm i}$ that are...
View ArticleFacilitating and hindering factors pertaining to completion of an associate...
A new national welfare reform, Family Support Act of 1988, has created relentless pressure among Welfare organizations to provide training for its recipients in preparation to make the transition from...
View ArticleRicardo Palma y Julian del Casal: Dos autores revalorados
During the latter part of the 19th century, the Peruvian writer Ricardo Palma's Tradiciones peruanas, and the Cuban writer Julian del Casal's literary criticism, were widely read by many Latin...
View ArticleEffects of visual feedback and strength of contraction on electromyographic...
The reliability of the surface electromyogram (EMG) for isometric maximum voluntary contractions has not been well established. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of providing...
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