Introducing body movement/relaxation awareness in an urban elementary school:...
This case study investigated the planning, implementation, and assessment of a staff development project designed to reduce stress and provide a support base for improved learning by introducing...
View ArticleEffect of pectin on copper bioavailability
The effect of pectin on copper bioavalilability was examined in copper deficient rats. Male weanling, 21 day old Sprague Dawley rats were fed either the control diet (diet 1, 6 mg Cu/Kg diet) or the...
View ArticleMathematics performance and underperformance: Effects of gender and confidence
Boys and men tend to do better in math class and to have higher math confidence than their female classmates. It has been hypothesized that low confidence is a precursor to poor performance. Because...
View ArticleThe staling of long shelf-life bread as determined by thermal analysis
The glassy-rubbery state of bread polymers has been proposed as a key factor contributing to staling. Glassy-rubbery states of bread components as measured by Dynamic Mechanical Analyzer (DMA) in...
View ArticleAdaptive wavelet packets for image and video compression
In this dissertation, we investigate the design of image and video compression algorithms by using adaptive wavelet packet decomposition. For image compression, we present a spatial and frequency...
View ArticleProcess selection for assembled products based on an overall evaluation of...
Design For Manufacturing (DFM) and Design For Assembly (DFA) have become important design philosophies in product design practice. Component process selection and assembly combination decisions are...
View ArticleChristian women's organization in Zimbabwe: Facilitating women's...
Christian women's organizations in Zimbabwe have a long history. Prior to independence, both the Catholic church and the major Protestant denominations had mother's unions or women's clubs. These...
View ArticleImproved manufacturing productivity with recursive constraint bounding
Complexity of manufacturing processes has hindered methodical specification of machine settings for improving productivity. For processes where analytical models are available (e.g., turning and...
View ArticleInvestigations of the superconducting transition in polycrystalline yttrium...
We present results of measurements designed to study superconducting I-V scaling in samples of bulk $\rm YBa\sb2Cu\sb3O\sb{7-\delta}$ with varying morphologies, 1$\mu$m $\rm\leq\langle...
View ArticleNuclear magnetism of pure helium-3 and helium-3--helium-4 mixtures in aerogel
We have carried out a series of NMR experiments on $\sp3$He systems filling the pores of silica aerogel with 95% porosity. The systems studied included $\sp3$He-$\sp4$He mixtures in a wide range of...
View ArticleName management in convergent computing systems: Models, mechanisms and...
Name management--how a computing system allows names to be established for objects, permits objects to be accessed using names, and controls the availability and meaning of names at any point in...
View ArticleThe effects of storytelling and pretend play on cognitive processes,...
This study explored and demonstrated the effects of storytelling and pretend play on short-term and long-term narrative recall. Specifically, this study examined and identified the cognitive changes...
View ArticleA cultural studies approach to the social history of film: A case study of...
Historical investigation of film audiences and conditions of reception is an underdeveloped area of inquiry, limited by models of spectatorship and mass culture that construct audiences in passive and...
View ArticleIntegrating event- and state-based approaches to the debugging of parallel...
This dissertation presents a comprehensive solution to the problem of debugging of parallel programs. The proposed strategy employs an event-based modeling phase at the highest level where gross...
View ArticleCritique in aesthetic ideology: Aesthetic politics in Romanticism and...
This dissertation addresses an intensely contested issue in the Romantic and postmodern imaginations: the relation of literary aesthetics to political critique. Examining the aesthetic theories of...
View ArticleThe contextual usefulness of financial statement analysis in predicting...
In the past two decades considerable research in finance and accounting has focused on the forecasting of accounting earnings. Financial practitioners and academics alike have long been interested in...
View ArticleFactors influencing creativity in top executives
The challenges of the turbulent environment facing most top executives today, the need for creative skills at every level in organizations and at the top in particular, and the lack of clear...
View ArticleThe construction of gendered character in eighteenth-century British women's...
This study is an examination of how gendered characters in eighteenth-century British women's fiction are constructed and challenged. The novels under study are Eliza Haywood's The History of Miss...
View ArticleSynergistic properties of poly(ethylene 2,6-naphthalate) fibers blended with...
This dissertation discusses the formulation, processing, and properties of blends of semi-flexible thermotropic liquid crystalline polymer (TLCP) copolyesters within a matrix of poly(ethylene...
View ArticleMPM-2 reactive sperm tail phosphoproteins: Isolation, localization and role...
MPM-2, a monoclonal antibody specific for phosphorylated epitopes of mitotic proteins, has been used to identify unique 75-85 kD proteins of the mammalian sperm tail, named MPM-2 reactive sperm tail...
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