The well-being way process [electronic resource] : re-claiming wellness / (2007)
Lewis, Patrick J., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
This paper is an evaluation of the Well-Being Way process as a means to enhance wellness. Using literature to re-claim wellness; personal growth, subjective vitality, self-determination and life...
Halbert, Sarah Anne., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
A few research studies have suggested that collegiate coaches may be important people in regard to injured athletes' ability to cope with the emotional stress of injury and to successfully re-enter...
Bullying and victimization [electronic resource] : school climate matters / (2007)
Elfstrom, Jennifer L., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Bullying at school is prevalent in the United States and worldwide, but little is known about the relationship between students' experiences with bullying and their perceptions of school climate....
Abu-Baker, Shadi., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Solid-state NMR spectroscopic techniques were used to investigate two significant membrane proteins, phospholamban (PLB) and Saposin C (Sap C). For the first protein, analysis of the 2H and 31P...
Carr, Christopher., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Rock climbing surged in popularity in the 80's and 90's, leading to ecological impacts. This study developed a procedure manual and measured the impact at 16 climb areas, totaling 241 climbs. Mapping...
Townsend, Alayna Evon., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The purpose of this study was to determine differences in the use of book-related target vocabulary by teachers in traditional dramatic play centers versus the use of book- related target vocabulary...
Unified simulation and modeling paradigm description language [electronic resource] / (2007)
Medepalli, Sateesh V., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Complex systems such as web servers and computer networks have several components like network switches, micro-processors, digital signal processors and software protocols working with these modules....
Hopper, Gretchen Lee, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The purpose of this study was to begin the investigation of determining whether or not performing from memory improves intonation on trombone. One practice strategy associated with music memorization...
Arnold, Martin Keith Jr., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The purpose of this study is to examine the performance capabilities and scaling behavior of short channel Ge-based n-MOSFETs using a commercial numerical device simulator from ISE Corporation. This...
Yakey, Abigail Brodrick., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The purpose of this study was to observe typically developing children ages 6 to 18 months during feeding times and to study trends between foot pressures and awake arousal and attention levels. Ten...
Metabolic functions of prolactin in the mouse [electronic resource] / (2007)
LaPensee, Christopher Ryan, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
PRL is a 23 kDa hormone produced primarily in the pituitary that is best recognized for its lactogenic activity. However, PRL is also involved in the regulation of metabolic homeostasis in many...
Nguyen, Thach-Mien Duong., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Food-derived heterocyclic aromatic amines (HCAs) such as imidazo pyridine (PhIP), are metabolically activated to form hydroxylamine and then enzymatically transformed into the ultimate mutagenic and...
Zinc oxide thin films for dye-sensitized solar cell applications [electronic resource] / (2007)
Zhang, Rong., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
This thesis presents selected methodologies developed in our laboratory for growing ZnO thin films by chemical bath deposition (CBD), as well as ZnO films applications for dye-sensitized solar cells....
Mediating between icon and experience [electronic resource] / (2007)
Schonhardt, Donald A., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
As a result of globalization, mass communication, and a consumer culture obsessed with the powerful yet fleeting impact of the image, a clear transformation has occurred in our sensory and perceptual...
A Role conflict theory of religious change [electronic resource] : an explanation and test / (2007)
Cragun, Ryan T., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Two trends in the religious makeup of the U.S. that have received little attention from sociologists of religion are the increasing number of people who leave the religion in which they were raised...
Women and migration in Ohio and Oaxaca [electronic resource] / (2007)
Delaney, Sheli C., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Abstract This research project consists of 18 life history interviews with women from the rural community of La Barra, Oaxaca in Mexico. My main research question asks what are some of the...
Urban poverty and church viability [electronic resource] / (2007)
Kelley, Thomas., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The purpose of this study is to determine the viability of churches located in high poverty neighborhoods in an urban area. This study is meant contribute to Wilson's discussion of the instability of...
Tuncel-Kara, E. Setenay., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Musculoskeletal disorders (MSD) and stress disorders (SD) are two major issues in terms of economic and health burdens in manufacturing organizations. Previous studies on the effectiveness of...
Sexton, Stephanie A., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Background. Individuals suffering from allergic disorders may be able to reduce symptoms by reducing their environmental exposures. Objective. (1) Determine use of allergen avoidance methods (AAM) in...
Andereck, Zachary Dean., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
This thesis examines slope failure probability and the infrastructure at risk from slope failure on the Eastern Caribbean island of Dominica. Through a case study of the villages of Grand Fond,...
Johnson, Richard Russell, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The present study was a preliminary exploration into how state troopers develop suspicion upon which to base their searches of motor vehicles during traffic stop encounters. Utilizing a qualitative...
Stock, Kathryn M., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The purpose of this study was to identify case load size, utilization of services, overall stress levels and the overall clinical perspectives of rehabilitation professionals working with end-of-life...
Sink, Holli E., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
An emphasis on using peer interventions to reduce bullying has led researchers to investigate effective ways of encouraging youths to take a stand against bullying. The present study investigated the...
Priestaf, Starra Marie., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
In Michel de Montaigne's Essais the subject often retires from society in order to address questions of selfhood. The problems of autonomy and self-knowledge permeate the subject's quest. In...
Howard, Shewanee D., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
While previous research has examined the experiences of Black women in academe, the current project seeks to determine how Black female faculty members experience teaching in the Black female body,...
Nichols, Angela R., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
In the past decade, there has been an increasing demand for the development of high academic standards for students, evaluation of student outcomes, and increased teacher accountability. Although the...
The Impact of a bidder workshop on self-efficacy [electronic resource] / (2007)
Foster, Warren R., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The Problem This study addresses the shortage of successful bids to build and restore the schools of this large Midwestern Urban School District (The District) from Minority and Women-owned Business...
Vierheller, Pamela Diane., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) are considered important for proper neural system development and functioning in humans. Additionally, there is evidence that the ratio of omega-3 to omega-6 fatty...
Syntactic and semantic role of ornament in architecture [electronic resource] / (2007)
Bothireddy, Haritha, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The investigation on the shift in the role of ornament as a semantic and syntactic element in architecture focuses mainly on design processes of renowned architects Carlo Scarpa and Peter Eisenman....
Pelz, Zachary L., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Growing concerns of congestion in Cincinnati's Eastern Corridor have prompted decision-makers to examine the feasibility of a multi-modal approach to provide a solution to this problem. Two...
Jin, Peng., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are of major concern because of their toxicity to human health and to natural ecology. The co-presence of heavy metal wastes may hinder or prevent the...
Bafna, Shekhar., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Chromates used as pretreatments for metals and as anti-corrosive pigments in primers have been found to be a strong carcinogen and hence there is considerable pressure from environmentalists and...
Smith, Kent James., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The ontogenetic development of cold-hardening associated with diapause was examined in feeding and wandering larval stages of the flesh fly, Sarcophaga crassipalpis. Cold tolerance was greatest for...
Sharma, Narayan Prasad., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Zinc-containing metallo-B-lactamases (MBLs) are an emerging class of enzymes that render bacteria resistant to B-lactam-containing antibiotics, and these enzymes have been grouped into 3 distinct...
Molas, María Lía., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Plants direct their growth in response to unidirectional light, while aerial parts curve toward light (i.e. positive phototropism), roots typically grow away from light (i.e. negative phototropism)....
Shukla, Manasi Narendra., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
We previously showed that HRPAP20, a novel PRL-regulated phosphoprotein, augmented proliferation and survival in rat Nb2 lymphoma and human MCF-7 breast cancer cell lines (Cancer Res. 64:1016, 2004)....
Brunson-Evans, Latiera., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
This qualitative research study investigated how images of youth in hip hop culture influenced the academic identities and experiences of eighth grade students who differed in terms of their gender...
Nonlinear dynamics of controlled slipping clutches [electronic resource] / (2007)
OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
In this research, the nonlinear dynamics of a slip-controlled torque converter clutch (TCC) system has been studied. Equilibrium continuation of a system model, with conventional, or simple...
Elgar in Cincinnati [electronic resource] : Mysticism, Britishness, and Modernity / (2007)
Padgett, Austin D., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Edward Elgar visited Cincinnati to conduct the 1906 May Festival, which was a critical event for the future of the organization. Theodore Thomas, the festival's founding director, had recently died....
Toombs, David E., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Architecture that separates building elements into distinct levels of permanence to consciously create the capacity for change within the built environment follows an open building approach. Digital...
Colerain township zoning amendment case [electronic resource] : ZA2006-04 / (2007)
McMahan, Kevin Joseph., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
In late 2005, owners of Rumpke, Inc. decided to "expand" their Colerain Township landfill. This report analyzes the zone amendment process for Ohio townships. Case: ZA2006-04 is studied to determine...
Janarthanan, Arun., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Controllers implemented as Finite-State Machines (FSMs) are an important component of FPGA designs. These FSMs can be implemented on embedded memory blocks (SEMBs) in current FPGAs. This approach, in...
Defining the zeitgeist [electronic resource] : a search for process in architecture/ (2007)
Kleck, Tyler Matthew., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
If past ideologies such as modernism or neo-classicism were considered to be defendable, if not appropriate, academic responses to the social and architectural climate of their time then there must...
Adult day service across Indiana [electronic resource] : results of a statewide survey / (2007)
Garnet, Beverly N., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Adult Day Service (ADS) is an important link in the continuum of care for many elders and their families. This thesis addresses an information gap concerning who uses ADS in Indiana and is based on...
Ganti, Manjari., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
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Keener, Mary Hilston., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
This dissertation presents three essays that examine the usefulness of reported operational restructurings to corporations, financial analysts, and investors. The dissertation focuses on the...
Glaser, Aaron J., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Experimental research was performed to investigate the feasibility of using pulse detonation based engine systems for practical aerospace applications. In order to carry out this work a new pulse...
Willis, Michael J., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
A proposal was made that the effects of copper phthalocyanine pigment, known for its nucleating ability on polypropylene crystallization, should be different for the alpha and beta crystal phase and...
Cohen, Matthew C., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Sustainable development is significant in a world characterized by escalating pollution, diminishing resources, and declining environmental health. Beginning as an international discourse,...
Haedt, Christopher M., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Architecture has lost a sense of balance - it has shifted into an anthropocentric realm. Architecture must find a way in the new millennium to provide balance to sustain its presence as Art....
Robertson, Christine M., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Urbanization has dramatically altered the natural landscape by replacing pervious land cover with impervious materials.This has lead to an increase in stormwater runoff which raises a number of...
Newman, Ryan P., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
What are the psychological effects of living in a society creating architecture that is driven from a fear and paranoia of attack? How can architecture, understanding that it can never be one hundred...
Li, Zhisong, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
This thesis deals with the effects of the two types of sidewalls boundary conditions, namely slip and periodic, impact the computed acoustic field of transonic cavity. A Menter-SST based detached...
Nierman, April Dawn, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The purpose of this study was to determine levels of stress and burnout among Ohio certified high school athletic trainers and to compare stress and burnout levels based on gender, geographic...
Boateng, Kingsley A., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The cohesin complex, composed of SMC1, SMC3, SCC3 and an a-kleisin subunit, is critical for the establishment sister chromatid cohesion during mitosis and meiosis. The Arabidopsis genome contains...
Drake, Krystal L., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The current study examined gender differences in the predictors of externalizing behaviors among six- to eight-year-old children of 138 substance-abusing parents. In this study, familial adversity...
Hurd, John K. Jr., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
In April 2005 near Barrow, Alaska, a Differential Global Positioning Systems (DGPS) survey was conducted along a snowdrift formed by a 2.2 km long snow fence. A snow machine pulled a sledge equipped...
Carnahan, Christina., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The aim of this study was to increase the instructional effectiveness and efficiency of educators working with students with autism through systematic small group instruction. Using a multiple...
Pinis, Georgia A., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
This case study investigated the project management skills and activities that doctoral candidates used to complete their dissertations successfully. The research was grounded in the project...
Twehues, Kelly C., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The purpose of this study was to determine how parents of children with Asperger's syndrome and High Functioning Autism perceive changes in both problem behaviors and social skills following an...
Subramanian, Bhargavi., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Part A - Removal of Sorbates from Solid Surfaces Soil washing has been found to be an effective cleaning methodology. This study examines the feasibility and effectiveness of a water-miscible organic...
Seshadri, Dilip., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Verification of electronic circuits is a process by which a circuit is shown to behave in a certain manner. For analog circuits, the only prevalent method of verification is simulation. Analog...
Stenger, Mary Jennifer., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The purpose of the study was to determine the impact of observational learning on preschoolers' cooperation when participating in an ultrasound swallowing study. More specifically, the study...
Salgaonkar, Vasant Anil, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
University of Cincinnati Infrastructure Institute (UCII) has been monitoring the structural health of highway bridges across Ohio for over a decade. The effects of traffic and environmental...
Economic development in first-ring suburbs [electronic resource] : the case of Lockland/ (2007)
Rice, Rachel K., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The Village of Lockland, Ohio is a small, first-ring suburb approximately twelve miles outside of the city core of Cincinnati. This Village of 3,700 residents is also considered an aging, industrial...
Kaewsuya, Pakritsadang., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Cardiolipin (CL) plays an essential role as a marker for cell apoptosis. Quantitative detection of phospholipids (PLs) by UV absorbance is problematic due to the presence of only isolated double...
Effects of stress on postural control and coordination [electronic resource] / (2007)
Thoreson, Joseph Allen., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The general goal of this research was to describe how people maintain postural coordination under various constraints such as stress. In particular, the goal is to see how postural coordination...
Tres poetas con Heráclito [electronic resource] : Borges, Hahn, Pacheco / (2007)
Strittmatter, Jorge Emilio., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
This paper closely studies most of the poems related and inspired by the doctrine of the presocratic philosopher Heraclitus written by Jorge Luis Borges, Enrique Hahn and José Emilio Pacheco. It...
Dixon, Sarah., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The purpose of this study was to determine if there was a relationship between HIV knowledge, perception of HIV risk and severity, prior sexuality education, and HIV risk behaviors among college...
NCLB's effects on teachers' sense of efficacy [electronic resource] / (2007)
Stephens, Jodi Mishos., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
This study examines NCLBs effects on teachers sense of efficacy. Seven teachers in a middle school that failed to meet NCLB mandates participated. The school was picked because the diverse student...
Puri, Siddharth., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The question about the shape of our cities in the present epoch and in the years to come is an issue that by virtue of its nature, tends to be recurring. The problem, one feels with many of the...
Deshpande, Niranjan V., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
When a dispersant is applied to an oil slick, its effectiveness in dispersing the spilled oil depends on various factors such as oil properties, wave mixing energy, temperature of both oil and water,...
Cerebral blood flow velocity and stress as predictors of vigilance [electronic resource] / (2007)
Reinerman, Lauren E., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Vigilance or sustained attention is a critical aspect of many jobs including air-traffic control, airport security, industrial quality control, and medical screening/monitoring. Traditional...
Jester, Juliagrace J., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Research has shown that Women of Size are victims of particularly strong stigmatization (Hebl & Heatherton, 1998; Myers & Rothblum, 2005; Neumark-Sztainer, Story, & Faibisch, 1998; Quinn & Crocker,...
Seth, Anuj, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Chromate-based technology used currently in the aerospace industry provides excellent corrosion protection for the aerospace metals and alloys such as AA 2024-T3. However, chromates are toxic and...
The analysis of unequally spaced time series [electronic resource] / (2007)
Zhang, Shiqiao, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The aim of the time series analysis is to identify the periodic phenomena inherent to the given data. Fourier analysis is often the standard approach used to perform the time series analysis....
Han, Jin Ho., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Objectives: We sought to describe the evaluation and outcomes of elderly patients with suspected acute coronary syndromes (ACS) presenting to the emergency department (ED). Methods: This was a post...
Ledgerwood, Angela D., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
This research was designed to examine the constructs of collective efficacy and readiness as well as to examine the relationship between these constructs. Factor analysis of archival data collected...
The effects of social support on perceived health of Spanish elders [electronic resource] / (2007)
Kengott, Margaret JoAnn., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Literature from the United States has shown a positive link between social support and health outcomes, but studies from Spain do not confirm that link. The purpose of this research is to explore the...
A dialectical approach to rethinking roommate relationships [electronic resource] / (2007)
Hanasono, Lisa Kiyomi., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Previous research suggests that roommate relationships can influence students' academic performance and collegiate experiences. Unfortunately, the literature on roommate relationships consists of...
Noll, Rachel Elizabeth., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The purpose of this study was to describe and analyze job satisfaction and the impact accountability, principals, and students have on high school teachers in two Kentucky school districts. The study...
Space to play in Beyoğlu, Instanbul [electronic resource] / (2007)
Samonsky, Ella., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Play is a necessary part of children's lives and is associated with healthy child development. If the world wide statistics are to be believed, the high density compact cities of the developing world...
Urban portraits [electronic resource] / (2007)
Callahan, Dustin Lee, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Urban Portraits is loosely programmatic in that no specific city is depicted; rather, I capture, in a broad manner, the essence of the big city spectacle. The first movement, scored for piano trio,...
Simulation and design of a submicron gate-length AIHaN/GaN HEMT [electronic resource] / (2007)
Meiners, Joseph R., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Solid state semiconductor devices have received much attention in recent years for microwave power amplification where vacuum tube devices have dominated the market for high power, high-frequency...
Fister, Justin M., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Despite sophisticated search engine algorithms designed to eliminate irrelevant content, many Internet content providers with valuable information are unable to achieve visibility in the search...
Marhatta, Ramesh., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
We have experimentally investigated the disorientation cross-section of the cesium J = 3/2 excited-level atom by using two-photon two-color nano-second pulsed dye lasers in the presence of argon...
Hofstadter, Kristi L., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Peers exert considerable influence on the behavior of one another, and positive peer reporting (PPR) has emerged as one method for successfully incorporating peer attention into social interventions....
Bhattacharjee, Dharitri., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Many British women went to India during the nineteenth and twentieth century. They were either part of the imperial community or they were activities, reformers, doctors and missionaries and worked...
Fisher, Jamie DeVon., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Research regarding preschool childrens vocabulary from low socioeconomic status (SES) has shown that these children tend to have more limited vocabulary then children from higher SES. The people they...
Matter over mind [electronic resource]: but what Is "matter"? / (2007)
Wilson, Stephen A., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Like materialism, physicalism is a doctrine that everything-especially the mind-is physical. Unlike materialism, though, physicalisms supervenient base is stipulated by what physics says is physical....
Modeling as compositional tool in the piano works of Francis Poulene [electronic resource] / (2007)
Van Der Westhuizen, Petrus J., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The subject of modeling, or borrowing, has been very important for noted scholar J. Peter Burkholder. In his work on Charles Ives, Burkholder had to devise several categories for the many ways in...
Panawek, Kate Ryan., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Green building is a term used to define smart building techniques that when applied in a holistic approach conserves natural resources, uses energy wisely, improves indoor air quality and human...
Water + architecture: [electronic resource] : fixed dynamic fluid stable / (2007)
Kuhn, Holly., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Water is universally recognized as a fluid and dynamic element, whereas architecture is perceived as a fixed and stable part of our surroundings. The negotiation of this tension between water and...
Ratliff, Kari., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Each week on ABC's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, one family is selected to receive a surprise home makeover, including a new or entirely renovated home and the latest appliances and furnishings....
Pilati, Alberto., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Many stoichiometric models assume that animals have ontogenetically constant body nutrient composition and excretion rates, but this assumption has not been adequately tested. I quantified...
Lu, Jun-xia., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Cholesterol is commonly found in eukaryotic cell membranes and has implicated cellular functions. The synthetic peptide KIGAKI is a peripheral membrane protein that has greater antimicrobial activity...
Laux, Katie M., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The Vietnam War polarized the American public. From the late 1950s to the early 1970s, the American public debated nuclear policy, foreign policy, and the war at home. As a result, two social...
Manzler, David Lee, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The dissertation is divided into two chapters. Chapter I examines the impact of capital gains distribution rules on a closed-end fund (CEF) manager's incentive to collect and trade on information....
Three essays on trading volume [electronic resource] / (2007)
Ma, Guohua., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Trading volume, a stochastic process that is closely related to returns, has received far less attention in modern finance. Because of the joint hypothesis problem of asset returns, trading volume...
Activating the void[s] [electronic resource] : explorations in absences / (2007)
Fosnaugh, Adam C., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Dismissed as a mere resultant of constructed solids, the limitless potential of voids in buildings and urban spaces has often been overlooked in architectural discourse. Through a careful historical,...
Choi, Hyeok., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Precise manipulation of matter at the nanoscale will enhance our potential to synthesize materials with tailor-designed properties and functionalities for their environmental applications. This...
OntoSELF [electronic resource] : a 3D ontology visualization tool / (2007)
Somasundaram, Ramanathan., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Ontologies are frequently used to formalize the conceptualization of a domain. Numerous ontologies exist in a variety of domains. For example, The United Nations Standard Products and Services Code...
A comparative study of Korea's long-term care program [electronic resource] / (2007)
Jeon, Haesang., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
In 1980 the proportion of the population in Korea aged 65 and over was only 3.0%. By 2000, that proportion had jumped to 7.2% and is expected to be 24.0% in the year 2030 (Korea National Statistical...
The culture change movement in Ohio's nursing homes [electronic resource] / (2007)
Johnston, Anne E., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Nursing home culture change is a national movement with the specific goal of transforming the industry of long-term care from an institutional system into home-like, person-centered care...
Characterization of electromagnetic induction damper [electronic resource] / (2007)
Agutu, Willis Owuor., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The usual magnetorheological (MR) fluid dampers get energy externally to effectively damp unwanted motion. Recent research focuses on self-powered systems that get their energy internally from the...
Dugle, Vivian R., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The purpose of this study is to gain insights as to why some students with learning disabilities have positive life outcomes despite the risk factors associated with identification as having a...
De-materializing the boundary between architecture and context [electronic resource] / (2007)
Stephenson, Matthew Frank., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The distinct static edge typical within architectural design is a result of a traditional reliance on barriers and the segregation of space to define form. This form, acting as the signifier of its...
Energy of the sea [electronic resource] : an offshore marine research facility / (2007)
Cripe, Benjamin Ian, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Current trends in architecture have prevented sustainability from becoming a mainstream design solution and the general population is acutely unaware of the importance of sustainable design....
The surreal museum [electronic resource] : an intervention for the Cincinnati Art Museum / (2007)
Lange, Andreas., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The comprehensive public art museum may be considered a surreal space. A reinterpretation of surrealism as an aesthetic methodology based in the cultivation of the unheimlich can help inform and...
Elshamy, Omar M., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The injection of a liquid jet into a crossflow of air provides a means of higher penetration and rapidly mixing liquid fuel and air for combustion applications. The structure of the spray, formed is...
The body underneath [electronic resource] : a method of costume design / (2007)
Stamoolis, Leslie Anne Wise., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
A survey of costume design texts currently available to designers revealed that the research-based, scholarly design methods that experienced designers use have not been theorized or written down....
Anderson, Jennifer Christine., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
This dissertation encompasses research focused on both qualitative and quantitative techniques for the analysis of loose urinary calculi (often referred to as renal stones) as well as biopsied tissue...
A framework for medical acronym disambiguation [electronic resource] / (2007)
Rajan, Janet R., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Hospitals produce millions of patient records consisting of clinical annotations and there is an extensive usage of abbreviations in these annotations. The data in these clinical annotations are an...
Choi, Dennis C., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Limbic and cortical regions including the amygdala, hippocampus, and prefrontal cortex influence the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical (HPA) axis responses to stress, yet have little to no direct...
Wayne, Simon Patrick., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The goal of this thesis is to provide a detailed examination of the lowest region of a tornado-like vortex. The lowest region of the vortex has not been previously studied in great detail. This...
Johnson, Gregory S., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
In this dissertation I offer an account of the relationship between psychology and neurobiology. I do this in terms of two types of levels, levels of organization and levels of explanation. A...
Strasbaugh, Chris., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
During the sixteenth and seventeenth century, the Dutch Republic was amid the religious conflict of Protestantism and Catholicism. While the country emerged under the Protestant flag, the conflict...
Heineman, John Richard, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The modern urban university is a division of society that exhibits continual transformations based upon student fluctuation, increased student diversity, and rapid advances in technology. These...
Rammohan, Srividhya., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
In recent times, many embedded applications such as mobile phones, smart-cards, etc. use cryptographic devices that use a secret key to encrypt sensitive data to secure it. Encryption algorithms are...
Far from silenced [electronic resource] : the altered books of Ann Hamilton, 1991 - 1994 / (2007)
Partridge, Laura Allison., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
This study offers an in-depth analysis of the altered books in three installations by Ann Hamilton (b. 1956 Lima, Ohio) from the early 1990s. Hamiltons installations are intended to establish a...
Sharma, Anurag., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
A Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) consists of a large number of sensor nodes dispersed over a chosen area for monitoring purposes. Information about an event can be captured by the surrounding sensor...
Udayasankar, Subalekha., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The World Wide Web (WWW) is a vast collection of files accessible to the public primarily through hyper-linked files called Web pages. Increasingly, people turn to the Web to locate suppliers,...
Allen, James H. III, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
An analytical methodology is developed that allows engineers to be able to quickly incorporate structural modifications while minimizing error propagation through the use of subcomponent analysis....
VonderBrink, David Thomas., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
This thesis document investigates the philosophical movement of phenomenology and its implications in forming an architectural design methodology. The writings of such existential philosophers and...
The goat or, who is Sylvia? [electronic resource] : a performance at Miami University / (2007)
Midence Diaz, Luis Fernando., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The Goat or, who is Sylvia? is a character-driven story about an architect whose life crumbles when he falls in love with a goat. The actual focus of the piece lies on where the boundaries of "love"...
Mathew, Shomita S., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Eukaryotic cells possess mechanisms that monitor breaks in genomic DNA and repair them. The effectors of double strand break repair (DSBR) comprise a variety of proteins, including the...
Mapping land cover land use change in Mbeere District, Kenya [electronic resource] / (2007)
Maluki, Peter Masavi., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The main goal of the study was mapping land cover land use change patterns in Mbeere District between 1987 and 2000.Two Landsat images acquired in 1987 and 2000; and MODIS data were used to map and...
Dudziak, Sarah Kathleen., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Insect movement across habitat edges between forest and agriculture has the potential to affect ecosystem processes. In this study, I quantified aerial beetle communities in Ohio along transect lines...
Atri, Ashutosh., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The purpose of this study was to determine the role of social support, hardiness and acculturation as predictors of mental health among international students of Asian Indian origin enrolled at two...
Saunders, Nichole E., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
When a person lightly touches an object with the fingertip, postural sway variability has been reliably shown to decrease. Two hypotheses have been proposed to explain why this reduction in sway...
Delambre, Jason, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
This study consists of an energy analysis of UC's west campus. The central component of this thesis examines the Aronoff Center, analyzing its design and function in relation to its energy usage....
Daly, Frances K., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Some of the major issues confronting environmental planners today are affected by the modern system of food production, distribution, and consumption. The major contributing factor to this...
Harmonice Mundi [electronic resource] / (2007)
Parman, Joshua Bryan, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The following is a seventeen minutes composition in two movements for string quartet.
Kuntamukkala, Parineeta., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Hardware Descriptive Languages or HDLs are widely used by hardware designers to describe (virtual) circuit operation, its design and organization, and, by means of simulation, verify its operation....
Landrigan, Katie Esther., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
In 1936, John Oliver Bowman (1884-1977) purchased his first box camera with seventy-five cents and six coffee coupons. In his hometown of Jamestown, New York, located in the Chautauqua Lake Region,...
Mittal, Saurabh S., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Condition Assessment is the characterization of structural damage quantitatively and qualitatively. Various methods are used for condition assessment of bridges. While Visual inspection methods...
Issues in robust online health monitoring of steel stringer bridges [electronic resource] / (2007)
Panigrahi, Sambit., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The need for instrumented health monitoring systems has been felt by the research community to observe the health of the detiorating highway infrastructure system. University of Cincinnati...
Raghanti, Mary Ann., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Neuromodulators, including dopamine (DA), serotonin (5HT), and acetylcholine (ACh), are intrinsic components of higher cognitive functioning and contribute to key processes involved in human...
Sacco, Donald F., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Research exploring the Cross Race Effect (CRE) indicates that individuals show better recognition accuracy for same-race faces compared to cross-race faces (Malpass, 1981), an effect thought to be...
Gray, Katherine S., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
During the twentieth century, women's aviation organizations created a place for women to share experiences and advice, pool their financial resources, and push for additional opportunities for women...
Karunanayaka, Prasanna Rasika, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) is combined with Group Independent Component Analysis (ICA) to investigate the developmental trends in brain connectivity coefficients associated with the human...
Thomas, Jill C., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
For years, psychologists have been encouraged to acknowledge the political implications of the values inherent in their work and to embrace their professional duty to be socially responsible through...
Observation of EIT in rubidium vapor using the Hanle effect [electronic resource] / (2007)
Zhang, Yuhong., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
In this thesis, I experimentally investigated Electromagnetically Induced Transparency (EIT) using the Hanle effect in Rubidium (Rb) atomic vapor. The Hanle effect results in a sharp coherent feature...
Richmond, Ashley R., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Studies have shown that complex social behaviors, such as pair bonding in mammals, are influenced by environmental and genetic factors, but few have examined the effects of these factors...
Fritz, Rochelle Marie., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Implementation research is a growing area in the field of psychology (Fixsen et al., 2005), and is in greater need as the demand for the use of evidence-based programs increases. Program researchers,...
Bernstein, Michael J., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The ingroup overexclusion effect (IOE) describes the tendency for individuals to categorize ambiguous targets as outgroup members more readily than as ingroup members. The IOE is especially...
Jakubowski, Susan L., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Tibetan Buddhism has been classified as an ethnic branch of the universalizing Buddhist system. It is inextricably tied to the culture, politics and people of Tibet, where it has been practiced...
Konkle, Chad E., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
This quantitative study was designed to exam leadership styles of school principals and student effectiveness in selected urban elementary schools in the State of Ohio. The Multifactor Leadership...
Development of process variation tolerant standard cells [electronic resource] / (2007)
Thakore, Priyanka., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
ASIC design using standard cell library cells is the most widespread design method. Lower process technologies drive a need to incorporate Design for Manufacturability technique early in the design...
Weinkam, Grant., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The Indiana Harbor Canal sediments, containing a number of environmental contaminants, are a source of pollution to Lake Michigan, and will need to be dredged or remediated in the near future. For...
Querying with ontological terminologies and their annotations [electronic resource] / (2007)
Sun, Yi., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Today, with the increasing development of computational biology, various large databases are built to describe genomic information and the experimental data. To guarantee the consistency of...
Ekvall, Valli K., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The homeless are one of society's most vulnerable populations. This qualitative study examines key factors that influence the quality of the diet consumed by men who are experiencing homelessness....
Baker, Aimee A., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Abstract Recent studies have indicated that postural control is not an automatic process; rather, postural control can be affected by the performance of a concurrent cognitive task (see Woollacott &...
Nikolaidis, Nikolaos, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Allergen-induced mucosal inflammation is a complex process involving a localized pathologic Th2 response. In this thesis, we examine the role of trefoil factor (TFF)2, a gene upregulated in response...
Taylor, Larry C., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
In the operas of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, organ was never a standard instrument. Composers employed it only on an occasional basis in religious scenes or as an unexpected instrumental...
Polymeric polyphenols as anti-inflammatory agents [electronic resource] / (2007)
Perkins, Akeysha A., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Polyphenols are natural antioxidants found in foods such as berries, tea, and wine. Although polyphenols have been studied extensively in chemical systems, less is known about their activity in...
Ketron, Shannon M., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Abstract This qualitative study examined attrition and retention in special education teachers in cross-categorical settings. Specifically, this project investigated the reasons why these teachers...
Seda-Reeder, Maria., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
In this study I consider the work of two major American graffiti artists: Jenny Holzer (b. 1945) and Swoon (b. 1977). I focus on Holzer's early poster and sticker campaigns, Truisms (1977-79),...
Fleeting images [electronic resource] / (2007)
Pencil, David, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The thesis being submitted for a Masters of Music in Composition is a piece for SATB choir, piano, violin, and double bass. It is 12-15 minutes long, and is constructed in nine movements, each of...
Helmick, Michael T., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
In this thesis we develop a framework for studying and understanding the tradeoffs involved in efficient multicast route determination. Using this framework, we developed an algorithm (Myriad) that...
Wan, Kristen Mayree., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of a community-based pediatric weight management program in at-risk for overweight children. METHODS: 21 boys (10.4 ± 1.0 yrs) (mean...
On applications of statistical learning to biophysics [electronic resource] / (2007)
Cao, Baoqiang., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
In this dissertation, we develop statistical and machine learning methods for problems in biological systems and processes. In particular, we are interested in two problems-predicting structural...
Instant messaging communication [electronic resource] : a quantitative linguistic analysis / (2007)
Yale, Robert Nathan., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
This study used quantitative content analysis software to create a linguistic profile of college student instant messaging (IM) behaviors to investigate sex differences in text-based communication....
Warner, Brian Austin., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Electronic activism runs the gamut from interest cultivation, revenue generation, information dissemination, and membership generation to more disruptive "electronic civil disobedience." Examples of...
Groschwitz, Stephan F., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
In the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the sentiment that Nothing will ever be the same was widely spread, as were displays of national pride. Using data from the 1996 and 2004 General...
Security entrance and media center for the United Nations [electronic resource] / (2007)
Wala, Magdalena A., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Focusing the United Nations within a Post-Modern framework, the organization is viewed as a series of simulations. In order for these simulations to defy collapse and maintain validity, the system...
Buri, Maureen E., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Flemish representations of mythological rapes produced in Counter Reformation Catholic Europe were highly sought after by patrons in the first half of the seventeenth century.This thesis will examine...
Genotype-phenotype [electronic resource] : investigations in typology / (2007)
Pontius, Sarah E., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Historically, building typology has been discussed as an organizational method of categorizing building form, independent of function and program. However, typologies can still have associations with...
Rong, Rong., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
This research studies an innovative micromagnetic method for electron beam control in the electron beam microcolumn. In order to realize the magnetic electron beam control in the electron beam...
The road less traveled [electronic resource] : Samoans and higher education / (2007)
Carmichael, Michelle Liulama., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
This qualitative study probes into the lives of Samoan college graduates and military members to learn how they ended up making the decision to go into higher education or military service. The...
Laseke, Ian Matthew., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
In Peoria, Arizona during the autumn season of 2002, two young children died from Primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM) infections. Naegleria fowleri, was detected in the residual water from...
Four twentieth-century sonatinas for violin and piano [electronic resource] / (2007)
Höhmann, Reiko Christine, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
This thesis discusses four different sonatinas that represent the variety of compositional styles and forms in the twentieth century. These are the sonatinas for violin and piano by Carlos Chávez,...
Yang, Jianxiang., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Self-perception of school-aged students has a strong interaction with their academic achievement, social relationship, and emotional well-being. The present study explores the grade, gender, and...
Frye, Tony., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Economic zones (or EZs) have remained the foundation of China's economic growth since its opening in the late 1970s. China's economic zones have grown exponentially, with fifty nine official EZs in...
Compact Quantum Group Actions on C*-Algebras [electronic resource] / (2007)
Dumitru, Alina Raluca., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
We investigate the generator properties of derivations which are invariant with respect to compact quantum group coactions. We prove that if the linear span of the spectral subspaces associated to...
Schneider, Carri Anne., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
This study seeks to systematically uncover one part of the complex organism of systemic racism by analyzing the way in which the popular media defines the success of the public school in order to...
Singson, Brian A., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Women have been marginalized in our society for years. Even as they have begun making strides towards equality, they are still being marginalized in one of our societys most popular and highly...
Yellig, Catherine L., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
This study examines three representations of female nudes by Tiziano Vecellio (Titian, 1485-1576). They include: the Venus of Urbino (1538, Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy), Venus with a Mirror...
Yuan, Qunying, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Abstract Junctin, a 26kD sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) transmembrane protein, forms a quaternary protein complex with the ryanodine receptor (RyR2), calsequestrin (CSQ) and triadin in the SR lumen of...
Roan, Esra., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The mechanical behavior of soft cellular tissue such as the liver has been rarely characterized to the extent of load-bearing tissue. Most of the available material parameters of soft tissue found in...
Stone, Peter J., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
This study examines ritual dining, drinking and dedication at 2nd century B.C. Stymphalos as it appears through the lens of surviving physical evidence. This evidence is primarily ceramic, the...
The research and design of an inclusive dishwashing appliance [electronic resource] / (2007)
Prather, Evin Gamal, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The goal of this project is to follow user-based qualitative research to design a dishwashing appliance that is superior in functionality and more desirable to use.The Introduction contains the...
The effect of perceptual fluency on goal pursuit [electronic resource] / (2007)
Hall, Carrie Elizabeth., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Recent activation of a goal in the environment has been shown to produce non-conscious goal pursuit in a number of studies (e.g., Bargh, Gollwitzer, Lee-Chai, Barndollar, & Troetschel, 2001;...
Hayes, Danielle J., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Acquiring literacy skills is a complex process that requires social influences. One important social influence, according to Lev Vygotsky, is the caregiver. Within a child's Zone of Proximal...
K-theory and homotopy type of certain infinite C*-algebras [electronic resource] / (2007)
Visinescu, Bogdan C., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Title from electronic thesis title page (viewed July 18, 2007).
Ducharme, Ann Case, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Makoto Fujimura (b. 1960) is an artist who synthesizes traditional Japanese nihonga techniques with Abstract Expressionism to create beautiful paintings filled with unusual light and saturated color....
Meta-classical architecture [electronic resource] : thinking beyond the box / (2007)
Baxter, Todd A., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Scientific theory has been the progenitor of countless architectural works throughout the course of history. Advances in science, however, generally take a generation or two to become part of the...
Overly, Timothy G. S., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) promises to deliver great benefits to many industries. Primarily among them is a potential for large cost savings in maintenance of complex structures such as...
Drensky, George K., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The design and development of high performance turbomachinery operating in both ambient and high temperature environment in the presence of solid particles requires a thorough knowledge of the...
Paul-Dixon, Darla Lynn., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
There are a limited number of qualitative research studies, which discover the multiple ways in which family influences African-American male students to be retained and graduate from college. This...
Kemock, Kathleen Clare., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
This paper supports Miami University's production of Eugene Ionesco's Rhinoceros by providing a dramaturgical analysis of Ionesco's text, his characters, and his genre of anti-theatre. Through the...
Music and Image [electronic resource] : a performer's guide to Maurice Ravel's Miroirs / (2007)
Ko, Eunbyol, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Ravel's Miroirs is a complex work for piano, full of rich expressive and suggestive qualities, as well as unique and challenging keyboard techniques. It is extremely popular among pianists and is...
Ash, Jeremy D., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Long-term demographic studies of plant species subjected to harvest for non-timber forest products can potentially be used to derive methods to rapidly assess harvest sustainability. Here I develop a...
Wang, Zhengquan., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The objective of this study is to develop an integrated hybrid Pseudodynamic (PSD) testing platform that can be utilized to evaluate the behavior of subassemblies, building, bridges, and various...
McGuire, Vail H., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The discipline of composition and rhetoric and the discipline of theology, particularly Christian theology, are two areas which have often found themselves distanced from one another, especially as...
Hayes, Samuel Lee., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The genus Aeromonas contains virulent bacteria implicated in waterborne disease, as well as avirulent strains. One of my research objectives was to identify and characterize host-pathogen...
Nguyen, Mary M.N., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The Visible Burrow System (VBS) is a model used to study chronic social stress in colony housed rats. A hierarchy develops among the males resulting in dominant (DOM) and subordinate (SUB) animals....
Osborne, Courtney Nicole., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between several parental behaviors and family variables and school motivation and academic achievement of adolescents living in rural...
Roisin [electronic resource] / (2007)
Edin, Andrea Kasten., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Despite its natural place within the discipline, postmodernism has prompted many historians to avoid narrative histories. Irish historians in particular have turned from the story due to its links to...
Building and detecting an optical lattice [electronic resource] / (2007)
Bish, Samuel Gerard., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The purpose of this thesis is to trap 85Rb atoms in an optical lattice (a series of light-shifted optical potentials), and then verify the existence of a lattice through the use of Bragg scattering....
Cross -layer design techniques in mimo-based WLANs [electronic resource] / (2007)
Parthasarathy, Salai Sangheetha., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The IEEE 802.11n standard provides high data transmission rates with advanced signal processing techniques. However, the higher layer protocols do not effec-tively leverage this increase in physical...
Gilmore, Xiaoshan Pan., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Clock and data recovery circuits play a very important role in modern data communication systems. It has very wide application in many areas, such as optical communications and interconnection...
Whaley, Jennifer R., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The purpose of the study was to examine parent perceptions of the interpretive conference where a diagnosis of an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) was delivered. Eighty-four parents of children with...
Parasuraman, Jayalakshmi, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Nanotips with tip sizes ~200nm and tip lengths > 1.5mm and taper angles ranging from 2°-49° have been fabricated during this work. Meniscus etching process was used to sharpen the tips. The process...
Modeling of carbon nanotube transistors in VHDL-AMS [electronic resource] / (2007)
Ponnaganti, Ravi, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Carbon nanotubes(CNTs) are being intensively investigated as possible structures from which nanoscale transistors and logic gates might be fabricated. The nanoscale transistors i.e., carbon nanotube...
Hung, Yu-Sui Esther, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
In 1802 Beethoven made a striking declaration to his publisher that he had adopted a completely new manner in his two latest sets of piano variations, Opp. 34 and 35, and consequently numbered them...
Minock, Megan S., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Urban voids are to blame for the loss of the ideal density of urban cities. The excessive amount of these vague open spaces has affected many post-industrial American cities that are in the declining...
On integrated architecture for multi-hop wireless networks [electronic resource] / (2007)
Gupta, Anurag., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
In this dissertation we focus on design and analysis of an integrated architecture for useful and efficient multihop wireless networks (MWNs). We first concentrate on development of on-demand medium...
Experience through movement [electronic resource] : designing for motor scooters / (2007)
Winters, Stephanie J., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The motor scooter is rapidly becoming a popular method of transportation in the United States. The rising cost of fuel and concerns of environmental emissions are prompting many American households...
Specialized environments [electronic resource] : perceptual experience as generator of form/ (2007)
Southerington, Emily Anne., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The focus of this thesis is to determine how the elements of a defined population's set of unique perceptual experiences can be used to create a specialized building environment that enhances this...
Sensitive material [electronic resource] / (2007)
Krivanka, Sarah M., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Architecture has to be a sensual and intelligent medium, otherwise it's just boring. Jacques Herzog Quantification - of time, commodities, and production - embodies the culture of modern society. Yet...
Aervitz, Irina., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The focus of this study is automobile industry in China and Russia. Specifically I am looking at the state attempts to encourage technology development in the automobile sector. My goal is to look...
Frithjof Schuon [electronic resource] : the shining realm of the pure intellect / (2007)
Fabbri, Renaud., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
This thesis provides an intellectual biography of the Perennialist philosopher and Sufi Shaykh Frithjof Schuon (1907-1998). I have argued that Schuon's message is best understood as an autonomous...
Teacher perceptions of the Ohio Graduation Test [electronic resource] / (2007)
Yeckel, Paul N., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
As a result of enhanced accountability initiatives from legislation such as The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, there is an increased need for teachers to learn effective practices. This paper...
Scherer, Kristina Lynn., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
This qualitative study aims at exploring and promoting understanding of factors that grandmothers associate with the challenges of caring for their grandchild(ren) in an informal arrangement (i.e....
Isci, Onur, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Proliferation of popular newspapers during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78 transformed the boundaries of public debate in Russia. Circulation of these papers brought the people into close contact...
Frailty [electronic resource] : meaningful concept or conceptual muddle? / (2007)
Brunk, Jennifer M., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Aging researchers frequently study "frail" elders, though the meaning of frailty remains largely ambiguous. To explore what "frailty" means, I qualitatively interviewed three nursing home residents...
Cain, Robert J., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Environmentally friendly sol-gel coatings were developed on the automotive alloy AA6111. The one-step coating process neither involves adding heavy metal chromium compounds nor organic solvents....
Agyare, Benjamin Adu., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
We present a progress report on an experiment intended to study the motion of atoms in a rubidium 3D optical lattice with emphasis on spatial diffusion using intensity correlation measurement in the...
Manzler, David, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The dissertation is divided into two chapters. Chapter I examines the impact of capital gains distribution rules on a closed-end fund (CEF) manager's incentive to collect and trade on information....
The Cincinnati Museum of black and white photography [electronic resource] / (2007)
Perviz, Ervin., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
My thesis is about writing with natural light. The idea is to use natural light to sculpt and define spaces. These light constructed enclosures would portray complexity, intensity and dynamicity of...
Norman Rockwell's civil rights paintings of the 1960s [electronic resource] / (2007)
Kleopfer, Kirstie Lane., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Norman Rockwell began working for Look magazine in 1964 because he wanted to explore new subject matter and was frustrated with the limitations on subject matter imposed by the Saturday Evening...
Kilaru, Muralik., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Electrowetting is making a great impact in fields of optics, lab-on chip devices and electronic paper (e-paper). For electrowetting to realize its fullest potential in low operating voltage...
Blurring the boundaries of the urban dwelling [electronic resource] : / (2007)
Landreman, Michael R., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The urban dwelling has developed a set of barriers which the user is forced to adapt to and exist within. Through the examination of the works and philosophies of Toyo Ito and the partnership of...
Coastal architecture [electronic resource] : design for the transition zone / (2007)
Kay, Christina L., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The coastline is a unique condition where a fusion of many forces occurs. There are two main ways the coastline has been addressed: the manmade and the natural. The human population typically sees...
Jaisi, Deb Prasad., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The iron redox biogeochemistry, especially in clay minerals, is poorly understood. As a result, applicability of this redox reaction or the products to environmental problems such as remediation of...
Women,patriarchy and spirituality [electronic resource] : a qualitative study / (2007)
Webster, Deanna M., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
This qualitative study explored the concept of patriarchy as embodied in male acts of aggression, traditional gender roles and religion. This study particularly explored how philosophical paradigms...
Russia and the "West" [electronic resource] : a useful paradigm or an imagined actor? / (2007)
Martin, Jeremy Andrew., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
In much of the post-Soviet literature on Western-Russian international relations, it is argued or assumed that post-Soviet Russia is too weak to challenge the "West" and its policies and plans...
An exploration of urban teachers' work from an ecological perspective [electronic resource] / (2007)
Crowell, Jeri L., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
This study's purpose was to explore the daily work lives of urban teachers to understand how they experienced career fit, and factors that helped them work in the environment. The ecological...
Beverly, Levi J., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Notch proteins are transmembrane receptors that play an important role in many biological processes such as stem cell renewal, cell fate decisions, apoptosis and proliferation. Initially identified...
Fowler, Christopher L., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Background: An individual's personal view of illness is determined by a variety of factors including the cause of the illness, its consequences, the chronicity of the illness, the symptoms...
Howell, Britteny Marie., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Abstract Human decapitation of the South Coast of Peru can be interpreted in a number of ways, including ancestor worship, ritual sacrifice, trophies of battle, or raiding. A literature review of...
The life and death of the piano waltz [electronic resource] / (2007)
Grobler, Sophia, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
La Valse, composed in 1918 by Maurice Ravel, is generally interpreted as a dark waltz depicting the death and destruction of World War I. George Benjamin used the terms "birth", "life", "decay" and...
Inclusion [electronic resource] : inclusive design and construction of housing in Mexico / (2007)
Pawlak, Daniel., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
There is an enormous demand for low income housing around the world. Architects have the opportunity to serve people and aid in this need. The development of a process of design and construction that...
Sotzing, Erika., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Mixed-use, waterfront development has become an urban phenomenon in many American cities. Many of these waterfronts are abandoned and underutilized. This has led many cities to tremendous opportunity...
The contextual stadium [electronic resource] : utilizing the ballpark as an urban catalyst / (2007)
McDonald, John P., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The stadium, since its inception, holds distinct characteristics that define it as an architectural type. However to meet future societal requirements the type must continue to evolve. Initially, the...
Wu, Dan., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Liquid-core capsules have wide-ranging applications in the high efficiency encapsulation and controlled delivery of drugs, dyes, enzymes, and many other substrates. These important applications have...
Gender, sex, and emotion [electronic resource] : the Moravian litany of the wounds / (2007)
Leto, Jason., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The Moravians, a small Pietist sect led by the charismatic Count Nicholaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf, established a mission outpost in North America in the early 1740's. Driven by a strange religious...
OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
In 1969, Travis Hirschi proposed that the strength of four main social bonds would determine an individual's propensity to become involved in delinquency. Subsequent research has re-affirmed that...
Addo, Oppong Yaw., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Background: Osteoarthritis (OA) is the number one musculoskeletal disorder in the developed world and it ranks among the top problems of the health care systems in developed countries. Osteoarthritis...
Easton, James Allen., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Transition metal ion homeostasis is absolutely crucial for the survival of all organisms. Zinc (Zn(II)) is perhaps one of the most important, yet least studied transition metals. Previous studies...
"Living lavender" [electronic resource] : life in a women's community / (2007)
True, Stephanie M.., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Despite that the benefits afforded to lesbian/bisexual women through connection to a wider lesbian/bisexual community are well documented, what happens when this community is a residential community...
Stegeman, Joanna Cathleen., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The purpose of the study was to obtain information regarding speech-language pathologists' (SLPs) perceptions of appropriate clinical dress. Two hundred twenty seven participants working in a variety...
Haver, Thomas James., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The effectiveness of image restoration techniques for use in high-pressure fluorescence microscopy are investigated and characterized. A quartz capillary, which acts as both a mechanical support and...
Matuszewski, Linda Jo, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
A growing body of research suggests non-pecuniary preferences for honesty and equity influence behavior in economically significant ways, and managers evaluate decisions by considering how their...
Absorption and evaporation of pesticides from human skin in vitro [electronic resource] / (2007)
Bhatt, Varsha Dilip., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Estimation of penetration rates of compounds through skin is an important for assessment of either the efficacy of a topical formulation, its irritation potential, or its potential systemic exposure....
Why are there so many Indian restaurants on Ludlow? [electronic resource] / (2007)
Grady, Casey Patrick., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Ludlow Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio: a business and entertainment district described as bohemian or eclectic, caters not only to University of Cincinnati students, but also to the Greater Cincinnati...
Spiropoulos, Georgia V., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Three decades of literature reviews, meta-analyses, and program evaluations have shown that correctional rehabilitation can work. The most effective treatment approaches and techniques in...
Horn, Heath M., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The desire for immortality and the difficulty in accepting the finality of death are universal. This acceptance, or "facing up to" one's mortality, allows for greater importance to be placed on each...
Sickmiller, Adam Byron., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Citizens in developing countries face extreme vulnerability to natural disasters. Modern human settlement patterns and development priorities exacerbate disaster vulnerability. In the West, disaster...
Measel, Geoffrey Edward., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Since the Second Vatican Council architects, theologians, and society have been struggling to define what being a Catholic church in a modern world is and how it must manifest itself to the public....
Barnett, Jessica R., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Ginastera's first and second string quartets are characterized by strong stylistic contrasts: the first is non-serial and the second represents the composer's first attempt at serialism. Despite...
Panaite, Cristian Petru., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The critical side of this creative thesis has at its core the developmental process of my full length play "The Rise and Fall of Voivode Peter Earring According To The Stories and Journals of His...
Acharjee, Tapas., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Architecture-Engineering-Construction projects may account for product and process design tolerances within drawings and specifications. However, as projects combine a series of components, these...
Brinkman, Nichole E., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Noroviruses are the leading cause of nonbacterial gastroenteritis outbreaks in the U.S., some of which are caused by the ingestion of contaminated water. Noroviruses are usually detected and...
Ponda, Akshay M., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Adhesion of natural rubber to most metals is poor due to poor polarity of the rubber surface. Rubber compounds with sulfur vulcanization system, when vulcanized in contact with brass, form interlocks...
Ghikas, Constandina Anastasios., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
This thesis describes the lithology, structure, and tectonics of the Zavordas mélange, which occurs structurally beneath the Jurassic Vourinos ophiolite in Northern Greece. This ophiolite is part...
Ndikintum, Nfii Kangong, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The objective of pulse oximetry studies is to demonstrate that the paired repeated measurements from a pulse oximeter (SpO2) and a co-oximeter (SaO2), agree sufficiently with respect to a...
Wilcox, William Thomas., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The Jurassic Curtis, Summerville and Stump formations of Utah and Colorado consist of marine and marginal-marine strata deposited along the southern margin of the Western Interior Seaway. Although...
Meng, Yuanhang, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Nitrogen removal was investigated in two upgraded pilot-scale wastewater treatment plants (P-WWTPs) in this study. For each P-WWTP, the waste-sludge was treated by a digester, one was aerobic and the...
Parsons, Michael E., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The objective of this project was to evaluate methods for possibly overcoming limitations of methanol addition for full-scale facilities that have limited available anoxic solids retention time...
Young, Steven G., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Past research within the mere-exposure paradigm has found that objects made familiar are preferred relative to novel, but otherwise evaluatively-equal, objects. However, little research has been...
Wittrock, Don., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
This study focuses on the relationships between ethnic identity, family support, and academic self-concept of adolescents in museum youth programs in the Midwest (N = 88). Three hypotheses were...
Thompson-Gillis, Heather Joy., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
This paper explores the function of gender and race in nineteenth-century American temperance literature, with special attention given to the role of women in temperance discourse and within the...
Mogga, Oliver Kenyi A., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
My study seeks to gain an understanding of the educational experience of the Sudanese refugee children in the United States (U.S.). Five Sudanese refugee parents and their five non-high school...
Conaway, Kathryn A., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The purpose of the present study was to test the hypothesis that teacher efficacy would mediate the relationship between the consultation working alliance and teachers' behavioral intentions to...
Ingram, Kellie E., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Prior research has shown that children with autism display pragmatic impairments in their language. There was an interest in examining teachers perceptions of behavior and social skills pre and post...
Plummer, Charles D., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is an innovative therapy that is currently used to treat anxiety disorders. Discovered by Francine Shapiro in 1987, the treatment was originally...
Fleury, W. Leigh, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The primary focus of this document is an examination of the similarities and differences between Hubert Parry and J. S. Bach's organ chorale settings in one of the areas of closest link: the use of...
Rinder, Maria M., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Abstract Background Lower back pain continues to be a major occupational health problem. Therefore, continual refinement of workplace exposure assessment tools is fundamental to LBP prevention at the...
McGowan, Nancy L., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
In this thesis I explore the possible ways that American fairgoers saw and interpreted three of the Japanese exhibits at the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, specifically those that presented...
Kelley, George., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The work introduces a new theoretical system designed to automate the scheduling of pediatric occupational therapy (OT) and physical therapy (PT) appointments across any number of regional service...
On-demand medium access in heterogeneous multihop wireless networks [electronic resource] / (2007)
Jain, Vivek., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Recent years have witnessed an extensive proliferation of wireless technology in every domain of day-to-day life. Examples include mobile phones, broadband communication, wireless LAN, wireless...
Luketic, Jamie Eileen., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The demands placed on respiration during simultaneous exercise and speech creates the potential to increase dyspnea and the time for recovery. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of...
Bakker, Andrea I., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Steele's (1997) concept of stereotype threat has been used to explain the poorer performance of and disidentification of stigmatized group members in situations where negative performance stereotypes...
Becker, Carolyn M., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
An Examination of the Relationship between Teachers' Technological Experiences, Skills, and Integrative Practices The purpose of this study was to examine the experiential differences of teachers...
Bai, Haiyan, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Deriving statistical inferences based upon small sample has long been a concern of researchers. Resampling as a revolutionary methodology to deal with small-sample problems has been developed rapidly...
Packard, Stacie S., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of vigorous bouts of physical activity on elementary students with and without a diagnosis of ADHD. To test these relationships, a series of...
Karaba, Robert G., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
This dissertation interprets our current cultural educational practices of marginalizing civic education and the humanities and enacting charter school laws under "free-market" rationale as...
The positivity-cues-familiarity effect and initial stimulus valence [electronic resource] / (2007)
Housley, Meghan K., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Previous research (Garcia-Marques, Mackie, Claypool, & Garcia-Marques, 2004) has shown that associating positivity with novel, neutral stimuli increases the likelihood that the stimuli will be...
School principals perceptions of walking and bicycling to school [electronic resource] / (2007)
Sparks, Julie., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Background. The purpose was to identify presence of restrictive policies, frequency of active commuting to school, beliefs of childhood health and perceived enabling and restrictive factors with...
Murthy, Rajesh S., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
In this thesis we have investigated the photochemical reactivity of alkoxy carbonyl azides 1-4 and 2-Benzoyl-3-Methyl-2H-Azirine 39 in different chemical environments. Our results show that...
Gandee, Jaclyn M., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The world relies on petroleum (or crude oil) primarily for producing fuel oil and gasoline to be used as primary energy sources. Approximately 84% of the hydrocarbons in petroleum are converted into...
Perugu, Harikishan Chand., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The growing traffic congestion problem on urban corridors has long been identified by transportation professionals. Integration of urban arterials with parallel local street network through Advanced...
Distributed networks as organizational generator [electronic resource] / (2007)
Pol, Dawid J., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
We are living in an age of unprecedented complexity, contradictions, global connections, seeming chaos and clash of ideologies. These conditions were propagated by the increased use of distributed...
Litzler, Jeffrey W., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The application of interest is the cooling of turbine blades in large gas combustion engines where hot gases from the combustor cause thermal deterioration of the metal turbine blades. A thin-film of...
Aggressive dimensionality reduction for data-driven modeling [electronic resource] / (2007)
Xu, Nuo., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Data-driven modeling is emerging as a new modeling paradigm necessitated by the ubiquitous practice of massive data collection. The high dimensionality of todays dataset has become the major...
Finding clusters in spatial data [electronic resource] / (2007)
Shencottah K.N., Kalyankumar., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Spatial data mining is the discovery of patterns in spatial databases. The driving factor for research in spatial data mining is the increase in collection of spatial data through business and...
Handoff schemes for the IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs [electronic resource] / (2007)
Chintala, Venkata Manoj., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Handoff in the IEEE 802.11 wireless local area networks (WLANs) occurs whenever the mobile station (MS) changes its association from one access point (AP). Previous studies have shown that the...
Pretz, Laura Christine., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Research has shown possible risk factors associated with a greater incidence of sports-related concussion and varying recovery patterns. This study examined athletic positions, gender, and previous...
Harris, Eric Dion., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
As a researcher, I am most interested in the journey in order to understand how families have responded once exposed to specific familial stressors. A qualitative research paradigm was used to...
Defining the timing of glaciation in the Central Alaska Range [electronic resource] / (2007)
Dortch, Jason Michael., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
A succession of moraines and terraces in the Nenana River valley, Reindeer Hills, and the Monahan Flat in the central Alaska Range were dated using Terrestrial Cosmogenic Nuclides (TCN) and optically...
Study of lone pair-arene interactions in solution [electronic resource] / (2007)
Zou, Yan., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Lone pair-[pi] interactions in solution have been studied experimentally. Triptycene-derived model compounds serve as conformational equilibrium reporters for direct measurements of these...
Ruschau, Adam Richard., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
There is a disagreement over the role of the American Civil War in the acculturation and Americanization of German immigrants. Some have argued that the Civil War helped Americanize German...
Gerbus, Valerie Lynn., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
This paper explores the effects of four types of parental authority (i.e., expert, legitimate, reward, and coercive) as well as familism, adolescent conformity, and autonomy on parent-adolescent...
Don Quijote, un cruce de caminos [electronic resource] : entre la oralidad y la escritura / (2007)
Botello, Jesús., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
This study examines the interrelations between orality and literacy in several passages of Don Quixote. First, it proposes that Sancho Panza's wise judgments at Barataria are an example of the...
Rutledge, Kevan Foster., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Rendered obsolete through bankruptcy or expansion, the growing presence of empty big box stores across the country blights communities nationwide. However, while big box reuse is becoming more...
Digital mobility-an architecture for the digital lifestyle [electronic resource] / (2007)
Chachula, Mark W., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Being mobile means having the ability to easily access goods, services, information and people from other physical locations. Traditionally this meant traveling from place to place or building to...
A style analysis of William Bolcom's complete rags for piano [electronic resource] / (2007)
Yu, Yeung, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
William Bolcom: Complete Rags for Piano is a collection of twenty-two of Bolcom's piano rags written between 1967 and 1993. In this research, the rags are examined year by year; the stylistic...
A pedagogical approach to the trill in singing [electronic resource] / (2007)
Kim, You-Seong, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
In a singing lesson, a voice teacher might try to demonstrate how to trill, but the trill is often regarded as a 'mere ornament' that is not required and can be eliminated. In the past, however, the...
Community dynamics in an experimental Southwestern Ohio prairie [electronic resource] / (2007)
Hesch, Lindsey Elizabeth., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The factors determining community composition are of great interest and consequence. The degree to which communities are governed by deterministic or chance processes has become more ambiguous than...
Volz, Tina M., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are the gold standard for demonstrating the safety and efficacy of treatments to enhance people's health. With more research conducted in community settings, it is...
Hoff, Pamela Twyman., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
This research examines the educational perceptions of fifteen African American college students who completed a course that used critical race pedagogy as a means to raise consciousness. African...
Fischer, Allison, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Many people see cities as places of fear, poverty, crime, and pollution. Others observe those characteristics but recognize opportunities for vitality, diversity, and cultural stimulus. I believe...
Davis, Christopher, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The contemporary American city faces incredible problems. Most notable are persistent socio-economic inequality and the environmental destruction caused by urban activity. In particular, the...
Shah, Payal D., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Ad hoc wireless sensor networks are emerging as an important technology for applications such as environmental monitoring, battlefield surveillance and infrastructure security. Centralized processing...
Ding, Shiau-Uen, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Music reflects the society and technology of its age. For 21st century pianists, in addition to mastering traditional solo piano and chamber repertoire, cultivating skills in performing new music and...
OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Many cities once known for their thriving industrial cores are now left with only brownfields. With many of these areas having prime location, often being nestled near downtowns and transportation...
Urig, Christina Suzanne., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The first chapter of this thesis reports the e-beam lithography process, including procedure, instrumentation, sample preparation, appropriate dosage and final parameters of electrode writing done at...
Cai, Zhangli, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Fluctuations in influent concentrations and variations in waste air composition challenge the application of biofiltration technology in the chemical industry. An integrated system of a cyclic 2-bed...
Chapman, Shelley Ann., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
A hundred years ago, the problem with professional education was that it lacked a sound scientific foundation and opportunities for clinical practice. Throughout the past three decades, discussions...
Saini, Jaspal Singh, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Even though cable-stayed bridges have been built for a long time, simplified procedures have been used for characterization of their dynamic response and design purposes. These procedures were...
Thermal decomposition and growth of short alkylated naphthalenes [electronic resource] / (2007)
Yang, Jun, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
As the most abundant category of PAHs in diesel fuel, alkylated naphthalenes are closely related to PAH and soot formation during combustion. To understand the procedure of PAH and soot formation so...
Meadows, Emily Dawn, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) are a major health problem among collegeaged individuals in the United States. Each year, greater than nine million new cases of STDs occur among 15 to 24 year...
Bashore, Sarah Laity., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
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Shan, Haifeng., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
"Polyethylene has become an important commercial thermoplastic since its low density form was first produced in the 1930's by ICI. A high density form was synthesized in the 1950's by Ziegler and by...
Nanofiber reinforced epoxy composite [electronic resource] / (2006)
Hsieh, Feng-Hsu, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
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Dodgson, Richard., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
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Making middle-class marriage modern in Kentucky, 1830-1900 [electronic resource] / (2006)
Leonard Bayes, Kathleen E., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
This study examines changes that Kentucky's white middle class made to marital ideals in the middle decades of the nineteenth century. It demonstrates that this developing class refined an earlier...
Hatamleh, Wajed., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Problem: Breastfeeding has long been recognized as the preferred method of feeding in the first year of life (American Academy of Pediatrics, 1997). Extensive research confirms the nutritional,...
Li, Tiangang., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The nuclear receptor pregnane X receptor (PXR) is activated by bile acids, steroids and drugs and regulates a network of genes in lipid and drug mechanisms. The goal of this study is to investigate...
Foreign direct investment in America's automotive industry [electronic resource] / (2006)
MacCleary, Jared., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
This paper investigates the factors that lead a foreign automaker to invest in a particular state. It examines variables that gauge a state's manufacturing development, labor union activity, and...
Kroll, Jeffrey T., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
This study investigated the variability of soil organic carbon within the Old Woman Creek watershed and the influence of landuse, soil texture, geomorphic surface and depth on SOC variability. Soil...
Werner, Tim J., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
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Novel fuel sensing mechanisms in the regulation of food intake [electronic resource] / (2006)
Proulx, Karine, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
An emerging model is that CNS fuel sensors, such as AMP kinase (AMPK) and the mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR), integrate signals from stored and immediately available fuels, and in turn regulate...
Nilakantan, Gaurav, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Anti tank mines pose a serious threat to the occupants of armored vehicles. High acceleration pulses and impact forces are transmitted to the occupant through vehicle-occupant contact interfaces...
A dynamic mosfet model in vhdl-ams [electronic resource] / (2006)
Sundaram, Karthik, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
To date, there is no published dynamic MOS transistor model directly implemented in VHDL-AMS. Therefore, we investigate if a Dynamic MOSFET model can be developed in VHDL-AMS with accuracy comparable...
Game for four cello [electronic resource] / (2006)
Yang, Heeyoung, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
This ten movement piece is written for four cellos. The title GAME refers to the relationships between four cellos throughout the music, as well as the manipulation of the suggestive titles of ten...
Cognitive-behavioral treatment and offenders [electronic resource] / (2006)
Groh, Samantha, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Cognitive-behavioral treatment is one of the most popular treatment methods used with offenders. Its popularity is believed to stem from the ease with which the techniques are implemented, its...
Zhang, Nan, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
A novel tunable optical add-drop multiplexer (OADM) based on a silicon forward/backward directional coupler is proposed. This device allows one wavelength channel or a small band of channels to be...
Bhattacharya, Prasun, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Systems-on-chip brought several cores onto a single chip. But, as more cores are being put onto a single chip, the on-chip communication resource, which is usually a bus started getting overburdened....
Walton, Christina D., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
This dynamic ethnographic study uses a mixed method investigation of 22 urban Appalachian professional storytellers from Greater Cincinnati (Ohio and Kentucky) who, when encountered, are interviewed...
Greenauer, Nathan Michael., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Previous research suggests that verbally describing featural elements of a spatial memory may subsequently interfere with an individual's ability to access and utilize complex, configural spatial...
Farley, Jared A., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
In the last decade, scholars have increasingly begun to study the role of issue entrepreneurs and subculture elites in utilizing ideologies, frames and cultural symbolism in the mobilization of...
Prasad, Prashanth., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
New environmental regulations have placed stringent requirements on emission levels from diesel and other types of engines. These requirements can only be met if engines can perform more efficiently,...
Sex and the soul [electronic resource]: Plato's equality argument in the Republic / (2006)
Parker, Michael L., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Plato is distinguished as one of the earliest Western philosophers to offer a philosophical argument for the equality of men and women. His primary argument for equality is presented in Book V of the...
Filling the void [electronic resource] : The interval between the past and the future / (2006)
Griffith, Rebecca Lynn., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
As society continued to evolve and expand, a gradual population exodus from the core of the city resulted in the deterioration of high-quality buildings. Left behind are empty lots, vacant...
Ranganathan, Prasanna., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Recent research has validated the practicality and the many advantages of heterogeneity in wireless networks, including ad-hoc sensor networks. However, the increased complexity of networks involving...
How size affects limb posture in cats [electronic resource] / (2006)
Day, Lisa M., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Previous studies of phylogenetically diverse mammals suggest that size-related differences in the scaling of mammals result from increasingly erect limbs in larger taxa. However, whether limb...
Parimi, Srinivas., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
In this work coherent porous silicon (CPS) is used as a base technology to develop micro Loop Heat Pipes (LHP) and multi-turn micro chromatograph. The issues with silicon passivation in a photon...
Evers, Julianne M., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The primary purpose of this study was to compare female athletes and non-athletes from both single-sex and coeducational school on three aspects of their psychosocial status: self-perceptions, body...
Rhyne, James Michael., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
In the late antebellum period, changing economic and social realities fostered conflicts among Kentuckians as tension built over a number of issues, especially the future of slavery. Local clashes...
Carlson, William E., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
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Characterization of flame stabilization technologies [electronic resource] / (2006)
Bush, Scott M., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
To experimentally explore and characterize a V-gutter stabilized flame, this research study developed a Combustion Wind Tunnel Test Facility capable of effectively simulating the freestream Mach #'s...
Modeling base crash rates for intersections [electronic resource] / (2006)
Kashayi, Nagaraju C., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Identifying and classifying intersections according to severity is very important for effective implementation of safety related counter measures and base crash rates are needed to compare and assess...
Srinivasan, Srikant., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Carbon nanotubes have generated much interest in the last few years for application in electronic devices because of their demonstrated ability to serve as a possible alternative to silicon...
Mattox, Mathew Allen., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Electrooxidation of carbon monoxide (CO) and methanol on platinum are two important reactions in direct methanol fuel cells. The presence of coadsorbates often modifies the reaction significantly. In...
Soil seed banks in mixed oak forests in Southeastern Ohio [electronic resource] / (2006)
Schelling, Lisa R., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
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Couch, James Robert, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Beryllium and its metallic alloys have been used in a number of industries because of its physical properties. The thesis evaluated 9,209 job and quarter/year combination collected at an Ohio...
Quazi, Shams Tabrez, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Dysregulation of the Renin Angiotensin Aldosterone System (RAAS) is implicated in diseases such as hypertension and congestive heart failure. cGMP regulating systems work as physiological antagonists...
Genital injuries in adolescents after rape [electronic resource] / (2006)
Baker, Rachel Beekman, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Adolescents constitute the largest group of rape victims. Physiologic theory suggests that injuries may be different in adolescents when compared to adults; however, little is known about genital...
Petropoulos, Lara A.N., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Many young adults face multiple barriers to accessing health care (Morreale et al., 2004). Improving understanding of young adults' perceptions of their access to health care and knowledge of their...
Oxidation behavior of Nb-Si-Ti-Cr-Al-X based multi-component alloys [electronic resource] / (2006)
Xu, Mengyao, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Four series, eleven different component Nb-Ti-Si-Cr-Al-X alloys have been exposed in air at temperatures ranging from 1200oF (~648oC) to 1800oF (~982oC) for various time durations. The sequences of...
Sustainable elderly housing [electronic resource] / (2006)
Shah, Sumegha, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Concern for the elderly is growing. Advances in medical knowledge and practice enable people to live significantly longer and healthier lives. Over the years we have established a wide range of...
Chennagowni, Suresh Babu, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Almost all practical systems are non-linear to some extent with the non-linearity being caused by one or a combination of factors. If the system is non-linear, errors are introduced in the data...
Bhide, Ashwini M., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Background-Safety continues to be one of the toughest challenges of the construction industry. The construction equipment operators referred here as heavy equipment operators are the class that...
Shabazz, Rashid K., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The purpose of this study is to gain insight in order to better understand the reasons contributing to the underrepresentation of African American male educators as perceived by African American male...
Raber, Erica Candace., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
A capillary based high pressure chamber for biological fluorescence imaging is presented where a quartz capillary serves as both an optical window and the mechanical support. We demonstrate the...
The development of the Gullah church [electronic resource] / (2006)
O'Brien, Alicia DeRocke., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Using Charles Long's hermeneutic tool "signification" (a term derived from African American culture), this paper explores the development of the Gullah church during the era of slavery. Slaves on the...
Clients' assimilation of the voice of their therapist [electronic resource] / (2006)
Mosher, James K.., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
This study is a theory building investigation of clients' assimilation of their therapist. The assimilation model posits that individuals accumulate and organize threads of experience into...
Namboodiri, Easwari., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Agent based modeling techniques can be used effectively to study complex systems, which have many parameters. The behavior of the system typically depends heavily on the values of these parameters....
Wang, Yongbing., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The focus of the research in this thesis is on the structural behavior and design of two aluminum "E-type" structural sections that are used in unitized curtain wall systems today. Moment capacities...
Venditto, Carmen, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
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Finding voices [electronic resource] : Italian American female autobiography / (2006)
Piroli, Marta., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The central point of this thesis is the recognition and exploration of the tradition of female Italian American autobiography, focusing on the choice of some Italian American writers to camouflage...
Kasliwal, Amit., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Many attempts have been made by researchers, worldwide, to comprehend the physics of separated flows. Study of flow separation is vital as it is encountered in many engineering applications, and is...
Krishnamurthy, Anusha., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Technology scaling over the current decade has led to feature sizes getting smaller than the 100 nm range. In spite of its many rewards, process variations begin to play an important role in...
Thien, Andrew B., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The United States economy is heavily dependent upon a vast network of pipeline systems to transport and distribute the nation's energy resources. As this network of pipelines continues to age,...
Chokkalingam, Selvameenal., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
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Xue, Jingbing., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
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Evans, Jessica Smith., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
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Statistical modeling of video event mining [electronic resource] / (2006)
Ma, Limin., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
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Effects of CuO flux addition on the dielectric properties of BaTiO3 [electronic resource] / (2006)
Shen, Ta-Jen., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The microstructure, dielectric and electrical properties of combination of minor dopants (ZrO2, Nd2O3) and sintering flux (BaO-CuO) in BaTiO3 are investigated in this study. Various instrumental...
Miura, Yoko, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
This study examined high-stakes test performance of Limited English Proficient (LEP) students under the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001 in Ohio. NCLB identified problems of academic...
A generalized theory for fly ash modified soils [electronic resource] / (2006)
Adu-Gyamfi, Kwame., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
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Brinegar, Meredith Glick., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The assimilation model describes the process of change in psychotherapy. The model suggests that in successful therapy, clients' problematic experiences progress through a series of developmental...
The impact of rock-bottom experiences on the alcohol recovery process [electronic resource] / (2006)
Griffith, Kyna D., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Although some evidence exists that African Americans have acknowledged higher numbers of alcohol problems than Caucasians, very little research exists on the factors that may influence the...
Hydration effect on human nail permeability [electronic resource] / (2006)
Gunt, Hemali B., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
It has been long known that hydration strongly affects transport and mechanical properties of keratinized membranes. The most studied keratin structures are human stratum corneum, wool and hair. The...
Zamora-Estrada, Grettel, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Gel network technology in conditioning shampoo represents an advantage over traditional silicone 2-in-1 technology due to its main benefits: dry conditioning, wet feel and lower cost. The purpose of...
Muthiah, Kanthi Mathi Nathan, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Globalization is posing several challenges to manufacturing and service industry. Organizations develop new technology and adopt new paradigms to improve system productivity, but the importance of...
Mohanty, Sameer, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The construction industry is one of the largest and fastest growing industries in the USA as well as in most parts of the world. The US department of commerce reported that construction industry...
Peng, Zhinang, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
In this dissertation, we address two kinds of the biomedical images/volumes segmentation problems: 1). Segmentation of white matter, gray matter, and cerebral spinal fluid from MR brain...
A conductor's guide to selected choral works of Modesta Bor [electronic resource] / (2006)
Parra, Cira Guadalupe, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Modesta Bor (1926-1998) was one of the outstanding Venezuelan composers, conductors, music educators and musicologists of the twentieth century. She wrote music for orchestra, chamber music, piano...
Wang, Qihe., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
As the earliest standard for Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPAN), Bluetooth has been widely used in cell phone, headset, car, GPS, etc. As a frequency hopping based system, however, constructing a...
Nguyen, Tuan Anh, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
In this dissertation, we use different optical and imaging spectroscopy techniques to study electronic structure and optical properties of CdTe/ZnTe and CdSe/ZnSe self-assembled quantum dots (SAQDs)....
Muente, Tamera Lenz., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
American Impressionist Frederick Carl Frieseke (1874-1939) lived and worked in France for approximately forty years and achieved international success with his paintings of women in domestic...
RB-mediated regulation of transcription and epigenetic modifications [electronic resource] / (2006)
Siddiqui, Hasan, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The retinoblastoma tumor suppressor protein (RB) is the 'master regulator' of cellular proliferation and is targeted for inactivation in the majority of human tumors. RB inhibits proliferation by...
He, Lei, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Cadmium (Cd2+, Cd) is a nonessential metal widely distributed in the environment. At the molecular level, little is known in vertebrates about how Cd is handled. Resistance to Cd-induced testicular...
Meinzen-Derr, Jareen, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is a sudden-onset life-threatening disease that occurs primarily in premature infants, with an incidence as high as 13% among sub-groups and a case-fatality rate near...
Constructing modernity [electronic resource] : Japanese graphic design from 1900 to 1930 / (2006)
Kaiser, Andrew, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Japanese graphic design prior to World War II is a neglected field. In my study I examine the development of the genre, analyzing examples from the formative period of 1900 to 1930. In chapter one I...
Johnson, Brandi Nicole., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The role of estrogen in modulating Orphanin FQ/Nociceptin (OFQ/N) induced prolactin secretion and the involvement of hypothalamic dopaminergic neurons involved in this response were investigated. In...
Green, Sharin Palladino., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The fact that gender bias exists in education is well documented, but can a school psychologist assume gender bias in all school psychological referrals? This study tested this assumption by...
Chirputkar, Shardool U., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Even with the ever-increasing and affordable computational power, detailed atomistic analysis of large domains using molecular dynamics remains prohibitively expensive. This motivates the use of...
Miller, Holly Harper., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
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Iancu, Violeta., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
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Kim, Hoon., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
"One of the unique features of living, alkyllithium-initiated, anionic polymerization is the ability to produce a stable carbanionic chain end after complete monomer consumption, which can be...
Esty, Debora., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
"Currently, there is a paucity of research on African American women's ways of appraising and coping with racist events. Although some literature does exist on the topic, these studies have not...
Flores-Santana, Wilmarie., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
"The primary limitation in using water-soluble diazeniumdiolates in topical applications is the instability of these compounds in aqueous solutions as a result of their pH dependent NO release. At...
Wang, Hong., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Over the years a number of variations on associative computing have been explored. At Kent State University (KSU), associative SIMD computing has its roots at Goodyear Aerospace Corporation, but most...
Villas-Bôas, Maria Lúcia., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
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Piercey, Patricia., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
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Beyerle, Theresa Susan., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
"Accountability has become a key issue in nonprofit literature-but public trust in nonprofits continues to decline. This study comprises a survey of nonprofit organizations in Summit County, Ohio to...
Brown, Michael J., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
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Narratives of orphaned adults [electronic resource] : journey to restoration / (2006)
Carusi, Dawn L., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
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Transverse cracking of high performance concrete bridge decks [electronic resource] / (2006)
Ganesh, Prakash., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Cracking is a major problem with newly placed concrete decks. These decks tend to develop full depth, transverse cracks and partial depth longitudinal cracks within a few months of the concrete being...
Bakke, Sharen A., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Advances in civilization and in technology cultivate new sensibilities and vulnerabilities toward invasions of privacy. Individuals are becoming privacy assertive: they ask to be removed from...
Wilfong, Lori G., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The purpose of the this study was to examine the effective use of community volunteers in four third grade classrooms at one rural elementary school in Northeast Ohio in a program called the Poetry...
Instability and failure in aluminum multi-channel tubing [electronic resource] / (2006)
Miller, Harvey (Beau) S., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
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Fontaine, Charles P., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
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Modeling of BJT in vhdl-ams [electronic resource] / (2006)
Madala, Raghu Sagar, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Abstract In this thesis we describe several bipolar junction transistor (BJT) models written in VHDL-AMS that are accurate, robust and provide good performance. With the increasing applications of...
Lehman, Justin Eugene, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The purpose of this study was to determine the perceived confidence level of high school coaches in rural, Northwest Ohio in their ability to handle various injuries and illnesses involving their...
Gwebu, Kholekile L., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
This dissertation explores the effect of information disclosure interventions on the performance of Reverse Multi-attribute Auctions. A conceptual model that integrates information asymmetry theory,...
Naugle, Jennifer Elaine., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Cardiac fibroblasts (CFs) are the major non-contractile cells present in the myocardium, and are primary regulators of synthesis and secretion of extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins. Both...
Magnan, Joselyn Emily, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
This investigation examined the efficacy of assisted self-graphing for improving early literacy skills within an urban public school that employed a response-to-intervention model. Self-graphing...
LeCorbusier's purist period and the concept of truth in architecture [electronic resource] / (2006)
Simic, Aleksandra, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Le Corbusier remains a very challenging and elusive subject in architectural scholarship today due to the complexity and depth of his work. Critical analyses on his work generally stress one...
Device modeling study of vertical channel SiGe MOSFETs [electronic resource] / (2006)
An, Yajun, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Silicon planar MOSFETs are fast approaching their scaling limitations and new device structures are being investigated with the intention to replace the current planar silicon-only MOSFET. One of the...
String quartets [electronic resource] / (2006)
Zhao, Lingyan, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The music themes of these string quartets come from Chinese folk song melodies. String Quartet I is based on The happy La Suo. The second one used the melody of Xiao bai cai which narrated a very...
Wang, Sha, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The 1920s was the golden age of a style of composition often called neoclassicism, which was represented by the works of such composers as Igor Stravinsky, Paul Hindemith, and Sergei Prokofiev....
Coaching experience [electronic resource] : instructional assistance for change / (2006)
Sellers, Deannan Lynn, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
This body of work includes four individual research studies situated in the Core Literacy Specialist Project centered around the professional development activity entitled coaching. Each individual...
Kim, Taik, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
In 2002, University of Cincinnati faculty members from the College of Engineering and the College of Education, Criminal Justice, and Human Services proposed the Science and Technology Enhancement...
Noble, Keith Edward., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
This dissertation examines the scope of trade relations between the United States and sub-Saharan Africa -- a relationship that since 2000, has largely been shaped by the African Growth & Opportunity...
Kilgore, Jenny., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
A report sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education (2000) regarding the effectiveness of different aspects of 'school' on student learning found that although much research has been conducted to...
Semyonov, Alexander N., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
A series of new 3,6-diphenyl-2,5-dihydropyrrolo[3,4-c]pyrrole-1,4-dione (DPP) fluorescent dyes has been synthesized and their fluorescent properties studied. Some of the prepared DPP compounds have...
Fellner, Angela N., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Emotional intelligence (EI) is the presumed ability to successfully understand and manage emotion. EI may affect the ability of security personnel to gauge the relevance of emotional cues in...
Ecotourism architecture [electronic resource] / (2006)
Iacobucci, Dominic., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The world populations are becoming more aware of their impact on the earth. With increasing tourism, ecotourism has become a mainstream option. Yet ecotourism remains ambiguous and highly debated....
Power variations and test scheduling for embedded memory arrays [electronic resource] / (2006)
Zhou,Yuan., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Embedded memories have played an important role in Integrated Circuits (ICs). Managing its power and test strategy have become two of the major constraints in System-on-a-Chip (SoC) designs. With the...
OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
In this work, optical properties of organic nanostructures are investigated. In temperature dependent (10 - 300 K) absorption studies of PTCDA and PTCDA/Alq3 multilayers a red shift and a line...
More, Kristen M., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
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Montalva, Roen., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
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A comparison of phonological awareness intervention approaches [electronic resource] / (2006)
Raisor, Lesley J., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The predictive power of phonological awareness for later literacy outcomes has prompted educators to develop interventions targeting these skills in children at-risk for qualifying for special...
Hauser, Jennifer E., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Malignant melanoma is the most lethal skin cancer. Multiple factors influence melanoma susceptibility, such as the melanocortin 1 receptor (MC1R) gene, cutaneous melanin content, and ultraviolet...
Hatch, Joel Simmons., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
ABSTRACT This dissertation, Poetic Voices and Hellenistic Antecedents in the Elegies of Propertius, explores some of the techniques with which Propertius crafts a unique poetic voice for his own...
Ibrahim, Hala M., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
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Brown, Kyle A., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
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Field, Elliot R., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
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Al-Ahmadi, Ahmad Aziz., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
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Kumar, Vinayak., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Circuit simulation, arguably the most used tool amongst the tools required for very large circuit design, provides the means to validate electrical circuits and also to perform behavioral analysis....
An iterative crosstalk aware timing analyzer [electronic resource] / (2006)
Wang, Chih-Kuan., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
This thesis presents an iterative, crosstalk aware timing analyzer. Parameters such as slew rate, voltage supply, coupling capacitance, and load capacitance are shown to affect gate delays in...
Olson, Erik Ryan., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Cardiac fibroblasts (CFs) are the major non-contractile cells present in the myocardium. The primary responsibility of CFs is to regulate the synthesis and secretion of extracellular matrix (ECM)...
K*⁰ photoproduction and electroproduction measured at CLAS [electronic resource] / (2006)
Hleiqawi, Ishaq H., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
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Being delivered [electronic resource] : spirituality in survivors of sexual violence / (2006)
Knapik, Gregory P., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
This study explores how individuals use spirituality in response to sexual violence. Sexual violence is an underreported and often-overlooked social problem associated with diverse physical,...
Dokka, Viswanath., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
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Unger, Brandon Lloyd, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The purpose of this study was to determine whether or not there is a statistically significant difference in the pitch range of individuals with Asperger Syndrome and typically developing individuals...
A knowledge-based modeling tool for classification [electronic resource] / (2006)
Gong, Rongsheng, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
An empirical model based on experimental data cannot effectively incorporate the prior knowledge into the modeling process and heavily depends on the quality of the data. The symbolic expert systems,...
Magar, Yogesh Naresh, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Convective heat and mass transfer in a planar, tri-layer, solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) module is considered for a uniform supply of volatile species (80% hydrogen + 20% water vapor) and oxidant (20%...
Zhang, Shufang, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
This study looks into Chinese American adolescents' sense of self as members of an ethnic group, how ethnic language usage affects the children's ethnic identity, how the quality of family...
Terwilliger, Ami Renee, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Immunity has been studied for years in both invertebrates and vertebrates comparing similarities and differences. Even though invertebrate immune systems are less complex than those found in...
Genetic fidelity in extremophiles [electronic resource] / (2006)
Mackwan, Reena Rufus, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The environmental conditions required by many extremophiles for their optimal growth raise questions about these organisms' ability to replicate their chromosomal DNA accurately. To address this...
Wojas, Bartlomiej., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
This practicum reports on the findings from an 11 month study of sampling and characterizing the particulate matter levels in Oxford, Ohio to determine whether it is in compliance with PM2.5 NAAQS...
Real-time differential refractometry at a sensitivity level of 10-6 [electronic resource] / (2006)
McClimans, Michael Steven., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
We present a refractometer based on the principle of total internal reflection (TIR) that can sensitively record in real-time the refractive index of fluids over a wide range of refractive indices....
Hoogen, Siri Rebecca., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
This paper presents a qualitative investigation of the phenomenon of medicalization in women's narratives of depression. Feminist research ethics informed the research and creative process, including...
Haren, Lacy., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
This study investigated categorization abilities between subjects with traumatic brain injury (TBI) in post acute rehabilitation who receive a systematic Categorization Program (CP) and a control...
Michael, Joseph., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Previous research has found that Blacks experience lower levels of marital happiness than Whites. In this paper, I approach the racial disparity in marital happiness from a structural perspective...
Hadley, Tiffany S., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The controversial documentaries by Michael Moore have provoked public debate on social and political matters since the end of the 1980s. This study analyzed Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 from a...
Ware, Lezlee J., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
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Zipfel, Katherine J., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
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Yang, Rong., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
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McCrea, Laura B. Grove., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
"Teaching self-efficacy (TSE) refers to teachers' expectations that they can help students learn (Ashton & Webb, 1986). A significant amount of research has explored the importance of teaching...
Chase, Steve., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
This curriculum action research study begins by raising the question of whether environmental studies programs within higher education should launch activist training programs for public interest...
Pressler, Rebecca E., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
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Hellenthal, Rebecca L., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
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Ghai, Vishal V., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
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The Divine and Miss Johanna [electronic resource] / (2006)
Williams, Eleanor., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
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Venkatesan, Jayaram., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Prediction and prevention of falls is a very important part of creating safe and productive workplaces. The risk of falling during workplace activity is related to postural stability. However,...
Mitchell, Beth Louise., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
This study investigated the effects of sediment grain size distribution, mineralogy and surface charge, and bacterial surface charge on bacterial transport through natural porous media. Bacterial...
Chen, Ke, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
This dissertation explores the spatial distribution of biotechnology industry activities across fifty major metropolitan areas in the United States in 2002. The biotechnology industry is composed of...
Arragattu, Praveen Kumar, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The Micro Loop Heat Pipe (LHP) is a two-phase device that may be used to cool electronics, solar collectors and other devices in space applications. A LHP is a two-phase device with extremely high...
Penubothu Naga Nataraja, Satyanarayana Kumar, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Welded Steel Moment Resisting Frames (WSMF) were recommended for multistorey structures in seismic zones without any limitations, prior to the Northridge earthquake of January 17, 1994 based on the...
Sequence as structure [electronic resource] : ordering the body, space and architecture / (2006)
Bubb, Cynthia Lynne, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Architectural sequences have often taken the form of linear spatial progressions. In the twentieth century the naissance of cinema, wherein linear progressions are interrupted and manipulated...
Studies for redeployment algorithms in wireless sensor networks [electronic resource] / (2006)
Yan, Yongchun, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Wireless sensor networks consist of a collection of wireless sensor nodes, often pertain mobility. In the environment lack of a prior knowledge, initial sensor nodes deployment usually cannot satisfy...
Jones, Brandon D., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
American French hornist and composer Verne Reynolds (b. 1926) spent most of his career on the faculty at the Eastman School of Music as Professor of Horn. During his thirty-six year tenure there...
Xie, Yanmei., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
This thesis uses U.S. mainstream media's coverage of then Secretary of State Colin Powell's address to the UN Security Council prior to the Iraq War as a case study to examine the role of the...
Rhodes, Eric Robert., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans has been associated with a variety of human infections but mainly with Localized Aggressive Periodontitis. This pathogen grows under iron-limiting conditions...
Ding, Mengmeng., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Optimization based analog circuit sizing opens a new page for computer aided design of analog integrated circuits. While differing in implementation details, the sizing tools usually include two main...
Physical aware high level synthesis and interconnect for FPGAs [electronic resource] / (2006)
Huang, Renqiu., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Reconfigurable computing (RC) is going mainstream where FPGA plays an essential role. Synthesizing the application from concept and prototyping onto reconfigurable FPGAs has emerged as one of the...
Skaggs, Stephen, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
This study explores the relationship of religion and the family in the context of Moscow, Russia, during the turbulent time after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Using data collected from...
Ramamurti, Rahul., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
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Design and test of a MEMS reconfigurable tunable capacitor [electronic resource] / (2006)
Shenoy, Sudhir K., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The rapid increase in the importance and development of RF MEMS in today's technologies has emphasized the fact that reliable, sturdy and self-sufficient devices are urgently needed. We propose...
Pritchard, Kathryn L., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Channel development during deglaciation along the southern margin of the Laurentide Ice Sheet in central Ohio has not been previously studied. Moreover, sedimentary characteristics and temporal...
QoS issues and QoS constrained design of wireless sensor networks [electronic resource] / (2006)
Wang, Xiaodong., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Most existing research in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) has been focused on proposing protocols to facilitate either energy effient communication or sensing operation in WSNs. We believe that there...
Let's play [electronic resource] : Designing spaces for cognitive development / (2006)
Merryfield, Jessica L., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Child development experts agree that play is critical in early childhood cognitive development, yet many children spend eight hours a day in bland environments that are not designed for, nor are...
Huang, Shu-Chin., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
This creative thesis focuses on my three adapted Three Taiwanese aboriginal plays, which staged in Ernst theatre in Miami University. Chapter One includes the historical origins of Taiwanese...
Kim, Daekeun., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Biofiltration for VOC control is best operated at steady loads of contaminants. Variations in contaminant loads are, however, common in real application. As a solution to this limitation in...
Kandell, Brian., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
This thesis describes the efforts undertaken in the development of a highly sensitive piezoelectric device to eventually be used as a stand-alone cochlear implant. Through previous studies the most...
Case, Brian W., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Background: Urine thiocyanate(UTC) has been used as a marker of cyanide exposure. In 1996, 65 of 75(87%) workers in a TN plant had elevated UTC. After this, the testing laboratory(NMS) changed their...
Identification of genes that cooperate with p53 in tumorigenesis [electronic resource] / (2006)
Ayanga, Bernard A., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
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Koonce, Elizabeth Godke., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
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Dynamically self-reconfigurable systems for machine intelligence [electronic resource] / (2006)
He, Haibo., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
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Johnson, Troy A., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
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Six degree-of-freedom modeling of an uninhabited aerial vehicle [electronic resource] / (2006)
Calhoun, Sean M., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
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Day, Karis L., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
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Lake, Ryan Douglas., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The task of tuning an engine from scratch can be very time consuming and difficult if the right equipment is not utilized. Several different types of dynamometers with feedback control systems exist...
Asymptotic behavior of randomly perturbed dynamical systems [electronic resource] / (2006)
Kolomiyets, Yuriy V., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
We consider systems of random differential equations. The coefficients of the equations depend on a small parameter. The first equation, "slow" component, Ordinary Differential Equation (ODE), has...
Mattox, Tracy Marie., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
There is a drive to understand how nature performs various catalytic reactions using minimal energy, in particular the activation of nitrogen. The work described here focuses on two types of models...
Coons, Ryan William., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
We have devised an improved collimation system for a variable-length Littman-Metcalf external cavity diode laser (ECDL), which greatly improves the quality of a broad-area laser (BAL). We expand on...
Episodic perspectives of wireless network dependability [electronic resource] / (2006)
Chen, Yachuan., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
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Liao, Bo., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
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A bottoms-up approach to cost estimation using parametric inputs [electronic resource] / (2006)
Toth, Charles., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
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Duncan, Elizabeth A., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Alcohol is a complex substance that acts as a reward, an anxiolytic and a macronutrient. Consequently, alcohol consumption is believed to be influenced by neuronal systems that regulate reward,...
OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The phospholipid, lysophosphatidic acid, signals through G-protein coupled receptors to influence cell morphology, gene expression, cell survival, and cell proliferation in many cell types in vitro....
Camouflaged emotions - stoicism in the US military [electronic resource] : / (2006)
OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Currently, the amount of training on ethics which is received by the average member of the US armed forces is seriously lacking. Because of the potentially grave consequences which can occur from a...
Control strategies for multi-vehicle systems using virtual force [electronic resource] / (2006)
Borthakur, Soumitra K., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Abstract A group of unmanned air/ground vehicles can be strategically very important as compared to a single unmanned vehicle. It plays an important role in not only carrying out surveys of terrains,...
Peterson, Erik T.K., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Contact guidance is a phenomenon in which cells respond to substrate geometry by changes in alignment and morphology. Contact guidance cues can be used to direct cell behavior in useful ways,...
A tiled fpga architecture for power-aware computations [electronic resource] / (2006)
Yan, Jianping, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Current SRAM FPGAs have reached high gate densities which make them suitable for portable reconfigurable systems and data intensive applications. However, some challenges need to be faced to make...
Barlag, Kristen M., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
A sample of 102 elementary classroom teachers in one southwest Ohio school district completed a three-page survey assessing their attitudes and behaviors towards the promotion of physical activity...
A conductor's guide to Sofia Gubaidulina's St. John passion [electronic resource] : / (2006)
Cheng, Wei, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Sofia Gubaidulina first gained world recognition on 30 May 1981 with the premiere of her violin concerto, Offertorium. Since then her reputation has grown rapidly. She has received numerous honors...
McGahie, Paul Douglas, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
It is proposed that the fugal writing found in W. A. Mozart's choral movements of his major choral-orchestral works can be favorably compared to those of the earlier master composer J. S. Bach in...
Parmigian, Guy Louis., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
This dissertation is a historical case study of the political process that made a consolidated high school within the Ashtabula Area City School District in northeast Ohio and the leaders who made it...
Racism in contemporary sports [electronic resource] : a perceptual and contextual analysis / (2006)
Dickhaus, Joshua Brandon., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
This study examined subjects' perceptions of racist quotations from sports figures based on three variables (objectionable-ness, racist-ness, offensiveness). This study wanted to examine perceptual...
Cardon, Thomas B., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The orientation, structure and dynamics of spin-labeled integral membrane peptides/proteins can be obtained directly from the orientation-dependent hyperfine splittings of the spin-labeled EPR...
Shah, Monika, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Interest in molecule specific characterization of metal and metalloid containing species within a biological system is gaining importance in recent years. This not only facilitates the establishment...
Gelter, Adam M., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
This thesis examines models of community development in order to determine the areas in which they are most effective at impacting communities. Community development researchers and practitioners...
Ishikawa, Keiko, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Vocal Function Exercises (VFE) is a voice therapy program which uses a vowel /o/ with buzzy sound that is produced with the tightly constricted lips. Clinical studies have shown efficacy of the...
Fausz, James K., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Visualization and public involvement are increasingly important areas of the planning profession. Research has shown that three-dimensional design is infrequently utilized in planning -a fact that is...
Daughter of Odoro [electronic resource] : Grace Onyango and African women's history / (2006)
Musandu, Phoebe A., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Since the eighties, the Academy has produced a modest amount of scholarship on African women's history. A number of these works have been limited demographically to allow for in-depth...
Byrum, Sabrina Freeman., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
This report describes my technical writing/editing internship at WIL Research Laboratories, Inc. (WIL) in Ashland, Ohio. To complete the Master of Technical and Scientific Communication (MTSC) degree...
He, Peng., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The main objective of this work is to study the surface modification and the mechanics of interfaces in nanocomposites. Investigation of this topic is motivated by the exceptional mechanical...
Prolactin production by human breast adipose tissue and adipocytes [electronic resource] : / (2006)
McFarland-Mancini, Molly., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
PRL is a 23 kDa hormone that is expressed at pituitary and extrapituitary sites. Although the breast expresses PRL, it is not known what compartments as well as cell types within the breast are...
Ionescu, Mircea M., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Similarity measures are the basis of most of the machine learning and pattern recognition algorithms. The choice of the similarity determines the effectiveness of the algorithm in solving the...
Davis, Brooke A., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Opioid peptides have long been known to have regulatory effects on sexual behavior. Endogenous opioids affect reproductive function in both men and women, and the effects of exogenous opioid use are...
VanderKaay, Melissa M., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
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The rhetoric of American beauty [electronic resource] : a value analysis / (2006)
Papajcik, Jessica L., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
"December, 2006."
Mu, Haichuan, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Our study focuses on the understanding of the mechanisms of charge injection and transport in small molecule organic light emitting diodes (OLED). One contribution of this work is the development of...
Wells, James E., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
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Gray, Jennifer L., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
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Climate controls on a mountain stream of a humid temperate region [electronic resource] / (2006)
Cocina, Frank G., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
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Pauley-Gose, Jennifer H., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
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Analysis of air-to-air rotary energy wheels [electronic resource] / (2006)
Al-Ghamdi, Abdulmajeed S., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
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Akyol, Mucahit, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Technological innovations have been making big strides in the areas of analog, digital and multi-technology circuits, systems and applications. Incorporating these technologies into a single device...
Joshi, Tarun., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
In this dissertation, we focus on designing several cross-layer optimizations to boost the performance of wireless networks. We categorize our efforts into two directions: (a) improvement of spatial...
Swaminathan, Raghav ., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
A mixed technology FPGA (MT-FPGA) extends the positive aspects of conventional FPGAs into the non-conventional technologies like photonic, MEMS and RF systems. The results obtained from the first...
Turek, Steven., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Modern design and manufacturing requires that a manufactured component be compared to the design specifications through adequate dimensions and tolerances. Often the validation process is electronic,...
Chen, Cheng., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
We have observed anchoring transitions of nematic liquid crystal mixtures on obliquely evaporated SiOx by varying the relative abundance of two components in the mixture. Of these two components, one...
Miller, Marcia F., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Each year increasing numbers of Americans report the use of some form of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). The purpose of this descriptive study was to examine the implementation of a...
Badamdorj, Dorjsuren, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Olfactory cilia are the first components for signal transduction in the sensory system. The cilia contain two ion channel types cyclic-nucleotide-gated (CNG) and Ca2+-gated Cl- (Cl(Ca)). These two...
Qian, Jingjing, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
This study evaluated the effects of using IntelliFill IV Robot system on IV admixture operations at the Division of Pharmacy, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC), Cincinnati, Ohio....
Singh, Guneet, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
PLLs find enormous use in applications such as carrier recovery, signal synchronization, frequency division and multiplication. In addition, they can be modified to synthesize multiple stable...
Beohar, Shruti, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Study of the query workload in some sensor network applications shows that querying in a sensor network environment can be relative, relative to what was sensed earlier in the network. As an...
Auler, Robert M., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Martin Bresnick, b. 1946, is Professor of Composition at Yale University. His diverse output includes film music, computer music, chamber compositions, choral scores, and orchestral works. For The...
Digital blackface [electronic resource] : the repackaging of the black masculine image / (2006)
Green, Joshua Lumpkin., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
In this post-civil right era, race and ethnicity have taken on more visual rhetorical styles that carry implicit meanings concerning race, class and gender. Nowhere is this more evident than in media...
A performance based approach for the design of work area [electronic resource] / (2006)
Choi, Hyeg Joo., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
On what basis should the size and shape of work area be established such that people can perform their job efficiently and comfortably? Part 1 reviewed some of the early research on work area design,...
Adame, Alexandra Lynne., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The discourse of the medical model of mental illness tends to dominate people's conceptions of the origins and treatments of psychopathology. This reductionistic discourse defines people's...
Diversity literature in major school psychology journals [electronic resource] : 2000-2003 / (2006)
Brown, Stephanie Lynn., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The purpose of this study was to review the articles published in major school psychology journals from 2000-2003 for diversity-related literature. It is a follow-up to a study originally conducted...
Idris, Omonigho., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Thirty sediment samples collected from three trenches in the Great Miami Riverbed during low-flow conditions were characterized to determine riverbed variability. Wet-sieve analysis was used to...
Hupp, Jill N., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The purpose of this research is to explore how students and police detectives view crimes against older adults, and how their views are related to their knowledge and attitudes about aging. Surveys...
Mailavaram, Madhuri., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Cellular Neural Networks (CNNs) form a class of information-processing systems which like neural networks are large-scale nonlinear analog circuits performing real time parallel processing of...
Effect of hand hygiene procedures on skin biomarkers [electronic resource] / (2006)
Said, Dina., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Skin cleansing is an essential part of skin care. Its primary function is to remove dirt, oil, other environmental pollutants, and bacteria from skin. However many cleansers are based on surfactants...
Zhu, Zhen., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
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Spinks, Deborah E., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
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Farrell, Cornelia A., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
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Schneider, Rachel Zimmer., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
"When battered women kill their abusive partners they generally do so in self-defense. However, self-defense law never took women's experiences with domestic violence into account. It was not until...
Nanoscale biocatalysts for bioelectrochemical applications [electronic resource] / (2006)
Zhao, Xueyan., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
"Rapid advances in nanoscale science and engineering are fueling the development of a new area in biotechnology, nanoscale enzymatic biocatalysis. Carbon nanotubes (CNT) are fascinating supports for...
Lee, Joon Seong., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
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Hadlock, Nathaniel A., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
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Kimura, Kenji., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
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The acculturation of Macedonian immigrants in the United States [electronic resource] / (2006)
Malinajdovska, Ljubica Blaze., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The purpose in conducting this research was to examine the acculturation of separated Macedonian immigrants in the United States, attitudes towards mental health services, and perceptions about...
Tamhane, Ashwini Anil, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Transportation has become an important issue today with the soaring gas prices and urban spatial problems faced due to the automobile. Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) offers innovative alternatives to...
Das, Mitali., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Leaf litter is an important energy source in forested streams, and is degraded primarily by fungi (mainly hyphomycetes) and bacteria. Not much is known about the diversity of...
Kongara Veera Venkata, Satya Srinivasu., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
A model for instability and breakup of a planar liquid sheet injected in a co-flowing air stream is presented. Both viscous Newtonian and viscoelastic non-Newtonian liquid sheets are considered. The...
Raghuraman, Srinivasan., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
In the past, VLSI circuits were classified as digital, with some analog behavior associated with individual components, or as analog. For digital circuits, the digital behavior of the components...
Vedantam, Kiran K., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Efficiently computing the Jacobi symbol (a/b) for integers a and b is an important step in a number of cryptographic processes. This thesis presents various algorithms for computing the Jacobi symbol...
Zhang, Ke., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The research described in this dissertation was conducted in a special manner: analyzing the properties of liquid crystals from the observation of microparticle behaviors. The sizes of the particles...
Patel, Vipul J., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
For the past few decades, research and design of CAD tools have focused on developing a set of tools that will guarantee designers first-pass fabrication success. There have been many variations of...
Brown, Ami Alderman, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the YWCA of Greater Cincinnati Great Beginnings Breast Health Promotion Program in knowledge of breast self exam, ability to identify steps to good breast...
Ivan, Mihai, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Romanian contemporary history was marked by a turning point in 1989. Following more than 42 years of successive totalitarian regimes, the nation shifted to an incipient and fragile democracy. While...
The euro [electronic resource] : a multimodal study in presence / (2006)
Marunowski, Kenneth Ray., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Through the exemplary case study of the euro, the official currency of the European Union, this dissertation explores Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca's (1969) rhetorical construct, presence as a...
Electrochemical degradation of 4-chlorophenol [electronic resource] / (2006)
Zhang, Hao, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
In this study, an electrochemical reactor was used to investigate the degradation of 4-chlorophenol at neutral pH for studying the impact of three key parameters (initial concentration, ionic...
Zhou, Xuefu, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
An underlying assumption of the traditional layered protocol architecture is that all layers can be optimized independently. Unfortunately, this assumption is not satisfied in wireless networks...
Acosta León, Adriana Lucía, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Background: Currently there is no evidence-based systematic review on the health effects of carbon-based engineered nanoparticles. Objectives: To conduct a critical appraisal of the published...
Oberlander, Kristin M.., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
In the past ten years, organics have been re-framed as an industry that caters to the middle and upper class strata of society because the products cost more than agricultural farming products....
Acheson, Marsha J., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
This study investigated the effect of Natural Aided Language Stimulation (NALS) on requesting objects and actions in preschool children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). NALS used picture symbols...
Kant, Ankur, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The aim of this thesis is to elaborate efforts taken by the cochlear implant development team towards the development of a successful polymer electrode based piezoelectric cochlear implant, hearing...
The creation of hybrid space architecture [electronic resource] / (2006)
Eckert, Gregory Windsor, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Today, people use the computer as part of their daily lives, whether it is at work, home, or in the palm of their hands. The increased popularity of online access has changed society in the areas of...
Atikovic, Emina., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Perchlorate is an oxidizer that has been routinely used in solid rocket motors by the Department of Defense and NASA. One of the advantages of perchlorate is that it is easily washed out of old...
Fang, Haitao., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
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Dias, Chrisanne S., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
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The biohydrology of Dysart Woods [electronic resource] / (2006)
Burgess, Macdonald H., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
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Luo, Junxiang, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Chapter I: In 1994, generalized estimating equations approach (GEE) was extended by Lipsitz, Kim and Zhao to fit the proportional odds model for analyzing repeated (or clustered) ordinal categorical...
Wysocki, Clare., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
"The reinforcement of ethylene propylene rubber (EPR) and ethylene propylene diene rubber (EPDM) by zinc dimethacrylate (ZDMA) was investigated. Various levels of peroxide (dicumyl peroxide, DCP) and...
McEwan, Ryan W., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
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Effects of wind on piezoelectric Lamb wave-based health monitoring [electronic resource] / (2006)
Ramsey, J. J. (James Jihiel), OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
"Research has been ongoing into systems that use sensors embedded in the aircraft to continuously monitor damage within it, e.g. fatigue cracks, corrosion, etc. One example of such a system is...
Excitation energy transfer in quantum-dot solids [electronic resource] / (2006)
Al-Ahmadi, Ameenah N., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
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Atikovic, Emina, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Perchlorate is an oxidizer that has been routinely used in solid rocket motors by the Department of Defense and NASA. One of the advantages of perchlorate is that it is easily washed out of old...
Consolidation analyses of greater Cincinnati soils Cincinnati, Ohio [electronic resource] / (2006)
Dayal, Nishant, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The compression analysis of argillaceous material under a proposed superstructure is one of the primary tasks required of a geotechnical engineer. The accuracy of such an analysis is dubious in the...
Vogt, Deborah Ann., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
This thesis evaluates the effectiveness of the "Building A Better Me" Program. The program was developed from a family systems theory perspective and focuses on various issues pertaining to...
Recognizing table formatting from text files [electronic resource] / (2006)
Rajendran, Venkatprabhu., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Some text documents, legacy documents in particular, do not format sections of text containing tables. Documents like these are not as readable as they could be since the columns are not aligned. Non...
Wansapura, Arshani N., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Purpose. To determine whether a nutrition program emphasizing the DASH diet (DASH-4-Teens program) could significantly alter sodium intake and major food sources of sodium among adolescents with...
Accelerated construction decision making process [electronic resource] / (2006)
Arkukar, Tejas Prakash, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The National Bridge Inventory shows that more than 480,000 bridges that serve the U.S highways are of a median age of more than 42 years and a design life of 50 years; out of which, approximately 14...
Lamichhane, Prabhat, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
This thesis presents a dual investigation on odor emissions from concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) in terms of characterization and control of such emissions. The first aspect of this...
Ravi, Maheswari S., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
With the advancement of nanometer scale processes in CMOS technologies, the demand for high performance VLSI systems continues to grow exponentially. The performance of a microprocessor is influenced...
Ren, Zhong, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) is a spectrally efficient multicarrier modulation technique for high speed data transmission over multipath fading channels. High Peak-to-Average...
Racial socialization of biracial adolescents [electronic resource] / (2006)
Marbury, Ja'Nitta., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The purpose in conducting this research was to develop grounded theory regarding the racial socialization process of biracial adolescents who were the offspring of an African American father and a...
Coyle, Patrick O., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Gay and lesbian choruses in the United States have actively commissioned new works since they first came into existence. From miniatures to major works, the resultant compositions have come from...
Trapp, Carisa Ann., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The purpose of this paper is to give an overview of the origin of magical realism and compare and contrast Juan Rulfo's Pedro Páramo, Elena Garro's Los recuerdos del porvenir and Rosario...
Spillar, Adrienne J., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
This paper explores the complex relationships between American Catholic women, the Roman Church, and mainstream American culture. A small sociological survey constructed and undertaken by the author...
Campbell, Lisa Mulford, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
This dissertation is comprised of a series of scholarly papers submitted in an alternative format. All four chapters represent separate, but related, studies embedded in the context of a state-wide...
Browne, Lydia Ann, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
As urban American struggles to regnerate, the strategy of redeveloping landmark buildings is often overlooked. However, there are concrete advantages that favor the adaptive reuse of urban landmark...
Chang, Mingxin, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
In this thesis the photochemistry of four alkyl azides has been investigated in solution and in the solid state. All the azides have a build-in triplet sensitizer, acetophenone moiety, that absorbs...
Ong, Benjamin., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
A small scale (16 x 16 inch) racking tester was used to evaluate the racking performance of the paperboard and wood based sheathing materials. In this study it was shown that the staple spacing,...
Zhang, Junbo., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Time-frequency analysis is important in geophysics studies. This is because in order to better understand the physical and chemical processes, one needs to know the detailed information contained in...
Smith High, Crystal M., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
To determine the impact that chromated copper arsenate (CCA)-contaminated mulch imposes on the environment and human health, forty commercially purchased mulch samples from Cincinnati Metropolitan...
Gurumurthy, Aravind., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
This thesis addresses different generations of MOSFET CMOS transistor models and examines the models that would be appropriate for various applications based on the number of parameters given....
Huddleson, Justin P., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
KLF2 is a mammalian zinc-finger transcription factor that is required for a number of normal embryonic processes, including lung development, adipocyte formation, T cell maturation and...
Saunders, Carrie L., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
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Ng, H. Mei., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
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Kresge, Jared T., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
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Sanders, Alexis Y., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Depression among young children is a common yet serious problem that often goes undiagnosed, partially due to the inadequacy of measures. The Children's Depression Inventory is a self-report measure...
Karpenko, Veronika V., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
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Roblin, Michael William., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
"A design process for selection of suspension components for a hybrid vehicle has been proposed. A stock SUV was placed on a suspension parameter measurement machine (SPMM) to collect data on...
Feminist characteristics as buffers to suicide attitudes and ideation [electronic resource] / (2006)
Oney, Kimberly Mikich, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
"The study of protective factors related to suicide has expanded in recent years and has yielded empirical support for the buffering quality against suicidality of several constructs, including...
The hot interstellar medium in normal elliptical galaxies [electronic resource] / (2006)
Diehl, Steven., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
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Carbon nanofiber-polymer composites for electronic applications [electronic resource] / (2006)
Higgins, Bernadette Ann., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
"May, 2006."
Gerek, Zeynep Nevin., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
"Our purpose is to extend Step Potential Equilibria and Dynamics (SPEAD) method to predict transport properties like diffusivity, viscosity, and thermal conductivity. The SPEAD method is basically...
Lu, Ting, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The objective of this study was to test the hypothesis that the operating conditions of bioreactors could influence the microbial community structure which relates to the bioreactor functional...
Yuan, Ning., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
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Will, Joshua D., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
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Breglia, Douglas P., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
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Schwab, Kristopher R., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Renal morphogenesis involves the reciprocal inductive interactions between the ureteric bud and metanephric mesenchyme forming the collecting ducts and nephrons within adult kidney. We applied...
Onescu, Mircea Marian, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
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A Diagnostic study of a possible acceleration of the hydrologic cycle [electronic resource] / (2006)
Small, David Leroy., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
There is a growing consensus that a statistically significant, but relatively small, increase in global temperatures is evident from observational data analysis (Karl 1996). Simple physical and...
Ramachandran, Jaiganesh., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The main goal of this research is to characterize the obese population based on anthropometry and range of motion (RoM) data collected from a sample taken from the University of Cincinnati community...
Bartholomew, Alexander Jess, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The hypothesis of Coordinated Stasis, developed from observations of extended periods of faunal stability in Middle Devonian sediments of the Appalachian Basin, has been the topic of intense research...
Noblitt, Bethany Anne, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
This study used qualitative as well as quantitative research methods to investigate the effects of an algebra content course on the algebra self-efficacies of prospective middle grades teachers. This...
Stricker, Jeffery T., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The purpose of this study is to use the layer-by-layer assembly (LbL) method to investigate the incorporation of ultra-thin insulating films into organic electronic device architectures and to...
Lin, Boren., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Resveratrol has been considered a chemopreventive and therapeutic candidate against carcinogenesis because of its potential to modulate multiple molecular pathways associated with the development and...
Piotroski, Janina., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
An abstraction-decomposition space (ADS) has been used to characterize functional and structural relationships of complex systems. This study used an ADS to (a) describe a knowledge domain of working...
Perceptions of change following a 360-degree feedback intervention [electronic resource] / (2006)
Wernke, Julia Yvonne, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Although organizations invest significant resources in the development and deployment of 360-degree feedback programs, a limited amount of outcome research has been conducted to explore their...
Ashirgade, Akshay A., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the US has imposed legislations on the use of hexavalent chromium and solvents contributing to emission of volatile organic compounds in primer coatings....
Devarakonda, Surendra Balaji, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Micro Total Analysis System ([]TAS) devices frequently need to deal with bio-particle suspensions in solution and separation of certain bio-particles is often desirable. Separation of plasma from the...
Gorodetsky, Dmitry, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Modern applied engineering problems often call for the solution of partial differential equations. Unfortunately most real-life problems cannot be easily solved with analytic methods and numerical...
Investigation of distribution factors for load rating of bridges [electronic resource] / (2006)
Jamboktar, Omkar, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
ABSTRACT Current AASHTO rating methods are very conservative when applied to regular composite or non composite multigirder bridges. A large source of conservatism is lateral distribution factors,...
Sampath Kumar, Raghav, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The thesis is broadly divided into three major parts. In the first part, thermal imaging is used to experimentally measure temperature and a numerical model is developed to predict the thermal...
Pulipaka, Prashanth NT, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
In this age of technological era, the real time applications mandate the design of complex circuits that involve multi-energy domain interaction. While the research till the recent past concentrated...
Mukherjee, Anindo, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Rapid growth in wireless networks has resulted in a growing need for fast and ubiquitous connectivity. Most networks deployed currently are single hop access point (AP) networks, where the end user...
Subramanian, Rohit, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
In the past, most sampling strategies for cylindrical features emphasized reduction of form error while determining the optimal sample sizes. Typically, most cylindrical features have more than one...
Langager, Graeme Michael Allyn, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The life and music of English composer, Gerald Finzi (1901-56) has received relatively little critical study; that which has been done, however, especially regarding the choral and vocal music, often...
Sideways [electronic resource] : / (2006)
Bern, Alan Seth, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Throughout the 20th century, composers have written works reflecting or portraying different states of time consciousness. Not infrequently, such compositions have been stimulated by...
Klug, Justin James., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Self-efficacy is defined as the judgments of one's capabilities to organize and execute courses of action required to attain designated types of performances (Bandura, 1997). Although a great deal of...
Ellis, Steven Gordon., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
This paper attempts to describe the religious and civil religious discourse used by presidents during their inaugural addresses and State of the Union speeches, overlooked in the literature. This...
Hagen, Joshua A., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The biopolymer deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) has been extracted from salmon (saDNA) and used successfully as an electron blocking layer (EBL) in multiple structures of Organic Light Emitting Diodes...
DeGraaf, Nathan Mark, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Contemporary artworks, while revolutionary in their investigations of form, durability, commodification, objectification, and meaning, now float languidly within alien gallery spaces - islands far...
Kastl, Bryan Daryl, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Blood cell formation is a highly regulated process that depends on the proliferation and differentiation of hematopoietic stem cells (HSC). HSC are located in the endosteal area of the bone marrow...
Abot, Ileana L., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Nowadays, the patterns of land development are characterized by dispersion and lack of coordination with the larger region. There is no clear role played by planning and the current patterns seem to...
Hamilton, Craig A., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The modern Napa Valley winery must be more than a rationally designed manufacturing facility for wine. Its role has expanded to become a place for visitors to experience the winemaking process and...
Sugg, Emi, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The Jackson Purchase region is a rural, agricultural region southwestern tip of the State of Kentucky. The region is suffering from job loss and below average per capita income. The region seeks to...
Tectonics transcended [electronic resource] detailing in digital fabrication / (2006)
Wollet, Travis J., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Due to standardization of construction, a fiscal society, and increased specialization in architecture, the architect's connection to the detail has become a virtual affiliation. The capabilities of...
Grasso, Joshua., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
My dissertation, Strange Adventures, Profitable Observations: Travel Writing and the Citizen-Traveler, 1680-1780, explores the role of the traveler as it developed in late seventeenth and...
Olson, Andrew., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Many of the most intensively studied problems in computer science concern metric spaces, sets of points with an attached distance measure. The use of metric embedding has lead to a revolution in the...
Pavithran, Manojkumar., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The merge metering strategy controls the traffic entering a work zone section of a freeway through the use of metering signals at the merging area of freeway work zones. A comparative simulation...
Tatavarty, Giridhar., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Multivariate time series datasets represents multiple attributes recorded over a period of time. Each attribute may have repeating patterns and there may also be correlations among patterns observed...
Terry, Winnie E., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
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Davis, Rachel Kathless., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
This thesis is the development of a family life education program: Finding Release to Explore and Experience Dimensions of Me (F.R.E.E.D.O.M). The primary purpose of this program is to encourage...
Teachers' and students' perceptions of relational aggression [electronic resource] / (2006)
Johannes, Lindsay M., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
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Brewer, Joyce Marie., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Musculoskeletal pain in school-aged children in the United States is highly prevalent. One potential explanation may be the mismatch between the children and desk-chair workstations due to the...
Sun, Yanling., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
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Reid, Aaron A., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
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Bhatt, Sandeep., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disease that ranks among the most common late life neurodegenerative diseases, affecting approximately 1.5% to 2.0% of the population older than age...
Matthews, Ronald Eric., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Apart from its profound political significance, there is every indication that the welfare reform legislation of 1996 (Personal Work Opportunity and Reconciliation Act, PWORA) has altered the...
Eifert-Mangine, Marsha A., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
PURPOSE: Physical Therapists, like many professionals, require continuing education for re-licensure or certification. To meet the needs of professionals, continuing education providers are utilizing...
Zhang, Gengxin., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
This dissertation investigates the microbial communities and microbe-mineral interactions in ultra-high pressure metamorphic rocks and deep fluids from the Chinese Continental Scientific Drilling...
Operationalizing family religiosity [electronic resource] : a practical definition / (2006)
Polzin, Lewis Robert., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
This paper focuses on the conceptualization of the term family religiosity. Family religiosity has been used as a variable in many social science surveys and reports, but it has never been formally...
Science curriculum modifications [electronic resource] : an urban and suburban comparison / (2006)
Livingston, Tori M., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
This qualitative study builds upon the central role science teachers play in "mediating between children's everyday world and the world of science" (Driver, Asoko, Leach, Mortimer & Scott, 1994, p....
Concept based information organization and retrieval [electronic resource] / (2006)
Yardi, Aparna Arvind, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The area of Information Retrieval in the Computer Science concerns itself with the retrieval of information from a collection of documents. There are various techniques available to fetch relevant...
Effects of Appalachian culture on career choice [electronic resource] / (2006)
Russ, Kathryn Alida, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
This study explores the career development of people of Appalachian culture, legally defined as inhabitants of the Appalachian Regional Development area. The culture applies to them, as well as their...
Sanders, Alvin Edward., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
This dissertation is required by the Ph.D. program in Educational Leadership at Miami University. It consists of five chapters that discuss how racial diversity is understood among faculty and staff...
Palmieri, Maria., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Gravitropism, the directed growth of a plant in response to gravity, can be divided into the following phases: gravity perception, signal transduction, and the growth response. In flowering plants,...
Mutual coupling in patch antenna arrays [electronic resource] / (2006)
Parthasarathy, Krishnan V., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
With the drive towards better and faster communication systems, wireless communications has assumed a new significance in today's world. Further, with the rapid miniaturization and incorporation of...
Jahnigen, Charles J., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Combining a specific educational methodology with a specific approach to building can be an effective way to study the impacts of physical environment on learning capabilities. The outcome of this...
Zeng, Kaifeng., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The city pickup and delivery problem in the Less-Than-Truckload (LTL) trucking industry is the focus of this research and it can be classified as one of the variants of vehicle routing problem (VRP),...
Structural health monitoring of rotordynamic systems [electronic resource] / (2006)
Mani, Girindra, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
"Structural health monitoring (SHM) deals with the monitoring and detection of damage in a structure. Vibration-based SHM methods examine changes in the vibration characteristics of the structure to...
Effects of pleasant ambient odor and verbal priming on memory recall [electronic resource] / (2006)
Ret, Jennifer., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Previous research suggests that odors emitted into a learning environment may facilitate recall, and that telling people they are being exposed to something that will help them remember may further...
Revealing Gordion [electronic resource] : a case of virtual heritage interpretation / (2006)
Bedel, Banu, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Despite its significance in history and popular imagination, the city of Gordion today offers very little to be seen. The level of preservation and restricted access to the site obscure the city....
Stump, Nicole I., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
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Finding spanning tree minimizing the maximum edge load [electronic resource] / (2006)
Raina, Siddharth K., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
A communication network is often modeled as a graph and various algorithms are used to optimize its certain characteristics, solution to which bears a spanning tree. With different aspects, there are...
Finding interesting subspace clusters from high dimensional datasets [electronic resource] / (2006)
Bian, Haiyun, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Data mining focuses on finding previously unknown yet potentially useful, hidden patterns from large amounts of data. Clustering is one of the most commonly used unsupervised data mining techniques,...
Bade, Christopher M., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
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Bowles, Adam Alan, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
This thesis will explore the interaction of rhythmic patterns containing irregularly-sized beats with various aspects of piano writing. The purpose of this study is to offer possibilities for...
Tripathy, Suvranta K., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Spectrally resolved and time-integrated degenerate four-wave mixing (FWM) experiments with ultra-short pulses have been used to investigate the relaxation times and coherent interactions of excitons...
Culture change in nursing homes [electronic resource] / (2006)
Clark, Carrie L., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The purpose of this study is to explore why and how nursing facilities embark on the journey of culture change. In-depth interviews with nursing home administrators and culture change directors were...
Shaw, Tyler H., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Transcranial Doppler sonography was used to examine the effects of the sensory modality of signals and event asynchrony on blood flow velocity (CBFV) in the cerebral hemispheres during the...
Feasting and ceramics [electronic resource] : a view from the palace of Nestor at Pylos / (2006)
Hruby, Julie A., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
A life-cycle or object biographical approach is used to approach an assemblage of nearly 6,700 vessels from the pantries (rooms 18-22) of the Mycenaean Palace of Nestor at Pylos. The stratigraphy of...
Chandrasekaran. Senthilkumar, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The need for toxic chromate replacements in metal-finishing industries has prompted an intensive search for replacement technologies in recent years. Organofunctional silanes have emerged as an...
Sing, Lingyan, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Recently discovered multi-component Mo-V-Te-Nb-O catalysts are very promising catalysts for propane ammoxidation to acrylonitrile. This mixed metal oxide system contains so-called "M1", "M2" and...
Photoactive fe(III) complexes of []-hydroxy acid containing ligands [electronic resource] / (2006)
Ingle, Shaktisingh K., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The []-hydroxy carboxylic acid group in marine siderophores is photoactive when bound to Fe(III). This photochemical reaction in natural sunlight reduces Fe(III) to Fe(II) making it more available...
Biocomposite proton exchange membranes* [electronic resource] / (2006)
Stephens, Brian Dominic., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
A dip coating method was developed to produce macroporous polymer films which were used as scaffolding for phospholipid biomembranes in which ion channels were reconstituted for proton gating and...
Fealy, Joseph William, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The reuse and revitalization of urban buildings is becoming necessary in the recent struggles with urban sprawl and poor low-income housing facilities. Beyond providing for bare minimum human needs,...
Little, Travis Shane., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Throughout history, man has shared an intimate relationship with materials and what purpose these materials hold in art, architecture and buildings. Over the last half century, the exploration of new...
Schroth, Katharine Ann., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Accurate assessment of voice production in children with vocal pathology is essential prior to initiation of therapy. Frequency range and rate of speech are two measures of interest in a voice...
Johnson, Dunisha., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
The purpose of this study is to examine the type of barriers that exist for minorities and limited English speaking persons in accessing the local aging network. In-depth interviews were completed...
Ramaswamy, Easwar S., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
With increasing complexity, computer aided design tools are essential in the design of integrated circuits nowadays. Existing CAD tools for the Multi Technology Field Programmable Gate Array...
Environment-friendly anti-corrosion 'Superprimers' for HDG [electronic resource] / (2006)
Shivane, Chetan., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
This work deals with the development and study of a one-step direct-to-metal coating to prevent corrosion of hot-dip galvanized steel (HDG). Environmental concerns have led to legislations demanding...
Mesoscopic features of classically integrable systems [electronic resource] / (2006)
OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
We study mesoscopic features of classically integrable systems, in particular, spectral correlations and orbital magnetism in a rectangular box. Such systems are easy to describe in terms of...
Urshel, Carrie L., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
After the No Child Left Behind Act was signed into practice, states were required to implement stringent accountability systems including standards-based reform efforts and annual testing of...
Reversible electrowetting on nanostructured scaffolds [electronic resource] / (2006)
Dhindsa, Manjeet Singh, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.
Electrowetting is electrostatically induced motion of fluids, based on Lippmann's electrocapillarity effect. It has since become a field of interest for its application in fluid manipulation for...