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Economic Analysis of Voluntary Carbon Offset Market and Bioenergy Policies
(2014-08-27)
This work studies the economic implications of some United States greenhouse gas mitigation related policies. The main items focused on in this work are: 1) possible agricultural entry into a voluntary carbon offset market, ...
Search Text Based on Locations
(2014-11-21)
To satisfy the current need for finding queried information quickly, search engines, data mining systems, and many other applications have been in development in recent years. Some of those applications look for documents ...
Effects of Adsorption on Molecular Transport in Nanotube
(2015-05-12)
Adsorbed hydrocarbons, stored along the walls of kerogen pores and capillaries of organic-rich shale, are generally considered unrecoverable until desorption at low pressure is induced. Consequently, production from these ...
The Impact of Obesity on Walking and Dual-Task Situations in Older Adults: A Prefrontal fNIRS Study
(2015-04-24)
Recent evidence of obesity-related changes in the prefrontal cortex (PFC) during cognitive and seated motor activities have surfaced; however, the impact of obesity on PFC regulation during ambulation remains unclear. The ...
Advances in Integrated Circuit Design and Implementation for New Generation of Wireless Transceivers
(2014-12-18)
User’s everyday outgrowing demand for high-data and high performance mobile devices pushes industry and researchers into more sophisticated systems to fulfill those expectations. Besides new modulation techniques and new ...
Understanding the Structural Basis for Functional Differences in Staphylococcal MSCRAMMS SDRE1 and BBP/SDRE2 and Their Role in Species Tropism
(2015-04-29)
Microbial Surface Components Recognizing Adhesive Matrix Molecules (MSCRAMMs) on Staphylococcus aureus play roles in attachment, invasion and immune evasion. It has been previously reported that bone sialoprotein-binding ...
Preparing Behavioral Interventionists for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder via Telepractice
(2015-03-30)
The prevalence of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in the United States has increased exponentially within the past decade. The increasing prevalence has strained the current delivery system, resulting in a service-need gap. ...
Fetching Top Dollar: How a Target Firm's Competitive Action Repertoire Impacts Acquisition Premium
(2015-05-01)
In this dissertation, I integrate signaling and holistic processing theories to examine how the pattern characteristics of a target firm’s competitive actions over time can influence its acquisition premium by reducing ...
Enhanced Radiation Tolerance of Ceramic Thin Films by Nano-structural Design
(2015-04-28)
Thin films techniques are widely used in microelectronic devices, optical coatings, batteries and solar cells, which would be applied under harsh environment spanning from outer space to nuclear plant where defects are ...
Diva Performativity: Female Body and Voice through Euro-Classical Vocal Pedagogy
(2015-05-04)
Opera divas are stereotypically temperamental, but many singers learn diva behaviors through Euro-classical vocal pedagogy. Two conditions of opera vocal training contribute to performances of diva identity. First, opera ...