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Fatty Acid Blood Levels, Vitamin D Status, and Physical Performance and Its Relationship to Resiliency and Mood in Active Duty Soldiers
(2015-05-11)
The mental health of soldiers is a growing concern as rates of depression and suicide have increased in soldiers with recently more deaths attributed to suicide than deaths due to combat in Afghanistan in 2012. Previous ...
Continuous Nanoparticle Sizing and Characterization via Microfluidics
(2015-04-27)
High-throughput manufacturing of nanomaterial-based products demands robust online characterization and quality control tools capable of continuously probing the in suspension state. But existing analytical techniques are ...
Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) Switches How GABA Affects Nociceptive Plasticity
(2015-05-11)
Research has shown that spinal cord injury (SCI) can induce neural hyperexcitability within the spinal cord that facilitates nociceptive reflexes. Nociceptive inputs have been shown to sensitize spinal nociceptive systems, ...
Occlusal Harmony of Hand Articulated Digitally Mastered Definitive Casts Mounted in Maximal Intercuspal Position
(2015-04-24)
Digital acquisition of a patient’s oral anatomy has the potential to improve the accuracy of dental restorations. The iTero intraoral scanner is emerging as a popular system in clinical practice, however the accuracy of ...
Entropy Theory for Streamflow Forecasting
(2015-04-01)
Entropy spectral analysis is developed for monthly streamflow forecasting, which contains the use of configurational entropy and relative entropy. Multi-channel entropy spectral analysis is developed for long-term drought ...
Politics, Perceptions, and Performance in Higher Education
(2015-04-24)
This dissertation includes three studies devoted to disentangling the effects of managers—defined as university presidents—in four year institutions of higher education. In the United States, higher education as a whole ...
Shipping The Margin To The Centre: Excavating Tumblr; Filling In The Self
(2015-05-08)
Queer fandoms on tumblr aid in the formation of identity and the self. As a micro-blogging website, tumblr works to create a constantly expanding archive of each user’s posts, and thus can potentially document the development ...
Capabilities, Configurations, and Leveraging Strategies: an Investigation of the Leveraging Process of Resource Orchestration
(2014-08-21)
Resource orchestration research has focused primarily on aspects associated with the structuring and bundling of resources to form capabilities. However, questions remain regarding the theoretical and empirical underpinnings ...
Moving Toward Social Justice in Sport: A Comprehensive Study of Social Justice Activists in Sport and the Factors that Shape them
(2015-05-12)
There are many different types of injustices in society, and there is no exception for the sport field. Injustices have a negative impact on many aspects of sport. This has resulted in many researchers and former and current ...
Design of Pattern Matching Systems: Pattern, Algorithm, and Scanner
(2013-10-23)
Pattern matching is at the core of many computational problems, e.g., search engine, data mining, network security and information retrieval. In this dissertation, we target at the more complex patterns of regular expression ...