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Infant Mortality by Month of Birth: An Analysis of Contemporary Cohorts
(2011-08-08)
There is a well-established connection between adult mortality and the conditions an individual is exposed to while in utero. There is a wealth of research that connects conditions such as asthma and allergies, mortality ...
Architectural Design Factors Of Domestic Violence Shelters That Affect Outcomes For Female Domestic Violence Victims: A Naturalistic Inquiry To Establish Grounded Theory For Future Research
(2011-08-08)
Designing domestic violence shelters for women must be considered from a feminist perspective, inclusive of theories of embodiment, as the female victim's emotional state (mind) is a critical component in determining her ...
Utopian Body: Alternative Experiences of Embodiment in 20th Century Utopian Literature
(2011-08-08)
Utopian literature has typically viewed the body as a pitfall on the path to social
perfectibility, and utopian planners envision societies where the troublesome body is
distanced as much as possible from utopia's guiding ...
Cross Layer Coding Schemes for Broadcasting and Relaying
(2011-08-08)
This dissertation is divided into two main topics. In the first topic, we study the
joint source-channel coding problem of transmitting an analog source over a Gaussian
channel in two cases - (i) the presence of interference ...
Design of a Low Power 70MHz-110MHz Harmonic Rejection Filter with Class-AB Output Stage
(2011-08-08)
An FM transmitter becomes the new feature in recent portable electronic
development. A low power, integrable FM transmitter filter IC is required to meet the
demand of FM transmitting feature. A low pass filter using ...
Prediciting Size Effects and Determing Length Scales in Small Scale Metaliic Volumes
(2011-08-08)
The purpose of this study is to develop an understanding of the behavior of metallic structures in small scales. Structural materials display strong size dependence when deformed non-uniformly into the inelastic range. ...
Laboratory and Field Evaluation of Imidacloprid against Reticulitermes flavipes (Kollar) and Coptotermes formosanus Shiraki (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae) Subterranean Termites in Texas
(2011-08-08)
In one study described herein, 20 privately owned structures were treated with a 0.05% application of imidacloprid (Premise 75 WSP) in order to control infestations of subterranean termites. All applications were made at ...
Extratropical Tropopause Transition Layer Characteristics from High-Resolution Sounding Data
(2011-08-08)
Accurate determination of the tropopause is important for applications such as dynamical analysis and forecasting, radiative transfer calculations, and the diagnosis of chemical transport in the atmosphere. In this paper, ...
Asian American Sexual Politics: The Construction of Race, Gender, and Sexuality
(2011-08-08)
Why study Asian American sexual politics? There is a major lack of critical
analysis of Asian Americans and their issues surrounding their place in the United States
as racialized, gendered, and sexualized bodies. There ...
New Mechanism Based Anticancer Drugs for Treatment of Pancreatic and Bladder Cancers
(2011-08-08)
Methyl 2-cyano-3,11-dioxo-18b-olean-1,12-dien-30-oate (CDODA-Me) is a synthetic triterpenoid that inhibits growth of Panc1 and Panc28 pancreatic cancer cell lines and activates peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor B ...